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[thechoiceisyours]

[Hello everyone, it's Chris. As usual for his posts while there's no event going on, he has very important things to talk about.]

Hey guys. So, while I've had the time to work on it, I've been taking apart the code Rhys used to make Pong and I think I've got enough of a handle on it to start making some games. Really basic games, though.

[Don't ask him to make Crysis or something.]

So yeah, any requests? I was thinking Tetris, and maybe like, a chess game or something? I dunno. I'm open to suggestions.

[And on that note--]

Em and I are also taking suggestions on the emoji front, too. We've already decided we need a tiny violin for Emily's abject lack of sympathy for my plights in life, but while we're adding one we might as well add a bunch.

[So yeah. That concludes this super important, incredibly necessary post.]

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[thechoiceisyours]

Yeah, I thought it'd be more fun for people to play against each other, and there's no way in hell I could program a computer to play chess with AI and whatever.

I know how to play, yeah, I just never did the whole 'studying games' and 'proving how smart I am by playing chess because it's the ultimate test of brains' part.

[But he was at least decent at chess anyway.]

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I wouldn't say it's the ultimate test of brains, but it's usually a good indication. You can learn a lot about strategy from studying chess.

I know there's someone else here who would probably appreciate having a chess game available, too.

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[thechoiceisyours]

Well, yeah, I'm sure that's true. It just kind of gets held up as the pinnacle of proof of intelligence for some reason, but really it's just how smart you are plus how much you've practiced. I mean I had this ridiculously smart professor once and she'd never even learned to play chess, let alone was any good at it.

[And the game had never held Chris' interest long enough for him to develop any particular talent for it, which factors into his annoyance with people obsessing over it.

Still, there's not a whole lot else to do here, and if people are going to have fun with it then it'd well worth putting the game together. Coding-wise it's relatively simple, too.]

Okay, cool. I'll probably go ahead and try to get it working then; it'll be a good experiment and I don't think it'd be that hard. Hopefully.