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

  • TheDoctor [they/them]
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    5 hours 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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      5 hours 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.

  • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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    4 hours 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.

  • Philosophosphorous [comrade/them, he/him]
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    5 hours 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

    • PaulSmackage [he/him, comrade/them]
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      4 hours ago

      Waiting for any sort of support while OPFOR is slowly rolling in armor and suppressing your foxhole is definitely a relaxing spot to be in

  • anarcho_blinkenist [none/use name]
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    5 hours 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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      5 hours 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.

  • 12022081631 [he/him]
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    4 hours ago

    how can you guys read this stuff. i cringed so hard i was scared my skin would peel off

  • Wakmrow [he/him]
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    5 hours ago

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

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      7 hours 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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    7 hours 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

  • DragonBallZinn [he/him]
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    6 hours 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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      6 hours 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.