Aug 6, 2026 · 1 hr 15 min · 14 segments
Get prepped for your Hobbit prerelease with the help of Judge Rob! This might be a small set, but it comes with the possibility of *big* misplays -- so know before you go! From tricky new cards and…
Um, Rob, you usually kick us off with a PSA.
Yeah.
My PSA is a kind of mathy one.
Mm.
Uh, but it's also-
Ooh
... not mathy.
So-
Okay.
[laughs]
Um, the, there's a thing called the, the prisoner's dilemma.
Mm-hmm.
Which is the, a common, a common thing in math and game theory, and it's basically you're put in a situation where you can choose to betray people-
Mm-hmm
... or work together with them, and if, and everybody chooses blindly, and then the thing happens.
Yeah.
And so if everybody chooses work together, you get a small reward.
If, if one person chooses betray and the other pers- chooses work together, the betray gets a larger reward, and the-
Ah
...
the person who chose to ally gets nothing.
The, the thing with it is it's very reflective of a lot of different situations in life, including, like, working with people over and over, um-
Mm
... including i- i- it, iterated prisoner's dilemma is playing the game over and over.
Mm.
Um, Rob, you usually kick us off with a PSA.
Yeah.
My PSA is a kind of mathy one.
Mm.
Uh, but it's also-
Ooh
... not mathy.
So-
Okay.
[laughs]
Um, the, there's a thing called the, the prisoner's dilemma.
Mm-hmm.
Which is the, a common, a common thing in math and game theory, and it's basically you're put in a situation where you can choose to betray people-
Mm-hmm
... or work together with them, and if, and everybody chooses blindly, and then the thing happens.
Yeah.
And so if everybody chooses work together, you get a small reward.
If, if one person chooses betray and the other pers- chooses work together, the betray gets a larger reward, and the-
Ah
...
the person who chose to ally gets nothing.
The, the thing with it is it's very reflective of a lot of different situations in life, including, like, working with people over and over, um-
Mm
... including i- i- it, iterated prisoner's dilemma is playing the game over and over.
Mm.
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