I mean, learning the rules and how it works is one thing, being able to play at a minimally competent level is another.
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Chess is an order of magnitude harder to play at a competent level imo because although the rules are simple and easy to learn thereās an absolute wealth of technical stuff and basic patterns you need to know too.
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Yeah, the bidding is the hard part.
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Marvel Comics is introducing a pair of superheroes named Snowflake and Safespace.
Iāve never known a good bridge player that can play poker well and always found them to be fish, on the other hand I canāt play bridge to save my life, Kalookie thoughā¦ 
I googled the spades game and the card play part is similar to bridge/trumps without the idea of a trump suit, so that explains it.
Iād say bidding is almost all of it. Itās hard to misplay the cards once youāve started. Not impossible but I found that aspect way easier than bidding
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Some of the olds have been playing with the same bridge partners for decades, which makes a massive difference.
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I think this is right. BBO has a mode where you can play pickup games with randos and itās usually just a total fuck story, way worse than the Zynga spades app which is also terrible for pickup partners knowing what theyāre doing
Oh, yeah, I should add that Snowflake is a non-white, non-binary character. There is some concern on the internet that maybe this is not a great name for that kind of character.
Just had my first job cancellation due to the End Times. So thereās 65% of my income for May gone already.
Yeah this is wrong. I know there are hands that play themselves, but there are plenty of hard hands to play.
Letās have a powers that be fundraiser. This forum you help run may very well have saved my life (covid thread). Thatās gotta be worth 10 bucks.
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The topic of donated money makes me super uncomfortable, but I do appreciate the sentiments behind it.
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I can tell.
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So Iāve finally gotten around to watching dirty money on Netflix and itās just something else. Iāve only watched the Volkswagen and hsbc episodes, but itās already evident that things really just arenāt going to change unless we have a total overhaul of the government. I donāt understand how either of those companies are still allowed to do business in the us
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I havenāt had any inquiries since the outbreak, but itās likely it will increase demand for battery back-up/off-grid systems. (I installed a battery today - ordered a while back though) Or maybe everyone will be broke.
That old 2p2 thread by the bridge expert who tried to suicide by jumping off a bridge was lit.
played with him a few times on BBO, cool guy
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Here is a book of play problems if you think the play is easy
and yes this is legal, they dropped this book for free because of the pandemic