Rock paper scissors

How are you going? What would you like today?" And I would walk off, and then we'd come back and we'd crouch down again and have another argument.

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Welcome to the podcast, Samantha.

Thanks for having me.

[laughs] Mm-mm.

Roshambo, baby.

Roshambo.

Oh, anyway, yeah.

I'm, I'm over it.

And so, when you're watching Lorkana...

It's kind of like watching a series of people playing Rock, Scissors, Paper, Spock, Lizard, Spock, right? There's not quite just three, but there's only a few.

Yeah, it's more in-depth than that.

I think a lot of card games suffer from basically what you're explaining here, which the way I view it is...

Seriously.

Rock, Paper, Scissors.

Oh, is this, uh, Hunter x Hunter?

Yep.

This is the way to beat everything.

And I think that there's a real rock, paper, scissors, and Monogreen just happens to have the most ways to construct your deck.

to combat things, and then also a pivot plan into other avenues that can do that.

And that's, I just think it's the best deck for those reasons, almost more than it's like very strong core game plan.

So instead I'm gonna fight over the payoffs from the Elf and that's how I'm fighting Elf, right? So instead of like kill Elf, I'm gonna be like, you know, interact with your thing, interact with your thing, you know, sneak into some pressure and then hope to kind of like beat you while you're disrupted.

And then I'm pretty good at stopping the elementals from coming down.

And in like the Rock, Paper, Scissors metagame, my role is like, hey, if you believe spell elementals is good, I'm pretty solid against you, right? I've got like a reasonable game.

And I am a one, two, three deck when it comes to like threat, interact, interact, kaito, interact.

right do you set do you want to go next or do you want to save it for the end so you want to tease people longer or do you want to what do you want to do

uh you know sometimes i wish we could rock paper scissors and when there was no delay that would be so much fun The discord should do that.

We're like, give us a thing.

That's like, Hey, there's

P.P.P.S. Tosh would say, who doesn't like Dragon Age? P.P.P.P.P.S.

Still losing Rock Paper Scissors to Manfred.

Send help.

Yeah, Matt.

Apparently, the origins of the game can be traced back more than 2,000 years to ancient China during the Hang Dynasty.

But the most important bit is they were actually playing rock, paper, scissors as we know it.

Now, An ancient Chinese hand game called Shaoshiling or Hand Command in Chinese is regarded as an ancestor of the game.

Our earliest written source comes much later, around 1600, when the Chinese writer Zhi Zahangji said the game dated back to the Han Dynasty.

We'll think of something.

And 2,000 years later, we're still using to make important decisions.

So things like, who's going to take the bins out? Rock, paper, scissors.

So there is still some technology that can simply cannot be improved.