If chess were a new game released today, I imagine a lot of these “why’d they make it political” types would probably object to the fact that the most powerful character in the game is the only one that’s clearly stated to be a woman.
Wokeness is why she’s not in a bikini or hot. Look at this. ♕
End WOKENESS
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Some mod authors have most definitely already done that. Only 250$ USD for a hand carved set on Etsy.
And now I want to 3D print myself a couple sets of pieces - One that is Woman in Bikini’s in Pin-up poster poses, and the other in Hot AF Beach boys and the like in poses accenting there form.
Well, originally, the piece is Vizier - king’s advisor, the gender of which isn’t specified. (but implied to be male?)
So what you’re saying is that switching it from Vizier to Queen isn’t about progressive feminism, but instead about monogamy and heteronormative gender roles? Way to ruin it for everybody! 😠
Idk if I’m saying that, but it’s definitely woke. They should’ve came up with a new character instead of just gender-swapping an existing one!
The wazir only moved a single space horizontally or vertically.
The name change from wazir to queen started as early as the 10th century, but the current move set dates from the late 15th century.
Actually it’s still called Vizier (or something close) in several languages.
Well, not if chess were created today, the way it was created originally. It took until 997 for The Queen to replace The Chancellor/Minister, and even then she could only move one square diagonally only. It took till the 1400’s for her to gain a flying mount, or whatever the explanation is for her current OP movement status.
Bishops replaced Elephants in the 1200s, but could only move 2 squares, diagonally, at a time.
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is literally one of the best games I’ve ever played and it’s entire basis is politics.
Armstrong was screaming Make America Great Again about three years too early.
I’ve always wanted to play it, but I never have. Same for all of the metal gear games, lol.
If only I could play them on PS5 :(
Rising is very very different to any other MGS game. Fair warning. I recommend every MGS game wholeheartedly, but don’t play Rising and then pick up Snake Eater or MGSV expecting it to be more of the same.
It’s the only one I’ve played, I’m waiting for the Metal Gear collection to go on sale on Steam
I guarantee you that’s where Turnip’s team got the slogan. Some unpaid internet played the game and mentioned it as Orange was walking by.
It originated from Reagan who took it from Thatcher, with Reagan not getting the “Make Britan Great Again” pun works because Great Britain is the name of the English portion of the UK
And is another fucking case where people who played it rooted for the villain, and missed the point.
I yearn for the day where I meet someone who tries to justify the actions of possibly the single most cartoonishly evil villain in entertainment history.
Maybe second only to the original Thanos, who wiped out half of all life in the universe not to bring balance, but because he was horny.
It’s sad that Comic Thanos had a motivation that actually made more sense than “Somehow killing everyone will create utopia, even though I literally don’t give a shit, have plenty of evidence this doesn’t work, and ultimately just wanna fuck off and live in a cabin somewhere.”
It’s not about killing the king. The king can never be killed. It’s about keeping him in check until he can’t move anymore
It’s also worth noting the term is “capture”. And outside of rare instance - you didn’t really want to kill knights and the like: You captured them, and ransomed them back to their family/liege lord etc.
And there is a reason the term “Kings Ransom” exists. John the II of France for instance was captured, and Ransomed for something like 300000 gold coins of the day - something like 300 million or up to about 3 billion in today’s dollars (conversion is a little fuzzy but to put it simply: A BLOODY TONNE OF MONEY).
The term “check mate” literally means “the king is dead”.
We know the word for king from other known forms like “sheikh” or “Shah”. I don’t think the word for “dead” was loaned to English from Persian or Arab in any phrases or sayings except “check mate”.
Yeah, but it’s about killing the king. It’s also about protecting your own king, so not a game of republicanism.
Apparently that might or might not be a mistranslation?
https://www.etymonline.com/word/checkmate
mid-14c., in chess, said of a king when it is in check and cannot escape it, from Old French eschec mat (Modern French échec et mat), which (with Spanish jaque y mate, Italian scacco-matto) is from Arabic shah mat “the king died” (see check (n.1)), which according to Barnhart is a misinterpretation of Persian mat “be astonished” as mata “to die,” mat “he is dead.” Hence Persian shah mat, if it is the ultimate source of the word, would be literally “the king is left helpless, the king is stumped.”
The only apolitical video game is Tetris, and its export history is Cliff’s Notes for cold-war economic shenanigans.
Tetris is a hyperabstract policing simulator. The shapes are people, your job is to shove them into boxes and keep them in line. Too many get out of line and you lose. Some people are easy to fit in, like lines and squares, some go out of their way to be helpful like Ls and Ts and some people…well, some people are just always gonna be Zs facing the wrong direction.
Yes, this one: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt12758060/
The Fallout community is ludicrous with this. New Vegas is one of the most politically charged games in recent years, and yet chuds think it’s somehow not extremely anticapitalist and pro-leftist.
extremely anticapitalist and pro-leftist
There’s definitely some enlightened centrist bullshit crammed in there pretty unironically.
The NCR is both Capitalist and Imperialist, the fact that the people of the Mojave don’t want the Neoliberal expansionist empire or the fascist gang of slavers is more to the general leftist, almost Anarchist slant.
It’s only centrist if you consider the NCR as the end of the spectrum, and not just a lesser of two right wing evils.
