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I got a working visa for Japan when I was 18 (in 1999), and one night while moving from one hostel to another on the weekend, I fell asleep and missed my train stop. I woke up in the middle of nowhere. It was the last train, it was raining, I had no money on me and the banks were already closed. As I stood there under an awning two ladies asked what I was doing. I brokenly with the help of my dictionary explained the situation. They didn't understand me but flagged down a business man who spoke a little English and he called a taxi, sent it to my hostel and paid for it. It was quite expensive.


This may be the most relevant xkcd yet. It answered all questions I had about this, thank you.


One of the best episodes in my opinion, and an excellent introduction to DnD for people who don't know what they are getting into.


Poker is not a card game, it's a betting game with imperfect information. This has no betting round so it is not poker.

You can fix this by allowing each stop to be a round of betting.


The betting aspect features in the short mockumentary film from which this comes: Tube Poker (2005) by Simon Levene.

- https://www.simonlevene.com/portfolio/tube-poker

- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0818537/


Oh that's where it comes from ! I couldn't find it, thank you so much ! I will edit my article with the link.


From a ludology perspective poker definitely is a card game. With the cards leading to various dynamics.


All the rich kids these days seem to be in to a healthy diet, exercise, and stable relationships. Whatever happened to harems, drugs and gambling?


This is likely the most precise large scale military strike of all time. You can't control for everything - some pagers might have been in the hands of innocent people - but it sure seems like an ideal attack vector.


I think about this comic too much.


Ok, then lets continue :-).

This comic goes pretty deep.

Cueball is godlike here, but actually is pretty limited in its own universe. But he has infinite time and space (and rocks) and hence unlimited energy. So that seems good enough for a god definition. Are there any religions that would be okay with this kind of god?

From our perspective Cueball can do basically everything and control everything in his creation. But is this true? It is easy for him to transform water to wine. But can he change the constant of pi in his creation?

The universe has now living things in it, which are kind of equal to him, but limited in time and space. Can he justify to stop his doing if he wants? Is it morally Ok, to stop the experiment he is doing. In the end. It is just a bunch of rocks.

Just my few cents of this comic. I just like it.


Not _yet_


Killing doesn't violate a law of nature, it violates the social contract. So while the line is drawn differently in each society, crossing it is the same indicator.


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