Bureaucracy is good and this is stupid.
I get what you mean, but I think bureaucracy is an inherently negative term.
I’d say policy and legislation can be good. Bureaucracy is policy that overcomplicates things.
Of course, what people call bureaucracy entirely depends on their incentives. For a CEO anything that makes it harder for him to increase profits (like privacy laws) would be bureaucracy.
Not always. If you really need to keep track of several things, then it’s a necessity. The real question is whether some things actually need to be tracked.
The thing is that a lot of bureaucracy feels like it’s been weaponized in order to piss off people - I nearly didn’t get my current job because of that, I was asked for my PIS/PASEP number (Brazilian thing), but the bank didn’t have the means to print a whole ass official document stating that my number was whatever, I was literally given a photo of the manager’s screen checking their system, showing my data and said number. When I went to give my documents to my new employer, they looked at the number without any “official” paper and were like “no, this is invalid”.
Hi, excuse me, but it looks like you dropped this: /s
Nope. Bureaucracy is how you keep a society functioning. There’s nothing inherent in it that makes it bad or inflexible. That’s just poorly implemented bureaucracy.
I never understood the hate on the civil service.
Their job is to implement policy that they never themselves enacted and even their political masters point at them and say, “huh, what can ya do?”.
Because they do have power over you if you are beholden to them and it’s such a pain in the ass to sue to get what should be lawfully given to you, like benefits, unemployment etc. that a lot of the time they get away with doing a terrible job leaving vulnerable people stranded. Add to this that a lot of the poor, foreigners or simply overworked don’t know how to sue or don’t have the capacity to on top of all the other things they have going on at the same time to deal with all the bullshit bureaucrat throw their way and yeah I get why a lot of them are hated.
i think nore that the reason they are hated is because capitalist told people to hate them since like forever. Capitalists dont want rules for their buiseness, it all just means less profit. not to mention that they need to keep the narrative alive that anyone working for any kind of goverment is instantly lazy ofc
edit: and ofc it is always annoying to deal with it, since it is always a chore.
bureaucracy is essential. start thinking lmao
My take: Just add time and different scenery.
Some pieces couldn’t move at night. Some could only move on grass land, some other only within woods or rocky mountains. And then there is a catapult where you can shoot pieces randomly back on the board.If we are modding chess.
Make board 10x10 add two pawns, and add a prince and princess.
Cross between king/knight/pawn and queen/pawn.
Prince moves like knight but only into an unoccupied square, takes like a king, but only moves forward like a pawn, can move back one square when taking.
Princess moves like a queen but only forward, like a pawn.
Princess moves like a queen but only forward, like a pawn.
So…forward or diagonal but not sideways or backward? Interesting, does she take a crown at the end?
I think side ways is OK. No backwards.
Haven’t thought it through too much, promotion would have to be play tested.
I like this idea, think if we can already have the king switch with the rook, maybe a similar mechanic with the princess sort of summoning the queen to blast everyone or vice versa
The Priest. It moves like a bishop, but it can only capture pawns (doesn’t matter which team, pawns from his own team are fair game for the Priest). The US is weird, they call it “the republican”.
Call it the Pedo not the Priest. Same function though.
Can it perform an il vaticano with a normal bishop?
Yes, and normal bishops don’t consider it an ennemy when it eats pawns of the same color
I want a piece that can push other pieces, friendly or not
The Cardinal.
Unending has a bunch of piece-pushing (and you must get enemies to push each other for you to survive)!
duck chess
yep
The duck is shared and can be moved every turn. The beaurocrat sounds like it exists on a side and requires a turn to move.
The Landlord: any square it touches becomes blocked and can no longer be used in the match. It can start from any square and then move to any square adjacent to any square in its domain.
it starts out only being able to move every x turns, but as it gains squares, it speeds up
Exponentially!
“No, you’re doing it wrong”
The toilet’s always leaking, but it’s because you’re not flushing correctly.
The Schemer, moves like a King, but attacks like a Queen. That way it only moves around the board slowly, until it can strike. Escape is tricky as it can’t move fast when not attacking, so it needs to enlist the support of other pieces to cover it’s moves.
It should start in place of the King’s bishop, whispering intreague in his ear.
So for example: A Knight is 5 spaces away. The Schemer can move 5 spaces to take it, but if it doesn’t, it can only move 1 space?
That’s the idea. Powerwise I figure it falls below the queen, but still has the potential to suddenly attack across the board. The downside being, it’s then potentially quite vulnerable as it can only move one square at a time to get away, unless it can attack again.
A glass cannon for sure. I love it!
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Isn’t that just the duck mode on chess.com?
Which is fun but it needs more player.
Yup.
The spy. It takes the form of one of your pawns but only you know which pawn is the spy.
If the spy kills a piece the way a regular pawn does, it ceases being a spy and reverts to bring a regular pawn.
If you position the spy on one side of an enemy piece with another of your pawns on the other side of it, you can recruit the piece as a pawn on your side (regardless of what class it was)
Kings and Queens are immune to spies.
When a spy is killed, any pieces it recruited are reverted to enemy pawns.
A similar variation is hidden queens
The Heir. Moves like a queen, but only captures as a Knight. Takes the place of the bishop of your choice at the beginning of the game.
You can call it Vogon Chess.
Oh freddled gruntbuggly,
Thy micturations are to me,
As plurdled gabbleblotchits. On a lurgid bee,
That mordiously hath blurted out,
Its earted jurtles, grumbling
Into a rancid festering confectious organ squealer.
Now the jurpling slayjid agrocrustles,
Are slurping hagrilly up the axlegrurts,
And living glupules frart and stipulate,
Like jowling meated liverslime,
Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes,
And hooptiously drangle me,
With crinkly bindlewurdles.
Or else I shall rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon,
See if I don’t!
My ears! My eyes!
Grab your towel.
Would Vogons even like Chess, or any game that didn’t involve smashing something to bits and eating it?
I imagine to get a Vogon to play Chess, you would have to get a specially requested form signed in triplicate across 12 different divisions of the Chess Department (A sub-department of the Entertainment and Leisure Department, a department that only one middle manager knows about, and he’s on Annual Leave today), one for each type of piece for the game, and again for each colour. After a period of 18 months they will maybe approve your request for the forms you need to fill in to request a game of Chess with one specific Vogon, who will then be asked to fill in another form (also signed in triplicate) to accept the challenge.
By the time you get to actually sitting down to start the chess match, you realise you didn’t mention on the form who was going to go first, so you have to pack everything up and start the process all over again!
You’d have a faster and livelier time playing 6 hour session of Monopoly with humans from this backwater planet
Actually a great modernization of the game, the two sides want to wage war or battle over the crown but politics prevents it unless they deal with politicians first.
Also incredibly boring, though.
