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[Elanchana]

Do you ever find yourself accidentally using Dominion/f.ds terms or phrases in random situations?

Like today in class when we were passing around purple sheets of paper and I called out "Did everyone get a purple?"

[Awaclus]

I call other people opponents all the time. Though, it's not just because of Dominion, actually M:tG is more responsible for that.

[GendoIkari]

Do you ever find yourself accidentally using Dominion/f.ds terms or phrases in random situations?

Like today in class when we were passing around purple sheets of paper and I called out "Did everyone get a purple?"

I'm confused; what's "a purple"?

[enfynet]

Do you ever find yourself accidentally using Dominion/f.ds terms or phrases in random situations?

Like today in class when we were passing around purple sheets of paper and I called out "Did everyone get a purple?"

I'm confused; what's "a purple"?

Curse

[werothegreat]

I seem to remember someone on here referring to clothes they're wearing on laundry day as "missing the reshuffle."

[sudgy]

I seem to remember someone on here referring to clothes they're wearing on laundry day as "missing the reshuffle."

Multiple people have said that that's how they always refer to it now.

[eHalcyon]

Do you ever find yourself accidentally using Dominion/f.ds terms or phrases in random situations?

Like today in class when we were passing around purple sheets of paper and I called out "Did everyone get a purple?"

I'm confused; what's "a purple"?

Curse

I think Gendo's point is that "purple" isn't a Dominion term officially or in the forums.  Victory cards are often referred to as "green", so there's a parallel there, but "green" is useful because it's shorter than "victory point card".  "Purple" is actually longer than "Curse".

I seem to remember someone on here referring to clothes they're wearing on laundry day as "missing the reshuffle."

The earliest instance of it that I know of is here.  That thread may contain other "Dominionisms".

[AdamH]

Do you ever find yourself accidentally using Dominion/f.ds terms or phrases in random situations?

Like today in class when we were passing around purple sheets of paper and I called out "Did everyone get a purple?"

I'm confused; what's "a purple"?

Curse

I think Gendo's point is that "purple" isn't a Dominion term officially or in the forums.  Victory cards are often referred to as "green", so there's a parallel there, but "green" is useful because it's shorter than "victory point card".  "Purple" is actually longer than "Curse".

Purples might just be one of my things. "Purples" has the same number of syllables as "Curses" and it's more fun for me to say

[enfynet]

Do you ever find yourself accidentally using Dominion/f.ds terms or phrases in random situations?

Like today in class when we were passing around purple sheets of paper and I called out "Did everyone get a purple?"

I'm confused; what's "a purple"?

Curse

I think Gendo's point is that "purple" isn't a Dominion term officially or in the forums.  Victory cards are often referred to as "green", so there's a parallel there, but "green" is useful because it's shorter than "victory point card".  "Purple" is actually longer than "Curse".

Purples might just be one of my things. "Purples" has the same number of syllables as "Curses" and it's more fun for me to say

I've been saying "purple" in my IRL games since I started playing. It always seemed more playful.

[eHalcyon]

This is the first I've seen it used! And it's longer for typing, especially in singular. 

[werothegreat]

This is what I prefer:

[eHalcyon]

Uh, another dead hand. My deck has too many Oprahs.

[Witherweaver]

Do you ever find yourself accidentally using Dominion/f.ds terms or phrases in random situations?

Like today in class when we were passing around purple sheets of paper and I called out "Did everyone get a purple?"

I've taken to telling people if I'm going to participate or not participate in something by saying that I'm /in or /out, respectively.

[Witherweaver]

This is what I prefer:

Note to self: Steal friend's box of Dominion and tape this image over all Curse cards.

[SwitchedFromStarcraft]

I've taken to telling people if I'm going to participate or not participate in something by saying that I'm /in or /out, respectively.

I only know this symbology (the forward slash used ahead of a word) from forums, to end a quote, or end an italic section, or whatnot.  So in my alleged brain, it is sort of a negative, or stop.  Using it ahead of "in" or "out" would therefore seem to me to indicate the opposite of what is apparently being meant.  Can someone explain how this came to be?

I remember the first time I saw "/in" in a mafia signup.  I thought, "hmmm, this guy is stopping his in, so he's out".

[Witherweaver]

Seems like a natural way to define a command for me.  Actually \in and \out makes more sense.  Like, in LaTeX, "\" escapes from regular text to give a command.  \alpha for the alpha character, etc.

[SwitchedFromStarcraft]

I get that it's being used as a delineator, and that it signals a command.  The commands I see it on are limited, and are essentially toggles, so I would think that if it only signals a command, you would need to use it twice (e.g., /italics to start the use of italics, and /italics again to turn them off).

[Gherald]

/ is common for switches and commands, like on DOS/Windows command lines and on IRC

Some other IM services use it too, like Skype.  Try "/me jumps and down giggling" on Skype

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I can see "purple" being playful IRL games but I would never think to use it outside such a game

[SwitchedFromStarcraft]

More on topic:  I played some deckbuilding game the other night in a game store having no experience with any deckbuilding game but Dominion.  It quickly became clear that every card that came into the marketplace was going to be different, and I had no idea of what to expect, with respect even to categories, much less synergies.  On about turn three, I bought a card from the fixed supply rather that the marketplace - it was a card that gave me more money to spend each turn.

Because it cost me 3 to buy, and gave me +2 currency each play, as I reached for it I mumbled "I'll just buy a silver". It was a card with a figure on it, and no silver to be seen anywhere, and the woman that played next looked at me like I was nuts.

[Ozle]

Awww, I thought this was going to be a double entendre thread.

[Witherweaver]

I get that it's being used as a delineator, and that it signals a command.  The commands I see it on are limited, and are essentially toggles, so I would think that if it only signals a command, you would need to use it twice (e.g., /italics to start the use of italics, and /italics again to turn them off).

Well to me "/" is just a standard inline fraction/slash (see what I did there?) and "\" is an escape character. 

[Drab Emordnilap]

When I hear you guys talking about "purples" it just sounds like you're talking about Puzzle Strike instead to me.

[Ozle]

When I hear you guys talking about "purples" it just sounds like you're talking about Puzzle Strike instead to me.

Oh wait, you mean we're not all talking about the seminal Spielberg film starring Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey?!

Another dissapointment!

[Mr.Oatmeal]

Not exclusively a Dominionism, but it is a phrase I picked up here (especially from AdamHs videos):
I have caught myself asking "is that a thing?"

[pacovf]

I've caught myself explaining a joke, and then adding, in a matter-of-fact way, "...and of course, now that the joke is explained, it is much funnier".

[liopoil]

I've caught myself explaining a joke, and then adding, in a matter-of-fact way, "...and of course, now that the joke is explained, it is much funnier".

I've been really tempted to do this sometimes, but the thing is nobody will get it

[WanderingWinder]

I've caught myself explaining a joke, and then adding, in a matter-of-fact way, "...and of course, now that the joke is explained, it is much funnier".

I've been really tempted to do this sometimes, but the thing is nobody will get it

Which is why you then explain why explaining jokes makes them funnier.

[liopoil]

I've caught myself explaining a joke, and then adding, in a matter-of-fact way, "...and of course, now that the joke is explained, it is much funnier".

I've been really tempted to do this sometimes, but the thing is nobody will get it

Which is why you then explain why explaining jokes makes them funnier.

Well you aren't supposed to explain your own jokes, are you?

[pacovf]

I've caught myself explaining a joke, and then adding, in a matter-of-fact way, "...and of course, now that the joke is explained, it is much funnier".

I've been really tempted to do this sometimes, but the thing is nobody will get it

Which is why you then explain why explaining jokes makes them funnier.

Well you aren't supposed to explain your own jokes, are you?

And leave a joke unexplained? Blasphemy!

I'm thinking less of you already, liopoil.

[SwitchedFromStarcraft]

Another dissapointment!

I see what you did there.

[2.71828.....]

Yeah, explaining jokes is an epidemic.  And then explaining again how I just made the joke funnier by explaining it.  Then explaining about how I started doing that because of this forum.

[ThaddeusB]

In my house, whenever someone has to pass something Masquerade usually comes up. Like "pass the potatoes" becomes "potato masquerade".

[SwitchedFromStarcraft]

So "gas masquerade" would likely immediately be followed by "air freshener masquerade"?

[heron]

There was another thread about this once. Like two years ago.

[qmech]

There was another thread about this once. Like two years ago.

I think that one was trashed or something because I lost track of it.

[Witherweaver]

There was another thread about this once. Like two years ago.

It would have come up again sooner, but it missed the reshuffle.

[Elanchana]

There was another thread about this once. Like two years ago.

It would have come up again sooner, but it missed the reshuffle.

*ba dum tss*

[eHalcyon]

There was another thread about this once. Like two years ago.

There's been a few.  I linked one of them earlier in this thread.

[SwitchedFromStarcraft]

There was another thread about this once. Like two years ago.

I think that one was trashed or something because I lost track of it.

That's because it's smaller and quieter than a blue dog.

[SwitchedFromStarcraft]

My wife and I use on demand to watch multiple episodes of The Voice at time.  (PLEASE no comments about who won the just concluded season, as we have not seen the finale, and I've managed to dodge internet discussion of the winner.) A few nights ago, she was trying to remember one of the judges names from a prior season (it was Usher).  She kept trying to help me help her remember, describing him, then talking about who was sitting next to him, a Latina (and I had completely forgotten Shekira's name and presence).  Her efforts became more and more involved and less and less helpful, and I could not remember Usher's name.  I finally gave up, and said:

Was it Moat?                 

She was unimpressed, as she does not read f.DS.

So, I explained the joke, which of course made it a LOT funnier.

And, she gave me a really great +1.