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How would you proceed? (Deathworld, pre-space science)
▲ 9 r/factorio

How would you proceed? (Deathworld, pre-space science)

I'm playing a space age deathworld with semi-railworld settings. My current situation is pretty stable, I've got solar power, flame & red ammo turrets all around my base, 10m iron and 4m copper left in the ground, 1847% oil. However, I'm running very low on coal (40k left) and maybe 600k stone left, so I need to expand sooner rather than later.

Clearing biter nests with tank shells is slow enough already, but at 0.86 evolution factor, behemoths will be inbound soon. So I don't think I can put the land-grab off any longer, once behemoths show up the tank is going to be virtually ineffective.

I assume running railworld-style outposts isn't going to be effective, with this many biters I'm sure the collateral will take out the rail lines fairly often right?

And should I just attempt to go to space and unlock artillery? Or perhaps beeline the nearest coal and then go to space?

WWYD here?

u/pink-ming — 1 day ago
▲ 5 r/chess

What openings do you recommend for arriving at strategic, positional games?

I'm an 1800ish (online) player. In short, my repertoire is built around getting unbalanced positions and big attacks. King's indian, sicilian, and italian games typically with gambits for white. This is great for strengthening your sharp tactical play, and surprisingly good for getting endgames due to the tendency of these games to simplify in dramatic fashion, but that leaves a gap in my strategic middlegames.

So I'm looking to change up my repertoire. I'm willing to learn a moderate amount of theory (say, 8-12 moves deep lines). I want to reach even middlegames where both players have a chance to develop their pieces, and I then really have to start thinking about long-term strategy. e.g. what to do with my pawns apart from shoving them at my opponent's king, or which pieces to trade besides "remove the best defenders so you can attack".

Idk if I have enough time to dedicate to learning d4 games, I think learning all of those positions would disrupt my studies too much. So I'd prefer to stick with e4 and come up with some quieter ways to play it. Spanish is intimidating theory-wise, is it learnable as an 1800 player? Sicilians especially are always so unbalanced. Advance french pains me and my exchange french is very much opposite-side pawn-race, so I'm at a loss for what to do against e6.

And for black, I'd need some more balanced systems against e4 and d4, because ofc king's indian and sicilian aren't what I'm looking for right now.

So what would you recommend?

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u/pink-ming — 1 month ago
▲ 82 r/AnarchyChess

Mate in 5, what did white play here?

The answer is >!O+O!! Uncastling for a beautiful checkmate that left fans stunned!<

u/pink-ming — 2 months ago
▲ 27 r/mildlyinfuriating

I've been going back and forth for months on whether to keep or sell this amp. I could use the extra space and cash right now. Well, I plugged it in today for old time's sake and it blew up.

Before anyone asks, I had a proper speaker cable plugged into a 2x12 16ohm cab from the 16ohm output. I had the attenuator dialed up about where I normally have it. Nothing unusual about the setup compared to months of uneventful use.

So yeah. I love this thing. It sounds so badass. I didn't want to let it to but times are tough right now and I could have used the cash. Now I'm quite possibly looking at a 50lb brick. Maybe it's a blown fuse? Idk and I don't have the time or energy to be taking it into a shop to pay someone to tell me it's a brick, or looking at it myself and getting shocked to a crisp by a capacitor.

I'll freak out about this tomorrow, I've already spent all my tears and panic for the day.

u/pink-ming — 3 months ago