Maalus

N and B are equal and loss of one depends on the current situation of the board :d

Forks and all of that comes with playing the game. It also comes from the easiest / most approachable way to play chess - puzzles. So far so, that it's insanely popular on Facebook, where some guy pastes an amazing move from the past and a butt-ton of people stop and think about it.

Also, forks and stuff is often overkill. You can get to like 1200 rating by knowing like 4 - 5 moves in the start. Most games are decided by someone making a huge mistake. And in the first matches, that guy will probably be you. But then suddenly you'll notice a huge fuckup and win a game over it. And then the fuckup will be slightly smaller, and smaller, and smaller.

But yah, chess isn't all intelligence, it is a lot of practice and study.

The answer to the "chess" thing is "yes, you will get better if you play it for long enough". It's a lot about pattern recognition and the things you've seen in the past. There are certain rules to follow that help a lot - but someone needs to teach them to you first. It's like saying "I suck at crosswords, I will never be good at them" - yes you will, with enough done you'll start to see repeating "crossword words" that keep being used over and over.

Edit: also for the life thing - it's the difference between wisdom and intelligence.

Along with all of the oxygen, with the sewer gasses probably exploding and sending other manhole covers sky high.

Also sewers are made of concrete, you can already play with fire in them.

There is a difference because you have anecdotes, not data. You can't draw conclusions from them. The entire "experiment" could be poisoned by a single person with joint disease. It could be poisoned by a single person lying about the severity of the pain etc.

I'd give my right hand this is a code review problem. Someone extracted a method returning true false. Then an intern came along and was told to refactor. They saw a lot of comparisons and "extracted" them.

Okay, but you can't say "he killed him" when he could be brought back by anyone. Especially since even the museum guy knew that the gun is for dehydration, so that means Megamind's powers / gadgets are relatively known.

Wasn't he just a proud dude that disagreed with how the song of creation was to be sung - and sung his version anyway? But then it was "all according to plan" anyways?

He didn't kill him he used the dehydration gun which turns people into cubes. He can be put into water and will be back like nothing happens. He even used that in the finale to defeat Tighten

Yeah, but that always was the point of Half Life - they wanted huge leaps in gaming to be possible to release the next game. That's why HL2 had the first "physics" engine, ragdolls etc. That's why GMod is possible. Now the "leap" is VR

Alyx is HL3, wdym

I mean, people will imagine a similar thing when asked to imagine something specific. At the end of the day there's just so many ways to imagine someone pushing a ball off a table.

Depends on the area and location.