Recent content by McGrrr

I know what you mean, least impressive 5.5/6 points performance ever in a candidates tournament.

The data is a year old, but the trend is at best flat year over year and anecdotally worse. "Entry level" typically requires a degree nowadays, so non-graduate prospects are similarly terrible, and lower entry employment is getting crushed by stagflation e.g. hospitality.

Bananagrams is a great portable game.

I do not envy anyone graduating (at any education level) right now.

We stan Sindarov, what a player. 4.5/5 points in the Candidates is crazy work, including exciting/dominant wins against Praggnanandhaa, Caruana, and Nakamura. Hikaru failing to consider castles in his prep (and delegating shared blame to his team) is some weak sauce; then calculating for an...

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Miami really delivered this year; chaotic sprint, Max masterclass pole, decent race, quality battles at the front, Williams heroics, elite Lewis radio, Ferrari strategy and Lando lap 1 living up to memes. Anyway, get Doohan and Lawson out of F1. Jack is out of his depth, while Liam is a menace...

Actually, my resolution is to set my Skype status to "appear offline" more often at work.

Getting old, so it's simply eat healthier and exercise more. Not trying to quantify either goal as it'll be obvious if I'm making progress.

Current rumour that Horner will buy out Sainz's contract, then Colapinto stays at Williams for 2025. I've never heard a rumour before that makes so much sense.

Just beat Gatr blind, but the move order looks pretty straightforward for future solo farming: NPC: Intimidate support Turn 1: Focus Energy (Razor Claw) Turn 2-4: Drain Punch 3x after Tera drain Turn 5: Tera Fighting & Iron Defence after stat reset Then just Swords Dance (or Belly Drum) and win.