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AppleAmps

Amps

Chess is interesting because it's a game where casual and competitive play are extremely different but no real casual scene exists. Like, a professional analysis of a Chess match is incomprehensible to someone who only knows how the pieces move in the same way that pro Smash is incomprehensible to someone who only knows what the buttons do, but you can have a bunch of hours in SSBU only playing it casually in a way you seemingly can't with chess.
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AppleAmps

Amps

And, like, playing "casual" chess without really knowing or caring about theory is, in my experience, extremely dull. It's really unique in that the actual mechanics of gameplay come second to the theory. The metagame and how you maneuver around it *is* what people play.

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shroomie

shroomie/joan (of the agaric system)

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@AppleAmps i’m just waiting for hyperbolic chess with tiled octagons to come out

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shroomie

shroomie/joan (of the agaric system)

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@AppleAmps <- is so desperate for games with tiling octagons that she will bend space to get it

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shroomie

shroomie/joan (of the agaric system)

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@AppleAmps like hexagons are, as the kids might say, goated because they tile and all of their adjacent tiles are equally far away from each other. but they come with the compromise that you have to choose between being able to move directly vertically or moving directly horizontally. but you can have your cake and eat it too. if you just bend space so that you can perfectly tile octagons, then you get everything. with the compromise that directions don’t actually exist as you knew them anymore. which is fair imo

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lena@brain.worm.pink

lena

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@shroomie @AppleAmps how can you tile octagons without little squares
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lena@brain.worm.pink

lena

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@shroomie @AppleAmps like what you mean with 8 sides on an octagon tile couldn’t you do that with 9 square tiles that you go to the corners from the center?
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shroomie

shroomie/joan (of the agaric system)

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@lena @AppleAmps like literally you bend space and then tile on that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolic_geometry

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