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How To Avoid Tilt In Poker?

Poker is a game that can be extremely enjoyable, but it can also be sometimes tilting for the few short-tempered players. When you're playing well and making good decisions, it feels great. But when things start to go wrong, and you might find yourself in the dumps, the emotional roller coaster of poker can quickly take its toll.

In this blog post, we'll look at what tilt is and will give you effective advice on how to avoid it. 

 What Is Tilt in Poker?

The term poker tilt refers to a state of mental or emotional confusion where you adopt a less optimal strategy, usually resulting in you becoming aggressive. It is often triggered by a player becoming impatient and over-aggressive, although it can also be caused by bad luck. Tilt can lead to a player making poor decisions at the poker table. It is usually characterized by an inability to think clearly, poor risk-reward judgment, and facing beats. 

Tips for Avoiding Tilt

At its core, poker has a very simple objective. The aim is to possess the best hand, and the player with the best hand wins the pot. However, there are a few delicate nuances that can make the difference. One of those nuances is avoiding tilt. When poker players are on tilt, they are more likely to make rash decisions, bet too much money, and generally play bad poker. Sometimes, even tilted pro players face the beat. Hence, let's see the tips to help you stay away from tilt.

Taking a Break is Okay

First and foremost, you need to learn that it is ok to quit poker in order to stop tilting. It is common to hear things like "quitters never win" in our society. Poker is an exception to this rule. In order to succeed at poker, you need to learn when to take breaks. Always keep in mind that the results of just one poker session should not affect your current or future games. Let your mind rest the next day by turning off the computer or leaving the casino. 

However, you can play some friendly or free poker games to take the steam off while enjoying the game rush.

Keep Calm

Try to stay calm & avoid getting too emotional about the game. The essential quality of the poker player is to have patience. Rather than stubbornly trying to win your money back while in a poor mental state, you can benefit in the long term by learning to remain calm and play with composure.

Ignore the Negativity

You have to be completely unaffected by the instances that might be inciting or derisive comments from opponents. Avoiding this shows your maturity in the game and earns you respect among sensible players.

Get in the Habit of Laughing 

The importance of this technique is arguably the greatest among all anti-tilt techniques. A simple way to deal with this silly game is to laugh off its absurdity as often as possible. There might be many setups and bad river cards that you will experience during your poker career. It is crucial to play poker with a better calming approach.

Conclusion

If you can keep these tips in mind, you will be well on your way to avoiding tilt and becoming a better poker player. The game of poker is suitable for players of all ages and abilities. However, to make the game more enjoyable - and to increase your chances of winning - it's important to understand these pointers.

To lighten the mood after a stressful game or day, you can chill by playing online poker variations like Call break game, 3 Patti, or Texas Hold 'em. Some websites also provide poker bonus offers on the signup. This way, you can learn the new tactics of the game and practice your skills online.

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Messeges that were found so far: STAN / STANLEY PINES / STAN PINES / STANLEY (spoilers)

This is just to collect all the codes that you can type in in thisisnotawebsitedotcom.com and their effects only (please click images for better quality)

Masterpost with all messeges / codes

You have to keep spamming it to get all of these links

Eventually you'll get this:

Transcript:

"WHEEL! OF! SHAME!

STEP RIGHT UP! It's time to play my FAVORITE GAME!! BOOTLEG SIXER over HERE spent a LIFETIME trying to hide his humiliations, BUT I'VE BEEN INSIDE HIS MIND, so NOW they're ALL YOURS for the low price of BEING MY NEW PAL! IT'S SHOWTIME FOLKS, AND THE ONLY WAY TO LOSE IS TO BE NAMED STANLEY PINES! CLICK BELOW TO SEE WHAT THIS MOUTH BREATHING CARNIVAL BAKER HAS BEEN KEEPING TO THE VEST ALL THESE YEARS. BROUGHT TO YOU BY: SHAME!

"SHAME:™ IT'S THE ONE FRIEND WHO NEVER LEAVES!"

EX-WIVES!

FEARS

SECRET SHAMES

UNREPORTED CRIMES

FAILED PRODUCTS

LOWEST MOMENTS

DARKEST THOUGHT

HOW HE BEAT ME"

If you click EX-WIVES

Transcript:

"EX-WIVES

Old Goldie Vegas wedding to a cursed gold-toothed antique.

Marilyn Fakenamé Vegas wedding to a cursed gold-toothed antique.

Brenda Chuggins Shack attraction for having "World's Biggest Thumb." (Carny Tip: Never date your own freaks. She used that thumb to hitch-hike off with Johnny Snakes 3 days later)

Sandra Sweetmeadow A kind beautiful Amish girl eho made Stan choose between her and his "sinful gold chains." He chose the chains.

Someone named "Burline" Stan has no idea who she is, but he found her wedding ring in the Shack Lost & Found, put it on, and it got stuck forever. Physically binding. Might be legally binding!

His childhood poster of "Attack of the 50 Foot Woman" (8 year old Stanley drew a ring on the poster and made Sixer witness.)

Natalia Annika Ömanövv Totally un-suspicious turist from a country that no longer legally exists. She took Stanley's creedit card and social security number while he was sleeping and still "checks in on him" via hidden cameras. Ah, love!"

If you click FEARS

Transcript:

"FEARS

The IRS Finding Out

Soos being the one to find Stan dead and taxidermying his body. (Soos would consider this an honor)

The cops calling Stan's fingertips "unusually little."

Betting Dipper in a poker game (and losing.)

Word getting out about Stan's little fingertips, people discovering that they're littler than Ford's.

Stan being dubbed "Baby-Fingers Pines" by the media and having to look into black market finger enlarging."

If you click SECRET SHAMES

Transcript:

"SECRET SHAMES

The time Wendy beat Stan in arm wrestling. 3 times in a row. She never has to work overtime as long as she never tells a soul.

The fact that no one came to his fake funeral except his mom and an IRS agent who whispered to the coffin "this isn't over."

The quick cash Stan made in 1975 posing for a "Hunky Drifters Catalogue" that wasn't as tasteful and classy as the job listing made it sound.

Was the baby mascot for the "Fussy Boy" Brand diaper rash commercials. (Claims that was Ford.)

Writing His Duchess Approves erotic fan-novel: "The Duke's Temptations at Oglebottom Estate.""

If you click UNREPORTED CRIMES

Transcript:

"UNREPORTED CRIMES

The time Stan hit Toby Determined with his car and just... kept driving.

Illegally breeding wolves to create a "super wolf." You should hear this thing howl.

Pretending to be a veteran to get a discount on PEZ, then having to invent an entire fake war in a fake country to keep the ruse going. Stan still has a "Remember Operation Enduring Excuse" bumper sticker, and regularly updates the Wikipedia page for the "People's Grepublic of Grunklestan."

Shooting out the tires of the Mythbusters Van after they axposing him for "looking kinda doughy" on tape.

Selling his heart medication to Children claiming it was "metal-flavored candy!"

Accidentally inhaling too much taxidermy glue, black out, and waking up to discover that he had somehow managed to rob himself. Still tracking down the lost boot buried by his arch-rival "Glue Stan""

If you click FAILED PRODUCTS

Transcript:

"STAN'S FAILED PRODUCTS

The "Wishy Washy!" - A washing machine that somehow makes your clothes dirtier.

The "Counter Fit!" - A rubber band you attach to your kitchen counter to exercise while doing dished. INJURY TOLL: 27

"Welcome to Gravity Town!" - A cartoon show pitch which was unanimously rejected by every network for "blatant Illuminati references."

"Flavored Lottery Tickets!" - Turns out that the kind of people who think they can win the lottery are the kind of people who ignore "do not swallow" instructions. LAWSUIT TOLL: 48

"THE SAD SHACK" - A burlap bag to cover your head so no one can see you rendomly crying during the day. Cheaper than therapy!

A soda called the "Drippy Stanley!" INGREDIENTS: Pine Sol, wood glue, & expired sun tan lotion. Soos tested it and now he can't remember the year 2000."

If you click LOWEST MOMENTS

Transcript:

"LOWEST MOMENTS

That time he somehow got an F- on a history test, which teachers thought was mathematically impossible. Filbrick made him stand on the lawn for two days holding a sign that said "Estra Stan, 3 dollars or better offer."

When "1998's Best Tourist Traps in Oregon" listed the "Mystery Shack" as #99 below "The world's bigest fence" and "the dog that might be thinking human thoughts."

His birthday the year before he met Dipper & Mabel. No one came to "Mr Mystery's Mystery-Age Party & Used Wolf Pet Sale" He'd spent hours writing comedy roasts of employees who never came, burned off one of his eyebrows attempting to make a cake, and drank the night away skeet shooting Sixer's old Beethoven Records.

The day after he met the twins, he overheard them debating whether they should escape out the window and report him to the FBI. Mabel shook a Magic 8-Ball and tey stayed.

Stripping for edible flour in Tijuana Please don't make me elaborate."

If you click DARKEST THOUGHT

Transcript:

"DARKEST THOUGHT

Pin all my crimes on Soos"

If you click HOW HE BEAT ME (You have to keep spamming)

Transcript:

"HOW STAN BEAT ME He didn't! IM STILL HERE, SUCKER!"

Transcript:

"HOW STAN BEAT ME LOOK the gambler got a lucky break, alright? A lifelong LOSER was due for ONE freak royal flush! What does it mean? NOTHING! LESS THAN NOTHING! NOT WORTH EVEN THINKING ABOUT!"

Transcript:

"HOW STAN BEAT ME WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT ME TO SAY? That a guy who once tried to EAT THE DECORATIVE POTPURRI out of the bowl in the bank OUTSMARTED ME?! PLEASE! Goofus was just following Gallant's LEAD! It was SIXER'S PLAN, PTSD BARNUM is just a side character, a resume-inflating, cheap trick loving, past-denying overgrown child protected from failure only by a force field of DENIAL AND shamelessness! Sixer ate Stanley's potential in the womb, and the only thing interesting that ever happened to him started when I entered HIS head! END OF STORY! PERIOD. And I have NOTHING MORE TO SAY ABOUT IT!!!!"

Transcript:

"HOW STAN BEAT ME ..."

Transcript:

"HOW STAN BEAT ME AND ANOTHER THING! Ever since that pathetic excuse for a 5-sensed three Dimensional one lifespanned skin-puppet was barfed into the universe, he was nothing but a carbon copy of a better genetic duplicate, and he knew it! A trillion years from now when I've broken out of this place nd taken over, he'll be remembered as the special bump under the cement truck of my inevitable triumph asterisk next to an asterisk next to an asterisk next to an asterisk who would be a joke if he was capable of understanding comedy whehich he OBVIOUSLY isn't, I mean, have you heard the hacky matreials he does on his tours, I've been inside his dreams, he WORKSHOPS that material, he PAVES over it, and the best he can do are some puns that would make a third grader cringe and vaudeville that were hack before they were even invented! Its an insult that showed to wear a suit and tie, he should be in a BARREL with SUSPENDERS!

HACK JOKES. CODEPENDENT. SELF-PITYING STUPID "FULLY CLOTHED WOMEN" COULDNT WIN LOCAL ELECTION SMUG SAS-CROTCH TACKY UNWORTHY CLICHE DREAMS "SINGIN' SALMON" AND THAT'S THE FINAL WORD!"

Transcript for this image in specific taken from this Google doc

Transcript:

"HOW STAN BEAT ME OKAY I SEE WHAT’S HAPPENING HERE! You’re just like those those PREACHY INFANTILZING AUTOMOTONS AT THETHERAPRISM who are SO OBSESSED with getting me to TALK about my “FEELINGS”. YOU THINK YOU CAN GET A RISE OUT OF ME?! TRY! I DARE YOU! I DARE YOU!”

Transcript:

"HOW STAN BEAT ME KEEP CLICKING! SEE WHAT HAPPENS! I CAN OUT-LAST YOU PAL! DO YOU REALIZE WHO YOU’RE STEPPING TO HERE?! IM LITERALLY INSANE! TRY IT! KEEP TRYING IT! I’VE GOT FOREVER, LET’S GO! COME ON! GO! KEEP CLICKING! KEEP DOING IT!”

Transcript:

"HOW STAN BEAT ME KEEP DOING IT!"

Transcript:

"HOW STAN BEAT ME I LOVE IT!"

Transcript:

"HOW STAN BEAT ME IS THAT ALL YOU GOT?!

⚠︎ FLASH WARNING FOR THE FILES BELLOW ⚠︎

Transcript:

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO ME?!"

Transcript:

"DO Y Ou even fAThoM ho W muCH pAIN IM"

Transcript:

"sOMeTIMES when i CLOSE my eyE i caN"

Transcript:

"I cAN STiLL sEe (encoded in alchemic sipher, author's cipher, theraprism and color cipher (in that order))"

Decoded messege: "The eyes of everyone I've ever"

(last three images)

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some elaboration for the football au:

Ron: facility manager. Turf grass enthusiast, last name gets teased. On the assistant coach bench somehow.

Jallison: tactical analyst. Team didn’t get his favorite CDM so proposed 4411 every time. This formation never gets used.

Simon: sub guy. Has anime avatar in group chat for some reason( see graph below)

JV: set piece guy. For a team that gets 20 corners per game, sir, you got a pretty low conversion rate. Get trolled online about this a lot. Also for a team with 80% of their players think they got a knuckle ball free kick under their belt, his main job really is marriage consultant.

Shov: scout. Done a lot of data analysis, crazy amount. Payed his college tuition by playing poker. Was data analyst for betting websites back in the days.

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A Quick(-ish) Word on Gabe Ugliano

BTW spoilers for the PJO books and the series. Tw for mentions of abuse and domestic violence.

We all hate Gabe.

This is something universally agreed upon.

He's a fundamentally bad person in both mediums: book and show.

HOWEVER, I personally believe that Gabe Ugliano in the show isn't being set up to be as much of a hated character. Of course he's still abusive and terrible. Sally Jackson should get a divorce and ditch him.

But I don't think this show is making him seem terrible enough to turn to stone (essentially a kind of murder). In the books, this is how Sally finally finds her agency, her way out from under the thumbs of the men who have been the center of her lives, from her ailing brother to Gabe.

In the show, this seems like too harsh a punishment. The show has a couple precious minutes to convince me that I detest Gabe. Of course, this is only the tip of the iceberg. But Show Gabe has to evoke the same feelings as me as Book Gabe did, which is even harder, because I'm not in Percy's head.

And there are a couple details either added in or removed by the show which could help cement this.

First off, in the books, we first meet Gabe as he plays poker, completely unashamed. He demands money from Percy and we're like, 'this is a bad dude'. In the show, he knows it's vaguely shameful that he's playing online poker, and he's not sniffing out money like a basset hound (another negative character trait only seen in the books).

Second, the Knicks games. I know, I know. This seems stupid. But Sally brings up a pastime that she and Gabe share enough to be considered a habit, and not because she's being coerced into doing it or whatever. Sally chooses, of her own free will, to spend time with Gabe. You get the feeling, in the books, she'd rather pack herself and Percy off to Pluto on a deserted spacecraft than stay one more second there, but she remains out of love for Percy. Now, I understand that being a victim of domestic violence is an extremely complicated, terrible situation that I can't even begin to fathom. But the thing is, in the books, Sally chooses to marry this terrible scum of a guy because he smells like any old terrible scum of a guy. His utter sliminess makes him the perfect cover for Percy's emerging power. She hates Gabe with a passion in the books. We get this feeling less in the movie.

And finally, "Don't scratch it up". This shows Gabe distrusts Percy and Sally and jumps to blame them, especially Percy, for anything wrong. he values material possessions over being kind to his wife and stepson. It also reasserts control over them, even when they aren't physically at home. It's his car. His control.

This whole post probably seems really nitpicky, but the thing is, this show has to be down-to-the-detail on Gabe. They only get 8 episodes to tell us the story, and very limited time spent on Gabe. They have to convince us all that he deserved to be turned to stone by Medusa. And that was a very powerful moment for Sally Jackson, and when both she and Percy realized that they could survive together. This show also has to convince new fans, who may never have even read the books, that Gabe's fate is completely deserved.

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26 29 45 50 for your Shep!

paine! thanks for the ask!!! <33

26. Does Shepard have a Twitter account?

-> Whatever the galactic version of Twitter is, Shepard probably has one. While he genuinely doesn't have much time for it, he thinks it's important to stay up to date on galactic issues. Granted, when he does have free time he doesn't want to have to deal with petty, online issues when he's actually out there doing things about the state of things, so it's a delicate balance.

I'm sure he gets told by all kinds of sources, news or otherwise, what to post, so he's got an official account that's partially managed by a team on the Citadel that corresponds with him when he's on duty. He may have multiple important people in the Alliance muted in his DMs.

Shep keeps it professional, mostly commenting on the state of the galaxy or what other important political figures put out. But that's absolutely not to say his omnitool isn't full of memories of the crew on shore leave, and cute pictures he snuck of Garrus asleep next to him, and videos from That One Time Everyone Had Their Asses Handed To Them playing poker against Cortez and Vega.

He'd be one of those people that would gravitate more towards facebook/instagram to keep up with the lives of close friends, if he was living a civilian life, but as it is, Space Twitter is accessible and easy to put away when he needs to.

29. Does the alliance use their image for propaganda/recruitment? Did they agree to/want it?

-> This is very much in the same vein as the social media thing. The Alliance has made a figurehead out of Shepard, boosting their influence, funding, and numbers, often by cherrypicking things he's said on tape as part of whatever their current pro-Alliance propaganda is and riding off of the success of his bravery during service and induction into the Spectres. They made him their hero, their golden boy, and then discarded his autonomy in the matter when he no longer fit with that image (see: Cerberus, claims of a Reaper invasion, Arrival DLC).

Shepard himself has very little say over the matter; he'd practically signed his life away to the Alliance after the raids on Mindoir, back when he was a traumatized teenager latching on to anything stable. Even during his training and service, he disliked the media attention wrought by important events like graduation ceremonies, ballroom dinner parties, and political events, most of which were not all that optional. He felt out of place--he wasn't a politician, he was a soldier, and for a long time, he floundered during things like that, not having ever needed to learn those sorts of intricacies. So he continued being unabashedly straightforward and saw much of the socio-political nonsense for what it was: a game he had no place in.

By the era of the trilogy, Shepard held a deep dislike for the way his image was warped to further ideals that were not his own. But they fell in line with what the Alliance needed, what the Council expected, and what kept the suits of the galaxy placated.

So he tries to let his actions speak for themselves because it is too late to reverse the distortion of his public image.

45. Do they vote?

-> Yes! Shepard casts his vote in at least the most important/largest issues affecting Council and Alliance space. He's technically a citizen of Mindoir (a colony of the United North American States--economically pretty reliant on, and thus fairly politically controlled by, them), but he also has citizenship on the Citadel itself, which functions a little differently than how human citizenships typically work, most notably in the taxation and legal departments (but I won't get into that just now). (I talk politics a little here--if that bothers you, please feel free to skip to the end of the blue section <3)

Politically speaking, Shep values more socialist internal policies like accessible healthcare, a well-funded and standardized education system, and workers' rights. He believes that the material, economic, and societal profit of a governmental system should primarily benefit and be controlled by the means of production: the everyday people that keep the system running.

He also has strong opinions on the rights of individual colonies, states, and nations, as he values national identity and the preservation of culture, natural resources, and history. While he sees the benefit in a centralized government for both each specie and the galaxy as a whole, he believes that the systems put in place before the shift towards interconnectedness should not be written off as arbitrary, outdated, or inefficient. There is a balance that must be struck between overarching governmental systems and lower ones, and that balance will be different for different peoples, whether due to biology, psychology, economics, history, culture, etc. He believes that a higher government's main duty is to defend the people and systems beneath it in a way that respects their freedoms, and therefore puts a lot of importance in national defense (as a victim of terrorism, a career-long Alliance soldier, and a man who pays close mind to the turbulent state of the galaxy in places beyond Council jurisdiction, like the Terminus systems).

Socially, his opinion is left-leaning, though he has some opinions that do not fit within the mainstream ideology. Shepard is a proponent of equality as a concept: racial, gender, sexual, etc., and equity where equality does not suffice. He puts value in individual freedoms like bodily autonomy, marriage rights, protections for minors, the right to carry, voting rights, minority rights, and privacy protections.

50. What was the last thing (non-email) Shepard read? Book, play, poem, essay etc

-> The most recent undertaking is, Vuigaris Ro'tana Dime (Folk Devils), a collective biography of a number of non-asari biotics that explores the stigma, state of infrastructure, medical issues, military training, and psychology regarding biotics and being biotic in different species and cultures. Some of the highlights are the experiences of a retired turian Cabal officer, a woman who worked on the development team for multiple L-series implants, and a salarian diplomat who faced political fallout after developing late-onset biotics.

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Rarepair April! Yaaay!!! >w<

So! For the past couple weeks I've been working a lot with Gotcha for Gaza and another event, writing some oneshots for prompts, and the wonderful rare ships I was asked about are just so cute!!

So, for those already lost on just what I have and haven't written (me included), here's the recent Rarepair Festival >w<

🚢Wen Chao / Wen Zhuliu🚢

Shouting was heard from the ancestral hall of Lotus Pier. Which wasn’t too strange on the warmest summer days, when the youngest disciples took refuge in the cool shade and played games (making them grow quite rowdy), ensuing the even louder screams from the closest responsible adult that came to yell at them young irreverent ruffians.

Ah, but it wasn’t summer anymore, and the shouting now was far from joyful. Also, all the disciples were dead.  

From: A helping hand, a nsfw nasty little dub-con because if Wen-er-gongzi discovers he likes being spanked, can his faithful bodyguard actually refuse? (he should and he almost does! XD)

🚢Nie Huaisang/Lan Wangji🚢

Lan Xichen eyes nervously the other members of the meeting. Judging by the little monitors on his screen, no one else seems to be noticing that Wangji is having some sort of inappropriate fun right now, thank God. Although he can’t understand why, since it’s so obvious…

But well, Lan Xichen has been long aware that, for some reason, he seems to be the only person able to read Wangji’s solemn expression, which Jin Guangyao has called on some occasion “the most perfect poker face” he’s ever seen.

From: Just another corporate secret, a naughty Lan Wangji / Nie Huaisang from the pov of Lan Xichen, that gets in an online meeting and realizes what's going on under his brother's table.

🚢Jin Guangyao / Nie Huaisang🚢

“Tell me, a-Yao…”

The tinkle of golden wrist bells rang soft and delicate, glittering against the dark golden silks of the bed. The light was low and the perfumed incense thick, and there was a heavy suggestion of alcohol in the room.

Enough to make Nie Huaisang’s voice pass for something even more light and feminine.

“…have you been a good boy?”

“Yes, a-niang.”

From: Tell it to your mumsy, a nsfw HuaiYao where a drunk Jin Guangyao misses his mum very, very much (and Nie Huaisang takes advantage of that to learn all his little secrets >w<)

🚢Jin Guangyao / Wen Ruohan🚢

“Show me what do you do to them. The prisoners.” Wen Ruohan sat calmly on a wooden chair, which the local guard had very wisely left free the second he saw those two turning the corner of the corridor.

Meng Yao’s voice didn’t betray his thoughts, but even so the sightliest hesitation dripped through. He looked at the prison guards, still lounging by the nearest cell.

“As your Excellency wishes, but… Here?”

“Here.”

“Wouldn’t it be more suitable to... perform such acts in the comfort of your Excellency's bed?”

“Here, a-Yao.”

From: Keep an ace up your sleeve (it will come handy) a very nsfw insight at some special methods Meng Yao came up with to torture prisoners during his internship with the Wen...

Lastly, not a ship but a very special pair I hold very dear to my heart...

🍃Xiao Xignchen & Cangse Sanren🍃

Cangse Sanren put her arm around Xiao Xingchen’s shoulder and her voice took a conspiratorial tone.

“You too, you must get yourself a good and reliable cultivation partner, do you hear? Like that young man you fought with. What's his name? Song Something."

"Zichen."

"Whatever. If you like him, tie the knot as fast as possible. Life is so short, and so precious!”

Xiao Xingchen could have blushed, if it wasn’t because he had lost quite a lot of blood and was feeling a bit light-headed.

“Shijie, please, don’t tease…” he said hiding a smile.

From: Relentless in love (and dodging nettles), where Xiao Xingchen comes across a mischievous spirit and realizes she is non other than his legendary martial sister...

There! Now I'm up to date with the weird shit I've written lately XD

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This day in history

I'm coming to DEFCON! On FRIDAY (Aug 9), I'm emceeing the EFF POKER TOURNAMENT (noon at the Horseshoe Poker Room), and appearing on the BRICKED AND ABANDONED panel (5PM, LVCC - L1 - HW1–11–01). On SATURDAY (Aug 10), I'm giving a keynote called "DISENSHITTIFY OR DIE! How hackers can seize the means of computation and build a new, good internet that is hardened against our asshole bosses' insatiable horniness for enshittification" (noon, LVCC - L1 - HW1–11–01).

#20yrsago Fox News attacks Disney for insufficient homophobia https://web.archive.org/web/20040809000157/https://www.mediamatters.org/items/200408060012

#20yrsago Disney asks FCC to lock up all the record-buttons https://web.archive.org/web/20040814133636/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/001805.php

#20yrsago Canadian Legion: “We own all uses of the word ‘poppy'” https://web.archive.org/web/20040811130036/http://anhedonia.imparte.com/gbook.html

#20yrsago MMOs discourage heroism, FRPGs encourage it https://web.archive.org/web/20040808001510/http://terranova.blogs.com/terra_nova/2004/08/where_are_the_h.html

#15yrsago Terry Pratchett on the right to die https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1203622/Ill-die-endgame-says-Terry-Pratchett-law-allow-assisted-suicides-UK.html

#15yrsago Stupid pitfalls of social media https://web.archive.org/web/20090808193904/http://asis.org/Bulletin/Aug-09/AugSep09_Crumlish.html

#15yrsago HOWTO make dust-goggles from a bra-strap, light-bulb screens, and an old biker jacket https://windfiredesigns.com/How-To/Dust-Goggles/

#5yrsago A loophole in nonprofit law means that corporate lobbying is at least double the official figure https://theintercept.com/2019/08/06/business-group-spending-on-lobbying-in-washington-is-at-least-double-whats-publicly-reported/

#5yrsago The only thing health insurance companies are good at is scaring us about socialized medicine https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-08-05/health-insurance-useless

#5yrsago How Quebec’s health-care system uses “vaccine whisperers” to keep “vaccine hesitancy” from turning to anti-vax https://www.statnews.com/2019/08/05/the-vaccine-whisperers-counselors-gently-engage-new-parents-before-their-doubts-harden-into-certainty/

#5yrsago DOJ indicts man for paying AT&T employees to help him unlock millions of customers’ phones https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/6/20756625/att-unlocking-crime-conspiracy-malware-hacking-paid-employees

#5yrsago Amazon’s surveillance doorbell marketers help cops get warrantless access to video footage from peoples’ homes https://www.vice.com/en/article/43kga3/amazon-is-coaching-cops-on-how-to-obtain-surveillance-footage-without-a-warrant

#5yrsago Survey finds high levels of harassment in multiplayer games, as well as white supremacist recruiting attempts https://www.adl.org/resources/report/free-play-hate-harassment-and-positive-social-experiences-online-games

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I’m currently ordering the zine prints for WIZARD WAR, so now is a great time to throw out a reminder that it’s officially OUT and you can buy it

Wizard War is a game I’ve wanted to make ever since my brother and I became adults, and we would go home for the holidays only to lament that neither of us brought our Magic decks. It’s a strategic card battler designed to be played with items you could find in the average home: two decks of Poker cards, six dice, scrap paper/pencil, and the rules PDF.

(It’s also helpful to have access to a printer, for the reference cards, but you can also just write that stuff on post-it notes).

Because of its origins, Wizard War is designed with accessibility in mind: while were playtesting it, we scrapped literally every rule that wasn’t intuitive enough to remember after a few games or read off an index card while playing. We didn’t want the cognitive load of remembering rules to get in the way of slinging cards around.

The digital version also includes codes for a custom playingcards.io room with all the card art and rules references, so you can upload that for free over there and play online against anyone who’s willing to let you teach them a card game.

My co-developer and I have given this game our all, and we’re really proud of the final product. We hope you’ll enjoy it half as much as we do.

Here’s another link so you don’t have to scroll up :)

[roppongi-division]

Zakari's Thoughts on Edogawa Division

Yuriko Kuromiya

"Would you believe me if I told you that I actually challenged this woman to a race once? ...Well, it was less a race, and more like a game of 'can you top this?'. I happened to meet her once while I was doing my thing in Edogawa. I didn't expect to see anyone else high above the ground, but I saw this flash of white hair pass me by, and that's when I laid eyes on Yuriko. Intrigued, I challenged her to a race on the rooftops, with the starting line being right back where we already were. We were free to use any route we wanted, provided we didn't touch the ground. She agreed, and we had us a dangerous, yet thrilling parkour race above the ground."

"I thought I won when I lost sight of her, but... shockingly enough, she had beat me! Me! I couldn't believe it! Still, I was man enough to admit that I lost. Still, I told her that this wasn't the end, and we'd have us another go-round next time. She agreed, and we both went our separate ways. I'm actually looking forward to racing her again!"

Kaoru Shinozaki

"I have to thank Kanra-chan for introducing me to her sister, Kaoru-chan! When I asked Kaoru to repair my dad's DJ booth, she did a flawless job! I told him the best way to repay her was to give her something 'coffee-related'. Still, I didn't think the old guy would have her get coffee here in Minato, for free! Don't ask me how he pulled that off, cause even I don't know!"

"Besides Kaoru is a cool girl, and an expert card player! She's actually beaten me a couple of times. Granted we were playing online poker, so... yeah. But if it were in-person, I've no doubt I'd wipe the floor with her!"

Kanra Akemi

"I swear, my parents are such worrywarts! They keep telling me to be careful of Kanra-chan, unaware that the both of us are actually friends. Believe it or not, I've actually been taking her under my wing and teaching her some gambling tricks. She's an... average player. But she has a bad habit of "showing her hand", meaning you can tell quite easily when she's gotten a good or bad card. I've told her she needs to be more aware of that. But I know she'll get better as time goes by!"

Wicked Requiem

"Would you believe me if I told you that I didn't know that all of these women were related before finding out they were on a team together? It's the truth! I mean, I knew Kanra's mom was on the PTA along with my mom, but I didn't think her mom was actually Yuriko-san, the woman who beat me in a race, herself! Needless to say, I was shocked! Even more so when I found out that Kanra and Kaoru were both sisters! My mouth literally hit the floor! Man, talk about a dangerous, combative family tree!"

"And now, we'll have to face each other in the D.R.B. Like mom and dad stated, I thought we were only the familial team in this tournament! But I guess not. But like mom stated, I'm actually looking forward to facing this team. Especially Kanra-chan! I hope you've been paying attention to my tricks, kiddo! Because I'm going all out when we meet on the stage!"

[cloverhobbes]

What Online Casinos Can Offer

The primary fascination of using an online casino is the way that you can go online and bet when you need to day in and day out. For the poker player it implies they can usually find a table they can join either night or day and partake in a game whenever the timing is ideal just with the snap of a computer mouse.

The games available do vary from one casino to another particularly slots, yet most of the classics games are available at all locales: Craps, Roulette, Blackjack various kinds of Poker (Texas Hold-em, Omaha and so on) are just a tick away.

Progresses in innovation throughout the long term implies you can partake in a really practical gaming experience whether playing table games or slots. If you are new to online gaming there is the choice to play the games for free while learning, a good thought before you start to gamble any of your own money! There are likewise a lot of low stake games to try at first if you are a beginner and a reasonable measure of prize money is on offer for these games particularly at the poker tables.

Table games are the most popular with online players and there is the chance to enter satellite poker competitions all things considered locales, where users can try and win a seat at the last table of large competitions where the prize money is A great many Dollars.

If table games aren't your thing you can in any case have the potential chance to win large cash prizes on the slots. Large numbers of the slots are basic 3 or 5 reel games, offering good payouts, while others are more complex intuitive games, including moderate bonanzas which offer the gambler the opportunity to win thousands of pounds. A large number of the slots can be played for a moderately little stake and the user has the choice to increment or diminishing their stake at some random time.

Other gambling games like online Bingo and Keno are additionally popular and generally available while scratch card games appear to be on the increment with no less than one kind of scratch game available at most sites.

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What Are Online Casinos?

Online casinos are arising as an extremely popular pattern in the world of entertainment. The most outstanding aspect of online casinos is that you don't need to go to any place to partake in a game of blackjack. They offer you a chance to do so right inside the limits of your home.

The idea of online casinos appeared in 1996 when a software improvement firm named Microgaming thought of this thought. Around the same time just, the principal online live casino named Entomb Casino occurred. Most of the online casino destinations actually make use of this software. The assistance to carry out the monetary exchanges was provided by the CryptoLogic, which was an online security firm. At first, online casinos confronted a ton of resistance. Be that as it may, they couldn't get closed as bills couldn't be passed against their setting up.

Earlier there were just casinos that can be played on the net, however presently they can be downloaded from the webpage too. Everything necessary to play a poker game is to download it from the webpage's server. The online casinos work in a similar method as a genuine casino. The main difference is the absence of any activity and commotion of pushy people, ringing chimes and no cigarette smoke and beverages. Online casino games are an extraordinary pressure reliever then again, similar as computer games. The set up is basically as understandable and amusing as a computer game itself.

Online casinos have a great deal of the internet, so every game that one can play in a land casino is available in the virtual form too. The player can browse all regular games like blackjack, poker, roulette, baccarat, slot machines and craps. The variations of these games are additionally present to provoke the curiosity of the user. Besides, these games are available at less expensive rates than in a land casino. The blackjack that can be played for 1$ at a mid year celebration can be played at less expensive rates at an online casino. Therefore, you have a lower measure of money to lose in an online casino.

You likewise don't need to vow money to partake in your favorite game on a gambling site. Most of the destinations are providing free downloadable renditions for the user. Along these lines, it is very simple for you to pick games in an online casino and become capable at them. This never permits the frustration to start mounting in as it does when one loses money in a genuine casino. Genuine casinos offer you a ton of extension to consummate yourself and continue on your learning bend. You get no opportunities of losing money in free games and try your hand at them.

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About Online Casino Games and Moderate Prizes

There are a few hundred games to browse at online casinos. You have many, numerous choices among the large number of casino sites. Every software designer, whether it is Cryptologic, Playtech, Microgaming, and so on, offers a variety of extraordinary games for you to play. You will have a lot of chances of being entertained. You can play anything from online poker competitions to straightforward, moment games! You could scratch off online "lottery" tickets.

A few online casinos will give you free bonus money that can be used for playing free games. This is an extraordinary offer that you definitely need to look at, particularly if you plan to play a ton. Casino games on the internet all essentially have similar guidelines as they in all actuality do in land-based casinos. Not at all like in land-based casinos, however, the house has less of an edge with most online games.

There are three unmistakable gatherings of games: table games, gaming machines, and arbitrarily produced games. The table games you can play online incorporate blackjack, baccarat, poker, roulette, craps, and so forth. The gaming machines incorporate online slots and video poker games. There are in a real sense heaps of online slots games to look over! The arbitrary games incorporate keno, lotto, and bingo. Out of these, the most popular are poker, blackjack, slots, and bingo. That's what online casinos know if they believe players should stay close by, they need to offer these games!

Many people incline toward playing moderate casino games. Moderates offer the most obvious opportunity with regards to hitting colossal bonanzas. They are provided by networks rather than individual sites. Prizes can be won through software designers, like Microgaming. For example, each and every individual who plays on one of the games engaged with the ever-evolving network adds to the bonanza. At last, some lucky player will hit it and win a gigantic prize!

Slots are the most popular moderate games online. This is because they are the least demanding to play. Not a ton of thought and strategy is needed for playing slots; such countless people need to take a shot at winning enormous big stake prizes. What's more, in spite of being played similarly, all online slots games are planned differently. Each has a unique subject of sorts, and a casino site usually offers a variety of them to keep players entertained.

The disadvantage to playing moderate slots is that the game is about possibility. For some this can be a good thing, yet for others who don't believe themselves to be lucky, it is a not very great thing. It is completely irregular, so there is no guarantee that you will at any point win. However, playing online games doesn't cost truckload of cash, so you can always hope to find a few fun, invigorating slots "machines.

[neon-silverfox]

Online Casinos - A Guide to Popular Free Games

A person who is new to gambling in online casinos might be reluctant to take a shot at it, as he is stressed over how much money he would lose while attempting to sort out some way to play online. Most online casinos offer free games for a time for testing that let fledglings learn while they play and develop certainty to play for money.

Have you needed to play games in online casinos and signed on to a gambling site just to be confused by the various choices available? If you have played live at casinos in Las Vegas or Atlantic City, then, at that point, odds are you will be familiar with table games, for example, roulette, blackjack and poker as well as the slot machines. Online casino games imitate these games with the exception of that they follow a 2-layered design, despite the fact that you can almost disregard this reality in the best online games that highlight life like 3D livelinesss with striking tones.

For most fledglings, albeit the possibility of playing online may appear to be invigorating, there is always a niggling uncertainty with respect to how much money they would wind up losing because they didn't have any idea how the games were played. Free casino games are an incredible introduction to playing at online casinos as fledglings can learn while they play without the gamble of losing their money.

Here is a rundown of a portion of the popular free casino games in light of surveys. You should simply enroll and open a visitor account that permits you to play free for a restricted time for testing:

Casino Slots: Slot machine games are popular as they are the simplest to comprehend. All it includes is turning the reels and matching up at least two images on the win lines. Online casino slots start from little games including 3 reels and 3 lines (the first slot game) and can go up to as much as 5 reels and 9 lines.

Video Poker: Similarly as with the conventional game of poker, online casinos permit you to play a solitary hand or then again if you are an expert, up to five hands all at once. As a matter of fact, a few variants of online video poker permit you to play online with your companions so you feel like you are finding a spot at the table with them and gambling.

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Things You Need to Know Before Playing Online Casino Games

For regular internet users and gambling enthusiasts, online casino and casino is certainly not an original enterprise and with the significantly expanding number of online gamblers,casinos started to introduce new games and some have a considerably more better variations of the generally settled casino games like poker, blackjacks, baccarat, slots, and other popular card games.

Online casinos have provided a convenient way of entertainment for casino enthusiasts while partaking in the solace and security of their own homes. Similar with land based casinos; casinos likewise offer similar games yet players here don't need to confront genuine vendors or different players to play a particular game.

Pile up Your Mastercard Bill with Online Casinos

Online casino can either provide you with entertainment, pay, or both relying upon what kind of player you are. A few additional serious players play casino games with reason for winning colossal measures of cash while a just for sheer entertainment to while away the time.

If you fall on the principal class, then, at that point, you must prepare your Visa for more serious wagering. Yet, if you need to play games for the sake of entertainment, you can always pick the free play where you won't be expected to use genuine cash while wagering on a particular game.

Finding the best casino with different scope of online games that can offer higher likelihood for winning is significant if you would rather not lose your hard earned cash on the double. The most popular in online games where you can earn genuine dollars is the online poker. Contingent upon the variation, online poker rarely changes its ordinary standards and you can always play using your own strategy to get the better hands.

The benefit of playing online poker is that you won't encounter the pressure and tensions of the game like when you are on a land based casino where you need to sit up close and personal with your rivals. In this game, you won't almost certainly be feigned and dominating the match lies altogether on your strategy.

Blackjack - Are the Odds against you in this Online Casino Game?

Another casino games most loved is blackjack. Here, you can disregard the essential guidelines of the game for you to dominate the game. Online blackjack is a precarious game and you need to give careful consideration on how the seller plays his cards to get the hang of the game. Parts have less possibilities winning with regards to online blackjack so you need to try not to divide your eights or pros and by being extremely mindful, there is likelihood that you will be capable beat the house odds.