@gnarley_boot Oh yeah, I'm keenly aware of the consequences of sticking your dick in crazy. Autist superpowers ensured that wasn't going to be a risk to me. I am working on it by learning to play Bridge.
Don't rush it bro, find the right lady, don't become a slave to child support like me. Let me be a cautionary tale brother. I rushed into it because I was making a little money as a cab drive in the SF bay area and a milf that looked like Sandra Bullock loved bombed me, but she was a single mom and geared up to ruin me, I just got lost into the Silician booty, tan skin, and she loved White sundresses. I was dead before I knew it.....
I was going hard with chess matches with my youngest boy a couple weeks ago. It was fun. I have a glass set it's sick and we just set it up on the mini-trampoline. Try chess it's actually super engrossing, just sitting there thinking about all the possible moves.
@gnarley_boot >try chess >as if I haven't played 100-odd games already Every single time I lose my queen very quickly then the enemy queen just wrecks me. I am not particularly interested in Chess. I think Spirit Island is close to the pinnacle of board games, I am learning to play Bridge because it's an old people's game, and it was pointed out to me that the best way to find autistic neet gf is to ask her (grand)parents to introduce us. As for why Bridge instead of whatever other old people's game like bowls: the board game club frequently meets at the Bridge club's hall. Also it's closer to the type of games I actually like. Which is to say, I'm enjoying Bridge for its own sake, so far. Tuesday is the last lesson, when we'll be playing the full ruleset.
@realman543@Hoss@gnarley_boot Chess 2? My memory is that there's a certain folder on sirlin.com that contains the rulebook and printable files. Or at least there are for most of his games, so maybe Chess 2 has it too. But I don't know what that folder is and that domain now redirects to his company's site so it may not exist anymore. The rulebook might be available elsewhere too.
@Hoss@realman543@gnarley_boot@Zergling_man Everything is fine until you get randomly checkmated by a bishop who happens to have the be lined up horizontally from your king 4 universes over.
They finally fixed Chess's greatest flaw: that it allows for any sense of strategic certainty. No longer will you ever find yourself lulled into a sense of security at any point in the game, you will have your head on a paranoid swivel from the opening move to the very last. Just like real life.
@Hoss@realman543@gnarley_boot@Zergling_man There's also the certified classic, the Teminator gambit, where you send a Queen back to the start of the game and force your opponent to play board of normal-ish chess with you being an extra piece up.