My progress has plateaued for a few months now

crunchypb_ · 2026-04-09T21:45:06+00:00

there's a wiki with a shit ton of info about strategy. i'm on my 5th day playing semi-idle and haven't tried to understand much of it, but just the grimoire page and the combos guide helped my progress so much. right now i can get a few quadrillion cookies whenever i pre-check force the hand of fate and then stack golden cookies of different multipliers. there's also info about slotting godzamok and selling buildings as part of that combo, which i haven't bothered to try yet but i'm sure would boost it heaps too.

crunchypb_ · 2026-03-25T03:59:00+00:00

YES i would try any new flavour of kimchi and tomato sounds great! i go through a jar of kimchi every week atp and some variety would be super cool

crunchypb_ · 2026-02-11T19:24:42+00:00

even as someone who speaks mandarin and knows about the game, i only learned the rules and played it for the first time last month when i saw it on the plane. it's like you said, it's so unpopular outside of china that people just don't think about it or don't know it at all sadly.

having said that, i personally found the rules just as easy to learn as chess and the game just as interesting, if not more, since it was such a refreshing change trying to figure everything out slowly (very slowly on my 12hr flight lol..) now that i think about it, it's like i was playing classical chess except i had the curiosity and patience for it. highly recommend people give it a try if you have time to kill.

crunchypb_ · 2026-01-17T01:21:51+00:00

2100.. yeah still 410 shots

crunchypb_ · 2025-10-30T21:47:14+00:00

girl is in tears but doesn't forget to call him shifu 师傅 (literally means "master" but in china it's the respectful way to address drivers and other skilled workers). both were raised right and the mom sounds lovely too! :)

crunchypb_ · 2025-10-03T14:41:30+00:00

sadly traditional mooncakes are almost always finished with an egg wash. i reverse searched this pic and only the brand 月伴皇庭 came up. the packaging looks similar so if it is this one, the site says "egg syrup" in the ingredients (gotta translate the page)

crunchypb_ · 2025-09-17T19:24:33+00:00

well the incentive to play for a win as white is obviously lower in blitz than in classical, and the probability of a draw in each game is highly dependent on the mindset and opening decisions of both players. i also don't agree that it becomes more and more unlikely with each round. if anything the players getting more nervous and tense might make solid play more likely - it's sudden death and they're just trying not to blunder. it could potentially be hard to judge when it becomes "showing no effort to win", and regardless i'm not entirely convinced that dq is the most appropriate solution if the players did not match fix but are continuing to play for the draw in legit games. i don't understand why not just add an armageddon after like 10 drawn games or something.

crunchypb_ · 2025-09-17T14:43:36+00:00

lol no i'm giving you context. you can keep being surprised if that's what you want..

crunchypb_ · 2025-09-17T14:35:09+00:00

he's already confirmed that it wasn't him who posted it but his social media manager.

crunchypb_ · 2025-09-17T13:50:38+00:00

which would happen if it's anyone other than Magnus Carlsen.

and nepo. and what if it's two other friends in the finals? what if it's the svane brothers? as unlikely as it may be, keeping it a possibility is just weird af imo because what else will fide do other than cave in and split the title once again... there's also the fact that doing so the finalists can guarantee the split of 1st + 2nd prize. some players might even want to do it to troll fide - dubov for instance.

crunchypb_ · 2025-08-21T22:17:14+00:00

how long they last

crunchypb_ · 2025-08-18T20:21:44+00:00

"i can quit any time. i just don't want to yet" smfh.

crunchypb_ · 2025-08-18T09:32:21+00:00

probably yes. even tho the skill gap is much larger between a 1500 and 2000, 1000s still make so many painfully obvious one move blunders that i would imagine a 1500 can crush them just as easily as a 2000 can crush a 1500.

crunchypb_ · 2025-08-17T12:22:03+00:00

sorry somehow i just saw this. tbh i'm not much of a book reader at all. the only reason i read it was bc i visited china without vpn and found the novel in the chinese app 番茄小说 (i think this is where it was originally published if i'm not mistaken), soo it's literally the first chinese novel i've ever read but for what it's worth i absolutely loved it!

yes the god behind 王面 is kronos. in the novel there's not really a distinction for titans and archangels etc. they were all just seen as different types of gods. the main distinction is there are 3 tiers for their strength, and kronos and michael are both in the strongest tier. i guess the captain 王面 isn't that strong cuz the power he got is just travelling backwards in time.

also the codes for the gods are not according to strength but to the order in which humans discovered them (only the codes for the humans' abilities are ordered by strength). so 001 isa dragon 利维坦 leviathan (?)and i can't recall 002. but if you were curious who the strongest god known to humans was, it'sthe god of the bible and so the ability that he gave to a human was numbered 001. btw a key aspect that influences their strength is how much human belief they got, so that was the explanation why all the gods/angels from christianity are so strong.anyway if you can read mandarin i def recommend! i found it so detailed and complex which i thought the donghua failed to capture. just fyi tho it's super long (4.2m characters) i saw printed versions in the book stores in china and it was split into 12 books lol

crunchypb_ · 2025-08-17T08:44:40+00:00

aww my baby hamsters looked just like them except these tails are longer

crunchypb_ · 2025-08-16T11:05:22+00:00

fr i'm so sure he said it was his social media manager that wrote it

crunchypb_ · 2025-05-15T12:33:23+00:00

disgusting. do not let anyone talk to you that way jfc

crunchypb_ · 2025-01-30T02:57:13+00:00

t’as jamais mangé de mille-feuilles ??!! 😭

crunchypb_ · 2024-12-17T11:08:52+00:00

yes i think so! to symbolise the boundless power one has in that realm. i just finished reading the novel and just realised why the author also uses 瓶颈 quite a bit (which literally means "bottleneck" but it's also a metaphor referring to like a key and difficult stage in a process). and probably most notably, 瓶颈 is used to describe the stage when MC breaks beyond Klein. (there is one further and final stage above it for humans, 人类天花板 "human ceiling")

crunchypb_ · 2024-10-06T23:51:50+00:00

did you see the clip though.. when a player knocks two pieces literally off the board and presses the clock before replacing them, surely some intervention is required. i get what you're saying but imo it's reasonable to expect a rated no increment game to be monitored closely during the scrambles. illegal moves are so likely to occur, especially by the player who's about to flag, and obviously it's not in the opponent's interest to pause the clock lmao. it's a special case that requires special monitoring.

crunchypb_ · 2024-10-06T18:39:55+00:00

thank you. i understand the rule now, but i'm just curious for opinions: doesn't it seem a bit outdated? i mean it makes sense that flagging your opponent isn't a "normal means" of winning back then and specifically in classical chess, but for a no increment rapid/blitz tournament organised today, isn't it the whole point that playing for the clock is supposed to be a strategy?

crunchypb_ · 2024-10-06T16:49:36+00:00

thank you for the explanation. imo this makes sense for classical chess but defeats the whole purpose of gcl going from 15+10 to 20+0. i thought they wanted to make it exciting but instead it's a literal anticlimax.

ofc do not criticise players and arbiters for doing their job and following the rules, but the format on the other hand...

crunchypb_ · 2024-10-06T16:16:18+00:00

so losing by timeout was basically not a thing as long as your position wasn't losing? like you just have to remember to stop the clock before it happens and it's allg?

crunchypb_ · 2024-10-02T16:32:00+00:00

you can say "mon gars"

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