CalRef Development Journal

[Luca]

But I Said Give Us Nummy Nummy New Things!
No.

The lie detector determine that was a lie.

Popcorn
Lofi Bets to Chill and Watch the World Burn to

You can't get nabbed by the Federal Trade Commission if there's no "Federal"

Greetings lads and those who are not lads but could be honourary lads,

Have you noticed that ever since my last update, the world has become a burning inferno? Weaker minds would lament this state of affairs, but at the Refuge we sing of glory and press on. As part of my enduring legacy to let no crisis go unexploited, I look upon these broken lands and wonder if there are not fat stacks of pseudo-cash to be made. Up to now, there was not. After all, we do not have a personal military-industrial complex. But now, take heart, for there is.

Popcorn is an open-source betting game that I made up just now. It allows an admin to create abstract and occasionally inappropriate questions for players to bet on. Depending on how those bets go, players will find their wealth growing beyond all imaginings or be plunged into poverty for all eternity.

Every player starts with twenty-five thousand Refugia planets (the in-game currency). You can bet up to all of your planets on one issue, or spread them out more generally. However, you are always allowed to place at least a five thousand planet bet so that you can participate in any issue. In other words, you are allowed to plunge yourself into debt without any kind of statutory maximum, or try to claw out of debt if you have nothing.

Money is also added to the game whenever a topic is created. For every betting option that an issue has, a bet is automatically placed for 1,000 from the system itself, let's say from a robotic entity called "Dot". This means a three-option issue will always have a minimum payout of 3,000 planets, split between the winning players.

All issues have a ending timestamp, whereafter they are moved to a pending state, waiting for an admin to arrive and act as the Arbiter of Truth. As the Arbiter of Truth, an admin can set one of the betting options as the canonical outcome, and distribute payments according to how much the player contributed to the pool against other winners. If no betting option was correct, the admin can also abort the bet and refund anyone who staked in-game money on it.

Let today bring about a new dawn of economic wonderment. Bring forth your planets and your worthless/valuable opinions and learn how insightful / off-base you are with your understanding of the world. And be sure to suggest a betting topic if you have one in your mind. Visit the official Popcorn website today: https://pop.calref.ca/

In accordance with the prophecy,

Luca

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