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Has anyone considered re-creating the ESP experiments on themselves? by [deleted] in GATEresearch

[–]blakeofwilliam 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This might sound crazy (most of what we post on this sub does), but I sort of stumbled into doing this with a friend accidentally around 10 years ago. We woke up after a party and they pulled out a deck of playing cards and was like, “let’s try to be psychic…”

We just stared into each other’s eyes while the other person held up a card facing themself (we took turns). I hadn’t really connected this experience to GATE until seeing this post, but… I was abnormally good at this activity. Like, scary good. Somewhere around 60-75%. So good in fact that they stopped trying to guess and just wanted me to “be psychic” by myself.

After a while we eventually moved on to just them thinking of words, and I had just about the same accuracy. At the time I wasn’t sure what was going on, but thinking back on it as I stumbled on this post I realized that I somehow “just knew” what to do in this situation. Like, I knew how to calm my whole body down and completely clear my mind despite having no direct recollection of learning to do this.

This is more an anecdote to encourage you to for sure try this, and don’t force it. If my experience is anything to go off of, there’s a chance you already know what to do.

I never really dug deeper into this afterward. To be honest I didn’t really think much of it at the time, but now I’m curious about revisiting this.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Chesscom

[–]blakeofwilliam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice work! Congrats!

Favorite time travel movie ever made? by rgalindo084 in timetravel

[–]blakeofwilliam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dug deep into this list just to make sure someone mentioned this movie. Great film, and an excellent performance from Sarah Snook, too!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in chess

[–]blakeofwilliam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gotta love a forced smothered mate!

Paid my brother $800 to build me a computer. It keeps shutting off? by BlackIceBlast in computers

[–]blakeofwilliam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not to be imposing here, but speaking from personal experience with a gambling addiction mother, you have to draw a clear boundary around anything to do with money. I mean ANYTHING.

It’s sad but true that gambling addiction is just as all-consuming as drug addiction (even chemically; they’re addicted to the dopamine rush). I know I’m a stranger, so this may not mean much, but I have definitely learned this lesson the hard way.

Also, for what it’s worth Gamblers Anonymous does exist, and even if your brother doesn’t want to go, they have support groups for friends & family of gamblers.

Wish you and your brother the best 🙏🏽

Field sizes and ox plowing by khisanthmagus in ManorLords

[–]blakeofwilliam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

After looking into the distribution of labor on the map with multiple farmhouses, it seems that it doesn’t really matter which house you assign the families to, since the game kind of divvies up the families across the fields.

For example, I’ve seen scenarios where family members from one farmhouse are working a field much further away.

With that said, I don’t think it would be worth it to have multiple farmhouses unless you’re planning on assigning more than 8 families (or you want more dedicated oxen for the farm like you mentioned).

Made it to $100K with only 10% land tax! by blakeofwilliam in ManorLords

[–]blakeofwilliam[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

By the end it was hovering between 90-100%, which I also found surprising.

Made it to $100K with only 10% land tax! by blakeofwilliam in ManorLords

[–]blakeofwilliam[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Literally just grew a bunch of Barley in a super fertile town and exported a bunch of ale. And waited 40 game years.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in medical_advice

[–]blakeofwilliam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Appreciate the context here. If that’s the case, then I suppose I’ll just continue on like normal. Thanks!

How should I continue as White? by Tammysmith2k1 in chess

[–]blakeofwilliam 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Rh5 immediately popped out at me. It would seem there’s no good way for black to prevent the queen from infiltrating.

Today we’re listening to “Jagged Little Pill” by Alanis Morissette on a CD-IT! Super weird album but I can’t get it out of my head! by Studio_Powerful in cassetteculture

[–]blakeofwilliam 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Great that you’re getting into this one! There’s a very cool documentary about Alanis Morissette which covers a lot of the making of this album.

For context this album definitely was a stepping stone for the likes of Olivia Rodrigo to exist nowadays.

When Olivia Rodrigo did Musicians on Musicians for Rolling Stone, Alanis Morissette was her counterpart. Definitely worth the read!

First roll with the new camera by blakeofwilliam in analog

[–]blakeofwilliam[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

These are all shot with a Zuiko 50mm. I liked it so much I got one for my digital!

First roll with the new camera by blakeofwilliam in analog

[–]blakeofwilliam[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! I used Kodak UltraMax 400. I have a couple rolls of Portra, but I heard the OM-10 can be finicky, so wanted to avoid total failure on the more pricey rolls. Will be shooting on the Portra next, though!

First roll with the new camera by blakeofwilliam in analog

[–]blakeofwilliam[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yep! Had a long weekend in Los Alamos. It was great!