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Quote from: eHalcyon on March 02, 2014, 09:00:23 pmQuote from: SirPeebles on March 02, 2014, 08:48:58 pmQuote from: eHalcyon on March 02, 2014, 08:30:51 pmI request assistance. Over in the puzzles forum, Nik posted a riddle. The answer was immediately obvious to me, but nobody else seems to understand it. I repeatedly tried to explain what is completely intuitive to me but I'm failing. Am I just crazy? I tend to agree more with the others. I think we just have different conceptions of what Throne Room does. I think we both agree that it plays another action in your hand. But then you appear to think of the Throne Room as fishing out a second virtual copy of the action to play. I instead think of the Throne Room itself as mimicking or morphing into a second copy of the action. Of course, neither of these are accurate. It simply plays that single card from your hand twice.You can think of it morphing into a second copy of the other action as well. But in that way of thinking about it, you still get a phantom +1 action. It's the same kind of phantom +1 action that you get from Cultist (which only works for another Cultist) or Herald (which only works for an action card on top of your deck).The interesting thing is that thinking of Cultist's phantom +1 action as a +1 action is pretty much never useful, while thinking of Throne Room's phantom +1 action as a +1 action is useful whenever you're Throning another Throne and thinking of Herald's phantom +1 action as a +1 action is useful pretty much always.
Quote from: SirPeebles on March 02, 2014, 08:48:58 pmQuote from: eHalcyon on March 02, 2014, 08:30:51 pmI request assistance. Over in the puzzles forum, Nik posted a riddle. The answer was immediately obvious to me, but nobody else seems to understand it. I repeatedly tried to explain what is completely intuitive to me but I'm failing. Am I just crazy? I tend to agree more with the others. I think we just have different conceptions of what Throne Room does. I think we both agree that it plays another action in your hand. But then you appear to think of the Throne Room as fishing out a second virtual copy of the action to play. I instead think of the Throne Room itself as mimicking or morphing into a second copy of the action. Of course, neither of these are accurate. It simply plays that single card from your hand twice.You can think of it morphing into a second copy of the other action as well. But in that way of thinking about it, you still get a phantom +1 action. It's the same kind of phantom +1 action that you get from Cultist (which only works for another Cultist) or Herald (which only works for an action card on top of your deck).
Quote from: eHalcyon on March 02, 2014, 08:30:51 pmI request assistance. Over in the puzzles forum, Nik posted a riddle. The answer was immediately obvious to me, but nobody else seems to understand it. I repeatedly tried to explain what is completely intuitive to me but I'm failing. Am I just crazy? I tend to agree more with the others. I think we just have different conceptions of what Throne Room does. I think we both agree that it plays another action in your hand. But then you appear to think of the Throne Room as fishing out a second virtual copy of the action to play. I instead think of the Throne Room itself as mimicking or morphing into a second copy of the action. Of course, neither of these are accurate. It simply plays that single card from your hand twice.
I request assistance. Over in the puzzles forum, Nik posted a riddle. The answer was immediately obvious to me, but nobody else seems to understand it. I repeatedly tried to explain what is completely intuitive to me but I'm failing. Am I just crazy?
Quote from: Awaclus on March 02, 2014, 09:14:13 pmQuote from: eHalcyon on March 02, 2014, 09:00:23 pmQuote from: SirPeebles on March 02, 2014, 08:48:58 pmQuote from: eHalcyon on March 02, 2014, 08:30:51 pmI request assistance. Over in the puzzles forum, Nik posted a riddle. The answer was immediately obvious to me, but nobody else seems to understand it. I repeatedly tried to explain what is completely intuitive to me but I'm failing. Am I just crazy? I tend to agree more with the others. I think we just have different conceptions of what Throne Room does. I think we both agree that it plays another action in your hand. But then you appear to think of the Throne Room as fishing out a second virtual copy of the action to play. I instead think of the Throne Room itself as mimicking or morphing into a second copy of the action. Of course, neither of these are accurate. It simply plays that single card from your hand twice.You can think of it morphing into a second copy of the other action as well. But in that way of thinking about it, you still get a phantom +1 action. It's the same kind of phantom +1 action that you get from Cultist (which only works for another Cultist) or Herald (which only works for an action card on top of your deck).The interesting thing is that thinking of Cultist's phantom +1 action as a +1 action is pretty much never useful, while thinking of Throne Room's phantom +1 action as a +1 action is useful whenever you're Throning another Throne and thinking of Herald's phantom +1 action as a +1 action is useful pretty much always.Cultist +action is useful to think of in a BM game.
Bomb, Cannon, and many of the Gunpowder cards can strongly effect gameplay, particularly in a destructive way
Quote from: sudgy on March 02, 2014, 03:13:28 pmQuote from: AHoppy on March 02, 2014, 12:58:44 pmsudgy: Take physics in high school. If your class is anything like mine, your teacher will still go over some of the special relativity things and touch on some more modern physics. You'll walk away mind blown sometimes I'm taking physics and advanced physics in high school already I understand the concepts of special and general relativity, and quantum mechanics, but I just don't know the math behind it. I think in the advanced physics course I saw some questions regarding special relativity (like the math), so that should be nice.The maths in special relativity corresponds roughly to high school algebra, so you should be able to follow the derivations for it without too much effort. A lot of the maths in quantum mechanics (at least up to around Schrodinger's equation or so) needs 1st-2nd year university calculus, but it's worth trying to follow along. General relativity uses differential geometry, which in university I did in 3rd and Honours (4th) year ... and still don't think I followed most of it. Which shouldn't be considered a discouragement, but don't be surprised if you have no idea what's going on, and if you do wind up studying it formally cross your fingers and hope you have a good lecturer.
Quote from: AHoppy on March 02, 2014, 12:58:44 pmsudgy: Take physics in high school. If your class is anything like mine, your teacher will still go over some of the special relativity things and touch on some more modern physics. You'll walk away mind blown sometimes I'm taking physics and advanced physics in high school already I understand the concepts of special and general relativity, and quantum mechanics, but I just don't know the math behind it. I think in the advanced physics course I saw some questions regarding special relativity (like the math), so that should be nice.
sudgy: Take physics in high school. If your class is anything like mine, your teacher will still go over some of the special relativity things and touch on some more modern physics. You'll walk away mind blown sometimes
I currently imagine mail-mi wearing a dark trenchcoat and a bowler hat, hunched over a bit, toothpick in his mouth, holding a gun in his pocket. One bead of sweat trickling down his nose.
Well you *do* need a signature...
I just watched so many of this guy's videos.
Quote from: Donald X. on October 28, 2014, 04:29:33 pm...spin-offs are still better for all of the previously cited reasons.But not strictly better, because the spinoff can have a different cost than the expansion.
...spin-offs are still better for all of the previously cited reasons.
It's actually "gimme choco" and not "gimme chocolate." Stuff like that unnecessarily annoys me-me.
