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| Topic | eighty tabletop games, ranked |
| VintageGin 02/16/18 5:10:58 PM #217 | Cosmic Encounter is mostly fun due to the unique interactions that you have. There are a few aliens that are drastically overpowered and worth removing (Virus was one, if I remember correctly), but for the most part the diplomacy of the game allows it to self-balance. I think it's fun going into a game and knowing the base rules but having it play out very differently each time. It's not my favorite game of all time, but I do enjoy it quite a bit. --- |
| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 161: Elephants On Parade |
| VintageGin 02/15/18 12:00:15 PM #400 | foolm0r0n posted... The fundamental question is this: after we successfully ban all civilian gun ownership, when shootings still happen, what will you do? So is your solution just to maintain the status quo? --- |
| Topic | eighty tabletop games, ranked |
| VintageGin 02/15/18 2:25:40 AM #143 | SeabassDebeste posted... Bonus question - This might be the only programming game that I played enough to make the list, though the others I tried a bit I generally liked more - what are your favorites? I've only played it once, but Robo Rally is probably the most I've laughed during a board game --- |
| Topic | eighty tabletop games, ranked |
| VintageGin 02/14/18 4:01:26 PM #125 | SeabassDebeste posted... Hint for #72 - Everyone got a plan til they get punched in the face. Or shot. Gotta be Colt Express --- |
| Topic | Anyone want to pitch their city to me to move to? |
| VintageGin 02/13/18 9:41:46 PM #92 | Berkeley is pretty neat. SF and Oakland are both accessible, and you don't have you deal with the high cost of living and other unpleasantness that comes with actually living in SF. The cost of living is still higher than average, but it's not to the exorbitant levels found in SF. Also the food's pretty decent and there's so much fresh produce around. --- |
| Topic | eighty tabletop games, ranked |
| VintageGin 02/13/18 6:28:34 PM #74 | Dead of Winter is decent but every time I've played it the game ends up moving very slowly for one reason or another. For some reason it's like something about the game doesn't click with certain people and turns take longer than they should. --- |
| Topic | eighty tabletop games, ranked |
| VintageGin 02/13/18 2:32:50 PM #58 | Yeah, I've never heard of or played this one either! As for the engagement/game design question...I feel like Colt Express falls into this category. There's potentially a lot to keep track of, but because of all the hidden information and the somewhat random changes, it all feels pretty random in terms of what unfolds. --- |
| Topic | eighty tabletop games, ranked |
| VintageGin 02/12/18 10:49:17 PM #16 | Great_Paul posted... trdl23 posted...Is "SH's parent game" referring to Werewolf/Mafia? I figured it was Two Rooms and a Boom --- |
| Topic | Who else filed 2 weeks ago and is still waiting on their tax return? |
| VintageGin 02/07/18 7:24:34 PM #3 | |
| Topic | Describe a film poorly, others guess what it is |
| VintageGin 02/07/18 2:41:05 AM #169 | StartTheMachine posted... A woman swallows a disfigured man's cum and it means something. Vanilla Sky --- |
| Topic | Describe a film poorly, others guess what it is |
| VintageGin 02/06/18 11:42:08 PM #164 | A man is manipulated into becoming a serial killer who only targets people with a certain name --- |
| Topic | digi definitively ranks the users with short writeups and or tiers maybe |
| VintageGin 01/30/18 3:04:19 AM #16 | |
| Topic | Just beat Cuphead (spoilers, I guess) |
| VintageGin 01/29/18 8:25:12 PM #5 | Part of me wants to try to clear expert mode, but I'm not sure I have the patience for that. --- |
| Topic | Just beat Cuphead (spoilers, I guess) |
| VintageGin 01/29/18 6:11:47 AM #4 | Hard to choose, honestly! I liked Wally Warbles and Werner Werman's designs (although I was less a fan of the baby bird portion for Wally...but the being carried in a stretcher made up for it). Cala Maria was also great, design-wise, as was Sally Stageplay. In terms of fun, I think I had fun with most of them. The world 1 bosses were a bit too easy to be too memorable, but they were still nice. Dr Kahl's Robot and King Dice ended up being a little more stressful/frustrating than fun. --- |
| Topic | Just beat Cuphead (spoilers, I guess) |
| VintageGin 01/29/18 5:21:59 AM #1 | 245 deaths. Wish there was a way to see how many restarts. Overall, pretty good game. I feel like the Devil fight could have been harder, and I kind of hated the miniboss gauntlet for King Dice. Hardest boss was probably the dragon or the robot, though I feel like the dragon was only hard because it was a difficulty spike relative to world 2. Only ever used the Peashooter, Spreadshot and Chaser as weapons. Not sure if I missed out here. I hear the the lobber is pretty good against certain bosses and that the charge shot got nerfed at some point. Also, I completely forgot about the fact that the plane has bombs as an alt-weapon until after the last real plane boss fight. --- |
| Topic | Freedom, Liberty, Ron Paul - In Case You Weren't Sure About Crypto... [dwmf] |
| VintageGin 01/26/18 3:19:52 PM #407 | This topic made me realize that the industry I work in (ad tech) provides an interesting parallel for minimum wage stuff (among other things). The way companies buy ad space is through an open auction, and there's an option to set minimums on bids that will actually be allowed. You'd think that the best approach would be to leave these minimums out since you maximize the amount of bids received, but in practice this creates a race to the bottom and lower overall money flowing through. And the minimums also provide an important signal to the buyer algorithms, which will adjust so that they can win more often (so long as the minimum isn't too high). Although the most effective way of implementing these minimums is dynamically rather than static values so \_()_/ --- |
| Topic | Apparently that Celeste game is pretty awesome. |
| VintageGin 01/26/18 2:55:42 PM #15 | It's made by the creator of Towerfall, so I'm not surprised! Looking forward to picking this up, though I might wait until or sale or when I have more time. --- |
| Topic | Project Veritas expose Twitter censorship! |
| VintageGin 01/12/18 4:06:00 PM #90 | |
| Topic | i hate this |
| VintageGin 01/09/18 3:07:41 AM #82 | I beat this last night and I have to say --- |
| Topic | I need help from someone who knows about dyeing hair. |
| VintageGin 01/04/18 8:45:03 PM #4 | |
| Topic | so what did you get in the steam sale |
| VintageGin 01/04/18 12:38:30 PM #55 | |
| Topic | Cryptocurrency topic 2: Shoot for the moon |
| VintageGin 01/01/18 10:04:05 PM #3 | My most recent buys were ICX and REQ. Sadly I got the REQ when it was around ~0.64 or so because I jumped on it too late, but I wouldn't be surprised if it continues to climb. It's one of the few coins that I feel could see legitimate use after all the rampant speculation dies down. I'm also not really dumping huge amounts of money into this, though. --- |
| Topic | Cryptocurrency topic 2: Shoot for the moon |
| VintageGin 01/01/18 6:28:52 PM #1 | Just curious how everyone's feeling about crypto now. We had pretty big drops on BTC and LTC after the hype died while ETH has pretty much held steady. There's been quite a few altcoins that have started to take off over the past few days. Any favorites? --- |
| Topic | Lordy Lordy looks who is 40 |
| VintageGin 01/01/18 3:47:21 PM #15 | |
| Topic | Star Wars TLJ Spoilers for entire SW Topic 4 |
| VintageGin 12/28/17 12:42:49 AM #2 | I have to say that I laughed at how aggressive a start this is for the new topic. --- |
| Topic | Star Wars: The Last Jedi: Spoiler Thread Episode III |
| VintageGin 12/27/17 6:24:06 PM #483 | SmartMuffin posted... VintageGin posted...By the way, did anyone discuss the logistics of the 18 hour slow space chase? That's the one thing I don't understand...why were they pacing at exactly the same speed for that long. Yeah, that was my understanding too. But it seems silly that that they had the exact same top speed so that the distance remained the same. And thinking back, I thought maybe it made sense if the rebels had a faster top speed but decided to keep the distance the same to conserve fuel...but I'm pretty sure at some point they explicitly say something about increasing to max speed. --- |
| Topic | Star Wars: The Last Jedi: Spoiler Thread Episode III |
| VintageGin 12/27/17 5:59:45 PM #480 | By the way, did anyone discuss the logistics of the 18 hour slow space chase? That's the one thing I don't understand...why were they pacing at exactly the same speed for that long. --- |
| Topic | Star Wars: The Last Jedi: Spoiler Thread Episode III |
| VintageGin 12/27/17 4:04:04 PM #456 | Corrik posted... AquaArcane posted...Lopen posted...My argument is that we're thinking about it way more than the writers did, because they don't really understand Luke Skywalker or Star Wars all that well. They can understand what makes it good better than he does. That's the entire point of editing after all-- to bring out the best of what's there. I don't think Lucas understands why Star Wars was good, and I think midichlorians prove that point pretty easily. --- |
| Topic | Star Wars: The Last Jedi: Spoiler Thread Episode III |
| VintageGin 12/27/17 3:47:02 PM #449 | Lopen posted... My argument was never Luke's lying Your argument is based on the idea that we should see the exact same character we saw many years ago with no change. So 30 years from now, I fully expect you to be advocating for spy clones to fix plot points. --- |
| Topic | Star Wars: The Last Jedi: Spoiler Thread Episode III |
| VintageGin 12/27/17 3:16:38 PM #432 | Lopen posted... I guess Kylo Ren just got universe destroying darkness the day Luke realized it, literally out of nowhere. Makes sense! What. Dude, he said that he had sensed it during training. He saw it building up inside him. Then he goes for a more thorough look while he's asleep and can't keep his thoughts hidden and sees the full extent of it. I feel like you're being deliberately obtuse here. --- |
| Topic | Star Wars: The Last Jedi: Spoiler Thread Episode III |
| VintageGin 12/27/17 2:47:25 PM #425 | Lopen posted... I dunno, man. Not really to me-- just doesn't really profile as the kinda thing to create that "crime of passion" reaction given how Jedi have historically reacted to "sensing darkness" in the series but agree to disagree I guess I mean, he literally hasn't had to deal with this for years and is the last Jedi who also didn't receive the full training a Jedi normally would. He's been unpracticed against the dark side for all this time, and he see darkness in Kylo that scares him...so for just a second he reverts to that Luke that cut off the fake Vader's head in Dagobah. He realizes his mistake because of his training, but it's too late. --- |
| Topic | Star Wars: The Last Jedi: Spoiler Thread Episode III |
| VintageGin 12/27/17 2:37:22 PM #420 | Yeah, I was under the impression that he sensed darkness in him, went to check on this when Kylo was asleep, went "oh fuck it's even worse than I thought" and instinctively grabbed his lightsaber before really reflecting on it. Makes sense if he really hasn't seen anything like that in years. --- |
| Topic | Star Wars: The Last Jedi: Spoiler Thread Episode III |
| VintageGin 12/27/17 1:39:48 AM #390 | Saw it today. Had low expectations based on the mixed reception, but it was actually pretty good! Floating space Leia was pretty silly though. But I was just thinking, what if...and bear with me on this one...what if instead, she was an imperial spy clone? --- |
| Topic | holy shit Die Hard is so good |
| VintageGin 12/25/17 4:25:25 PM #28 | Corrik posted...
Have seen 4. I meant that I haven't seen 5. 4 sucks. Thanks. --- |
| Topic | holy shit Die Hard is so good |
| VintageGin 12/25/17 4:23:38 PM #27 | Also, what I love about the movie is that all the little details add up and contribute in some way to the story (like the "fists with your toes" conversation). Not to mention you actually see John and the tower get increasingly hurt/destroyed as the movie unfolds. And it's all just paced so well. --- |
| Topic | holy shit Die Hard is so good |
| VintageGin 12/25/17 4:17:35 PM #25 | Die Hard is excellent. 2 and 3 are both good, but not as good. 4 and (I assume because I haven't seen it) 5 shouldn't exist. --- |
| Topic | So that Net Neutrality vote is happening now right? |
| VintageGin 12/20/17 3:28:38 PM #172 | foolm0r0n posted... What is up with you guys and this "vague hypothetical" meme. I just showed you real examples of how ISP regulations stifle growth and that the FCC has control over these things under Title II and deals out exceptions to the highest bidder. It's concrete and real and has been going on for decades to get us to where we're at now. "you guys" damn dude, have a little more respect-- I don't lump you and smartmuffin together I asked you for examples where the FCC policies you named had negatively impacted smaller ISPs. You provided an article with examples of local regulations doing this instead. You then went on to later say that regulations should be handled at the local/state level, even though the article you linked was about how that was the problem. Duh because you have no issue with Comcast being the internet monopoly. In fact you WANT Comcast to be the internet monopoly of the US, as long as the FCC controls them through strong enough regulations. My stance here is pretty simple: With the FCC regulations in place, the worst case scenario is that Comcast gets everything it wants. Your solution to this is apparently that we should get rid of the FCC's influence entirely, meaning that Comcast gets everything it wants by default. Which companies? Can you list 1 example? We have a local ISP called LMI. They share Sonic's infrastructure. You keep assuming that I don't want any change when all I'm saying is I don't want this change. --- |
| Topic | So that Net Neutrality vote is happening now right? |
| VintageGin 12/20/17 3:12:53 PM #170 | SmartMuffin posted... Comcast and everyone else have taken a "whatever, we just provide the pipe, if you don't like certain content don't view it" attitude. Weird, I wonder if there was something that forced them to hold to that. Facebook/Twitter occupy a middle-ground in terms of content/pipe, in part because the platform/framework they offer is unique-- it's not just upload and download speeds. Also, you may be interested to note that Facebook/Twitter are not the whole of the internet. There's a lot of "real" content out there that accounts for a lot of the internet. --- |
| Topic | So that Net Neutrality vote is happening now right? |
| VintageGin 12/18/17 10:52:56 PM #162 | SmartMuffin posted... Content-driven vs pipe-driven. Net neutrality at least enables competition among content creators. If you're going to boil it down to picking a side because you don't understand nuance, then yes. But that's a pretty lame argument. --- |
| Topic | So that Net Neutrality vote is happening now right? |
| VintageGin 12/18/17 9:24:22 PM #160 | SmartMuffin posted... http://babylonbee.com/news/internet-service-providers-not-able-decide-people-can-see-online-says-man-decides-people-can-see-online/ Content-driven vs pipe-driven. Net neutrality at least enables competition among content creators. --- |
| Topic | So that Net Neutrality vote is happening now right? |
| VintageGin 12/18/17 9:22:13 PM #159 | foolm0r0n posted... Last mile just refers to the part of the infrastructure that is the "last mile". That's where MOST of the infrastructure costs are, because you're digging around a city and underground and all that stuff. That's where new ISPs get blocked from coming into a city. Yeah I know what last mile is. But you haven't given any examples of the FCC's last mile regulations stifling new ISP growth. You've just pointed to local and state regulations hampering growth and alluded to a vague hypothetical of what the FCC could do with Title 2 and last mile regulations. That's like, the exact opposite of your point. Which is dumb as hell since the status quo regulations end up with the major ISPs having wide-spread monopolies, which is the supposed worst-case scenario of the latter option. Because I would say that the issue is more to do with (certain, not all) regulations not going far enough rather than them obstructing competition. I think that a broad "free market" deregulation approach will just manage to dig us deeper into this hole (probably by first causing companies that depend on sharing infrastructure to go out of business or get acquired). --- |
| Topic | Egg Nog |
| VintageGin 12/18/17 4:28:03 AM #21 | Homemade eggnog is great: http://imbibemagazine.com/25-days-of-holiday-drinks-day-25-tequila-sherry-egg-nog/ Store-bought eggnog is alright, but it's completely different --- |
| Topic | Best Dead or Alive girl? |
| VintageGin 12/17/17 9:45:54 PM #21 | Snrkiko posted... honoka lovers might be worse than ayane fans what do you have against ayane maybe this friendship isn't worth it --- |
| Topic | So that Net Neutrality vote is happening now right? |
| VintageGin 12/17/17 2:09:59 PM #151 | foolm0r0n posted... He's prob not reading the topic anymore but I still don't see how last mile affects this. The last mile regulations are just about what ISPs are required to offer other competitors. Without them, they wouldn't be required to share any existing infrastructure. So how exactly would the removal of last mile benefit small ISPs? And yeah, those local/municipal fees mentioned in the article you posted do suck-- I wouldn't be opposed to getting rid of things like that. I don't know if I believe that's the only issue with the cost, though. I don't think anyone is arguing that having 5 guys on the FCC decide these regulations is the best system, only that it's better than the alternative of giving cable companies unregulated reign. --- |
| Topic | What are the three best and three worst episodes of Lost, excluding the finale? |
| VintageGin 12/15/17 1:41:55 PM #25 | FFDragon posted... I'm struggling to think of them. All I remember is bad Claire, bad zombie Sayid, bad Jin + Sun reunion, bad Jacob, bad MiB, bad temple storyline, bad flashsideways, always bad Locke. And that's just from memory. Yeah, Jack was the only thing that improved in S6 --- |
| Topic | So that Net Neutrality vote is happening now right? |
| VintageGin 12/15/17 1:22:19 PM #99 | foolm0r0n posted... I don't have time to research for you but if you really would be convinced by a couple of examples then definitely search yourself for recent examples of blocked local ISP (I think there's both municipal and private rural examples) I actually couldn't find any good examples of this, which is why I asked. Maybe I wasn't searching for the right things. Infrastructure costs are largely regulatory costs. It's expensive to follow the laundry list of rules, which is why only the megacorps can afford it. The regulatory costs are also not really related to the FCC or the Title 2/last mile stuff you mentioned as things that were holding new ISPs back. It's just expensive to do stuff that involves digging up public/private property to lay cable. Considering the major telecom companies were born out of mergers that resulted from it being more cost effective to merge with/buy other companies than create new infrastructure, I don't really see how the free market is the solution here. --- |
| Topic | So that Net Neutrality vote is happening now right? |
| VintageGin 12/15/17 4:17:24 AM #95 | foolm0r0n posted... More broadly about how the FCC has control over who gets the last mile. Which they SAID would mean ISPs would have to share their infrastructure but in practice it's been used to come up with some reason to block last-mile usage and new infrastructure creation by competitors. Can you provide examples of where the last mile stuff was used to block smaller ISPs? Also, what would repealing/deregulating telecommunication standards do in terms of allowing new ISPs to overcome the infrastructure costs? --- |
| Topic | So that Net Neutrality vote is happening now right? |
| VintageGin 12/15/17 3:39:59 AM #91 | foolm0r0n posted... VintageGin posted...What regulations, specifically? The last mile stuff you're talking about is the regulation that forces ISPs to share infrastructure, right? How are these preventing new ISPs when the primary barrier to entry for new ISPs is the extreme infrastructure costs? --- |
| Topic | What are the three best and three worst episodes of Lost, excluding the finale? |
| VintageGin 12/15/17 2:29:42 AM #21 | Can I just vote the entire last season as the worst? ...plus Stranger in a Strange Land Greatest Hits, Walkabout, and The Constant were probably the best there I can think of --- |
| Topic | So that Net Neutrality vote is happening now right? |
| VintageGin 12/15/17 2:27:26 AM #89 | foolm0r0n posted... Regaro posted...Hey foolmo quick question. If the answer isn't giving the FCC more power, then do you believe that giving ISPs etc more power is the answer? What regulations, specifically? --- |
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