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Zach de la Rocha has a unique delivery that I always appreciate. I haven't heard anybody else who can scratch the same itch with one exception: Jeff Rosenstock on the verses of "Head".

Does anyone have any suggestions for any other songs/artists I should check out? I wouldn't be surprised if the political lyrics are a part of it, since recent politics have certainly made me want to yell angrily at nobody in particular.

Zach de la Rocha has a unique delivery that I always appreciate. I haven't heard anybody else who can scratch the same itch with one exception: Jeff Rosenstock on the verses of "Head".

Does anyone have any suggestions for any other songs/artists I should check out? I wouldn't be surprised if the political lyrics are a part of it, since recent politics have certainly made me want to yell angrily at nobody in particular.

I was looking at the Wikipedia article for the Vienna Game (which begins 1. e4 e5 2. Nc3). In this article, it is asserted that the continuation 2... Nf3 3.f4 is NOT the Vienna gambit. Quoting from Wikipedia:

"The term 'Vienna Gambit' is frequently used incorrectly to refer to the equivalent move in the Falkbeer Variation (2. ...Nf6 3.f4)."

Wikipedia editors claim that the Vienna gambit is only after 2. ...Nc6 3. f4.

How strict is the chess community about naming conventions? It seems very assertive to claim that the most popular name is incorrect, since I feel like the name of an opening should almost by definition be the thing most people call it.

Edit: When writing the post, I assumed that this was a "technically correct" chess nerd, but nobody has been able to find any evidence to support the claim! I also saw some discussion on "talk". Here is a link to the actual edit on September 4, 2025: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vienna_Game&diff=prev&oldid=1309550336

I'm a mathematician and we are frequently throwing prefixes on words to create new terms. I got confused the other day when I read "unirational" as "un-irrational" instead of "uni-rational". There are also some decisions to make with terms like "cocircuit" and "nonnegative", which are sometimes spelled with a hyphen and sometimes not (deciding whether to write "cocircuit" or "co-circuit" is what inspired this question).

1. It may be un-necessary sometimes, but it is never harmful. Despite my bizarre spelling, I bet the first sentence wasn't hard to read. It might be slightly jarring if you have never seen it before, but would probably be easy to get used to as an alternate spelling.
2. It would be easier for English readers/learners to understand the connections between words. Compare the following two sets: {apple, atypical, antics, apolitical, atoll, abiotic}, {apple, a-typical, antics, a-political, atoll, a-biotic}. It's much easier in the second set to understand the 3 words that share a common etymological idea.
3. The stakes are remarkably low. There is a very good argument that the number pi should be re-defined to be twice as large. However, attempting to correct this oversight would cause an incredible amount of confusion from people who are used to the old way. Even if you can argue that a system is objectively better, it is often challenging to change a standard that people are used to. However, spelling words with hyphens just makes them easier to read and interpret. No-body would be forced to write in any particular way. It would just be encouraged as the current standard.

The only issue I can think of is that reading books from the past would become more difficult once we are used to the new way of spelling. I just feel like: why not show the stitch mark between words? I guess another concern is that it might encourage new pronunciations for things like "no-thing", but that feels more neutral than negative.

For both this game and the orignal, "Free to play this turn" has meant "next play this turn is free".

Have a fun hologram plan? Sorry, the card was lying.

Just realized you had an infinite? Nope, lying again.

Ooo feral can play this big attack potion card twice! Not for free it can't.

This would never be considered acceptable in Slice & Dice (the only other roguelike strategy game I'd rate S tier). I like the way that the cards currently work, but I just wish that they didn't use such misleading wording.