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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #3125 on: June 17, 2016, 11:27:14 am »
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Have you ever played Dominion in a house with pets, and if so have they ever messed up a game?

Dominion cards are his pets. And yes, some of them have messed up games he's played before, because they were broken.
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #3126 on: June 17, 2016, 11:34:19 am »
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Were there any cards that seemed fine but combined with just one existing card became so broken, that you got rid of them? What were they like?
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #3127 on: June 17, 2016, 12:22:50 pm »
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Have you ever played Dominion in a house with pets, and if so have they ever messed up a game?
Cats, and no; they've caused very minor damage to puzzles.
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #3128 on: June 17, 2016, 12:26:17 pm »
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Were there any cards that seemed fine but combined with just one existing card became so broken, that you got rid of them? What were they like?
I don't think so. Mountain Pass and Donate both dance around Possession, but there they are, they made it out with dancing clauses. I've danced around Fortress with something that didn't make it out, but that dance was possible too, it wasn't the issue.
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #3129 on: June 17, 2016, 12:27:27 pm »
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Do you ever get mad when people beat you at your own games? Is there a sense of entitlement to victory as the creator? Have you ever changed the rules of a game during gameplay so you could win?
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« Reply #3130 on: June 17, 2016, 12:32:59 pm »
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Do you ever get mad when people beat you at your own games? Is there a sense of entitlement to victory as the creator? Have you ever changed the rules of a game during gameplay so you could win?
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #3131 on: June 17, 2016, 02:40:33 pm »
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #3132 on: June 17, 2016, 04:09:17 pm »
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Have you ever played Dominion in a house with pets, and if so have they ever messed up a game?
Cats, and no; they've caused very minor damage to puzzles.

Cats and puzzles don't mix. Once one of my cats pulled a piece out of the middle of a recently-finished puzzle. But I've had to remove cats from the supply in Dominion many a time.

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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #3133 on: June 17, 2016, 04:21:24 pm »
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Have you ever played Dominion in a house with pets, and if so have they ever messed up a game?
Cats, and no; they've caused very minor damage to puzzles.

Cats and puzzles don't mix. Once one of my cats pulled a piece out of the middle of a recently-finished puzzle. But I've had to remove cats from the supply in Dominion many a time.

There is a really easy joke to make here about rats but I am not going to bother making it because it wouldn't be very rewarding to make that easy a joke.

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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #3134 on: June 17, 2016, 04:23:34 pm »
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There is a really easy joke to make here about rats but I am not going to bother making it because it wouldn't be very rewarding to make that easy a joke.

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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #3135 on: June 17, 2016, 04:28:07 pm »
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But I've had to remove cats from the supply in Dominion many a time.

You can trash them with Rats!
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #3136 on: June 17, 2016, 04:42:45 pm »
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Have you ever played Dominion in a house with pets, and if so have they ever messed up a game?
Cats, and no; they've caused very minor damage to puzzles.

Cats and puzzles don't mix. Once one of my cats pulled a piece out of the middle of a recently-finished puzzle. But I've had to remove cats from the supply in Dominion many a time.

There is a really easy joke to make here about rats but I am not going to bother making it because it wouldn't be very rewarding to make that easy a joke.

You mean something like...

Hey, that makes me think Donald missed a great opportunity for another Dark Ages card.

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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #3137 on: June 17, 2016, 06:14:36 pm »
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(2hu Dominion)

Wow, I am shocked this exists. Oversexualized Dominion. Like, are there even any dudes? It's like the opposite problem in Japan from here. That's kind of funny.

As far as I know there are no dudes in Touhou. There are just a bunch of witches with universe-warping powers.

Wow, Touhou-themed expansion of Dominion of all things? I wasn't expecting that.

I remember having a really hard time finding English versions of any of those games back when I wanted to try them out.
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #3138 on: June 17, 2016, 06:51:11 pm »
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there are male characters in touhou!  my former roommate (the person who introduced me to dominion, actually) was deep into that ish so i happen to know some of ~the lore~ just from being around her

EDIT: also, the general shift toward little girls ("lolis") in anime & manga seems to be a post-90s thing from what i can tell, resulting from the need to cater more to the core nerd audience.
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #3139 on: June 18, 2016, 01:32:58 pm »
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there are male characters in touhou!  my former roommate (the person who introduced me to dominion, actually) was deep into that ish so i happen to know some of ~the lore~ just from being around her

EDIT: also, the general shift toward little girls ("lolis") in anime & manga seems to be a post-90s thing from what i can tell, resulting from the need to cater more to the core nerd audience.

There are male Touhou characters, but none of them are depicted in the official game series. (Except Rinnosuke in Hopeless Masquerade, as a background character.) They do, however, show up in the side stories.

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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #3140 on: June 18, 2016, 02:47:23 pm »
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Why is it that Young Witch gives a special name to its pile, but Obelisk doesn't?
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #3141 on: June 18, 2016, 02:58:52 pm »
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Why is it that Young Witch gives a special name to its pile, but Obelisk doesn't?
It's just a matter of trying to find good wordings for the individual cards at the times that they needed wordings.
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #3142 on: June 19, 2016, 10:19:12 am »
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Why is it that Young Witch gives a special name to its pile, but Obelisk doesn't?

I think "Chosen" is a pretty evocative name.
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #3143 on: June 19, 2016, 10:27:05 am »
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Clearly the chosen pile is the "Obelisk". That is what I would have assumed.

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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #3144 on: June 19, 2016, 01:33:04 pm »
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Clearly the chosen pile is the "Obelisk". That is what I would have assumed.

Obelisks originally most of the time came in pairs of two, though...

"Triumphal Arch" is another thing. I like how an arch (like the corresponding deck you build) is carried by 2 pillars. Is that intentional or just me overthinking it?
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #3145 on: June 19, 2016, 02:56:01 pm »
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Obelisks originally most of the time came in pairs of two, though...

"Triumphal Arch" is another thing. I like how an arch (like the corresponding deck you build) is carried by 2 pillars. Is that intentional or just me overthinking it?
It's Triumphal Arch because there are the two cards, the legs of the arch.

Obelisks are just random and mysterious. The Romans took some from Egypt and scattered them around; they did not get used in pairs of two.
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #3146 on: June 19, 2016, 05:06:50 pm »
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Obelisks originally most of the time came in pairs of two, though...

"Triumphal Arch" is another thing. I like how an arch (like the corresponding deck you build) is carried by 2 pillars. Is that intentional or just me overthinking it?
It's Triumphal Arch because there are the two cards, the legs of the arch.

Obelisks are just random and mysterious. The Romans took some from Egypt and scattered them around; they did not get used in pairs of two.

Ha! So i got it right!

I can vividly imagine ancient egyptians shake their heads in disbelief over the roman idiocy to abuse obelisks like that. It's a nice thought that misunderstanding something and still finding it totally awesome was a thing long before Britney S. got herself some chinese tattoos. Also, how didn't Roadrunner start a thread about Scoutelisks, yet? (This is a rhetorical question)
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #3147 on: June 21, 2016, 10:09:40 am »
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Any older cards you would debtify now you have the mechanic?

Edit: or is that too much a fan card question? If so, ignore it. :x
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #3148 on: June 21, 2016, 10:55:17 am »
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Any older cards you would debtify now you have the mechanic?
I had the mechanic back when; it was on the list before the game was published. I just didn't try it earlier.

If I had tried debt earlier, or made 10 expansions before any were published, I could have given some other things debt. Debt is tricky so probably very few cards would make the leap. It would be more about "let's have a few more debt cards" than "this card would be better with debt." Nothing stands out as an obvious good fit.
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #3149 on: June 22, 2016, 05:25:14 am »
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Did you discover any combos like Hermit/Market Square or Counting House/Travelling Fair before the community did? Are there other two card strategies you are surprised nobody found out about yet?
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