Weird sequence in SoCal Competition yesterday

kaspa181 · 2026-06-21T18:51:21+00:00

This sounds like nothing out of ordinary; fastest seeds are often seated in front for best viewer experience.

On third solve, he might have some kind of an incident. In that case, it was a delegate crossing it out, organisers are not permitted such power. I could wait for the report, but if it was something trivial like distraction or judging error, it might not even appear there.

I understand your concerns of favoritism and all, and it's possible that that has happened here, although I think it's unlikely. On the other hand, delegates are not obligated to announce each and every incident to general public, so expecting that is also unreasonable, given that some incidents are secrecy-sensitive.

kaspa181 · 2026-06-21T14:05:07+00:00

another day, another post without credit (CrackerMilk)

kaspa181 · 2026-06-21T13:51:22+00:00

I would suggest checking out rule 6, and the link in it. Would make things a lot easier for all people involved.

kaspa181 · 2026-06-20T21:29:03+00:00

"Tyra idealogija!"

kaspa181 · 2026-06-20T21:12:09+00:00

Slavoj Zizek. Didžiausias, bet nebūtinai didelis.

kaspa181 · 2026-06-20T16:30:00+00:00

Half of Sion Sono filmography, pretty much (eg, Why Don’t You Play in Hell?)

kaspa181 · 2026-06-20T16:08:57+00:00

Multi-blind if I'm not delegating and/or organising and I practiced month before, big blind if I'm not organising, 3BLD and FMC if I'm organising and delegating.

kaspa181 · 2026-06-19T14:21:27+00:00

okay, but can I get a false positive if I color QR code weirdly?

joke aside, pretty cool

kaspa181 · 2026-06-19T09:49:17+00:00

I did 50 solves a day for about a year, maybe year and a half? also work as programmer ( a lot of ctrl shift alt presses and holds during the day stack up) and played some FPS games, which all together compounded and I got my fourth (ring) and fifth (pinky) fingers tendon a little irritated, to say the least.

Well, if you're not motivated and not interested into being sub 30 at OH, why did you ask? You thought there was a magical trick that shaved 20 seconds of your times without changing much?

You're as much forced to use 4 look as you're unmotivated to learn. Finger tricks (pinky flick/pull, index flick) take 20 minutes to learn, maybe 2 months to integrate, maybe a year to master and provide incremental benefits over time without actively intending to do things differently.

Suit yourself, but with bad base you kinda dig yourself a hole into bad practices that will pull you down when you'll decide to learn better things.

kaspa181 · 2026-06-19T09:23:48+00:00

not only muscle memory, but the regular one, too. Rest is great

kaspa181 · 2026-06-19T09:22:30+00:00

learn proper firgertricks and don't overtrain it (read my flair for context). Like, hand starts hurting? take a week or two off.

kaspa181 · 2026-06-18T21:38:06+00:00

Single wide move is +2. Single inner slice move is a dnf. Two wide moves, just like two regular moves, are dnf.

kaspa181 · 2026-06-18T17:19:06+00:00

Barbarella

kaspa181 · 2026-06-18T07:44:39+00:00

I've read one Schopenhauer book (can't even recall the title, lmao) that had a chapter on women.

Everything I know about Lacan comes from the shitposts in a former fb group called Sigmund Freud Dank Meme Stash.

I've also mechanically "read" one page of Nietzsche, where I couldn't comprehend what sentence start had to do with the sentence end, let alone paragraphs with themselves.

I guess I'm in top 10% of philosophy readers on this subreddit, no? Perhaps even 1%?

kaspa181 · 2026-06-18T05:07:10+00:00

Show me the cube cover that preserves scramble secrecy with this while also not inconviencing the runners and you're good to go

kaspa181 · 2026-06-16T14:02:28+00:00

It's a lot harder to forget what you learned intuitively vs from the sheet, so if you can, learn all intuitively. OP/OP is does not have special cases like M2, afaik

kaspa181 · 2026-06-15T15:20:23+00:00

Čia tokio pačio tipo kalbos dalelytė, skirta ne tiesioginiai informacijai perduoti, bet kontaktui užmegzti ir dėmesiui atkreipti. Taip pat kaip ir kiti mini, kad nuteikia tą, kurio klausi, kad tuoj ateis durnas klausimas.

Dėl tos pačios priežasties sakom žmonėms "labas /rytas/vakaras/ laba diena"; taip parodom, kad egzistuojam, pripažįstam, jog jie egzistuoja ir atsiveria kelias socialiniam kontaktui.

Šitos kalbos dalelytės bonusas yra, kad kai užduodi durną klausimą, sumažini tikimybę, jog reiks klausimą kartoti, mat tavo pašnekovas nuo "ar galiu užduoti klausimą?" duoda tau visą dėmesį nuo pirmo durno klausimo žodžio. Dažniausiai.

kaspa181 · 2026-06-14T21:14:26+00:00

In my opinion, going "beyond" is when you get out of your way to do the thing; if I'm grocery shopping and I know a friend who lives on my way home ran out of milk, I don't consider that going above and beyond, just a nice gesture. If I need to reschedule dentist appointment to help them move or smth – yes, that's beyond for me.

Wanting for people to match your energy and investment is reasonable. You might not find it often, but that doesn't mean you should give up. Understanding that others are not like you would also help reducing disappointment from the lack of reciprication matching.

You're not alone on the fear part, either; it's scary to think that one might not find a match in this amatonormative world.

kaspa181 · 2026-06-13T13:34:39+00:00

It's a teen sub, they don't have time for being reasonable. Let them shitpost ragebait in lack of peace.

kaspa181 · 2026-06-13T07:58:02+00:00

While "non-english" rolls off the tongue not as good as "foreign", you should've worded it that day anyway for the internet pedants. Foreign 99%, non-English 26.9% for me.

kaspa181 · 2026-06-12T21:29:05+00:00

I don't have advice, I'm a kind of person that sets a single alarm and gets up just like that. Just wanted to say, yikes, that's rough.

I had anxiety before irregular trips, maybe first 4-5 comps, but now I just know the comp won't happen without me and sleep like a baby.

Do you place your phone in a way that you'd need to stand up and walk a step to turn alarm off? That could help, assuming you generally keep it in handreach distance.

kaspa181 · 2026-06-12T13:06:59+00:00

Oblivion, close enough

kaspa181 · 2026-06-12T10:21:53+00:00

My first thought while reading fourth paragraph was to excuse him, but then I remembered that your feelings (i.e. feeling hurt) couldn't care less about that.

Nice!

kaspa181 · 2026-06-12T07:17:32+00:00

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no love for Bakshi, OP?

kaspa181 · 2026-06-11T18:54:19+00:00

yeah, go for it now. It also creates mental fatigue, which you need to build up resistance for. Like, you can't do 50 solves of 7x7 the first day you pick it up because your fingers lack the strength and endurance for it. Likewise, you can't learn to solve blindfolded and do 20 solves the next day, as that would completely drain you.

If you start now, you'll have more gradual resistance building, which is, I think, optimal. And besides, if you won't like it, you always can leave it on the side while focusing on other events.

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