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What if there's no new hand dealt until everyone settles?

Yes. I have been thinking that the venue is the entire experience, you walk in and everything is there, provably ungamable. But it could be that a dedicated device could eliminate some, though not all, of the potential vulnerability of playing with strangers. Matching based on mutual interest, provable reputation without being tied to identity two other ways. Or the other way, radical transparency, each individual livestreams themselves in some perpetualtimestamproving stream paradigm. Even so ultimately a local good faith game seems a more viable and sustainable product than an ecosystem that allows and selects for questionable strategy.

Experimenting with logos. I have not found one even close. Like I would put that on me? I mean it's like an interplanetary hairball. How about this, since logos are only visibility tools, how about just a dot. The point is just to gather around something and then do. Oh something more colorful and interesting she said? Yes maam

Yes, the problems to solve IMO are anonymity for players (so that sharing player history notes doesn't give an advantage), truly random shuffling(?), and collusion. However, the way I've been thinking, is that unless we have entire rooms that are provably SCIF's, like in every city, these are the real casualties of AI and technology. Games like this just aren't possible to make fair anymore. Screensharing, VR goggles, infinite scams possible with closed source, asymmetrical access to realtime calculations, earbuds/coaching, etc. The game was invented when none of this existed. Therefore, board games will be more what they once were, ways to socialize with trusted peers and low stakes simulations of real world incentive change / pressure / leverage / strategy / dynamics within shared ruleset / game theory etc etc. So we lose the provably fair competition but refocus on the per-living-room benefits of games with friends.

His toolkit repo is also good info https://github.com/predatorray/mental-poker-toolkit

Time. How long since last audit? subjective =dynamic dynamic, objective = constant. Sunday is a good day for refreshing attestations

I told everyone when I turned 29... can I just stop?

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