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Originally Posted by jalfrezi
Do you play on chess.com?
Nah, I don't play chess online. It's just a social thing where I go to my friend's house a couple of times a week to drink coffee, pretend to be
rive gauche intellectuals, fail to see obvious
mate-in-twelves, and bemoan how it's a long time since either of us got laid. :/
Sometimes we move on to
Rocket League, which is a lot more fun, but I always lose, because the GTO solution evidently starts with "Have some sort of hand-to-eye coordination", but I have wings and webbed feet instead of working limbs.
I didn't really want to write much about 'real life' in this thread, as adopting the anonymous penguin persona better suits my purposes, but something I meant to do to humanize it and make it a little more "journally" was to mention a few things that gave me a modicum of pleasure each month.
To that end, in April I was mostly....
Watching: 'The People vs OJ Simpson'. Sheldon ****ing Brown! Sarah ****ing Paulson! Courtney ****ing Vance! 'Nuff ****ing said!
Listening to: Mixtapes (on cassette!) from 1996, made by my best mate and DJ-ing partner at uni before he went off to join the coolest British band of the past 604 years.
Vaping: Cherry Bakewell flavour.
Reading: A book (in hardback!) from 2016, called 'Chancing It - The Laws of Chance and How They Can Work For You' by Robert Matthews. I hate that subtitle, which is just a marketing gimmick that makes it sound like some sort of self-help book for degens. It's actually a serious scientific work about randomness, probability, Bayes' Theorem, variance, bell curves and global financial catastrophe. And the chapter numbers are illustrated with playing cards.
Fold pre imo.