This piece is so puffy that the Marshmallow Man is calling them for tips to stay puffed
Brother-in-law gave me a shirt for Christmas
- d4 d5 2. c5
he gave a quick glance you know what this means right, which I snap said of course I do thumbs up
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sorry I meant c4
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I thought I’d missed a trick and was levelling myself.
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Love shirts that let me feel intellectually superior to every confused glance.
I’m offended. I have 5 good lines that I wrote in 2002 for one poem and a full octave I wrote in 2016 for another. I turn 40 next year too.
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2021 will finally be the year for the award winning screenplay Vegas Knights to shine.
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The extant seamen sober down
To the inequities of fate:
No wreaths or damsels at the docks
Or generous pensions from the state.
On sullen shores, in glum canteens,
The luckless mariners reprise
A lyric to commemorate
Their Ozymandias of seas,
“His famous fleet, once wide and brave
Is now a cockboat and a knave,
Who stirs around in languid rings
Within the blood of toppled kings,
Within the ocean of the grave.”
–2002 (2020)
Oh shit I just remembered more of it. The last five lines I came up with in an undernet irc channel just sort of randomly, but over the years I tried to turn it into some kind of poker thing where it’s like a reverse Horatio Nelson at Trafalgar and the hero loses his entire fleet. This part above was going to be the epilogue after the hero dies and the survivors make it home.
The only good stanza was this, there was going to be some extra crazy character on the ship that said funny/foolish things, he was to give this advice to the captain:
“Another thing, don’t shoot the birds;
They have supernal influence.
A white one perished by my hand,
I haven’t any prizes since!”
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More people have read that screenplay than seen my first short film. It’s the bar I’ve been trying to clear ever since.
Dammit, force of habit, made some minor edits and I kind of like it. I have more of it on an old harddrive somewhere… but this is not a threat, I probably won’t bother.
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I think one reason this is successful is literally everyone feels smart watching it.
Ranging from “wow. Im liking a show about chess and i understand some of it!” Through to “omg. I cant believe he played his bishop there. He missed a mate in 18!” (Or whatever, im closer to the former than the latter and also felt smart)
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spent way too much time on undernet in the late 90s. I miss X.
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I think it’s the opposite. We see smart people acting like normal people in their day to day lives. It’s why Big Bang Theory is so popular.
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Agree.
And I don’t remember any actual chess positions being analysed at all in the series. Chess.com did a nice article about some of the positions and the games they were taken from, but that’s a niche site for chess nerds and the vast majority of the series viewers wouldn’t have been aware of it.
Not just that. Incredibly smart people beset by incredibly normal problems in an otherwise extraordinary situation.
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Finally watched Queen’s Gambit. Agree with a lot of above. Few thoughts
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In real life, I feel like it’s 100% that the Russians would have tapped her hotel phone when she was getting analysis from NY in the final game.
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In the Paris scene right before the final match, it shows Cleo in bed. Did the two of them hook up?
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Related to both of above, I kind of thought the Russians might have paid off Cleo to come distract Beth prior to Paris final game. Especially since they were talking in the elevator about the rumors of Beth being a drunk.
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I think the thing that pissed me of the most is that she didn’t pay Mr. Schaibel his $10. I definitely liked her about 50% less after that revelation. Really stuck in my craw.
Finished it last night. Wow… what an overrated show. Last two episodes were straight up bad. Peaked in Episode 5.
It goes from 3.5 episodes of absuive character development to finally getting the story moving–at which point it brings in even more tropes and terrible nonsense. We get the magical negro, confused gay man and “I flushed my pills down the toilet.”
There were definitely parts that worked. I can believe that the death of a father figure (Scheibel), and seeing that he deeply cared about her (articles on fridge), could trigger a behavioral change. It’s a pretty standard recovery idea, that Beth has now seen that she is indeed loveable and has worth.
The final tournament is pure Tevis. It mimics the pool tournament setup that ends The Color of Money (novel). (edit: Ok, Google tells me QB came the year before TCOM, which could make sense as TCOM did it a bit better, maybe he worked on the idea)
Show devolves into a series of stitched-together scenes and suffers from the fact that the audience cannot follow the chess match. Also, the use of adjournments to build tension gets tiring.
Bringing back the talisman (Jolene returns the book). Ugh.
QB just felt laboured through the first half and unskilled through the second.
They even got some Rocky IV in there, as Beth wins over the Russians and her crowds of adoring fans grow.
It was visually a lot of fun though.