Military: Uhh, get lots of defense cards and hope war isn't declared on you? I've heard the school of thought that you don't have to actually build up your military to defend yourself, you just have to be able to build up your military next turn if you have to and that's usually sufficient, but I haven't had much success with this. I mean researching military techs can only get you so far, it seems the only "have a solution for" available here is to research better military techs and put lots of guys on them. Is there anything else here?
The thing I hate about Oxford comma apologists is that they always imply or explicitly say that the Oxford comma removes ambiguity (and it often comes across a bit obnoxious or pretentious). It's happened in this very thread. But the thing is, it's untrue. There are situations where the Oxford comma helps, but there are also plenty of situations where using it creates ambiguity. Formal writing should always seek to minimize ambiguity and therefore it should use or omit the Oxford comma as necessary.You put a comma between the first and second objects in the list, it makes sense to put it between the last and second to last. That might just be my slight OCD talking though.
In the case where the Oxford comma makes no different, I usually prefer to leave it out. If it doesn't remove ambiguity, it's just useless ornamentation.
Also, there are some people who take it too far and use the Oxford comma in lists of two. Gross.
Yeah...what I said should be ignored...I had no idea it was up to 100k viewers, I thought it was still hovering at 50-60k.
Pokemon began and ended with the red version. #pokemonelitist
No, Gen 3 was obviously the peak!
Jan 6 2011 15:13 No longer remain stuck in games
After 15 days where nothing occurs on a game, you have the opportunity to either delete the game or force the player you're waiting for to quit.
These options are available in the PLAY menu.
I find Apples to Apples frustrating because at any given time, out of the seven cards in my hand, I tend to have only 2-3 such that I actually know what they are. It's a like an exciting, rare event when I actually get to play a card from my hand that at least kind of matches the description, I feel like the majority of rounds are me just throwing celebrities I haven't heard of into the pile and hoping they happen to match the description.
Interesting, I don't know celebrity names, either. I remember winning a game with the word belt-buckle. The question was something along the lines of "a few of my favorite things". I was the only person in the crowd who knew they had a belt buckle fetish and of course the only one with that card in my hand. Surely you know what a belt-buckle is.
Yeah, my post was a bit of an exaggeration. The problem is that I don't like playing cards that I don't know what they are, so over time my hand fills up with people I haven't heard of (I'm also a little scared of playing a card that I don't know that happens to offend someone), and then I'm stuck playing from only a few cards left that I know. I don't think Apples to Apples is an awful game, and I've certainly had some fun times with it, it's just that sometimes it drags on for several rounds without me feeling like I can contribute anything.
Is there maybe a rule I haven't heard of about discarding and drawing seven new cards? If that doesn't exist it definitely should. I may suggest that next time I play.
Though, one thing that is nearly universal is that teachers tend to not mark correct answers, so there's that.
Speaking of which...
Mmm... we're slowly edging our way towards game 100. I have some ideas for what we could do for that (but no, saying what they are would be telling at this point!)
Hack the server. 10 player game.
There could be easier ways, but that sequence that I made just looks so uniform that I feel it has to have something...
