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kleelof
kleelof
Apr 3, 2015
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#21
robbie_1969 wrote:

MuhammadAreez10 is now free! Hes been busted from jail. His friends may rejoice.

I thought I'd feel happy. But, instead, I just feel cold and scared.

RoobieRoo
RoobieRoo
Apr 3, 2015
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#22
kleelof wrote:
robbie_1969 wrote:

MuhammadAreez10 is now free! Hes been busted from jail. His friends may rejoice.

I thought I'd feel happy. But, instead, I just feel cold and scared.

Ill free babytigrrr if you like too, would that make you fell any better? Here is my list of felons, deviants, the social inept and all others who have insulted my personal majesty and dignity.  If anyone wants any of them freed, i will hear your petitions for clemency!

  
_Number_6  
Babytigrrr  
balente  
cardinal46  
damxxx  
farukbecic  
frankbarile  
garychess69  
goldylox1  
irmi  
Jion_Wansu  
King_undercover_vamp  
miguel28a  
mohittgandhii  
NISR  
vladNY02  
wu1010  
RG1951
RG1951
Apr 3, 2015
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#23
kleelof wrote:
robbie_1969 wrote:

Here is a song that will help you understand addiction a little better:

 

I reject your assertion on the basis that chess may indeed have a negative effect.  

Sure, it can. But is it having a negative effect in your life? This is what addiction is.

It is obvious that this site has many who have an unhealthy addiction to chess. But that is much different than a healthy, productive interest. Which is what you were describing in your OP.

        Addiction does not mean something that has a negative effect on one's life, although harm to the addicted person is very often involved. Addiction is simply a perceived, almost insuperable need for something. The simplest example is the perceived need of the subject for a drug like heroine, although addiction can involve many other things.

Pulpofeira
Pulpofeira
Apr 3, 2015
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#24

I can figure about balente, but BTigrrr?

kleelof
kleelof
Apr 3, 2015
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#25

Seeing as how you guys appear to not know what addiction actually is, here is a link to a definition used by mental health field:https://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/addiction

RoobieRoo
RoobieRoo
Apr 3, 2015
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#26
Pulpofeira wrote:

I can figure about balente, but BTigrrr?

BTigrrr was blocked because i could not understand why I could not post in a thread.  It was only until i asked staff for help that i was made aware of why I could not post.  I thought that it was something to do with the javascript settings in my browser.  It became self evident that I was blocked because i rejected her feminist arguments and asserted that she was incapable of rational thought. Oh well, this is for you BTigrrr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VikyxJoBF2k

heyRick
heyRick
Apr 3, 2015
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#27

I really like the work you produced.

Pulpofeira
Pulpofeira
Apr 3, 2015
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#28

British!

RoobieRoo
RoobieRoo
Apr 3, 2015
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#29
romancitoG wrote:

I really like the work you produced.

Thanks man! i like your football team, i have an Argentina kit, its awesome!

RoobieRoo
RoobieRoo
Apr 3, 2015
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#30
Pulpofeira wrote:

British!

Spanish!

GnrfFrtzl
GnrfFrtzl
Apr 3, 2015
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#31
LuftWaffles írta:
robbie_1969 wrote:
GnrfFrtzl wrote:

What kind of an artist are you, by the way?

I paint and draw, charcoals, pencils, pastels, acrylics.  Here is a design i recently have done for lichess.org for a t-shirt.  Why do you ask? know anything about Art?

 

 

Looks like something made 15+ years ago when the internet was in its infancy, by someone who just discovered photoshop.

It's kitchy in the way that the 1995 movie Hackers is unintentionally funny today.

 

Not trying to bash you as an artist, I mean, who am I to assume what your intention with this was? I hope that my experience of the piece can be helpful. I'm assuming that since you are an artist, you are used to constructive critique =)

Sshh, don't insult his personal majesty and dignity.
He will crush you with his vocabulary.

RoobieRoo
RoobieRoo
Apr 3, 2015
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#32

 

Not trying to bash you as an artist, I mean, who am I to assume what your intention with this was? I hope that my experience of the piece can be helpful. I'm assuming that since you are an artist, you are used to constructive critique =)

A great artist never explains his work to lesser mortals especially the uninitiated. For example cubism to the uninitiated looks like a doodle made by painters who could not draw. They fail to put it in its historical context and see it as a reaction against photorealism and a return to primitivism, a splitting of the canvas into related elements.  The impressionist were termed fauves 'beasts' by the uninitiated because they failed to perceive that it was light that was paramount and the palate must be heightened and made to transcend nature itself.  Thus through the ages we great artists must leave it to posterity to judge with hindsight what greatness we have achieved.  Greatness that contemporaries failed to appreciate in our own time because the artist was not of this realm, but divinely inspired.

GnrfFrtzl
GnrfFrtzl
Apr 3, 2015
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#33
robbie_1969 írta:

 

Not trying to bash you as an artist, I mean, who am I to assume what your intention with this was? I hope that my experience of the piece can be helpful. I'm assuming that since you are an artist, you are used to constructive critique =)

A great artist never explains his work to lesser mortals especially the uninitiated. For example cubism to the uninitiated looks like a doodle made by painters who could not draw. They fail to put it in its historical context and see it as a reaction against photorealism and a return to primitivism, a splitting of the canvas into related elements.  The impressionist were termed fauves 'beasts' by the uninitiated because they failed to perceive that it was light that was paramount and the palate must be heightened and made to transcend nature itself.  Thus through the ages we great artists must leave it to posterity to judge with hindsight what greatness we have achieved.  Greatness that contemporaries failed to appreciate in our own time because the artist was not of this realm, but divinely inspired.

Are you for real?
What a clown... wow.

RoobieRoo
RoobieRoo
Apr 3, 2015
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#34

Sshh, don't insult his personal majesty and dignity.
He will crush you with his vocabulary.

Sigh. . . have no fear learned friend I am not insulted nor do I seek to crush anyone under an avalanche of verbose and flowery language.

RoobieRoo
RoobieRoo
Apr 3, 2015
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#35

Are you for real?
What a clown... wow.

Is this really the zenith of your creative process, 'wow what a clown'. Sigh when will you learn that your posts here are more a reflection of you than the people you seek to vilify?

GnrfFrtzl
GnrfFrtzl
Apr 3, 2015
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#36
robbie_1969 írta:

Are you for real?
What a clown... wow.

Is this really the zenith of your creative process, 'wow what a clown'. Sigh when will you learn that your posts here are more a reflection of you than the people you seek to vilify?

Just continue, please, I'm having the time of my life reading your posts as well.
How's it going among us petty, pathetic mortals, your excellency?

SharonCarter
SharonCarter
Apr 3, 2015
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#37

Is this some kind of Easter prank? This is my first chess.com Easter after all. Do I have to spot the obvious wind up?!!

GnrfFrtzl
GnrfFrtzl
Apr 3, 2015
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#38
SharonCarter írta:

Is this some kind of Easter prank? This is my first chess.com Easter after all. Do I have to spot the obvious wind up?!!

I thought that for a while myself.
Get some popcorn and kick back, this guy's making a show.

Conflagration_Planet
Conflagration_Planet
Apr 3, 2015
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#39
robbie_1969 wrote:

I was talking with a friend from Canada and we agreed that chess is highly addictive.  The great American Morphy himself referred to as a kind of fever, 'chess fever'.  Who of us has not spent a considerable time contemplating some position possibly for hours even days in the case of correspondence chess or engaged in a blitz marathon (I once had my wife bring me breakfast, lunch, dinner and supper to a blitz marathon and man it was awesome) and yet despite beating after beating after beating we come back for more!

As an artist I can appreciate the aesthetics of chess, it is the beautiful game.  Even as a modest chess player one can appreciate beauty of an imaginative combination by way of example.  But I also like Titian and Carravagio and yet I am not addicted to looking at their paintings, well not much.

I thought it might be the confrontation that people enjoy, but even the World champion stated that he likes to avoid confrontation by nature, so I dunno.

Anyone hazard a guess as to why chess is addictive?

I just spend a couple minutes contemplating the next move. If that long. I guess that's why I suck so bad. No patience.

 
 
 
RoobieRoo
RoobieRoo
Apr 3, 2015
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#40
GnrfFrtzl wrote:
robbie_1969 írta:

Are you for real?
What a clown... wow.

Is this really the zenith of your creative process, 'wow what a clown'. Sigh when will you learn that your posts here are more a reflection of you than the people you seek to vilify?

Just continue, please, I'm having the time of my life reading your posts as well.
How's it going among us petty, pathetic mortals, your excellency?

I am sorry you will need to console yourself with something else my rustic friend for the time being as I have an appointment.