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5 Ways to Win Dominion
« on: January 11, 2016, 11:29:35 pm »
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This makes me sad in so many ways.

EDIT: I should clarify that it mostly makes me sad because it encourages buying only Treasure and Victory cards. And apart from that it's a mixed bag. There's good advice like "Trash Coppers and Estates" as well as bad advice like "Always buy Gold with $6".
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Re: 5 Ways to Win Dominion
« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2016, 12:08:49 am »
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DID HE SRIOUSLY SAY ALWAYS  BUY A PROVINCE WHEN YOU HAVE 8?!  APPARENTLY HE HAS ONLY PLAYED THE BASE SET.  AND EVEN THEN ITS NOT ALWAYS CORRECT.
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Re: 5 Ways to Win Dominion
« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2016, 12:19:45 am »
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DID HE SRIOUSLY SAY ALWAYS  BUY A PROVINCE WHEN YOU HAVE 8?!  APPARENTLY HE HAS ONLY PLAYED THE BASE SET.  AND EVEN THEN ITS NOT ALWAYS CORRECT.

While not good advice for high-level play, it's a reasonable rule of thumb for newbies that like to overbuild. Though obviously that changes as you get better at building engines. Anyway, I think "Always buy Gold with $6; few cards are better" is significantly worse advice. Also, "Remodel is bad for getting Provinces".
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Re: 5 Ways to Win Dominion
« Reply #3 on: January 12, 2016, 12:34:18 am »
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EDIT: Okay, now I feel bad. He was just trying to help, it's not his fault that he was off. Feel free to disregard the top part of my post, I probably was just venting because we're not having a snow day tomorrow.

Snow days are rare nowadays, at least in my part of the country. They've got the plowing down to a science. The best you can hope for now is a cold day; it's literally so cold that you're likely to get frostbite before you catch the bus.
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Re: 5 Ways to Win Dominion
« Reply #4 on: January 12, 2016, 12:40:23 am »
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EDIT: Okay, now I feel bad. He was just trying to help, it's not his fault that he was off. Feel free to disregard the top part of my post, I probably was just venting because we're not having a snow day tomorrow.

Snow days are rare nowadays, at least in my part of the country. They've got the plowing down to a science. The best you can hope for now is a cold day; it's literally so cold that you're likely to get frostbite before you catch the bus.
You want it to snow at 5-6 AM so that they can't clear all the streets, then they'll call it.
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Re: 5 Ways to Win Dominion
« Reply #5 on: January 12, 2016, 01:08:05 am »
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EDIT: Okay, now I feel bad. He was just trying to help, it's not his fault that he was off. Feel free to disregard the top part of my post, I probably was just venting because we're not having a snow day tomorrow.

Snow days are rare nowadays, at least in my part of the country. They've got the plowing down to a science. The best you can hope for now is a cold day; it's literally so cold that you're likely to get frostbite before you catch the bus.

I miss snowdays. I grew up in New Jersey, but I live in South Texas now. They don't know how to plow snow here though, so school closes at the slightest flurry (which only happens once every other year). On the other hand we walked home from school in over a foot of snow pretty much every winter in New Jersey.

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Re: 5 Ways to Win Dominion
« Reply #6 on: January 12, 2016, 01:22:21 am »
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Snow days are cute. I really loved them when I went to school in Canada.

Our version of snow days was that we didn't have to go outside to play during recess if it was colder than 20 celsius.

In hindsight even that was probably mostly to save the teachers from having to supervise us.
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Re: 5 Ways to Win Dominion
« Reply #7 on: January 12, 2016, 02:02:35 am »
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Snow days are cute. I really loved them when I went to school in Canada.

Our version of snow days was that we didn't have to go outside to play during recess if it was colder than 20 celsius.

In hindsight even that was probably mostly to save the teachers from having to supervise us.

Getting totally off topic, but oh well.  Where in Canada did you go to school?  To my recollection, I never once had a snow day from school, even with -40 C snowstorm conditions.  Unless you mean the no outdoor-recess thing for that, which I've had too.  I remember preferring to go outside though.
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Re: 5 Ways to Win Dominion
« Reply #8 on: January 12, 2016, 02:26:15 am »
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It was in Thunder Bay, Ontario. It was my understanding that they'd do it every time the roads were too snowed for the school bus to be able to pick everyone up, so they'd close the school not to deny education from those who lived further out. In Finland we never had off days either, but then again we also don't have school busses so the same condition couldn't be applied.
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Re: 5 Ways to Win Dominion
« Reply #9 on: January 12, 2016, 02:40:50 am »
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Did anyone invite him to F,DS?
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Re: 5 Ways to Win Dominion
« Reply #10 on: January 12, 2016, 03:07:22 am »
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Seriously, if you talk like you spent your college years seeing how much weed you could smoke snort, Youtube is probably not the best place for you.

While this guy may not be super qualified to give Dominion advice, he is certainly more so than you are qualified to give advice on how to spend college.
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Re: 5 Ways to Win Dominion
« Reply #11 on: January 12, 2016, 03:09:19 am »
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It was in Thunder Bay, Ontario. It was my understanding that they'd do it every time the roads were too snowed for the school bus to be able to pick everyone up, so they'd close the school not to deny education from those who lived further out. In Finland we never had off days either, but then again we also don't have school busses so the same condition couldn't be applied.

Ahhh.  That makes sense.  It's like one of the worst places in Canada. ;)
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Re: 5 Ways to Win Dominion
« Reply #12 on: January 12, 2016, 07:06:54 am »
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it encourages buying only Treasure and Victory cards. And apart from that it's a mixed bag. There's good advice like "Trash Coppers and Estates" as well as bad advice like "Always buy Gold with $6".

That sounds very much like an early Wandering Winder video, though he never placed such an emphasis on trashing.
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Re: 5 Ways to Win Dominion
« Reply #13 on: January 12, 2016, 08:00:46 am »
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I too have some very useful advice: If you have $X, you don't always have to buy a card costing exactly $X.
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Re: 5 Ways to Win Dominion
« Reply #14 on: January 12, 2016, 08:10:19 am »
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The 5 Ways to Win Dominion video is far more skippable than you think.
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Re: 5 Ways to Win Dominion
« Reply #15 on: January 12, 2016, 08:32:40 am »
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it encourages buying only Treasure and Victory cards. And apart from that it's a mixed bag. There's good advice like "Trash Coppers and Estates" as well as bad advice like "Always buy Gold with $6".

That sounds very much like an early Wandering Winder video, though he never placed such an emphasis on trashing.

Come on now

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Re: 5 Ways to Win Dominion
« Reply #16 on: January 12, 2016, 08:40:04 am »
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it encourages buying only Treasure and Victory cards. And apart from that it's a mixed bag. There's good advice like "Trash Coppers and Estates" as well as bad advice like "Always buy Gold with $6".

That sounds very much like an early Wandering Winder video, though he never placed such an emphasis on trashing.

Come on now

What a clever way to get WW back to the forums :)
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Re: 5 Ways to Win Dominion
« Reply #17 on: January 12, 2016, 08:41:28 am »
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What's with all the hostility going on here, guys? If some random person watch this video, and then read these comments (the hostile ones, not the snow ones, you guys are cool), what do yall think they would think of us? There's ways to disagree with someone without coming off as an angry lunch mob, how dare he not be correct on his internet video, if I made an Internet video it would be much more correct rabble rabble rabble.
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Re: 5 Ways to Win Dominion
« Reply #18 on: January 12, 2016, 09:31:43 am »
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KC-Rabble?
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Re: 5 Ways to Win Dominion
« Reply #19 on: January 12, 2016, 09:32:49 am »
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Right now, it's because I'm better at trolling than Dominion. :'(
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Re: 5 Ways to Win Dominion
« Reply #20 on: January 12, 2016, 09:40:54 am »
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Has anyone tried to contact the person with polite comments/criticism regarding his content?
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Re: 5 Ways to Win Dominion
« Reply #21 on: January 12, 2016, 09:49:26 am »
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Adam and I both commented on the video.
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Re: 5 Ways to Win Dominion
« Reply #22 on: January 12, 2016, 09:52:27 am »
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Well, I certainly don't agree with all the points he makes, but I don't find all the toxic reactions here quite fitting. It's a pretty innocent video, aimed for absolute beginners, who, I'll remind you, get beaten quite often by Big Money. Of course this will not make you the 2016 Dominionstrategy.com Champion, but hey, it'll probably spark your opponents to step up their game. I know my father playing BM drew me to this forum, so, there's that.

I didn't quite understand by what he meant with "no 'trash'" though. I thought he referred to Chapel, and he did show Remodel, but he did seem to talk about coppers and estates. That was a bit confusing.

I must say I found the end... Cringe-worthy to say the least.

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Re: 5 Ways to Win Dominion
« Reply #23 on: January 12, 2016, 10:11:12 am »
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"no trash" just means "don't buy junk" I think, don't buy Coppers or Estates (or Remodels?).
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Re: 5 Ways to Win Dominion
« Reply #24 on: January 12, 2016, 10:30:54 am »
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Yeah, that's what I thought in the end. I just thought that beginners might find that confusing ;)
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