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.

In zero-sum games the payoffs represent strictly an exchange of assets; one player wins the quantity that the other loses. We have compromised this principle somewhat in games played against Nature (used as examples here and there), where we have computed strategies for the personal player as if he were playing against an opponent who shared his va

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