I don't know why, but I vibe-coded AI Subway Poker https://x.com/stas_kulesh/status/1892328616609841290
A secret poker game you can play on the subway
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Exactly... isn't this post "transphobic" and "bigoted" according to woke-ass Hacker News??
According to what everyone here believes, you'd have to walk up to every person and ask their "gender identity".
Funny how suddenly everyone snaps out of it and knows what a woman is when they don't have an opportunity to attack women's rights.
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#63Okay nice but what if queen identifies as king?
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#64I prefer not to play a game that requires assuming anyone's gender or age But its a cute idea
Aw I feel like it’s perfectly harmless in this instance, right? You don’t need to talk to the people, so there’s no risk of insulting them.
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Exactly... isn't this post "transphobic" and "bigoted" according to woke-ass Hacker News?? According to what everyone here believes, you'd have to walk up to every person and ask their "gender identity". Funny how suddenly everyone snaps out of it and knows what a woman is when they don't have an opportunity to attack women's rights.
Right so, you don’t need to talk to them. If you guess wrong about their gender identity, there’s no risk you insult them. That’s the difference.
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Just guess man it’s fine.
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
Exactly... isn't this post "transphobic" and "bigoted" according to woke-ass Hacker News?? According to what everyone here believes, you'd have to walk up to every person and ask their "gender identity". Funny how suddenly everyone snaps out of it and knows what a woman is when they don't have an opportunity to attack women's rights.
Right so, you don’t need to talk to them. If you guess wrong about their gender identity, there’s no risk you insult them. That’s the difference.
I wasn't trying to be trans-phobic. I was just wondering how you are supposed to resolve it when you think you have 4 kings and the person you are playing against thinks that two of them are queens.
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, it's my opinion based on the assumption that players used to specific common card games under the moniker might be disappointed when a new game with the same name lacks an essential component (and it's not cards). Naming things is hard but there's no hard limits for the expansive approach, you can call all card games or all 5-things-games Poker. Your mileage as to communication with other people may vary, thoug…
All you say is true. Except in your first post you didn't say "I personally prefer a convention of calling only those games poker". You said "you can't call it poker" with a tone of an authority. And I say that you can.
Refrain from using quotes unless you are actually quoting something that someone has said word for word. One good aspect of quoting the actual words someone has said is that it can act as a sanity check against potential misinterpretations you might have made.
The actual quote, word for word is "I also don't think this can be called Poker, really."
There is nothing suggesting a tone of authority, on the contrary this is someone explicitly sharing their own opinion on the matter.
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#69The most obvious issues with this is that the game boils down to predicting passenger patterns, but you're still just comparing two RNGs, which is one of the worst kinds of games. I also don't think this can be called Poker, really. Poker is an imperfect information game, where your hand tells you some information about your opponents' hands. It would be interesting to read HN's ideas on how you can simulate the shar…
In the style of Texas Hold'em, both players could secretly choose two seats each and write them down. Then, you'd collectively choose 5 seats to be the shared "cards." This next suggestion would stretch the "poker" definition somewhat, but I think it retains the same characteristics (imperfect information, shared "cards"). You start from a shared list of attributes (coat color, presence of a hat, etc.) and designate…
This misses the information your secret hand gives you about the other player's chances. In poker if I got an Ace in my hand the chance of the opponent having an ace lowers.
If I got somebody wearing a black coat, this has no impact on the chance of my opponent having a black coated passenger.
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
> . I also don't think this can be called Poker, really. Poker is an imperfect information game, There is no game of Poker. It is a wide variety of games like 5-card draw, Omaha, Texas, studs, Chinese open face poker. Also a slot machine where you draw 5 cards or pretty much any game that uses classical poker hand rankings is called poker. There is also a planning poker. I think the name is fine
The card games listed have the information aspect in common. The slot machine is not a Poker, it's a poker-themed slot machine and the game people play with it is called losing money.
“Poker is a family of _comparing_ card games in which players _wager_ over which hand is best according to that specific game’s rules.”
— [WikiPedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poker)
I don’t think I would have gone for that definition, but now that I see it, it sums up everything I’ve ever known “Poker” to be. The game is won by comparing cards you have left (meaning that Rummy, Go Fish, or Bridge are different), and there’s a wager about the game (possibly just bragging rights if not playing for money).