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Seems they stuck it to themselves.

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A viral video making the rounds Monday shows a boy going to extremes to avoid detection by Bend Police.

The video, captured by a home security system, shows a boy running near the driveway of a single-family home on a south Bend cul-de-sac before climbing inside one of the home’s garbage cans and closing the lid. Seconds later, a Bend officer walks by and asks several nearby girls if they saw a boy run by. They say no.

Thirty minutes later, the boy exits the garbage can and runs off, seemingly consequence-free.

But according to Bend Police spokesperson Lt. Juli McConkey, that boy and three others were ultimately contacted at their homes and cited with second-­degree theft for allegedly stealing Pokemon cards from Walmart.

On July 5, Walmart loss prevention staff called the Bend Police Department to report several boys had stolen Pokemon cards from the store in south Bend. The store turned over security footage and still images of the boys that a Bend school resource officer used to identify them.

The boys, between the ages of 13 and 15, were not contacted until Sunday, when Walmart personnel called Bend Police to report the same boys were back in the store and had stolen more Pokemon cards.

Police arrived, but the boys were by then hiding somewhere in the store and playing the card game, McConkey said.

They eventually came out and were spotted by officers. The boys ran, spilling into the surrounding neighborhoods, which is when the home security camera captured one of the boys evading capture.

On Monday, the video had been viewed more than 1 million times.

The Bulletin does not typically identify juvenile criminal suspects or defendants.

— The Bulletin

I have many years of game time on Epic Pinball. Now it's all card games...

Exploding kittens just turns into me screaming over and over "NO, YOUR TURN IS OVER AFTER YOU DRAW A CARD. NO, YOU DREW A CARD NOW, NOW YOU CAN'T DO ANYTHING BECAUSE YOUR TURN IS OVER. I UNDERSTAND THAT IT'S DIFFERENT FROM MOST CARD GAMES B/C YOU DRAWING ENDS YOUR TURN, IT'S LIKE RUSSIAN ROULETTE."

"I just drew a card, so can I..."

"END YOUR TURN? YES."

I'm still shocked this is a "sport". Furthermore, A MILLION DOLLARS!!!!?????

Damn I wish I had that kind of money to blow on a card game.

As someone who researches the effects of video games on education (primarily on learners of English as another language) I can tell you the empirical research into the topic is not nearly so cut and dried.

There was a lot of hype about the "brain age"-type games when they first came out, some of which this video references, but what we know now is that those types of games only make you "smarter" in the sense that they make you better at solving similar puzzle-types. In other words, the gains you see are really just the effects of practice. The supposed "smartness" does not transfer over to other skill areas. See this link for more info: http://pamkato.com/2013/04/17/do-brain-training-games-work-yes-no-and-maybe/

So basically everything referenced in this video can be explained by "practice" rather than by some special characteristic of the video games themselves (certainly video games make the practice part fun, though). Furthermore, there is pronounced lack of research into whether the benefits such as those reported in this video actually mean anything significant (i.e. whether being able to more concretely differentiate different levels of gray when you are younger actually leads to better vision when you are older compared with non-gamers, whether you retain the ability to read small text as you age better than non-gamers, etc.).

I do believe there are cognitive benefits to ALL kinds of gaming (board games, pen-and-paper RPGs, card games like poker, crossword puzzles, tic-tac-toe, etc.) but based on the empirical evidence so far I'm not convinced there is anything particularly special about video games that leads players to become "smarter" in the sort of general sense that is being suggested here.

This is a great review. I unfortunately(fortunately) got my beta key two or three weeks ago on a Friday night and that is all I did that weekend (and spent $60 on cards).

The Beta is very much a polished product conducive enough for a review. I think it is an interesting departure for Blizzard, and even though it is a card game - it really does feel like a Warcraft game in the Blizzard vein. Blizzard has always had a boner for Popcap, this is like a boner for Popcap with Blizzard elements (more action based) influenced by Magic. It's alright by me, I honestly like Popcap games as well! Even if those games are "casual" they are tight as fuck.

Great job with the vid Sarzy!

I am under impressed with Hearth Stone. I much prefer Faëria... However HS is well polished and they have a nice balance between the free to play and items to purchase. I might put it ahead of Infinity Wars, as IW tends to be overly complex and deep when many times I want a simple fun game, I go back to Faëria for my more complex type game... I would also put it ahead of Magic 2014, but then I was never a Magic fan... Android Netrunner if that came in digital form (aside from the OCTGN module)... then I'd be in trouble... as would the digital card game world as Fantasy Flight's Netrunner is perhaps the best card game out there...

Really the Living Card Game of Game of Thrones is MUCH better

>> ^Auger8:

It's not that the other guy won't play it's that Francis has no cards and can only seem to draw lands, and the other guy has like 20 cards with upkeeps, timers, and abilities so it takes him forever to finish a turn, that and he's surely doomed to die. (Ya, old Magic geek here so sue me. )
>> ^shang:
yea their channel is full of hilarious skits, my favorite is him playing magic card game and knocks the table over cause the guy wont play.



Ah, only CCG's I've played are Star Trek CCG and Rift CCG

It's not that the other guy won't play it's that Francis has no cards and can only seem to draw lands, and the other guy has like 20 cards with upkeeps, timers, and abilities so it takes him forever to finish a turn, that and he's surely doomed to die. (Ya, old Magic geek here so sue me. )
>> ^shang:

yea their channel is full of hilarious skits, my favorite is him playing magic card game and knocks the table over cause the guy wont play.

yea their channel is full of hilarious skits, my favorite is him playing magic card game and knocks the table over cause the guy wont play.

Isn't "excessive" what we are pointing out here?

She was drunk off her ass, seated on the ground, handcuffed, barefoot.

He kicked her in the head when he could have taken a step back and solved the problem. And as the prosecutor pointed out, if he was concerned for his safety, why didn't they put her in leg manacles?

Excessive. Period.

{I'm not turning into blankfist, I swear.....]


>> ^GeeSussFreeK:

Usually on the side of victims for things like this, but she kicked him...he kicked back, game over. Excessive, perhaps, unprovoked, no. You don't kick police, unless you want to eat pavement...which she did. Don't want to get kicked in the face, then don't play the physical card game with a man twice your size with boots while your in handcuffs on the ground, it doesn't end well for you.

Usually on the side of victims for things like this, but she kicked him...he kicked back, game over. Excessive, perhaps, unprovoked, no. You don't kick police, unless you want to eat pavement...which she did. Don't want to get kicked in the face, then don't play the physical card game with a man twice your size with boots while your in handcuffs on the ground, it doesn't end well for you.