Trashing Cards | Dune: Imperium – Uprising

David Sirlin explains: In gaming, a scrub is someone who isn't playing to win. A scrub would disagree with this statement, saying they are only trying hard within a construct of fictitious rules that prevent them from ever competing. The scrub mentality is to be shackled by self-imposed handicaps that prevent one from becoming good at a game.

Usually when we find trillion-dollar bills lying on the ground in real life, it’s a symptom of (1) a central-command bottleneck that nobody else is allowed to fix, as with the European Central Bank wrecking Europe, or (2) a system with enough moving parts that at least two parts are simultaneously broken, meaning that single actors cannot defy the

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Remember, you have no idea that the board exists and you can only see what is on the left hand side i.e. the characters you press and the sequence. You will almost certainly be shocked by the speed at which you have lost the game. You’ll probably scribble down their sequence as some sort of magic sequence for you to re-use. However, every time you ... See more

the sensible object of the player is to gain as much from the game as he can, safely, in the face of a skillful opponent who is pursuing an antithetical goal. This is our model of rational behavior. As with all models, the shoe has to be tried on each time an application comes along to see whether the fit is tolerable; but it is well known in the M

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