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Off-Topic Discussion - Favorite band?#23

@morphyms1817 said in #22: > atm, I'm not sure, but my honorable mentions are: > Smashing Pumpkins, Led Zeppelin, Zebra (touring) and Rush. Thanks for mentioning Zebra, I had forgotten about them - an…


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Off-Topic Discussion - Favorite band?#17

@LepPierogi said in #14: > I will confuse you some more: there are two pianists in a piano duo, but only one in a piano trio! So...what do you call a piano duet with three people but only one playing,…


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General Chess Discussion - Is there a relationship between our lichess rating and our intelligence ?#37

No, I don't think so. But I am beginning to suspect that there is a direct correlation between my pathetic puzzle streak record and my IQ: It's 26...


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Off-Topic Discussion - Favorite band?#12

@AsDaGo said in #10: > Is that a band? I couldn't find any information on them at all. > > I did however find a death metal band called Retribution, which might be what you mean. They seem pretty obsc…


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General Chess Discussion - How to play games that may last weeks?#3

Just remember that "infinite" doesn't really mean "forever", after quite a long time of no move being made (I don't know how many weeks it is now) the game will be terminated; but with several grandch…


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Off-Topic Discussion - What is your favourite dinosaur?#6

Baby Sinclair, but the whole family is great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MX31NTNrho


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Off-Topic Discussion - Is there a highest tier of uapproachable quality of a few bands in rock music?#15

@HerkyHawkeye said in #9: > Yes. I mean the band. Yes. Affirmative. Yes always seemed kind of pretentious, I don't know, I don't really like them but they're alright...top tier of old school prog rock…


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Off-Topic Discussion - Songs with Sampling#32

Quite interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v89CjsSOJ_c And the full song with the drum break at 01:26: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxZuq57_bYM


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Off-Topic Discussion - The exquisite delights of the German language made manifest#11

@Volker-Racho said in #10: > And don't believe you could understand certain german dialects just because you learned "hochdeutsch". Some have their own unwritten grammar, vocabulary and of course pron…


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Off-Topic Discussion - Is there a highest tier of uapproachable quality of a few bands in rock music?#6

@HerkyHawkeye said in #2: > Off the top of my head... The Eagles come to mind. Six part harmonies, layered guitar work (ala Hotel CA), and great song writing. I'm not sure about their level of greatne…


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