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Shogi metaphors it isJust the chess metaphors.
Please, I had enough, this isn't just with fanfic too.
Ffs use something else.
Shogi metaphors it isJust the chess metaphors.
Please, I had enough, this isn't just with fanfic too.
Ffs use something else.
chess being a useful tool for training the basics of tactical thinking
Do you prefer the poker metaphors because those are about as common?Just the chess metaphors.
Please, I had enough, this isn't just with fanfic too.
Ffs use something else.
Do you prefer the poker metaphors because those are about as common?
Isn't that what Hubert does in Lolita to disguise to the jury that he is a admitted pedophile that groomed and raped his stepdaughter?Waxing poetic over mundane things. Like writing a soliloquy on how deep and meaningful chess is. It's a solved game with a finite state space that at a high level involves mostly pattern recognition. It's not some soulful revelatory tool of insight.
Or going full emo monologue over taking a test, like it's some kind of seminal pivoting point for the narrative when in reality it influences nothing and never comes up again.
Some of it is about establishing character perspective but damn, did you have to spend all that effort on a piece of toast?
Yeah, in comparison I take the chess metaphors. While still culture-specific, chess has a far, far larger cultural range. I mean, what do I care about poker, where are the Skat or Doppelkopf metaphorsDo you prefer the poker metaphors because those are about as common?
The weak King and the weak vizier (which evolved into the super-powerful Queen only centuries later on) were a product of Chess' predecessors all the way back to ancient India, though.I always found some central assumptions about chess quite weird for the time period the rules were solidified in. Kings did not hide in the back during the medieval period. They lead from the front to raise moral. Though rare there have been battles were the king died on the winning side.
It's either that or a borderline mind reading, where a person can see the entire thinking process of the other party and basically get their full psychological profile. I could *maybe* see that happening if they played dozens of matches across couple weeks, but not after a single game. You're not getting that level of insight without some form of ESP. (or ability to read "tells" to a level where it's basically a superpower)I mean, I criticize it for that because that's how fiction often seems to present it: as some sort of genius litmus test that makes you a master strategist.
Naming guns.
I mean I don't need to know that you were lugging around a M16A3 every scene that it shows up, it's fine once in a blue moon, but just "assault rifle" or "rifle" is fine for most scenes.
Girl's Frontline fanfic community in tatters right now.Naming guns.
I mean I don't need to know that you were lugging around a M16A3 every scene that it shows up, it's fine once in a blue moon, but just "assault rifle" or "rifle" is fine for most scenes.
Meh. I see it as optional/modular.Naming guns.
I mean I don't need to know that you were lugging around a M16A3 every scene that it shows up, it's fine once in a blue moon, but just "assault rifle" or "rifle" is fine for most scenes.
Or your treated to paragraphs after paragraphs of XXX rated gun porn.In some cases it's pretty clear that a chapter was written immediately after the author came back from a gun show.
They'll spend the entire chapter listing dozens of guns, many of which aren't even present, just used as comparisons, going into detail not only about the equipment, but also the production runs and versions.
I could do without hearing about the gun they totally wish they had instead of the ones they are actually using.
Especially in settings where those type of guns don't exist or would be really hard to get.In some cases it's pretty clear that a chapter was written immediately after the author came back from a gun show.
They'll spend the entire chapter listing dozens of guns, many of which aren't even present, just used as comparisons, going into detail not only about the equipment, but also the production runs and versions.
I could do without hearing about the gun they totally wish they had instead of the ones they are actually using.
And then they sulk and act like they are being picked on when they are told they need to start actually thinking things through ahead of time.
See here:New Peeve: Characters treating hindsight like foresight.
You'll have a character that jumped into a dangerous situation without thinking, and stumbled through via blind luck, and when they get confronted about it, they act like the fact that nothing bad did happen means that nothing bad could have happened. And then they sulk and act like they are being picked on when they are told they need to start actually thinking things through ahead of time.
Schlock Mercenary said:MAXIM 42: "They'll never expect this" means "I want to try something stupid."
MAXIM 43: If it's stupid and it works, it's still stupid and you're lucky.
Did you read any HP fanfics with focus on Gryffindor recklessness recently, perchance?Even worse is when they take a moral stance on it.
Someone was in trouble, they had no ability to plan to help them, they flung themselves in anyway and got out through sheer dumb luck, so it was a good thing! 😇
Because people who try to plan are evil! 😈