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I'm so nostalgic for it. I played it over and over on the SNES Mario All Stars cartridge.

I've gotten into chess for the past year, and while I used Lichess for a little bit, I wound up going with chess.com primarily instead. The app is great. The learning modules are really helpful, and I love the puzzles.

It also has tens of millions of users on the platform, so your matchmaking is going to be more accurate, whether you need to be matched with opponents who just learned how the pieces move, all the way up to the top professional players.

As for outside resources, I've been mostly learning from random masters/GMs that have youtube channels.

We need a fourth, derpy-er dragon.

I've always heard that until you're master/GM level, it's better just to play it out. Your opponent might blunder too, or accidentally stalemate you. At the very least, it's good practice playing at a disadvantage. I know I've blundered huge leads myself, so who knows what's going to happen?

There's a psychological thing where we always assume that our opponents in games will never mess up, which makes it feel easy to give up the moment you make a mistake.

This is great. I have a new daily game to play. Thanks for sharing!

Ooh, and Measure of Man. And can't forget the Moriarty episodes.

You know what, might as well just watch the whole thing.

I took physical notes... Played completely blind and tried to figure everything out on my own. Probably not too many item descriptions though.

This is relevant to my interests...

Maybe the last 2 can split it

The lesson is forgotten the moment the next match starts.

Firing that revolver randomly in the air is one of the happiest times we ever see Sulu. Look at him. He's in heaven.

You're not wrong

Yes, this one was tragic.

McCoy might not be a brick-layer, but Spock is.

I've found that doing a metric ton of puzzles has greatly improved my tactics when I'm playing "recklessly". It helps your board vision and you'll generally have a better feel for what you can safely attack.

As far as playing too defensively, maybe finding an opening that leads to a natural attacking plan would be helpful. I've been really enjoying Queen's pawn openings that point all of your pieces toward the opponent's castled king, so even though I'm playing "safely", I'm still creating threats.

The Vulcans are nothing if not thorough.

The latter

Space Force makes sense now