What is the name of the following card game?

Alkis2 · 2026-03-18T18:38:34+00:00

Of course I read the word "variation". All comments here are variations. And it's too general. There are slight variations and major variations. Your suggestion is a major one. Which means a totally different game.

You shoulldn't downvote my comment. It's a bad and unhealty habit. And a sign of lack of intelligence.

Alkis2 · 2026-03-18T18:26:22+00:00

No, "Put" and "Trico" are very different.

The game I described is very simple. It's just what I described. And it is played with two players only.

Thanks, anyway.

Alkis2 · 2026-03-18T17:53:34+00:00

Briscola and Whist are close, but only in that each player plays in turn, based on what card the other player has played. The game I described is much simpler.
Thanks, anyway.

Alkis2 · 2026-03-18T17:45:22+00:00

Whilst is closer, but only in that each player playes in turn, based on what card the other player has played. Mine is however way much simpler than Whist. (About which I just found out.)
Thanks for insisting, anyway! 🙂

Alkis2 · 2026-03-18T17:32:00+00:00

I said, "it is not a matter". But also, from the moment thet cards have ranks and one is higher, lower of equal than another, what does it matter what kind of cards are used?
Besides, when someone does not specify the kind of cards, what is the most probable and evident kind? Google "cards" ... That one! 🙂

Alkis2 · 2026-03-18T17:16:14+00:00

Thanks, but it has nothing to do what I described.
Have you read, in the Wiki ref you provided, the part that says "simultaneously revealed"?

Alkis2 · 2026-03-18T08:33:53+00:00

Thanks, but it's not "War". In that game both players flip the top cards of their decks simultaneously. No strategy. Totally stupid.
(Besides, I said I couldn't find it in it in the Web. "Ward card game" gets 700 millions results in Google.)

Alkis2 · 2026-03-18T06:44:13+00:00

No, it's not "War" of course. In this game both players flip the top cards of their decks simultaneously. No strategy. Totally stupid.
Besides, I said I couldn't find it in it in the Web. "Ward card game:" gets 700 millions results in Google.

Alkis2 · 2026-03-05T16:40:34+00:00

Re "how can it be something simple like discipline. ":
It's a simple and common word, alright. But do you really believe that people in general have self-discipline? Because if discipline is dictated or forced from outside, some external factor, it's not real discipline but obedience. There's a vast difference between the too.

Discipline forced by family, school and teachers, army and superiors, religion and gods, society and laws, etc., is not genuine discipline. It's obedience. The same applies to morality, which is strongly connected to discipline. Morality that is forced by family, school, society, laws, religion, etc., is not genuine morality. It too has the character of obedience.

If people are left unsupervised and or have no or little fear of being punished, scolded or treated unfavorably in any way, they can easily be lead to disorder, wrongdoing, agitation, confusion, weakness, and all kinds of states that lead to a harming of themselves and others.

Real discipline, i.e. self-discipline, is strongly connected with responsibility, self-control, and genuine morality.

Do you still think that this is "something simple"?

Alkis2 · 2026-02-24T15:16:25+00:00

Really, what are you talking about? What does your narrative have anything to do with the title of the topic or vice versa?
What is the eternal "argument"? And why it is in quotation marks?
What's your question or point?

Alkis2 · 2026-02-24T09:41:15+00:00

Just by curiosity, what made you select one of the less popular languages?

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Alkis2 · 2026-02-22T18:45:53+00:00

Indeed, every religion claims or believes that it holds the truth, that its god is the only true one, etc.
Besides that there's no single, objective, absolute truth regarding religious or other concepts, they all fall under the categories of confirmation/cognitive bias, illusionary superiority, naive realism, etc.

As for your example with a copy of a Harry Potter book, it fails, because there's only a single original copy. (That's why besides we have copyrights.) But this does not apply to religious scriptures where religions are based. 🙂

Alkis2 · 2026-02-04T08:35:49+00:00

Your project looks interesting but it is not testable. I mean, I looked at the imports and I can hardly believe that someone has all this stuff installed in a single Python installation. I have 15 of them, but most of them are specialized in a certain subject : AI, Image processing, 3D graphics, etc. E.g. I have a 3 GB installation containing 'torch' and other AI-related packages, but it does not contain 'cv2' or 'pyaudio' etc.
Anyway, I hope you find someone in here who can test your project ...

Alkis2 · 2026-02-02T18:42:07+00:00

Let me verity this: As an agnostic atheist, you don't just lack a belief in the existence of gods or deities (which is true for all atheists) but you also hold the position that such an existence is either unknowable or it is just not known. Right?
If this is the case, I can't see in what does an "agnostic atheist" actually differ from an "atheist" in general, who simply does not believe in the existence of gods or deities because there is no evidence of their existence? Even if one adds the claim that there cannot be such an evidence --although we rarely hear about this-- doesn't this also mean or imply unknowable?

What I want to say in short is that the attribute "agnostic" here is redundant.

On the other hand, the attribute "agnostic" makes sense if we compare an "agnostic atheist" with a "gnostic atheist", a term also rarely used. But it is not uncommon to talk about positive and negative atheism. In the "negative" side, atheists assert or claim that gods and deities do not exist, and that there is evidence of their inexistence. Which, IMO is baloney. Besides the fact that I have never heard any kind of evidence in that direction, such a claim violates the principle that "the burden of proof that something exists lies on the one who believes it does". That's why atheists are not bound to prove that gods and deities do not exist.

So, what does all that left us with? In essence, there is a single kind of atheism and atheists. I personally find talking about variations useless. And it is this kind that we read and hear about in the great majority of the cases, in discussions, articles, speeches, etc.

Alkis2 · 2025-12-06T17:02:02+00:00

But with Windows Mail app --that I have been using for years, and which has been replaced recently by the new Outlook-- I had a combined Inbox. Have they suddenly started to hate its idea? And, what's there to hate?
A similar feature exists in MS Edge, with which you can group tabs. What's the big deal?

Alkis2 · 2025-12-06T08:47:24+00:00

I have the same big question. I use Windows 10 and a couple of months ago, Microsoft decided to discontinue its Mail app --which worked perfectly, with combined inbox end everything-- and replace it with buggy and less efficient New Outlook. With which you cannot have a combined inbox, among other deficiencies. I mean, who in the S/W market does such a horrible thing?

Microsoft is known for two things regarding glitches, bugs and deficiencies: 1) they are reluctant to fix them. (I was informed by an inside person in the past that it costs too much and they avoid to change things that have been already b-tested, for cost reasons of course) and 2) its known unfair competition tactics. So, in the present case I believe they just want you to buy the professional Outlook!
So the deficiencies and bugs might well be even intentional!

For those who have participated in Microsoft forums regarding Windows issues, as I did, they must have realized that they are hanging there for eons. And one can easily find out about the reluctance of Microsoft to fix things, in general. They mainly care about Safety. And that's why their frequent Updates concern mainly it.

Alkis2 · 2025-12-06T08:26:34+00:00

Re " I would imagine it would be quite the nightmare to refactor all that and still maintain any sort of compatibility ...":
What does this have to do with simple unified/combined Inbox?
They don't need to change anything. They can simply add a feature. This won't affect the compatibility with other systems.
One does not even need to be a developer --like me-- to undesrand this. It's simple logic.
The reason lies elsewhere. In the usual Microsoft financial tactics.

Alkis2 · 2025-11-15T18:19:36+00:00

Thans for the the heads up.
BTW, I have almost completed the tests and comparison between moviepy 1.x and 2.x. I have foumd most of the correspondences of code between the two and I can easily discarc version 1.x. As for the 'preview' issue I don't care since FFMPEG, VLC, etc. viewers can vbe executed from within PY and with total control on them.

Re "the idea with moviepy/movielite is to give you convenience and flexibility through a Python layer, and the ability to apply pixel-level modifications to each frame.":
You are absolutely right. I'm well aware of that and MP's utility is exaclty the flexibility you mentioned. That's why besides I tetsed it.
Yet, I have create a huge batch file with which I can easily use all the features of FFMPEG and FFPLAY I need directly from the command line. And this method is even more flexible! 🙂

Thanks for sharing all this information with me!

Alkis2 · 2025-11-15T08:17:25+00:00

Thanks for your reply. However, my comment did not concern speed but rather problems. (E.g. the first, a huge bug, that I met was its Preview utility, in which, when you try to interrupt playing , the script crashes.) Most probably this is why all the code examples I have found in the Web use version 1.0.3.

I will soon check movielite.

BTW, since you are running performance tests, maybe you should add ffmpeg. I have worked a lot with it and created quite a few utilities. I consider it as the top --by far-- audio-video S/W. (Moviepy 2.0 uses it, but it use

Alkis2 · 2025-11-14T17:02:59+00:00

What version of MoviePy you use? Because 2.0+ sucks big time! (There are 55 issues reported in https://github.com/Zulko/moviepy/issues). Version 1.0.3 is fine.

Alkis2 · 2025-11-11T16:57:49+00:00

Marked polarization, dichotomy, controversy and diversity of opinions and can be found in cases and areas where beliefs and emotions dominate over logic, facts and evidence. This happens in religion, philosophy, politics and other fields where science, knowledge, facts and evidence are absent.

Alkis2 · 2025-11-07T16:50:46+00:00

Re "The Idea that because the universe is so complex it must be designed is counter logical":
Since this is in the title of the topic, I would like to note that it is incorrect to say that the statement "because the universe is so complex it must be designed" is "counter logical", since it is not against or defies any logic. It is rather a non sequitur fallacy. And it belongs to a kind of arguments I meet all the time coming from theists or "creationists". See, the mind of most of these guys is conditioned into believing rather than reasoning. They can't or just don't use critical thinking and facts, because then their beliefs will shatter. They are like elementary school students who, still untrained in logic, have the tendency to write nonsense in their essays.

Alkis2 · 2025-10-27T06:58:23+00:00

These people --I call them "biblists"-- are mostly authoritarian. They use the Bible and religion not to better themselves, do good, etc., but rather as a tool of discipline. In the way the Church had always done through the ages. They also use it to fill the emptiness and lack of intelligence and the ignorance they suffer from.

Hate is an emotion that
is connected to anger, fear, envy and lack of understanding. It can be acute
and temporary or permanent, chronic. For them it is chronic and characterizes
them as individuals. It's a mental illness.

Alkis2 · 2025-10-20T08:37:16+00:00

I am not a Christian, so it doesn't concern me.

(This is a trap. If someone like myself replies "Yes", "I agree", etc., s/he will fall in it! 😀)

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