Thanks to Heralds and Throne Rooms you can very easily get 7 Bridges in play relatively quickly even without Prince. Any Copper-centric strategy is horrible.
There goes SCSN again making blanket statements on F.DS. Usually by the time I get to reading them there have been 55 edge cases posted but it looks like my timing is good.
While you stroke it out, it's still sort of readable and you made a similar comment last week in the chat of my stream, so let me elaborate a bit on my so-called "blanket statements" and frequent use of hyperbole:
These things are a deliberate stylistic choice. I'm perfectly capable of picturing in striking detail a shade of reservation beneath every passing thought, marking the transition between umbra and penumbra, illustrating even how their tint and tone will alter with the time of day. These sort of aimless hedges, however, interrupting, like this, the flow of every—no, almost every—sentence, so that it hits you only at the end that you lost the point somewhere in the middle, these sort of hedges are like commercial breaks in a fast-paced movie, or an orator's stutter that mars even the most fluidly composed speech.
I fully stand behind George Box when he wrote that
Since all models are wrong the scientist cannot obtain a "correct" one by excessive elaboration. On the contrary following William of Occam he should seek an economical description of natural phenomena. Just as the ability to devise simple but evocative models is the signature of the great scientist so overelaboration and overparameterization is often the mark of mediocrity.
Few things are more educational than a carefully crafted caricature; few things more tiresome than an exhaustive list of exceptions. I like to compose the former, and trust that every bore will be able to compile the latter for himself, in his own basement, on his own clock.
There will always be some people who will recognize the spirit of what I'm saying and respond to the imparted lessons with grateful appreciation. Just as there will be others, and here the edge-case crowd comes in, who prefer instead to cut themselves at my deliberately sharpened sentences. I see no reason to rob them of an opportunity to exercise their masochistic hobby.
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