Now added the in-game names for those who prefer. I apologize for getting overly carried away with a sense of whimsy before: I’m just a girl in the world. Also I’m back after a three day ban for glorifying violence (sorry Reddit).
I’m only part way through but holy cow do I recommend this book. I’ve already cried twice and I’m just past page 200.
For those that need the refresher, this is the chapter where he’s just starting at chesscom and trying to make it work while he’s running around to St*ve Rensch and wife back home while being simultaneously split with his loyalties to Steven K*mp.
It’s pretty frequently that people will say they’re good at puzzles but then be useless at tactics once they are in game. Here is what you want to do:
First, start a bunch of daily games. Once you have a bunch going, open a puzzles tab. Doesn’t matter if it’s rush or rated.
Now what you want to do is play puzzles. But whenever somebody makes a move in one of your daily games, switch back to the daily game and respond. Then go back to the puzzles.
What eventually starts to happen is your brain stops caring if it’s doing a puzzle or a game, and it honestly gets a little confusing which positions are which. This is what you want.
Repeat this activity regularly, and I promise you in game tactical vision will improve. There have been many times when I’ve opened the app forgetting if I was going to do a puzzle or respond to a move, and found a tactic in game because I thought it was a puzzle.
It works for me, hopefully it works for you too.
Ruined my puzzle rush on 6 lol. I don’t know how to report this, but this is wildly misplaced at 6 in puzzle rush.
I feel like there are many Americans who are living outside their means. Maybe it’s the fault of the economy making everything feeling too expensive. Maybe it’s the TikTokification making everybody want instant gratification instead of long term financial stability. Maybe it’s the fact that housing feels forever out of reach for the upcoming generation, so there’s a sense of financial nihilism and lack of motivation to build long term credit so they can take out a loan for a house.
Whatever the reason, I feel like debt is on the rise. Obviously, for credit card companies and Klarna and the like, that initially seems like an asset, but like… that assumes that the debt gets repaid. If you have a hard worker who owes you 100k and wants to fix their credit score, you have a 100k asset. But if you have a lazy nihilist who owes you 100k, you’re just out 100k. If people are in debt but just… don’t have the money to pay it back, who really ends up holding the bag here? I have friends declaring bankruptcy. Is it the bank that bails them out and pays out the credit companies? It’s not my friend holding the bag, that’s for damn sure. She basically made a deal: 90k for the price of a bad credit score.
I know she’s not alone, maybe not yet, but soon for sure I feel like bankruptcies are going to rise. If the money simply never gets repaid, who holds the bag at the end of the day?
It’s my favorite financial phrase over again: if you owe the bank a million dollars, you have a problem. If you owe the bank a billion dollars, the bank has a problem.
If everybody in debt simply never fully pays it back, who holds the bag?
Don’t text them don’t text them don’t text them.
You know how it is. Who else is out here busily not texting somebody.
I met somebody once who was just a very chill, unassuming dude. Not particularly reactive, not particularly charismatic. As a joke, our group made him the local celebrity. Every time he walked in, we’d cheer like royalty had just entered. At one point I asked him if this was unusual for him. He responded “not really, this kind of always happens wherever I go.”
There was a post on here that I just saw of a girl who was upset because her 20th friend had just confessed feelings for her.
Intentional or otherwise, I feel that certain people give off a certain vibe that creates a common reaction from others.
I think for me, I make people feel safe, accepted, and loved. I really like making people feel that way, but I don’t always want to do it.
I had a coworker a bit ago interrupt me while I was working with somebody else. The coworker was upset, and wanted to feel safe. I’m glad I can provide that, but the person I was working with had much larger and more important issues at hand.
There are like five people that I want to genuinely create that space and environment for. I don’t always want to do it for everybody.
I just don’t always want to be the safe space. How annoying it must be for that girl in the post when she wants to date. How annoying it must be for her to not be able to turn off that reaction at will.
Do you guys have anything like this? A common reaction which others may be grateful for, but- because you can’t turn it on and off at will- can get a bit annoying?
Traditionally in Bingo, you get a free square in the middle. This middle square allows for four potential winning bingo lines, while all other squares allow for two or three. We will call this option 1.
Option 2 is to defer your free square. So you get to place a free square whenever you want later in the game. Obviously, this is better than option 1 as it allows for any four in a row to be converted into a win. To offset this, we will say that the original free square in the middle is now completely off limits. So option 1 has 12 potential winning lines (5 horizontal, 5 vertical, and the two diagonals) and option 2 has 8 possibilities (the 12, but minus the four winning lines that go through the central square).
My immediate assumption is that option 2 is still far more favorable. Surely it is easier to get 4 in a row on a legal line than it is to get 5 in a row with 50% more possible ways to win.
The question is: how many dead spaces do we need to give option 2 until it is fair and even with option 1?
I’m a vegetarian, and I have been my whole life. To me, life is precious. Recently even I’ve stopped killing ants, and have just taken to cleaning more diligently.
What I don’t understand is how somebody can eat meat without a care in the world, but then get upset if they step on a snail or run over a squirrel. Like just because you’re seeing it, now it matters to you? To me that’s worse than people who just don’t care. I have a level of respect for people who say “I eat meat because I don’t care about the lives of animals” and then just as callously kill something with their hands.
But if you eat meat and you’re upset by an animal’s death just because you see it or cause it, that’s so much worse to me because it’s like you acknowledge that the death is bad, but you don’t care as long as you don’t see it. It’s willful blindness to your own values. At least the callous person is internally consistent.
To be honest I have almost the opposite reaction. If I kill something on accident, then I’ll feel a bit bad, but at least it was an accident. At least I didn’t willingly and knowingly choose to contribute to a system of slaughter every day for lunch.
Out of sight out of mind is such a stupid justification for feeling okay with yourself.