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« Reply #1775 on: February 05, 2015, 05:09:14 pm »
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Does anyone else think this should be moved to the RSP (Rules of Speling and Punction) subforum? I would think there going to have a better time with they're argument their.

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« Reply #1776 on: February 05, 2015, 05:09:24 pm »
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How old are your kids?
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« Reply #1777 on: February 05, 2015, 05:12:26 pm »
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How old are your kids?
Adam Green - Sixes & Sevens
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« Reply #1778 on: February 05, 2015, 05:13:52 pm »
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Is there any question for which you don't have a song title to answer?!

Are you a fan of the "Song Titles" segment of Whose Line is it Anyway?
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« Reply #1779 on: February 05, 2015, 06:00:22 pm »
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Is there any question for which you don't have a song title to answer?!
A.C. Newman - There Are Maybe Ten or Twelve

Are you a fan of the "Song Titles" segment of Whose Line is it Anyway?
They Might Be Giants - No!
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« Reply #1780 on: February 05, 2015, 06:24:00 pm »
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Which metal has the atomic number of 79?
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« Reply #1781 on: February 05, 2015, 07:13:05 pm »
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Which metal has the atomic number of 79?
XTC - Gold

For me the bonus tracks really make this album (Mummer). It's pretty weak without them. But the bonus tracks are all good. Now if you had gone with say 81, I would have been stuck with

Tom Lehrer - The Elements

XTC - Complicated Game
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« Reply #1782 on: February 05, 2015, 08:35:34 pm »
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Which metal has the atomic number of 79?
XTC - Gold

For me the bonus tracks really make this album (Mummer). It's pretty weak without them. But the bonus tracks are all good. Now if you had gone with say 81, I would have been stuck with

Tom Lehrer - The Elements

XTC - Complicated Game

But, but... Spandau Ballet...
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« Reply #1783 on: February 05, 2015, 09:12:31 pm »
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Which metal has the atomic number of 79?
XTC - Gold

For me the bonus tracks really make this album (Mummer). It's pretty weak without them. But the bonus tracks are all good. Now if you had gone with say 81, I would have been stuck with

Tom Lehrer - The Elements

XTC - Complicated Game

But, but... Spandau Ballet...

...are there that many references to thallium in popular music?
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« Reply #1784 on: February 05, 2015, 09:20:14 pm »
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Which metal has the atomic number of 79?
XTC - Gold

For me the bonus tracks really make this album (Mummer). It's pretty weak without them. But the bonus tracks are all good. Now if you had gone with say 81, I would have been stuck with

Tom Lehrer - The Elements

XTC - Complicated Game

But, but... Spandau Ballet...

...are there that many references to thallium in popular music?

If your definition of Thallium in popular music is 33 YouTube views, then we can answer with a resounding yes.


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« Reply #1785 on: February 05, 2015, 09:26:25 pm »
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Which metal has the atomic number of 79?
XTC - Gold

For me the bonus tracks really make this album (Mummer). It's pretty weak without them. But the bonus tracks are all good. Now if you had gone with say 81, I would have been stuck with

Tom Lehrer - The Elements

XTC - Complicated Game

But, but... Spandau Ballet...

...are there that many references to thallium in popular music?

Are you suggesting that Tom Lehrer is not popular music?
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« Reply #1786 on: February 06, 2015, 07:25:11 am »
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Which metal has the atomic number of 79?
XTC - Gold

For me the bonus tracks really make this album (Mummer). It's pretty weak without them. But the bonus tracks are all good. Now if you had gone with say 81, I would have been stuck with

Tom Lehrer - The Elements

XTC - Complicated Game

But, but... Spandau Ballet...

Agreed!

Although I would also have accepted East 17 or Shirley Bassey
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« Reply #1787 on: February 08, 2015, 05:52:28 pm »
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Is one of your kids called Donald XI?
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« Reply #1788 on: February 08, 2015, 06:05:34 pm »
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Which metal has the atomic number of 79?
XTC - Gold

For me the bonus tracks really make this album (Mummer). It's pretty weak without them. But the bonus tracks are all good. Now if you had gone with say 81, I would have been stuck with

Tom Lehrer - The Elements

XTC - Complicated Game

But, but... Spandau Ballet...

...are there that many references to thallium in popular music?

Are you suggesting that Tom Lehrer is not popular music?

Certainly he is (was? hard to say), but I was surprised that any other song, ever, had mentioned thallium.  Then again, the lyrics for Complicated Game dont' appear to actually involve thallium, and I have no idea what Spandau Ballet song is being referenced, nor what the heck Ozle is talking about.
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« Reply #1789 on: February 08, 2015, 06:55:25 pm »
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Which metal has the atomic number of 79?
XTC - Gold

For me the bonus tracks really make this album (Mummer). It's pretty weak without them. But the bonus tracks are all good. Now if you had gone with say 81, I would have been stuck with

Tom Lehrer - The Elements

XTC - Complicated Game

But, but... Spandau Ballet...

...are there that many references to thallium in popular music?

Are you suggesting that Tom Lehrer is not popular music?

Certainly he is (was? hard to say), but I was surprised that any other song, ever, had mentioned thallium.  Then again, the lyrics for Complicated Game dont' appear to actually involve thallium, and I have no idea what Spandau Ballet song is being referenced, nor what the heck Ozle is talking about.

Spandau Ballet & East 17 both have songs called "Gold".
Shirley Bassey has one called "Goldfinger".

I'm guessing Donald mentioned the song "Complicated Game" as a reference to the fact that although finding songs that mention gold is easy, finding songs that mention thallium is... complicated.

Am I correct in thinking that, according to the rules of the forum, this is all suddenly much funnier now that I have explained it?
I'm relatively new to this.
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« Reply #1790 on: February 08, 2015, 08:00:33 pm »
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Am I correct in thinking that, according to the rules of the forum, this is all suddenly much funnier now that I have explained it?
I'm relatively new to this.

So what you're saying is, you want somebody to explain to you the explaining the joke joke?
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« Reply #1791 on: February 08, 2015, 08:06:46 pm »
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Is one of your kids called Donald XI?
One of my kids doesn't look much like Dame Sylvia, and the other doesn't look much like Dame Natalie.
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« Reply #1792 on: February 08, 2015, 08:11:51 pm »
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I'm guessing Donald mentioned the song "Complicated Game" as a reference to the fact that although finding songs that mention gold is easy, finding songs that mention thallium is... complicated.
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« Reply #1793 on: February 09, 2015, 03:57:57 am »
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In your very interesting article "Complexity in Rules on Cards" (http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=121.0), you have stated the Vanilla card problem.
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For example Dominion does not have a card that just says "+1 Card +1 Action +$1." If I made that card, it would limit what other cards I could make. So instead I just do variations on it.
In the Fan Cards Forum, people discuss sometimes about this. What exactly is the reason not to make a one-dollar-cantrip for $4? Would it be too strong at $4 but too weak at $5? Or would it be okay at $4 but just boring?
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« Reply #1794 on: February 09, 2015, 04:59:50 am »
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In your very interesting article "Complexity in Rules on Cards" (http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=121.0), you have stated the Vanilla card problem.
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For example Dominion does not have a card that just says "+1 Card +1 Action +$1." If I made that card, it would limit what other cards I could make. So instead I just do variations on it.
In the Fan Cards Forum, people discuss sometimes about this. What exactly is the reason not to make a one-dollar-cantrip for $4? Would it be too strong at $4 but too weak at $5? Or would it be okay at $4 but just boring?
A $4 Peddler (are we clear on what I mean here, yes, okay) would probably be fine. I mean it would be good, but it would be acceptable power-level-wise.

The Vanilla card problem is, vanilla cards limit what other cards can do (in games where cards can't naturally just be blatantly different in power level). For example Village at $3 means Village-with-a-bonus has to cost $4+. Otherwise some people are unhappy. It is really about that unhappiness, not necessarily any other issues. If say Walled Village cost $3, there would be people who were pissed. It would have no other negative consequences; it's still worth avoiding.

So, again just in certain kinds of games, you want to ration out the vanilla cards. They're valuable for being very simple cards, but limit what other cards can do.

My feeling was that $4-Peddler was a good one not to do. I did it, right away, but didn't use it; the main set got Market instead. With Market I can replace the +1 Buy with a different bonus and get a parade of cards that aren't clearly better/worse across the board. And then at $4 there are a couple cards that are some mix of better and worse than $4-Peddler, although that makes them more complex cards.

In the end, well the decision not to do $4-Peddler was an early one, and the years did not produce as many comparable $4's as expected. It probably would have been fine to have had $4-Peddler exist all these years. Tournament is obviously both better and worse; Ironmonger has acceptable differences. And Peddler itself you are hoping to pay $0 for.
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« Reply #1795 on: February 09, 2015, 01:42:30 pm »
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Is one of your kids called Donald XI?
One of my kids doesn't look much like Dame Sylvia, and the other doesn't look much like Dame Natalie.
If one of your kids wouldn't look much like you, would you call it Donald XI?
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« Reply #1796 on: February 09, 2015, 04:33:01 pm »
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We updated our Business Objects software from BO 3.5 to BO XI a few years back.
For years I have been thinking that they changed to a Roman Numeral system of numbering.

Turns out no, that stands for actual words!

Not really relevant to this conversation, but while we were on the XI conversation I just wanted to share
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« Reply #1797 on: February 09, 2015, 04:33:30 pm »
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In your very interesting article "Complexity in Rules on Cards" (http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=121.0), you have stated the Vanilla card problem.
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For example Dominion does not have a card that just says "+1 Card +1 Action +$1." If I made that card, it would limit what other cards I could make. So instead I just do variations on it.
In the Fan Cards Forum, people discuss sometimes about this. What exactly is the reason not to make a one-dollar-cantrip for $4? Would it be too strong at $4 but too weak at $5? Or would it be okay at $4 but just boring?
A $4 Peddler (are we clear on what I mean here, yes, okay) would probably be fine. I mean it would be good, but it would be acceptable power-level-wise.

The Vanilla card problem is, vanilla cards limit what other cards can do (in games where cards can't naturally just be blatantly different in power level). For example Village at $3 means Village-with-a-bonus has to cost $4+. Otherwise some people are unhappy. It is really about that unhappiness, not necessarily any other issues. If say Walled Village cost $3, there would be people who were pissed. It would have no other negative consequences; it's still worth avoiding.

So, again just in certain kinds of games, you want to ration out the vanilla cards. They're valuable for being very simple cards, but limit what other cards can do.

My feeling was that $4-Peddler was a good one not to do. I did it, right away, but didn't use it; the main set got Market instead. With Market I can replace the +1 Buy with a different bonus and get a parade of cards that aren't clearly better/worse across the board. And then at $4 there are a couple cards that are some mix of better and worse than $4-Peddler, although that makes them more complex cards.

In the end, well the decision not to do $4-Peddler was an early one, and the years did not produce as many comparable $4's as expected. It probably would have been fine to have had $4-Peddler exist all these years. Tournament is obviously both better and worse; Ironmonger has acceptable differences. And Peddler itself you are hoping to pay $0 for.

Most pretension name for a song title ever?
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« Reply #1798 on: February 09, 2015, 04:55:28 pm »
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« Reply #1799 on: February 09, 2015, 05:36:17 pm »
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