I read that as courting. Which honestly... Yeah?

I watched that yesterday. Was kinda on edge as to whether it was going to be done well or not, but think it was navigated reasonably well for the 2000s.

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Cr(ule)icket (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

Daniel Norcross (BBC test match special commentator on BBC sounds), above image of Joe Root playing a sweep shot: "We're going through a period of dominant milking by Root and Brook"

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Rare Jack Black (Ru)L(e) (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

Jack Black has said he’s cancelled the rest of the Tenacious D world tour after his bandmate Kyle Gass sparked an outcry with a comment about the assassination attempt on Donald Trump.The comedy rock group were on stage in Sydney, Australia, on Sunday when Gass was asked to make a wish after being presented with a cake for his 64th birthday.He appeared to reply: "Don’t miss Trump next time."

[-] chumbalumber@lemmy.blahaj.zone 82 points 2 months ago

pesophilia

love of the Mexican currency.

[-] chumbalumber@lemmy.blahaj.zone 101 points 2 months ago

For what it's worth, I think it's an excellent horror novel told from the perspective of an unreliable narrator.

I would not describe it as a great romance novel.

[-] chumbalumber@lemmy.blahaj.zone 132 points 2 months ago

"There are two books whose final lines make me cry without fail, irrespective of how many times I read them," Rowling told BBC Radio 4. "One is 'Lolita.'"

(The other one, based on the context of the interview, seems to be "Emma.")

Like many other admirer's of Nabokov's novel of a pedophile who pursues a 12-year-old girl, Rowling loves it for the writing style.

"There just isn't enough time to discuss how a plot that could have been the most worthless pornography becomes, in Nabakov's hands, a great and tragic love story, and I could exhaust my reservoir of superlatives trying to describe the quality of the writing," she said.

Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/jk-rowling-favorite-books-2016-7?op=1#lolitaby-vladimir-nabokov-19

[-] chumbalumber@lemmy.blahaj.zone 109 points 2 months ago

Yeah, so make sure not to get caught

[-] chumbalumber@lemmy.blahaj.zone 88 points 2 months ago

Lego star wars usable object aura around it

[-] chumbalumber@lemmy.blahaj.zone 81 points 2 months ago

Eh, there's plenty of educated right wingers. Not fascists as much, but the kind of fiscally conservative economists who preach austerity are often as not highly educated, just lacking in empathy.

[-] chumbalumber@lemmy.blahaj.zone 293 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The philosophy behind FOSS is inherently left wing and anarchist; communities working together to provide and produce tools for the common good, without a profit motive. Coupled with the lack of advertising and promotion of the sites, people have to seek them out, leading to a self-selecting user population that skews left :)

[-] chumbalumber@lemmy.blahaj.zone 115 points 3 months ago

Wait, the US genuinely doesn't use A4 etc.?

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ants are eating my chest ants are eating my chest ants are eating my chest ants are eating my chest ants are eating my chest ants are eating my chest ants are eating my chest ants are eating my chest ants are eating my chest ants are eating my chest ants are eating my chest ants are eating my chest

Thank you.

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GM Matthew Sadler (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by chumbalumber@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/chess@lemmy.ml

For those of you that haven't come across him, GM Sadler is active on mastodon (@gmmds@mastodonapp.uk), and posts some really exciting and interesting content on his YouTube channel (https://m.youtube.com/@SiliconRoadChess/videos).

I'd summarise his videos as using a variety of engines to produce unique, engine approved yet human comprehensible attacking ideas, often in opening/middle games, but he's also analysed some famous human endgames with these engines. While they're not necessarily good videos for beginners, I think anyone over ~1200 OTB will get a lot out of his videos.

If you want a good example video to see if it's for you, his/Dragon's Qd2 idea in the Pirc is a great example (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DuFfJwBgMD8), though I'd encourage you to flick through and find a video on an opening that you play.

[-] chumbalumber@lemmy.blahaj.zone 130 points 7 months ago

Unfortunately my arsehole doesn't take kindly to being bothered unlubed.

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Ruley Tunes.mp3 (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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The main chess community on .world has fuck all subs and I'm not asking reddit, so I'll brick my pipi, shit my pampers, and ask it here instead. Club has a (very friendly) blitz night coming up, and I'd like to scrape some points against the top player (who's about 2150 FIDE), who plays the czech benoni. To give context I'm about 1900, so much worse but in with a shot if I put something fun together. Any ideas for some neat lines to look at?

[-] chumbalumber@lemmy.blahaj.zone 102 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

"large-gamete-maker"

oops, all terf 😬

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