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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Replying to @arthur_affect @synthpopisback and
Right. But how is the wavelength of the face of a card facing away from you appreciably different from the back of the card? It seems unlikely he’d be able to differentiate between things that have the same material consistency unless it’s line-of-sight.
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Replying to @MerrickGreenVM @synthpopisback and
Well, the ink on the card has a different wavelength than the cardstock It's like if you imagine the cards are tissue paper and there's a very bright light shining on them - depending on the inks used for the front and back you might be able to see right through it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @MerrickGreenVM and
Whether some cards are transparent to him and others aren't might have less to do with the "thickness" or opacity of the cardstock and more to do with how similar the inks are for the front and back, so the latter can obscure the former
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Like imagine if the cards were made of stained glass, there's some dyes that would make it impossible to read a card from the wrong side and others that wouldn't
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Replying to @arthur_affect @synthpopisback and
I think we’re on the same wavelength here.
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