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Hughdo Since: Mar, 2011
Jun 3rd 2012 at 5:29:13 PM •••

I hope it's okay to add folders to this thing. Please don't roll it back, it looks better this way.

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Telcontar MOD Since: Feb, 2012
Jun 4th 2012 at 12:28:01 AM •••

Adding folders is always fine, and a good thing once a page gets long.

That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.
68.225.137.124 Since: Dec, 1969
81.57.75.53 Since: Dec, 1969
Feb 15th 2011 at 2:41:09 AM •••

"The player almost always stands to lose more than money. Historically, this has meant that if he loses, he will die, lose a body part, have his family members die, be forced into slavery, or suffer any number of other horrific consequences."

Will someone add Mahabharata here? I mean, way before the big battle, the bad guys win a chess game and thereby get the "right" to denude main character's wife. (Same main character who later on listens to Krishna in the passage known as Bhagavadgita, I think: his name is Arjuna, but I might be wrong there). Gods do not let this happen, clothing miraculously reappears, but selling your wife into slavery for a chess game bet ... well, fits the trope.

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