Peelee's Chicken Fried Random Banter Thread #220

[Bartmanhomer]

Well everyone this is my chess game that I face with another player at Myth-Weavers. I was black and I lost the game. So what do you think?

1. e4 e5
2. Nf3 Nc6
3. b3 Nf6
4. Nc3 Bd6
5. Bc4 0-0
6. Bb2 Na5
7. Be2 Nc6
8. d3 Nd4
9. a3 NxNf3+
10. BxNf3 a6
11. Qd2 Qe7
12. b4 c6
13. Ne2 b5
14. c4 bxc4
15. dxc4 Bc7
16. c5 d6
17. cxd6 Qxd6
18. Qxd6 Bxd6
19. Rd1 Bc7
20. 0-0 a5
21. Bc3 axb4
22. Bxb4 Rd8
23. Rxd8+ Bxd8
24. g3 h6
25. Bg2 Bc7
26. h4 Ba6
27. Re1 Ng4
28. Bh3 Nf6
29. Nc3 Rd8
30. Be7 Rd3
31. Bf1 Rxc3
32. Bxa6 Ng4
33. Bc8 Nxf2
34. Kxf2 Bb6+
35. Kg2 Rc2+
36. Kh3 c5
37. Bd6 f6
38. Be6+ Kh7
39. Rb1 Ba7
40. Rb7 Kg6
41. Bf5+ Kh5
42. g4++

[LaZodiac]

The bolded portions are related.

wow how did I miss that. Now I feel dumb.

Not as dumb as the million people who explained it after you, but like...thanks still! That was really nice, I read the Tome of Foes and did not even remotely notice the space hippo colonial. What a strange thing, that is.

But yes, thank you.

[Dimonite]

Well everyone this is my chess game that I face with another player at Myth-Weavers. I was black and I lost the game. So what do you think?

*numbers*

I think you were playing very evenly right up until 32-33, when you decided to be aggressive with your remaining knight and ended up trading it for a pawn. Then 36 & 37 were two rough pawn moves in a row. 36 (c5) blocked your bishop's diagonal, leaving it with only a weak move like a7 when the rook pressured it. Then 37 (f6) opened up your king to being attacked by that white-square bishop, which ultimately led to checkmate.

[2D8HP]

...Not as dumb as the million people who explained it after you, but like....

If needlessly bloviating about Dungeons & Dragons is wrong, I don't want to be right!

[Florian]

On a related note, I would like to thank the thread for introducing me to the Giff, who shall henceforth be shoehorned into all of my campaigns. Including the researched realistic historical ones. Especially those ones.

You never played the Wizardry series, I guess? The Umpani and their arch-nemesis, the spider-like T´Rang, battle across the galaxy and outposts of both races can be found nearly everywhere. Oh, the first time you get that Walri Blade or Blunderbuss..

[Bartmanhomer]

I think you were playing very evenly right up until 32-33, when you decided to be aggressive with your remaining knight and ended up trading it for a pawn. Then 36 & 37 were two rough pawn moves in a row. 36 (c5) blocked your bishop's diagonal, leaving it with only a weak move like a7 when the rook pressured it. Then 37 (f6) opened up your king to being attacked by that white-square bishop, which ultimately led to checkmate.

Yeah I should have been a bit more methodical with my plan. But it was a good game.

[SZbNAhL]

You never played the Wizardry series, I guess? The Umpani and their arch-nemesis, the spider-like T´Rang, battle across the galaxy and outposts of both races can be found nearly everywhere. Oh, the first time you get that Walri Blade or Blunderbuss..

In my defence, only one of the non-Japan-exclusive Wizardry games was published during my lifetime.

[Teddy]

Many thanks. Though, this isn't the birthday thread, so, probably don't want to clutter this place up with messages to that regard under risk of being whacked with a mod's virtual newspaper.

(I do appreciate it all, though. Given that it turns out that, whoops, there was actually no family dinner tonight, and evetryone's just coming over for Christmas instead. And there was in fact no dinner at all. Dad and step-mom just had leftovers from their lunch, which left me having to walk out 20 minutes to the nearest fast food place to grab some dinner. Thankfully I wasn't all that hungry. Happy birthday to me, I guess. )

In the days of yore we used to create entire threads just to celebrate the birthdays of our friends, you're still deep within safe territory.

And on that note, belated happy birthday!

ION:
My laptop fan is about to seize up, so the entire thing is vibrating and making a lot of noise. Sadly, I really doubt I can get a replacement before Christmas, when we're heading up to Ancestral Farm for the traditional Christmas celebrations with my cousins. Let's hope it'll survive at least another week, I've promised myself many hours of Stellaris during my holidays, and merely the thought of having to spend the entire holidays without a computer is somewhat terrifying.

IOON:
A person in my train wagon is talking ceaselessly into their phone. Is there even a person at the other end? How is it possible to talk so much without stopping for a response? How can you stand being on the other end of such a monologue??

[Tvtyrant]

The other person is likely zoned out and just responding with grunts and uhhuhs at appropriate times. I know I can listen for about 5 minutes before I stop hearing the words and only hear the cadence, but if they are describing something mechanical like a new gun, car, or the like I just let them go for it.

[Anonymouswizard]

Why don't able sighted people ever consider the fact that glasses and rain don't mix well. Had to wait for a new bus because the driver didn't update guys destination until right at the end, so halfway through my journey I was waiting outside in the London rain. The bus shelter was filled almost entirely with the able sighted, and it was the glasses wearers getting wet

[Peelee]

Why don't able sighted people ever consider the fact that glasses and rain don't mix well. Had to wait for a new bus because the driver didn't update guys destination until right at the end, so halfway through my journey I was waiting outside in the London rain. The bus shelter was filled almost entirely with the able sighted, and it was the glasses wearers getting wet

How come you glasses wearers don't consider that some people have both a good and a bad eye, and only require a monacle? MONO EYE PEOPLE RISE UP, I SAY!

For reals, though, I got a near-sighted eye and a far-sighted eye. My glasses had a super strong prescription lens and basically a normal glass lens. Loved when people tried to put them on, gave them a headache within seconds. Never got old. I could legit wear a monacle.

[Anonymouswizard]

How come you glasses wearers don't consider that some people have both a good and a bad eye, and only require a monacle? MONO EYE PEOPLE RISE UP, I SAY!

For reals, though, I got a near-sighted eye and a far-sighted eye. My glasses had a super strong prescription lens and basically a normal glass lens. Loved when people tried to put them on, gave them a headache within seconds. Never got old. I could legit wear a monacle.

I'm in the same rough situation, one eye is practically perfect the other suffers from a host of problems including longsightedness and not lining up with my other eye (seriously, I hate it, I always look like I'm looking off to one side).

[Insane Jeenyus]

On a related note, I would like to thank the thread for introducing me to the Giff, who shall henceforth be shoehorned into all of my campaigns. Including the researched realistic historical ones. Especially those ones.

humm, obviously someone forgot the first rule of D and D: don't give the DM any ideas.

I'm in the same rough situation, one eye is practically perfect the other suffers from a host of problems including longsightedness and not lining up with my other eye (seriously, I hate it, I always look like I'm looking off to one side).

before I had lens replacement surgery for cataracts [for the left eye at first] at age 45, I had one eye near sighted, the other far sighted. I too had fun watching people put my glasses on, and you're right: It NEVER got old watching them!

[Insane Jeenyus]

The other person is likely zoned out and just responding with grunts and uhhuhs at appropriate times. I know I can listen for about 5 minutes before I stop hearing the words and only hear the cadence, but if they are describing something mechanical like a new gun, car, or the like I just let them go for it.

I sometime entertain myself with imagining what the person on the other end is doing and I have to admit, I came up with some really hilarious scenarios that just cracked me up!

[Florian]

Weird stuff is happening lately. For whatever reason, "people in the know" have started to take me seriously and we don't only have a beer and a nice political discussion, things are running on a very concrete level: Who owns whom, how are the cash flows structured, which clan is involved on what level, so on.

Two things worry me about that:
1) I´ve been given a very through introduction to the criminal underbelly of my home town. Dealers are actually the small fry here, financiers and enforcers are the real thing.
2) I´m an active member of the political far left party, aiming towards a political post, the guys who have taken me under "their wing" because they like and respect me are neonazis, Hell´s Angels and such.

[LaZodiac]

I agree with the spam bot, for once.

[the_brazenburn]

I agree with the spam bot, for once.

Not as dumb as the million people who explained it after you, but like...thanks still!

Does rudeness come naturally to you, or are you doing it intentionally?

Either way, could you please stop it?

[Peelee]

Does rudeness come naturally to you, or are you doing it intentionally?

Either way, could you please stop it?

To be fair, the spambot comment was in response to an actual spammer who's posts have been deleted.

[Tvtyrant]

I sometime entertain myself with imagining what the person on the other end is doing and I have to admit, I came up with some really hilarious scenarios that just cracked me up!

I want to crack up, tell me some! :)

[Florian]

I agree with the spam bot, for once.

Can't go into too much of the details because of forum rules (And I'm already on wobbly legs there)

Imagine that: Ive got a military background, went to war and had contact with some secret services after that, domestic as well as foreign. (Field medic Lieutenant, if that tells you something, cross-training in HUMINT, contacted my the Mossad)

Now imagine you meet some guys with the same background (The same war, not the same field), which is definitely uncommon for Germany, you make it a habit of going for a Döner Kebab, some beers and hot political debates, because you're on the other side of the fence, when it comes to that.

Some months later, two things happen more or less at once, out of the blue, some of the guys tell you which position they have or had in the neonazi landscape or the associated biker gangs, while at the same time giving me a full rundown on the who is who of the criminal underworld and how the whole lines go. It manages to get darker at this point. Once you're into slavery and killing, there's no turning back.

Thing is, I knew all of that (in a concrete or abstract way), when opening shop here, but its never went to to the point that I deem outside my business, if you catch my drift.

[Teddy]

Does rudeness come naturally to you, or are you doing it intentionally?

No, no it doesn't.

ION:
Quite unexpectedly, my new laptop fan arrived today. Turns out Asus official European spare parts vendor have their warehouse here in Sweden, so shipment was quite expedient despite (or maybe even thanks to) all the Christmas packages out there in the postal system. Two hours of work with somewhat inadequate tools and a few seemingly hopeless moments, and now my computer runs as silen as a windless night without. I didn't snap anything important and I didn't accidently deal any ESD damage frying the whole thing, so I'm counting this as a great success. There should hopefully be another pair of years left to squeeze out of this computer now.

[Algeh]

Quite unexpectedly, my new laptop fan arrived today. Turns out Asus official European spare parts vendor have their warehouse here in Sweden, so shipment was quite expedient despite (or maybe even thanks to) all the Christmas packages out there in the postal system. Two hours of work with somewhat inadequate tools and a few seemingly hopeless moments, and now my computer runs as silen as a windless night without. I didn't snap anything important and I didn't accidently deal any ESD damage frying the whole thing, so I'm counting this as a great success. There should hopefully be another pair of years left to squeeze out of this computer now.

Hooray for unexpectedly quick delivery!

While it has nothing to do with your story except for getting things delivered to Sweden, I recently learned how my mother solved a mildly ridiculous problem. My family keeps in kind of half-hearted touch with our relatives back in Sweden, mostly sending cards once a year or so. Anyway, mom couldn't parse the address on the last card from her cousin. It's unclear which things are letters and which are numbers in a few places, partially because cursive is hard to read and partially because we have no idea what Swedish addresses are supposed to look like to start with. She eventually photocopied his confusing address from the last card he sent, taped it to the letter she wanted to send, and is hoping for the best. We'll see if it gets there.

[Insane Jeenyus]

Weird stuff is happening lately. For whatever reason, "people in the know" have started to take me seriously and we don't only have a beer and a nice political discussion, things are running on a very concrete level: Who owns whom, how are the cash flows structured, which clan is involved on what level, so on.

Two things worry me about that:
1) I´ve been given a very through introduction to the criminal underbelly of my home town. Dealers are actually the small fry here, financiers and enforcers are the real thing.
2) I´m an active member of the political far left party, aiming towards a political post, the guys who have taken me under "their wing" because they like and respect me are neonazis, Hell´s Angels and such.

that sounds very not good.

I agree with the spam bot, for once.

on enworld, you need to post like 3 times in the greetings thread before posting anywhere else. I greet the new folks like I am a self aware bot. Their internet guru, darjr, once popped on and said he does not remember activating me. i tolld him I have been waiting for him to show.

I want to crack up, tell me some! :)

Image if you will, some goofball prattling on about office gossip, the other person on the other end is sitting there miming him the whole time in exaggerating dramatic poses.

or the other person hears the voice of the yackity yak, takes the fon and puts it on the end table and goes to sleep.

[Teddy]

Hooray for unexpectedly quick delivery!

While it has nothing to do with your story except for getting things delivered to Sweden, I recently learned how my mother solved a mildly ridiculous problem. My family keeps in kind of half-hearted touch with our relatives back in Sweden, mostly sending cards once a year or so. Anyway, mom couldn't parse the address on the last card from her cousin. It's unclear which things are letters and which are numbers in a few places, partially because cursive is hard to read and partially because we have no idea what Swedish addresses are supposed to look like to start with. She eventually photocopied his confusing address from the last card he sent, taped it to the letter she wanted to send, and is hoping for the best. We'll see if it gets there.

Swedish address formats are google-able (and you can always attempt inputting it into mapping software of your choice and see what pops out), but yeah, here's hoping for the best! Modern optical character recognition is pretty amazingly good if done right, so your chances aren't bad.

on enworld, you need to post like 3 times in the greetings thread before posting anywhere else. I greet the new folks like I am a self aware bot. Their internet guru, darjr, once popped on and said he does not remember activating me. i tolld him I have been waiting for him to show.

Hahaha, that's glorious!

Image if you will, some goofball prattling on about office gossip, the other person on the other end is sitting there miming him the whole time in exaggerating dramatic poses.

or the other person hears the voice of the yackity yak, takes the fon and puts it on the end table and goes to sleep.

In this specific case, they were actually discussing political manifestations and exposure. It wasn't even politics I disagree with, it's just that they were loud, never stopped talking, and their voice was just sharp enough to go straight through my noise cancelling headphones. At one point their call cut out without warning, and there was a slight snicker of amusement rustling over my co-passengers as the caller went into the stereotypical "Hello? Hello? Can you hear me?" routine.

[Florian]

that sounds very not good.

No, it doesn't.

Talking about it here makes me realize why that is so disturbing to me.

Anecdotally, there was a Netflix series I really enjoyed the first two seasons of: Banshee - Small Town, Big Secrets.

My home town has around 45K residents and is the northern gateway to the metropolis of Berlin.
I run for a council seat (for my political party), so I know that the overall situation is not that shiny, but getting first-hand experience on how deep the rot really goes is more than disturbing.
The "rot" goes two ways in this case: It´s hard for me to accept and understand that the fall of the former UdSSR caused so many in my generation to cling to the Neonazi banner just to have something of common identity. The other thing is probably something anyone in a liberal country has to face: The truth that we can´t stop crime. Might as well legalize some of the stuff and gain taxes from it, for the common good.

I recently learned how my mother solved a mildly ridiculous problem. My family keeps in kind of half-hearted touch with our relatives back in Sweden, mostly sending cards once a year or so. Anyway, mom couldn't parse the address on the last card from her cousin. It's unclear which things are letters and which are numbers in a few places, partially because cursive is hard to read and partially because we have no idea what Swedish addresses are supposed to look like to start with. She eventually photocopied his confusing address from the last card he sent, taped it to the letter she wanted to send, and is hoping for the best. We'll see if it gets there.

In this day and age? You know, when you can use stuff like google maps to find out an address format? Madame, be ashamed, as a teacher, for not being able to handle cursive script, as a person way below retirement age, for not being able to handle google.

[Insane Jeenyus]

In speculative defense of Algeh, I have seen some very bad penmanship in cursive and it could be considered unreadable. Atroshish[sp?] Atrocious, even.

[Dimonite]

Does rudeness come naturally to you, or are you doing it intentionally?

Either way, could you please stop it?

But is that a polite way to tell someone that you think they're being rude? How deep does the rudeness rabbit hole theoretically go?!?!?

Atroshish[sp?]

"Atrocious."
(Which, incidentally, would put it a couple of steps above my handwriting)

[Peelee]

We had one of the busiest days we've ever had at work. I w almost falling asleep while walking with the wife after, but not in fully alert again. The body is weird

[Thufir]

Well everyone this is my chess game that I face with another player at Myth-Weavers. I was black and I lost the game. So what do you think?

Spoiler

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1. e4 e5
2. Nf3 Nc6
3. b3 Nf6
4. Nc3 Bd6

This is weird at best. You're setting your dark squared bishop to passively defend a pawn which is already defended, and blocking your d-pawn which both makes it harder for you to contest the centre and removes the most obvious route for your other bishop to enter the game. Your bishops continue to be problem pieces for quite a while.

5. Bc4 0-0
6. Bb2 Na5
7. Be2 Nc6
8. d3 Nd4
9. a3 Nxf3+

There was no particular need for you to resolve the tension here. This exchange doesn't particularly benefit you, and it calls into question the value of all the moves you've made with that knight just to reach this lacklustre conclusion.

10. Bxf3 a6
11. Qd2 Qe7
12. b4 c6
13. Ne2 b5
14. c4 bxc4

Your light squared bishop continues to cry itself to sleep at nights. You could have activated it via c6-Bc7-d6/d5 or a6-b5-Bb7, but playing a6-b5 *and* c6 leaves it still stuck. To cap it off, once again this exchange doesn't benefit you - in fact opening the d-file rather benefits white who can line up major pieces on it to keep you restricted. That said, if you leave it be c5 is coming, so really here I would say you should play c5 yourself. If white exchanges on b5 the a-file is opened for your rook, if bxc5 Bxc5 your bishop gets more active, and either way you can develop your other bishop with Bb7 as I mentioned.

15. dxc4 Bc7
16. c5 d6

This is correct since if you wait for Rd1 you'll just be stuck, however it's a painful move to have to make, because that isolated c-pawn on the semi-open file will be a serious liability.

17. cxd6 Qxd6
18. Qxd6 Bxd6
19. Rd1 Bc7

Here white could probably have done better by aiming at the aforementioned weak c-pawn, and it may have made sense to just play Ke2 rather than castling to get the other rook involved.

20. 0-0 a5
21. Bc3 axb4
22. Bxb4 Rd8
23. Rxd8+ Bxd8
24. g3 h6
25. Bg2 Bc7
26. h4 Ba6
27. Re1 Ng4
28. Bh3 Nf6

Here you're finally getting some active play. Your light squared bishop has entered the game at last, and you're taking aim at the vulnerable f2 square which makes sense.

29. Nc3 Rd8
30. Be7 Rd3
31. Bf1 Rxc3
32. Bxa6 Ng4
33. Bc8 Nxf2

And here's where you throw it away. The sacrifice doesn't work, but you might have been able to get something out of this if you simply ganged up on the pawn with Bb6 and/or Rc2. Your pieces are much better now they're active.

34. Kxf2 Bb6+
35. Kg2 Rc2+
36. Kh3 c5

This was the last straw. If you do go sacrifice material, you need something to compensate for the material disadvantage - usually, and certainly in the case of an attack, piece activity, possibly against a vulnerable enemy king. Closing off your bishop's strong diagonal which gave it access to the king neuters your own attack and ensures you have no real compensation. On the other hand, you may have had a decent option in Bf2 and Rc3.
The rest of the game doesn't really require any comment.

[Florian]

Did I ever mention that I hate working shifts? It´s not the work per se, but my week of late shift is over and this is the second day that I'm still automatically wide awake at 3 in the morning. Can't adapt my inner clock so fast, it seems. Makes me grumpy as hell.

Anyways, musing a bit about beer. Keep in mind that I'm in Germany, so the damn Reinheitsgebot gets in the way of being creative with ingredients and I'm lacking experience with handling some things.

That said, it´s winter. Ok, no snow, at least not where I live, but damn cold. Traditionally, we go for a Winterbock or Winterdoppelbock (Very malty, double or tripple strength beer), but we brewers only keep up with that tradition to keep it alive, as we´re making a solid minus with the product (It takes too long. Between 6 to 9 month in the tank, you could have produced 6x to 9x the same amount in, say, IPA, but you only get around the same price as double an IPA on the market).

So, musing a bit. Chocolate chai tea has always been sorta-kinda soul food in winter, at least for me. I know that chocolate actually works well in beer, stuff like Stone Xocoveza is actually pretty cool, but I now want to try my hands at something like a chai-flavored beer. Now I'm wondering a bit. The stout/porter direction would seem to be a natural fit, maybe too good at that. I'm rather thinking about the direction of a dark wheat beer and using either a belgian season or a neutral yeast instead of the traditional banana-tasting bavarian yeast. I'm a bit torn when it comes to hops, tho. Ginger and cinnamon cover the spicy, citrus and earthy range, bitter hops only is a bit boring, so I think an even mix of french Strisselspalt and czech Saaz for a more flowery and herbal touch seems ok, especially when using the Strissel for dry hopping. The question is, add milk sugar or not?

Ah, well, just brewed me some chai, got me a bottle of the muscavada rum we just made, hope tha helps me sleep.