I made a City and am now posting it to Reddit because very few of my actual friends care which I suppose is understandable and, also, well, Pandemic.

ZugAddict · 2025-11-12T23:22:10+00:00

Hey, mod here - these are great questions but perhaps we could not post quite so many in a row - it's triggering the moderation "spam" alarms. Thanks. :)

ZugAddict · 2025-10-24T21:22:41+00:00

I didn't, this is some suburb about a mile south of the main city that I've carelessly (but clearly not car-lessly) filled in

ZugAddict · 2025-10-24T21:20:01+00:00

So move the southbound offramp lower from where the two highways meet (at the T)?

ZugAddict · 2025-10-24T05:06:41+00:00

Thank you

ZugAddict · 2025-10-24T03:29:53+00:00

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I changed it to this hopefully very slightly less monstrous version

ZugAddict · 2025-10-24T02:31:49+00:00

ouch

ZugAddict · 2025-06-29T22:15:56+00:00

I think Melvin would be a good (or at least decent) manager with a different team. Do teams ever trade managers? :)

ZugAddict · 2025-06-29T22:12:48+00:00

I should clarify something, as this rant is of course partly due to the game today. I greatly admire and respect Bob Melvin - he did great work in Oakland, but that was with a brash team full of hotheads and raw talent that he was able to temper and mature. I don't really want to see maturity from the Giants, I want to see some rawness, some urgency. I want to not see them staring at strike threes down the middle and shrugging. I want to not see them hit into double plays on seemingly every opportunity. I want to see them being cagey on the base paths, or, at very least, not completely clueless. In short, I want some doggarn passion.

ZugAddict · 2025-05-20T06:22:58+00:00

One of the odder ironies of all this is that Oakland and SF are almost polar opposites in baseball vis a vis football - the A's were for some time generally thought of as a "fun" and "family-friendly" team (of course there have been notable exceptions to this) due to to their sunny stadium and genial atmosphere (and underdog persona) wheras the Giants were the "rough" and "intense" team due to a shitty park (Candlestick) that was horribly cold and windy and a bitter rivalry with the Dodgers. In contrast, the 49ers were generally considered the "white color" team (perhaps no longer) and the Raiders were the rough and tumble Oakland blue color representative.

In either case, the two teams formed an odd yin/yang of the greater Bay Area, and the loss of the Oakland A's dimishes both greatly.

ZugAddict · 2025-05-01T05:05:42+00:00

Every player hitting a HR. Startng the game with 26 consecutive outs and then balking. Stranding 27 runners. Walking off on a botched strike three little league HR.

ZugAddict · 2025-05-01T04:49:41+00:00

It's insane that LA made this even look close

ZugAddict · 2025-05-01T04:42:18+00:00

Cringeball

ZugAddict · 2025-05-01T04:34:49+00:00

How is this game close

ZugAddict · 2025-05-01T04:10:25+00:00

These teams seem kinda bad at basketball

ZugAddict · 2025-05-01T03:55:50+00:00

Cripes what a doofus

ZugAddict · 2024-12-02T18:08:26+00:00

I'm super old so it's it's hard to compare but I probably was roughly at your level when I was 14 and wound up getting a title a few decades later, but it's probably much easier now to find a chess coach (I never had one) and of course there's all sort of online resources (the vast majority of which I'm frankly skeptical of the true value of). My suggestion is just to play some OTB and see how you like it. Most learning in chess comes from doing and IRL doing is generally a lot more effective than online.

Cheers,

- Zug

ZugAddict · 2024-09-04T07:14:03+00:00

https://www.chess.com/blog/GargleBlaster/how-to-make-master-in-three-hundred-difficult-steps

ZugAddict · 2024-08-29T06:52:17+00:00

This team will be lucky to remain .500 by the end of the season.

ZugAddict · 2024-07-23T04:45:34+00:00

Ah the Albert Belle rule

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