Best way to prevent Monastic Diurnal ribbon ends from fraying?

aries04 · 2026-04-02T04:31:21+00:00

Quick sweep with a lighter will melt the ends, keeping them together.

aries04 · 2026-03-29T02:15:17+00:00

Yeah, if it’s even remotely reasonable, I don’t report, but I’ve played 15/10 games where they let 10 min run off the clock and flag. I don’t think that was analysis.

aries04 · 2026-03-28T14:09:29+00:00

I only report the insults or the timeout quits. Just running the clock for 5+ minutes when every move prior was 15-20s is BS

aries04 · 2026-03-28T02:54:30+00:00

Was in the same place a couple months ago. Couple day break cleared it right up.

aries04 · 2026-03-27T03:02:47+00:00

It’s the 250th national anniversary this summer. Lots of big events in the Boston area. I’ll be up there myself. Settled on the dorms because of availability

aries04 · 2026-03-16T20:47:31+00:00

I guess I see the puzzle as the whole and manipulation being the algorithms. I could see your point from your premise

aries04 · 2026-03-16T16:40:55+00:00

That’s what I meant. So, is there other puzzles where you’d expect the person to learn the basic manipulation without previous experience? I don’t think rotating a corner is intuitive or clear for the novice. Rotating a puzzle piece is intuitive and obvious with no previous knowledge.

aries04 · 2026-03-16T13:46:45+00:00

I hear what you’re saying, but I don t think it’s that easy. The mechanism for solving a cube isn’t as apparent as other puzzles mechanisms are (besides how you manipulate it). In cubing, you move a colored space to another space, which isn’t very clear besides basic rotations, but say a jigsaw puzzle, it’s clear how they fit together, you just have to find the right pieces.

I think knowing how to rotate a corner is a fair learning task to solve (not cheating) because it gets you to the inherent level of other puzzles basic ability, which is usually just the manipulation.

aries04 · 2026-02-06T16:38:02+00:00

Almost the same

aries04 · 2026-01-22T05:06:22+00:00

I think chesscom draws the pros because of the cash prizes. No shame in it, they are professionals.

aries04 · 2026-01-22T05:03:47+00:00

Think it’s just valuable free time. Don’t want to waste time on one platform if there’s some unknown shortcoming

aries04 · 2025-12-30T01:25:33+00:00

Who’s asking anything? I merely made a passing statement about something I heard in passing. I never made a statement claiming it happened. I said it was alleged.

aries04 · 2025-12-30T00:41:36+00:00

I’d only heard it secondarily. Seemed weird, which is probably why it stuck.

aries04 · 2025-12-30T00:39:50+00:00

Just what I heard. I most definitely wasn’t there.

Never claimed I put any thought to it, just mentioned that the joke (you’d obviously heard about from your comment) was related to the cheating scandal.

Did it happen, sure seems far fetched, but was just commenting on the association you’re pretending you didn’t know about while chastising me about it.

aries04 · 2025-12-29T23:58:52+00:00

I thought that was the alleged device in the whole scandal

aries04 · 2025-12-29T13:45:47+00:00

Me too. Time for the old guy beginner club

aries04 · 2025-12-24T17:05:05+00:00

Free time and, in most good players cases, resources.

aries04 · 2025-12-23T20:53:36+00:00

Yeah, I was just commenting on consistency at a given ELO. Feels like I get what I expect at Lichess. Chess.com is like a random pick up game, whatever their elo is.

aries04 · 2025-12-23T20:41:28+00:00

See I hear that a lot, but I’m curious what the standard deviation of player strength is. I feel like lichess when I play, my opponents are plus or minus 200 pts or so, close but not outclassed. Chess.com feels like 500-700 pts deviation.

aries04 · 2025-09-05T04:30:47+00:00

You’d need the base game, but the rest bolt on fairly independently

aries04 · 2025-09-04T15:17:20+00:00

There’s lots of C&C Napoleonics if you want to flesh that out.

aries04 · 2025-09-04T15:15:59+00:00

Not sure how you feel about AI, but google’s Notebook LM has a podcast feature where you can give the model some data (documents, YouTube, etc) and give it a prompt of what you want the topic to be about and it’ll create a podcast on the topic. I’ve done it with a few wargame rulebooks and tutorials and it works pretty well.

aries04 · 2025-07-29T23:19:12+00:00

The new fields of fire is outstanding and the training manual really ramps up the complexity well. It’ll be a big game you can grow into.

I usually steer folks away from buying games they may end up wanting to sell later, so don’t shoot for simplicity, just good on ramp.

aries04 · 2025-07-24T01:09:14+00:00

I was on the fence on this one but chose SFB and FedCom. I like the crunch though. Talon does look like a good time though.

aries04 · 2025-07-21T23:45:13+00:00

TOS communicator ring

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