Kistaro Windrider @Kistaro@awoo.space

I have played a few hands of Three-Handed No against myself now using a 12-card deck, and I have concluded that:

* 12 cards is not enough for a 3-player trick-taking game although it's an interesting way to talk about auction strategy

* there's something here. There's a playable game in this and it may even be good.

I now have a very skeletal, primitive draft of this hybrid trick-taking/wagering game. I wanted a true wagering game, not a game where increased commitment to the pot just sort of happens as the game is played, but a game with more "play" and meat to it than pure poker. Comments appreciated: https://docs.google.com/document/d/150z52OJt6jiwt-tTROkKKT8q0K1Q02HKTU2o16ilk-A/edit?usp=sharing

I think I just invented an outline for a 3-player trick-taking wagering game, for those of us that like poker-style betting and bluffing but want a real game involved in settling it. I should draft out rules and find people to try this with and nail down the details.

A Detour for the next season of The Amazing Race: “Horse-Back Riding” or “Stick-Shift Driving”?

I am very much in favor of free speech, even that which I vehemently disagree with, because it drags idiocy out into the open. I am all in favor for protesting offensively bad and dehumanizing ideas. I am completely against violent means of spreading a message, regardless of how much I agree with the message, and I am completely against trying to "de-platform" someone scheduled to speak at a publicly-funded Federal facility because I am of the opinion that the First Amendment matters.

Imagine how much energy we could save if we invented light bulbs that only emitted photons that someone would meaningfully notice

A lot of TV is very different when you think of it as a series of avant-garde music videos for its own soundtrack

Confession: I am very pro-launching-cars-unnecessarily-into-space. We need freight launching tech to colonize another planet, we should never use technology for the first time on something we can’t afford to lose, but if it has no sentimental value, will the researchers be adequately emotionally invested into “just another test”? Eventually there is the “landmark test”: the first test that is truly 100% intended to succeed

The "predictive keyboard memes" keep showing me that my phone keyboards have learned an appalling amount of judgmental, negative self-training and groveling apologies for perceived flaw

Stash brand tea is weak and generally unimpressive

Okay, next task: bring in the groceries, then use them to assemble a grilled cheese sandwich with leftover rotisserie chicken

My life has one true, sincere goal:

Bring technology to the point where my brain can be transplanted into a giant lizard robot and be rejuvenated into immortal youth, then do it

I mean, it's a long term plan, but that's the basic idea