Nikolay

[Nikolay @Nick007J]

Absolute legend who played a huge part in getting millions of people to love an completely foreign game.

RIP

[WST @WeAreWST]

We are deeply saddened to learn that Vladimir Sinitsin, the legendary Russian-language snooker commentator, has passed away at the age of 74.

He inspired many millions of fans and players with his commentary on Eurosport and his distinctive voice.

He will be much missed by the snooker community. Our thoughts are with his family and friends.

[Nikolay @Nick007J]

@Deco800_ Can you blame him? You’d expect Ahmed Saif to pot this 99 times out of 100…

[Nikolay @Nick007J]

No way

[Nikolay @Nick007J]

Very happy to see Antek play at the Crucible, but here’s an obligatory piece of trivia about his early career

[Nikolay @Nick007J]

Great opportunity to remember that Kowalski may be a contender for one of the most ridiculous reasons to withdraw from a World Championship - two years ago he broke his arm right before the tournament after hitting a rail too hard after a miss in Polish championship.

[Nikolay @Nick007J]

@JesperLarsen222 @Mr_Tanki4 Are you taking magic’s possible wins in Belgrade into account, as they would improve K27’s h2h score?

[Nikolay @Nick007J]

@ouqwel @MischiefCS2 h2h will be -100 not +50
This will recalculate all their matches

[Nikolay @Nick007J]

@ksarzie @le_vert_de_gris Причем без перевода. Все потому, что Soft Club’у запретили издавать игру в jewel варианте, издали DVD-box в полную цену, который никто не покупал. В итоге San Andreas вообще никто ��з издателей не покупал много лет, и все играли в пиратки с потрачено и прочей мерзостью.

[Nikolay @Nick007J]

@ksarzie @le_vert_de_gris Ложные воспоминания. GTA 3 издавалась Букой, в jewel-варианте, и продавалась за 150 рублей в Москве и где угодно, я лично покупал ее так. Пиратки были по 100, и то, за счет того, что они были на одном CD, а не двух (зато с порезанным радио).

А по 700 рублей продавали Vice City.

[Nikolay @Nick007J]

@Deco800_ I sometimes check out snooker Twitter and I think it’s going absolutely mental just like everything else. Imagine recording a 9 minute video for this nonsense

[Nikolay @Nick007J]

@Deco800_ @lewispirnie @snookerorg 2025 is her year, surely. Written in stars

[Nikolay @Nick007J]

@Deco800_ @philhaigh_ Admittedly as much of a critic of many things governing bodies in snooker do, I believe they are correct here and it was just poorly worded, no more than that. The reset to 0 doesn’t make any sense with the rest of the extract, unless they mean player rejects professional status.

[Nikolay @Nick007J]

@SnookerForce @WeAreWST He was in top 64 even after QFs, they confirmed it on the news page too

[Nikolay @Nick007J]

@ObbeVermeij @Gtamen Ha I was very very curious about traffic logic in GTA, with this video being one of the sources of inspiration: https://t.co/NGta18GEZm

I spent lots of time debugging and making sense of all this :D

Also probability of the event in the video is 0.003% on this specific junction!

[Nikolay @Nick007J]

@ObbeVermeij @Gtamen As the result, car has 50/50 chance to go straight or turn left. I am not quite sure why this condition was added in VC, maybe an attempt to fix some bugs (there are some bugs in III related to one way roads actually, but almost all one way roads were gone in VC).

[Nikolay @Nick007J]

@ObbeVermeij @Gtamen If there are no alternatives (and there are none because the only alternative is to turn left from a rightmost lane), code falls back to a new set of choices, which drops some restrictions - namely the current lane one (and also the one way road one).

[Nikolay @Nick007J]

@Klara__T @SnookerJudge Holt - Ursenbacher, Scottish Open 2019 Round 1 Frame 3. GL!

[Nikolay @Nick007J]

@SnookerJudge @Klara__T It was 76-16 with 51 on the table, and he potted the last three reds with 2 blacks and a pink, then cleared up to see that he is 17 down on the last black. There used to be a video but a good chance WST wiped all the video evidence of anything resembling snooker from these times.

[Nikolay @Nick007J]

@SnookerJudge @Klara__T Holt once managed to clear up the table only to realise he miscalculated and was 10 points behind after potting the black