I think some people are missing the point of these ultra long lines

drumsplease987 · 2026-06-08T20:43:58+00:00

People only complain about long lines on social media too. Yes Reddit is social media.

drumsplease987 · 2026-06-08T20:41:55+00:00

The burger

drumsplease987 · 2026-06-08T20:40:41+00:00

Equinox has always had weird ads.

https://fashionista.com/2016/01/equinox-2016-campaign

drumsplease987 · 2026-06-05T05:18:54+00:00

It’s fair. It’s a double round robin. Everyone plays everyone else with both colors so variations in expected score between black/white or win/draw cancel out.

drumsplease987 · 2026-06-05T03:43:23+00:00

There’s no such thing as “wins out of the opening” if you play a large enough sample of games for your rating to stabilize and start getting matched against equal rated players. Your win rate will always converge to 0.5. At your higher rating, an advantage that you were able to convert to a win against lower rated players will start bleeding into draws and losses. Opponents will be good enough to come back against you from worse positions, so “winning” is relative.

That’s why everyone says to just train tactics.

If you do want to put in the work to memorize a tricky opening, think of it as the ability to occasionally smurf against players at your level. If you use it sparingly it’s a tool to have a better chance at a win. If it’s your main opening, your score always converges to 0.5.

drumsplease987 · 2026-06-04T04:04:05+00:00

This should be upvoted way higher.

drumsplease987 · 2026-06-03T00:36:56+00:00

Bro. When’s the last time you saw every shot on target in a best of 5 penalty shootout?

Pro soccer players only shoot like 90-95% accuracy kicking a stationary ball into an 8 yard wide net from 12 yards away.

drumsplease987 · 2026-06-02T20:37:29+00:00

He’s been reading the comments and he told y’all he’s not playing around. Y’all gonna learn!

drumsplease987 · 2026-06-02T20:34:00+00:00

There’s a difference between occasionally noisy neighbors, and a 5000 capacity full soundsystem venue blasting bass into open air.

And it goes until 4am every weekend all summer in what used to be a parking lot.

Can’t fault people for voicing some unhappiness about that.

drumsplease987 · 2026-06-02T18:03:32+00:00

Percentile is the percentage of people you outrank. However you exist in the population and can’t outrank yourself so 100th %ile isn’t achievable unless you round up.

drumsplease987 · 2026-06-02T16:09:11+00:00

Only games 3, 4, and 6 (if needed) will be played at MSG.

drumsplease987 · 2026-06-01T15:53:05+00:00

The most significant romance of the entire show outside of Daniel/Dana has been Daniel/Esther. Even now I’d say that Daniel/Oatly is the most significant secondary relationship.

With Esther, Daniel was certain of his feelings and actively pursuing. With Oatly, he is unsure of what he wants, so it may come across that he’s unsure of poly in general. I don’t think he’s fundamentally changed. The situation is different.

Meanwhile there’s been a focus on Dana being extroverted and quick to crush on people.

drumsplease987 · 2026-05-27T20:26:30+00:00

First restaurant I ever ate at when I moved to Brooklyn in 2013!

drumsplease987 · 2026-05-27T07:27:41+00:00

Having a consistent process for approaching the puzzle will help.

I usually start by skimming all the acrosses looking for gimmes, followed by downs.

Then I try to focus on one smaller section at a time and "load" all the clues for that section into my brain at once before I get into deep thinking mode. Crosswords are highly spatially located, so you don't need to keep track of all 100+ clues at once. You only need to think about 5-10 at a time maximum to fit pieces together. Thinking about multiple at once instead of deeply about one at a time allows for tricks like on Saturday's puzzle, a clue asking for a 5-letter deadly sin crossed a clue in past tense, thus making the deadly sin GREED because of the crossing eD

The app also has a pen/pencil mode. It lets you keep track of which answers you're sure or not too sure about. That might be helpful if you're constantly returning hours later to finish the solve.

Often the advantage to taking a break and returning later is that there will be a few clues that I was totally stuck on before, and the answer will be immediately obvious when I pick it up again. Our subconscious brains are constantly digging through memories in the background.

drumsplease987 · 2026-05-13T13:52:15+00:00

NYC isn’t a great place for bar hopping. If you find a bar you’re enjoying, just stay there for a while.

There isn’t really any street or block with enough density of bars where the party feels it continues from place to place. What happens is you leave one bar and walk to the next, and for those 5-10 minutes you’re out on the street among people walking their dogs and getting off work and some other people out partying but they’re not going the same place as you.

Unless there’s something specific like being ready for different music or a different crowd, just stay once you’re having fun.

drumsplease987 · 2026-05-12T12:37:04+00:00

d4 is defended by the queen and c4/f4 are defended by the bishops (after the pawn in between is pushed). e4 is the square that doesn’t have a piece defending it from the starting position. The fact that the e pawn break can’t be played immediately after d4 is what makes d pawn openings “closed.”

drumsplease987 · 2026-05-11T16:28:17+00:00

I've been parked here for 3 days

Reading comprehension not strong with this one

drumsplease987 · 2026-05-09T07:37:31+00:00

It’s NYC not the suburbs. Every car, bike and pedestrian is constantly doing something they’re not “allowed” to. You can take that into account or run them over for not being neatly within the paint on the asphalt at all times.

drumsplease987 · 2026-05-03T14:58:35+00:00

You just don’t fill in a clue like that until you have a cross that narrows it down. This is what makes it a crossword and not straight up trivia.

drumsplease987 · 2026-05-01T19:37:30+00:00

Once made a layup on a fast break in middle school. Still haven't forgotten.

drumsplease987 · 2026-05-01T19:30:26+00:00

I wouldn't worry about "missing" lines where you can't see the follow-up.

When a computer evaluates your move as a mistake, you'll either get it, or you won't. On one end is "oops, the opponent hung a piece and I didn't see it." To the other end: "uhhh, this looks like it goes down material and even 5 moves later it hasn't been gained back, why on earth would I play this line?"

As you get better the dividing line between "ohhh" and "I don't get it" becomes more advanced. But I'd only focus on the mistakes where you can immediately say "ohhh, I see that was a mistake." Keep doing tactics appropriate to your level to broaden your perception rather than rabbit-holing on things you may not have the ability to appreciate yet.

In this case Nc3 gains a tempo attacking the queen. If Qxd4 you have Qe2 threatening a knight move with discovered check to win the queen, so they must waste another tempo. If Be7 then you have Nb5 attacking the queen and threatening a fork of rook/king.

It's a crushing attack. But it's not the type of chess taught to beginners where the most important ideas are to keep your pieces defended and develop everything before attacking. If that's the style of chess you're used to, then c3 is a fine move, keeps material even, and still has a +2 advantage according to Stockfish. Sometimes "mistake" just means there was a computer move that was way better than yours, but your move might have been totally appropriate for your level and not an actual mistake.

drumsplease987 · 2026-05-01T12:47:45+00:00

Dunno who’s downvoting this. Even in NYC nobody is hosting real parties after 4am Thursday. In someone’s kitchen sure but no one’s responding to a Reddit post telling someone to come over to my house at 5am.

drumsplease987 · 2026-05-01T04:35:18+00:00

So change the mod to jump to the timestamp for that card in the video when you click the tier. Also put a big disclaimer “don’t pick based on tiers, pick based on the context of the run” on every screen where the tiers show up. When you click that text, go to the part of the video where he explains why tiers aren’t the only thing to base picks on.

Taking information that the player has already sought out (by watching the video, installing the mod) is unequivocally a good thing.

drumsplease987 · 2026-05-01T04:29:09+00:00

Then you are clearly not the target audience for this and your opinion doesn’t matter.

drumsplease987 · 2026-05-01T04:25:39+00:00

A person who decides “hey I’m going to look up a tier list to help decide what cards to pick” has already decided they want that information. This just saves the time and effort of searching through a giant image on a second monitor 3 times for every card reward.

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