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Comment Good Riddance (Score 1) 95

I've only ever bought cable internet if there was literally no other option. Case in point, I had Spectrum (not Comcast, but just as crappy) because there was no other broadband in the area. As soon as high speed 5G became available to me I jumped ship. The service is twice as reliable and costs 1/4 as much.

Comment Sure, why not? (Score 2) 119

I can certainly understand not wanting to put money in the pocket of a weapons manufacturer, but like 20-30% of our income goes to them anyway. The only way to avoid enriching them would be to earn no income, and therefore pay no taxes. So since we all bear the ethical and moral burden of having blood stained hands already, we might as well enjoy that sweet retro handheld.

Comment Re:C forever! (Score 3, Interesting) 58

Both are played with white and black stones, but they play very differently. In go your object is to surround territory. If a group of stones is completely surrounded, then they are captured and taken off the board and counted toward your score. You can place a stone anywhere on the board so long as that stone has at least one liberty (a blank spot next to it or next to a line of adjacent stones of the same color) and so long as you don’t recreate a prior board position with the same player to play.

So really, the rules are simpler than Othello but the play is much more challenging. You get all sorts of abstract battle field type tactics, building supply chains, making converging forces, all sorts of stuff.

Comment Re:"Commercial appeal" (Score 1) 58

Nah, once you get into it you start wanting luxury rocks. Thick kaya wood boards with their own legs with shell and slate stones that make the "pa-chick" sound just so. Oh, and that kaya board needs to have the bottom hand carved by a master to get just the perfect resonance. Well worth the $3,000.00 price tag! (Provided you have someone to play with on the regular.)

But alas, I do not have a go playing friend. At least not in meat space. So I have a few cheap boards and play online.

Comment C forever! (Score 1) 58

Ok, so that's not the "go" the article is talking about.

Go, the game, should catch on IMHO. I find it to be much richer than chess, both to play and to watch. Also, it has a kickass manga to go with it, so what's not to love?

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