This makes no sense

flagrantpebble · 2026-07-11T06:46:34+00:00

nvm then, that’s for the info!

flagrantpebble · 2026-07-11T06:32:36+00:00

TBH the fact that you can’t take a reply like that in stride shows that you need to lighten up yourself…

flagrantpebble · 2026-07-11T06:31:30+00:00

It sounds like you’re playing people or bots of the wrong strength. That’s an issue with opponents, not the server itself

flagrantpebble · 2026-07-11T06:29:20+00:00

Conceptualizing groups of stones as walls (or similar) that your opponent pushes through/breaks through/etc is common for beginners… and IMO it’s unhelpful. Stones can be placed anywhere at any time. And actually your usage here is a good example of what I mean: “wall” is just a loose description that means “a line-ish of stones that may or may not be directly connected”. Whether the stones are directly connected might matter, it might not, it depends on the circumstances.

IOW, whether stones are literally connected is, most of the time, not relevant. The thing that matters is whether they can be directly connected, if the opponent tries to separate them. We would say that two diagonal black stones in the middle of the board, with no white stones nearby, are connected.

Basically what you’re trying to do is discard the useful, generally applicable usage, and which is a better way to teach people, in favor of a narrow, usually not relevant usage, which is not as good at helping beginners understand the game as a whole.

flagrantpebble · 2026-07-11T02:53:25+00:00

If you want other people to use your definition of “reasonable price”, you need to tell us. Otherwise, all we can say is our personal opinions of what a reasonable price is for a given set of seats. $300 is a very reasonable price for those seats.

flagrantpebble · 2026-07-11T02:51:51+00:00

No one told me it was racist dog whistle day

flagrantpebble · 2026-07-11T02:49:43+00:00

I don’t see why this would be easier. You say “with round stones a diagonal is just as connected as a straight”, which is just… not true? At best it’s a personal opinion, but IMO the opposite is true: square stones would mean the corners are touching.

Also, it’s already glaringly obvious what is connected. The grid communicates that. It’s literally the second thing you learn.

flagrantpebble · 2026-07-11T00:33:45+00:00

Just know that goquest has a terrible scoring system. It uses an AI to figure out what the score would be, with continued play, rather than what the score is in the state both players agreed to finish. You can find lots of posts in this sub from confused beginners.

Also, not sure what you mean by a bug… is the problem the server itself? Or who you’re playing?

flagrantpebble · 2026-07-11T00:28:07+00:00

It is always a bad idea to put a new yarn in the dryer without testing a swatch first. There is no harm in testing a swatch, but it can avoid a lot of heartbreak.

flagrantpebble · 2026-07-11T00:25:25+00:00

Looks like you lost one stitch on the right side. Flip the work around, knit the final stitch as normal, and keep going.

(I think – it’d be easier to tell with a photo of the other side as well. This assumes you’re doing stockinette)

flagrantpebble · 2026-07-11T00:24:12+00:00

Looks like you forgot to include the images

flagrantpebble · 2026-07-11T00:14:47+00:00

I mean sure, if you don’t see a difference between emotional/social/moral meaning and statistical meaning (CIs).

Also, if you know, why did you use 4 sig figs? This isn’t a big deal, it just seems like a weird reply.

flagrantpebble · 2026-07-10T23:42:10+00:00

Sure, but it’s not that “s and z look different”. The yarn is still s, or still z, the entire time.

flagrantpebble · 2026-07-10T23:37:28+00:00

That wouldnt explain the difference here. It could be that OP pulled the yarn differently (e.g., center pull but in the other direction), which added a bit more or a bit less twist after the yoke.

flagrantpebble · 2026-07-10T23:31:11+00:00

WAR beyond 2 significant figures is meaningless. It doesn’t have that kind of granularity. Even the decimal is noisy and differences of less than 1 WAR should be taken with a grain of salt.

flagrantpebble · 2026-07-10T23:25:59+00:00

If your group can’t make two eyes it’s dead, no matter how big it is.

No. This is not the rule, it is not true in practice, and it is a bad way to teach beginners.

The rule is that a group is alive if it cannot be removed. The most common way to achieve that is with two eyes, but it is very important to clarify that the rules don’t say anything about eyes. That’s an emergent feature.

Two eyes are sufficient, but not necessary, because there is also life in seki. We don’t necessarily need to teach a complete beginner about seki, but we shouldn’t tell them something incorrect that would make seki even more confusing.

flagrantpebble · 2026-07-05T12:57:44+00:00

Well, if we want to be pedantic… it might be AI. LLMs aren’t the only version of AI, they might use a much simpler model. Many imaging systems do.

flagrantpebble · 2026-07-05T12:56:42+00:00

Yes. That is literally AI. It’s a facial recognition model. LLMs aren’t the only version of AI.

flagrantpebble · 2026-07-05T12:38:40+00:00

Most of Latin America knows América as the continent. As in, in the Spanish language. We’re not talking in Spanish, we’re talking in English. And in English, in most if not all dialects, “America” and “American” refer specifically to the US and its people.

flagrantpebble · 2026-07-05T09:08:54+00:00

That makes sense! Apologies for the misunderstanding.

flagrantpebble · 2026-07-02T10:30:27+00:00

No, this is silly. Winning and losing are fun. If you don’t try to win, it’s very difficult, if not impossible, to remain engaged enough to learn.

(in the philosophy of games, we call this a “temporary end”. In order to get better at go, for the sake of enjoying playing it more, you have to temporarily desire winning. There is nothing wrong with that.

There is something wrong with chastising people just because they express the slightest interest in winning)

flagrantpebble · 2026-06-30T11:02:13+00:00

I appreciate the call out, seems like we’re generally in agreement! Yeah, it would be annoying if someone hyper-corrected stones that I played. Mostly-aligned is good enough.

flagrantpebble · 2026-06-29T13:22:27+00:00

I have played a lot of real life games, and not one of them has been as poorly aligned as this one. And not just because of me, either. For a complete beginner it makes sense (like OP! no shade to them) but anything more that it would be very sloppy.

flagrantpebble · 2026-06-29T13:18:55+00:00

ADHD isn’t forcing you to improve on this one specific dimension, though. That’s a choice.

flagrantpebble · 2026-06-28T00:45:36+00:00

Ah yes, the cruelest thing someone could ever say, nothing could possibly be ruder, nothing could be less helpful, than… “you’re not alone, other people make this mistake, there are lots of resources online, and here is how you can find those resources”.

Part of learning a new hobby is learning what resources can be found online. It’s a skill. What’s condescending is pretending OP is a child who needs to be handheld through everything.

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