im always doing this with western chess and. the truth is. Usually what you learn when you do this is that nobody on set that day knew a damn thing about chess. But sometimes you get lucky and leonard nimoy was there

this is what xiangqi looks like btw. its different enough from western chess that i didn't actually learn anything from looking at the board but i still had a great time.

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king of the pathetic wetboys. nobody doing it like him (badly)

indulging my love of deeply impractical weapons by doing worldbuilding where using a sword is considered heinously boorish, which has the extra bonus of circling back around to making it extra cool when someone deliberately does it anyway