wizardbeard

One unfortunate thing to bear in mind is that school shooting and gun violence stats are pumped up somewhat by gun suicides by people on school grounds.

Even with that in mind, this whole thing is absolutely disgusting and absurd.

Not sure that qualifies as "outrage". It reads more like disgust to me.

From beyond the grave, MF Doom finds his next album cover.

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The term Ante in the game is used instead of "round" or "level". It's a measure of how far you've gotten. Each "ante" is made up of three "stakes", point totals you need to beat in a set number of hands played and cards discarded.

There's no aspect of choosing how much you risk, of "ante-ing up", or how much you stake. You either beat the points goal (called "chips") or you lose. There's no playing of your hand against other hands, bluffing about how good your hand may be to convince others to fold, etc. It's just you against the score goal. If you beat it faster than the amount of hands you're given to work with you get extra rewards.

The game has no elements where you stake chips for rewards or anything like that. It borrows basic elements of scoring mechanics from poker, and uses a lot of poker terms for other purposes, but the closest part to gambling is the ability to buy random card packs between rounds (to customize your deck instead of just having the standard 52 card deck).

In between rounds you have access to buy various things to add further modifiers to your scoring, and to adjust the composition of your deck in order to make getting specific combinations more likely.

You can learn most of this in about 5 minutes with the demo, or by taking some time to watch someone else play on youtube.

And people pretend that only American ratings systems pull this kind of bullshit.

While I don't disagree, whether or not something should be tracked has jack all to do with whether or not tracking it is surveillance.

Also, maybe don't just jump to the conclusion that someone is championing the idea that they should be allowed to be a raging shithead. You really went off on a tirade about a whole bunch of shit they weren't even implying.

The Venture Bros parody of him as "Mr. Impossible" wasn't quite as far into satire as people would think.

That's one hell of a conclusion to jump to. We've all got fucking eyes and can see the header, bozo.

If it was just some person's opinion, it would be posted as a Facebook screed, on a personal blog, Medium post, or Substack post. You get the picture. There's an infinite amount of places online to personally toss your own opinion up for the world to see.

While the opinion piece label is a very important disclaimer-- The New York Times reviewed, vetted, and made an active choice to publish this drivel and attach their name and reputation to it. Pretending that doesn't mean anything is a mistake.

Apologies in advance, I may have just discovered my personal inner schizo.

Don't forget that there is a massive, coordinated campaign to get us to eat our own by overemphasizing life differences in the range of poverty to upper middle class while shrouding the realities of life in the 1% amd underemphasizing the difference between "can send my kid to private school" and "could build a private school for my kid".

On its face it sounds absolutely absurd to lump in Ivy League Greg with Trailer Park Steve, but they both have far more in common with each other than they do with multi-millionaires. The knee jerk almost primal rejection of that idea that comes quickly to most people is fucking intentionally taught into us.