I have a upper-mid range Asus and it supports 7.1

Yeah, that, lol. It’s just a description of the gameplay loop.

It’s sort of a poker+slot machine deck builder rogue-like.

You play 8 levels of 3 rounds each, where the score you have to get to progress is gradually higher each time. You score points (chips) by selecting poker hands from your hand of eight cards. Cards are worth whatever their value is, face cards are ten, aces are eleven. Then each poker hand has a particular base value.

Let’s say you need to score 300 points to progress. You have 4 attempts to play poker hands to reach that score. You also have three attempts to discard up to five cards to attempt to get better cards to play a better hand with.

You select and play a straight 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 of varying suits.

A straight has a base value of 30 chips, and a multiplier of 4.

So you’ll get 30 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9 = 65, multiplied by 4, for a total of 260. Just short of our goal.

You are dealt more cards from your deck to refill your hand.

You select and play two kings, and two 7s.

Two Pair has a base value of 20 chips and a multiplier of 2. This works out to 20 + 10 + 10 + 7 + 7 = 54, multiplied by 2, for a total of 108. Plus our previous 260, gives us 368. You win the round, and get some money. $3 for winning the round + $1 for each of your leftover hands (you played 2 of 4). So you receive $5 in addition to the $4 you started with for a total of $9.

You go to the shop phase which occurs between every round. You have the option of buying 2 available cards (jokers, tarot cards, or planet cards), 2 packs of cards (which let you select 1 or 2 of an available 2-5 cards), or a voucher (grants you some advantage like +1 hands per round, +1 hand size, etc.).

Joker cards modify scoring and gameplay in some way, and you can have up to five of them (you can increase this, or some jokers don’t count against the limit). They’ll do things like add multiplier to certain cards or hands, let you earn money for playing certain cards or hands, all kinds of things. There are 150 of them, so the number of possible effects are immense.

Tarot cards usually modify your deck in some way, letting you turn selected cards into different suits, or increasing their rank, or destroying some, or turning one card into another, or giving you some amount of money.

Planet cards increase the base value of a hand. For example, above a straight was worth 30 chips with a multiplier of 4. The Saturn card will increase this by 30 chips and 3 multiplier so that it’s now 60 chips and 7 multiplier.

You buy the Hermit tarot card in the shop for $3. You now have $6. You use the Hermit card, which doubles your money, up to $20. You now have $12.

You buy the buffoon pack for $4, which lets you choose one of two joker cards.

Your options are:

Wrathful Joker: Each played Spade card gives +3 multiplier when scored.

Clever Joker: +80 chips if played hand contains a Two Pair.

You select the Wrathful Joker and return to the shop. You have $8. You purchase Jupiter, which increases the base value of a Flush from 35 chips x 4 to 50 chips x 6. You have $5 and go to the next round.

You have to score 450 chips to progress.

Your hand has 4 spades and 4 other assorted suit cards. You select all but the spades and discard them, getting 4 replacement cards. You now have 6 spades and 2 other cards. You select the Ace, Queen, 10, 9, and 5 of spades, and play a Flush.

A Flush has a base value of 50 chips with a multiplier of 6. The Joker you have will add 3 to the multiplier every time a spade is scored. So the scoring goes like this:

Ace +11 chips +3 multiplier -> Total = 61 x 9

Queen +10 chips +3 multiplier -> Total = 71 x 12

Ten +10 chips +3 multiplier -> Total = 71 x 15

Nine +9 chips +3 multiplier -> Total = 80 x 18

Five +5 chips +3 multiplier -> Total = 85 x 21 = 1,785

This is well on excess of the 450 needed to progress, you win the round, receiving $4 for winning the round, $1 for each of your remaining hands ($3), and $1 in interest for having $5 in your bank at the end of the round. You now have $13.

You go to the shop phase. You purchase whatever you think will benefit you and proceed to the boss blind. This will have some sort of debuff like, “All Spade cards are debuffed” meaning they’ll have a score of zero, and any joker effect that would trigger like +3 multiplier for a spade, won’t trigger.

And so the game continues in that fashion with progressively higher score requirements while you try to collect jokers and modify your deck in a way which synergizes do that you can reach those score requirements. For example, I built a winning deck around playing entirely Royal Flushes, by duplicating the required cards and destroying most of the rest.

One of the rare times I pirated a show and it was so good I subscribed and watched it again in the hopes they would make more of it.

Pull absolutely all support and funding, permanent ban on weapons transfers, deactivate their F35s. International financial sanctions.

The United States went so hard on being anti-communist that we became anti community.

As long as the demand exists in the market, the niche will be filled. There’s simply too much money to be made.

As a related example:

Mexico has a cartel problem not because their government is weak, but because the scale of the American drug market means every cartel has an annual income that dwarfs any conceivable taxation revenue. Which means they’re better armed, better staffed, better equipped, and overall a more formidable threat than can be dealt with.

Even fully legalizing drugs in the US might not undercut the cartels at this point because their operations have extended so far into legitimate forms of income at this point. Cartels are an agricultural powerhouse, and are responsibility for the vast majority of avocado production for example.

Full on gladiator combat games is absolutely on my late stage capitalism bingo card. UFC is a baby step on that path.

This is how you get people to start rooting their TVs

4 doesn’t feel like enough to make the full curve but I bet its starting to get close. 8 is probably what you’d need for to truly encircle yourself

As far as the legal and historical precedent goes - we fought a war over it.

I could see like…a row of purple accent tiles in a backsplash. But fuck.

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Agreed. We should (in the US) pay really high salaries to government officials, especially executive office/legislators/judges. Provide huge benefits like paid education and lifetime medical coverage for children and spouses (even if you retire), and a one time home purchase up to a certain amount in any location on retirement. It’s yours and if you sell it, the income is yours too. Pension equivalent to salary, which is raised whenever it’s increased for active government officials, and continues for your spouse after you die.

But in return, you and your spouse must fully divest yourself of any investments of any kind. You must sell any properties you own beyond a home in your constituent state. A home in DC will be provided, if applicable. Your spouse also may not have investments or own properties. Your adult children may have investments if they’re managed by a blind trust.

After you retire, or “age out” at the current full social security age, or at the end of your assigned term after reaching that age, you may not ever hold another job ever again. You may not receive income in any form other than what is paid to you by the pension fund. You (and your spouse) may not own investments of any kind.

Don’t like it? Cool, don’t run for office.

Saw a video from Denmark I think where everyone is biking everywhere and the metro station has an enormous numbered rack for depositing bicycles for storage. The entire thing is spotless, well maintained, and has zero graffiti.

All I could think is that in the US the fabric of our society and the integrity of the social contract is so degraded that even if we somehow had the political capital to build it - it would be destroyed by individual anti-social behaviors. And we’d certainly never have the wherewithal to maintain or repair it.

For printers, I’d like to suggest picking up a brother laser scanner/copier/printer off Craigslist.

They can usually be had for ~$100 if you just get black and they’ll last for a stupidly long time. Toner is expensive but you’ll easily get 1500+ pages out of one cartridge and it never dries out.

If you want color, look around for an HP laserjet pro. They’re usually commercial grade and while you’ll probably pay a fair bit more, I see them on Craigslist regularly for ~$150-250 depending on the model. I have one in my office and I’ve gotten several thousand pages through it with zero problems.

Prior to collapsing, Rome achieved a sustained population in excess of a million people.

This did not occur again anywhere else until the mid 1800s.

They cancel shows that aren’t binge watched in the first eight weeks because of payment agreements made with the production companies. They have to pay royalties for all views that occur outside of that defined period. Which is still profitable, it’s just less so.

But they’re not interested in making good, watchable content. They’re only interested in profit, and producing a show which is watched immediately is what maximizes that profit.

Give it time, forced advertising is inevitable.

Just give me my porn, you fucks