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Goko Dominion Online / Re: What feature will you miss the least?
« on: December 07, 2016, 05:59:20 am »
The ugly avatars of some of the cards while it's searching for an opponent, especially Witch, Sea Hag and Militia.

Plot twist: it's implemented again.

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Serves you right for buying two terminals!


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Tournaments and Events / Re: Mono-Set Tournament
« on: December 05, 2016, 04:25:00 pm »
Awaclus 4 - 3 vsiewnar

I vetoed Base (and vsiewnar vetoed Guilds/Corn because we didn't have Corn)

Set______________Start____________Winner__________
SeasideAwaclusvsiewnar
IntriguevsiewnarAwaclus
AdventuresAwaclusvsiewnar
ProsperityAwaclusAwaclus
Hinterlandsvsiewnarvsiewnar
Dark AgesvsiewnarAwaclus
BasevsiewnarAwaclus

(disclaimer: the games were played over an hour ago and this is just based on my memory so it might have some minor errors, but at least the result of the match is correct)

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General Discussion / Re: Random Stuff Part III
« on: December 05, 2016, 10:54:33 am »
Is there any instance where you'd rather have 1D8+1 over a D10, or vice versa?

Obviously when rolling a one sided die. But what about with a D4? Would you maybe want the D8+1 instead of the D10?

For D4, you'd want D8+1. For D4+5, you'd want D10. That's because the numbers 1-10 are symmetric in such a way that D10 has the advantage for the higher numbers and D8+1 for the lower numbers (and it all adds up so that they're both just as good against anything that rolls numbers between 1 and 10 symmetrically).

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Ruined Market shouldn't be highest. When it's good it shines more than any other ruin, but when it doesn't shine it's marginally better than Ruined Village.

I thought you had a thing for cards that are marginally better than Ruined Village.

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General Discussion / Re: Random Stuff Part III
« on: December 05, 2016, 10:38:46 am »
Huh. Okay.

What about if you were facing a roll of a D12? Which would be better?

The D12.

In less mathy terms, D10 has a range of 1-10 with each result being equally likely. D8+1 has a range of 2-9 with each result being equally likely. Looking at it from that perspective, it's not difficult to see that they would have the same average roll. D12 has a range of 1-12 with each result being equally likely, so it's better.
No, I meant would you rather roll a D10 or D8+1 against a D12?

Doesn't matter.
Really? But they have different ranges

They have the same average roll.

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General Discussion / Re: Random Stuff Part III
« on: December 05, 2016, 10:10:32 am »
Huh. Okay.

What about if you were facing a roll of a D12? Which would be better?

The D12.

In less mathy terms, D10 has a range of 1-10 with each result being equally likely. D8+1 has a range of 2-9 with each result being equally likely. Looking at it from that perspective, it's not difficult to see that they would have the same average roll. D12 has a range of 1-12 with each result being equally likely, so it's better.
No, I meant would you rather roll a D10 or D8+1 against a D12?

Doesn't matter.

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General Discussion / Re: Random Stuff Part III
« on: December 05, 2016, 08:15:35 am »
Huh. Okay.

What about if you were facing a roll of a D12? Which would be better?

The D12.

In less mathy terms, D10 has a range of 1-10 with each result being equally likely. D8+1 has a range of 2-9 with each result being equally likely. Looking at it from that perspective, it's not difficult to see that they would have the same average roll. D12 has a range of 1-12 with each result being equally likely, so it's better.

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I don't know where exactly Scouting Party is going to end up, but it's definitely too high already.

Not really. So far we've seen a bunch of cards that you don't really even want for free a lot of the time and a couple of cards that you can buy if you can't do anything, for a marginal benefit.  You do want to buy Scouting Party pretty much every time, it doesn't cost you the buy so the opportunity cost is even lower than that of, say, Pearl Diver, and the benefit is not amazing but it's significant. If we see it in the next post, it's exactly where it should be in my opinion.

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Man, the new Moat looks so good. Other than that, this list isn't very surprising.

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Should I ask my friends who have played only a little bit of Dominion whether or not they'd be interested in becoming playtesters?

Needless to say, I'm also interested. I have a Honor 7 Lite and a Windows 8.1 laptop.

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General Discussion / Re: Music talk
« on: December 03, 2016, 10:53:13 am »
How long did you need for The Visitor?

40 hours 37 minutes.

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Ruined Library should have been higher than Survivors.

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General Discussion / Re: Random Stuff Part III
« on: December 02, 2016, 01:07:41 am »
I guess it would be too much to assume that you know how? Or, failing that, have a link?

I mean, I know how to use it, but I have no idea what it's technically doing.

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General Discussion / Re: Random Stuff Part III
« on: December 02, 2016, 12:24:31 am »
Any idea what a denoiser does, exactly?

It needs a saample of just the noise, and it analyzes that and then it can remove similar noise from any signal.

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General Discussion / Re: Movies: Any movie buffs?
« on: December 01, 2016, 02:01:29 pm »
oooor you could rewatch a good movie and actually have fun!

Why would your default thing be rewatching a movie? I mean, I rewatch stuff pretty often (for instance, I've seen Madoka 29 times and I want to watch it again pretty soon), but that's because I specifically want to do so in order to better understand complex symbolism in a movie or to return to the atmosphere from the movie when I really feel like it. If I just want to have fun without any specific goal in mind, I definitely want to get exposed to something I've never seen before, and ideally something that's not very widely known so that if I like it, I can tell my friends about it, because I think it's a huge waste when lots of great art gets largely ignored just because most people never discovered it.

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General Discussion / Re: Random Stuff Part III
« on: December 01, 2016, 11:16:55 am »
Well, yeah. Assuming it were a more annoying frequency for you, what would you do? Probably won't be useful to me, but who knows.

I might do some of the following:

 - Record the signal and use a denoiser after the fact
 - Use a multiband noise gate to duck the volume whenever there's just noise going on
 - Record the signal and manually automate the volume of a peak filter to achieve the same result as above but better
 - Blend the signal in with a similar sounding synthesizer
 - Play around with Vocodex and hope for the best

But mostly if the 1st option wasn't enough to get the result I wanted, I'd try to get a better signal before doing anything else, unless I had no other choice but to use that signal no matter what (or if I had to do it live).

A notch filter is a pretty heavy-handed approach but it works if there's nothing important going on at the frequencies in question.

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General Discussion / Re: Random Stuff Part III
« on: December 01, 2016, 04:50:17 am »
Anybody in here has any experience with signal processing? I have signals that have a huge messy noise source around 50kHz that I want to get rid off. I've tried some things already with less good results than I was hoping, so I am looking for options.

I would have some ideas for audio signals specifically (e.g. just leave it there because who cares about 50kHz), but you probably mean something different.

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Dominion Articles / Re: Dominion Strategy: The Art of Control
« on: November 30, 2016, 01:48:02 am »
What you're doing superficially shouldn't really affect your definition of a strategy, because it's strategically irrelevant. One of the most important aspects of both control decks in MTG and engine decks in Dominion is that most of the time, your opponent is the "beatdown". That's why the comparison kind of makes sense (although slog would be a more accurate equivalent in that sense). Tempo decks in MTG, however, tend to be the beatdown quite often.

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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: The Necro Wars
« on: November 30, 2016, 01:35:39 am »
The reign of Awaclus has finally come to an end after five months, ten days. Welcome to a new era of necro wars.

I'm still the moral winner until you've held the longest necro for longer than 5 months and 10 days.

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In this game, my opponent and I both bought Mandarin and Adventurer, and given our decks at the time I think these were actually the right moves. (The Mandarin buy was sketchier than the Adventurer buy, but buying it let me topdeck just a Counterfeit.)

Mandarin is generally an OK card when the kingdom is weak like that.

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General Discussion / Re: Music talk
« on: November 28, 2016, 04:59:06 am »
155 hours for five minutes? :o

That's 155 hours for 300 seconds, making over 1 hour for every two seconds.

Yeah. Something like 20-40 hours per song is more typical for my productions.

It should be noted though that the length of the song is largely irrelevant (it only matters for recording, and even then you can copy&paste a lot). Rather, what makes the production take longer is having a lot of complex sound design, and this song certainly had that because I designed all the sounds from scratch multiple times since I improved a lot on the way. Also there are like a dozen of different lead synths.

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General Discussion / Re: Music talk
« on: November 27, 2016, 12:25:01 pm »
I made a collaboration with the very talented vocalist SEiMEi from the Philippines, which turned out to be quite the project. I spent a total of 155 hours producing the music over the course of one year, and now it's finally done. Phew.




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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Special Sale Prices?
« on: November 26, 2016, 02:37:52 pm »
Black Friday is just one world-wide Bridge.

Country-wide, I thought.  Please tell me this American madness hasn't infected the rest of the world...

Last year, only a couple of companies were doing it in Finland. This year, I think it was already a lot more popular.

My band also had a 25% off of digital downloads deal for Black Friday (the joke is that our music is free/pay-what-you-want).

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Dominion FAQ / Re: Best Promotional Cards To Buy My Brother?
« on: November 26, 2016, 01:47:21 am »
Would it be OK to buy him Guilds even though Cornucopia was released earlier than Guilds?

Yes. After all, the game is supposed to function well with any random 10 cards, so it'll function just as well with a random selection from the first 4 sets and Guilds as it does with a random selection from the 4 first sets and Cornucopia.

Amazon says Guilds adds depth and complexity, it won't make the game annoyingly long/complex though? I don't want to buy him something he won't be happy with D:

Not annoyingly long for sure, the expansion might actually speed your games up because all of the cards are fast to resolve and most of them tend to make games shorter in terms of turns. As far as complexity is concerned, that depends on what you find annoyingly complex — if you're struggling with buying decisions and don't like the idea of struggling with them significantly more than you already are, Guilds might be too complex because it does precisely that (probably more than any other expansion). If that doesn't sound like a problem, then it'll probably be a fun expansion to get.

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