#chess mentioned!

[callisteios]

Hi, feel free to take my new uquiz to discover what kind of vampire you are!

#NO IM NOT TALKING ABOUT CHESS THE MUSICAL I DONT KNOW WHAT THAT IS. I AM TALKING ABOUT THE ANCIENT BOARD GAME:CHESS #uquiz #vampires #twilight #because let's be honest there are a fair few references #and maybe this is my twilight quiz which has been in my drafts for nearly a year! #and i was tired of it sitting there #maybe! #quiz #werewolves #mention #you can get human in this im really sorry #it's a bit of a mean result #oh if anyone has an actual picture of the vampire that killed dean winchester please send it along #i could not find it with a cursory google search but i rememeber he wore a clown mask #so maybe one of those guys is the guy?

[prokopetz]

We talk a lot of shit about video speedrunners creating ridiculous arbitrary challenges for themselves, but chess players were busy inventing a form of chess tournament where you conduct a round of boxing between each match as early as the 1970s, so maybe gamers have just always been like that.

#gaming #video games #speedrunning #chess #boxing #violence mention #swearing

[fishareglorious]

Me playing chess against a 12 year old with the intent of killing her friends: Yeah i'm a total grandmasterpilled chesscel. I'm basically going chess mode and i'm giving checkmatecore vibes My subordinate Z, chief of staff: Vice President I think God should kill you

#constantine #madam z #reverse 1999 #certified storm moments #r1999 shitpost #this is what totally happened on lost lambs trust me #i should be doing something else but no. i spent 5 minutes searching up chess terms and writing this #x mentioned that before she became a member of the committee she was apparently constantine's chief of staff #though she might not have had that position yet like 4 years ago on chap 3. idk.

[linkedin-offficial]

♟️ unholy

#:3 .... we love chess metaphors over here #more in the “hero playing kinger for a fool underneath his own nose” saga #or. more or less just the “hero fucking hates the monarchy” saga #same thing #(insert tf2 spy gif) #thats literally pretty much whats going on with him and i love every second of it #the amazing digital circus #tadc hero #the amazing digital carnival #carnival au #MY ASS AINT IGNORING THE FACT THAT SM TOLD ME IM RIGHT BTW. IM RUNNING WITH THIS SHIT BOYYYYYY #MORE HERO STUFF ON THE HORIZON REGICIDE CRUSADE MY BELOVEDSSS‼️‼️‼️‼️ #so far goose is the only one whos mentioned and found the symbolic details :3 #see if you can too viewer<3 #if you can ill give you a cookie🪤

[sysig]

Ah, childhood memories (Patreon)

#Doodles #UT #Handplates #Sans #Gaster #Having such clear external-view memories of what happened when they were young would probably give Sans a lot of ammunition lol #Not that they'd know any different - their poor memories honestly :( - but having such clear memories in places would have to be weird #Most people have childhood amnesia to an extent! Tho it's hard to say when that would've applied to them anyway with their sped-up growth #Not to mention the trauma #And it's possible that doesn't apply to Monsters to begin with lol - but it's all a moot point anyway since these are their only memories! #It's sad to think of how much of themselves are missing forever since Gaster didn't experience them :( #This is what happens when you get behind on your work >:0 #I really wonder what their lack of memories/restoration of memories would do for their like/dislike of certain things! #Like how Papyrus says that sitting with Sans in his lap makes a lot of sense as to why it was so familiar and comforting #But also that knowing makes it sad as well :( Knowing recolours their understanding and interpretation! #Knowing Why makes things make sense but does it actually Help? It's a tough question - certainly it hurts in the moment #The little things Gaster has infected for them and for himself ♥ Like taking notes! Like chess and sweets and spaghetti and lab coats #And dark sweaters and cigarette smoke and hugs and intelligence - how many pieces of all of them have A Feeling attached #How many more have A Memory - and even more than that A Memory Lost and unrecoverable ughhh ♥ #But the little things they can hold on to hehe <3 Like pinging Gaster for what they all know and remember #Why does he even keep coming over if he knows the reception he'll get? Lol #Feels particularly self-loathing and goes to get bullied as penance pfft

[hotcinnamonsunset]

season 6 + games + faceless

[Image ID: four gifs from 911 season 6

GIF 1: from episode 6.1 close up shot of Eddie and Chris playing boggle with "Let" in the middle. GIF 2: from episode 6.4 close up shot of Chim and Eddie playing solitaire at the firehouse with "The" in the middle. GIF 3: from episode 6.11 close up shot of Buck and Bobby playing gin rummy with "Games" in the middle. GIF 4: from episode 6.13 close up shot of Buck and Eddie playing poker with "Begin" in the middle.

/end ID]

#911 #911edit #911 on fox #911 described #eddie diaz #christopher diaz #chimney han #evan buckley #bobby nash #911 faceless #how many more games can one season have? only time will tell. honorable mention to the chess board in buck's coma dream #SBedits

[quatregats]

Literally just tell him you like him it doesn't have to be this complicated :')

#something something the rituals are intricate #why does this man have to be playing 5d relationship chess all the time dhskdhdjd #obsessed. there is so much romantic tension in this scene #why does he think this is a normal way to go about this #i want to study him under a microscope #hornblower #perce rambles #this was saved in my drafts but it deserves to be published #i know i mentioned it in the tags of the picture i drew of them but it can have its own post too

[the-final-sif]

Anyways congrats to Dream, I hope he's having a lovely evening, and congrats to Sapnap for having the forethought to have a soundproof streaming room.

#dreamwastaken #georgenotfound #dnf #sif speaks #like y'all are like 'why is he playing chess' #b/c his streaming room has soundproofing #and a computer that plays chess #anyways can't wait for the mattress gate followup #where George mentions his room still has no deco or anything #but it's fine because he doesn't spend any time there #sapnap

[salteytakesonmanga]

I’m pretty sure these two don’t actually have any idea what the words they’re saying mean. They're just parroting the same sophistry Wapol says.

Dishonorable mention for simplifying some of the key words of this arc out of this scene. Dalton says that Vivi feels for her country, to which Chess replies “Feelings are politics?” and “Politics has no need for heart!” Kuromarimo adds that “What’s important is the system.”

Even though I think the translation as-is did a pretty decent job of communicating the meaning of the words, the story itself puts emphasis on particular words. Specifically the word Chess uses for “heart,” which is the same one Hiriluk uses when he talks about how he was healed by the sakura and how his research will heal this country. Hiriluk is trying to heal a country’s heart, but we can see here the people in charge of the country have no hearts.

All of this has a cumulative impact on Dalton later, but when they take the key words out of this scene it’s harder to understand why.

#one piece #op ch142 #saltey takes on one piece #kuromarimo #op chess #dalton #dishonorable mention

[prokopetz]

I'm not going to do this as a reblog because I don't want to shit up somebody else's notes with pedantry, but the really funny thing about that joke about how the British and the United States can't play chess because the British are missing their Queen and the US is missing two towers is that in chess handicapping, queen odds (i.e., beginning play with no queen) and two rooks (i.e., beginning play with no rooks) are roughly equivalent – that'd actually be a fairly evenly matched game!

#gaming #tabletop games #chess #9/11 #queen elizabeth ii #arrant pedantry #death mention #(by implication) #swearing

[barnbridges]

Random headcanons about chess because I'm a chess autist and refuse to believe Henry Winter could play well and I need to imagine them all playing, ok.

Richard read Nabokov once and thinks he understands the essence of the game and that he can solve anything if he tries hard enough (he doesn't know what a fork is). He thinks puzzles are as relevant as games (WRONG). His play experience is 0 and they all secretly hate the way he grabs the pieces, but are too busy being bemused by that he opens with bizarre theory to say it. Richard thinks it's socially acceptable that his favorite opening is the fucking Bird.

Henry, surprising to nobody, would be barely above a beginner's level. He would understand calculations and theory, but absolutely gets frustrated when the opponent deviates from theory or their usual playing style, and he cannot at all improvise or think on his feet. After studying *some* beginner level literature he'd give up because it truly isn't as romantic as it sounds. Has an abhorrent record with black, it's almost impossible for him to play anything but the most boring Queen's Gambit you've ever seen.

Bunny would probably be among the many kids who first has seen a chess board in 1972 when Bobby Fischer won the World Chess Championship and it became cute for the American middle class to engage with the sport. He'd honestly thrive in a chess classroom/club environment and be a comfortable club player. Wouldn't think of admitting to having been a chess child though, pretends its all-natural and common sense. He rants about "the Soviet Jews" too much to fool anyone that knows anything about chess-sport. His downfall is that he relies on both playing as black and inventing complications instead of a strategy, but it's not really obvious unless you look away for a while.

Camilla and Charles' grandaunts showed them like The Opera Game and they leafed through some library books, maybe took it a step farther and played with old people in the family on a whim to show what educated children they were. Both would get pretty competitive with Bunny about it, but ultimately it's in good fun (or as good as it can get). Charles is more impulsive and likely to explore complications and dabble in things for fun even if it loses him an advantage, Camilla rationalizes until her last resources, and then absolutely guts the opponent towards the endgame. They rarely play each other. They would hate modern games and the clocks. Charles would enjoy random chess as well, usually ends up playing it with Bunny since they have no memory of where the bishop goes and which one is the queen. Camilla can't do mental chess, but absolutely draw up boards and positions very romantically and has a paper set to explore variations.

Francis was tutored in "classical" theory and, begrudgingly, agrees with Bunny on that the Soviet style is absolutely abhorrent. Likes games to have a time format, enjoys using the clock as a tool against his opponent and seeing them lose control of a situation because of their poor time management. Absolutely psychologically torments his opponent by smoking in their face and pretending to be distracted. Is quite good, but also far from intuitive. Prefers to play black and enjoys Armageddon.

Judy and Richard have done coke off a chess table.

They all think correspondence chess is a sham, and would cringe if they knew what a chess computer is.

#antisemitism mention #tsh #the secret history #henry winter #francis abernathy #richard papen #camilla macaulay #bunny corcoran #charles macaulay #chess #this is very unhinged and yes a result of watching the chess world cup lmao

[demonbloodenthusiast]

team free will going back home from a hunt with the windows down to air out baby from the smell the corpses left behind from having to put them in the backseat (since there wasn't enough space in the trunk) listening to taylor swift cause it's jack's turn in music and dear john comes on... and then cut to these four grown ass mfs absolultely loosing their collective shit screaming along to it from the top of their lungs because ✨️daddy issues✨️

#in another episode of carpool karaoke ✨️baby style✨️ #the bridge would def go hard #jack so would yell at the “don't you think i was too young to be messed with” part #dean would put on a whole show of reliving his childhood trauma fr fr #AND SAM ??? #oh girl that bitch would scream cry throw up 100% #LET'S NOT EVEN MENTION CAS “ANGEL OF THE LORD” #all that religous-daddy-trauma-issues is concentrated into one line of “i lived in your chess game but you changed the rule every day” #so yeah #thank you for coming to my ted talk #jack kline #sam winchester #dean winchester #castiel #team free will #supernatural

[quibbs126]

Plot???

Okay the whole Dark Enchantress thing is cleared up later at the ending cutscene, but still, when I saw this I was like “plot?? In the Fashion Week??”

#also I just realized the reason the twins can’t make it is bc of the dragon hunting mission with Dark Choco #cookie run #cookie run ovenbreak #chocolate bonbon cookie #earl grey cookie #gingerbrave #chess choco cookie #dark choco cookie #they aren’t in it but they’re mentioned #but yeah are we finally gonna get some progression with the Cookies of Darkness plot? #cookie run spoilers #crob spoilers #random stuff

[vaniliens]

The amount of 3s on Mikoto is now too much to be coincidence please

#nillas #milgram #THE CHESS PIECE #also idk if anyone ever mentioned it but he was talking on the phone with his mom on double #yknow how there was a shot of a drop of blood flying past if you slow that down you'll see that it divided into 3 pieces #it was Such a small thing but that was something that solidified the whole 'Mikoto has 3 alters' thing

[query-quadrant]

I've had a pitch crush on someone for a while! I really hate them! >:)

But one of our hatefriends just told me they might be pale for me? >:O

If they are, what do I do??? How do I make them hate me properly? :(

I don't pity them! I don't even know why they pity me! Or if they even really do! :?

It's really confusing and I don't want to have to reject them and then have to try and ask them out! That's not gonna go well!!! >:(

yeah i dont know that sounds awful i think personally id just die

questionable advice: either try upping the annoyingness and going all out with pitch flirting or just sit them down and just actually ask them if they pity you or not maybe youll get lucky and they dont but either way at least youll know right so that sucks a little less than not knowing

bad advice: kill their lusus maybe thatll make them really mad at you

#pitch stuff #asks #this sounds like a mess idk good luck #this is not very thumbs up emoji #the friend who told you might definitely be fucking with you though anyway #if we go big conspiracy theorist style i have friends who would totally do that on purpose to embarrass me #and try and get the other guy to make fun of me for asking such a stupid question #to see if they can get pitch shit started between me and my crush #but maybe your friends are less insane #actually you should have mentioned that before sending this ask #whats the normalness level of your friends #on a scale from my friends to creepily normal #where do they fall #my little hoofbeast style or absolutely would play 10d chess for literally no reason #this is way too many tags lmfao no ones gonna read this #i just got into it i guess #plus no way am i gonna move this to the post itself now after this #i opened this can of sharks now i gotta jump it #hey if anyone would read all of these tags itd be grey actually right #hi grey <3< #whats up hows it going

[indigosabyss]

Unexpected Baggage (Pt 2) — X-Men First Class & Ms. Marvel Fic

Erik sorted through the piles and piles of loose leaf evidence he had piled up over the years, trying to find some connection to the address the man from the bank had given him.

Strange girl with suspicious origins he was now responsible for aside, he was still planning on hunting down Shaw. In fact, knowing that he was doing the same thing to other kids made him all the more urgent.

Which meant he was going to have to arrange fake papers for Kamala, too, once he had an idea on who exactly he was searching for.

Speaking of Kamala, he craned his neck around to look at her sitting on the exact same seat she had taken upon entering the room. She was being strangely quiet.

"Everything okay?" He asked, trying to decide if that was a bad thing and if he really wanted the chatterbox back.

She grunted, eyes fixed on a strange plastic and metal device she was holding in her hands. It had a glowing screen on it, and music coming from some source, even though it was not nearly thick enough to contain a voice box.

"Are you okay just sitting in that chair for three hours?" He asked uncertainly.

"Mhm." She replied, jamming her hand on a button, "You told me to entertain myself, and I figured, might as well complete my X Pokedex while I'm stuck with no WiFi."

"... Pokedex?"

Her eyes snapped up like a shark that had smelled blood, "You don't have Pokemon here?"

"Uh..." He was beginning to regret asking. Yet his silence told her the truth.

Kamala inhaled sharply, grinning excitedly, "Oh, you're going to love this-"

He could be hunting down Shaw and his accomplices. It was disgusting that he had been walking free for more than a decade and yet the man was still breathing. Every minute wasted felt like a personal failure.

Yet, he spent an entire two hours being introduced to a video game(???) franchise about cutesy animal fighting rings, by a strange time-traveling girl. And it wasn't particularly fulfilling, but he couldn't find it in himself to consider that time wasted.

#erik has no idea how kids work tbh. it's worse when the kid is a timetraveler #i feel like he'd ask her if she likes chess since she mentions playing strategy games #and she goes. 'I'm a state champion in 5D Chess' #'in WHAT' #'yh 5D Chess. the one with time travel and multidimensional boards. it's the upgraded version' #'IT'S CHESS WHAT NEEDS TO BE UPGRADED' #'yk what's funny that's what my friend nakia said. but i turned out to be great at it so I'm not complaining' #kamala khan #ms marvel #erik lehnsherr #magneto #x men first class #fanfiction