Skaia having a chess-motif and uu/UU playing chess can't be a coincidence, I don't think.
Yeah. Hard to say what it means though since they're a bunch of mixed metaphors. uu won the chess match, and he represents Derse. But UU was the one who was supposedly unbeatable, and she's Prospit. Of course, it could also be the other way around because the Prospitians have uu's coloring and Dersites have UU's.
The king and queen switching thing also seems like it's foreshadowing something. Maybe Lord English isn't the main threat at all, but The Condesce is?
Skaia having a chess-motif and uu/UU playing chess can't be a coincidence, I don't think.
Yeah. Hard to say what it means though since they're a bunch of mixed metaphors. uu won the chess match, and he represents Derse. But UU was the one who was supposedly unbeatable, and she's Prospit. Of course, it could also be the other way around because the Prospitians have uu's coloring and Dersites have UU's.
The king and queen switching thing also seems like it's foreshadowing something. Maybe Lord English isn't the main threat at all, but The Condesce is?
You're overthinking it. It doesn't mean that.
On another note, uu up like fifty spots in the rankings after that. I approve of that scumminess. He should be Mafia Godfather in Homestuck Mafia.
Anyway, uu has definitely improved from just being the "evil, Jigsaw-y anti-UU." Here he's actually showing real cleverness.
UU, on the other hand, was a massive idiot about the situation. She could've won quite easily even after uu's trick if she didn't let herself get so angry.
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xfd dude, it's just a popularity contest on the internets. -Vlado
is it at least agreeable that whether it was cheating or not, he's still a huge douchebag for doing it (regardless of whether you like him or not, which i do because he's ridiculous)
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snowy first name katana, last name swordsworth. also middle name katana
It was cheating. If you call out 'King to F7' and then move the queen then it's cheating. That's not playing with perceptions, that's absolutely lying. This is not a debate. It breaks the rules of any sort of game of chess.
From: SantaRPG | #326 Man you guys most be the most awful people to play board games with. It's not "cheating" in a friendly match, and it was an awesome thing to do.
Maybe it would have been a douchebag thing to do if there was something at stake, but considering it's a board game, it's not a big deal.
I mean this is pretty much an l-dashing argument going on in here.
except it was an extended way of telling her that he's going to kill her in her sleep
so yeah
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snowy first name katana, last name swordsworth. also middle name katana
It was cheating. If you call out 'King to F7' and then move the queen then it's cheating. That's not playing with perceptions, that's absolutely lying. This is not a debate. It breaks the rules of any sort of game of chess.
I want you to point out to me right now where it says you can't say one thing and then do another in a chess rulebook.
I'm waiting.
It's unsportsmanlike and not truthful, sure, but that was the point. He played within the rules in a completely dirty way, but it was still within the rules.
It was cheating. If you call out 'King to F7' and then move the queen then it's cheating. That's not playing with perceptions, that's absolutely lying. This is not a debate. It breaks the rules of any sort of game of chess.
I want you to point out to me right now where it says you can't say one thing and then do another in a chess rulebook.
I'm waiting.
It's unsportsmanlike and not truthful, sure, but that was the point. He played within the rules in a completely dirty way, but it was still within the rules.
High standards of etiquette and ethics are expected. Players should shake hands before and after the game. Generally a player should not speak during the game, except to offer a draw, resign, or to call attention to an irregularity. An announcement of "check" is made in amateur games but should not be used in officially sanctioned games. A player may not distract or annoy another player by any means, including repeatedly offering a draw (Schiller 2003:30–31,49–52)
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snowy first name katana, last name swordsworth. also middle name katana
Wow this does not seem to be popular opinion but I love UU now.
She's benefitted from this exchange just because she's done something OTHER than exposit. I actually liked that we saw an actual reaction out of her for a change. But uu's gambit was just too clever not to approve of it.
By the way, I definitely buy into UU and uu sharing the same body now. That's why they keep having to close and open new cheers/jeers. If they were two separate people, they'd just have one unbroken conversation. There aren't any other reasons I can think of why they'd do this.
Another update. Looks like things will get good. I like that on the character select screen, Dirk has Roxy's picture and Roxy has Dirk's picture.
I'm not saying you're wrong but how is this confirmed? That is wildly presumptuous.
Because they're seen above Roxy's house. DD was targeting Dirk you know.
If Red Miles could attack anywhere on Earth from inside the session this easily, wouldn't Jack have gone about doing things differently? It would feel a lot like an ass pull to suddenly have the attack be this powerful.
At least this confirms it's Jack's Red Miles, as if there was any doubt.
I'm not saying you're wrong but how is this confirmed? That is wildly presumptuous.
It's about the same time Bec Noir's Red Miles started showing up on Beta!Earth, so it makes sense that they'd appear at the same time on Alpha!Earth. They're still inside the same Bilious Slick, after all.
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There never was a post. Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and refracted the light from Venus.
Also... when did Jane get told about the future thing again? Looks like I have to backtrack a bit here...
It was never said on an on screen conversation, but it's implied in earlier conversations that Roxy and Dirk have tried to get her to believe them about being in the future before, and she's only now believing it because of everything that's happening.
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I finally believe it. This is not butter. And I know deep down in my heart that I must become butter atheist.
By the way, I definitely buy into UU and uu sharing the same body now. That's why they keep having to close and open new cheers/jeers. If they were two separate people, they'd just have one unbroken conversation. There aren't any other reasons I can think of why they'd do this.
Another update. Looks like things will get good. I like that on the character select screen, Dirk has Roxy's picture and Roxy has Dirk's picture.
To indicate that they're using two different clients? Not exactly the biggest stretch ever,
Right, but the counterpoint is that the clients have never done more than represent each species as a whole before, whereas UU and uu's clients specifically refer to their personalities and only theirs. They serve a different function.
