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3·29 days agoOkay, I don’t like AI much, normally, but this one is pure gold
Never expected it to roast even barely known sites with such level of detail and taste
You’re either serious about it and trying to turn a friendly game meme discussion into some kind of battle, or you’re trolling and doing so with 0 finesse. Keep your game a little higher.
Either way, since you love being contested, here are pre-1963 ship figures for Battleship, dated early XX century:
Hasbro hasn’t been first in that, either. They are just large enough to dictate what is considered to be “official”. And this is far from isolated case.
Always good to have a place to escape to - but we need to regain people’s power over the mainstream Internet.
This is where most people will remain, this is where you’ll have to go to stay in touch, this is what influences public opinion on policies and actions. This ground cannot and should not be given up.
Certainly not just a house rule, I’ve met it everywhere.
And, as it seems from further down the thread, it seems to be the difference because large parts of the world rely on Hasbro’s Battleship as the rule source, while the other seems to play by older rules (by the time Hasbro/Milton Bradley released the game, it was already almost a century old).
Others from Spain and Germany also seem to know that rule, but it was not in the official Hasbro version of the game. This is what appears to make that difference.
The game is actually over a century old - at least in Russia, it first appeared at the edge of XIX and XX centuries. In the US, Starex started making notebooks for the game in 1931.
The Milton Bradley/Hasbro Battleship, which seems to be the most recognizable internationally as the Battleship game, appeared only in 1967. So, it is a knock-off of a knock-off, actually, made almost a century after the original.
We also don’t typically use a board, we just use a white checkered sheet of paper, which seems to be one of the classic versions of the game. But ship figures for the game did exist as long back as the early XX century.
Huh, I dug down and apparently it’s a regional quirk?
Even the Wikipedia article about the game doesn’t mention it in English, but does mention it in Russian.
English:
Before play begins, each player secretly arranges their ships on their primary grid. Each ship occupies a number of consecutive squares on the grid, arranged either horizontally or vertically. The number of squares for each ship is determined by the type of ship. The ships cannot overlap (i.e., only one ship can occupy any given square in the grid) or be placed diagonally.
Russian (translated by yours truly):
The playing field is typically a 10x10 square, on which the fleet is placed. <…> When placed, ships should not touch each other by sides or corners. Some variations may lack this rule.
Also, apparently it is common for the game to have 5-long ships, which don’t appear in the Russian versions.
Kinda weird to put it on a car, though
Most iterations of the game assume you cannot place ships right next to each other. So, when you down a ship in a normal configuration, you immediately know the surroundings are free of ships.
In this placement, all but these 4 cells will not give you such an advantage. Therefore, the tactic is advantageous as it keeps the opponent with less intel.
Correction: digging deeper, it seems like many people know Battleship by the Hasbro/Milton Bradley edition, which doesn’t have this rule. But the game itself is much older, and many of its editions do include the rule. At the very least, this rule is highly popular in Russia, Germany and Spain.
Honestly, yes.
The culture always tell you to work harder and demand less. This is simply to make it easier to exploit you. Just work harder, and everything will be amazing and we won’t just tighten it even more, we promise
3·1 month agoGhandi rage reversed?
5·1 month agoRemote work is amazing, and honestly office jobs should move to that.
But then there’s plenty of jobs that require you to be present in person and do things in the physical world.
That’s one of the few things where the US actually follows most of the world!
Yep, NoScript seems to help!
Congrats! May you have joy together, forever and ever
As male cheating became seen as problematic, though, marriage topics suddenly became pushed more by women rather than men.
Same as The Guardian and a few more. Sometimes I wonder how can this be legal.
Bitwarden app is fully compatible with Vaultwarden and stores copies of all your passwords for offline access, so as long as you have access to the app somewhere, you’ll have them.
Also, Bitwarden can export your passwords as a file in several formats, readable by Bitwarden, KeePassXC etc. You can have that stored somewhere safe.
To be completely honest, any OS change does come with some friction, and Linux is certainly no exception. Should you ever try this again. give it two weeks, and you’ll learn the best practices.
Until then, good luck with your existing setup!