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[mixxmaster]

Although chronologically impossible, whoever worked on the Disney version of Aladdin must have had some dominion cards sent back to him by a time traveler.  The opening scene contains a caravan and is narrated by a character known simply as "The Peddler".  Later on in the movie, when Aladdin is parading through the city (lol, another card), the Genie sings "hey, clear the way in the old bazaar", and "who sent those goons to their lord", and "when it comes to exotic-type mammals, has he got a zoo...it's a world class menagerie".  And I didn't even mention the Forty Thieves or Aladdin's Princess.  Who knows, maybe the Sultan in that movie even had a Harem.

[fellowmartian]

Also, "young witch" tends to put the song YMCA in my head, even hours after a young witch game

Thanks. Knowing how my brain works with earworms, I'm infected for life with that one now.

Only when I sing something from a prompt I tend to do it out loud. The worst one was walking along the road with a box of flake chocolates in my hand singing the flake advert tune without realising it...

[Jimmmmm]

I was watching Blade Trinity the other night, and he said "I hate familiars."
You're not alone, Blade.

[SwitchedFromStarcraft]

Yesterday, I was writing a review of some travel, and when I got to the word island I capitalized it without even slowing down.  It seemed natural, and sort of respectful.

I played a game a few days ago where I stupidly ignored witch on a board with TR and no reaction cards.  You know what happened, and yet I just sort of moved on from the game without internalizing the magnitude of the lesson.  Then yesterday a conversation arose in which the context and subject matter somehow brought to mind Snoopy's (?) expression "Curses! Foiled again!". I had to chuckle at the new perspective.

[Forge!!!]

http://www.contrabandmovie.net/?__source=ggl|contraband+trailer|Brand|G_Contraband&sky=ggl|contraband+trailer|Brand|G_Contraband#/home

What card should we make Mark Wahlberg unable to get?

[jotheonah]

Sometimes when I'm tired in the morning I think I can't get up because I don't have any actions left.

Ok, that one made me laugh out loud.

[jotheonah]

Although chronologically impossible, whoever worked on the Disney version of Aladdin must have had some dominion cards sent back to him by a time traveler.  The opening scene contains a caravan and is narrated by a character known simply as "The Peddler".  Later on in the movie, when Aladdin is parading through the city (lol, another card), the Genie sings "hey, clear the way in the old bazaar", and "who sent those goons to their lord", and "when it comes to exotic-type mammals, has he got a zoo...it's a world class menagerie".  And I didn't even mention the Forty Thieves or Aladdin's Princess.  Who knows, maybe the Sultan in that movie even had a Harem.

Alternate explanation: Donald X. was watching him some Aladdin when he came up with the game.

[^_^_^_^]

When trying to be waken up in the morning I say "Just 5 more villages".
When playing Mine Craft for the first time I asked "Wheres the Silver?" (in a multiplayer game). All I got was blank looks all around from my friends =\.
When I hear about Long Island I will often accidentally say "Donald made a new version of Island?"
When I play with a regular deck of cards now and I see Jack I say "Where'd the "Of All Trades" go?"  All I get is blank looks.
When I make a joke about Dominion. All I get is blank looks. -_-'

[jotheonah]

Listening to the Christmas story in church. They had to stay at the Stables because there was no room at the Inn.

Well, they'll miss the +Actions but they get a net gain of cards as long as they have some money to spare.

[Razzishi]

Whenever I do the wash, I think of the clothes I am wearing as missing the shuffle.

[Jimmmmm]

Whenever I do the wash, I think of the clothes I am wearing as missing the shuffle.

:O Me too!

[Arya Stark]

I had a bad dream people were chasing me to kill me, one guy grabbed me & I knew right away it was the chancellor. After I woke up for a min I laughed to myself   

[Graystripe77]

i saw a Garden Inn across the street from a Warehouse Cellar. I thought those were badly named simply because they are nombos.

[^_^_^_^]

I had a bad dream people were chasing me to kill me, one guy grabbed me & I knew right away it was the chancellor. After I woke up for a min I laughed to myself   

Weird. Today I had the same dream except I was chasing someone on a brown horse. I looked down at myself and saw I was the chancellor and then caught up to the person on a horse I was chasing. She was the princess with the Diadem and a bag of gold. Then she gave me a disdainful look, almost as if I had cursed at her. I woke up feeling sorry for myself. Then I realized something, I was in a group of Followers.

Question being, why was I dressed as the chancellor? Does this mean that there is a use of the chancellor afterall? Does it have something to do with the prizes? I'm over thinking it but still, that was crazy.

[Davio]

I don't mind Chancellor. My win rates with and without are both at 1.33.

Now, if I start dreaming about paying Tribute to Libraries, that would be scary!

[^_^_^_^]

I don't mind Chancellor. My win rates with and without are both at 1.33.

Now, if I start dreaming about paying Tribute to Libraries, that would be scary!

If I do that tonight, I shall blame you ;o.

[Young Nick]

To bring back this hilarious thread from the grave...
On Saturday, I put in my weekly of laundry. Upon returning upstairs and finding a pair of underwear on the floor, my first thought, I kid you not, was that it would, "miss the reshuffle." I laughed to myself, because it is a surprisingly apt comparison.
Dominion never stops.

[Morgrim7]

I was reading some old english the other day. There was a sentence that told about a "Manager wasting his master's possessions." My immediate thought: Why even buy the potion?

Whenever I read Lord of the Rings and see the word 'gollum' I always hope I hit my mountebanks.

[Cheese]

Maybe not "real life", but same idea...

I was playing a game of Heroes of Newerth today and one of the guys on the other team chose a hero named "Scout". My first thought was, "Scout? But that's a terrible card..."

What's great is that in that game, Scout is an awful hero. There has to be some of sort of underlying structure in the universe that demands that anything named Scout sucks.

[blueblimp]

Maybe not "real life", but same idea...

I was playing a game of Heroes of Newerth today and one of the guys on the other team chose a hero named "Scout". My first thought was, "Scout? But that's a terrible card..."

What's great is that in that game, Scout is an awful hero. There has to be some of sort of underlying structure in the universe that demands that anything named Scout sucks.

Scouts are also the worst unit in Starcraft. You may be right.

[Davio]

While studying for my Microsoft MCTS 70-511 (Windows Applications Development with Microsoft .NET Framework 4) exam I came across the following sentence just now:

Dialog boxes are one of the most notable things missing from the WPF menagerie of controls and elements.

It was weird seeing the word menagerie in that context.

[Kuildeous]

What's great is that in that game, Scout is an awful hero. There has to be some of sort of underlying structure in the universe that demands that anything named Scout sucks.

Scout is the most underpowered and most fragile of roles in Team Fortress.

Although, it serves a very specific role due to its alacrity. If you play Scout for any reason other than get in and get out, then it's going to be pretty underwhelming*.

* Unless you're against newbies. People who don't know the game can't keep up with a Scout who runs circles around them. Pretty fun.

[^_^_^_^]

Scouts in the game Battle for Wesnoth are only for grabbing Villages that give treasures and then using the scout to lure enemy units or die themselves. Yay for having weakest attack and defence!

[popsofctown]

Scout implies someone who primarily gathers information by quickly moving ahead of a larger traveling and coming back.  Because he is swift and has a nonviolent purpose in a military context, games tend to depict scouts as weak, or only useful for information.  The universe has few coincidences and more correlations. 

Scout is only meant to improve your draws, so it signified a card restricted to informational advantage.  It doesn't make any $ or cards and definitely doesn't attack, so it ended up a bad card.  The TF2 scout has light firepower, and high speed, which makes average health a very dangerous balance move in a game like Capture the Flag.  Starcraft scouts are actually scouts, the idea is to look at your enemies army with them.  So they are weak.

Teemo, the Swift Scout is a very weak champion in League of Legends, (could be fixed by now, but he's been weak for the majority of the lifetime of the game).  He has less firepower than other units and less health to go with his scouting theme.  He moves quickly, but it doesn't matter much if he can't fight well.

Just when Asperger's on this thread

[Julle]

There's also a Spy in Team Fortress and it corresponds better to Dominion than Scout does. It gives you information about enemy team and if you find a strong opponent (good card) you can eliminate him (discard). You can be found (moat or secret chamber) so you can't do much damage to enemy team.

Other things. Here in Finland there's a shop that sells orcanic products named Runsaudensarvi (Horn of Plenty) and a shop that sells home appliance named Musta Pörssi (Black Market).