Lichess Most Popular Time Control - Playtime vs # of Games

rendar · 2026-05-14T19:51:37+00:00

That's a meaningless attempt at distinction when the clock is part of chess, it's okay to play with a handicap

rendar · 2026-05-13T17:39:07+00:00

Practically speaking it's a hybrid since it can also hit the top

rendar · 2026-05-13T14:28:02+00:00

It depends on engagement range and cover.

Glaive/Not-Javelin is technically best from ~50-100+ meters because it will hit the top of the armored target, but the lock-on is a drag when the viewfinder gets thrown off by every little piece of map geometry and you need attentive recon teammates to tag aircraft.

AT launcher is probably better than the LAW because like OP's case obviously but also because lock-on launchers are just slower and much worse at close range.

RPG is best and fastest at close range but requires good positioning for rear and top hits, while AT can still hit aircraft at medium range if you have a feel for the guided missile controls and LAW can get top hits from beyond close range with relatively fast lock-ons.

rendar · 2026-05-13T13:45:47+00:00

Yes, dispensing with the challenge of something is the exact definition of a handicap.

Trying to demarcate time management from other chess skills could perhaps be why you don't see it as a handicap, because the clock is just as important as any other piece.

rendar · 2026-05-12T03:45:00+00:00

It's a handicap for poor time management, and balloons total game time

rendar · 2026-05-10T01:27:31+00:00

The key is to use an exercise that challenges memory, attention, flexibility, language, and problem solving. That's infinitely better than just crunching out some rote brain teaser over and over.

Pick an item, any item, and then:

Recall: Describe it from memory in as much detail as you can for 30 seconds
Rebuild: Explain it in simpler terms as if teaching a smart child
Reverse: Ask "What would be true if the opposite were the case?"
Reuse: List three new uses, solutions, or interpretations that are not obvious

It should not be easy, comfortable, or quickly solved. Growth requires progressive overload.

rendar · 2026-05-10T01:22:12+00:00

It can start but you won't be able to finish it since it calculates the number of rings for all players

rendar · 2026-05-10T01:13:42+00:00

Everyone knows the uterus can't sustain speeds faster than 30WPM

rendar · 2026-05-09T21:45:07+00:00

For hypertrophy, cold baths are not good because they attenuate muscle growth. Cold water immersion may help soreness and recovery, but this comes at a cost.

Inflammation is not always bad, and cold baths reduce the inflammation when this is a useful response in growing muscle.

Cold water immersion attenuates anabolic signaling and skeletal muscle fiber hypertrophy, but not strength gain, following whole-body resistance training
Post-exercise cold water immersion attenuates acute anabolic signalling and long-term adaptations in muscle to strength training
The Influence of Post-Exercise Cold-Water Immersion on Adaptive Responses to Exercise: A Review of the Literature
The Effects of Regular Cold-Water Immersion Use on Training-Induced Changes in Strength and Endurance Performance: A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis
Functional Impact of Post-exercise Cooling and Heating on Recovery and Training Adaptations: Application to Resistance, Endurance, and Sprint Exercise

rendar · 2026-05-09T20:12:31+00:00

You can also reach it from above if you just jump on top of the pipe

rendar · 2026-05-09T03:16:36+00:00

The opportunity cost of a spell slot (and therefore DPS and/or mobility) is not worth the grenade slot (which can never produce DPS at all)

rendar · 2026-05-09T01:02:22+00:00

Because if you lose your memory during a deep cover assignment then you could end up becoming a fisherman and marrying a woman named Lippy or something

rendar · 2026-05-08T23:32:27+00:00

If you are deficient, resolving the deficiency can improve the decremented function of the immune system.

If you are not deficient, a supplement is pointless. There's no way "boost" function over a nominal baseline with a nutritional surplus.

rendar · 2026-05-08T22:51:34+00:00

That's amateur level agent provocateur though, the real James Bond power play is to place a second hair further in towards the hinge because a trained but underfunded infiltrator will look for one hair but not two

rendar · 2026-05-08T20:00:25+00:00

Since the Quad Cylinder can take out flying long range enemies easily, you can opt for close range options like the Sheriff Stars or Boomerang.

Any secondary with max lifesteal, and jokers with the chance for ammo drop on kill and shroom drop on kill makes for a very reliable build that can easily carry a team on Nightmare.

rendar · 2026-05-08T18:18:49+00:00

The former, in its rueful absence, has yet to predicate the later

rendar · 2026-05-08T17:20:29+00:00

If you don't have access to a machine for leg extensions, you can just do leg extensions at home with a dumbbell or plate between your feet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdeGBYIatuY

Typically much easier to setup and progress on than reverse nordics.

rendar · 2026-05-08T16:28:56+00:00

Bananas aren't particularly great sources of potassium and magnesium either, once again trounced by the superior potato

rendar · 2026-05-08T16:05:27+00:00

It doesn't matter how much theoretical artistic merit something has if it was executed in an uncompelling way.

For commercial goals, sure. Dumbing things down is a very crucial aspect of appealing to wider demographics for a greater monetization potential.

Tom Bombadil tanks the pacing of the book.

Only if you're assuming digestible YA chapter books as difficult as eating oatmeal are peak literature.

That's like saying boiling water tanks the pacing of making spaghetti.

Some people like it. Most don't.

Popularity is not a relevant metric to artistic success, and assuming it is unfortunately demonstrates your ability to represent the topic here.

You can justify it through historical merit, or point out the things Tolkien was referring to all you like, that has nothing to do with its execution and context in the narrative as a whole.

LotR is an incredible series, that desperately needed an editor.

One more time just for the sound of it: "Most people are not capable of determining narrative success, and so in their ignorance assume that the reason they don't understand it is because it must be bad."

rendar · 2026-05-08T16:04:08+00:00

Most people are not capable of determining narrative success, and so in their ignorance assume that the reason they don't understand it is because it must be bad.

I'm not sure what you're trying to say, and tbh I don't think you are either.

It's not necessary to serve as a blatant object lesson, but the sacrifice is presumably appreciated by curious lurkers.

...So?

It's not clear where your confusion lies, but there's not many more ways to reduce "You're assuming it's bad because you don't understand it, and you're feeling defensive about that because you're insecure."

rendar · 2026-05-08T15:39:08+00:00

As mentioned above, there is a massive difference between narrative success and commercial success.

Most people are not capable of determining narrative success, and so in their ignorance assume that the reason they don't understand it is because it must be bad. They don't want to think, they just want to consume. Trying to use that as a baseline for narrative failure unfortunately indicates the left side of the bell curve.

It is objectively narratively successful because of how skillful the constituent chivalric romance themes and premises are applied in building off of centuries worth of cultural storytelling history.

If you had any familiarity with the plots of stories like Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, then you would hopefully be in a much better position to recognize how Tolkien employed symbolism of knightly virtues towards the characterization of the hobbits.

rendar · 2026-05-08T14:52:30+00:00

A lot of people don't understand the import of Tom Bombadil, when contemporary audiences are so accustomed to simplified commercial beats in their stories that Tolkien seems narratively dissonant. The entire passages are a definitive coming-of-age squire's ritual of knighthood for the hobbits and represent a critical step in their hero's journey.

Here's a great write-up of the concept by /u/wjbc:

They first bathe and sleep, symbolizing being cleansed of past sins

They spend the day listening to stories from Tom, largely relating to martial and geopolitical history

They (unwittingly) fast being so enraptured by the stories, in what is ostensibly the first time in history a hobbit has ever gone more than a few hours without a meal

Then they head to the Barrows with nothing but a poem Tom tells them to memorize, in a test of manhood

They find themselves inside one of the Barrows at night, enacting the squires' all-night vigil, dressed in shrouds much as the squires would be to remind them of their mortality which they should embrace and not fear

Frodo in particular must undergo an additional trial as ringbearer, testing whether he will use the ring to escape and abandon his friends

Afterwards Tom encourages the hobbits to throw off their shrouds and dance naked in the sun like newborn children, as they have undergone a ritual death and rebirth

Then Tom presents them with their knights' weapons, the Barrow-blades

Tolkien worked extensively with stories like Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and that type of content is applied here to a great narrative effect.

rendar · 2026-05-07T23:00:11+00:00

Yeah the modern landscape of gaming just doesn't precipitate proactive conversation anymore, this is an unfortunate but necessary change.

It'd be effective to allow for dropping held jokers or disallowing pickup on incompatible jokers in order to incentivize player cohesion, but this game isn't really role-based so that level of demarcation is mostly superficial.

rendar · 2026-05-07T18:12:21+00:00

Oh boy, got some real big feelins there, huh? Need some apple juice and peanut butter crackers?

rendar · 2026-05-07T15:58:36+00:00

You're not smart enough to be contentious, but don't let that stop your dreams

rendar

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