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Just today I got to see a chess book that I remember reading as a little kid. While it didn't give me a lifelong passion for chess, it did give me a lifelong passion for fantasy for its artwork.

The book is "Chess for Young Beginners" from 1975, and here's some of the artwork:

Like, this artwork goes hard. I especially appreciate the colour scheme for the black pieces, with its browns, bronzes, reds and oranges.

This artwork is amazing, evocative, exciting and dramatic. I recommend giving it a look if you have a chance - you can probably scrounge up a PDF of this thing with a bit of searching.

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the author's barely disguised hobbies and interests

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was the dilbert guy always like this or did the power of creating dilbert fry his brain

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Many Bosmer will find you getting your ass kicked to be a hilarious sight and will often point and laugh.

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another banger from dril

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Me, calling in to my shift supervisor: Gooooooood morning! Are we ready for another super splendiferous day with the public?! ����

Her: That is too much energy

Me: It iiiiiis fake!! 😀

Her: Still too much energy

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honestly worst part of death of forums for me personally has been that finding niche discord groups for my special interests is like 95% a guaranteed miss where they sort of are about the niche thing I care about but far more are about discussing the already wildly successful, popular, and easily discovered thing that is related to it, but because it's still nominally a niche group you had to get personally invited and now you're hanging around awkwardly

also the active channels are #general and #vent. yay.

if these were forums I would just skim them and return to the links page of whatever blog i was reading

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I do feel kind of grimly vindicated that now that the dust has settled the number 1 usage for generative AI art is, indeed, making absolute worthless slop that makes everything online worse

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watching Seven Samurai

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Day 1 LADYBUG! My October daily drawing returns! This year it is 31 days of BEETLE FAIRIES! I'll get a list up if you want to join in, but we're starting with a ladybug! Or Ladybird Beetle

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Chapter 73 is up! You are not immune to keekat.

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i started playing skyward sword and i am in love with their love

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