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General Discussion / Re: Bond. James Bond.
« on: February 06, 2014, 11:11:31 am »
As classic as the ski chase and (especially) the jump are, I like the opening credit sequence better:



But I think Thunderball takes it for best song+opening sequence combo:



Followed closey by You Only Live Twice, but I might be putting this here just because the song is my favorite of all James Bond films:


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General Discussion / Re: DominionStrategy Forum Members Map!
« on: February 05, 2014, 11:41:58 pm »
It's just down the block from the Metro stop, a few doors down from the CVS on Penn. ave

Eastern Market is a really cool area -- that's awesome that you play music there!

I actually play music every Thursday night (except tomorrow night) in Shaw from 9-12. What time does Labyrinth happen? My housemate probably knows about this.

EDIT: I misread your previous post. Board game night at Labyrinth. Got it.

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General Discussion / Re: DominionStrategy Forum Members Map!
« on: February 05, 2014, 11:28:06 pm »
Just outside DC in Montgomery County, MD.

I live 5 minutes from Montgomery County!

I live pretty nearby as well.

Oh cool! Is there a place you guys go for IRL dominion?

No, I've never gone anywhere for dominion. I'll occasionally go to board game night at Labyrinth in Eastern Market in downtown, though. It's on Thursday nights, pretty cool, but unfortunately very crowded and not enough room for how many people go.

Where in Eastern Market? In that big room above the actual market? I play music outdoors in the market every summer.

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General Discussion / Re: Bond. James Bond.
« on: February 05, 2014, 10:07:33 pm »
Let's see some more lists. If you haven't seen a few of them that's ok.

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General Discussion / Re: Bond. James Bond.
« on: February 05, 2014, 02:10:53 pm »
I like Brosnan as Bond better than Moore, but there's no denying many of those were awful movies.  I haven't seen the Daniel Craig version of Bond.

Word. I like Brosnan too, just not his movies (besides Goldeneye). I slightly prefer Moore, at least his first three films.

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General Discussion / Re: DominionStrategy Forum Members Map!
« on: February 05, 2014, 09:18:46 am »
Just outside DC in Montgomery County, MD.

I live 5 minutes from Montgomery County!

I live pretty nearby as well.

Oh cool! Is there a place you guys go for IRL dominion?

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General Discussion / Re: Bond. James Bond.
« on: February 04, 2014, 09:36:58 pm »
Blofeld in OHMSS does have a cheap lair, but it does have Joanna Lumley and Catherine Schnell just as extras inside. That's quality.

You'll never hear me complain about Bond girls and that's one thing OHMSS has going for it. He gets laid twice in one night and still isn't satisfied.

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Help! / Re: This is an engine, right?
« on: February 04, 2014, 09:28:08 pm »
Ok cool. Sorry for the misunderstanding. I realized near the end that schemes would've been awesome but it was a little late. Thanks for all the feedback! I'll play this board again tonight with a couple adjustments and we'll see how it goes.

EDIT: I don't know what I was thinking on turn 4, that witch missing the reshuffle was pretty obvious.

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General Discussion / Re: Bond. James Bond.
« on: February 04, 2014, 09:22:16 pm »
I do like On Her Majesty's Secret Service. I seem to remember some awful winter sports effects at the end but that's more than compensated for by Diana Rigg. Lazenby is a decent Bond.

A lot of people put OHMSS near the top of their list and I don't understand it. Everything about the movie is wrong. The movie starts off with Bond breaking the fourth wall in a reference to Connery. Bond is undercover for the first half of the movie. That's not Bond's stye. Bond walks in, tells the villain his name, and proceeds to singlehandedly dismantle said villain's diabolical schemes. The other half of the movie Bond is running and hiding instead of fighting. Yes, Bond runs in a lot of other movies but he figures out some way to turn the tide. In Thunderball, for example, there's a big on foot chase scene. I think he even gets shot in the leg or something if I remember correctly. But he ends up meeting his pursuer face to face and gets the better of her.

Speaking of singlehandedly getting the job done, sometimes Bond has help. But in the end it's up to Bond to save the day. I don't remember the end of OHMSS exactly but I think Bond is transported by helicopter and works with a small army to destroy Blofeld's lair (speaking of which, this is the worst Blofeld) and never really definitively saves the day (I could be wrong about this). In Goldfinger Bond has the help of the US army, but it's he who kills Oddjob and stops an atomic bomb from going off. And I haven't even mentioned the marriage yet! Oh boy.

Little Asian guy? Are you thinking of Knick Knack from The Man With the Golden Gun? Moonraker's only saving grace is the tram fight with Jaws. Just like the only saving grace of Die Another Day is the sword fight. Come to think of it, there's nothing good in On Her Majesty's Secret Service so it should really be this:

23 - On Her Majesty's Secret Service
22/21 - Moonraker
22/21 - Die Another Day

This.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNT8nwEiRPM

Oh right. Pretty forgettable, seeing as how I forgot about it. I do like Jaws however until he meets his girlfriend. Jaws in Egypt is badass as well as his escape from the underwater fortress thing at the end of The Spy Who Loved Me. I mean come on. He bites a shark and swims across the ocean.

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Help! / Re: This is an engine, right?
« on: February 04, 2014, 07:59:53 pm »
On turn 4 you play the witch so it misses the reshuffle, which wouldn't have happened if you'd taken action+coin with the pawn. Then on turn 5 you miss a chance to draw a card with the pawn, meaning your bad hand is reshuffled into the deck. Along with your bad draw on turn 3, those card plays on turns 4 and 5 set you back a long way.

On turn 4 I was still expecting him to buy a witch or two and wanted to curse him as much as I could but you're right, having the witch in the shuffle would've been better. On turn 5 I bought the masquerade and drew it right away. You think it would've been better to let it miss the shuffle?

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General Discussion / Re: Bond. James Bond.
« on: February 04, 2014, 05:29:46 pm »
Little Asian guy? Are you thinking of Knick Knack from The Man With the Golden Gun? Moonraker's only saving grace is the tram fight with Jaws. Just like the only saving grace of Die Another Day is the sword fight. Come to think of it, there's nothing good in On Her Majesty's Secret Service so it should really be this:

23 - On Her Majesty's Secret Service
22/21 - Moonraker
22/21 - Die Another Day

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Help! / Re: This is an engine, right?
« on: February 04, 2014, 04:01:21 pm »
Woah. You just blew my mind.

Why did you hold out on us so long? ;)

I was holding onto this thing called a life. But no worries, Dominion now owns my soul.

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General Discussion / Bond. James Bond.
« on: February 04, 2014, 04:00:03 pm »
This is something that nobody needs to know, but I'm going to tell you anyway. I'm a big James Bond fan, at least of the "official" Eon produced films. And thus, since I have nothing better to do, I'll now rank all 23 films in order from worst to best. Use this thread to make your own list, discuss the films or the books or anything else related to James Bond, but mainly just humor me because I've always wanted to make this list.

23 - Die Another Day
22 - On Her Majesty's Secret Service
21 - Moonraker
20 - Tomorrow Never Dies
19 - The World is Not Enough
18 - The Living Daylights
17 - Licence to Kill
16 - A View to a Kill
15 - Octopussy
14 - Quantum of Solace
13 - For Your Eyes Only
12 - Diamonds Are Forever
11 - Live & Let Die
10 - Skyfall
9 - The Man With the Golden Gun
8 - Casino Royale
7 - Goldeneye
6 - Thunderball
5 - From Russia With Love
4 - Dr. No
3 - The Spy Who Loved Me
2 - You Only Live Twice
1 - Goldfinger


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Help! / Re: This is an engine, right?
« on: February 04, 2014, 03:14:02 pm »
EDIT#2: I'm also sorry for being computer illiterate but can someone tell me how to post the cards here and also how to get a link to color coded logs? I just copy and post the link that shows up after the game. Thanks!
Cards: http://gokosalvager.com/kingdomvisualize
Log prettifier: http://dom.retrobox.eu/ or install the extension and it will modify the log URL for you.

EDIT: For a link to pretty log you need to replace "http://dominionlogs.goko.com/" with "http://dom.retrobox.eu/?" in your log URL from Goko.

Thank you!

You can also look up past games and get links to all those things.

Woah. You just blew my mind.

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Help! / Re: This is an engine, right?
« on: February 04, 2014, 02:39:44 pm »
Thank you. Sometimes the most obvious things need to be pointed out before you can truly absorb them. Masquerade  before witch makes a lot of sense. I got the gold because I felt like I wasn't going to get to platinum without it. But with sufficient early trashing (more masquerade plays) and conspirators that probably wouldnt've been a problem.

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Help! / This is an engine, right?
« on: February 04, 2014, 02:05:24 pm »


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Fool's Gold, Pawn, Market Square, Masquerade, Scheme, Conspirator, Taxman, Throne Room, Venture, Witch
http://dominionlogs.goko.com//20140204/log.516ddc20e4b082c74d7cbc04.1391540162067.txt

I'm pretty sure the engine was strong enough here despite the poor draw and TR as the only village. Also, the curses didn't seem to slow him down as much as I hoped they would. By the end of the game he still had 5 or 6 and was still producing a good amount of money. I think I could've picked up a couple more witches and schemes. For some reason I wasn't even thinking about draw as much as linking conspirators even though it's a colony/platinum game. When I started stalling I realized my mistake.

My questions are 1) would you go for the engine here? and 2) if yes, how would you have gone about building it? Thanks.

EDIT: Sorry for posting a game that I won in this forum but I know I can always do better win or lose and I value your opinions. If you feel this is inappropriate I can take it down.

EDIT#2: I'm also sorry for being computer illiterate but can someone tell me how to post the cards here and also how to get a link to color coded logs? I just copy and post the link that shows up after the game. Thanks!

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General Discussion / Re: Song of the day
« on: February 03, 2014, 01:07:32 pm »
One of the first Bad Brains songs from one of the first (if not the first) Bad Brains recording sessions. Nobody plays punk like this anymore.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ms6Czbrvko

Sorry I'm computer illiterate but how did you guys embed youtube videos on here?

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Game Reports / Re: Goons slog...?
« on: February 03, 2014, 01:01:17 pm »
Ok. I just played this one again following your advice (for the most part) and it took forever. I realized way too late that I should've been buying duchies. I didn't think I needed duchies because I was in control the whole game but it just kept dragging on. I discovered that the point of getting duchies wasn't the points necessarily but to end the effing game. An expand probably would've been good too. Anyway here it is, turn 26 is my high point.

http://dominionlogs.goko.com//20140203/log.516ddc20e4b082c74d7cbc04.1391450253006.txt

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Game Reports / Re: Mistrel/Tunnel mirror
« on: February 03, 2014, 12:26:29 pm »
This one didn't work as well without the trading post. I was surprised how fast I could draw my deck in the last game and it just didn't happen as quick in this game. Maybe I overbuilt and should've bought duchies instead of catacombs and border villages.

In the end, I think the engine is correct. Masq, trading post, green early and often. Tunnel probably isn't a factor in this one at all.

http://dominionlogs.goko.com//20140203/log.516ddc20e4b082c74d7cbc04.1391448184141.txt

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Game Reports / Re: Mistrel/Tunnel mirror
« on: February 03, 2014, 11:58:46 am »
Hey guys thanks so much for all the input! I played this game again and took some of your advice. However I opened 2/5 and picked up embargo and trading post. It turns out I never even touched a tunnel or gold but somehow got the win anyway. I'll play another one and see what happens.

http://dominionlogs.goko.com//20140203/log.516ddc20e4b082c74d7cbc04.1391446525016.txt

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Game Reports / Re: Goons slog...?
« on: February 03, 2014, 11:28:51 am »
That makes a lot of sense. Thanks guys!

Would you skip potion altogether? I was worried about mountebank/goons collision, but my deck was probably too thick for that to be a real problem.

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Dominion Videos and Streams / Re: AdamH's channel
« on: February 02, 2014, 11:02:25 pm »
Hey thanks for letting me know, it's good to know what's working well and what isn't.

If you want to play me at any point, just let me know, I usually don't discriminate. If I kicked you, it was either an accident or because I had a minimum rating going for when I was streaming. Sorry for any psychological damage I may have caused  :P

It's cool, I think you were playing some games with a specific person at the time. I'm sure we'll run into eachother sometime soon.

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Game Reports / Goons slog...?
« on: February 02, 2014, 09:58:25 pm »
Here's a more interesting one than the last one. Not necessarily a slog but it felt like it. At the time I felt like I got off to a slow start. Looking back at the logs it doesn't really look like that but I felt like I was behind for most of the game. I think my biggest mistake was not buying a potion earlier in the game and getting a few golems. I had a feeling they'd be important and I should've had more than a feeling (more than a feeling: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSR6ZzjDZ94). I knew I had a chance when I saw my opponent buying coppers with the extra goons buys. I was hoping that would be my saving grace.The salvagers paid off later although I'm sure I could've utilized them better. What do you guys think?

http://dominionlogs.goko.com//20140202/log.51354134e4b07cef8209f582.1391395827464.txt

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General Discussion / Re: Song of the day
« on: February 02, 2014, 06:59:40 pm »
@Arche - "not available in your country".
Oh. I guess THAT'S what "US Version" means.

A generic lyric video may work: http://m.

I play this one with a band I'm with:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BJDNw7o6so

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Game Reports / Re: Mistrel/Tunnel mirror
« on: February 02, 2014, 06:03:57 pm »
Thanks! I spotted the engine right away but when he opened with tunnel I figured it was only a matter of time until he would consistently province every turn, especially if he got a trading post or masquerade right away. I think you're right though, even without a +buy those "dead" tunnel cards could've been catacombs and masquerade. Maybe an early embargo would've sealed it.

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