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The Picard Maneuver

@ The_Picard_Maneuver @startrek.website

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  • I'll never not want to

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  • She's adorable!

  • The moth man [beetlemoses]

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  • They weren't boy scouts as kids.

  • How do you counter this?

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  • Well I'll be damned.

    Also, if you're going to tell me that an opening is called either the "Polish Opening" or the "Orangutan Opening", it's no contest which one I'm going to remember.

  • There are big things happening with gnomes

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  • Hey, that's me.

  • Coming at you like the Terminator

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  • I keep hearing people mention "bughouse" but have yet to check out what it is. I'll look it up!

  • Coming at you like the Terminator

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  • I mean, maybe the super GMs like Magnus can complain about memorizing certain opening lines to some outrageous degree, but even they still have competitive games. For the remaining 99.99999% of players like us, it's not even close enough to solved to be an issue, imo.

  • Coming at you like the Terminator

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  • I've been pretty into chess lately, and it's such a deep and wonderful game. Even if computers are better than us, there's still a huge ladder to climb between learning how the horsey moves and becoming Magnus Carlsen.

  • It's disturbing how we as a society are okay with ad companies weaponsing psychology

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  • Also can't forget gaming companies that have turned many modern games into Skinner-boxes.

  • Ah yes, the "pause traffic laws" button

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  • Oh, I kind of like that.

  • Peak organization

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  • It's just a common shitpost format out there that's playing off of those unironic religious posts that you might see on FB or something. I see good/bad get flipped back and forth as part of the joke.

    https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/my-child-will-x

  • Schrödinger's joke

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  • "it was just a prank"

  • Mental eelness

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  • You and me both then

  • One thing I hope to see in the Fediverse is people engaging with old content

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  • I've noticed that some people do use other filters than "Hot" or they scroll back in smaller communities, because I'll occasionally get comment replies to posts I made months ago. It's cool to see.

  • One thing I hope to see in the Fediverse is people engaging with old content

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  • Does the Active feed work this way?

  • Real life Pip Boy

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  • I was curious if Leela's thing had a name, and according to the wiki it's apparently called a Wrist Lojak-a-mater..

  • You don't get between a barbarian and their drink

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  • You pass the perception check and spot the mimic.

  • Thank you, ChessGPT

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  • Today is the 21st Anniversary of Trogdor the Burninator.

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  • Burning down some thatched-roof cottages in his honor today.

  • Well, it looks like verification photos might be useless now.

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  • I like saying they run on "dream logic"