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General Discussion / Re: Random Stuff Part III

« on: December 01, 2016, 04:50:17 am »

Anybody in here has any experience with signal processing? I have signals that have a huge messy noise source around 50kHz that I want to get rid off. I've tried some things already with less good results than I was hoping, so I am looking for options.

I would have some ideas for audio signals specifically (e.g. just leave it there because who cares about 50kHz), but you probably mean something different.

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Dominion Articles / Re: Dominion Strategy: The Art of Control

« on: November 30, 2016, 01:48:02 am »

What you're doing superficially shouldn't really affect your definition of a strategy, because it's strategically irrelevant. One of the most important aspects of both control decks in MTG and engine decks in Dominion is that most of the time, your opponent is the "beatdown". That's why the comparison kind of makes sense (although slog would be a more accurate equivalent in that sense). Tempo decks in MTG, however, tend to be the beatdown quite often.

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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: The Necro Wars

« on: November 30, 2016, 01:35:39 am »

The reign of Awaclus has finally come to an end after five months, ten days. Welcome to a new era of necro wars.

I'm still the moral winner until you've held the longest necro for longer than 5 months and 10 days.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Semi-Interesting Dominion Moments of 2016 Thread

« on: November 29, 2016, 01:03:01 am »

In this game, my opponent and I both bought Mandarin and Adventurer, and given our decks at the time I think these were actually the right moves. (The Mandarin buy was sketchier than the Adventurer buy, but buying it let me topdeck just a Counterfeit.)

Mandarin is generally an OK card when the kingdom is weak like that.

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General Discussion / Re: Music talk

« on: November 28, 2016, 04:59:06 am »

155 hours for five minutes?

That's 155 hours for 300 seconds, making over 1 hour for every two seconds.

Yeah. Something like 20-40 hours per song is more typical for my productions.

It should be noted though that the length of the song is largely irrelevant (it only matters for recording, and even then you can copy&paste a lot). Rather, what makes the production take longer is having a lot of complex sound design, and this song certainly had that because I designed all the sounds from scratch multiple times since I improved a lot on the way. Also there are like a dozen of different lead synths.

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General Discussion / Re: Music talk

« on: November 27, 2016, 12:25:01 pm »

I made a collaboration with the very talented vocalist SEiMEi from the Philippines, which turned out to be quite the project. I spent a total of 155 hours producing the music over the course of one year, and now it's finally done. Phew.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Special Sale Prices?

« on: November 26, 2016, 02:37:52 pm »

Black Friday is just one world-wide Bridge.

Country-wide, I thought.  Please tell me this American madness hasn't infected the rest of the world...

Last year, only a couple of companies were doing it in Finland. This year, I think it was already a lot more popular.

My band also had a 25% off of digital downloads deal for Black Friday (the joke is that our music is free/pay-what-you-want).

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Dominion FAQ / Re: Best Promotional Cards To Buy My Brother?

« on: November 26, 2016, 01:47:21 am »

Would it be OK to buy him Guilds even though Cornucopia was released earlier than Guilds?

Yes. After all, the game is supposed to function well with any random 10 cards, so it'll function just as well with a random selection from the first 4 sets and Guilds as it does with a random selection from the 4 first sets and Cornucopia.

Amazon says Guilds adds depth and complexity, it won't make the game annoyingly long/complex though? I don't want to buy him something he won't be happy with D:

Not annoyingly long for sure, the expansion might actually speed your games up because all of the cards are fast to resolve and most of them tend to make games shorter in terms of turns. As far as complexity is concerned, that depends on what you find annoyingly complex — if you're struggling with buying decisions and don't like the idea of struggling with them significantly more than you already are, Guilds might be too complex because it does precisely that (probably more than any other expansion). If that doesn't sound like a problem, then it'll probably be a fun expansion to get.

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Dominion Online at Shuffle iT / Re: Black Market?

« on: November 25, 2016, 02:54:28 pm »

Sometimes an Avanto is just an expensive Smithy.

Huh, I've never had that experience with avantoes...

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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: The Necro Game

« on: November 25, 2016, 08:07:54 am »

I think I win this now.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Greatest Moments uhh... I mean Misclicks of Dominion 2013 and Beyond

« on: November 25, 2016, 03:25:46 am »

I had €14 from Actions (including Grand Markets) and 4 Coppers in hand, so I clicked where the "play treasures" button is and wondered why my turn ended.

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Tournaments and Events / Re: Mono-Set Tournament

« on: November 25, 2016, 02:03:10 am »

I only own Base, Intrigue, Seaside, Prosperity, Dark Ages, Guilds and I think one more small expansion (not sure) EDIT: no, just the ones I mentioned by name. Can I join?

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Puzzles and Challenges / Re: Easy Puzzles

« on: November 25, 2016, 01:45:50 am »

Okay, let's try this instead.

You are down 60-0. No cost reduction, no cards on the Tavern Mat, no Durations in play. You have only one buy. With your one buy, you three-pile and end the game, winning. How did you do it?

You have a bunch of Feodums and buy a Masterpiece for €748483839293947474839.

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General Discussion / Re: Random Stuff Part III

« on: November 24, 2016, 01:06:57 pm »

Thanks for tuning in to this Thanksgiving coffee rant.

You're welcome!

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Rules Questions / Re: Trader

« on: November 24, 2016, 12:19:36 pm »

However, you can't do this if there are no coppers or curses (or other $0 card) in the supply.

If there are no Coppers or Curses or Silvers in the supply, the game is usually over.

Not if it's still your buy phase.

Or a 5-6 player game.

Good point — if it's a 5-6 player game, it's not usually over (any time soon, at least).

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Rules Questions / Re: Trader

« on: November 24, 2016, 11:59:37 am »

However, you can't do this if there are no coppers or curses (or other $0 card) in the supply.

If there are no Coppers or Curses or Silvers in the supply, the game is usually over.

Not if it's still your buy phase.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: How many games have you played?

« on: November 24, 2016, 11:58:22 am »

Okay, some of your numbers have to be off. Dominion came out in 2008. Assuming it's been out for 2885 days (just 30 days shy of 8 years, so the number 2885 is assuming Dominion came out January 1, 2008) then some of you are claiming to have played about 3 games of Dominion per day, every day.

That's crazy. And I really can't imagine that being true.

When I was in high school, I would usually play at least 5, but more often around 10-15 games every day in between the classes.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Introduce The Poster Above as a Dominion Card

« on: November 24, 2016, 11:54:55 am »

I dub thee Journeyman. It's very similar to Smithy which is Davio, and I always mix the two of you up.

Yeah, somehow my old avatar got removed from the internet, so I hastily had to pick a new one. I like Island.

I saw your post and immediately got confused because I didn't remember saying that.

You're Farmland because I always confuse you with someone else.

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Game Reports / Re: Beware Conventional Wisdom

« on: November 24, 2016, 11:52:40 am »

So, conventional wisdom says that if you are going for alt VP and the other player is going province, don't get provinces yourself.

That's not what the conventional wisdom says. The conventional wisdom says that if your opponent wants to end the game earlier than you do, don't help him end the game. That you should not get Provinces against a Province opponent when you're going alt-VP was, IIRC, just something that came up in an actual game where someone was going for an engine against a big money opponent, and thusly, only applied to that particular game.

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Rules Questions / Re: Trader

« on: November 23, 2016, 12:02:30 pm »

Yes.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: How many games have you played?

« on: November 23, 2016, 09:48:52 am »

Around 7000-8000 probably. Haven't kept track of my IRL games, but there are hundreds for sure.

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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: The Necro Wars

« on: November 22, 2016, 05:58:52 am »

Post

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General Discussion / Re: Random Stuff Part III

« on: November 22, 2016, 04:23:32 am »

What is the point of coding stuff in Vim?

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General Discussion / Re: Random Stuff Part III

« on: November 22, 2016, 01:54:31 am »

Dating profile description: "Please give your name when replying to me."

My response: "Hi, my first name is ____, and if we get to know each other well enough, you'll get my last name. If we really get to know each other, you'll also get my last name."

Nailed it.

What exactly were you trying to say?

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: The Dominion Cards Lists 2016 Edition

« on: November 21, 2016, 08:43:05 am »

For the record, my rankings weren't anywhere near done. I knew about the feature though.