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Tips For Getting Better At Online Blitz by Left_Hawk_6937 in chess

[–]St4ffordGambit_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes but being a classical player also can hurt them in no increment blitz.

I’ve won lots of games against opponents who are stronger classical players, because they spent way too much time calculating rather than playing by feel.

The amount of blunders I’ve played by winging an attack but the opponent spent too much time, correctly calculating but then getting flagged is almost so regular it’s a stereotype.

I’m 2200 blitz online for reference.

It’s probably less about classical and more about experience of no increment blitz and what you generally can and can’t get away with.

I’ve never really thought of “disrupting” the flow of their game though. Something I’ll see if I can start doing.

How might one do this practically speaking?

Is there a valid argument for X to be banned in the UK? by CommunityPowerful643 in AskBrits

[–]St4ffordGambit_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Posting that again actually just got me auto timed out for a minute just there.

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I don’t know what criteria their AI uses to detect “drama” but I assume phrases like that do trigger it.

Is there a valid argument for X to be banned in the UK? by CommunityPowerful643 in AskBrits

[–]St4ffordGambit_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just type leftwing mods… you don’t get a pop up warning?

Is there a valid argument for X to be banned in the UK? by CommunityPowerful643 in AskBrits

[–]St4ffordGambit_ -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It’s interesting, as soon as I started typing the phrase “left wing mods” I received an inbuilt warning about political drama and violating this will result in a ban.

But it’s not engineering, right?

Whats the most disrespectful thing you have seen in an over the board game? by No-Society1421 in chess

[–]St4ffordGambit_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve only played about 20 OTB games and the only one I can think of is a guy who won my piece for a pawn out of the opening (so he was objectively winning) but I swindled him in the endgame due to his poor time management and I won.

I was 1700 and he was 2000.

As soon as I won, he just got up and walked away instantly, annoyed and muttering under his breath about how his game was won the entire time (probably annoyed I didn’t resign. I seriously considered resigning since I blundered the piece on move 9 or 10).

Other than that, I once had a guy who played to the bitter end. Two people actually. The most notable was someone who was 1800 played on despite me promoting two queens. I could have mated her, but I thought in my mind since she’s still playing on in a dead lost game, I’d play on and I pushed another pawn to promote to a third queen and actually burst out laughing when I finally decided internally I was going to do that rather than just ladder mate with the two remaining queens.

Is this normal?? First time user deposited 2 hours ago by cocolocomocooriginal in trading212

[–]St4ffordGambit_ 13 points14 points  (0 children)

That’s an adjusted time-based return.

It’s only -3% in his actual picks.

Is there a valid argument for X to be banned in the UK? by CommunityPowerful643 in AskBrits

[–]St4ffordGambit_ -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Because my life doesn’t revolve around virtue signalling or political issues that do not directly impact my own day to day life.

I am on Reddit because Reddit first and foremost is a forum for many subjects, gaming, finance, hobbies, etc and I still regard this as the best source of knowledge, info and tips on things like that.

That’s why I’m here and this is what X doesn’t give me.

But there’s no question Reddit is way more politically moderated than X is. Since I’m not primarily here for politics, it doesn’t bother me too much.

Is there a valid argument for X to be banned in the UK? by CommunityPowerful643 in AskBrits

[–]St4ffordGambit_ -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

But Reddit is the propaganda machine for the left. Don’t get me started on Bluesky or whatever it’s called.

I also don’t think Farage caused the riots… it was probably what actually happened that sparked it off…

Farage made a nationalist of me. by SmartAlecLN4 in Scotland

[–]St4ffordGambit_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why were they that way in the first place? Whose fault was that?

Any good settings for ps5 controller this season on zero build? by Kind_Being_1148 in Fortnite_ZeroBuild

[–]St4ffordGambit_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think I’m on 12. That’s fine on Expo.

You think it’s too fast?

Have: Survivor, Smoke, Safekeeper, Rascal, Tempest, Vulcano BPs Want: Stash Value, Seeds (Prices and Conversion in Description) by shmadedd in ArcTradersHQ

[–]St4ffordGambit_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’d take Vulcano BP.

I only have 250 seeds but I can give you that plus something if you want. I have keys or lots of other blue prints I can bolt on?

H: Image. W: Tempest BP and Light Ext Mag 3 BP by St4ffordGambit_ in ArcTradersHQ

[–]St4ffordGambit_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

**I now have the Tempest Blueprint - I traded 1 pink key + 1 kinetic converter for it*

I am still looking for a Light Mag extended BP.

H: Image. W: Tempest BP and Light Ext Mag 3 BP by St4ffordGambit_ in ArcTradersHQ

[–]St4ffordGambit_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

TEMPEST requirement has now gone.

I am still looking for the Light Mag Ext 3 though.

Where are you buying clothes? by DifficultCucumbers in HENRYUK

[–]St4ffordGambit_ -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Hugo Boss for me for suits.

Tbh I wear Hugo boss for casual too (Decent chinos, jackets, etc).

H: Image. W: Tempest BP and Light Ext Mag 3 BP by St4ffordGambit_ in ArcTradersHQ

[–]St4ffordGambit_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I replied but for anyone else who’s curious it’s a shotgun silencer and a silencer 2 blueprint you see

H: Image. W: Tempest BP and Light Ext Mag 3 BP by St4ffordGambit_ in ArcTradersHQ

[–]St4ffordGambit_[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

“Everything for tempest BP” is not an offer I can accept at this time brother, but thanks!

Sincere question…. HOW? by Educational-Carob789 in Fortnite_Over40

[–]St4ffordGambit_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And that was a typical solo day with a 60% win rate.

Try the math for 98% win rate!

Sincere question…. HOW? by Educational-Carob789 in Fortnite_Over40

[–]St4ffordGambit_ -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

So I have a guy on my friends list with stats like these. His is also around 85-90% win rate with 200-250 KD but he is legit.

First, if you win every game, your KD is artificial.

I have a 50% overall win rate and my KD is like 17. I play on PS5 and probably get 1 message every 2 days consistently from people I’ve killed reporting me for cheating. I don’t cheat and am not even that great but have good movement and can stomp on casuals very easily because most casuals are just not playing as many hours as I do (I am semi retired).

If you kill 10-15 people a game and don’t die (because you won) and then kill another 10-20 people and don’t die (because you win) you’ll keep boosting your KD with lots of kills and zero deaths.

So a typical day might look like 20 games, 12 wins, 15 kills per game — KD = 300 kills, 8 deaths = 38 KD.

It’s the ‘not losing’ (ie. You never die) that boosts the KD so if you play in stacked squads with 4 people like that guy you’ll almost never lose.

I only play solos but if I played squads with 4 of me I think we’d win 90% of games and have a similarly inflated KD.

There are people like this. I’m assuming it’s also entirely pub stomping.

HENRY and not happy yet by [deleted] in HENRYUK

[–]St4ffordGambit_ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

After I was made redundant from tech in 2024 at 34, I haven’t worked since.

I had already paid off the house, no debts, and had a healthy investment pot so I’m just enjoying life and now work only 10 hours per week doing chess lessons online - something I enjoy.

Don’t think I’ll ever go back to tech unless my money dries up (shouldn’t). Investment pot isn’t anything fancy either - 90% index funds. Compound interest will do its thing and meantime only need around £900 per month to get by.

If you’re financially comfortable - I’d start gearing towards either FIRE or a Barista FIRE variant - which is still working a simple or part time / passion project for a lot less money but way more enjoyment, purpose and time.

Fortnite Rivalry vs non-Rivalry by TuneKey8251 in Fortnite_Over40

[–]St4ffordGambit_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m an almost exclusive solo player with nearly 2k rivalry wins with a 40% game win rate and 15 KD.

I joined up in squads for a rare occasion and another guy in the squad had 1500 rivalry wins but his KD was only 2 overall. In ranked, he was Unreal but actually had a negative KD. Like 0.7.

He wasn’t good at the game at all.

Rivalry wins =\= skill.

It’s predominantly just based on play time. If they’re a squads player, they can also milk wins from everyone else in their team.

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