• BlueMonday1984@awful.systems
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    4 months ago

    or is there some weird-ass chess proxy-fixation among the rats that I have thus far been blessedly unaware of?

    Gonna take a shot in the dark and say the fixation’s from viewing chess more as an IQ showcase than as a game.

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        4 months ago

        They’re all in for Chess as a sine qua non metric for intelligence if you spend enough time staring into the pit. Better to call it g than IQ tbh. Not only does it (chess) have the lick of rigour, it has the nerd cultural cachet and the ludicrous white masculinity complex.

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        4 months ago

        also, just ito “things to pick by which to point out dirtrag as a Shining Beacon”, it’s pretty fucking out there