thank you so much that’s so informative

i think i’m kinda familiar with it, i’ve been binding my own sketchbooks for a little more than 2 years, tho my technique is really basic like poking holes in a pile of papers and sewing them together

is book binding a professional thing people do? or is it like restoration work?

i love the old cover tho :(

i have no idea if they actually do that in algeria, our local libraries are just rooms with tables in which you can study in silence, but i’ll try with the big city library

the cover looks really cool tho i don’t want to get rid of it

idk where i can find it (since i live in algeria i doubt i’d have access to it) but i’ll look for it thank you

my theory is that a lot of the content in english are for chinese people to learn about the west and learn english and is not actually what they consume, or maybe there’s a lot of users that can be very reactionary from other parts of asia like india, or more simply there’s still a lot of pro western/reactionary people in china

Jorjor well predicted all this /s

I always hated chess players, especially male ones, I enjoy the game but a lot of them that I met irl are redpill assholes masculinists

I should also boycott chess.com now that you told me, even tho I already thought about how weird it was for them to mask Russian players and not israeli ones, but I never really concluded in doing so, thanks

Thank you, I think I’ll do the same and focus on bullet games until I build up thr confidence again

thank you so much that’s really nice, i’ll try to use lichess from now on, i already have it on my phone but i rarely use it but i find some free courses on it sometimes and it works really good

I’ve always hated competitive games, I used to play valorant when I was younger and didn’t know any better, and got stuck in the lowest rank for w years

I lost like 100 elo and i got angry i didn’t know where to express it. It was the rapid 10 minute format, It started with 10 losses in a row, then I’ve been alternating win and loss since

i’m really sorry to hear about your dad, you don’t have to play chess again to recover your ability to plan ahead i’m sure there’s a lot of other games or activities

i played it once with strangers online 5 or 6 years ago and it was really fun, i miss it so much, nobody i know is really interested in it and i grew out of meeting people online

just tried playing go and it’s so hard, maybe the online bots i just played against are too good

eh i disagree, a lot of board games involves a dice (or another way to randomize the game) which reduces them to gambling imo (tho maybe there’s still some tactics to them), other than that there’s like domino and checkers, which i find too simple idk (i suck at them)