It was a joke, an old running one, making light of people (frequently resurrected among Millenials) who have books on display. The jest is that people like to display books they’ll never read in order to look smarter. Like the old trope of wearing glasses achieving the same goal.
I manually remove the auto upvote:D
I wonder how people will show off all of the books they haven’t read, what with analogs going out of stye and all.
Honestly, I don’t think the action’s the problem, I enjoyed creating interlinked databases with tens of thousands of entries in Spreadsheets. I think it’s strictly to do with the complexity itself, I need more. I like the concept of every piece having a specific move set, I’d just need more of them. And add more complexity to them, but at that point may as well just play grand scale combat games, like 40k.
Edit: plus, to be honest, this lack of complexity doesn’t even let me properly enjoy a victory. Maybe it has some fetishistic tinges at this point, but a protracted victory is so much sweeter, make me feel like I pulled my brain through high intensity training for a couple of hours. Either that, or something which can start acting as a reflex, like backgammon.
Disclaimer: not calling myself smart or anything.
I always found chess boring, for some reason. Like, not because it is too complex, but because it isn’t complex enough, in a way. As an example, the first time I tried my hand at Medieval II: Total War, I fell in love with all things strategy.
I still can’t do chess, though… It’s like my mind goes to its happy place halfway through a match and I start making moves just to progress the game and be done with it. Gimme a 4X game, and I’d need reminders to pee every 12 hours.
Well, now they’re just subverting expectations left and right, aren’t they!
Oh, wow, I can’t believe I forgot about that… Feels weird, like remembering the better times of past relationships, Jesus=))
At this point, something tells me you could find a compatibility layer for WinRAR support on some dingy forum which has heavy peepshow vibes. Never underestimate people’s fetishes.
Well, to be fair, the whole thing has become a sick joke, although nobody’s laughing anymore…
The freest speech of all!
If this joke emitted radiation, it would be measured in kiloDads per second.
Well, found the one downside to not knowing what day it is, thank you!
What the actual fuck… Really? Fucking really, MatchGroup?!
How are they with parking lots, tho’?
Heh, sounds like what one of my exes used to do when she wanted some alone time, she’d throw me an informational rabbit hole and let me dive right in it for a couple of hours=)))
It’s a Boomer joke, yes =))