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My roommate used to give me “knight odds” or “bishop odds” in chess by playing down that piece, and I always felt the games were pretty interesting and satisfying (I usually still lost, but I could give him 7 or 8 stones comfortably in go, and I’ve always been curious which handicap was bigger).

10.07.2025 01:05 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

watching Tetsuo the Iron Man. guessing this is like a Japanese superhero movie? sounds fun

16.06.2025 00:22 — 👍 360    🔁 20    💬 24    📌 1

Kelly Link's "Magic For Beginners" cured me of my most recent one.

15.06.2025 19:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The first generation to grow up with cheat codes is like 20-30 years removed from writing term papers.

05.05.2025 22:33 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A smooth galaxy from the Galaxy Zoo 2 project, classified by 46 volunteers.

A smooth galaxy, observed with the Apache Point 2.5m Telescope in the SDSS survey.

It is at redshift 0.059 (lookback time 819.8 million years) with coordinates (211.40244, 20.41591).

46 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo 2.

24.01.2025 00:37 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 1

Getting to that moment, and the moment a little bit before in the rainbow woods, where the game starts incorporating full-screen graphical effects as part of the narration, was such a delight to experience the first time I got there.

10.12.2024 05:23 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0