The "What Are You Doing This Moment" Thread

[CiG]

 

[Sophii]

Oh man its pretty fucked. Kinda cool though; I get to experience the "real world of state work" so to say. Even if its just on a minor scale such as this.

I've seen huge fucking oaks uprooted and countless other disasters. Its absolutely world changing for me.

 

[Slammed]

It's amazing to see the damage weather causes some times.

 

[no country for old wainds]

gonna be watching some of the magnus carlsen invitational on youtube shortly. it's the most lucrative online chess tournament ever and starts today. it's absolutely stacked with talent; the 8 players include the top 5 in the world, the best blitz player in the world and the best teenager in the world (firouzja, the first super-phenomenon since carlsen). eight different nationalities too: norwegian, french, russian, chinese, japanese, iranian, dutch and american.

it's a round robin where everyone plays everyone, each match is a best of four rapidplay games with a tiebreak 'armageddon match' if it's 2-2--which works kind of like away goals do in football/soccer, where black gets less time on the clock but only needs to draw to get the win, so white has to really go for it. once the round robin is completed the top four will go into a straight knockout.

streaming live on youtube here:


kind of a big deal for the chess world as there'll be more of a spotlight on it than usual just because there's fuck all else to watch at the moment lol

 

[challenge_everything]

gonna be watching some of the magnus carlsen invitational on youtube shortly. it's the most lucrative online chess tournament ever and starts today. it's absolutely stacked with talent; the 8 players include the top 5 in the world, the best blitz player in the world and the best teenager in the world (firouzja, the first super-phenomenon since carlsen). eight different nationalities too: norwegian, french, russian, chinese, japanese, iranian, dutch and american.

it's a round robin where everyone plays everyone, each match is a best of four rapidplay games with a tiebreak 'armageddon match' if it's 2-2--which works kind of like away goals do in football/soccer, where black gets less time on the clock but only needs to draw to get the win, so white has to really go for it. once the round robin is completed the top four will go into a straight knockout.

streaming live on youtube here:


kind of a big deal for the chess world as there'll be more of a spotlight on it than usual just because there's fuck all else to watch at the moment lol

Fuck yeah, I'd watch that. This whole coronavirus thing has helped me achieve a personal best rating too, so I might even be able to pretend to understand the moves.

 

[no country for old wainds]

hikaru already choking against magnus like he always does

edit: huh, might've spoke too soon

edit 2: ffs lol, dumbass drama at the end. such a badly organised stream as well. i hope they sort this shit out. fun games though.

 

[Sophii]

Brain machine pretty low. Day 6 of these 16 hour shifts working storm work. I've lost the frustration mood and now I'm just care free.

 

[Krow]

Brain machine pretty low. Day 6 of these 16 hour shifts working storm work. I've lost the frustration mood and now I'm just care free.

get that paper bubba. Been there on those crazy shifts before. Tired changes to general confusion after a while. If you’re the one driving, stay safe. Energy drink the fuck out of yourself if you need to. Motörhead will ease the brain pain and energize your corpse.

 

[Sophii]

Nah breh I only just drive home. Don't drive any trucks thankfully; scared of that shit. But hell yeah! Actually, been pumping my brain full of slow funk and Wu Tang Clan this week. On my drive back home its been Pink Floyd.

Here's a couple of pictures! I'll take more tomorrow as we get to them

 

[Satanstoenail]

@no country for old wainds this is outstanding

 

[CiG]

I thought the singer was going to drop dead.

 

[Sophii]

He's trying so goddamn hard to sound like Kurt. Instead, it sounds like him prairie dogging the biggest shit of his life and the only way the SXM crew would allow him to go is to cover a Nirvana song for them.

 

[CiG]

At around the 2 minute mark he actually seems disabled.

 

[dwellerINTHEdark]

The bass players' reaction is priceless.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

System Of A Down’s John Dolmayan: 10 Albums That Changed My Life

South of Heaven, ...And Justice For All, Powerslave, etc. Pretty solid list of albums.
@Terasophe, @no country for old wainds

 

[Sophii]

System Of A Down’s John Dolmayan: 10 Albums That Changed My Life

South of Heaven, ...And Justice For All, Powerslave, etc. Pretty solid list of albums.
@Terasophe, @no country for old wainds

Pretty much the coolest guy.

 

[Sophii]

Progression of climbing: I climbed up about 75 ft in a tree today and cleared it. Thats the tallest Ive ever been in one since the accident. Can't wait for a fucking break this weekend.

 

[Slammed]

You'll be building cubby houses in no time

 

[Sophii]

Fell from another fucking tree today, while being trained for tree rescue.
Life has a funny way of being an asshole yeah?

 

[Slammed]

You rescue trees now?

My daughter represented her school at the dawn service for the return and currently servicing armed forces in this country today. Stupid Covid made the actually marches and wreath laying impossible but we had a 'social distancing' street service from about 5am. Nothing quite like a bugle sounding through the dark and foggy streets before the sun rises.