They get to the bottom of whether chess against a grandmaster could be won with remote-controlled sex toys

  • HubertManne
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    667 months ago

    I mean no study is really conclusive without reproducibility. I should probably study it as well.

  • @NocturnalMorning
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    597 months ago

    Do yourself a favor and watch the video. However funny you think it is, it’s better.

  • @RubberElectrons
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    487 months ago

    I don’t care who you are, this shit is genuine cyberpunk comedy.

  • @[email protected]
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    477 months ago

    It’s all fun and games, until you have to explain to a person you are playing chess with, that you just orgasmed because of the vibrating butt plug, you are using to cheat at said chess match.

    • @PoastRotato
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      317 months ago

      Is that better or worse than explaining that you just orgasmed because you just love playing chess?

      • @Plopp
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        87 months ago

        Yes, yes, YES!

    • Patapon Enjoyer
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      297 months ago

      “If you don’t nut during the match you aren’t fit to be a grandmaster.” (Anatoly Karpov)

  • FuglyDuck
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    7 months ago

    I mean, they have vibrating but plugs, that can be controlled remotely by an app. Each move would be instructed with 2 number pairs. Each pair represents a square on the board- normally they’re identified by letters running left to right (from white’s perspective,) a-h, and a number 1-8 (white’s home row is 1).

    The first pair is the starting position, the second pair is the final position, so you pulse out four numbers with a pause between them, and that communicates the move.

    The person with the remote app (that can be used across the internet, for the record,) watched a live feed and plugs in the move an opponent makes, and reports back the chess ai’s move.

    Bzzt-bzzt—bzzt-bzzt-bzzt-bzzt-bzzt—bzzt-bzzt-bzzt—bzzt-bzzt-bzzt-bzzt-bzzt-

    Would instruct a move from the pawn in E2 to move to e3,

    Just a guess; though, these guys just wanted to shove a vibrator up their ass… no judgment.

    • @[email protected]
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      147 months ago

      If you had a pitch perfect butt, you could pulse different frequencies to make the transmission faster. Ideally 8 tones, so just 4 pulses each time.

      • @Wrench
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        57 months ago

        Or just Morse code

    • @CookieOfFortune
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      107 months ago

      You only need one buzz: This position is good or this position is bad. That’s all a top level player needs.

    • BarqsHasBite
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      7 months ago

      E2 to E3 would be (I’m changing the numbers to just count out the buzzes to make it easier. E is one short buzz.):

      Buzz. Buzz buzz.

      Buzz. Buzz buzz buzz.

      (Now imagine the old notation “King’s Bishop takes Queen’s Knight”)

      • FuglyDuck
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        47 months ago

        for the record, it’s not any formal notation. but the board is a grid of 8x8. I should have put it as 5x buzzes for ‘e’, and 2x’ buzzes for 2, but, uh, y’all get the idea. (so my sample is actually 2e to 3e, but details)

        there’s actually no need from a move-calling perspective to identify what is on that square, or what’s on the square that’s being taken. There might be for tournament rules in chess, though, since the scorecard is a record of play for things. I’m just pointing out the technical feasibility of it.

        • BarqsHasBite
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          27 months ago

          I have no idea what you’re saying. The letter E in Morse is one short buzz.

          The old way to denote moves didn’t use the grid notation. It called the pieces “King’s Bishop” and “to” or “takes” then describes the piece being taken. The joke is imagine typing that out in morse code, instead of the much shorter letter and number.

          • FuglyDuck
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            7 months ago

            I have no idea what you’re saying. The letter E in Morse is one short buzz.

            I’m not using morse. I’m using a direct encoding of numbers to letters. basically its a coordinate system- 2,5 - 3,5.

    • @[email protected]
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      27 months ago

      You’d also want to make use of long buzzes so you don’t need 8 buzzes for the last row or column

    • @[email protected]
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      17 months ago

      You also wouldn’t need to give every move. The difference between a grandmaster and a super grand master might just be a few moves. You could just indicate which piece to move and the player could infer the rest. Or just indicate whether to take or not.

  • @jopepa
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    197 months ago

    Light the Piped Bot Signal

  • @[email protected]
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    167 months ago

    It’s Always Sunny had an episode like this. Now I know it’s based on a real story. How rare.

    • @[email protected]
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      107 months ago

      I’m surprised you hadn’t heard of it, it was pretty widely published as one might guess from the topic.

      • @[email protected]
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        17 months ago

        I probably had, but I also probably erased it with some beer later. These days I only know and retain YAML.

  • edric
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    117 months ago

    Lmao I love how his first major worry was not putting the vibrator in his ass, but if it’s safe to keep it in there for an entire chess match.

  • @[email protected]
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    107 months ago

    What if they just played the match in a Faraday cage? That should effectively block any signals afaik.

    • @Maalus
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      37 months ago

      People will find other ways to cheat. You can’t really prepare for everything. That’s why a buttplug remote control was in the news. Some years ago, one chess player was accused of hiding a chess engine in her lipstick, since she used it a lot as a tick.

  • @hesusingthespiritbomb
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    107 months ago

    Look I’m traditionally of the argument that societal degradation narratives are overblown, but the fact that videos where people shove things up their own ass seem to be getting more common every year is a pretty good point in favor of them.

  • @[email protected]
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    57 months ago

    Some Scandinavian journalists did the same thing last year at the time of the scandal as well.