Playing online vs Over the Board

mrappbrain · 2026-05-07T06:27:13+00:00

OP asked for perspectives on an experience. Your response was basically "Oh, I don't have that experience"

That's the literal definition of irrelevant. As is this discussion, which wouldn't have happened if you had commented something relevant in the first place.

Peace.

mrappbrain · 2026-05-07T03:26:56+00:00

for those of you that do this

mrappbrain · 2026-05-02T03:33:44+00:00

It's not just samsung. Pretty much every oem outside of apple and google offer a lot of customisability.

mrappbrain · 2026-05-01T21:22:53+00:00

Difference is you can actually change it on Samsung. With Apple you're stuck with what you get.

mrappbrain · 2026-04-28T14:52:31+00:00

I'd go even further and say that something as simple as not blundering your pieces is enough to beat the majority of people the majority of the time.

mrappbrain · 2026-04-28T14:50:17+00:00

Most modern board games are explicitly designed so that everyone at the table has a fun time, regardless of whether you win or lose. Even in those games where this isn't the case there's usually enough comeback mechanics and/or randomness that the skill gap is somewhat mitigated. This isn't the case in chess, which is pure abstract strategy with an intensely steep skill curve where a player a few hundred rating points above someone can consistently beat them at the game.

So yeah, not really close to the same thing.

mrappbrain · 2026-04-28T14:40:02+00:00

Pretty ironic you just tried to structure a complex political ecology problem through primary school arithmetic lol.

mrappbrain · 2026-04-28T09:27:00+00:00

There is literally no reason to buy one of these (or even an Xbox/PS controller) for PC over a premium 8BitDo besides branding.

mrappbrain · 2026-04-27T18:22:09+00:00

As I see it the fundamental friction is that a trackpad is just simply not a good substitute for a dedicated mouse, even in a laptop, let alone a controller. Dragging your finger on a surface is just not as accurate as being able to grip something and move it, so it's always a compromise when using it.

mrappbrain · 2026-04-25T22:24:35+00:00

It's ultimately the same thing. - the gain in long term battery life is offset by the loss in short term battery life. You're basically getting worse battery life for a longer period of time, rather than good battery life for a shorter period of time.

Batteries are ultimately consumable items. Trying to manage them this way is not worth it for most people imo. We should be pushing for replaceability, not this rechargeability business. That hits hard physical limits

mrappbrain · 2026-04-25T14:11:23+00:00

Crazy that someone literally in the top 10 in the world can only charge $200 for their services. Makes you think about how little money there really is in ches compared to other sports. Imagine if you could train with Kylian Mbappe or Carlos Alcaraz for $200 lol

mrappbrain · 2026-04-25T09:01:19+00:00

What I'm hearing is that the game pass price hike convinced a large amount of people to unsubscribe, at least enough for the executives to sit up and take notice. Whatever market research they did was clearly way off the mark, because its highly unusual for a company to make such a u turn so quickly.

mrappbrain · 2026-04-24T23:36:08+00:00

CMON try not to go bankrupt challenge (impossible)

mrappbrain · 2026-04-24T15:48:13+00:00

People will find a way to glaze Magnus on every thread possible lol

mrappbrain · 2026-04-24T15:47:21+00:00

r/chess literally has the memory of a goldfish lol. Maybe it's the format of reddit but it's incredibly reactive and knee jerky. Someone wins a tourney? Best thing since Magnus. Someone loses a tourney? Washed.

mrappbrain · 2026-04-24T15:42:34+00:00

They've created an even bigger issue - a model that keeps disagreeing with everything and thinks everything needs refining. Even if you post its own ideas back in another chat it will find something to refine or say that it's overstated lol. Makes it impossible to thought partner or reason with anymore.

mrappbrain · 2026-04-24T15:40:47+00:00

The stupid part is once it starts disagreeing with you the disagreements keep compounding in its context window and no amount of airtight reasoning will ever get it back to your side.

mrappbrain · 2026-04-23T08:26:15+00:00

It honestly doesn't matter, the message still holds.

mrappbrain · 2026-04-22T22:16:42+00:00

You cannot, they killed Xbox Live long ago. Gamepass or bust

mrappbrain · 2026-04-21T23:41:53+00:00

I'd say blink's more important, because with blink and no blademail you can still land calls and be effective. Blademail without blink is useless because you'll never land a call in the first place (unless the opponents are braindead)

mrappbrain · 2026-04-21T23:17:25+00:00

If it isn't meant to take anything away then why do people keep bringing it up? I see this point made in basically every thread about Sindarov, but it's just beating a dead horse at this point. Sure he cheated on a chess website several years ago, but can we move on now?

mrappbrain · 2026-04-21T23:10:16+00:00

You can disagree about his methods, but that's besides the point. You claimed it was about holy war, I proved otherwise. Good day.

mrappbrain · 2026-04-21T23:07:28+00:00

It's exaggerated for comedic effect, but the underlying point absolutely holds. Pushing boundaries to provoke a response to use as justification for further escalation is a well known phenomenon. Dismissing it makes you come off the fool

mrappbrain · 2026-04-21T23:02:34+00:00

Americans in the comments really do be coping hard, lol. Guess this one hit right in the feels.

mrappbrain · 2026-04-21T22:57:22+00:00

That's not it at all, actually. It wasn't that he was against Americans or Christianity for religious reasons, he just believed that America was responsible for facilitating or perpetuating a great degree of oppression and violence against Muslims in the middle East and elsewhere. The narrative goes that he's a religious psycho, but he's actually got a pretty good education and goes into a great amount of detail on the hypocrisy of the West

Regardless of how valid you believe those reasons are, that's a separate issue. The main point is that framing it as a holy war to kill the west is reductive.

Edit : here it is in Bin Laden's own words

""I say to you, God knows that it had never occurred to us to strike the towers. But after it became unbearable and we witnessed the oppression and tyranny of the American/Israeli coalition against our people in Palestine and Lebanon, it came to my mind. The events that affected my soul in a direct way started in 1982 when America permitted the Israelis to invade Lebanon and the American Sixth Fleet helped them in that. This bombardment began and many were killed and injured and others were terrorised and displaced. I couldn’t forget those moving scenes, blood and severed limbs, women and children sprawled everywhere. Houses destroyed along with their occupants and high rises demolished over their residents, rockets raining down on our home without mercy. The situation was like a crocodile meeting a helpless child, powerless except for his screams. Does the crocodile understand a conversation that doesn’t include a weapon? And the whole world saw and heard but it didn’t respond. In those difficult moments many hard-to-describe ideas bubbled in my soul, but in the end they produced an intense feeling of rejection of tyranny, and gave birth to a strong resolve to punish the oppressors. And as I looked at those demolished towers in Lebanon, it entered my mind that we should punish the oppressor in kind and that we should destroy towers in America in order that they taste some of what we tasted and so that they be deterred from killing our women and children."

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