surely you mean "devilled"

ahriman i know that's you

now listen, that's a different hobby of mine and has nothing to do with this thread

sorry the budget was shit i was on lichess til 4am the night before

Anyway, this is just to say that if you want to think about what human culture might look like in 30 years, looking at chess *now* isn't a bad place to start, and chess *now* isn't in a bad place

And it's doing well! It's completely fine, actually! I mean, it's not fine, it's internet-poisoned in a way that's familiar from all sorts of other hobbies - but it's not AI-poisoned, and that's now been true for 30+ years.

This is one of very few fields of which this has been true for such a long time, and learning how it has adapted and even thrived is instructive. If AI becomes technically "better" than humans at all sorts of things, a lot of scenes and subcultures will come to look like chess does.

fascinated by the 1960s grandchildren using the term 'handed an L'

Murder is, to be clear, the name of a planet

it's the name of an entire planet, lmao

[deep sigh] i know this because i saw people cancelling Hank Green for him failing to condemn Taylor Swift for being a neo-Nazi for making this necklace

bringing a bottle of EU-market-only Irish whiskey along too, so i can bribe the Brexit-era customs guys to look the other way once they find my 12 copies of Normal People with fake Robert Galbraith dustjackets on them