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[markusin]

The Bureaucrat is perhaps the most powerful card in Dominion

At least, according to this eHow article on how to use the Bureaucrat:
http://www.ehow.com/how_4671616_use-bureaucrat-dominion.html

Many of the eHow articles on Dominion are full of advice that the f.DS community considers inaccurate at best. Examples of such articles include "How to Use the Village in Dominion" and "How to Use the Adventurer in Dominion."

The Bureaucrat eHow article is a particularly egregious example. The f.DS community considers Bureaucrat to be one of the weakest cards in the game. Because of this, there were lots of laughs when reading the first line of the article: "The Bureaucrat is perhaps one of the most powerful cards in Dominion."

After discovering these articles, sarcastic praise for Bureaucrat have been popping up on the forum from time to time. You'll even find jokes about how Bureaucrat is the strongest card in Dominion.

edit: fixed Adventurer article link.

edit 2: the above links are dead, but I might as well point to new links for the original articles while I am here: https://web.archive.org/web/20120110051310/http://www.ehow.com:80/how_4671616_use-bureaucrat-dominion.html

[Awaclus]

Examples of such articles include "How to Use the Village in Dominion" and "How to Use the Adventurer in Dominion."

Both of these link to the Village article.

[pacovf]

Examples of such articles include "How to Use the Village in Dominion" and "How to Use the Adventurer in Dominion."

Both of these link to the Village article.

You got Rickvillage'd!

[markusin]

Examples of such articles include "How to Use the Village in Dominion" and "How to Use the Adventurer in Dominion."

Both of these link to the Village article.

Whoopsie. Fixed

[Witherweaver]

Too many posts here are lacking explanations.

Please rectify this as soon as possible.

They can't all be the best lexicon of inside jokes post ever.

[pacovf]

Too many posts here are lacking explanations.

Please rectify this as soon as possible.

They can't all be the best lexicon of inside jokes post ever.

That joke is the Bomb. :P

[Witherweaver]

Too many posts here are lacking explanations.

Please rectify this as soon as possible.

They can't all be the best lexicon of inside jokes post ever.

That joke is the Bomb.

Parsing error: Explanation not found.

[silverspawn]

I will be on the lookout for further jokes.

[pacovf]

Too many posts here are lacking explanations.

Please rectify this as soon as possible.

They can't all be the best lexicon of inside jokes post ever.

That joke is the Bomb.

Parsing error: Explanation not found.

"They can't all be the best [...] ever" is a reference that I find overused and strangely overrated, and that in my humble opinion should be dropped in favour of exploring still-uncharted humour-space. Another joke equivalent in its drabness would be posting scout in the Really Bad Card Ideas.
Now that we have lifted any ambiguity on the context, an analysis of my post can be provided. Saying that something "is the bomb" is slang for saying that it is awesome or cool. However, Bomb was a card whose designer refused to let go, despite being told repeatedly that it should be left to die. By juxtaposing two usages that mean the opposite thing, I create a humourous contradiction, hopefully provoking laughter, a subtle smirk, or at least the lightest hint of a dopamine shot, in the reader. And the capitalization of the word Bomb still keeps my opinion on the matter clear, unequivocally refering to the card instead of the object.

The smiley face was used to convey that, while personally I am through with the reference, I bear no ill thoughts against the poster. It was necessary because tone is hard to convey through written text. You might have thought that I was being overly aggresive otherwise, which never was my intention.

[Insert here a reference to the second post in this thread for meta commentary on this post]

EDIT: expanded answer for extra obviousness and meta-obviousness.

[SwitchedFromStarcraft]

+1 for [insert here a reference to prior post].

Edit: Expanded +1 for extra respect(ful)ness and meta-respect(ful)ness.

[Awaclus]

"They can't all be the best [...] ever" is a reference that I find overused and strangely overrated

They can't all be the best reference ever.

[Teproc]

"They can't all be the best [...] ever" is a reference that I find overused and strangely overrated, and that in my humble opinion should be dropped in favour of exploring still-uncharted humour-space.

pacovf is here using the word "exploring" in a seemingly innocuous way to evoke the origin of the aforementioned "They can't all be the best [...] ever", which was a comment by Dominion on the card Explorer saying "They can't all be the best 5 ever".

I realize this was explained before in this thread but you now, better to explain it again just in case it wouldn't be funny for someone.

[pacovf]

"They can't all be the best [...] ever" is a reference that I find overused and strangely overrated

They can't all be the best reference ever.

No, seriously now, we've done everything we could with this joke, really, nothing left there.

They can't all be the best reference ever.

EDIT: how did I miss this

a comment by Dominion

Rio Grande Games has recently anounced a new release by 2009 Spiel des Jahres winner Dominion: a new expansion to the  highly popular family of games Donald! While the cheering fans don't know the name of the box, they are just calling it by its number, Donald X.

[ashersky]

Could someone explain the game that we all just lost?

[eHalcyon]

Could someone explain the game that we all just lost?

Assuming you are serious, here.  It's not an f.ds thing.

[pacovf]

Yes, but it is not specific to F.DS:

-Everybody is playing the Game;
-When you think about the Game, you lose;
-When you lose the Game, you must announce it.

So, we all just lost again.

PPE Ninja'd.

[liopoil]

Could someone explain the game that we all just lost?

"The Game" is a game which everyone in the world is always playing, whether they know of it or not, and there is no way to opt out or end the game. Whenever you think about The Game, you lose the game. You are also required to announce that you lost the game for everyone to hear and then lose as well. This does not mean that you are done with the game, you will lose it again the next time you think about it as well. There is no winning the game.

I, of course, just lost the game. Also, there is no joke here, so I'm not sure why I bothered explaining it.

PPE: ninja'd TWICE

[ashersky]

Could someone explain the game that we all just lost?

Assuming you are serious, here.  It's not an f.ds thing.

I was, thanks.

Amazingly, the entire wikipedia article makes no mention of Ghostbusters, which was the first thing that came to mind when I read about what the game actually is/was/refers to.

[GeoLib]

The game is such nonsense though. The rules of the game can't force me to play the game. If I'm not playing the game, then those rules have no hold over me. They can declare me to have lost, but they can't say I'm still playing.

[liopoil]

The game is such nonsense though.

Well, yeah, that's sort of the point.

[sudgy]

The game is such nonsense though. The rules of the game can't force me to play the game. If I'm not playing the game, then those rules have no hold over me. They can declare me to have lost, but they can't say I'm still playing.

I'm not playing either

[soulnet]

Geo, don't be a bitter loser... yoy make your own remembering luck

[Ozle]

Is it Moat? -- For a while, "find the missing card" puzzles were very popular in the Puzzles sub forum.  f.ds user Ozle would very often always guess Moat.

Fixed that for you, although the moat thing goes back to one of my first posts where I posted about my irrational hatred of moat...

[Awaclus]

Is it Moat? -- For a while, "find the missing card" puzzles were very popular in the Puzzles sub forum.  f.ds user Ozle would very often always guess Moat.

Fixed that for you, although the moat thing goes back to one of my first posts where I posted about my irrational hatred of moat...

Not always, at least twice someone has created a puzzle just for the purpose of making Moat a correct answer and both times you disappeared from the forums.

[Ozle]

Is it Moat? -- For a while, "find the missing card" puzzles were very popular in the Puzzles sub forum.  f.ds user Ozle would very often always guess Moat.

Fixed that for you, although the moat thing goes back to one of my first posts where I posted about my irrational hatred of moat...

Not always, at least twice someone has created a puzzle just for the purpose of making Moat a correct answer and both times you disappeared from the forums.

HAHA I KNOW!