What's the best mental exercise to complement the Jow Forumsizen and why is it chess?

I'm sorry to hear that user. It will get better with time.

you ever played chess against a complete retard/normie? he just gets completely lost in thought for moments and then plays random moves. This is how I envision this game.

Rock ‘em Sock ‘em Robots usually raises my IQ a few points.

Mahjong

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dang arnold's getting rekt

Poker is the correct answer.

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Damn :( what happened ? Did you lose a piece ?

i used to play it with my brother, he is also with your dad

Because like lifting, chess rewards autistic traits. That's why y'all love it.

In reality, you should leave your comfort zone: Instead of lifting, join a team sport. Instead of chess, get an education.

The best mental exercise is adding an extra rep when you think you cant go on. Fucking nerds I swear

yup, lifting when not done to supplement performance in sports tends to be one of the more autistic hobbies, attracting burgeoning narcissists and delusional retards who believe muscles can replace social skills and persevere by likening the process of getting "Jow Forums" to leveling up a wow character. So it really is inevitable (and unfortunate) that Jow Forums approaches lifting in the latter context but it makes sense because if there has ever been a place full of faggot retard autists, its this place.

Hi

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I hate the culture. Doing CS in college rn. The coursework isn't particularly difficult, and it's quite rewarding.

But chances are that if you're on Jow Forums you could stand to be a little more social. This is impossible in a 70% male enviroment full of chinese and indian nerds.

shut up
shut up
SHUT SHUT SHUT SHUT SHUT SHUT UP
SHUT UP
SHUT UP FUCKER
FUCKING SHUT THE HELL UP
SHUT UP MOTHERFUCKER
FUCK
FUCK FUCK
FUCKING KEK SHUT UP

Those people can't get jobs. Stick with it. After college you'll interview and the people with zero social skills will struggle to find work. At least anywhere rewarding. Then you'll meet tons of qts either in the office or with the tons of cash you'll be making solving puzzles for a living.

>gambling, ever, at all, under any circumstances

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although I personally believe poker has too much of luck factor, you must realize that you don't have to play with money, right?

play rummy in-between sets

Bro you're so cool because you don't care about people in your community

That board makes no sense.

Bro you and all the other fags are all such good people for unironically responding to some made up low effort sobstory, pat yourselves on the back

why?

gay

And dare I say redpilled

>black fucking up that badly
I love baduk, I just don't have anybody to play it with.

There are a bunch of white stones with no liberties still on the board.

There's always a bit of luck involved with Texas hold'em, but that game is 90% trying to figure out how everyone plays and gaining an advantage over them using that.

If you go to a poker table thinking you need lucky cards to win everyone at that table will gang rape you.

The holy trinity: reading, writing, thinking.

If you don't spend at least two hours a day doing one of these while disconnected from the world you're simply not making any substantial mental gains. There is no game or puzzle that can make up for two hours of meaningful thinking, reading, or writing about your goals in life and how you're going to accomplish them.

This is the secret to Jewish success. They spend all fucking day doing this stuff. Look where it got them. Stop cucking your brain you weaklings.

Hnefetafl is the patrician choice.

This is part of why I like poker, desu. A proper poker game involves a lot of social interaction as you figure out other people and try to understand them.
You should play a game like that, in addition to a heavier, strategy-oriented game like chess or go.

anything mental chess is amazing so is poker if you apply statistics and game theory

If you know atleast slightly Chess you can do chess puzzles. They are hard and it really challenges your mind. Chesstempo.com

learning to play pic related has been pretty good mental gymnastics

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For me it's yu-gi-oh

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Very good user. Practise every day to become ling ling

>why is it chess?
imo games like scii, dota, even dark souls are better mental exercise than chess.

>my dad didn't survive the test of time

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none of us do, fren

Do you live in the real world user? I'm a designer, but have worked along side devs for most of my 10 year career. 90% autists and social retards, and the qta assume you are in IT and want to know why you haven't fixed their emails, not what your number is.

Just about every decision you make is a gamble of sorts you puritan faggot

Bantz is best for cognitive reflexes.

>ejaculation contains 10 million sperm
>1 sperm reaches the egg
even having children is a gamble you dumb nigger

The ones that work are on the better end. And of those you'll stand out if you're even remotely social.

Scotch game master race

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Based. Cant imagine anything more alpha than outwitting up to 8 other guys strategically and mathematically whilst sitting there jacked out your mind.

Look at that pic. Arnie getting fucked up OTB.

Over the long term, poker is unequivocally a game of skill my friend.

Dont say the no niggers part too loud or we will get 10 million vice articles saying the opposite and lure more of them there.

Texas Holdem.

There is a game of him online:
youtube.com/watch?v=O0rqGoOOMDs
The first moves he played were actually pretty good. But after that he blundered a minor piece, maybe on purpose.

>1.e4-fag
...c5, and now you've been neutralized.

based

>agadmator
Based

2. c3 and now you've been neutralized

>Maroczy binds you into submission
Heh, nothing personnel kid.

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youtu.be/vUKHEzKNt44

You sicilianfags are all the same

mtg is too baseded and cucked-up now, i had to stop playing and i won't buy any more and send those cucks any more money.

next up on the cuck train is 40k, i bet.

You sound like you would avoid kids will physical or mental disabilities while you were in school, overall condescending and unlike able? There is still decent physical training advice to be found here.

That was the most succinct description of Jow Forums i've ever heard

lmao u fat and coping hard lmao

step aside poofters

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Deckbuilding in card games.
>creativity in creating win conditions for effective decks
>optimizing decks to get win condition asap
>constructing side decks to counter other deck types
>meeting fellow spergs/nerds for babby's first social circle gains

>I have every hearthstone card

>meeting fellow spergs/nerds for babby's first social circle gains
women have absolutely ruined this

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>hearthstone

How do I get brain gains? I was a straight A student in high school and graduated college with honors, but I was pretty heavy into weed and booze at the time and I can feel my mind losing potential.
Ive given up both those vices and have been lifting for years. Also ive recently picked up reading, started guitar lessons again, and am attempting to learn Norwegian.
Give it to me straight Jow Forums, did I fuck my brain over

>women have absolutely ruined this
as an aside, i recently went to a 40k meetup, drove for 4 hours to get there. it was like 6 dudes and one roast that came. the roast didn't even know the fucking rules, didn't know the names and abilities of her fucking units, and the painting on them was completely half-assed--so bad that it ruined my immersion. the entire night she was vying for attention. she was fat and a 3/10 at best.

what was the worst thing about it? at least 3 of the guys went into full orbit-mode and she was basking in the attention. now, when i respond to postings about private 40k meetups (i completely gave up on mtg), i specifically say that i'll come if there are no women coming, and i've surprisingly gotten positive responses from hosts on this topic, saying that they won't invite women.

>Give it to me straight Jow Forums, did I fuck my brain over
Yar

>I was a straight A student in high school and graduated college with honors
doing well in school means jack shit. school is dumbed-down to the lowest common demoninigger

>i need every card in the existence of the game
Limited card pools (e.g. your collection) opens to looking for viable alternatives

Do girls play MtG? How bad is it? I'm not talking general toxicity, I want to know the effect of girls in it.

read, learn and keep challenging your ability to understand complex material, and maintain good physical health

>Do girls play MtG?
that depends on what you mean by "play." they're not competitive, to say the least.

>How bad is it?
every girl who shows up to a mtg meeting expects copious amounts of attention, and they get it. they collect orbiters and likes. i've had guys ask me privately to "go more easy on [roast] in the next game, she feels like you're bullying her" when i was just playing the fucking game (and i smashed her in 2 games, just playing like i normally do).

they expect special treatment. they expect to be let in just because of their vagina.

i remember 15 years ago, meeting with bros to play mtg was probably like going out fishing with them. you have some drinks, smoke cigars, tell dirty jokes and stories, exchange good-hearted bants and ribbing, etc. now you can't do any of that shit because of the eternal roast

sounds like you don't have any friends to play with and have to go to open public events

roasties or no, you suck

>ad hominem
not an argument.

correct, I was making fun of you

very good, you can go to bed in triumph now

>and i've surprisingly gotten positive responses from hosts on this topic, saying that they won't invite women.
nice

>you can go to bed in triumph now
i will, as i have won

Who here is an excellent subscriber?

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>outwitting
you literally keep a straight face and smirk sometimes and then you win unless you have shit cards

Chess classes can be more torture than lifting weights

But user they’re not playing poker in the pic

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Go

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>really like board games but no one to play with
>bad at chess so playing online with LiChess or something is a no-go
>gave away most of my board games because they took up too much space and, again, no one to play with.

>Ruy Lopez not SS tier
>English opening not S tier
>Scandinavian higher than B tier

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I like doing sudokus when i have a spare half an hour or something

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>wanting to play another Ruy Lopez game
Ever since Murphy introduced the Murphy defense it's been countered

London= best opening it's so versatile.

>A-Are you a bigger man ?

That must be why it's so popular at the top level and among engines

The London System is for cucks- literally the least confrontational opening possible.

It's actually solid though it's just not my thing