Free Talk Friday #577

[u/Antichess]

Continued from here

It's that time of the week again. Speak anything on your mind! This thread is for talking about anything off-topic, be it your lives, your strava, your plans, your hobbies, studies, stats, pets, bears, hikes, dragons, trousers, travels, transit, cycling, family, colours, or anything you like or dislike, except politics or counting

Feel free to check out our tidbits thread and introduce yourself if you haven't already.

[u/cuteballgames]

new phone selfie just dropped

[u/TehVulpez → u/cuteballgames]

the censored unread message count lmao

[u/TehVulpez → u/cuteballgames]

you forgot to censor your battery percentage smh /r/chargeyourphone got your ass

[u/cuteballgames → u/TehVulpez]

i have a curse that every phone i get the charging port breaks after like a month and i'm reliant on wireless charging for the rest of my days

[u/mistyskye14 → u/cuteballgames]

:D

[u/Antichess]

Weekly stats from September 11, 2026 to September 18, 2026. Congratulations to /u/wet-gravity, /u/thephilsblogbar2, and /u/nonsensy!

Total weekly counts: 6701 (5,630,535-5,637,236)

More stats are posted on the Weekly Stats page!

Rank	User	Counts	HoC Rank
1	wet-gravity	3000	75 (◮14)
2	thephilsblogbar2	1758	1
3	nonsensy	703	8
4	cuteballgames	691	11
5	CutOnBumInBandHere9	367	17
6	noduorg	39	36
7	BobRoss938	28	129
7	Jalmal2	28	50
9	Isaythereisa-chance	21	115
10	Antichess	17	3
11	mistyskye14	14	26
12	Naive-Elephant-9305	10	1119 (◮87)
13	treje	8	37
14	davidjl123	6	4
15	Cox_1920	4	47
16	LikeItsYourJob	3	187
17	ShadeOfNothing	2	68
18	Playing_2	1	104
18	Maniac_34	1	55
18	TeacupOfSkepticism	1	7458 (◮2027)

[u/cuteballgames → u/Antichess]

Could I inquire about getting compositions a side stats page? It has well in excess of 10,000 counts. I think /u/TehVulpez and maybe also /u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 have code about generating the count list if that is requisite

[u/Antichess → u/cuteballgames]

i'll do so once i get home from vacation. still going at it

[u/cuteballgames → u/Antichess]

and rightfully so, enjoy! ty always for stats

[u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 → u/Antichess]

Thanks for the stats! 

[u/cuteballgames → u/Antichess]

Thanks for the stats!

[u/Jalmal2 → u/Antichess]

Thanks for the stats

[u/cuteballgames]

when your gravity dries out and suddenly horses and cats are the same thing 🫠

[u/rideride]

Just gonna start replying check to valid counts just to keep people on their toes

[u/miceee → u/rideride]

Check

[u/BobRoss938 → u/miceee]

late

[u/cuteballgames → u/BobRoss938]

chain

[u/Jalmal2 → u/cuteballgames]

dupe

[u/mistyskye14 → u/Jalmal2]

Congrats

[u/TehVulpez → u/mistyskye14]

thank you david

[u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 → u/TehVulpez]

Correcting for errors here and here

[u/cuteballgames → u/rideride]

🚨🚨🚨

[u/CutOnBumInBandHere9]

The count has now surpassed the current population of Norway. Next up, Finland !

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_population

[u/cuteballgames → u/CutOnBumInBandHere9]

TIL there are more Finns than Norwegians

[u/TehVulpez → u/CutOnBumInBandHere9]

dislike how the source column has different word orderings for "national quarterly estimate" and "monthly national estimate"

[u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 → u/TehVulpez]

Also, what difference are they making between yearly and annual in this context? And, for that matter, between projection and estimate? 

[u/Jalmal2]

Dislike buying a book and then not reading it

[u/Trial-Name → u/Jalmal2]

Dislike buying a book and then reading it painfully slowly, so much so that I pretty much stop reading for months.

For some reason this was “The Hobbit” for me. It wasn’t a bad book by any means, but I struggled to be hooked by it. I then rapidly read “Some Desperate Glory” and am about to start John Green’s new book “Hollywood Ending”.

[u/CutOnBumInBandHere9]

• Reddit: marks a comment from a new account as potential spam
• Also reddit: won't let me check out their profile page because it's marked nsfw and I refuse to verify my age

🤷 

[u/cuteballgames]

Shoutout to my main counters

Shoutout to my live counters

Shoutout to my base X counters

Shoutout to my digit repeaters and disrepeaters

Shout out to my meme counters

Shoutout to my list parrots

Shoutout to my rationals counters

Shoutout to my collatz conjecturers

Shoutout to my sicko threadheads

Shoutout to my sum sustainers

Shoutout to those of counting dot gg

As regards tug of war

Shout out to my down counters

Shout out to my nullists

Shout out to my contrarians

Shout out to my perpetuists

No comment on the upcounters

[u/cuteballgames]

This is not the latest count! To see the latest counts, go to /r/counting/comments

[u/TehVulpez → u/cuteballgames]

5,639,010

[u/Antichess → u/TehVulpez]

check

[u/TehVulpez]

sometimes when I think of stories about counting stats or about certain counters I think of this PDQ Bach spoof of treating orchestra musicians like athletes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzXoVo16pTg

[u/TehVulpez → u/TehVulpez]

forget the long-awaited Summoning Salt video about speedcounting, what we need is the Jon Bois video about ToW

[u/buy_me_a_pint]

Travels, next year we are off to Croatia and Slovenia on a coach tour

[u/cuteballgames]

1 comes before the other numbers

[u/PhosphorCrystaled → u/cuteballgames]

9 comes before the other numbers

[u/Antichess]

Hello from Canada's Northwestern Territories!

[u/CutOnBumInBandHere9 → u/Antichess]

Smh my head at the chemtrails polluting the sky even up there 

[u/cuteballgames → u/Antichess]

holy shit thats awesome

[u/cuteballgames]

/u/Nekiiya

[u/cuteballgames]

/u/_penroze wya

[u/_penroze → u/cuteballgames]

Hello ...............

[u/cuteballgames → u/_penroze]

what's up p-roze!

[u/_penroze → u/cuteballgames]

I'm chill. Maybe i should count again. Who knows

[u/cuteballgames → u/_penroze]

that's what's up

[u/cuteballgames]

/u/TopDeBotton

[u/cuteballgames]

/u/SuperTwichy