Member Of Species

@MemberOfSpecies Chess is about argumentation within a strictly defined system of norms, like law. It's not a glorious combat simulator.

@MemberOfSpecies Besides law, there's navigation of strictly stratified social structures, e.g. caste systems, feudalism, the Church, &c.

@MemberOfSpecies Because the problems to be simulated are already abstract, further abstracting them feels less like forging a simulacrum.

@willdoingthings It seems hard to have a sport that uses arms that turns into anything but an extended slap fight.

@MemberOfSpecies Handball. Ultimate. Tennis.

@willdoingthings Ultimate same thing.

@MemberOfSpecies FWIW the tweet I responded to was about slap fights, not unnaturalness of ball movement.

@willdoingthings "This universally popular thing is objectively unappealing from an evpsych perspective" is slightly a non-starter.