If There Was Any Justice To Chess, Becoming The World Chess Champion Would Let You Make One Small En-passant

if there was any justice to chess, becoming the world chess champion would let you make one small en-passant level rule change to the game for the duration of your reign. like Carlsen beats Anand and he is ceremonially cloaked with the King's Crown and the Scepter of Chess and he says "uhhh, thanks guys. as my first decree as Chess Champion, pawns on the A and H files can capture forwards as well as diagonally" and the crowd goes wild. and grimly, chess masters around the world throw out their plans for "Vishy's Chess, Openings and Theory, 3rd ed." and open a new word document titled "magnus_stupid_bullshit_chess_NOTES.docx" and start theorizing.

Just remembered that Samus Aran has genetic modifications, and then thought about her saying “Scott Steiner math” and now I’m surprised nobody ever uses that for incorrect quote memes cause like, “I’m a genetic freak, I’m not normal…” and “I got 141 2/3 chance of winning” are some insane quotes. Especially in full quotation

Alright new Brucie Wayne headcanon time.

We all know the classic “airheaded Brucie Wayne doesn’t understand the prices of everyday objects because of his wealth” take. We also generally know that even as Bruce Wayne he probably still has a fairly skewed understanding of what counts as affordable due to being in the rich part of the city. Realistically even as Batman he probably objectively knows what the economy of Gotham looks like for the most part but is still a little out of touch due to basically never going into a supermarket.

Now for the twist, what if during those years away training and basically becoming Ryu from Streets, he did end up learning the price of commodities like food and clothes, BUT he only knows it for other countries currency.

Imagine if that knowledge casually translated to Brucie, where he’s giving an interview or he’s on a tv show like jeopardy or family feud, and they ask him some question like “How much do you think it costs to buy 8 apples?” And Brucie Wayne just pulls out some random currency to approximate it. Almost nobody knows what the current exchange rate is between these different currencies off the top of their head and Brucie doesn’t seem to be able to convert it either.

It becomes a whole thing, where anytime someone asks Brucie how much something cheap costs he’ll answer in any other currency besides the U.S. Dollar.

Now imagine if someone decided to specify that his answer needs to be in USD, he just takes a moment stares off into the distance and when they decide to finally ask if he’s alright he just goes “oh no sorry, I just needed to convert it. It’d be about x amount of money USD.” Just completely blowing the concept that yes, Brucie Wayne is capable of converting between these random currency exchange rates off the top of his head, yes he can do math mentally, and yes he knows what the price of these everyday goods are, but only in other countries, thereby proving previous claims, that he was just getting lucky pulling random numbers off the top of his head, were false.

Even more remarkable is sometimes when it’s looked into, the only places with prices as low as Brucie suggests in that particular currency are basically slums which brings up a whole new slew of questions, like “WHY DOES BRUCIE WAYNE SEEM INTIMATELY FAMILIAR WITH THE SLUM PRICES OF THIS TINY TOWN IN ANOTHER COUNTRY”

Just adds a whole new dimension of lore to Brucie Wayne that Gothamites could go nuts over.

THIS BOOTHILL WANTER BECAME A BOOTHILL HAVER IN THE MOST BOOTHILL WAY POSSIBLE, MADE OFF LIKE A BANDIT, WE GOT BOOTHILL AT 32 PULLS.

Then I decided since it was so early I’d go for his light cone.

Bad news I lost the 50/50

Good news, I lost the 50/50 at 24 pity so I went again

Better news I got his lightcone at 20 pity.

Final results:

3 Five stars

- 1 Character at 32 pity: 40 pulls total

- 2 Weapons at 24 Pity and 20 Pity Respectively: 50 pulls total

Just to top it off, an absurd number of four stars

15 Four stars

- 2 Landaus Choice, 5 Secret Vow, 1 Subscribe for more, 1 Resolution

- 1 Pela, 1 Guinaifen, 1 Hook, 1 Tingyun, 1 Luka, 1 Qingque

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I’ve been going nuts listening to HalaCG’s “Gambler” song, if anyone has any recommendations for similar sounding pseudo-operatic songs. I need to hear them.