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daily_illuminator_feed) wrote2025-10-23 05:47 am
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October 23, 2025: Fun With Social Media Chicanery!
Here's something you gamers can use for a variety of purposes . . . just don't do anything nefarious!
Let's say you have a social gathering coming up that you can be reasonably assured about the possible outcome – for example, you're setting up a few Munchkin games for Halloween. Create for yourself a relatively disposable social-media account for the event (such as on Bluesky), with, sayyyyyy, MyHalloweenGaming. Then, when you realize that handle's already been taken, try MyHalloweenGaming2025, MyFullLegalNameHalloweenGaming2025, and MyHalloweenDFSVJKLDFSJKLDFSJKDFSJKLJKL2025try6.
Finally have that account? Great! Let's say you're inviting Chris, Pat, and Drew, and you're pretty sure you'll play three games. Next, you post 64 short social-media messages before the game starts that reveal the outcomes; be sure not to tell anyone about these!
– I'll win all three games of Munchkin on October 31!
– Chris will win all three games of Munchkin on October 31!
– Pat will win all three games of Munchkin on October 31!
– Drew will win all three games of Munchkin on October 31!
– I will win the first and second games of Munchkin on October 31, and Chris will win the third!
. . . and so on.
With three games and four participants, that's 64 possible outcomes (4 x 4 x 4), assuming one winner.
You play the games, and hopefully have lots of fun! At this point, you also know who won.
Excuse yourself to the restroom, and then delete the 63 posts that didn't turn out correct.
When you return to the table, "remind" folks about the social-media account you made (that you're informing them about for the first time). Tell them you made a prediction a while back, and send them the link.
Ta-da! You're a prognosticator!
This is the con-artist gist of it, though there are plenty of variations you can do. For example, I'm pretty sure you could do this on your real Facebook account if you just set your "guess" posts to Private, and then make the correct one more-public after the game.
This can also be a nifty technique in RPGs to showcase a super-smart character's "precognitive" abilities or the like.
Anyway, it's an amusing gag you can do; don't use it for evil . . . just a little fun "trick-or-treat" for friends!
– Steven Marsh
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Let's say you have a social gathering coming up that you can be reasonably assured about the possible outcome – for example, you're setting up a few Munchkin games for Halloween. Create for yourself a relatively disposable social-media account for the event (such as on Bluesky), with, sayyyyyy, MyHalloweenGaming. Then, when you realize that handle's already been taken, try MyHalloweenGaming2025, MyFullLegalNameHalloweenGaming2025, and MyHalloweenDFSVJKLDFSJKLDFSJKDFSJKLJKL2025try6.
Finally have that account? Great! Let's say you're inviting Chris, Pat, and Drew, and you're pretty sure you'll play three games. Next, you post 64 short social-media messages before the game starts that reveal the outcomes; be sure not to tell anyone about these!
– I'll win all three games of Munchkin on October 31!
– Chris will win all three games of Munchkin on October 31!
– Pat will win all three games of Munchkin on October 31!
– Drew will win all three games of Munchkin on October 31!
– I will win the first and second games of Munchkin on October 31, and Chris will win the third!
. . . and so on.
With three games and four participants, that's 64 possible outcomes (4 x 4 x 4), assuming one winner.
You play the games, and hopefully have lots of fun! At this point, you also know who won.
Excuse yourself to the restroom, and then delete the 63 posts that didn't turn out correct.
When you return to the table, "remind" folks about the social-media account you made (that you're informing them about for the first time). Tell them you made a prediction a while back, and send them the link.
Ta-da! You're a prognosticator!
This is the con-artist gist of it, though there are plenty of variations you can do. For example, I'm pretty sure you could do this on your real Facebook account if you just set your "guess" posts to Private, and then make the correct one more-public after the game.
This can also be a nifty technique in RPGs to showcase a super-smart character's "precognitive" abilities or the like.
Anyway, it's an amusing gag you can do; don't use it for evil . . . just a little fun "trick-or-treat" for friends!
– Steven Marsh
Warehouse 23 News: The City Never Sleeps Because Of All The Action
There are a million stories in the city, and they're all exciting! GURPS Action 9: The City shows how you can add GURPS City Stats to your GURPS Action campaigns. It also features six sample cities to use with your own action-packed adventures. Download it today from Warehouse 23!
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