Talk:3268: Offside

IWantChechmate made a video on this exact subject. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucGhD2hC_6s&t=479s 107.128.24.23 01:28, 10 July 2026 (UTC)

Finally the site's back! GSLikesCats307 (talk) 09:36, 10 July 2026 (UTC)

"Cleats"? Them's studs, my guy. Yorkshire Pudding (talk) 12:12, 10 July 2026 (UTC)

Yeah, I know what you mean. "Cleats", to me, suggests rows of linear (mostly transverse) protusions, like on the bottom of walking boots/shoes (though modern ones of those also go for 'studded' elements), rather than clumps of spikes/truncated-spikes.

But I suspect we're separated-by-a-common-language, again, with the 'Merkin terminology being otherwise. 82.132.236.148 14:22, 10 July 2026 (UTC)

Could this be related to "Chess But You Can't Go Offside" by iwantcheckmate, which came out a couple days before the comic? They seem closely related in theme and time, in a way I haven't seen anywhere else, but at the same point they also seem to have slightly different interpretations of the offside rule (this comic seems to interpret it by the rank of defenders, while the video interprets it by board distance to the nearest defender). 198.73.70.136 18:34, 10 July 2026 (UTC)