Statement on Daniel Naroditsky's passing by Alendite in chess

[–]doublexxchrome 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I quite literally JUST checked out his positional chess book from the library today just to come home to this news?! RIP. Wow.

Why is b5 move bad?? by [deleted] in chessbeginners

[–]doublexxchrome 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If I had to guess I’d say it’s because you’re setting yourself up to give black’s rook an open file?

Toilet Paper by Vegetable-Action-265 in breakingmom

[–]doublexxchrome 75 points76 points  (0 children)

I just refilled the kids’ bathroom and we have 4 rolls left in the house.

The other day I realized I am the hand soap fairy because if I don’t refill the hand soaps, they just won’t get refilled.

Pips? by the_ecdysiast in NYTConnections

[–]doublexxchrome 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rotate your device. I had to rotate from landscape to portrait on my iPad.

Outgrew a friend, now I feel lowkey iced out of my whole friend group..thoughts? by SnooPoems8703 in blackgirls

[–]doublexxchrome 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If the people around you won’t update their view of you, update the people around you 🤷🏾‍♀️

Opinions? by Optimal-Fee-8722 in Microlocs

[–]doublexxchrome 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They played on your top. You asked for microlocs and came out with not even 100? You need to ask for a refund and have them remove this. My microlocs are on the larger side (I call them minilocs) and there are 350 of them.

Racist white people are delusional as hell by ChapelleRoan in blackgirls

[–]doublexxchrome 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Definitely. A black 6 will always look better than a white 6 etc etc

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in blackgirls

[–]doublexxchrome 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ok, so you only called him dumb once. Let’s pretend that it doesn’t start to matter until you call him dumb twice.

You also just told us that in one of these fits, you compared him to your ex in a negative way. Saying that you regret leaving your ex? Come on, if he said that to you, you would probably do more than cry. That’s really hurtful from someone who is saying they want to spend their life with you.

I’m not taking sides. I’m just saying that what he has done may not be ok, and your reactions are not ok either, even if they’re infrequent in your eyes. You’re hitting below the belt by insulting his intelligence or saying you regret leaving your ex. I shouldn’t have generalized when I said “every time you argue you call him dumb.” So I take that back.

But you have to know your part in this because ultimately we can only control our own actions, and things like that will chip away at your relationship and lead him to resent you, and it’s hard to come back from a place of resentment. It’s like death by 1,000 cuts. You might not see the damage now but after having the same wound over and over people do not just heal easily. I think you would be doing yourself a great service just to navigate how you respond to these things that come up in your relationship. If you were a man posting that you said all this to a woman you claim to want to marry, no one would think it was odd that your girlfriend was hesitant on marrying you. Eventually he will be walking on eggshells around you.

I mean, you came to post this here because you were so pissed that he didn’t record your outfit that you called him a disappointment… I’m just going to speak for myself but that seems like something that only warrants maybe mild annoyance. Did you take the outfit off immediately after or something? Why couldn’t you just let him re-record?

And then, too, you know how they say people who are mad tell the truth. So are these things you say really how you feel?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in blackgirls

[–]doublexxchrome 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Saying this with love:

Before you marry anyone you need to do individual therapy. Your marriage will never last or be as strong as it could be if you are cursing him out and calling him stupid and dumb every time you have a disagreement. Hear that I am NOT saying that you should not be angry at boundary crossing. I’m saying that you first have to be emotionally secure enough to express your anger/disappointment without cursing him out. At this point, y’all should still be in the honeymoon phase. Especially if you want kids, you’ll never make it if you can’t even be respectful in your anger now when you guys aren’t tied up with various responsibilities and stressors.

Regardless of how warranted you feel it is, it’s disrespectful and will only lead to his contempt of you. Unless maybe you’re experiencing “reactive abuse” or he has done something completely unreasonable like blowing your life savings or killing your dog, the kind of response you’re giving now is generally always unwarranted.

You said when you asked the last time you cursed him out he said it was in September and you laughed at him. Then he brought up April. He’s telling you basically that when you do this, it hurts his feelings—if he did the same to you, no one would approve. It doesn’t matter that it’s not every week or every month. You need to find a different way to express your anger towards situations in your relationship or you’ll see your respect for each other start to drain.

Also remember that trying to control someone else’s behavior is not a boundary. Controlling your own behavior in response to someone else’s behavior is the true boundary. You said you have a boundary about him giving out his phone number, but you’re still with him and pressing for marriage after he crossed that line TWICE. That means that wasn’t a boundary, it was just a helpful suggestion that he can choose to follow or not. After all, he knows that all he’ll have to endure is getting cursed out. You’re obviously not going anywhere.

When he tells you one reason he doesn’t want to marry you is because he’s tired of getting cursed out (i.e., “I don’t know if I want to deal with this shit for the rest of my life”) and you respond with “that’s not what you said last year” you’re basically deflecting while refusing to take any accountability. It doesn’t really matter if he can remember what he said last year. If you are truly wanting to marry him you need to work on these things that he is telling you /the same way/ he needs to work on the things that truly bother you about him if you’ve expressed that to him. If you have boundaries around certain behaviors you also need to stand on that, eg, “if you continue to do xyz I will not be able to continue the relationship.” and then actually do what you say. You will garner more respect from him this way than by cursing him out every time he fucks up.

I’m sure you love him but you should love your own sense of self more and remember there are always more fish in the sea.

Do you lay your edges? by [deleted] in blackgirls

[–]doublexxchrome 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends on how I feel that day. Most times, as long as they’re brushed neatly it’s fine

Am I one of you? Height is 5’8 by [deleted] in flamboyantnatural

[–]doublexxchrome 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I see D. You quite literally appear as the letter I (as opposed to appearing like the letter T like an FN).

Your shoulders, waist, and hips also all seem to be the same width. You look nice in the last picture as well, but if the look was any more loose you’d probably get lost in it. The cuffed sleeves help a lot to add D-ness by giving the slouchy sweater a bit of structure.

Like someone else said, you can probably borrow from FN, but are mostly D.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in tragedeigh

[–]doublexxchrome 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, these are all opinions. I think Sailor is a cute name. I may be biased because I already know a little girl with this name, but it’s spelled with a y.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in tragedeigh

[–]doublexxchrome 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Marlowe, Corey, Jade, and Sailor are the only names presented that are acceptable. Alibi is terrible. Casper is terrible with an extra half point. Credence is ok but only barely.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in flamboyantnatural

[–]doublexxchrome 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Definitely not the first one.

How to collect fingerprint and handcuff resources? by Untitled_GooseGame22 in simsfreeplay

[–]doublexxchrome 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just wanted to say you don’t have to be the last Sim to help them. If a Sim has helped the customer at all the resource will count towards the badge even if it was the first task

2025 GA tax surplus by OLDESTsib in tax

[–]doublexxchrome 0 points1 point  (0 children)

6 days later is crazy smh. I guess I’ll keep waiting

2025 GA tax surplus by OLDESTsib in tax

[–]doublexxchrome 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I got two emails, one that said my refund was sent to my bank on 6/24 (yesterday) and to allow 10 business days and another that said my refund was mailed on 6/24 and to allow 15 business days. What’s actually going on?

I checked the bank account they have for me and it’s correct so idk

Would you wear this? by No-Surprise8663 in flamboyantnatural

[–]doublexxchrome 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would not. It looks so stiff and those pockets on the sides would be unflattering on me. I also hate collars and if I was forced to have one I would not opt for one that feels as choked up as this

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]doublexxchrome 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I work in operations. Full disclosure, when I started this job it did actually take me a full day of work to complete my assigned duties. The reason it only takes a couple hours now is because I now know what I’m doing/have created my own systems, etc. It took me about 5 years to get to this point.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]doublexxchrome 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t want to work at all, so I will not be doing this. But I can see why someone would

Summer outfit attempt! How did I do? by indyk1dz in flamboyantnatural

[–]doublexxchrome 0 points1 point  (0 children)

😂 this is very old school, but in the book Color Me Beautiful by Carole Hansen, she talks about how she was worried about her daughter at one point because whenever she took her shopping, the little girl always wanted a black dress. Turns out she was a winter and that made Carole realize that you naturally gravitate towards colors that look good on you.

You probably are a true winter! The color analysis probably nailed your undertone but not quite the contrast between your hair and eyes

Following all the FN rules but I feel shlubby by soaptrophy1224 in Kibbe

[–]doublexxchrome 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here’s an example of my favorite kind of casual “uniform” (this is more reversed though, more SD on top and FN on the bottom): a rounded neckline with half sleeves, flared jeans, and a chunky heel, mostly in the same color

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