Thank you Spez, for freeing me from my reddit addiction and advertising less-unhealthy alternatives like the federated reddit clones!
Or that one self-admitted nazi town in northeast Germany with 200 people and 2 surnames
I just hacked into your email and saw who you’ve been messaging
Who is ‘Lil’ Sis’ and why do you ‘love’ her?”
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Idk but I mostly block all communities involving the former (but the latter doesn’t bother me at all). I don’t use lemmy to argue politics or first world problems, especially with people who are often incredibly hostile to dissent. I use it to post pictures of my beautiful home state and talk about gaming
Growing pains for the chess world
Heatwave on the bottom-left corner of the board that melts some of the larger pieces and causes a forest fire on a2
As someone who only recently returned to chess.com and chess in general, I’m narrowly leading in an endgame in my ongoing correspondence game against a 1000 (which might be creeping towards a draw) and somehow once beat the 1500 doggo bot, but whenever I reach the 800s in Rapid I slip back into the 700s because I only know like 3 opening lines, and it especially doesn’t help that 680-740s love experimenting with the non-e4 opening moves as white, most of which I don’t know the proper defense/punishment for as black except perhaps the e and d pawn push for Nc3 and getting in with your queen through the fortress’ unguarded diagonal for the Catalan if they play g3 first (I do know the englund, caro-kann and french as well as the 4 knights game but most of those assume the opponent is predictable enough to play e4). As white I know a bit more theory (king’s pawn, vienna, catalan and while not very effective on triple-digit players, the ballistic missile gambit).
And I haven’t yet memorized a lot of book moves so my Blitz elo is in the toilet because I keep losing on time to complete noobs
After the api changes I noticed many of the subs were mere shells of their former selves, even ones with no c/ counterparts yet