I'm good at chess strategy but almost laughably bad at tactics
Like I always set up near impenetrable sets of defenses and little traps in the early game that takes a while to unravel, but I can almost never make a successful push to checkmate
LOL literally every reddit community ever at some point
There is something almost intrinsic about the nature of reddit that leads to communities developing a complicated set of snobberies about their subject of interest (like even trivial and lowbrow stuff like anime will have it's own preferred set of snobbish attributes on reddit). And this almost always gets worse with time. Then you get these posts. Rinse and repeat as more snobberies develop and the community becomes ever more and more unbearable.
My theory is that the snobberies are a way for the "old guard" to tell themselves apart from newbies? Like, "lol you have [forbidden opinion x], fuck off newb". The old guard has all these unwritten rules of behavior memorized over time, new people who don't are either driven off or must spend time learning them themselves until they can use them against newer people and thus receive the respect of the community.
Basically etiquette developed the same way, the old aristocrats of europe for thousands of years developed a set of behaviors they'd just intrinsically learned and developed over time. In the 19th and 20th century when social mobility increased these behaviors become one thing the old aristocrats could use to distinguish themselves and shame the new former commoners as unlearned bores. The rules of etiquette became more and more harshly enforced and defined as the old aristocrats sought to distinguish themselves from the upstarts. And eventually there was an entire etiquette industry dedicated to training the unlearned bores in how not to embarrass themselves in interactions with the upper class.
Chess is a game of thrones and a former NFL team who will not play in this instance are not going anywhere near that one and then communists are the only way out to get it done in a game and then make a big deal of them gang rape r they have better be a little too young than they do with
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1 SnapshillBot 2018-10-20
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1 HungerArtistatlunch 2018-10-20
Chess players being autistic? Wow, such surprise.
1 REDDIT_IN_MOTION 2018-10-20
(board)gamers were a mistake
1 boyoyoyoyong 2018-10-20
How much is there to say about chess
1 SparkyLite 2018-10-20
Queen is the best piece. Chess invented feminazis
1 HungerArtistatlunch 2018-10-20
Only in the west. Eastern European and Asian countries have different names for that piece.
1 froibo 2018-10-20
Bitch?
1 Elite_AI 2018-10-20
Vizier
1 Burnnoticelover 2018-10-20
Hafar was the only Disney villain to have the juice to turn the hero’s song against him.
1 Ranilen 2018-10-20
Russians are so lucky. They get a daddy that can dominate them properly too.
1 Watermark03 2018-10-20
I'm good at chess strategy but almost laughably bad at tactics
Like I always set up near impenetrable sets of defenses and little traps in the early game that takes a while to unravel, but I can almost never make a successful push to checkmate
1 Mepiaceercioccolato 2018-10-20
Who cares
1 GuillotinesNOW 2018-10-20
It’s not my job to educate people. There are resources you can use but I’m not going giving you emotional labor for free.
1 cmakk1012 2018-10-20
For a minute there I thought this was a weebshit thing
1 WithoutAComma 2018-10-20
The endless reddit debate, do you want a smug, stuffy nerdscape or a brainless memejungle.
1 newcomer_ts 2018-10-20
Gatekeeping at /r/chess?
1 Whaddaulookinat 2018-10-20
It's more common than you think...
1 Watermark03 2018-10-20
LOL literally every reddit community ever at some point
There is something almost intrinsic about the nature of reddit that leads to communities developing a complicated set of snobberies about their subject of interest (like even trivial and lowbrow stuff like anime will have it's own preferred set of snobbish attributes on reddit). And this almost always gets worse with time. Then you get these posts. Rinse and repeat as more snobberies develop and the community becomes ever more and more unbearable.
My theory is that the snobberies are a way for the "old guard" to tell themselves apart from newbies? Like, "lol you have [forbidden opinion x], fuck off newb". The old guard has all these unwritten rules of behavior memorized over time, new people who don't are either driven off or must spend time learning them themselves until they can use them against newer people and thus receive the respect of the community.
Basically etiquette developed the same way, the old aristocrats of europe for thousands of years developed a set of behaviors they'd just intrinsically learned and developed over time. In the 19th and 20th century when social mobility increased these behaviors become one thing the old aristocrats could use to distinguish themselves and shame the new former commoners as unlearned bores. The rules of etiquette became more and more harshly enforced and defined as the old aristocrats sought to distinguish themselves from the upstarts. And eventually there was an entire etiquette industry dedicated to training the unlearned bores in how not to embarrass themselves in interactions with the upper class.
1 LongPostBot 2018-10-20
Mommy is soooo proud of you, sweaty. Let's put this sperg out up on the fridge with all your other failures.
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1 ConfuseTheJews 2018-10-20
Haha this is the best bot
1 RollBread 2018-10-20
You tell em' chief.
1 scatmunchies 2018-10-20
gay and fake
1 Alexlincoln2 2018-10-20
Chess is a game of thrones and a former NFL team who will not play in this instance are not going anywhere near that one and then communists are the only way out to get it done in a game and then make a big deal of them gang rape r they have better be a little too young than they do with
1 Pragmatic_Shill 2018-10-20
What's that "bizarre rant" they're referring to?