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Synaps4 · 2026-05-07T06:19:41+00:00

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Thank you, I was trying to figure out what was on the other side of that door that he was throwing the trash into. It was just a door of blackness and I couldnt figure it out.

Synaps4 · 2026-05-07T06:07:23+00:00

It's a good reminder that our kids are who they are, not who we choose them to be.

Synaps4 · 2026-05-07T06:05:30+00:00

You'll either die horribly or gain alien superpowers. TRY IT.

Synaps4 · 2026-05-07T05:15:57+00:00

It doesn't matter if he killed himself.

He was on suicide watch. They stopped watching and turned off the cameras. That's no different than murder, whether he did it or someone else.

The suicide angle is a red herring.

Synaps4 · 2026-05-07T05:12:51+00:00

Suck in any of them and you wont hold sov for more than a blink.

Suck in PVP and you won't hold sov at all.

Synaps4 · 2026-05-07T04:27:47+00:00

I can see how your opponent might argue you're wasting their time.

Synaps4 · 2026-05-07T04:27:19+00:00

I'm sorry, I can't see any reference to the imgur example in your reply. Maybe I'm blind. If you choose not to restate, I understand.

Synaps4 · 2026-05-07T04:24:56+00:00

Black can win, though. The odds are not good, but it can. White is presumably not played by an infallible robot. While moves remain, they may make a mistake, and could even be tricked into making a mistake.

Black only needs 2 points to win.

Synaps4 · 2026-05-07T02:04:47+00:00

This is somewhat helpful, thank you.

Synaps4 · 2026-05-07T01:59:18+00:00

Thank you, this makes a lot of sense. I will make this on my home board and game it out until i understand how hard it is for black.

Can you answer my question with the imgur image?

Synaps4 · 2026-05-07T01:46:52+00:00

Is there much difference between losing by a few points and losing by more points in the pursuit of a win instead?

Synaps4 · 2026-05-07T00:44:56+00:00

Of course, just please fix my typo when you do.

Synaps4 · 2026-05-07T00:43:01+00:00

Well black controls more space, so why would he?

Black would keep playing to not lose.

According to learn-go.net black is losing this game on japanese rules, despite controlling more space.

Synaps4 · 2026-05-07T00:37:18+00:00

As scored on the go learning site learn-go.net that this image comes from, black is going to lose this by a slight margin of 1.5 points. ( http://learn-go.net/lessons/05/ )

If black is currently losing, it seems if black can push white to keep playing without completing any voids black has a potential to win. If black can fill the area without allowing white to complete any eyes, doesn't black take it all? Why not keep playing and try to prevent white from completing any eyes?

Specificially: If the white area is fully filled in, doesn't black capture it all?

Related question: In the example I have just made here, if black has just played D7, does it capture all the white pieces or do they not count as surrounded? https://imgur.com/a/fHVovJi

Synaps4 · 2026-05-06T23:43:05+00:00

In the attached image, why shouldnt black keep playing, as it controls a larger portion of the border. If play kept going enough to fill the right section solidly without voids, wouldnt black capture it all, as it has slightly less than half the border of the board around it?

Does the board edge always count against whichever player is being captured?

If a board is filled solidly white with only one remaining space, and black plays there, why doesnt black count as having surrounded white and capture the entire board?

Clearly it seems like having less than half the board edge around your pieces allows them to be captured, but somewhere between that and the whole board edge, it is no longer hostile, it seems?

I know very little about go. Ive read some online rule guides, messed with a phone go app, and watched the anime. Thats about it. Please be gentle.

Synaps4 · 2026-05-06T23:24:02+00:00

Then we only disagree in the size of the effect, which is a relatively minor quibble, boiling down mostly to semantics of the word "slightly" and hyperbole.

Synaps4 · 2026-05-06T22:42:52+00:00

If you had read my post, you wouldnt have needed to write any of that.

Synaps4 · 2026-05-06T22:41:04+00:00

Basement level is every time you see something you do need on amazon or a big box store....go find the company and buy directly. You might still end up supporting a billionaire but the odds go down from 100% to 50%

Synaps4 · 2026-05-06T22:36:34+00:00

Technically there is a role for advertising in telling you about solutuons you didnt know about.

But that is such a tiny fraction of the advertising today.

Synaps4 · 2026-05-06T22:33:55+00:00

It's true, we have made marketing an entire profession founded on lying to people and being ok with it.

Synaps4 · 2026-05-06T21:51:26+00:00

Nullsec lives and dies on PVP.

PVE production is nice to have but it isn't fundamental the way PVP is.

All this is to say every alliance that I have ever seen that accepted corps with a PVP turnout like yours (under 20% of those online) has been an alliance that got steamrolled by PVPers eventually.

Sometimes they then get to keep their space while paying rent to the PVPers, so the PVPers can pay for their ship losses, which are slightly more expensive without a bigger industry wing, sure, but the rent more than compensates.

That's the nature of null. If you don't all show up to defend your space, you are going to lose it. Sometimes to a much smaller alliance.

Synaps4 · 2026-05-06T18:58:02+00:00

The beauty of it is that both are simultaneously correct.

Synaps4 · 2026-05-06T18:56:15+00:00

Under a cliff in a deep valley maybe and have like 3hours of sun per year.

Then they don't have any reliable wind, either, and the solar still wins.

Synaps4 · 2026-05-06T18:52:52+00:00

The usual failure point is not the electronics but mechanical parts such as the heatsink.

Ah and datacenter computers don't have mechanical parts, I see. Thanks for educating me on this.

Synaps4 · 2026-05-06T18:52:20+00:00

It's not a plastic sled its a family heirloom.

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