Since most people are unbeatable at tic-tac-toe I have a variant I like to play that has nested boards. Sometimes I call it tic-tic-tac-toe-toe or nested tic-tac-toe. Here’s some shitty MS Paint to explain (red numbers indicate the board, the blue the squares on the board as they correlate to bigger board):

Rules:

• You have a tic-tac-toe board where each square is itself another tic-tac-toe board
• The outer board is numbered 1-9 going from top left to bottom right
• Each sub-board is also numbered the same way, 1-9, left to right
• When you play on board, the square you play in determines the board that your opponent must play in next
  • For example: if you play the middle left square (4), on the bottom right board (Red 9), then your opponent must play on the middle left board next (Red 4)
• Winning a sub-game wins that square on the overall board
  • You may tie a sub-game by filling a board, those squares are dead and nobody gets them
• Getting tic-tac-toe on the overall board gets you a win
• You cannot play on a finished board
• If a play would force a player to play on a finished board then that player may play anywhere instead

It sounds confusing on paper but once you draw the board and play like 2 turns people immediately get what’s going on. It’s really funny to observers because they watch people make “obviously” bad plays on these disjointed boards and they have no idea what’s going on

I also once nerd sniped an intro programming class because I thought making this in the command line would be a fun project for one of my intro assignments. It turns out updating and printing nested python lists can get very confusing very quickly

Getting sick when traveling is absolutely more common, you’re exposed to foods, diseases, weather, and people that you aren’t used to. However if it’s happening reliably and specifically after flying as opposed to other forms of travel that does sound like it could be a specific problem. It could be an inner-ear thing since airplane compression can fuck with that

It’s not a perfect solution but sometimes when I fly I wear a mask to reduce the odds of getting sick, though it’s pretty rare I get sick from travel myself, and I travel internationally annually

Not at work but I briefly lived with that guy. I just started agreeing with him on everything. “And we all know what the correct opinion on net neutrality is” “Yes we do.”

“People just don’t understand what Trump is doing” “Yeah, you’re so right”

There’s really nowhere to go when you just vaguely agree with what they’re saying but don’t commit to anything

It’s good we’re starting this in spring, so when we resolve the case in 9 months plenty of people will have been killed by their cruel negligence

Deport them where? You’re just going to dump them on someone else’s shores for them to become undocumented immigrants to be shipped back to America? I know we’ve set up camps in other countries but there’s several orders of magnitude of difference there. The logistics alone of moving a third of the US is insane and that’s if they wanted to participate. Of course they don’t have any long term plans

Easily

When Trump got elected I joked about America spawning an anti-pope and how it’d been a good 500 years since our last one. After the pope became an American suddenly my joke felt less funny. Evangelicals claiming a “woke pope” and declaring an “American Pope” seems entirely plausible to me now

Oh I am fully aware, but I find it important to point out the underlying thing they’re exploiting when you see statements like this. Just like passing ID laws and bans on porn are a subtext to censor LGBTQ people

Just a reminder that America does not have a national ID and that while most people think a driver’s license is our ID only 71% of Americans have one. Children, the elderly, people who are too poor to have a car, or people who live in cities that don’t need cars (which is like, 5 cities but is still a notable percent of the population) are all people who may not have an ID and all of them have been rounded up by ICE. This is a further attack on the poor specifically but on the vulnerable in general

Man if there’s a city that might hate Trump more than DC does it might be New York. New York city residents fucking hate that man, he’s been a stain on the city since the 80s

So… there’s never going to be another Xbox?

Unironic question: is it possible to boycott goods from a country apolitically?

If there’s anything at all Democrats have to learn in order to win ever again it’s that “when they go low we go high” and having a moral backbone is a losing strategy. Cheating and breaking rules keeps letting the other side win and they keep making it easier for themselves, if Democrats refuse to start slinging mud then they’re just going to keep losing

spend 4 years in college, get certified, start teaching children, get yelled at by parents and principals for giving a student who was on their phone for the whole class a C, make $45,000/year

play apex legends in the basement shouting racial slurs and eating cheetos for 2 years, get a $50,000 signing bonus on top of a $80,000 salary

Guess which one is more likely to be shot and killed at their job?

I’d encourage them to try standing in a closed garage with a running car to see how they feel about how dangerous greenhouse gasses are

I know there’s no internal logic here but why are they doing this?

I have the freedom to take Ivermectin to cure any disease or the government dictates my medical choices. The vaccine is evil and will make your heart explode but we won’t let liberals take it by choice, even when we cheer for their death. Government shouldn’t tell me how to live except “don’t take this ultra dangerous drug that you’ve had 5 times before with no negative impacts”

Just let liberals be dumbass sheep taking their poison. Why are you stopping them from “killing themselves”?

Is it because the party of “small government” is actually more concerned with what adults do to their bodies?

If it wasn’t for double standards they wouldn’t have any standards at all

As an mtg player these parodies are referenced enough that I think of them instead of the originals:

I’ve played everything

Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar

Great decision right as we head into hurricane season. At least we haven’t been setting records for the number and intensity of hurricanes, or this would be extra stupid

/s

Unfortunately, yeah. The more you let people walk over you the more comfortable they get doing it. Being blunt is a good way to stop that kind of behavior, when someone is rude asking direct questions like “why are you saying that about them?” makes people uncomfortable and will get them to stop dragging you into drama. Especially in today’s American climate people feel emboldened to attack people they see as “weak” so you need to not appear “weak” and (this is the much more difficult part) stand up for everyone else who the bullies are targeting

I mean, fucking whatever. Mt Rushmore sucks, I’ve been there. It insults the natural scenery by being a shitty half finished project on what was originally a beautiful mountain. Adding Trump to it would make it an even better metaphor for the US government, especially when he stops paying developers halfway through and we end up with a partially finished version of his face