u/Erwin_Zoldyck

I'm 820, really nothing to write home about, but this new colleague of mine (850) challenged me and we played seemingly normal games at the office. Sometimes i win sometimes he wins. But ever since we went back to working from home, he's been beating me all the time, and his history is all wins (like 10 in a row) and now he's 1100.

Sure it's possible that he's playing a lot and gaining experience, but he seems to predict 5-6 moves into the future and it has been frustrating. I beat him once (only loss in his recent history) so it made me think maybe he's not cheating. But last game was about 65 moves, I had like 3 mates 20 moves ago, and this is when I started to get suspicious. He kept predicting my moves way in advance.

I showed my husband (1600) and he said he's not sure but thinks he might he cheating too.

WORTH NOTING, he never plays rapid cuz it stresses him out, and he often 'jokes' that he needs the daily so he can 'ask google haha'. And what's funny is that when he saw me analyzing our game to plan my moves he called that cheating lol.

This is my long winded way of asking, is there a generator or something that i can put the game in and see if it's human moves?

Sorry for the long post.

(No spoilers beyond S4 EP12 please 🫶🏻)

I never really disliked Susan, but I disliked a lot of things that she does. Always felt over the top, excessive and obsessive. Her screentime sometimes makes me cringe and want the scene to end cuz she's doing something embarrassing.

But lately (i'm at ep12 s4) it's been such a delight seeing her. She's more mature since she got pregant, handled Mike's addiction like a champ and didn't let him get away with it (and yes her making it about herself isn't ideal but it's hard not to take it personally) and her arc with hosting Bree and Orson has been just adorable.

Even in S3, aside from embarrassing moments here and there, she committed to Ian and tried her best to make it work before it ended.

Bottom line, happy Susan is adorable Susan, it's when she's miserable where she gets obsessive.

One thing I want to mention that I noticed, even from S1, her dynamic with men had been overbearing, but she has a great dynamic with her friends. I find her to be the most 'chill' friend and always come off as mature when there's conflict and actually stands her grounds when someone wrongs her. I think they're all very sweet to each other but she's worth mentioning cuz of how much she gets dunked on.

I'm at S4E10 and Gaby always (and i mean always) justifies her constant cheating by saying 'you're never around' 😭

She said it to Victor's father at his funeral (!!) to defend her cheating 'he ignored me and he used me politically so i'm entitled to his money'

I know her character is supposed to be narcissistic and self-centered but like...'you're never around' to justify cheating is a hilarious thing to say unironically! It's lowkey iconic and only Gaby can pull that off and still look charming but my god, may women like that never cross my path 💀

Some events went by comically fast. but in one ep (S3EP15), bree falls, mike remembers orson in monique's house, he fights orson, orson falls, Ian proposes to Susan, gloria tries to kill bree, gloria knocks andrew unconscious, alma dies (???), orson finds out about his dad, gloria gets paralized, they drop the charges against Mike.

all in one ep with some unserious but committed acting

i can't say i didnt enjoy it lol, i love this show i would watch whatever it puts on. but the pace in S3 has been definitely weird and Bree was off due to her pregnancy irl. I guess they did their best with the situation, but not giving wide shots was too obvious.

They did pretty well hiding her absence though, a lot of new storylines have evolved.

I've already been spoiled a lot about later seasons, but please no spoilers ♡

I’m trying not to let emotions play too much of a role in my review, but the general feeling I was left with is definitely disgust.

The fraud involving entertainment gambling, the blackmail and bullying of journalists over political predictions, and god knows what’s happening with sports gambling, it makes you look at the World Cup differently. How powerful are these people, and how much can they, or have they, manipulated results?

The CEO of Polymarket calling the horrible things happening within his company “vibe debt” was truly disgusting.

Overall, the documentary is well made, short, and has no filler.

*spoilers*

I totally understand why it's not a popular plot, but I think it fit perfectly with the tone of S2. Compared to the new people that come later, the Applewhites have declared themselves from the beginning to be there for a purpose and not to make friends.

From the beginning of them moving at night, to showing they have someone chained downstairs, to revealing it's her son, to what his crime was, up to the last plot twist 'that's not his jacket' and then to him getting killed by the police *chef's kiss*

It was a slow burn, with slow reveal of events and reasonings, and wonderfully executed by the actors. I just enjoy Alfre Woodard very much.

Also it gave us a lot of real moments especially between Betty and Bree about being mothers and protecting their kids which I appreciated very much.

A lot of interesting storylines happened in S2, and I think the Applewhites had a lot of competition to keep up and they did well with it.

I've seen DHW before up until S5 I believe then stopped for whatever reason. Now i'm rewatching and loving every minute.

First season is obviously iconic. But I'm enjoying S2 so much as the lore goes deeper for each character and humor is still very solid. Bree just abandoned Andrew after a series of very dramatic events between them, and I remember they become close later so i'm enjoying this slow burn of their relationship.

Also, dialogue always smart and natural. I surely miss some of the shows in early 2000s and the way they were written. And the character keep going through very interesting plot points that makes you excited to see what comes next.

I might come here and say 'actually S3 is even better' and I sure hope I will. But for now, I'm enjoying S2 a lot.

I sat with this movie for two days before writing this review, and it proved to be as impactful as I thought it would be.

Anyone who’s been in a relationship, whether or not it resembled either of the two couples’ dynamics, will ring familiar bells, which makes it that much more entertaining and awkward.

I’m not the biggest fan of Olivia Wilde, but she did very well with the many emotional levels her character moves through, especially in contrast with Seth Rogen’s “Seth Rogen” monotone impersonation.

I don’t think much was required of Cruz and Norton for their characters, but they played them so well, and their chemistry felt effortless.

I thoroughly enjoyed the dialogue, the handling of sensitive topics, the cinematography, and the fun blocking in the apartment, which was especially satisfying to notice.

Overall, it was a very nice surprise to see this kind of movie in 2026: slow, dialogue-heavy, nicely colored, and handling its big names properly.

9/10

Can't find anything official.

Took me long enough to watch this movie, and found out why it's so popular.

I can see some people being cynical or bored of a movie like that, but we tend to avoid people like that in our lives because, let's face it, they're not very intelligent.

As much as I understand why it might be perceived like a cliche, or too young to understand a movie like this, but I'd like to believe that anyone who fell in love or want to be loved, would have absolutely adored this movie.

It's definitely based on something real, the chemistry is palpable, and the story is as old as time, and sure as life, it happened many times before to many people who just fell out of each other's lives.

From a movie stand point, it's very well made with deep understanding when to linger, when to pause, and when to be silent. It's one of those movies that feel like they had only one take because of how natural everything feels. They captured the willingness of people who are interested in someone else to do things they otherwise wouldn't do or be skeptical of. It's very pure and honest, and wasn't afraid to show the potentially unlikable sides of the characters.

Yes, it is just another love story, but it's well-made one, and those are harder to achieve than we'd like to believe.

(I haven't seen the other two movies so please, no spoilers)

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'I chose not to choose life. I chose something else'

Every successful director has that one movie, usually from their earlier work, that defines them as a filmmaker. The stakes are usually lower, the budget is smaller, and they get to do whatever they want. I believe Trainspotting is Danny Boyle’s “that” movie.

Trainspotting is a story of humor, abuse, violence, sadness, and friendship in heroin-addicted Scotland. What I found most fascinating about the movie is its non-judgmental portrayal of heroin addiction. It felt extremely personal, as if everyone involved had been part of this world at some point.

It has a lot of heart and personality. It’s filled with funny and heartwarming moments that somehow make the violent and disturbing moments make sense. It is violent, gritty, and awful at times. If the events of this movie transpired in front of you, you would probably hate these people and the chaos they bring with them. So making you feel for these men is a marvelous work of storytelling and timing.

I also found the lack of portrayal of “normal” people living their lives alongside our characters to be an extremely intentional choice. There is no real contrast to compare them with. Those normal people are not relevant here. We stay with these characters, understand them, and only them.

I like Danny Boyle. I think he has a solid filmography with extremely diverse themes and some questionable choices, but I believe this movie is his masterpiece. Maybe not his most acclaimed or successful movie, but it portrays such a vulnerable and misjudged part of Scotland’s society in the 90s with such rawness and creativity that watching it becomes an experience that sticks with you.

His creative choices in portraying different grim storylines (reaching for the drugs in the toilet, withdrawal, the club scenes) in such an almost-comical way were so disturbing yet beautiful. It’s how they are perceiving it: these horrible people who bring chaos into everything they do and everywhere they go, while also showing that they’re just trying to survive. And some of them are better than others, who are trying to survive them as well.

I watched it at the Angelika Film Center in New York, with a lot of people who might have been watching it for the first time. The laughs and the “oh no” reactions and the silences, made the experience more real and connected.

And to end this with the cliché but valid sentiment: they don’t make them like this anymore.

I'm a movie fan who grew up with DVDs, and I'm looking into taking my movie experience a little more seriously, and raise my kids on DVDs rather than streaming (I have no kids yet)

In your expert opinions, is bluray worth it (get the player and DVDs for various movies) or have you noticed similar experience with regular DVDs?

It might sound like a stupid question considering this sub is dedicated to bluray, but I'm interested to hear about your experience before committing.

'I chose not to choose life. I chose something else'

Every successful director has that one movie, usually from their earlier work, that defines them as a filmmaker. The stakes are usually lower, the budget is smaller, and they get to do whatever they want. I believe Trainspotting is Danny Boyle’s “that” movie.

Trainspotting is a story of humor, abuse, violence, sadness, and friendship in heroin-addicted Scotland. What I found most fascinating about the movie is its non-judgmental portrayal of heroin addiction. It felt extremely personal, as if everyone involved had been part of this world at some point.

It has a lot of heart and personality. It’s filled with funny and heartwarming moments that somehow make the violent and disturbing moments make sense. It is violent, gritty, and awful at times. If the events of this movie transpired in front of you, you would probably hate these people and the chaos they bring with them. So making you feel for these men is a marvelous work of storytelling and timing.

I also found the lack of portrayal of “normal” people living their lives alongside our characters to be an extremely intentional choice. There is no real contrast to compare them with. Those normal people are not relevant here. We stay with these characters, understand them, and only them.

I like Danny Boyle. I think he has a solid filmography with extremely diverse themes and some questionable choices, but I believe this movie is his masterpiece. Maybe not his most acclaimed or successful movie, but it portrays such a vulnerable and misjudged part of Scotland’s society in the 90s with such rawness and creativity that watching it becomes an experience that sticks with you.

His creative choices in portraying different grim storylines (reaching for the drugs in the toilet, withdrawal, the club scenes) in such an almost-comical way were so disturbing yet beautiful. It’s how they are perceiving it: these horrible people who bring chaos into everything they do and everywhere they go, while also showing that they’re just trying to survive. And some of them are better than others, who are trying to survive them as well.

I watched it at the Angelika Film Center in New York, with a lot of people who might have been watching it for the first time. The laughs and the “oh no” reactions and the silences, made the experience more real and connected.

And to end this with the cliché but valid sentiment: they don’t make them like this anymore.

What a......movie.

There's an epidemic in recent movies and shows of over-explaining what's happening to indulge people who are on their phones the entire time. This movie has the opposite problem.

There's incredible world-building and detail all throughout the movie, but we didn't have any character we could explore this world with. They all kind of knew what was happening, even Jane, who was supposed to be someone who learns with us, got the hang of it pretty quickly and left us behind.

I liked the "diving," the idea of "he understands them, and she understands people," the acting and dialogue, and the comedic moments. I thought they were tasteful.

If aliens exist, they'd make a connection with Spielberg first. The man is a master at conjuring the environment and allure of aliens and what would happen if they arrived. You gotta respect a talented man who always goes back to what he believes in and make a whole movie out of it. Not to mention his not-mentioned-enough skill of concocting the best cast almost every time.

But where the movie lacks is that it doesn't have any disposable scene the movie could move on without. This sounds like a good thing, but when you have stacked scenes with important information every single second of the movie (mind you, a 2.5-hour movie) you start to get frustrated and wonder if they should have included the scenes they deleted to make the movie not overly long, just so you could understand more of what's happening.

I don't think it's a bad movie. I think Spielberg is incapable of making one, but he failed to translate his UFO vision to us mortals. He was so eager to tell us what happened that he forgot what made War of the Worlds and Minority Report work: world-building that brings us, the audience, along with his protagonist to understand what we're rooting for.

>!All said and done, I think the fact that the aliens look so much like ET was a really nice homage.!<

*contains spoilers*

It's one of those rare occasions where 3 eps are actually needed for a true crime documentary. Although it lagged a bit in the middle, I didn't mind the episodes and going in detail about the process of the arrest.

I'm sure people give her a lot of crap for not going to the police sooner and some of her following decisions, but I think the whole docu was presented very clearly and she managed to voice all her thoughts thoroughly. As far as I'm concerned, if it wasn't for her, the victim would have never been discovered.

I found her to he very smart and a good storyteller, and brave considering what she went through and how she behaved. Especially when the police screwed her over and put her in danger. Even when she wasn't totally sane right before the trial, she still made a decision to go look for the bike, idk I found this to be ballsy. And it shows how little faith she had in the police.

I was a bit taken aback by some of the reviews and how they painted her almost as badly as the murderers, acting like they were already in this position and they acted perfectly fine, you never know how it really feels to go through those extremely traumatic and specific situations and I, for one, thought that she did more than a lot of people would have done.

As for the docu, it was well shot, I liked the reenactments and directing, I appreciated greatly the lack of using Ai (I think Ai should never be a part of documentaries)

I had a streak of bad true crime documentaries so this one was appreciated. (the last 2 good docus I've seen were British, maybe i should aim there?)

I’m starting a new creative role at a seed-stage startup that’s growing quickly. I’ll be their first designer/creative hire, which is exciting but also a new environment for me.

They responded really well to the fact that I work across multiple creative fields, and from my side, I feel good about the pay, benefits, team, and overall direction of the company.

I do believe I’m qualified for the role, but since this is my first time working at a startup, I want to make sure I’m thinking about the role the right way and showing up in a way that genuinely helps the company grow and get real value from my work.

From your perspective, what does a strong creative at an early-stage startup look like?