Readit NewsDefinitely sounds like the kind of joke I'd like if I understood it.
"Is there a doctor on this plane???"
"Well yes, but I defended my thesis in comparative literature..."
[1] Yes, the ribald jokes have already been made
Also psychological games fall neatly into the scenario you describe. I play better and you play worse because I got into your head, or sent the noisy people to be across the hall from you instead of from me, so I slept like a baby and you didn’t.
Match play at the World Championship (where the two players play each other repeatedly for many games) involves a ton of inter-game coaching and work as each player's team goes over what went well, what went wrong, and how the next game should be approached.
Round robin play in small fields also has a significant amount of preparation because the schedule is known in advance, so players will know whom they have to play the following morning and will prepare accordingly.
I'm not comfortable saying that Hikaru does exactly 0 preparation for 3-minute Chess.com blitz games, but it's probably pretty close to 0.
What date are you putting on the food? Every packaging here in Spain (and Europe I assume) has both the production date and "best before" dates printed on them from the factory, and stuff that doesn't have packaging you know if they're bad by looking/smelling/tasting.
Except sometimes the 1/2 gallons will be randomly on sale where you can get like 3 of them for the price of a gallon. Milk economics makes no sense to me. But yeah, it's usually cheaper to buy more than you need and just throw it out if you don't use it, as is the American way.
That sounds frustrating and tedious. If I get better I want to win more often.
For example, future tense in the 2nd person adds “ás” to the end of the verb. Pensar becomes pensarás. But, there are irregulars. You’d think the verb salir would be salirás (if you were memorizing), but it actually it saldrás
Seems like an incredible feat that goes beyond memorizing a dictionary. Unless Spanish scrabble maybe has specific rules around verb tenses and whatnot?
(OK, I know one ancient talker that uses it - but on a very non-standard port so a port 23 block wouldn't be relevant)