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Feedback / Re: Username change?
« on: January 06, 2017, 05:43:29 pm »Unless the name is taken, you could always just make a new account.
And lose that wonderfully high respect ratio of his?
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Goko Dominion Online / Re: RIP making fun
« on: January 05, 2017, 10:26:50 am »For me it was the fact that after one of the updates it simply stopped working on my computer. For some time playing with older version worked , but then it forced to update and I was out of online Dominion.
Yes, this was the biggest negative for me, too. At the beginning it was bad. For a while it was fine, but then in this last year it got bad again.
So, I am happy to see the new client handling the under the hood stuff much better from my perspective, even if the graphics and interface are arguably worse at this moment in time.
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Dominion Online at Shuffle iT / Re: The Dominion online 2017 thread
« on: January 04, 2017, 11:18:39 am »In fact, why not have a single box that toggles between KEEP and EXCHANGE, instead of two boxes, where clicking either toggles the state of both boxes? One box has entirely redundant information, and only adds to confusion.
It used to work that way, but other people found it confusing. Actually, with the single box format, some people wanted the box text "Exchange" or "Keep" to represent what would happen when you cleaned up, and some wanted the opposite! (i.e. you would click on a box that said "Exchange" to make the Traveller be exchanged, though the box would now read "Keep"). Part of the opposite desires came from people wanting consistency between the multiple Travellers interface and a single Traveller interface.
I agree that it should be more clear which of the two options is currently selected.
I thought for sure the ambiguity problem would be solved with a change from toggle buttons to radio buttons. Yet, now we have ambiguous radio buttons. Sigh. Visuals really do matter to the UX.
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General Discussion / Re: Random Stuff Part III
« on: December 22, 2016, 01:10:32 pm »That kind of begs the question of why you have an avatar at all.
I was exaggerating to make a joke. I have have avatars and sigs turned off, but don't mind the use of avatars. It was a few people who had offensive images and really annoying sigs a while ago that caused me to turn them off initially and I've never turned them back on.
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General Discussion / Re: Random Stuff Part III
« on: December 22, 2016, 12:16:34 pm »Okay, how do you have such a large avatar? I need to know.
It's like I'm cursed with a superpower I don't want. I would prefer the forum to be text only -- stripped of all memes, avatars, and annoying signatures. I turn off as much as I can in preferences. Yet I am the person who gets the largest avatar of them all.
(Actually, I think it's because I selected an Isotropic image from the menu in preferences.)
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General Discussion / Re: Random Stuff Part III
« on: December 22, 2016, 11:21:35 am »
I will interpret.
I jest.
We've talked about this before, but ...
Dice Dice Math Dice
Dice Math Dice Dice
DIIIIIIICE Math Dice?
Is this how I use math to beat my friends at D&D with dice?
I don't know about D&D, but it is true that...
The expected roll of a D10 minus 1 is equal to the expected roll of a D8. (5.5-1=4.5)
The expected roll of a D6 plus 1 is equal to the expected roll of a D8. (3.5+1=4.5)
The expected roll of a D6 plus 1 is equal to the expected roll of a D10 minus 1. (3.5+1=5.5-1)
But you can't really say that a roll of a D6 plus 1 is "as good as" a roll of D10 minus 1. What "as good as" means depends on the situation!
Deja vu. You should be able to calculate things like this yourself now.
Math Fact: Having equal means is not enough for two random variables to have identical distributions.
Look, I know lots of math.
Rats!
I don't know that much math, but I am learning.
Wow! Look at all this math I know! Way more than you ever need to know.
I jest.
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General Discussion / Re: Random Stuff Part III
« on: December 14, 2016, 02:28:51 pm »Also, I super enjoyed the military service in general and I applied for an extension but it got rejected.
Is this common for your country? Why wouldn't they want an enthusiastic and qualified recruit to continue on?
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Simplified cards/sets when playing with inexperienced players?
« on: November 08, 2016, 02:09:07 pm »In general, what can be intended as "I'm slowly teaching you layer by layer of Dominion omitting more complex cards at start" can unintentionally be viewed as "I'm not allowed to play with all the cool stuff" from the part of the newbie.
I played hundreds (thousands?) of games of Dominion before Dark Ages, Adventures, Guilds, Empires,.... came out. Never once did I feel deprived of playing with the cool stuff.
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Semi-Interesting Dominion Moments of 2016 Thread
« on: November 03, 2016, 10:24:49 am »http://gokosalvager.com/static/logprettifier.html?https://dominion-game-logs.s3.amazonaws.com/game_logs/20161103/log.0.1478154547781.txt
"Hm, no way to trash starting cards and no +Cards? There's Possession but eh. I'll just gain lots of Ports and a few Processions, gain a ton of Distant Lands, and figure it out later."
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this seems very much like a plan!
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Advice for Playing Against Stef?
« on: October 26, 2016, 03:24:31 pm »I did and it appears I only have one game against him, which I lost; so my memory is failing me here; I thought I had played more against him and at least won some games.
Something happened with one of the MF updates that caused a loss of all the old logs, I think. The oldest game that I've played that's recorded is from August 2015.
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Rules Questions / Re: Introducing a new rules document
« on: October 25, 2016, 10:12:57 am »
"Each" is always singular when it is a subject. I try never to use "each" in apposition in a sentence of technical writing where the subject is plural because it can be confusing. Though, there is no rule on this.
I prefer these formulations:
"The Base game and Intrigue contain..."
"Each of the Base game and Intrigue contains..."
"Both the base game and Intrigue contain..."
I prefer these formulations:
"The Base game and Intrigue contain..."
"Each of the Base game and Intrigue contains..."
"Both the base game and Intrigue contain..."
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Rules Questions / Re: Introducing a new rules document
« on: October 24, 2016, 03:35:14 pm »2) I'm pretty sure it's grammatically (and logically) correct to use singular with "each".
Yep. "Each" is singular.
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Advice for Playing Against Stef?
« on: October 22, 2016, 10:03:41 pm »Well apparently it went Stef 4-2 Polk5440
It occurs to me that Stef could have been reading all of this advice as well. Maybe we should have been sending PM's to Polk instead (Iet it be known that I am only being half-serious here).
He did +1 Donald's post....
Anyway, it was a good match; I felt like I played pretty close to my best given my current skill level and the match did feel within reach. I played a little sloppy at times -- there were definitely opportunities for me to put together an upset!
And SCSN will be happy to know the 6 games clocked in at "only" 2 hours and 40 minutes.
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2016 DominionStrategy Championships / Re: Round 3 Matchups & Results
« on: October 22, 2016, 06:50:25 pm »
Stef defeats Polk5440 4-2. Good games! I tried to put up a fight, but alas, it was not to be.
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Advice for Playing Against Stef?
« on: October 19, 2016, 03:41:56 pm »Bring lots of coffee so he can't lull you to sleep.
Good idea. I think I'll brew a pot of tea. I also made sure to schedule the match at 1 pm local time so that the match doesn't run past my bedtime.
Go with classic Bobby Fisher. Bring a cigar, blow smoke in his face.
So that's like typing "." into the chat once every 20 seconds or so?
Keep track of all moves and deck states in a spreadsheet that you keep on the side so you can always makes the best-informed decisions.
No. <Insert Personman reference here.>
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Dominion General Discussion / Advice for Playing Against Stef?
« on: October 19, 2016, 12:33:09 pm »
I have my F.DS Championship Round 3 match against Stef scheduled for Saturday. Any advice for playing against him? Or on how to prepare? Or maybe more generally, how do you make sure you bring your "A" game to a match?
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2016 DominionStrategy Championships / Re: Round 2 Matchups & Results
« on: October 15, 2016, 03:32:19 pm »
Polk5440 defeats Jean-Michel 4-3. Good games!
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2016 DominionStrategy Championships / Re: Round 1 Matchups & Results
« on: October 08, 2016, 04:05:13 pm »
Polk5440 defeats greenloweawesome 3.5 to 1.5. Fun games!
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Dominion Online at Shuffle iT / Re: Scripting Dominion
« on: October 05, 2016, 03:13:09 pm »
What's your favorite RNG? With a name like Shuffle iT I suspect you think about that a lot.
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Why i love Dominion with all its Duds
« on: October 03, 2016, 03:41:23 pm »
It seems to me that you do Dominion right -- play with friends; play with some expansions; play for fun.
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: 2nd Edition Rules
« on: September 30, 2016, 12:25:17 pm »The thing I find most frustrating is that if I were explaining it to a new player, what I'd say would be "You may discard two cards, and if you do discard two cards, then you get two monies" which is exactly how the cards used to be phrased.
It's a new card. This is the only way it's ever been phrased.
In new Dominion terminology, "for" and "to" mean that you must have actually successfully done the thing to get the bonus. Pretty simple.
I think you know what he meant. That concept used to be phrased differently. It's even changed on the 2nd edition versions of old cards.
"If you do", "for" and "to" are not defined in Dominion terminology. Nowhere in any rulebook are those defined. Sure, you can read the card FAQs to find what the words mean on that particular card, but that doesn't mean that you know what similar words mean on all other cards. And it doesn't mean the card text shouldn't be as clear as it possibly can be (given space requirements). So "do x to get y" should be clear (at least as clear as "do x; if you do, y") in a vacuum and without reference to any "new Dominion terminology".
This a thousand times over.
Also, what's with the comma in Mill? That's just wrong.
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Dominion League / Re: Season 17 - Results
« on: September 30, 2016, 11:04:34 am »
Because of the number of freezes and connection problems I have experienced in the client recently, I will not be returning to the League until 2017 (Season 19).
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Dominion Articles / Re: Challenge: Write a Pearl Diver article
« on: September 27, 2016, 12:06:29 pm »
Pearl Diver does not need a dedicated article.
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General Discussion / Re: Fun Recipes
« on: September 26, 2016, 04:34:47 pm »
I don't know what you normally cook, but here's some suggestions based on my cooking habits. I value food that looks and/or tastes impressive, but is actually easy to prep and cook. I also stick to cooking things close to what I already know; I go out to restaurants to be adventurous.
Regular fare:
Crock-pot chuck roast with potatoes, carrots, onion, and celery (veggies all diced). Salt, pepper, oregano, can of diced tomatoes, half can of water. Season and brown chuck roast in the morning in a cast-iron pan; place meat on bottom of crock pot, add water; veggies on top; season veggies; diced tomatoes on top of that. Set on low all day and it's ready when you're home from work. Makes a pseudo-stew. Just don't fill the crock-pot more than 3/4 or so full. You can also do this in a Dutch oven with a more abbreviated cooking time.
Oven roasted vegetables (seasonal). Roughly chop vegetables. Salt, pepper, olive oil, dried herbs (e.g. oregano, rosemary, sage). 400 degrees on aluminum foil-lined baking sheet until done (15-40 minutes depending on produce). Favorites: Brussels sprouts, butternut squash, asparagus, a mix of carrots/parsnips/potatoes.
Pan-fried white fish (Tilapia, etc.). Oil in pan over medium heat, Old Bay seasoning on fish. When fish is done (about 4 min a side), melt a tab or two of butter in the pan and add a handful of capers (drained) for about 30 seconds. Add a splash of lemon juice. Pour sauce over fish. Or skip the sauce and serve with a side of mayo mixed with Old Bay. Great with steamed veggies or a side salad.
Special occasion:
Cast iron pan-seared scallops. Oil, salt, pepper, butter. Get them frozen at Costco or when they are on sale at your grocer. They take only 10 minutes or so to thaw. Do not crowd in pan; do not overcook! Serve with a side of quinoa and some arugula dressed with olive oil, lemon juice, and salt. Scallops are so easy to cook and so impressive. They are actually easier than most fish because of their uniform thickness, they are just too expensive for every day fare. But, they are cheap relative to comparable restaurant dishes.
Alton Brown's Pork Wellington. You can guestimate this, but I use a meat thermometer to make sure the pork's actually done. This is my favorite thing to cook to impress someone.
America's Test Kitchen Apple Pie (the cook book is worth buying). Sometimes I use store-bought dough (but not the pre-formed pie crusts with tin pans). It's almost as good, still looks homemade, and cuts the prep time down significantly.
Regular fare:
Crock-pot chuck roast with potatoes, carrots, onion, and celery (veggies all diced). Salt, pepper, oregano, can of diced tomatoes, half can of water. Season and brown chuck roast in the morning in a cast-iron pan; place meat on bottom of crock pot, add water; veggies on top; season veggies; diced tomatoes on top of that. Set on low all day and it's ready when you're home from work. Makes a pseudo-stew. Just don't fill the crock-pot more than 3/4 or so full. You can also do this in a Dutch oven with a more abbreviated cooking time.
Oven roasted vegetables (seasonal). Roughly chop vegetables. Salt, pepper, olive oil, dried herbs (e.g. oregano, rosemary, sage). 400 degrees on aluminum foil-lined baking sheet until done (15-40 minutes depending on produce). Favorites: Brussels sprouts, butternut squash, asparagus, a mix of carrots/parsnips/potatoes.
Pan-fried white fish (Tilapia, etc.). Oil in pan over medium heat, Old Bay seasoning on fish. When fish is done (about 4 min a side), melt a tab or two of butter in the pan and add a handful of capers (drained) for about 30 seconds. Add a splash of lemon juice. Pour sauce over fish. Or skip the sauce and serve with a side of mayo mixed with Old Bay. Great with steamed veggies or a side salad.
Special occasion:
Cast iron pan-seared scallops. Oil, salt, pepper, butter. Get them frozen at Costco or when they are on sale at your grocer. They take only 10 minutes or so to thaw. Do not crowd in pan; do not overcook! Serve with a side of quinoa and some arugula dressed with olive oil, lemon juice, and salt. Scallops are so easy to cook and so impressive. They are actually easier than most fish because of their uniform thickness, they are just too expensive for every day fare. But, they are cheap relative to comparable restaurant dishes.
Alton Brown's Pork Wellington. You can guestimate this, but I use a meat thermometer to make sure the pork's actually done. This is my favorite thing to cook to impress someone.
America's Test Kitchen Apple Pie (the cook book is worth buying). Sometimes I use store-bought dough (but not the pre-formed pie crusts with tin pans). It's almost as good, still looks homemade, and cuts the prep time down significantly.
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Dominion and Intrigue second editions
« on: September 26, 2016, 11:37:00 am »
How did this end up in my unread posts for the first time only today?! This is a bigger problem the forum being down!
On topic: This is great news! I will definitely be buying the update packs. I have for the last several years been using a modified set of 25-30 cards as a replacement for Dominion, first edition, when I teach beginners the game or play with friends who only play infrequently. So, I am very excited to try this update out with them!
On topic: This is great news! I will definitely be buying the update packs. I have for the last several years been using a modified set of 25-30 cards as a replacement for Dominion, first edition, when I teach beginners the game or play with friends who only play infrequently. So, I am very excited to try this update out with them!