The person who made the first chess board and pieces made the queen the most powerful piece on the board to make the game difficult, since people would lose interest in it quickly if anybody could do well at it the first time they played without trying.
The queen is the most powerful piece in chess because the queen can do things no other piece can do, the queen has always had more freedom than any any other chess piece. Think of what you could get done in chess if more pieces had the freedom to make as many different moves as the queen makes. Theres too many people that think life is exactly like chess or monopoly, that it's all a game for everybody.
by Solid Mantis October 10, 2020
The coronavirus didn't change life for everybody. It was never strong enough, and life is worth losing.
If you know who doesn't want things to return to the way they were before the coronavirus, you know who's been benefitting the most from the country getting closer and closer to a totalitarian state.
by Solid Mantis April 13, 2021
Mountains->Foothills-->Piedmont->Sand hills->Beach
The zone between Piedmont/foothills and the beach, home to several military bases and more pine trees than you can count.
The zone between Piedmont/foothills and the beach, home to several military bases and more pine trees than you can count.
by Solid Mantis February 05, 2018
by Solid Mantis December 02, 2020
Different than calibrating.
I'm trying hard to think of you as a gangster now, I dont want to underestimate you. It's an adjustment, you really were a dork 25 to 30 years ago, but some people believe that people change, and you try and adjust to how their beliefs are impacting everything and everyone around them, as they become their evil alter ego and are no longer who they were growing up any more.
by Solid Mantis April 14, 2020
At what point is cheating not cheating, when the teams with the most fans (Dodgers or Yankees) get the titles from all the other teams? Its interesting how the Dodgers haven't started investigating the Nationals (yet), but there's a bandwagon of support for investigating the Astros and Red Sox.
The World Series scandal went from nobody but Dodgers fans and Yankees fans having a problem with the outcome of the last few World Series to everybody wanting people out of the league and losing everything overnight. There's a lot of people who don't give something much thought until everybody else does.
by Solid Mantis February 09, 2020
Not everybody you meet in life is your friend, therefore it's unrealistic to think everybody will live together as friends if they never have.
Not everybody is your friend, and there's no good reason to trust somebody who thinks you need to unify with enemies.
by Solid Mantis November 07, 2020