Star Trek 3D chess has those floating 4 square mini-boards which are moveable.
Thinking about the chess on a sliding number puzzle game …
Would a turn consist of moving a piece OR moving a tile never both, or should it be AND where both are required, or should it be one or both at player’s choice? For any of the both options, which comes first: piece, tile, or player’s choice?
How do pieces move across the empty space? As if isn’t there, or is it an impenetrable obstacle that not even a knight can overfly on the way to a real space?
There are a lot of rabbit holes here if somebody wanted to seriously noodle on game play.
Chess. With just a hint of Calvinball. 
Another What If animation. I’ve occasionally brought up thought experiments like “what if you had a gram of electrons in one place?” The answer is that bad things happen. But… what if the entire Moon were made of electrons?
Damn I wish he would still write anything long form. I really don’t like vids.
As far as I know, all his videos are dramatizations of long form text entries. This is the one about the electron moon.
Most of his What If articles he writes now, he saves them for his books. Some of the videos have been made from articles that were only in the books, never on the website.
Thanks. I’ve got a couple of the books. This is his job and he needs to make a living at it.
But somehow society can run advertising supported video streaming but not advertising-supported text webpages?
Put some pants on, for cripes sakes!
It can. It’s just that the pages would be like What if I had a Coca-Cola Zero Sugar X Star Wars BB8 Collectible Bottle, except filled with electrons?.
“Welcome to the Linguistics Department - It has been [2] [DAYS] since someone noticed that the Biology Department sign has a one-day-long singular/plural disagreement after it resets.”
COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT: It’s been <electronic rolling sign>[4d09h24m33s]</electronic rolling sign> since we noticed that the Linguistics Department’s sign is incorrect a significant fraction of every day unless they roll over the days number at local midnight; which they do not. The Biology Department suffers that same bug, but at a different time of day.
We can hardly wait to see what happens when DST ends.
Would the # of days roll over at midnight, or at the time of the occurrence?
Brian
My own personal opinion:
The day of the incident is day zero.
Day one starts at the following midnight.
At the end of day one, the next midnight, you can put up the sign “1 day since [incident]”
LINGUISTICS DEPARTMENT addendum: It’s been [5][DAYS] since we had an argument about whether the word “days” in the Computer Science Department sign should have an apostrophe or not.
LITERATURE DEPARTMENT: It has been [40,000] [DAYS] since Franz Kafka did a better job of that than the Biology Department ever will.
Anyone else notice that there’s only hooks for one digit on the sign?
I mean, you could have number placards with two-digit (and perhaps even three-digit, if you use a narrow font) numbers. But honestly, one digit is probably all they’ll ever need.
“Mantle plumes explain Hawaii, Yellowstone, Iceland, the East African Rift, the Adirondack uplift, the Permian extinction, the decline of Rome, the DB Cooper hijacking, and the balrog in Moria. Those little hills of sand in your yard are caused by antle plumes.”
The end of that is actually one of my nightmares - that somewhere, somewhen, a universe-destroying event occurred that’s expanding outward at the speed of light, and one day, with no warning whatsoever (because how can there be?), we’ll all simply pop out of existence, and there’s nothing we can possibly do about it.
OTOH there’s also this POV …