Hey all,
Check out this link.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2013/jun/09/nsa-whistleblower-edward-snowden-interview-video
It is a lot of things to think about. It leads me to today's blog thoughts. If you had the tech to beat Justice League and Uatu at 300 would you tell everyone, save it to win at Gencon, or keep it under wraps and let Justice League run its havoc in hopes of Justice League or team dials getting nerfed?
What would be the best course of action?
Thanks for reading,
Edward Shelton
I think Snowden is right; people aren't going to act on this information. The power of the NSA is such that it could easily shut down all attempts to form group actions. Check out the SF show Continuum if you haven't. It extrapolates the surveillance into 2077, where murder has become rare because the government (of corporations) hears all and sees all. A group of "terrorists" trying to overthrow the government, gets caught, and on the eve of their execution get sent through time back to 2012, along with a Protector (a techy cop who blindly serves the corporate government, as the police force in Logan's Run served the computer).
ReplyDeleteAs the show progresses, you wonder if the terrorists are really the "bad guys" despite the bombings that kill thousands. It's a good show, and perhaps easier for people to process and discuss than something real like Snowden's whistleblowing.
Your question begs a couple of more: where will the meta be if you release your team composition, and does that make the meta more predictable or less predictable? The very idea of a meta in a rock/papers/scissors/etc. environment is trying to predict the popular play. If you can steer people towards scissors, you can play rock with more confidence while everyone else is trying to cut paper. Sometimes you get a weird outcome though, like everyone expects anti-JL teams so no one plays one (expecting too many direct counters) and as a result the JL team is strong in an environment where it was expected to be weak. This happened during the Summer of Necro decks in Magic the Gathering, where I went unbeaten with a Necro deck in a big NYC tournament because everyone else expected a field of anti-Necro decks and thus nobody played them.
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