It's probably best we all just stand back in awe.
Stalemate rule needs to be abolished!
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theoreticalboy, as long as you're gonna be all mediocre & stuff anyway, maybe you should just make a virtue out of it and open your own franchise:
TheGrobe wrote:
It's probably best we all just stand back in awe.
I think I prefer to stand back in "Aw...":
Or actually, given his username, maybe this one would be more apt:
This one's gratuitous, I know (but I thought it was funny anyway):
I rather enjoyed Twighlight of the Idols.
I have long thought, though, that the quote, "What doesn't kill us makes us stronger," could only be written by an academic.
Anybody who has ever had their bell properly rung knows better.
What I'm wondering is how the guy didn't starve to death:
bigpoison wrote:
I rather enjoyed Twighlight of the Idols.
I have long thought, though, that the quote, "What doesn't kill us makes us stronger," could only be written by an academic.
Anybody who has ever had their bell properly rung knows better.
most peolpe who read Nietzsche totally misunderstand him...
"What doesn't kill us makes us stronger,"
When you *think* about it for longer than 5 secs is absolutely true.
If you are blinded your other senses become stronger, if you break a leg you will become more of a thinker because you have more time on your hands and you will become stronger there...
If youve had your "bell rung" you will think next time instead of getting into a drunk fight and perhaps arm yourself...
Of course there are exceptions... brain damage etc... but Nietzsche (if you have read him, rather than looking up 2 quotes on the internet) is not a literal writer... you dont take him 100% literally... thats the point.. he does it on purpose. He wants you to think for yourself... he's books are simply ideas to challenge your current thinking
Monster_with_no_Name wrote:
bigpoison wrote:
I rather enjoyed Twighlight of the Idols.
I have long thought, though, that the quote, "What doesn't kill us makes us stronger," could only be written by an academic.
Anybody who has ever had their bell properly rung knows better.
most peolpe who read Nietzsche totally misunderstand him...
"What doesn't kill us makes us stronger,"
When you *think* about it for longer than 5 secs is absolutely true.
If you are blinded your other senses become stronger, if you break a leg you will become more of a thinker because you have more time on your hands and you will become stronger there...
If youve had your "bell rung" you will think next time instead of getting into a drunk fight and perhaps arm yourself...
Of course there are exceptions... brain damage etc... but Nietzsche (if you have read him, rather than looking up 2 quotes on the internet) is not a literal writer... you dont take him 100% literally... thats the point.. he does it on purpose. He wants you to think for yourself... he's books are simply ideas to challenge your current thinking
Actually, this is true.
I was once randomly stung by a bee. Taught me never to go outside.
Not so elegant in a world in which stalemating your opponent is also a win.
There's also this (which I posted earlier):
Nov 1, 2011
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Do we really need the check-mate rule? I've lost many a game because of this stupid check-mate rule.
Why can't the pieces of both sides just get along ? There's plenty of room on the chessboard for the pieces of both armies to co-exist happily.
The goal should be to get all of your pieces on a square adjacent to one of your opponent's pieces (and visa-versa) and once done both players are declared winners (and if they can't pull it off, that's OK, they can try again).
Nov 1, 2011
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TheGrobe wrote:
The goal should be to get all of your pieces on a square adjacent to one of your opponent's pieces (and visa-versa) and once done both players are declared winners (and if they can't pull it off, that's OK, they can try again).
Brilliant!
the rabble is out in force, with its herd instincts...
After all, however, it is a matter of indifference whether one opinion is imposed upon the herd, or five opinions are permitted to it. But he who diverges from the five public opinions and stands apart, has always the whole herd against him.
Friedrich Nietzsche
No wonder there are 700 posts in this topic.
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster.
hehe
Enemies of truth.-- Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Nov 1, 2011
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And you still haven't answered my question. I guess I'm too beneath you.
"An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past, incapable of understanding contemporary events, and incapable of drawing right conclusions about the future. It is hypnotized by itself and therefore cannot be argued with. It inevitably dooms itself to calamities that must strike it dead." – Dr Carl Jung
"Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool." – Bellamy Brooks
Monster_with_no_Name wrote:
Enemies of truth.-- Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
Yep, gotta watch out for thems convictions.
It would change the game toooo much. Extra pieces would become much more important than they are now. You'd just see players fighting for a pawn (good bye gambits!) advantage and then just trying to trade off everything. Do you want that?
P.S. I'm all up for a variant without stalemate, but I definitely would keep this in the main rules
See tb, I told ya you were stupid to disagree with him!...the guy who was just telling us how people don't think about stuff (lol).
"Whatever doesn't kill me makes me stronger"...but gee, Fred, didn't you go nuts or something in later years? (Never should've gone to that hooker.)