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my $600 stimulus check came the other day. it was actually $429 for me, because apparently the way they calculated it used my 2019 income

so to be clear: i received a check in 2021 because of an event that happened in 2020, which uses 2019 numbers to decide exactly how neglectful they're allowed to be

positive, negative, and neutral jing are equivalent to the fighting game concepts of offensive play, defensive play, and the neutral game, send post

for every raid shadow legends™, there must be a raid light legends™ to cast it

"look at that dude's ink. is he a yakuza?"
"definitely. i think he's in the touhou clan"
"...don't you mean the tojo clan?"
"no, check out his back tattoo"
"is that flandre scarlet"

food 

i wonder if coleslaw made with tartar sauce rather than mayo would be any good

food youtube 

i've been really liking adam ragusea's videos. as a perpetually low-executive-function person who also doesn't know how to cook, his approach - "here's what i do, here are some substitutes, here are the things you have to be precious about and the things you can just be creative or less careful with" - makes me feel a lot more motivated to try things

now i just gotta, actually go and try things. maybe next week

this is the face of a man who has just gotten a professional like 40-50 year old chess commentator to say "he started with king e2, aka the bongcloud, what would you have done against that"

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oh and here's the world's second best chess player playing the bong cloud on stream as fast as possible

youtube.com/watch?v=iOd222WIEk

he has an entire playlist of just playing this terrible opening

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however, the greatest player in chess right now (magnus carlsen) likes to take this a step further

he plays the Improved/Inverted Bongcloud.

you move your two pawns out of the way, and then circle your queen all the way around before bringing it back to right next to where it started

thus you spend the first 6+ moves of the game doing NOTHING BUT SWITCHING THE PLACE OF YOUR KING AND QUEEN. NO OTHER MOVES HAPPEN. YOU GAIN NO GROUND. YOU FUCK YOURSELF

and yet he wins games with it

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to explain this: the bongcloud is a joke opening where you move your king forward within the first 3 moves of the game. this is basically never, ever a good idea, it's called the bongcloud as a joke

however, some of the best chess players in existence like to play stuff like this just to kinda. flex on their opponents and make the game harder for themselves because they're just that fucking good

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learning about a chess move called the inverted bongcloud

if you don't do "you got the money?" "yeah, you got the stuff?" for completely mundane transactions what are you doing with your life

thinking about masc NB folx and nodding my head enthusiastically

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