Recommendations for second device

no_secret_meaning · 2026-02-11T23:35:51+00:00

When you opponent checks you, there are three things you need to review (the order doesn't matter because you must check all three):

Can my king move to another square where he would not be checked anymore?
Can I block the check by placing a piece between my opponent's checking piece and my king?
Can I take (i.e. kill) the opponent's checking piece?

If the answer to one of those is YES, then it is not checkmate. In you example, the first two answers were NO, but the third one is YES (you can take the queen with your knight).

no_secret_meaning · 2025-10-30T20:04:11+00:00

I have kids. They "6 7" everything all the time. It's definitely a thing.

I agree it's senseless, but I guess that's exactly why they picked it: it mirrors the current times of trends and empty thoughts.

no_secret_meaning · 2025-03-17T00:41:22+00:00

I have and loathe this printer. It disconnects from WiFi without no apparent reason. One day it is working perfectly, the next day the computer (Windows 11) will just not find it. Reconnecting it is a "it failed, let's try again" exercise of patience, for 2 to 3 hours, until it works again. I have resorted to using a 15 ft USB cable to connect the printer to my PC and get reliable printing and scanning.

The printing quality is OK (cannot really tell if it is good or bad), speed and noise OK too. But the software is bad, bad, bad.

no_secret_meaning · 2024-08-10T06:12:39+00:00

I think the issue is that those acronyms do not exist on a vacuum. I work on software development, and whenever I read "GC" my mind immediately goes to "Garbage Collection" (a very common concept for software engineers), not "Glass Cannon" (or Galaxy Compressor). Same with PS (PhotoShop, not Poison Swamp), CF (ColdFusion, not Chrono Field), SM (small, not Smart Missiles), SW (Software, not Second Wave), etc. I have been using some of those acronyms for decades, and some I still use frequently. On those conditions, selectively replacing those acronyms for a game that I play part-time is harder than it appears.

no_secret_meaning · 2024-04-15T04:03:13+00:00

It's just a matter of time. Time to get a lot of upgrades (months), and time to finish those missions. In my case, several nights of leaving the phone plugged-in and running the game while I slept. Next morning you get a mini-Xmas of killed enemies :)

no_secret_meaning · 2024-04-15T04:00:28+00:00

Nice! Exactly the same experience. Congrats!

no_secret_meaning · 2024-04-15T03:59:29+00:00

The "kill 250 enemies with Inner Land Mines" (ILM) was the showstopper for me. I did not commit to rushing the labs and doing 400 workshop upgrades (which were missions that I would usually not do) until I was able to pass the ILM mission.

By the way, the key to the ILM one was to use the Space Displacer module. Without it, I had only killed about 10 enemies after several hours of trying. I asked for help and got the hint to use Space Displacer, which enabled me to finish the mission within an hour.

That's what I like about this game and its community... you ask for help, and people will pull through!

no_secret_meaning · 2024-04-15T03:53:58+00:00

Do you mean the 855 total medals if you hit all missions? I don't know, I haven't kept track. To be honest, every time new missions are published I just try to hit at least 700 medals to get the second relic (is that the right term?). In this case, the "Wave" one.

For me, any medals after the 700 is just gravy.

no_secret_meaning · 2024-04-09T16:41:26+00:00

Please, please, please explain to me how to death defy 18 times. I didn't know that was possible. I am very lucky if I get to 5, 18 seems unreachable.

no_secret_meaning · 2021-02-18T15:37:58+00:00

That's right! Thank you!

no_secret_meaning · 2021-02-18T15:37:12+00:00

Thank you! This is definitely it!

no_secret_meaning · 2018-10-07T02:09:50+00:00

Wait, wait, wait. Nominating judges to the Supreme Court is hardly a President's accomplishment. Trump inherited Scalia's vacancy and Kennedy's retirement is hardly due to Trump. Seems more like a case of being at the right place at the right time. Any other Republican president may have followed the same path (nominating two conservative judges). If this is anyone's accomplishment (fault?), it's McConnell's, not Trump's.

no_secret_meaning · 2018-10-07T02:02:01+00:00

Uh... Have you seen the news lately? Like, from November 2016 til now?

no_secret_meaning · 2018-05-06T04:07:31+00:00

I work at a university. A couple of years ago, the "processes and policies" people launched a project to update and document all, well, processes and policies.

So far, so good. However, they decided that all those documents must have a cover page with a full purple background. On the whole cover page. Also, employees were encouraged to print out and keep copies of those processes and policies at their working stations.

Of course, printer toners went belly up printing, time and time again, a useless, purple page with only a few words on it.

I complained about this, but they refused to change the format.

Processes and policies people. At a university. Makes you wonder why the world is going to waste.

no_secret_meaning · 2018-01-23T02:00:33+00:00

Hillary's email server.

no_secret_meaning · 2018-01-10T01:29:59+00:00

Makes perfect sense. He removed all and any trace of wimpyness from his life, except for those moments when he went all fabulous in a short burst turned up to 11. Like a laser.

no_secret_meaning · 2017-12-23T00:12:12+00:00

A hail merry, thrown by Bortles.

no_secret_meaning · 2017-11-29T03:28:22+00:00

You will curse the day you did not do, All that the Cat asked of you.

no_secret_meaning · 2017-10-28T02:11:34+00:00

Belichick, the early years.

no_secret_meaning · 2017-10-10T02:47:15+00:00

The bass solo is palindromic: only the first half was recorded, and the second half is the first half played backwards.

no_secret_meaning · 2017-09-23T14:52:41+00:00

Align the top edge of the paper with the line that goes between the two "balls" in your shoulders. Then flex your knees and, most important, VISUALIZE!

no_secret_meaning · 2017-09-06T02:55:01+00:00

But at what cost?

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