I have a very big brain therefore I prefer RAID: Shadow Legends and Clash of Clans smuglord

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      1 month ago

      Science is about dumping resources into a science meter that fills up until you get a science discovery. galaxy-brain

      Similarly, to get the Science Victory, you can abandon pretty much all quality of life concerns about a civilization and let it all burn while the USS Bazinga is on its way to Alpha Centauri. so-true

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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    1 month ago

    Still fucking love that his example for a truly advanced game is Polytopia, a mobile Civ clone

    He loves it so much, it's one of the games that comes on Teslas

    Yes, the cars

    • TomBombadil [he/him, she/her]
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      1 month ago

      Ya lol. It's a fun lil distraction... But the strategy is rather basic in the end. Like way easier than chess. Despite the tech tree.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      1 month ago

      If King Bazinga likes it, it must be for the biggest big boy brains. galaxy-brain

    • AernaLingus [any]
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      1 month ago

      https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/what-elon-musks-favorite-game-tells

    • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 month ago

      I never heard before of Polytopia, so i searched and first article about it include:

      The Rally Point: The Battle For Polytopia is this summer's low-intensity strategy game

      Strategy games are the go-to option when you're looking for something to really get your brain working. But they can seem unreachable when your synapses are being melted from without rather than through overuse. Happily, we found an excellent solution last summer, and being a wily fox, I had a plan ready for this year. 2022's now-traditional Low-Intensity Strategy Game For When Burny Light Make Think Hard is, of course, The Battle For Polytopia.

      Everything does one or two simple things, and statistics are kept to basic 1-4 scales for attack, range, movement and defence, plus a few simple special abilities. It means that turns are never very long, and fights take a little thinking over but no strain or advanced calculation.

      There's never too much to think about, never too many chores, and between the cheerful cartoony atmosphere and low-stakes matches, any disappointment or frustration is quickly forgotten.

      It's other shortcoming is its somewhat limited variety.

  • TheDoctor [they/them]
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    1 month ago

    Chess, the game which can famously be improved upon for an entire lifetime, was too simple for him at age 8? Sounds like he plateaued and didn’t know how to keep improving.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      1 month ago

      I'm pretty sure he absolutely sucked at chess, but being the narcissist that he is, he refused to acknowledge taking losses fair and square and instead took his proverbial ball and went home to some fucking phone game.

        • Cammy [she/her]
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          1 month ago

          Setting bombs for me is hit or miss because I giggle like a child when my opponent gets close to a bomb. My mind goes to looney tunes and I lose my tactical advantage.

    • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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      1 month ago

      The further a game is from Advance Wars 2: Blackhole Rising the worse it is. If I can't use Sonjas CO passive to kill my opponent's queen with no chance of retaliation then the game sucks.

    • MaoTheLawn [any, any]
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      1 month ago

      how about your chess opponent's chair is in fog of war and they get given a double barrel sawn off shotgun at the start of the game

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        1 month ago

        "Hell no" (or "Impossible" or "Nonsense"), when the attempted move is always illegal regardless of the opponent's position. For example, moving a bishop as if it were a knight.

        badeline-heh

    • REgon [they/them]
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      1 month ago

      Yeah dude we all remember that time Japan was almost defeated in WWII and then they invented nukes and suddenly won because they killed the president

  • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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    1 month ago

    You know what's worse than chess? Poker. In real life, if you go up to someone and show them a royal flush, they don't just give you money. Plus two kings would have way more power than three "twos" (which, by the way, should be the same value as one six. Can the designers of this game not even do basic math?) Totally unrealistic, 0/10.

  • FnordPrefect [comrade/them, he/him]
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    1 month ago

    melon-musk 100% confirmed to have been one of those obnoxious kids that threw 'Bomb! It beats everything' after getting their ass kicked in Rock-Paper-Scissors

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
      hexagon
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      1 month ago

      "I AM SMART BECAUSE I CAN SAY E EQUALS EM CEE SQUARE" my-hero

  • anarcho_blinkenist [none/use name]
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    1 month ago

    There are winning moves that are so complicated in the sequences that they open or force that it seems like blunders to humans, it's so hard to see winning moves

    chess is too simple game

    It's remarkable how stupid this man is. A better evidence for the fact that meritocracy under capitalism isn't real than this blood-diamond-dipshit doesn't exist. also iirc "meritocracy" itself was literally coined as a satire term to make you laugh at the (I think british?) MPs being in leadership positions while blatantly being the most dumbass incompetent and vain people on the planet; but then the same people it was criticizing did what they did to "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps"

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
      hexagon
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      1 month ago

      "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps"

      That was originally (and correctly) seen as an absurd and impossible task, something like squeezing blood from a stone. But then proto-chuds grabbed onto it tight.

  • Wakmrow [he/him]
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    1 month ago

    This fucking guy. Chess is hard because there's no "fog of war".

  • DragonBallZinn [he/him]
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    1 month ago

    REDDIT MOMENT!

    We've gone beyond "I need to play Chess so people think I'm smart" to "Chess is for idiots", and how many people will start thinking the same way because the government approved Smart GuyTM said so?

    Just say you prefer video games because it makes it easier to suspend your disbelief, and has more things to do. No one will judge you for that, not even me. Hell, I'd agree with you, I wish that some video games were given more intellectual credibility.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      1 month ago

      I'm pretty sure a lot of credulous bazingas started buying into le epic Polytopia so they could feel big brained and enlightened too.

  • Philosophosphorous [comrade/them, null/void]
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    1 month ago

    well i play dawn of war sometimes so i guess im smarter than the bazinga genius

    heck i have spent literally hundreds of hours in ARMA 3, if you want to talk about more rigorous realistic simulations of reality than chess lol, that turn based icon clicker shit is nothing compared to frantically scanning that treeline 1.5 km away with your thermal optics for the anti-tank launcher that just took out your tracks and killed your driver while your 'lock-on warning' indicator blares in your ears. what, you need infinite time to decide actions on your turn? even chess often has a timer lol pathetic

  • AntiOutsideAktion [he/him]
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    1 month ago

    Me having an existential crisis being a big CIV fan and never really getting into chess

  • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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    1 month ago

    Chess is for nerds. Video games are for nerds. Real men chase barrel hoops with sticks and get tetanus from playing around the abandoned car in the junkyard

  • Tomboymoder [she/her, pup/pup's]
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    1 month ago

    Does he think he comes off as intelligent with the lasers from space comment? He sounds like a child inventing a new game up.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      1 month ago

      No one that's paid to put up with him will dare say anything but "well memed, sir!"