muffinlord

the antithesis of engagement

of course it was a tax dodge but he ran it like it was a real thing
a real person using a fake name.
battletech, video games, ham radio, model kits, cars, all kinds of stuff


strange-thrifting
@strange-thrifting

i understand the rules of chess and how to play, and although i pretty much suck and don't have any idea about proper chess strategy (i'm more of a riichi mahjong player), the concept of mailing written records of chess games from high level players to this many different languages in a pre-internet world is really interesting

for a Fun Fact, on the third image where you can see the actual written notation of several games, any move that's followed by a ? or ?? (e.g., ♖g3??) means that it was considered a bad move (or, in the case of ??, a critically bad move that puts one in jeopardy of losing), and thinking about a player reading their game log and having a third party look at a specific point and go "this is where they fucked themselves" got me good


namelessWrench
@namelessWrench

The mistake (?) and good (!) notations are pretty common, but there's also dubious (?!) and interesting (!?) for particularly risky plays.




atomicthumbs
@atomicthumbs

i like how magic works in dwarf fortress. you don't invent a spell or train at a wizard school or whatever.

you discover a secret, a bit of knowledge that the gods of death whispered to someone else long ago. learning this sort of thing can only bring pain to others, twisting the boundary between life and death to make once-living things do your bidding.

for the sake of all, a secret is something best kept secret.


atomicthumbs
@atomicthumbs

magic not as a system, but as a trick you learned how to do. anyone can do this. you just have to know how.


muffinlord
@muffinlord

Spells is something you do Magic is something you live