{"id":17950,"date":"2012-11-04T16:44:12","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T00:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=17950"},"modified":"2012-11-04T16:44:12","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T00:44:12","slug":"tom-vs-bruce-vs-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2012\/11\/04\/tom-vs-bruce-vs-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom vs Bruce vs America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"17950\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/California_dreaming_part_two.jpg\"<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/California_dreaming_part_two.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"California_dreaming_part_two\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17953\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Political Machine 2012 edition of Tom vs Bruce is now live for early access supporters.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bruce: Unless your political party is named Viet Minh or Khmer Rouge, someone has to pay the bills.  In The Political Machine, you make money by a combination of building up an extensive network of headquarters and upgrading them constantly, and fundraising in various states.  The bigger the state, the more money you make.  As the biggest state, California commands all our attention.  These solicitations are based on diminishing returns, though, so by the end of the game both candidates will likely be scrounging for quarters in laundromats in Compton.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you&#8217;re an early access supporter, you should have your password by now.  If you&#8217;re not one of those, we&#8217;d invite you to become one by donating $18 or more to our Paypal account at tomvsbruce.com, which will get you early access to The Political Machine as well as the next eight articles.  Otherwise, we hope you&#8217;ll check out the article when it goes public on Wednesday.  In other words, <em>when it&#8217;s no longer relevant<\/em>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tom vs Bruce vs America - Quarter to Three<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2012\/11\/04\/tom-vs-bruce-vs-america\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tom vs Bruce vs America - 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