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[Morgrim7]

Heres mine:
It was a while ago (on isotropic and before we knew it was going out) and I was playing a pretty standard Governor KC game. I was looking good and thought I had it in the bag when I made the most idiotic decision ever. Seeing as I would be ending the game next turn, my opponent went for a megaturn. He kept trashing his golds for provinces and I kept hitting "none" when offered to trash. AND I HAD A KC IN HAND. My opponent won by a couple points. Never forgotten that even though it was nearly over a year ago.

[mail-mi]

I had the game in hand. I had something terminal and a Forager and if I played to right, I could win. AND I PLAYED THE TERMINAL FIRST. Ugh. I lost of course.

[Awaclus]

Putting all 30 curses into the supply in a 2-player game.

[A Drowned Kernel]

I don't know how stupid this was, but it stung.

I was currently in the lead, but my opponent's engine was pulling ahead. I had one turn where I could win on a three-pile, but I was one buy short. It was only after the game that I realized that I had two counterfeits, and could have played counterfeit-counterfeit to get that last buy I needed.

L'esprit de l'escalier...

[ftl]

I played a Tactician/Treasure Map game where I forgot to buy a second treasure map and kept wondering why my Treasure Maps didn't collide, I would keep drawing only one even on my huge tactician hands.

[sudgy]

Thinking that Scheme/Tactitian was a combo (you could have double Tactitian with only one Tactitian!).

[scott_pilgrim]

Man, no one here has made stupid mistakes outside of Dominion?

[sudgy]

Man, no one here has made stupid mistakes outside of Dominion?

My stupidest mistake: Reading this thread title wrong. 

[zporiri]

On Goko, after I play masquerade and there's nothing I want to trash, I always forget to click the done button and I end up trashing the action card I was about to play

[jonts26]

Grad School.

[Kirian]

Man, no one here has made stupid mistakes outside of Dominion?

Sure, but do you really want to hear me discuss my first marriage?  No.

[Awaclus]

Man, no one here has made stupid mistakes outside of Dominion?

Dominion Strategy Forum > Dominion > Dominion General Discussion > The stupidest mistake you ever made

The Miscellaneous General Discussion is south from here.

[Schneau]

Man, no one here has made stupid mistakes outside of Dominion?

Sure, but do you really want to hear me discuss my first marriage?  No.

marriagestrategy.com

[Awaclus]

marriagestrategy.com

That site could just have "it depends on the spouse" and nothing else there. 

[Robz888]

IRL Dominion tournament, three total players. My opponent played Tribute, flipping 2 of my Curses! What bad luck for him.

Then it happened again. That's when I realized I had mixed the Curse pile into my discard and reshuffled.

[pingpongsam]

Grad School.

Pretty much. I wish I could go back and not even bother with college at all. It was the biggest waste of a huge sum of money. What I do today has no bearing on the fact that I went to college or that I have an engineering degree.

[soulnet]

Then it happened again. That's when I realized I had mixed the Curse pile into my discard and reshuffled.

This should be added in the counters section of the Tribute article.

[GendoIkari]

Also see: http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=1129.0

[Mr Anderson]

I was one point behind at the start of my turn, two piles were depleted and two estates were left. Well, I thought two estates were left, and went for them with 5$ and 2 buys, but I did not notice that my opponent bought the second last estate on his last turn. I lost on turns.

[GendoIkari]

marriagestrategy.com

That site could just have "it depends on the spouse" and nothing else there. 

Why does this forum limit you to only one +1 per post??

[KingZog3]

I was winning by a few points and was going to end the game on 3 piles by finishing the Estates. My opponent finishes his turn and I just mindlessly bought the last Estate...except he had triple embargo'd it last turn. I lost by 1 point.

[ehunt]

Grad School.

It gets better. Soon you'll be making what your friends from college were making five years ago.

[soulnet]

Grad School.

It gets better. Soon you'll be making what your friends from college were making five years ago.

Between PhD comics and this comments, I don't understand why people from the US just don't go to grad school somewhere else in the world. If you are in science, PhD is almost free here and with the scolarship you can lead a decent life. It is of course less than being a programmer in the industry, but is probably about 70% of that, and programmers get paid pretty well.

[AJD]

Grad School.

It gets better. Soon you'll be making what your friends from college were making five years ago.

Between PhD comics and this comments, I don't understand why people from the US just don't go to grad school somewhere else in the world. If you are in science, PhD is almost free here and with the scolarship you can lead a decent life.

PhDs are (often? usually?) free in the US as well, though you may have to be a teaching asssistant or research assistant for some number of semesters. For instance, my PhD was tuition-free, plus I was paid a (low but livable) stipend, for five years, of which I had to TA for one year and RA for one year. (For my sixth year my fellowship ended and I had to get a job; but I kind of guilt-tripped my advisor into paying my tuition for that year as well.)

Actually now that I'm teaching in Canada, I'm surprised by how little PhD students here are paid—or at least, they seem to have to TA a great deal more and aren't guaranteed much funding by the university. Though I don't know if this is a difference between the US and Canada, between private and public universities, or just between the specific university I studied at and the one I'm teaching at.

[jonts26]

Grad School.

It gets better. Soon you'll be making what your friends from college were making five years ago.

Between PhD comics and this comments, I don't understand why people from the US just don't go to grad school somewhere else in the world. If you are in science, PhD is almost free here and with the scolarship you can lead a decent life. It is of course less than being a programmer in the industry, but is probably about 70% of that, and programmers get paid pretty well.

Oh, don't get me wrong. Grad school isn't a bad deal. As long as you are in engineering or the sciences (engineering here), you almost certainly aren't paying tuition and are getting a small stipend which is enough to live well enough, if a bit cheaply, on. I have no complaints about making my own hours and being able to pay my bills, it's just, it took me too long to realize how much I dislike research and the entire environment surrounding academia. And by the time I did, well, the status quo is a lot easier than job searching. But now I'm almost done, really ready to move on anyway, but I don't feel better about having spent 5 years of my life building skills which I hope I never have to use going forward. Still, I guess getting to be called Dr. jonts has some appeal. So there's that.