LynneOfFlowers @ LynneOfFlowers @midwest.social

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To my undestanding chess is based on the Arabic game Shatranj, based on the Indian game Chaturanga, and in both games the piece next to the king is the "general" or "minister" which moves one space diagonally.

https://www.chessvariants.com/historic.dir/shatranj.html

https://www.chessvariants.com/historic.dir/chaturanga.html

If you think about it, and I suggest you don’t, this is a Markov model for all people regardless

Come on, this has been a thing for the last 19+12i years

Well, God has concepts of a plan anyway

I guess I tend to use data as a mass noun when referring to computer data ("there's a lot of data on that drive") and as a regular noun when referring to data in the scientific sense ("these data show xyz")

When I was in grad school I would split the difference with 25 slides and 57 backup slides clicked together frantically 15 minutes earlier

Edit: It seems I may be wrong after all.

Original post: Between this and Johnson saying Biden should resign as president, it makes me think they are trying to limit Harris to one term. If Biden were to die or resign then Harris would become president for a few months but that would still count as her first term, so she wouldn't be able to run for reelection in 2028 if she won this time. That's my theory anyway 🤷‍♀️

Things got a bit weird before the invention of the pencil sharpener

That does tend to simplify the aerodynamics modeling

Horses evolved this way so they could forever be giving you “the finger”

Hmm let's see. So the Subnautica games are survival games with a lot of exploring, uncovering mysteries, finding logs, figuring out what happened to you, the alien civilization, the ecosystem, etc.

If you like Obra Dinn, recommended elsewhere in this thread, The Case of the Golden Idol has some similar energy of looking at scenes and solving who's who and what's what and how this person died.

Chants of Sennaar is a game where you decipher fantasy languages and learn about the peoples that speak them while progressing up a tower and solving puzzles.

Viewfinder is a surreal-perspective puzzler with lots of narration and backstory from the characters

Sable is an exploration game with puzzles to solve, in a fancifuil sci-fi desert world with towns and NPCs and crashed spaceships to explore

The old Escape Velocity trilogy (though nowadays you'll need a classic Mac emulator to play them) are top-down ship captain games where you fly your ship around, trade, fight, do missions, usually have multiple storylines going on at once, lots of planets, ships, stations, factions, etc. The modern game Endless Sky is explicitly molded on the EV series.

Sunless Seas and its sequel Sunless Skies have some similarity to EV mechanically, but with a lovecraftian, steampunk aesthetic to the world, and lots of world-building.

Beyond Good and Evil is a third-person action game that has good plot, characters, and worldbuilding, and there are updated versions available that run on modern hardware.

Bastion is an isometric action game a little like Diablo in the combat mechanics but with no numbers for you to worry about. Explore the aftermath of a most peculiar apocalypse and discover the world that was and the peoples who lived there. Good characters and worldbuilding.

Deep underground, near the earth’s where it’s still warm

Fun fact: soccer has no official rule against manipulating the ball with your eye lasers

It’s definitely not always done with general anesthesia in the US, unless standards have changed in the last couple decades? I had all mine taken out in the 2000s with just local.

For me (I use Kavita) it’s because I want to be able to just pick up whatever device is in front of me at the moment and pick up the book where I last left off even if it was on another device

They're charging how much for 10^-12 sq ft?

“Hostage negotiations now entering their fourth week between the U.S. and Hamas over the release of hostage Elon Musk, however in spite of intense diplomatic overtures and offers of significant concessions the U.S. still refuses to take him back”

I also use SponsorBlock for YouTube, which skips sponsor segments in YouTube videos (and optionally other kinds of segments like intros, self promos, etc.) it's crowd-sourced for identifying the segments but for almost all the videos I watch someone has already marked at least the sponsor segments

Definitely, at least in the modern day. I was surprised to see Jane Austen do it a few times in Pride and Prejudice but I don't think it had quite the same connotation back then 😆

Next they'll eliminate the stripe and put up share-the-road signs with the stick figure