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Any mental imagery in general? Like through mind's eye? Dreaming? I had a mind palace (like no joke) it took me years to build into something I could use, and I had a few seizures in relatively quick succession and I cannot imagine images with nearly the same clarity. My dreams are like trying to swim in molasses while wearing scuffed scratched glasses, and I haven't been able to access my mind palace in years. Any time I close my eyes I just see vague blurry shapes and colors, there's an environment there but I can't see it. Now, I can still see faces and remember them, but imagining in my head kissing my girlfriend is impossible. Her face warps and melts and my mental vision goes fuzzy.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 years ago

    Thank you for the advice! I've very much have been getting into the Ruy Lopez openings. It's been fun learning to counter the Morphy defense with the Columbus variation. I haven't encountered any Schlieman Variation players yet. I look forward to that! :)

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I tend to prefer closed, positional style games. I like having my pieces back up other pieces and give a layer of protection in case they're captured. I very much value pawns and try my best to A: form a strong pawn structure to prevent attack, and B: Disrupt my opponent's pawn structure as well. If even a good o' sacrifice or three is necessary. I value mobility of pieces which allows me to outmaneuver my opponents which leads me to often undervalue my queen. I know, I can survive without my queen (most times) but can my opponent?

    Sorry if this was long winded, I wanted to give you a good answers.

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    I'm a little over 1300 elo, and I feel it's time to start really getting down and dirty and learning openings. I know a little bit about Scandinavian, very little about French and I've recently got interested in Ruy Lopez but I wanted to get the opinion of you guys to see where the next step in my chess journey should be?

    [–] [S] 16 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Yeah, for me it was just on step too far. I was trying to ask questions on a board about a niche topic for my book and I was deleted. I messaged the mods and they told I was leeching off of them for free buzz and I wouldn't get approved. Meanwhile I posted on another board about the same topic and everyone was super friendly and was really excited a normie was asking questions. I realized that over my time on reddit, I've developed this massive anxiety about posting. Most of these subreddits I frequented have hundreds of rules, and dozens of sub rules under each.

    So I'd inevitably get deleted and harassed by the mods because of things like, having the tags on the wrong side of the title, posting more than 3 times in a week, including the three dots thing (...) somewhere in my post, or my favorite, referring to the users as 'the hive mind'. That last one got me banned from several subs by this power mod. It's gotten to the point where I've spent all night trying to get approved to no avail (I'm very persistent when I need information). Just to when I finally arrange all of the words to be in the right order for the tyrants to approve me. Just to get downvoted into oblivion and people spamming me with all manners of insults and treating me like an idiot. Fuck spez and fuck reddit.

    Phew! Sorry, didn't mean to dump that on you. Like I said, today was the last straw for me. Anxiety is dropping, finally.

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    I'm about to be in a near future hacker campaign in a watchdogs style Fate Core setting. I'm playing Robert Conrad, or known by my handle as DirtyOlHobo. I'm the closest thing to a grifter we have in the Binary Syndicate.

    My character looks like a disheviled hobo so he uses it to distract people. Like panhandling guards so my teammates can get past into a datafarm. But first and foremost, he's a hacker. It's kinda a requirement to be in the group. I'm not looking to flesh everything out just yet before I even play, but I wanted to get some ideas and inspiration for how my character might turn out.

    His high concept is Disheveled Hacker with a Vengeance.

    His Trouble is "Functional " Alcoholic.

    His only aspects right now is Too Crazy to Say No To. And Former SecOps.

    And I only just fleshed out a few skills, but I want room to expand. His Great (+4) is Hacking, his Good (+3)s are Deceive and Rapport.

    And my GM and I fleshed out the stunt "Spare Some Change?" Grant +2 to Panhandling using Deceive when you pay a fate point.

    I'm leaving his backstory mostly blank, all I know is he was a SecOp for a very prestigious cybersecurity company and he got tired of defending corpo's right to screw people over and left (around 2008) and ended up finding the Binary Syndicate and worked with them.

    So what are some aspects or stunts that you think would be cool? Do you recommend any that are hacking related? I can't find any online. I've spent days search but all I get are basic boilerplate posts "wHaT aRe yoUr FaVoriTe fAtE hAcKs?" Because keywords sux and the internet is dead. Any help would be great!

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    What the fuck happened with Supernovae?! Is this trolling? How the hell can he not see that he's selling everyone down the damn river. Meta is not to be trusted! We all left cesspools like Facebook to escape the Zuck. Why in the mf is Supernovae even considering this much less actually doing it? Can someone please tell me he's just trolling, please?

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    I've had a great time here. The people on the various communities I've joined are very nice and actually constructive! I haven't encountered any rude or sarcastic responses or one word answers.

    I've had really cool conversations and I haven't been told anything toxic or given any anatomically impossible suggestions at all! I really see a difference between here and Reddit.

    What particularly amazed me is the lack of knock down dragouts on the Politics and News communities on Lemmy.

    People bring up their points of view even if they have contrasting arguments siting historical precedents to support their side of the discussion.

    I'm excited to see your experience as well?

    I'm really glad to be a part of Lemm.ee and thank you very much /u/sunaurus for making this instance! :D

     

    Me, I have a low threat model so I mainly try to stay away from proprietary stuff when possible (Chrome, Edge ect) I use an eclectic mix of browsers.

    I use Vivaldi (I know it's not entirely FOSS but I like the customizability of it), for my amnesiac browsers I use Firefox Focus on Android, and LibreWolf on PC, and for when I want as much anonymity as possible I use Tor with Orbot active routing traffic to Switzerland.

    I used to use Brave Browser a lot because I like the user interface but I kinda got turned off by all the crypto stuff they've been peddling. And as far as I know, Bromite hasn't been updated in quite some time (please elighten me if I'm wrong about that I've been out of the loop for a while) , and I was weirded out by the developer's statement "I'll get around to it sometime."

    Mull is great but very slow to search imo, when I search for something it takes a long time to load. Or it takes a long time to load a website. It could be internet speed but other browsers work just fine,and I've tested Mull on other WiFis.

    I sometimes also use DuckDuckGo but the search results are so bad that I just find myself searching google to find what I want. No offensive if anyone uses those I personally just haven't found much use out if them.

    So what browsers do you use for privacy and security?

    Edit: Sorry for the long post and edited for clarity.

     

    I have nothing against Signal. I just don't have access to a phone number right now. I fully intend to use the Signal when I get a number. I know there is no silver bullet, no absolutes in the privacy world but I'm looking for any messengers that are generally considered to be private and secure on Android that I can try to convince my friends and family to use. I have a mid - low threat model, it's just the thought of giving the Zuck anymore of my family's data makes my skin crawl.