if you think about who was playing poker on the Enterprise you will lose your mind. -Data: cannot help but count cards -Geordi: can perceive both skin flush AND see through cards -Deanna Troi: an actual empath -Worf: Worfhttps://twitter.com/CinnamonHH/status/1225930137549639682 …
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Replying to @meakoopa @RickGodden
I think part of the takeaway from this is that they are all honorable enough not to cheat even with these decided advantages. They're all officers in Starfleet, and their first duty is to the truth (while cheating implies some level of dishonesty).
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There's also no actual point to cheating other than to be an asshole, since their society has no such thing as money so these games can only be for fun
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That seems to rest on the premise then that nobody would ever cheat at a game with no stakes, which really doesn't hold water.
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Well, not if the game is with your fellow Federation officers you have to work with every day
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Replying to @arthur_affect @synthpopisback and
There IS some speculation that maybe Geordi can see all the cards but, since the games aren't for any kind of real money, he's just choosing to throw some hands and win others to keep things interesting
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Replying to @arthur_affect @synthpopisback and
Can Geordi see cards? I figured the face and back might have some special marking letting him “see” patterns, but reading text seems like one of the hardest things to translate to a visor. Daredevil can’t do it. The empath and android (who doubles as Sherlock) are ironic.
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Replying to @MerrickGreenVM @synthpopisback and
The VISOR isn't sonar based like Daredevil's vision, it actually does sense electromagnetic radiation including visible light The biggest reason Geordi has problems with it is it can't filter out other wavelengths to let him see "normally", he has to filter mentally
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But yeah they explicitly say that depending on the cardstock Geordi can see through the cards, probably by seeing into the infrared spectrum
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Replying to @arthur_affect @synthpopisback and
Yeah, and also a built-in lie-detector.
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