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by Rylinks
Sat Jan 20, 2024 12:42 am
Forum: Amusement Club
Topic: It's Videogames
Replies: 7001
Views: 412409

Re: It's Videogames

Doug wrote: Sat Jan 20, 2024 12:38 am
s. goblin wrote: Sat Jan 20, 2024 12:35 am complex puzzles is like pressing some directions on the d pad
Hard puzzles are funny, because if a puzzle is too hard, then it doesn't count as a puzzle at all, it only counts as bullshit
eh, solving the language is definitely not bullshit, but it did take us a significant amount of work
by Rylinks
Sat Jan 20, 2024 12:41 am
Forum: Amusement Club
Topic: It's Videogames
Replies: 7001
Views: 412409

Re: It's Videogames

s. goblin wrote: Sat Jan 20, 2024 12:38 amit isnt a very good link to the past game and it's probably not even worth playing it if it was that
i agree
by Rylinks
Sat Jan 20, 2024 12:36 am
Forum: Amusement Club
Topic: It's Videogames
Replies: 7001
Views: 412409

Re: It's Videogames

s. goblin wrote: Sat Jan 20, 2024 12:34 am
Rylinks wrote:i agree that if you do not like solving extremely complex and difficult puzzles you should not play tunic
it's too bad it probably takes more than two hours to get to the mountain area, but probably really good for the dev
you can start trying to solve the language from very start
by Rylinks
Sat Jan 20, 2024 12:32 am
Forum: Amusement Club
Topic: It's Videogames
Replies: 7001
Views: 412409

Re: It's Videogames

i agree that if you do not like solving extremely complex and difficult puzzles you should not play tunic
by Rylinks
Sat Jan 20, 2024 12:09 am
Forum: Amusement Club
Topic: It's Videogames
Replies: 7001
Views: 412409

Re: It's Videogames

s. goblin wrote: Sat Jan 20, 2024 12:09 am ten hours in tunic, though, like i have a hundred in bg3 and divinity 2 and elden ring and in the first two i'm just in the first act of the first two. elden ring took a long time for me to "get it"
:hfive:
by Rylinks
Fri Jan 19, 2024 11:34 pm
Forum: Amusement Club
Topic: It's Videogames
Replies: 7001
Views: 412409

Re: It's Videogames

i recommend getting kore to solve the language for you
by Rylinks
Fri Jan 19, 2024 3:48 am
Forum: It's Your Turn
Topic: chess
Replies: 427
Views: 77650

Re: chess

after exchanging the rooks, Rxe5+ is a draw, while Rxd6 and Rxb5 win (Rxd6 is more forcing because it attacks the knight). Stockfish doesn't tell me why, but the most striking thing to me is that taking on e5 lets the knight get active, while taking one of the other pawns mean the knight is pretty ...
by Rylinks
Fri Jan 19, 2024 1:31 am
Forum: It's Your Turn
Topic: chess
Replies: 427
Views: 77650

Re: chess

white to play:
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by Rylinks
Mon Jan 15, 2024 11:51 am
Forum: Juri's Nondescript Subforum
Topic: This thread is for posting Lotus
Replies: 1214
Views: 132124

Re: This thread is for posting Lotus

Lotus
by Rylinks
Mon Jan 15, 2024 4:12 am
Forum: Everything
Topic: sports
Replies: 2280
Views: 172294

Re: sports

Crunchums wrote:
:lol:
by Rylinks
Sat Jan 13, 2024 11:32 pm
Forum: Everything
Topic: Quiet Weekend Posting
Replies: 1978
Views: 296355

Re: Quiet Weekend Posting

she's good at singing
by Rylinks
Sat Jan 13, 2024 10:48 pm
Forum: Everything
Topic: Quiet Weekend Posting
Replies: 1978
Views: 296355

Re: Quiet Weekend Posting

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by Rylinks
Sat Jan 13, 2024 1:25 am
Forum: Amusement Club
Topic: It's Videogames
Replies: 7001
Views: 412409

Re: It's Videogames

i will forgive you if you don't open the mountain door
by Rylinks
Fri Jan 12, 2024 2:06 pm
Forum: Look At This Stupid
Topic: i found this stupid video
Replies: 1095
Views: 156640

Re: i found this stupid video

i ignored the title but i couldn't ignore the one hour runtime
by Rylinks
Wed Jan 10, 2024 5:59 pm
Forum: Everything
Topic: Headline of the Day
Replies: 4357
Views: 275611

Re: Headline of the Day

SUBVEY!
Cha'bad' boys spark hole-y war by digging illegal tunnel under Brooklyn synagogue
by Rylinks
Wed Jan 10, 2024 2:40 am
Forum: It's Your Turn
Topic: chess
Replies: 427
Views: 77650

Re: chess

you can mate with a pawn instead of a knight

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by Rylinks
Wed Jan 10, 2024 12:43 am
Forum: It's Your Turn
Topic: chess
Replies: 427
Views: 77650

Re: chess

king safety is a big deal!
by Rylinks
Wed Jan 10, 2024 12:08 am
Forum: It's Your Turn
Topic: chess
Replies: 427
Views: 77650

Re: chess

probably king safety is a big deal
by Rylinks
Wed Jan 10, 2024 12:05 am
Forum: It's Your Turn
Topic: chess
Replies: 427
Views: 77650

Re: chess

rooks are in general slightly better but it's a big imbalance and depends on the position in ways i don't know
by Rylinks
Tue Jan 09, 2024 6:42 pm
Forum: Everything
Topic: this thread is for posting matt levine quotes in
Replies: 891
Views: 86759

Re: this thread is for posting matt levine quotes in

In the financial industry this is somewhere between “frowned upon” and “a crime that you can go to prison for.”
by Rylinks
Tue Jan 09, 2024 6:23 pm
Forum: It's Your Turn
Topic: chess
Replies: 427
Views: 77650

Re: chess

that is right
by Rylinks
Tue Jan 09, 2024 3:51 pm
Forum: It's Your Turn
Topic: chess
Replies: 427
Views: 77650

Re: chess

what's the only move for black that gives an advantage:

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by Rylinks
Tue Jan 09, 2024 3:36 am
Forum: Everything
Topic: this thread is for posting matt levine quotes in
Replies: 891
Views: 86759

Re: this thread is for posting matt levine quotes in

talk about it in hushed, worried tones, but not in a way that will make it into any official board minutes that are later discoverable in litigation
by Rylinks
Sat Jan 06, 2024 3:01 am
Forum: It's Your Turn
Topic: chess
Replies: 427
Views: 77650

Re: chess

it does work but it's also possible to work that out by thinking
by Rylinks
Sat Jan 06, 2024 2:34 am
Forum: It's Your Turn
Topic: chess
Replies: 427
Views: 77650

Re: chess

black to play and win
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by Rylinks
Thu Jan 04, 2024 9:02 pm
Forum: Everything
Topic: POLITICS MOTHERFUCKER
Replies: 25164
Views: 950166

Re: POLITICS MOTHERFUCKER

they're out of ideas so they are running an XTREME version of two seasons ago
by Rylinks
Thu Jan 04, 2024 4:34 pm
Forum: Everything
Topic: slatestarcodex
Replies: 1396
Views: 101017

Re: slatestarcodex

actually that's posting
by Rylinks
Thu Jan 04, 2024 4:09 pm
Forum: Everything
Topic: slatestarcodex
Replies: 1396
Views: 101017

Re: slatestarcodex

it could be because companies are bigger, i was just saying that companies can be big enough to bureaucratize without being a monopoly or otherwise large enough to trigger antitrust law i think it's some combination of size and government regulations that require bureaucracy to prevent people from c...
by Rylinks
Thu Jan 04, 2024 4:06 am
Forum: Everything
Topic: slatestarcodex
Replies: 1396
Views: 101017

Re: slatestarcodex

Ashenai wrote:anti-trust law was intended to fix this, but obviously isn't great at actually doing so

anti trust law is not intended to fix the problem of companies being big enough that people can exploit the bureaucracy to avoid work
by Rylinks
Thu Jan 04, 2024 3:34 am
Forum: Everything
Topic: slatestarcodex
Replies: 1396
Views: 101017

Re: slatestarcodex

4. invest in the East India Company