While I don’t think she cheated, the reasoning she gives at the table for why she calls the hand is really weird.
The first explanation I hear her give is “I thought you were on Ace high,” which when asked “So why call with Jack high then?” she immediately changes the subject. Eventually she states that she was playing him as opposed to playing poker, which is a much more plausible thing to say.
Given that her initial justification didn’t make any sense, I genuinely just think she won by making a bad decision. It’s a perfectly valid thing to do in poker, but I can understand the argument for why she could have been cheating.
People lie about their hands and reasoning at the table all the time. Amateurs are worse at it, but even pros get caught out saying dumb stuff now and then. Normally we just point and laugh at their obvious attempts to save face. At the end of the day I think I've just seen so many weird hands, even from good players, that one more just doesn't move the needle.
One example: I've played hundreds of thousands if not millions of hands, and at least once I've accidentally folded half the pot at showdown because I misread the board. If for some reason that had happened in a tournament and my hole cards were known, it would be pretty easy to make the argument that I was cheating to pass chips to my opponent, instead of the actual reason of me being an idiot and not knowing how to read a hand with thousands of dollars in front of me.
It’s as if people forget why people play poker in the first place, if it was easy to think logically and not make mistakes while playing big pots, it wouldn’t be so popular
Maybe she got nervous and her brain stopped working for a minute? Has happened to me when asked to explain something I've designed or code I've written at work and for some unknown reason I got flustered and once that happens it can take some time before I can remember things that I normally know very well. Could explain making a mistake that makes absolutely no sense, I could totally see myself doing it. (I also think some people don't have this issue as much and might not understand how it can happen).
I saw a comment somewhere that she said she misread her 4 as 3 - so Ace high would lose to a pair. She was trying to avoid revealing her blunder, which is what this is.
While I don't regularly play poker, I would have to agree with you (not sure why you're downvoted). If my oponents knew my thought process, they could use that against me.
From my experience just playing between friends, when we talk about our hands or moves after a game, we would already bullshit each other, to avoid revealing our thoughts for the next game and keep ourselves unpredictable.
If you want to pick up a new language purely for fun, I wholeheartedly recommend toki pona[1]. Its small vocabulary (<200 words) and simple grammar force you to break down complex thoughts into simple ideas. This feels limiting at first, but because there isn't a prescribed way to express certain ideas, it can provide an interesting look at how you see the world compared to others.
As a quick example, there is no word for "child" in toki pona, many speakers say "jan lili" (small person), while others choose to say "jan sin" (new person).
It's shockingly easy to learn and one can become pretty proficient in very little time. There's a great community to learn from on Discord[2], along with plenty of great online resources like /dev/urandom's toki pona page[3].
I don't like toki pona. if you're going to have 200 words, why make them long or random? hell, you could have a consonant and a vowel or 2 and you'd have have all of your words and now they could easily be composable together. votgil[1] is basically this but with a single vowel, I haven't dived too deep but it gets close to what it should be. There's also the fact that if you're going to go the toki pona way, you need to go even deeper into the fundamentals of life in order to achieve the right composability. (Think math but for objects). Blyss symbolics also seems to be a better option. Nevertheless it was fun to learn toki pona. and I probably would not have heard of interlingua,blyss, votgil, lojban without it.
Word cadence is also important. We tend to add length to short words and shorten long words naturally until we reach a certain cadence. Longer words can sometimes be easier to say than short ones. If you look at tongue twisters they tend to use short, similar words. By making every word short, you could make an entire language of tongue twisters!
Edit: Also I think Toki Pona uses a reduced character set
Toki Pona definitely has fewer phonemes than English (which IIRC has an above-average number of phonemes compared to other natural languages). Having fewer phonemes is important for a language like Toki Pona because it makes pronunciation much more forgiving.
> Vötgil may also be written using the non-roman alphabet. Every character is a column of 3 cells. Each cell may be white, light gray, dark gray, or black.
Weird and delightful.
Except when drawn by hand with a pencil or pen ... seems like it would inspire a squinty guess-a-rune swearfest.
Is are these triple dots of grayscale unique to Vötgil? Inspired by another alphabet?
I like the idea of a limited vocabulary and word building from there, but I think TP is way too extreme. Randall Munroe wrote a book called "Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words". In the back of the book, he lists the 1000 words he used to write it. Something like that would be suitable IMHO.
Yes, I guess (never heard about toki pona before) you would have to rethink how to communicate. Maybe shallow could be presented as "lukin ala" (nothing to examine), "taso sele" (only a surface) or "kote muli" (hearing something dead)
I am more surprised that you would spend one of your 137 words on "sex, to have
sexual relations" as almost every language has countless ways of referring to sex without using the word itself
> It also went ahead and put non binary... which is like, right there
I think the general idea of adding a word for non-binary was that there were already words for man and woman, but if you didn't identify with either of those, you'd have to come up with your own phrase as opposed to other people who got their own dedicated word. A surprisingly high number of non-binary people speak toki pona (or at least that's my impression from the Discord server), so I think it made sense to add.
I don't think you need man/woman in a language like toki pona either, it's supposed to be this deep philosophical language. If you want to talk philosophy, reproduction is the least of your problems. There's plenty of ways to indicate the sex as well. so long as you have the word for animal/organism, you can say animal + hole/stick, who nurses for the young, hunter, whatever. Its even better because its not exact. the more exact you get, the more words you'll need.
Shallow indicates incompleteness, it lacks a whole, it does not achieve fullness. "wile pini sona" maybe? my toki pona is beyond rusty, I've forgotten all of it.
I think it should be possible but few have attempted to do so. even in programming languages, the goal is to overflow not underflow. Forth-ian languages seem to be the only ones that try to build down not up.
And doing so is difficult because it would require simplification, and simplification is difficult when you lack completeness. English itself is infinite and symbolic. A new concept was identified? lets just make up a word/symbol for it. It does not matter if it breaks structure/grammar.
Child is used in many contexts, and not all of them are covered by "small person" or "new person", true. But I think the point is that you can come up with a precise alternative term for"child" in most contexts.
I love watching people go in depth and get passionate about something that seems so trivial. The next time someone asks why I don't use Microsoft's emojis I'll let them know it's because it takes too long to cut things with their scissor emoji.
For the record, you can purchase corrective lenses that fit over the ones on the headset. I have a pair and they’re great, the only downside being that any new prescription you get needs to be updated on your VR headset too…
The experimental artist Arca released an album[1] in 2020 which consisted of 100 AI-generated remixes of her song Riquiqui. It was part pretentious artsy experiment and part marketing stunt for some AI company, but an interesting concept nonetheless.
TikTok actually added a progress bar to longer (1 minute plus?) videos in a recent update. It’s still frustrating to not have it for shorter ones, but better than nothing I suppose.
Stories like this make me reconsider making that second cup later on in the day. It's just that it's so hard to let yourself be tired when the solution is so easily accessible.
I find that making a french press or V60 encourages me to make a lot more coffee just because I can, so I've since switched to the aeropress. People often state they wish it made more coffee, but it's been a nice way for me to limit caffeine consumption without feeling like I'm really restricting myself.
The first explanation I hear her give is “I thought you were on Ace high,” which when asked “So why call with Jack high then?” she immediately changes the subject. Eventually she states that she was playing him as opposed to playing poker, which is a much more plausible thing to say.
Given that her initial justification didn’t make any sense, I genuinely just think she won by making a bad decision. It’s a perfectly valid thing to do in poker, but I can understand the argument for why she could have been cheating.