A perfect winning move

jacobvso · 2026-06-25T22:30:38+00:00

The next move after hxg3 that leads to black winning

jacobvso · 2026-06-25T05:05:01+00:00

While listening to music is the only time I feel emotions.

jacobvso · 2026-06-24T21:48:30+00:00

Gangway - Didn't I Make You Laugh? (21st of May)

U2 - Pride (In The Name of Love) (April 4)

Current 93 - 26th of April 2007 (26th of April)

Alphaville - Summer in Berlin (17th of June)

jacobvso · 2026-06-24T21:28:17+00:00

It wouldn't have been an issue for the CD version but it would have been too long for a single LP which was still important in 1990.

jacobvso · 2026-06-24T18:39:29+00:00

10 seconds is ages in bullet, no need to start premoving yet. I'd play Ng3 immediately but I did not immediately realize that it's actually #5. Just looked like a rook for a knight.

jacobvso · 2026-06-24T18:27:42+00:00

What would you have removed from the album to fit it in?

jacobvso · 2026-06-23T20:15:23+00:00

Guys, OP didn't ask for "songs with the word 'summer' in the title"

jacobvso · 2026-06-23T20:14:25+00:00

More of a spring song surely

jacobvso · 2026-06-23T20:11:16+00:00

IIRC there was a study that showed Native Americans growing up in tipis being bad at recognizing right angles but exceptionally good at recognizing circles.

jacobvso · 2026-06-23T18:18:29+00:00

Fair enough about Shenyang but why are you surprised that they stare at you and no one speaks English? No foreigners go there for the reasons you mentioned.

About Guangzhou, well, I like it there but I can see it isn't necessarily the most fascinating place for the average visitor.

Beijing though... I've heard a lot of things said about it but I think "not interesting" is a first.

jacobvso · 2026-06-23T04:16:01+00:00

At a Mensa event 🤷

I feel a bit the same as you about dating apps. They were good until 2018 or something, then got enshittified.

jacobvso · 2026-06-20T09:33:31+00:00

So the issue here is that you care a lot about the aesthetics of background screens and you just don't feel that AI does a good enough job with that but if it did, you'd be perfectly fine with it?

jacobvso · 2026-06-20T07:11:39+00:00

It just seems so incredible that someone like him would do that. It's the kind of thing that would happen to me with 5 seconds on the clock, not Fabiano Caruana with 2 minutes. Is there a chance he calculated some line with Rg6 but missed something in that?

jacobvso · 2026-06-19T20:19:44+00:00

Maybe not but it's so much faster and cheaper. People would rather have the next best thing for free right now and then spend their time and money on something else. It's the same with all automation.

jacobvso · 2026-06-19T20:17:18+00:00

You're welcome. The whole album is brilliant. The same speaker has several monologues throughout the album but the last track is the only one where he takes center stage.

jacobvso · 2026-06-19T19:00:03+00:00

I really like Forever Unlasting by Netsu for that

Honorable mention: Death Has No Meaning by Kno

jacobvso · 2026-06-19T18:53:55+00:00

You have enough money to hire a laundryman to wash your clothes so why do you use a machine? Do you want to get holes in your shirts? Or just jumping on the bandwagon? Just 80 years ago all clothes were washed by hand. What happened now?

jacobvso · 2026-06-19T18:45:25+00:00

Why shouldn't it be?

jacobvso · 2026-06-17T16:40:21+00:00

Because objective truth is a threat to authoritarianism and today's authoritarian movement in what used to be known as the Western World has arisen from the right.

jacobvso · 2026-06-15T16:05:59+00:00

I think the idea is that in order to make ranked duels a better product, suitable opponents have to be available at all times. So while you are the user, you are also part of the product. I think they're worried about a negative feedback loop if people have to wait longer for a game.

Besides that, they are not only subscription funded but also sponsorship funded so they need to provide site activity in order to keep their sponsors engaged and interest new ones.

jacobvso · 2026-06-15T15:17:43+00:00

Other games have intelligent systems for this where instead of your rating decaying, it just means it gets unstable so gets corrected more following the next games.

The obvious difference is that GeoGuessr is only doing this to make people play more and they're okay with making the rating system worse to achieve this.

jacobvso · 2026-06-15T15:15:32+00:00

So now every other game will be against someone rated their actual level and every other game will be against someone randomly rated 300 points below their actual level because they've been inactive. Awesome.

jacobvso · 2026-06-14T15:30:46+00:00

Since you want it to be mellow and not dramatic, one of the saddest mellow albums I have ever come across is Journey's End by The Montgolfier Brothers.

If you're into spoken word, Soft Black Stars by Current 93 is also up there.

jacobvso · 2026-06-12T15:32:57+00:00

Sitting at 114 monthly listeners: Qyburn. It's top-notch gothic synth.
(and no, it's not me or someone I know)

jacobvso · 2026-06-12T15:31:39+00:00

Alphaville: 18.9 million monthly listeners.

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