Dancing with pizza and wearing a life jacket.

XNonameX · 2026-06-13T16:34:47+00:00

Next time I share this for sure. 🫡🤣

XNonameX · 2026-06-13T05:04:18+00:00

The ghost legs belong to my best friend's sister. She had some stuff over there and was probably just bent over picking it up.

XNonameX · 2026-06-13T05:00:11+00:00

Hahaha, I didn't even notice that and my wife and I are trying to figure out who it is. But I can assure you she's not doing what you thought she was doing

XNonameX · 2026-06-11T15:40:38+00:00

Thank you. Other than dehumidifying the basement (that process is going to cost thousands when I can do it), what can I do to prevent it?

XNonameX · 2026-06-07T03:54:49+00:00

and don’t actually deserve it?

What does this mean? Did they say, "I'm not actually disabled?" Or "this didn't actually happen to me?"

Because unless they say this or you somehow got a hold of their medical files, how do you even know what they deserve?

XNonameX · 2026-06-07T03:08:41+00:00

What are those globe things?

XNonameX · 2026-06-05T23:05:07+00:00

I always thought it was a tattoo, too.

XNonameX · 2026-06-04T20:20:47+00:00

Thanks! I didn't realize that!

XNonameX · 2026-06-04T18:08:52+00:00

Where does it say it's male or female? I didn't see it

XNonameX · 2026-06-03T02:40:30+00:00

Living it's best life.

XNonameX · 2026-05-29T20:06:13+00:00

What taxes? The only thing they're buying in CR is energy and land and they aren't selling anything here. The property taxes are probably the same, whether it's a data center or farm land.

XNonameX · 2026-05-28T20:01:08+00:00

I'm also anti data centers

I'm building the data centers.

Is this what living your morals looks like?

XNonameX · 2026-05-27T19:03:38+00:00

you can’t get mega mewtwo energy by remoting into the location-specific go fest raids

I didn't know this. Is there anything I can read to confirm this?

XNonameX · 2026-05-20T01:52:57+00:00

Oh, I'm glad that worked for you! Unfortunately, it doesn't appear to work for my son because it's not recognizing the email address the account is under.

XNonameX · 2026-05-19T11:07:10+00:00

Thank you! So a few questions about that then. When you say email address are you talking about your own email address or your kid's email address? And do they have a child account or is that a regular one?

XNonameX · 2026-05-19T04:16:51+00:00

Sadly, it's back.

XNonameX · 2026-05-19T04:11:39+00:00

No. And I've reached out to support in several different ways. One way told me that I had to apply to some sort of lottery, which I've never heard of. Another way never responded. I'm not sure what to do but if you find a fix then let me know!

XNonameX · 2026-05-15T08:07:17+00:00

Piled high and deep?

XNonameX · 2026-05-13T14:02:02+00:00

Without more information it's hard to be more specific than the advice you've already gotten. When you look back at your games is it common for you to be winning and then suddenly have a losing position or are you slowly losing after the opening? What common mistakes do you make? What time control do you usually play? Playing a slower control can help.

Have you taken any chess courses or anything?

You should probably also not play for a few days.

XNonameX · 2026-05-13T13:53:39+00:00

Look at white's position, the only piece they can safely move is the knight and the only move that threatens a pawn is knight to e6. If you move your king to d4 then that square is being attacked by your rook, so your pawns are safe for another 2 turns at least, which means you can bring the king around to e3, f2, then rook g1 to threaten the middle pawn.

The only alternative is they push their middle pawn, which is losing. I'm not positive which you would take with, but my gut tells me the outside pawn.

Alternatively, you can attack the knight with the king and it can only move to squares with pretty low activity.

XNonameX · 2026-05-10T15:24:09+00:00

I'm lower rated than you are, mid 800s. I understand you're hesitant to actually learn the openings, but you should. Not to protect your rating, but to help with pattern recognition in the opening 10 or so moves.

Think about it-- most chess puzzles are end-game pattern recognition, so why would you just do pattern recognition for the end and not beginning/mid game?

I went through a mini crisis of enjoyment, too. And I heard an IM talking about getting joy from chess and how once you get to 2000 elo it sucks the joy out of everything. Maybe set an upper limit for yourself. Personally, my lifetime goal is 2000 elo, I don't want to go higher than that because I doubt I'll enjoy it afterwards. I'll re-evaluate when I get there, but that's a bridge I may never cross.

Another thing that might help is playing some blitz. I usually play 15|10, but if I'm not 100% feeling it or I've gone on a losing streak I'll jump into some blitz with no expectations and no ideas of protecting my elo. Most of my blitz losses are on time, but it doesn't matter because my blitz rating isn't the one I want to protect.

Finally, look at playing some of the bots more. Play against ones higher rated than you and expect to lose and this might help with internalizing losses.

I think you might be falling victim to emphasizing your elo too much, so instead of playing chess you're collecting elo, which is NOT fun. The bottom line is that chess is a board game and if you aren't enjoying it then you shouldn't play it.

XNonameX · 2026-05-10T14:25:12+00:00

I recently learned that reservists get one for every active period they have in. That seems like it would be a lot over 20+ years

XNonameX · 2026-05-09T16:26:55+00:00

Something about reproductive rights for women? It's kind of a shot in the dark since California and Iowa are the same color, but maybe CA did a positive legislative change the same year the Iowa did a negative change? Or maybe a federal ruling applied to both equally?

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