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bilston wrote: »

To be fair even I struggle with a broad West Belfast accent sometimes and I'm from Lisburn. Sometimes I just nod and smile and hope they haven't just told me their granny has died.

Ah, that must be the one that gets me then.

Nearly as bad as trying to order water in an American restaurant.

molloyjh wrote: »

Between 20 and 25 every day for the last few days. Been glorious so it has!

I took a half day Friday to get the most out of it. I'm probably about 40% beer at this stage and thinking about firing up the barbecue again this evening.

mfceiling wrote: »

Anyone know what that water falling from the sky is?

A pain in the ass.

Living in Galway (the rain capital of Ireland) I never thought I'd say this. You lucky bastards!

Journeyman_1 wrote: »

I've never played much blitz or bullet, find it difficult to not blunder or waste a lot of time. Got up to around 1750 in correspondence through a few sub 1500 tournaments but that was a few years ago. I reckon my actual rating was around 1550 or so but I've since forgotten basically all the opening theory I knew. It's a very difficult game when you don't know an opening for me.

That Magnus Carlsen app is pretty good. I am in a similar boat, in that I hadn't really played in years and lost a lot of my opening theory. But I've noticed, even in the last few years, phones and computers have gotten so powerful, that it's tough to get a nice gradual increase in difficulty.

For example, Apple Chess on my macbook has difficulty levels that goes:

Level 1 - Computer thinks 1 move ahead
Level 2 - Computer thinks 2 moves ahead
Level 3 - Computer thinks 3 moves ahead
Level 4 - Computer thinks for 1 seconds per move
Level 5 - Computer thinks for 2 seconds per move
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Level 12 - Computer thinks for 256 seconds per move

I can beat Levels 1 - 3 handy enough, but the laptop is so powerful, that once you set it to think for even a second (Level 4), it's like playing a freakin' grandmaster.

But with the MC app, you are at least playing against the trajectory of his development, so the difficulty scales up in a more linear and less drastic fashion.

Game of Thrones was a bit slow last night. Only plus is that it seems to be setting up a few things

molloyjh wrote: »

I really liked last nights episode. Some good characters making reappearances and some good interactions. I wasn't keen on last season but for me the writing is back to where it was prior to that.

I agree, thought it was a great episode

b.gud wrote: »

Game of Thrones was a bit slow last night. Only plus is that it seems to be setting up a few things

molloyjh wrote: »

I really liked last nights episode. Some good characters making reappearances and some good interactions. I wasn't keen on last season but for me the writing is back to where it was prior to that.

irishbucsfan wrote: »

I agree, thought it was a great episode

GoT:

awec wrote: »

I think it's being setup for the introduction of a pretty minor but very interesting character from the books.

Mod note : this spoiler is a book spoiler. You won't want to read unless you've read the books.

Dave_The_Sheep wrote: »

If you mean LSH... I'm not sure if I'm down with that. Never really liked that character, before or after she died. Though it might explain why the Brotherhood without Banners might have turned into total dickholes.