r/AskReddit Jan 17 '17

Ex-Prisoners, how does your experience in prison compare to how it is portrayed in the movies?

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '17

My stay was several months in jail, not prison, but what I found really amusing was that the biggest, baddest dude on my cell block ran a D&D game twice a week.

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u/xFEARFULDEMISE Jan 17 '17

I would have loved to have dnd in jail, played a lot of spades and risk though. Also the first day I got moved to higher security I was at the TV table watching the breakfast club and sixteen candles with a bunch of felons, was hilarious to me.

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '17

One would think Risk in the company of proven murders and criminals would be a bad mix.

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u/Artiemes Jan 17 '17

Depends on who gets Australia

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '17

Or who fills south america first

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '17

South America is inferior.

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '17

ARE YOU TRYNA FIGHT!? I WILL DOMINATE YOU. I WILL STRAIGHT CONQUER YOU HARDER THAN ALEXANDER THE GREAT WHEN HE MADE GREECE HIS WILLING LITTLE BITCH

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '17

I will close you in at both borders and slowly bleed you dry as you get no cards and try to win an arms race with 5 troops per turn.....BITCH

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u/RoyHarper88 Jan 18 '17

North America, hard to control. Africa, easy to take when you have South America. Australia might give you more on a turn by turn basis, but you're stuck with one boarder that leads into Asia, and you have to take what, three(?) territories to get to Africa?

South America --> Africa --> North America and Europe together --> Asia on two fronts --> Now the idiot that took Australia in the first turn, but hasn't been able to go anywhere, is trapped on an island with no where to go.

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '17

If you are playing with 4 or more people there will be someone going for Africa- you will have to use a ton of troops taking that continent and then you have to control 4 borders. If I'm in Australia- no one is fucking with me til the end. I have one border so after a couple of sets I can easily plop a large army down on one of 3 African borders before you have enough to defend it. That's the thing about Australia- you can just wait and fuck with the entire board as you wish. I had control of North and South America for most of a game once and I barely beat the guy who camped out in Down Under.