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Hey blake if thats you i want you to know i still have money just hmu and ill give it to you or gift you something

>>9915332
>inb4 cuck

I've become interested in 'studying' chess. As a child I never liked the game, my father would always beat me. This past semester I started playing online often. Tactics training, games on lichess, youtube videos. My college does not have a chess club but I tried to play with as many people as I could. Online ratings rose, undefeated in person.

After dinner one day I asked my father if he wanted to play. He still won easily. To my knowledge, my father never plays. He devotes no energy or thought to the game, mentioning as we started that he hadn't taken out the board in at least a year.

Not to say that I reached the level of some grandmaster or even that of a good amateur but I was almost stunned to be beaten. Sore for a day or two, then I began to wonder whether my father is meant to be a chess player.

It is attractive to believe that certain people are meant to be do a few things above all else. I see this with athletes especially, beautiful because they seem to be doing what they exist to do. I don't know.
By the back door, leading out to the yard we always had a small wooden folding table. The kind with scaffolded legs that form two opposing triangles when it stands. It was only ever used when one of my fathers friends would visit, once or twice a year. The table would be set in roughly the middle of the yard, along with two folding chairs. All afternoon they'd play chess. After dinner the board would still be on the table but their chairs faced away. Talking and drinking, in the morning the chess pieces would still be out in the yard waiting to be brought in.

>>9915239
Hi Nick.

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A muslim prays 5 times a day
A christian follows the commandments
A stoic dislikes chances, likes virtue

What does an accelerationist do?

>>9915224
He's good. An aunt gave me an exceptionally frightening children's book by him when i was a kid and I wound up reading Winter's Tale in my teens. Remember enjoying but will have to reread it before presuming to comment.

>>9915201
Neitchzes sister was a hottie

>>9915201
Omg how come this doesn't interest anyone else this is a huge deal it fits with the whole scheme of his philosophy and why he is so popular amoungst 4chan aspies

Neitchze wanted to fuck his sister
I know this because I want to duck his sister, I mean look at her goddam you know she muzzled the meat stick like a real bratwurst naw mean

>>9915201
Elisabeth was extremely pretty but a nut. So I'll cut against the proffered grain and declare that it never even entered his mind.

are you saying you can't read/decipher the words, or you don't want to?

>>9915190
>>Did you ever write so poorly or expressively that you cant actually read it?
No.

>>9915245
my penmanship during the time i was using that notebook was severely affected by my health and wellbeing. I was writing, but i couldnt really write that well. Its basically just scribbles, i cant make out half of it.

>>9915187
Dracula is great you pleb

>>9915187
On what principles do you measure whether it's good or bad?

Do just you mean it didn't scare you?

yes I read this really good book called Dracula

Better become good at Greek pretty soon cause I got bad news. You're going to take an intro to classical Greek mythology class your first year and you will be reading the Greeks in English

You won't be able to easily read Homer (or Demosthenes, or any plays) in the original for at least 2 years of intensive study. You may be able to handle Xenophon or Thucydides after a year, but don't count on it. Reading in original is good, and it certainly helps your understanding, but it's far too much effort to translate anything more than a few chapters at a time. Swallow your pride and read in translation.

>>9915267
>>9915274
Thank you both

Fellaini

Unoriginal. Try a different path other than becoming a poor starving artist. I'm getting a degree that will earn money and a comfortable life so I can do the things I want. I'm not gonna get all sentimental about "mah artistt drive" after reading too many stories.


jk, I'm also 21 and give 0 fuks about my field of study. I may run

>>9915847
I'm considering the poor artist way because it's not like I can choose. My degree is practically useless, I'll struggle to have a decent living in my country only after another couple of years of studying. Useless effort breeds melancholy. I can't trust my degree to give me the adequate pillow for my future literary work and joy. t's not guaranteed that I still have the same dispisition torwards writing after two or three years, so I see the starving artist way as a form of helping these aptitudes and inclinations root. Might be pledging to work as a civil servant and hooked on coke in five years.

>>9915080
Listen to the Knifepoint Horror podcast.

There barely is any sound effect. But trust me. He sets the scene.

Also don't do shrooms for dumb shit like that.

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>>9915099
and why not use them ? It's not dumb.Ive done it with ketamine many of times.
Try it
Wait until night,light some candles put your earphones in lay back and close your eyes you are nearly in a meditive state and its as if it just helps set the scenery that little bit more and makes you feel as if you are really there.

>>9915080
Christ I can just imagine what a greasy loser you are. You're basically reading glorified childrens books I hope you realize this some day you fucking infant

>>9915002
No, luckily the masses are still ignorant of Pataphysics. Probably best we keep it that way before /pol/ decides it's a jew conspiracy and Peterson decides it's to blame for gender non-conformity.

>>9915083
What I mean is that it's just a joke.
There's nothing to "get".
Right?

Who /LIP/ here?

>>9914973
It's good. I have no qualms with it. Want to read more,.so write that 3000. Also don't post here if you want it published somewhere, it comes up on search engines and technically counts as self publishing.

>>9915038
What if he puts it in an image or disposable pastebin?

>>9915038
Thank you for the warning my friend. I had not considered that.

>>9914927
the magic mountain is an admittedly boring and dry 5/10 until the ending, and then it becomes an 8/10

The Magic Mountain is probably the greatest bildungsroman of all time.

>>9914927
entry level Mann; Stories (Death in Venice etc.) -> Buddenbrooks
advanced: Magic Mountain -> Joseph and his Brothers
endlevel: Dr. Faustus

go this order - thank me l8er
Mann imo is the best prose stylist to ever do it and all the listed works are masterpieces (admittetly I read them in german, don't know about translation, I'd imagine it's pretty hard tho)

>>9914884
I haven't read it, but I can confidentally say that you are too stupid

>>9914905
Confidentially, or confidently, stupid?

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>>9914913
shiiiieeet

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>>9914794

Loving every laugh.

No but I have a really good youtube playlist that will make you good.

I will give this to you in exchange for advice.

I also like chess but it is hard for me to play because when I lose or when my plans are intercepted I rage very hard. How do I accept not being able to completely control the external world

>>9914800

Yeah, here's a tip. Examine your opponent before you go up against them. Are they capable? Are they cowardly? Are they determined? What kind of moves will they make? Will they remain unpredictable? Is there any way you can get an edge over them? Do they have any weakness you can exploit during the course of the game?

Just don't get into a game you don't know you can win. And for fucks sake, if you're losing hard, save yourself the embarrassment and just Sue for peace. I mean, offer a tie or something. You'll probably be less mad in the long run.

>>9914809

>Examine your opponent

I only play the computer because otherwise I worry about taking too long with my moves and the shame of losing to another person