Registration for the 2024 US Go Congress (July 13-21 in Portland, Oregon) is now open!
@ZachWeinersmith When you teach the game of Go to mathy types, they inevitably come up with variations. What if we played on a hex grid instead of a square grid? What if the board was a torus that wrapped around? What if the board was 3D?
At the annual US Go Congress, one of the standard events is "crazy go", which tries out some of these variants.
The most bananapants was Team Kriegspiel Go, involving two teams of two players, plus a referee. On your turn, you submit your move to the referee and find out if it's legal. Not only do you not know your opponent's moves, you don't know half of your own moves!
I know what my kids will be doing this weekend.
Mastodon folks tend to be pretty tech-savvy, but it's come to my attention that simply not knowing how to get ebooks not purchased from a big retailer onto their e-reader. So I wrote a helpful guide! Share it with someone who wants to support DIY authors and small presses! https://write.as/brendanhalpin/how-to-load-downloaded-books-onto-your-e-reader
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📷 by Artist: #EmilioCuenca / #ElFotografoDePerros in Loc.: #Madrid
Parque de El Retiro, Spain 🇪🇸 2023 - Title: untitled - #Streetart #Art #NoAi #NoPhotoshop #Fotografie #Dogs #DogsOfMastodon #Photography #KeineKatze ➡️ #APhotoLove
Good morning! It’s the first Tuesday in February, and so you’re all invited to look through Wikipedia’s List of common misconceptions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions) per xkcd custom.
Yikes 😬
The wolf is at the door now. We are at that point in time.
Via: Utah Library Association
6:12 PM · Feb 3, 2024
"If you are a Utahn concerned about ongoing threats to librarians and teachers, and book-banning, go to Let Utah Read to learn more about the issues and how you can help."
Our first earthquake game got another writeup:
https://www.seattlemet.com/news-and-city-life/2024/02/cascadia-video-game-earthquake-big-one
Where do all the world's people live?
https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/world-population/ #dataviz
@IngridHbn Alt text: drawing of a woman about to dive into bed from a literal diving platform.
@olivvybee You can solve the second problem with Watch It Played videos, but the first one is indeed a challenge. Maybe some kind of voting app?
I have moved to peterdrake@mstdn.social. If you found peterdrake@qoto.org on a website, please let me know at my new account.