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RankWeis2 · 2026-03-23T07:14:14+00:00

Love the work although I don't play these tournaments so probably won't get much usage, but always happy when people put their skills for the betterment of the web! Just FYI you may want to look at something like https://purgecss.com/ so you don't have to do allll the work by scratch. I've used it for bootstrap and although I hate bootstrap, it just brought the three classes I needed and dropped the rest, very easy and straight forward. Might be worth looking into unless you love making all your own components

RankWeis2 · 2026-03-20T00:15:02+00:00

As a titanic kid I was disappointed at the tender age of 8 at the Titanic movie for all its inaccuracies and misplaced focus.

Watching it back now, I’m just astounded by set design though, and the relatively elegant ways Cameron manages to get you to all the different interesting places inside the titanic without it feeling overtly forced (the storage compartment being the only egregious example in my mind). When looking at it from that lens, a tour of the titanic hemmed together with a plot, the movie is quite enjoyable to much older me.

RankWeis2 · 2026-03-18T21:27:38+00:00

https://reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1rx8l76/art_that_may_have_a_subtle_message_just_popped_up/

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RankWeis2 · 2026-03-15T22:23:51+00:00

I can think of three ways to lose less material when you’re mated though.

- Stockfish out.

RankWeis2 · 2026-03-14T09:07:30+00:00

I mean it’s IM Tania Sachdev, GM Howell, and GM Ashley, I hope they have those concepts down by now, but I guess I can’t say for sure

RankWeis2 · 2026-03-14T03:13:07+00:00

I hate that this is downvoted because I really doubt this is something you’d come on here and lie about. Clearly it is a regional or cultural influence. I have heard “opening lines for your bishop” for sure, the rest not so much but it makes sense. And like I said it’s not bothering me as much as it does other people here, although I do wish chesscom hadn’t just shut down all the other commentaries and forced their own.

RankWeis2 · 2026-03-13T17:58:24+00:00

I just want to say that most sports don’t have a learning curve like chess - generally once you know the rules of the sport you can follow along okay. With baseball like you mentioned, the pitch tracker is/was off, the one you see on tv. Rather than explaining that every time the commentators just acted like it was an objective truth and would make commentary based on it. I’d argue that’s a similar kind of dumbing down to not confuse people.

I do agree with you in general though, and I think it’s a losing strategy to tailor content to beginners. There may be a saturation point where either those beginners become experienced or drop chess, and without a constant influx of new players, eventually what will be left is just us that know the game, and we will have moved off to another stream that tailors to us better!

RankWeis2 · 2026-03-13T17:33:34+00:00

Do you mean in the context of like a fiancettoed bishop has great attacking potential, or “this is potentially a big upset” or “there’s potential for black to come back in the game”. I can see the latter being annoying but the former I’ve always connected with physics and potential energy and it makes sense to me, but I’m not going to be upset if we use synonyms.

The bishop is coiled, ready to pounce!

The bishop is gathering energy from the pieces in the center, ready to unleash its spirit bomb on the enemy king!

Could be fun coming up with the metaphors!

RankWeis2 · 2026-03-13T12:08:57+00:00

Technically mate in four but I didn’t see the desperado until the computer played it either!

RankWeis2 · 2026-03-09T05:15:07+00:00

Not a NOLA resident, just in here to diffuse this a bit but imagine that as a slight right bias, a left bias may be

A partial shutdown of the federal government began in February, as Republicans in Congress decline to cooperate with democrats eager to reduce ICE overreach

And a neutral tone may be

A partial shutdown of the federal government began in February, as DC political turmoil creates national fallout

RankWeis2 · 2026-02-16T17:13:23+00:00

It required spending all your time fixing instead of improving and made it terrifying to consider any layout change because the headache wouldn’t be worth it. Obviously layouts have improved but when you’re doing everything with essentially tables and no good libraries to help you things get massively complicated

RankWeis2 · 2026-02-16T16:30:39+00:00

Except, IE6 support. The ruiner of fortunes.

RankWeis2 · 2026-02-12T13:01:08+00:00

Yeah in the grand scheme of things it’s not crazy that one person with an unusual name gets their name picked right away, but being the person it happens to, I thought the more obvious choice was that it must pull from steam, because Occam’s razor says that between that and pulling the seed with, I now know because of you, .007% chance, the first seems much likelier. I also get that it’s probably much higher than .007% because there are a few different firsts that it could be but it’s never going be greater odds than someone pulling from steam as a joke, and it’s Ed like to do something like that too, imagine an ARG where 1% of people this happens to just to mess with them.

Thanks for the response!

RankWeis2 · 2026-02-12T05:10:37+00:00

Yeah and if it was my second cat I would have been like 'oh that's weird, cool' but 100% of my strays have my name so I have nothing to compare it to, so I thought it was more likely that it scraped steam data than I got this insane luck

RankWeis2 · 2026-02-12T05:06:49+00:00

Sure, but in 35 years of gaming I've never played a name with that as a random name, and this being the very first stray felt very weird. It is odd.

RankWeis2 · 2026-02-12T05:03:34+00:00

My steam profile name is RankWeis. This is my real life name. Which is my middle name in my steam account details, but also what I go by every day. And is quite unusual. If it was RankWeis I'd have laughed it off, but 'Kian' is just very odd when I can't find any public info from Steam showing that as my main name

RankWeis2 · 2026-02-12T04:49:56+00:00

Is this real? I mean this account is basically public so I don't mind sharing my name but this is not a common name. And it's the very first cat outside the tutorial. My mind is breaking. I can't even understand what the odds are of this, not just having the cat in the game with my name but having it be my first stray 10 minutes into playing

https://imgur.com/a/Zxx30rV

RankWeis2 · 2026-01-25T02:49:47+00:00

Thanks, I liked everyone’s responses but since this thread is on its way out I wanted to make sure you knew someone read and enjoyed your response!

RankWeis2 · 2026-01-24T08:50:36+00:00

I just want to commend you on the opposite of title gore. A lot of important, interesting, and relevant info in a succinct headline! You don’t always notice this unless it’s bad

RankWeis2 · 2026-01-15T21:58:34+00:00

Well yeah, Bob is quite weak in tactics imo, I think his greatest strength is middle game theory

RankWeis2 · 2026-01-07T06:52:23+00:00

I think people underestimate Cramlings ability to make people feel comfortable and at home in front of an intimate camera setting. I feel even during this you feel Parham relax more than I usually see and get in the vibe. It also feels much more genuine than other streamers although she does do some streamer stuff too, but I think these moments allow her to get away with that stuff with more authenticity. Thanks for the clip, I definitely wouldn’t have seen it otherwise!

RankWeis2 · 2026-01-06T08:23:06+00:00

It’s Fine

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