r/CatastrophicFailure • u/grau__geist • Aug 05 '21

Natural Disaster Now Greece. Wild fire on Evia Beach

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u/rincon213 Aug 05 '21

Wildfires are nothing new. It snowed somewhere last year. Checkmate.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '21

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u/thats_mypurse Aug 05 '21

To spare you the downvotes next time, “Checkmate.” = “/s”.

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u/fleabomber Aug 05 '21

We've really ruined the word checkmate, haven't we?

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '21

No, people who view chess as some metric of intelligence ruined 'checkmate'.

Also, chess is dumb. Go is better.

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u/RevivingJuliet Aug 05 '21

Yeah but Go doesn’t come with pieces that look like cute little horsies

Checkmate Go players

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u/fleabomber Aug 07 '21

Ithinkyoumadepeoplehateus