Lackadaisy Stratagem (Animated Short)
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Published 2024-01-28
Mordecai and Viktor demonstrate practical strategies for neatly wrapping up a chess match.
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Missing from the credits:
Production Manager - Ashe Wagner - twitter.com/thequeencryptid
Background Design - Kasey Schiavone - twitter.com/kasettetape
Special thanks to the Translation Team:
Spanish Language Translation - Walter Tomas Vitola - twitter.com/Realizer_367
Spanish Language Proofreading - Nerlyn “Tomb” Galan - twitter.com/GravewriterN
French Language Translation - Marie “Eseralie” Leininger - www.instagram.com/eseralie_art/
French Language Translation - Charlotte “Isyldia” Abert - twitter.com/Isyldia
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All Comments (21)
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"Where'd you learn to play? In a cave?" "In a TRENCH." That line was COLD.
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A LOT of soldiers became extremely proficient at chess in the trenches. WWI was often weeks/months of extreme boredom broken by sudden outbursts of mind-shattering horror.
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Art before: Dogs playing Poker. Art now: Cats playing Chess.
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"In a TRENCH..." It's amazing how one simple line can teach you so many things about someone...
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Of course, a cat can't play chess without knocking the pieces off of the table. Classic
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Mordecai listing every strategy that Viktor could possibly be using and Viktor just saying “Viktor. Takes. Your. Bishop.” is a whole mood and I’m here for it
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"The main thing that puts me off of playing chess is that there is 2000 years of gameplay that hundreds of people with higher IQs than me have spend thousands of hours studying the history of, so much that when I put the pawn forward they say 'Ah, I see you're going for the bulgarian somersault.' and then I try to take their bishop with my knight and they go 'Ah, rookie mistake, you've played the frenchmans cumsock, and in approximately 37 moves I'll have won.'" Anon
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Props to Sung-Won Cho for saying all those strategy names without cracking up.
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Never in my life have I been excited to watch two cats play chess lmao
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This is the most intense chess game ever recorded in Lackadaisy history.
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"Viktor. Takes. Your. Bishop." Do we need a better explanation for his strategy? He was kind enough to give it.
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I love how absolutely LAYERED the in a trench comment is. Viktor just tried to bluntly remind Mordecai that he once spent years fighting in the worst conditions imaginable and that he should know better than to annoy him. I wonder if he threw the chessboard because he was genuinely insulted or just frustrated that Mordecai missed the threat.
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I like to imagine that Viktor isn't even bad at chess (he was one figure ahead) but Mordecai is so baffled by his moves, that he uses his strategy of insulting the opponent XD
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Sungwon becoming the official voice for Mordecai is the best thing that has happened to Lackadaisy
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"The ballistic aspect of this game" is a phrase which will now officially join my lexicon.
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i find it very funny that mordecai is so expressive with his tail, in comparison to viktor, whose tail doesn't move at all. even though mordecai likes to play poker face, viktor's the real deal
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"Where'd you learn to play? In a cave?" "In a TRENCH." Made me audibly fangirl
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I see lots of compliments being paid to the voice actors and animators, so a quick shout-out to the music and sound teams - the broom shuffle, the snowfall, the click and clatter of the pieces & board, the slow-waltzing ragtime - chef’s kiss to it all.
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The fact that Viktor is a world war 1 veteran, and horrifical traumatized by it, makes Mordecai's trivialization of his chess education all the more vicious.
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He knocked off the chess set from the table. This really is a show about cats.
