As someone who plays a lot of chess, (10-20 matches per day, one day I might get decent at it), a queen sacrifice is not a big whoop, and I doubt it would result in any audible gasps from an audience if there were spectators. Those who are dorky enough to watch chess (that includes myself) knows this.

As for movie-poker, a movie named Maverick comes to mind (Mel Gibson, iirc)

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Sounds normal to me. The circle shape causes two steppers to oscilate between fast and slow in a sine pattern, and those two stepper speeds are phase shifted compared to each other, making it sound odd.

If you printed an elipse insteaf you’d get a different song.

The sound itself is expected, but it sounds like there might be some resonance at play, increasing the volume, but I wouldn’t worry about it.

“mad bmx” could be an amazing movie.

Norway has an app called Vipps, released by the national bank. When first introduced it was primarily aimed towards payment from person to person, linked to phone numbers. But most online vendors accept it as a form of payment too.

I forgot my wallet while at the grocery store the other day, and using what little charm I have I managed to get the cashier to pay for me, and I Vippsed him the money owed.

I think DS9 was pretty developed already by the end of TNG, so once it started there wasn’t that much left to figure out. This can be seen by the TNG crew visiting DS9 towards the end. TNG, however, felt a little more uncertain in the first season in that the actors didn’t have their characters nailed down yet, and it shows.

I suspect that Voyager might be a bit more like TNG in this regard - the concept was a bit more uncertain when they started. However, it does improve massively as it moves on.

I for one really like the temporal war storyline. And 7of9 is a great addition even if the writers’ intent was mainly that of providing boobage.

Business idea: Scissorerscossorlift. It’s a regular scissor lift, but marketed towards lesbians. Maybe it comes with a bundled CD of Scissor Sisters, just for that extra pandering to a market I know nothing about.

Dvorak phone when? Preferably with compose key in place of caps lock, but it’s not vital.

And for fucks sake, give us an ISO option. I’m not claiming one is superior over the other, but most of the world have used ISO their entire lives and absolutely detest ANSI.

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Prima Vera - Arne Belinda

…don’t bother listening to it. it’s a parody of a song in a language you (probably) don’t understand, and the parody is even harder to grasp.

Feel free to shove the lyrics through a translator for the wtf-factor, though.

As for the first one, yeah, I forgot about that one.

When it comes to the second one, I consider 100% free market to be an ancap’s wet dream with 100% corporate freedom with no regulations - Think of it like a market where McFentanyl would be allowed to make and sell their product in every town. And in the other end of the spectrum we have where ancomittee on top of the government determines uotas for how many M8 nuts a factory on the other side of the country must produce per month, as well as setting the price.

That’s so absurd it would be funny if it wasn’t so cruel

I have someone to play D&D with again. I have four kids, they all have at least one hobby in common with me, plus they’re all into D&D.

This is me commenting with 1h15m to spare. That’s a job well done, if you ask me.

Both.

I mostly work from home, and the schedule is pretty forgiving, plus lunch is the only time I have the house and the kitchen to myself. Today I had lightly dry brined wagyu ribeye/entrecote, and sautéed mushrooms for lunch, paired with a nice beer. Tomorrow it’s going to be Stilton cheese, peach marmalade, and crackers.

When lunch comes around I’ve usually cleared out the inbox sludge for the day, as well as checking up on the stuff for which I am responsible just to make sure everything is working as it should. If it is, then I can take my time to do things properly, as long as I’m available in case someone else’s fan hits my shit.

I’ve alluded to this before, but I think at this stage I’m not out of line if I outright say that your mother is a real cunt.

Yeah, my thought upon reading OPs post was that stereotypical wife beater excuse; “I love you, but sometimes you’re making me so angry…”

Nobody is responsible for their emotions. But everyone is responsible for how they react to them and/or act them out.

TIL, TYVM

That depends entirely on your scale/perspective. In the US, what most of the developed world consider reasonable centrist policies that “everyone” agrees on is considered radical left by many in the US, thanks to decades of indoctrination.

Also, there are more axises (axii?) than left-right. Sticking every political position on a left-right axis is a very US point of view.

Democratic vs authoritarian
Open society vs closed society
Free market vs central planning
Interventionism vs isolationism
Individual liberty vs collective responsibility
…Just to name a few.