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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: The Necro Wars

« on: March 11, 2024, 01:58:53 pm »

So Awaclus, I have no idea if this is interesting to you but it's about music so~

There's this person in the QRI discord server whom I talked with a bunch about philosophy (and sometimes chess; they're a ridiculosuly good bullet chess player who can beat grandmasters despite apparently not being any good at strategy, which is super fascinating but has no relation to anything here). I once posted a link to the song Storm  and they said something about this being one of a few examples of amazing experiences they got from music because of some effect with two melodies playing over each other.

Here's them explaining it in detail:

I'm not 100% sure they mean what I think they mean, but it sounds like they're describing very basic concepts of music theory. I don't think anything there is wrong per se, but basically all music ever contrasts things with other things, so it's not that good at explaining why some music causes more intense emotions than other music.

This person has a lot of really weird takes but when I talk to them more about it I usually find it was worth it. Those examples are all from philosophy and/or consciousness stuff though.

This is also true of MasN Hub users in competitive strategy games.

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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: The Necro Wars

« on: March 09, 2024, 06:21:26 am »

I don't think Candace Owens is particularly emotional though, or in general a very stereotypical woman at all. If I had to pick a woman to represent sexist stereotypes against women, I'd pick Central Park Karen.

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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: The Necro Wars

« on: March 08, 2024, 09:04:17 pm »

the description of women as emotional, and aggressive but in a dishonest, backwards sort of way, and subtly manipulative -- that's my model

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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: The Necro Wars

« on: March 08, 2024, 05:46:51 pm »

Listening to Candace Owens, I think for the first time in my life I understand anti-female sexism on an emotional level.

Why?

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Magic Lamp is the dumbest card-shaped thing

« on: March 07, 2024, 08:25:38 pm »

I'm actually not banning it anymore, since the stats (the skill multiplier, specifically) clearly don't support my old argument. It is obviously very swingy, activating it a few turns after your opponent really is a massive disadvantage and sometimes that just happens for reasons beyond your control, but it seems like usually if it happens, it's because you didn't play it right.

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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: The Necro Wars

« on: March 01, 2024, 03:10:58 pm »

This is a sentence in which the last word is true.

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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: The Necro Wars

« on: February 29, 2024, 06:55:56 am »

Can you believe ETH has the audiacity to keep going up after I sold half of it?

Why are you complaining about the value of something you own going up?

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Let's Discuss ... / Re: Bury is really powerful?

« on: February 28, 2024, 09:51:23 pm »

It is decently powerful, but having to buy two copies of everything so that you can play one copy of everything per turn is a little inefficient, especially when it also costs $5 per turn. Mostly it's useful for miscellaneous slightly advantageous things to do whenever the thing you want to buy costs less money than you have.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Inherited is underwhelming and needs to be eliminated in the third edition

« on: February 28, 2024, 07:39:56 am »

Random, yes, but not swingy. Both players start out with the same Inherited card (with the exception of the Knight pile being chosen, which would indeed be very swingy), so there's no element of chance in getting it, unlike, say, certain strong $5 cards where a 5/2 or 2/5 opening can be a massive advantage. Inherited discard attacks can add an element of swinginess to the opening, but most Inherited cards are the opposite of swingy

Inherited has a skill multiplier of 0.89, so it is actually statistically very swingy. There are only 40 card-shaped things in the game whose presence in the kingdom is more likely to cause the less skilled player to win the game than Inherited — including removed cards.

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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Alchemy: New (Fan) Edition

« on: February 28, 2024, 05:16:05 am »

to made the images easier to view, remember that:
for Horizontal, "img height=250" or "img width=385"is best
for cards, "img width=250" or "img height=385" is best
You can also select the "Quote" at the top right of this message, to see what i used. Then copy and paste it into your message.

to made the text easier to view, remember that:
no special formatting is best
You can also select the "Quote" at the top right of this message, to see what i used. Then copy and paste it into your message.

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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: The Necro Wars

« on: February 25, 2024, 11:00:30 am »

Anyway complaining about bad luck in poker is for losers.

You know what's for winners? Joining MasN Hub!

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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: The Necro Wars

« on: February 24, 2024, 06:02:00 pm »

For context (and thanks for the extremely relevant suggestion, Google)

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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: The Necro Wars

« on: February 24, 2024, 06:00:15 pm »

It turns out Copilot Designer is about as insane about harpists as Gemini's image generator is about European people.

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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: The Necro Wars

« on: February 23, 2024, 07:51:09 pm »

I'm Awaclus now

I know, and we're both WanderingWinder.

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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: The Necro Wars

« on: February 21, 2024, 06:16:56 pm »

WAIT HE REMOVED DOCTOR?



That was like one of my favorite cards! ... which I can still play with offline and won't play with online anyway, so I guess it's fine. But still kind of shocking.

It was one of the top most predicted cards to get removed on the f.ds Discord (lower than Fortune Teller, Harvest, Masterpiece and Taxman but barely higher than Tournament). There aren't 8 cards in Guilds and Cornucopia that are more worth removing than Doctor.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: New 2e Cornucopia/Guilds cards are shown in the rule book

« on: February 21, 2024, 05:06:58 pm »

The 1-card combo was obviously too strong, so it had to be removed from the game.

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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: The Necro Wars

« on: February 21, 2024, 05:41:16 am »

Also what's the probability that the peddler variant that can only play action cards you have no copies of in play is an exact copy of a fan card?

100%, because it was included in crlundy's 2 fakes 1 preview game with a different name and art.

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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: The Necro Wars

« on: February 20, 2024, 01:20:45 pm »

Scumslip! Vote: silverspawn

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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: The Necro Wars

« on: February 19, 2024, 01:53:40 pm »

Ugh I have a chess game in two days so I can't go to the casino

That's why it isn't called a casiyes.

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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: The Necro Wars

« on: February 18, 2024, 04:25:26 pm »

Game design is another fun one. My guess here is no, and it's more like, every person figures out principles for themselves. But maybe that's not true.

There is at least an existing body of knowledge about common ways to be an idiot that you should avoid, and a lot of that is pretty solid.

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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: The Necro Wars

« on: February 17, 2024, 06:15:51 pm »

Somewhat related, Manifold's position on the political compass:


(someone made a poll for each individual question on a political compass test)

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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: The Necro Wars

« on: February 17, 2024, 05:44:14 pm »

There are a lot of self-proclaimed Libertarians that support Trump. But yeah, even if you add all those it's still the minority.

I would imagine that the self-proclaimed libertarians on LessWrong are mostly not those people.

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General Discussion / Re: Random Stuff Part IV

« on: February 12, 2024, 10:00:04 am »

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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: The Necro Wars

« on: February 11, 2024, 04:40:28 pm »

For some values of "deep state", there absolutely is a deep state, and it is pretty important even. It's extremely different from what conspiracy theorists imagine it to be, but undeniably there are entities that hold political power despite not having been democratically elected or otherwise chosen through the official procedures.

What are those values? In my mind, the most important property of being a deep state was exerting control over the course of the world

"Entities that hold political power despite not having been democratically elected or otherwise chosen through the official procedures" would be one value for which there is a deep state. Which includes stuff like big corporations, people who are networked with the right people, etc. They don't exert absolute control over the course of the world of course, and they don't all even try to steer it in the same direction as each other, but they do have some level of control over the course of the world and a lot of this is not very transparent.

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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: The Necro Wars

« on: February 11, 2024, 11:09:24 am »

For some values of "deep state", there absolutely is a deep state, and it is pretty important even. It's extremely different from what conspiracy theorists imagine it to be, but undeniably there are entities that hold political power despite not having been democratically elected or otherwise chosen through the official procedures.