linguist & software engineer in Lenapehoking; jewish ancom trans woman.
since twitter's burning gonna try bringing my posts about language stuff and losing my shit over star wars and such here - hi!
Good luck.
Good luck!
Oh uh, so you’re the banker. Whoever plays black is the banker.
Oh. All right, sure.
I’d like to buy Joliet, please. Here is … $400.
So what does that get you?
Well, now I can charge rent on this square. It’s 10 percent. So if you ever move a piece to Joliet, you have to pay me 40 dollars every turn you spend on it.
Jesus Christ.
Is everything all right?
No, yeah, no, sure, yeah.
This was the best gag. And I loved its parallel with bizarre Football games
I still think there’s a germ of a good idea in here. Altering the play surface of chess by selectively adding disincentives to squares? Mmmm
