RicOlie_2

TV's Frink said:

generalfrevious said:

How can any human being murder another human being that can survive outside the mother? It makes me want to throw up.

darth_ender said:

I agree with your last two sentences very much.

I'm sorry I make you guys want to throw up.

 If I understand your situation correctly, Frink, your child would not have been able to survive outside the womb. Therefore you wouldn't make them want to throw up.

I look forward to hearing your replies later on. Meanwhile, I've gotta go for a few hours.

We could invent a new piece: the lynx.

It would be able to move two squares forward or backwards, and could capture twice. It would be weaker than the lion in that it wouldn't be able to switch direction, but it would still be able to jump over other pieces.

What do you think? :)

Umm...wrong thread?

Your hero! Now that's tempting...

Unfortunately, I'm not much of a Calvin & Hobbes fan (it isn't that I dislike it, I just never got into it). Otherwise I would be willing to humour you. :)

Haha, no worries. :)

Note that I added the gold general, so when you make a mock-up, make sure you put it in there. :) If you agree with having it in there, what should it promote to?

Assuming we're starting over, I'll make the first move of SC-7.

EDIT: Pardon me, I'm starting on the wrong side of the board! SC-22 is what I meant.

Don't be mean!

I get it now.

What if the order of pieces went as follows?:

King

Ramshead Soldier

Gold General

(space)

(space)

Silver Cannon

Lance

(space)

Goose

Knight

Iron General

Pawn

Let me know what you think. This allows for any piece except for the king to move on the first turn. After the first move is made, the moves will still be limited, but not as much.

EDIT: One problem with this, though, is that you end up with eight extra squares. That might increase the game length, but then again, the increased mobility at the beginning might make up for it.

Funny, but Username is still my first choice.

doubleofive said:

Username: Username
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Location: Location
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Interests: Interests

 Now all I need is a new username. :)

I may not be understanding the rules correctly, so I want to make sure I know how the jumps work. I thought iron generals could move forward one or two squares, provided there was no piece blocking them. However, you jumped over your pawn. Can you explain how that works, or let me know if you just made a mistake?

My move is N-9

LOL, I should have picked up on that! :D

I am definitely considering that as a username now...

I could go ALL CAPS...but it would still be too similar. Where does "Username" spend most of his time? I don't remember seeing him around, so if we never cross paths, it could work. I don't know if it's possible to have the same username as someone else and just change the letters to uppercase though. If there wasn't another one already, I would have done it...

I love that idea, Neverar!

How about something original guys! it doesn't have to be a variation of ShutterAndy.... :)

darth_ender said:

Why didn't I think of that?!  Brilliant!  I'll put together a mockup pronto.  I suggest you write the piece moves and their opposite faces with their moves off to the side as a reminder.  And as before, we should note when a piece is promoting and to what, so that we can keep each other on track.  I'd like to start the game with 22 cells (six cells between us).  

I already have it set up like that! :)

We can also try a 23 cell game.  I also would hope to try a few other alternatives: possible different or additional pieces (I've been tempted to add a lion to the game, and I want to change the knight, but I'm not sure how best to do so yet).  Any ideas you have are extremely welcome.

 I'm sure the ideas will come once we start playing. Meanwhile, I don't have any. It won't be too hard to add pieces and whatnot, but I'm not too enthusiastic about a lion unless you plan on changing the way it moves. Keep in mind that we are playing on a small board, and a piece that can jump over other pieces, and move up to three squares both forwards and backwards (if you go with "two squares diagonally equals three squares forward and backward in Ito Shogi") would be very destructive. Perhaps a piece like the lion in that it could capture twice (but never move more than two squares), but I would suggest such a piece wouldn't be able to switch direction in a turn or jump over other pieces.

February 10:

A.D. 1355: St. Scholastica's Day riot breaks out at Oxford, resulting in the deaths of more than 90 people.

A.D. 1635: Cardinal Richelieu founds Academie Française in Paris.

A.D. 1763: The Treaty of Paris ends the French-Indian War, giving Canada over to Britain.

I can't imagine having that name.... It would be hilarious though.

DominicCobb said:

"The Poster Formerly Known as Ric Olie 2"

 Too long. Why don't we shorten that to "Formerly"? :)

doubleofive said:

Here's 900 or so suggestions, but I like ShutterAndy

 I stopped after "BOO BOO KITTY PIE." :)

I want a name designed specifically for me. So far, ShutterAndy isn't too bad.

I don't get many references, irregardless of whether they're old or new, so don't feel too badly. ;)

TV's Frink said:

 That guy looks unnervingly like someone I know, right down to the way he smiles. He's not the type to be giving the finger though. :)

I've completed a mock-up of Ito Shogi in Microsoft Excel. The advantage of using excel is that it's easy as pie to insert extra rows into the board, or copy and paste to create multiple variations of it on the same spreadsheet. So whenever you finish your mock-up, I'll be ready to play. :)

generalfrevious said:

I wish I could just go back in time and stop that decision from ever being made. There is no safe stance on this issue anymore. The church will rant and rant forever about abortion, and in the end it will be an either/ or situation: the mother or the child. The church says our country permits abortion up until birth; the law says up until viability.

Actually, the "Church" doesn't say that, because the Church is spread across the world, not just America. In Canada, for instance, there are absolutely NO laws restricting abortion. A baby/fetus can be killed up until the moment of birth up here. It is funded by the government and tax payers' money to top it off.

The church says that rape victims have no choice but to carry to term.

The argument for that is summed up as: "why commit a violence because a violence was done to you?" There are problems, but the idea is pretty much that it is better to give a baby up for adoption than to kill it.

I don't what is true anymore. It has become more important in Roman Catholicism than Jesus himself.

I believe Pope Francis has hit the nail on the head with his statements about forgetting about these issues and instead focusing on loving one another.

Middle grounds don't exist anymore: you always have to choose between one of several unpleasant and reprehensible extremes. I hate Christianity and want to kill myself.

 Well that's extreme... I pray that you don't actually mean that, GF.