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Re: Random Stuff Part IV
« Reply #300 on: October 17, 2018, 04:37:49 pm »
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The old man the boat.
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Re: Random Stuff Part IV
« Reply #301 on: October 17, 2018, 04:44:00 pm »
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The old man the boat.

Ah, I see you read the the Wikipedia article as well ;)
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Re: Random Stuff Part IV
« Reply #302 on: October 17, 2018, 05:36:19 pm »
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Re: Random Stuff Part IV
« Reply #303 on: October 17, 2018, 06:02:06 pm »
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the the

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Re: Random Stuff Part IV
« Reply #304 on: October 17, 2018, 06:05:39 pm »
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Re: Random Stuff Part IV
« Reply #305 on: October 17, 2018, 06:13:04 pm »
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Re: Random Stuff Part IV
« Reply #307 on: October 17, 2018, 07:55:52 pm »
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The old man the boat.

Ah, I see you read the the Wikipedia article as well ;)
It's possible I have? I also know about garden path sentences.
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Re: Random Stuff Part IV
« Reply #308 on: October 17, 2018, 08:07:33 pm »
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It's not a garden path sentence, but I always liked "Flying planes can be scary". Is that in a Wikipedia article? I forget. I think we talked about it in a linguistics class I took.

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Re: Random Stuff Part IV
« Reply #309 on: October 17, 2018, 10:15:02 pm »
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Something different I encountered today: check out this sentence. It has both correct grammar and sensible meaning

The complex houses married and single soldiers and their families

this was incredibly confusing to me, I'm not sure if others have an easier time with it. Resolution: [The complex] houses [married and single soldiers and their families]

Somewhat less confusing: The horse raced past the barn fell. Resolution: [the horse (that) raced past the barn] fell. Apperently they're called garden path sentences.
[the house (that was) raced past the barn] fell.  The way you have it has a different meaning than the original sentence.
Now yours doesn't make much sense. How can a house be raced anywhere?

C'mon you've never seen a house-race?  We used to do them all the time out on the farm, past the barns.  Sometimes the barns fell sometimes the house, but it was always exciting.
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Re: Random Stuff Part IV
« Reply #310 on: October 17, 2018, 10:43:43 pm »
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Apropos of nothing, but one of my favourite boat races is the Henley-on-Todd, in Alice Springs. Possibly the only boat race that gets cancelled due to the river they race in having water in it.
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Re: Random Stuff Part IV
« Reply #311 on: October 18, 2018, 02:11:39 am »
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I dreamt up a card last night. Unfortunately it was horrible:

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I even remember realizing in the dream that I must be dreaming because this card cannot possibly exist, not even as a fan card. Not even the name is anything but plain off. :/

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Re: Random Stuff Part IV
« Reply #312 on: October 18, 2018, 02:30:11 am »
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I dreamt up a card last night. Unfortunately it was horrible:

Dominating
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Name a card. If you play it this turn you may gain a copy of it.

I even remember realizing in the dream that I must be dreaming because this card cannot possibly exist, not even as a fan card. Not even the name is anything but plain off. :/

Bonus-info: The setsymbol was a coconut, maybe that at least can be a foretelling of a future expansion...

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Re: Random Stuff Part IV
« Reply #313 on: October 19, 2018, 07:35:32 am »
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It's not a garden path sentence, but I always liked "Flying planes can be scary". Is that in a Wikipedia article? I forget. I think we talked about it in a linguistics class I took.
Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
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Re: Random Stuff Part IV
« Reply #314 on: October 19, 2018, 09:12:13 am »
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It's not a garden path sentence, but I always liked "Flying planes can be scary". Is that in a Wikipedia article? I forget. I think we talked about it in a linguistics class I took.
Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

I read this and wanted to see if the picture I had in my head was somewhere on the internet. I found something close enough at the top of the Google search:

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Re: Random Stuff Part IV
« Reply #315 on: October 19, 2018, 10:14:49 am »
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I dreamt up a card last night. Unfortunately it was horrible:

Dominating
8D (!)
Name a card. If you play it this turn you may gain a copy of it.

I even remember realizing in the dream that I must be dreaming because this card cannot possibly exist, not even as a fan card. Not even the name is anything but plain off. :/

Bonus-info: The setsymbol was a coconut, maybe that at least can be a foretelling of a future expansion...

Reminds me of the time I dreamt a Hearthstone Dungeon Run card.

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Re: Random Stuff Part IV
« Reply #316 on: October 19, 2018, 01:07:24 pm »
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Can I join? I once dreamt of a prismata card. I don't remember the specifics, but one effect was to give you a copy of all units you lost at the previous turn. Which is interesting because it's a not-at-first-glance-bad idea that has never occurred to my waking state. I think it was green.

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Re: Random Stuff Part IV
« Reply #317 on: October 31, 2018, 04:04:55 pm »
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Re: Random Stuff Part IV
« Reply #318 on: November 06, 2018, 02:07:10 pm »
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You know what really grinds my gear? When experienced people, level over 50, complains about luck in chat. THERE IS NO LUCK IN DOMINION, ONLY VARIANCE. To attribute any single game to anything is completely nuts, to yell at the opponent about it it's ridiculous. Ok that newbs may e annoyed about it but how have you come to lvl 50 and beyond without seeing most outcomes arbitrary amount of times? Why do you play this game even if you cant just suck it up? YMOYOSL god dammit. argh... 

I was quite proud of my performance in that game, it really schucks to hear that it is all luck from someone equal to my level..

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Re: Random Stuff Part IV
« Reply #319 on: November 06, 2018, 03:00:06 pm »
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I'm not really sorry to tell you this – there is actually an enormous amount of luck in dominion, and it can absolutely be correct to attribute single games to luck. Over many games, luck will equal out, but not over one game.

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Re: Random Stuff Part IV
« Reply #320 on: November 06, 2018, 04:25:38 pm »
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Part of the fun is weathering the luck.
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Re: Random Stuff Part IV
« Reply #321 on: November 06, 2018, 05:35:46 pm »
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I'm not really sorry to tell you this – there is actually an enormous amount of luck in dominion, and it can absolutely be correct to attribute single games to luck. Over many games, luck will equal out, but not over one game.

I disagree, although maybe only in the semantics. For me, variance means in practice that a better strategy won't win every time. It's expected to lose x amount of times naturally. To compare with poker, it's not lucky to beat AA with 2-7, it's  just hitting the variance. However, wouldyou do that in the final all-in hand in the headsup of a tournament that is something I would deem lucky.

A single game on Dominion Online is never something I would consider lucky, there is no real stake at risk at all. Even if something absurd happens you are merely just hitting the variance that is built in into the game.

In this case though, even if my game was in a league match I wouldn't consider myself lucky at all. to hit province four times in a row with my deck wasn't unusual at all and it annoyed me quite a lot to be scoulded at because of it.

Anyway, this might be just my pet peeve and that is quite alright. I most likely have this distinction between the terms to not go mad when my decks refuse to collaborate...

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Re: Random Stuff Part IV
« Reply #322 on: November 06, 2018, 05:37:14 pm »
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Part of the fun is weathering the luck.

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Re: Random Stuff Part IV
« Reply #323 on: November 06, 2018, 10:53:47 pm »
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A single game on Dominion Online is never something I would consider lucky, there is no real stake at risk at all.

Why would the stake at risk be relevant? Either way, the outcome of many things in Dominion is determined by random chance, and that's what people are referring to when they talk about luck.
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Re: Random Stuff Part IV
« Reply #324 on: November 06, 2018, 11:11:56 pm »
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I'm not really sorry to tell you this – there is actually an enormous amount of luck in dominion, and it can absolutely be correct to attribute single games to luck. Over many games, luck will equal out, but not over one game.

I disagree, although maybe only in the semantics. For me, variance means in practice that a better strategy won't win every time. It's expected to lose x amount of times naturally. To compare with poker, it's not lucky to beat AA with 2-7, it's  just hitting the variance. However, wouldyou do that in the final all-in hand in the headsup of a tournament that is something I would deem lucky.

A single game on Dominion Online is never something I would consider lucky, there is no real stake at risk at all. Even if something absurd happens you are merely just hitting the variance that is built in into the game.

In this case though, even if my game was in a league match I wouldn't consider myself lucky at all. to hit province four times in a row with my deck wasn't unusual at all and it annoyed me quite a lot to be scoulded at because of it.

Anyway, this might be just my pet peeve and that is quite alright. I most likely have this distinction between the terms to not go mad when my decks refuse to collaborate...

It's not clear to me from this what you mean when you think of "luck". What you describe as "variance" is what other people are calling "luck". In general, "contains luck" is another way of saying "contains randomness". I suppose you can call it "variance" as well, but that's still the same thing as either "randomness" or "luck".
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