• kinkles@sh.itjust.works
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    Two players draw their battalions on opposite corners of the paper, both with the same number of outward facing tanks. Player 1 places a pen on one of their tanks and then an index finger on top, like you see in the comic. You then flick the pen and try to get it in the other player’s ass. However far it gets, you mark the end and then it’s the other player’s turn.

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      Cool! Thanks for the explanation. I thought maybe each player got a certain set linear distance per move and the objective was to intercept or evade to engage.

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        There’s a pen-and-paper game called Racetrack, in which people can move the ‘cars’ a certain amount according to acceleration/braking, turning and inertia. It simulates the physics of actual racing remarkably well, better than many video games. There are both web and mobile implementations of the game.

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              It had a link to search for “racetrack (game)” that then went to the actual article. Seemed weird but I got there and assume others did

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                This might be true perhaps; but the crux of the matter is that I shouldn’t do more than the traditional human-oriented escaping of the addresses, which relies extensively on plain and friendly backslashes, instead of devilish and time-consuming machine-produced percent-codes.

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                  Browsers would only escape parentheses in the address bar using the percent method until some time in the 2010s so many web users don’t remember it. I agree that there should be an easier way for the writer but at least with a working hyperlink (which can currently only be made with %28 and %29), the experience is smooth for the reader.

                  Maybe a bot can be made to detect these errors on Lemmy? Another pitfall with Wikipedia links is the m. in mobile URLs that does not redirect to the desktop version (as opposed to the other way around) - a Reddit bot existed for this - so perhaps one can be made with both functions.

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                    I’m happy to report that Wikipedia seems to have dropped the ‘m.’ prefix, and finally detects the device capabilities instead.