March: 3D chess
Musk’s secret baby with musician (and my queen) Grimes was revealed in March—accidentally, through a Vanity Fair profile—shortly before he got covid, suggested he would create his own version of Twitter (yeah, about that…), and pretended to have a humongous, extraordinary brain because he likes to play The Battle of Polytopia
But Kotaku staffer Sisi Jiang wasn’t impressed with Musk’s supposedly “much more complex version of chess,” as he called it.
“Polytopia is not as complex as Musk described,” Jiang wrote. “There were more opponents than in a chess game, but its difficulty was inherently constrained by the number of possible actions per turn. Polytopia is an approachable game for newcomers to the civilization builder genre, but it’s definitely not what I expected from the so-called ‘Player of Games.’”
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