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The only winning move is not to play.
by johnyzee 9mo ago
The only winning move is not to play.
- lapetitejort 9mo agoHow about a nice trip on a train?
- shermantanktop 9mo agoDepends. How’s the Amtrak chess bot?
- bink 9mo agoUnderfunded and constantly side-tracked by cargo bots.
- chasil 9mo ago...and the Murderbots that have disabled their governor modules. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Murderbot_Diaries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Murderbot_Diaries
- runarberg 9mo agoI think the Amtrak way is to bring a physical chess board and challenge human strangers over a nice cup of coffee in the observation car.
- shermantanktop 9mo agoThe Puget Sound ferries often have a partially-done jigsaw puzzle on one of the tables. You can't finish it in 30m, so people come and do their part and move on. Eventually someone will put in the last piece, I guess, I've never seen it happen.
- rmunn 9mo agoMy last visit to Seattle was in 1998 so I can't confirm this firsthand, but I would bet that when someone finishes the jigsaw, ferry staff bring out a new one.
- runarberg 9mo agoUsually somebody just scrambles it again, but they are regularly rotated. I don’t have a precise measure, but I would guess every couple of weeks or so.
- runarberg 9mo agoI love those. I have finished one (well it was missing a couple of pieces), between West-Seattle and Vashon, and what was better was that I contributed to the puzzle earlier on the way from Vashon.
- renewiltord 9mo agoThen stop for 56 hours to allow freight to go by.
- dyauspitr 9mo agoI don’t have 5 days to travel across the country.
- nimih 9mo ago[flagged]
- mattnewton 9mo agoThis wouldn’t bother me as much but it’s really like 5-7 days depending on freight use of the lines and they can’t tell you ahead of time what it’s going to be somehow?
- farialima 9mo ago- it’s 3 days not 5 (e.g leaving NYC Wednesday morning arriving SF Saturday evening) - the internet connection is excellent (even in most tunnels) so you can work, have video meetings, etc, not to mention play chess online
- dyauspitr 9mo agoLet’s be realistic. I love long distance train journeys, but mainly for recreation. Being on a train for 3-5 days is pretty exhausting no matter how comfortable. I’ve done the 30 day Amtrak pass before and it was fantastic but I wouldn’t be looking forward to that if it was a work trip where I want to fly in and then get back to my family as fast as possible. There’s no way that can compare to a 5-6 hour flight+2 hours at the airport.
- squeaky-clean 9mo agoThat's 4 days traveling. Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday. Arriving in the evening doesn't mean you didn't spend that day traveling.
- CursedSilicon 9mo agoI was rather disappointed by the internet connection on the Cascades line (going Seattle --> Portland and back). As far as I could tell, they use T-Mobile for backhaul. Who are headquartered in Seattle. Yet the connection barely seemed to work for about half of the journey