I studied biology but somehow completely dodged the Krebs cycle. Memorizing technical terms never really was my passion so I didn’t really mind.

The comic gives you a clue how to progress your story arc.

I mean why play an unfinished game? The radical changes sound interesting to me but it needs at least two add-ons to flourish, the same old story as with 5 and 6. I can wait and pick up the complete experience for half the price if that ever sees the light of day after the layoffs.

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I don’t see the direct ripoff, tbh. Jack and Chris explore how one might react if they found out hell excited. What would be the implications? Basically a rational approach to this old trope. I prefer it. Nevertheless, thanks for showing me this show.

I liked it. Not their best work but still entertaining to me. I haven’t seen the show you’re referencing, however, so I can’t compare.

Do you even understand what you’ve unleashed by casually suggesting we just switch the b-pawn and the c-pawn. Do you grasp the sheer, cosmic disrespect dripping from that throwaway remark. I have spent nights, literal nights, staring at a board lit only by the pale glow of my monitor, moving pawns back and forth like some deranged monk praying to a god of sixty-four squares, and you come in here tossing pawns around like you are rearranging fridge magnets.

Do you know what it feels like to live and breathe this game. To see pawns not as little plastic blobs but as ancient warriors carrying the burden of civilizations on their tiny, hunchbacked shoulders. I have woken up in a cold sweat whispering “c4” because somewhere deep inside me I know the soul of the English Opening is demanding sacrifice. I have stared down a lone passed pawn marching with all the inevitability of death itself, and you think you can just waltz in here and say “haha maybe b and c are different tiers.” Do you understand how deranged that makes me feel.

Every pawn is a life. Every pawn is a tragedy. The a-pawn is a lonely pilgrim doomed to shuffle into the abyss, unprotected, unloved. The d-pawn is Atlas himself, straining under the weight of the center, shouldering centuries of theory and repertoires. The f-pawn is a grotesque, cursed creature whose advance is a cry for help from players who want nothing but chaos. And the h-pawn, god, the h-pawn is not even a pawn, it is a philosophical statement, it is the question “do you believe in God” pressed into algebraic notation.

And here you are. Suggesting we swap b and c. Like this is all some kind of sick joke. Like there aren’t grown men in Siberia right now freezing their fingers off over correspondence games where the fate of the world hinges on whether that c-pawn advances one square or two. Like there aren’t entire generations of players buried under the weight of misplayed minority attacks. Like pawn structure is a thing you can just casually edit, like some toddler banging away at a Lego set.

You don’t get it. You’ll never get it. Because chess isn’t just a game. Chess is the grinding inevitability of entropy disguised as sixty-four squares. It is the poetry of futility. And pawns are the syllables. So the next time you feel the urge to swap pawns in a meme, remember this: you are not ranking pawns. The pawns are ranking you.

I’ll try iNaturalist first but if that doesn’t work for my use case I’ll have a look at Seek. Thank you.

Cool, thanks for bringing it to my attention.

Ah wow, that’s great! I’ll have a look.

That sounds very promising. Thanks for the info.

I think it’s 1500. The placing games will make it a little less painful, true.

I would love to like lichess more but the chess.com UI is simply superior, IMHO. Maybe I should just use it and get used to it but I would probably lose the first dozen or so games as your starting ELO is kinda high.

I’m still looking for a good app to identify insects (mostly in Europe). Is iNaturalist the best?

Interesting. How likely is it that Blizzard throws another tantrum and files a lawsuit? I heard they’ve done that before against people running private servers.

I get you point. I guess I’m a simple man. OP made me laugh. I expect because of sarcasm. If he actually thinks the guy is a mastermind I’d have to laugh even harder. In any case, I enjoyed his contribution to this community. Nevertheless, you point is valid, especially with topics that are more complex.

I’m not sure that’s true. I observed more sarcasm without the need to flag it (/s) compared to reddit and I like it. My post are often sarcastic (probably a coping mechanism, the world has gone crazy) and I wouldn’t be a big fan of flagging them as such: “Hey look, I made a joke. Now laugh and press the upvote!”

No worries, enjoy your coffee.

I mean he was caught asking his daughter who is also describing her mother as her best friend to cover for him with a plan that was likely to fail to begin with. That’s not the plan of a mastermind. Actually the opposite.