@judgedread All it would do is give Native Americans another excuse to blow it up.
@coolboymew @Moon Just use a simple text based captcha. Really I see a lot of sites getting away with having a simple math problem but one of the numbers is in word form or as a roman numeral. Apparently, it works.
#Shatranj al-Kabir Thread (historical #Chess variant) Rewriting this thread
Thanks to Moon, we on SPC now have the ability to display chess boards using custom emojis, as follows:
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I did not, however, design these pieces for use with standard chess. I did make accomodations for standard chess: these pieces certainly can be used for standard chess. However, they were designed primarily for a medieval persian variant of shatranj (predecessor of chess) which uses a much larger 11x10 board, and which has a number of extra pieces. All of the emoji names for these pieces start with “:shatranj_”
@tasso Someone should make a bot account to play chess against. That would be pretty cool.
Keira Bell: The High Court hands down a historic judgment to protect vulnerable children
https://www.transgendertrend.com/keira-bell-high-court-historic-judgment-protect-vulnerable-children/
@ChristiJunior @augustus Trannies are clearly the bottom of the diversity shit barrel. Your circles can maybe get away with a few racial minorities, women, maybe even a few gays, but once you include trannies, there is no going back. They will push all their pronoun bullshit, gender neutral language, gender neutral restrooms, safe spaces, sensitivity training, stricter offwork/social media policies, etc. It seems like every fan base, hobby, medium, sub-culture, and industry is ruined because of them.
And I know that not every transgender person is like this, but god damn, I'm tired of seeing them pushing their ideological bullshit, LGBT flags everywhere, communist and left-anarchist emojis in usernames, pronouns in bios, bullshit head cannons on why <insert fictional character here> is secretly queer. and thinking everything is about them even though gender dysphoria is supposed to be extremely rare. You are not entitled to attention.
Get it through your fucking head: you are nothing but a slim minority. Being straight and cis will always be the norm. Even if it is possible to have an opposite sex brain, it is still a defect. The vast majority of people in this world will live there lives without the thought of changing gender or having a same-sex relationship cross their minds. No amount of autistic fantasies and corporate pandering will ever change that.
@augustus It blows my mind how only a decade ago we had people openly protesting gay marriage to now where it's taboo to hint that you find gays disgusting, even among right-wing Christians. It's the new norm. The tranny thing is on a whole 'nother level though. I certainly had no idea such a thing existed at the time. Where the fuck did all these people come from???
@PorkCow @ArdanianRight @ChristiJunior @coolboymew After the CD-i games, it seems like Nintendo would never let a western studio touch the Zelda IP again (Cadence of Hyrule doesn't count).
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>I swear that Nintendo has one more not Zelda game that I forget right now
Star Tropics. Also, For the Frog the Bell Tolls is essentially a turn-based Zelda.
@coolboymew @ArdanianRight @ChristiJunior I did. Really didn't like how they structured the world with having Skyloft being a hub level (if they added more populated islands, I probably would've liked it more) and the game becoming too story focused.
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I think there are better ways to go out of their comfort zone. How about a Zelda game that doesn't star Link or more games that are set outside of Hyrule or don't involve the princess? These are the Zelda games I want to see more of because I would like to see more worldbuilding in the Zelda universe. I mean Hyrule probably has more hero's that aren't incarnations of Link (technically the adult timeline Links are this but they're still called Link).
If you want to change the gameplay, just give me a 3D Zelda with the structure of the 2D games. No fairy companion, no generic coming of age story, maybe allow the ability to play dungeons out of order, etc. There are so many Zelda "fans" who have never played any of the 2D games and that pisses me off. It seems like they only play Zelda for the waifus or just so they can call themselves hardcore gamers. Majora's Mask is honestly the only 3D Zelda I really like. It makes me wish that Yoshiaki Koizumi became the lead producer of Zelda instead of Eiji Aonuma.
BoTW was really just a response to the lukewarm reception of Skyward Sword and the insane popularity of Skyrim. If Skyworld Sword wasn't a linear hubworld, BoTW probably would never happened.
>even if a little empty
That's my main complaint with most open world games. The vast majority of them are just a bunch of sandboxes with missions scattered around the world with locations that feel way too similar to each other. It almost feels like these worlds were generated by computer algorithms. Sure it's fun to just roam around and immerse yourself into a vast open world, but I think the more metroidvania approach makes exploration more rewarding.
@ArdanianRight @ChristiJunior @coolboymew I just don't like that Nintendo decided to make an open world Zelda game with survival and crafting elements just because everyone else is doing it. They could've just gone with the Zelda 1 or ALBW structure and I think most people would be okay with it.
I'm just hoping that the sequel to BoTW will have more traditional dungeons (actually make them mandatory while have the shrines be optional), heart pieces, and more distinct locations. I'm fine with the open world, but I would still like to see traditional Zelda mechanics.