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jury duty sucks, do everything in your power not to get it

i thought it would be an interesting experience, it just ended up depressing
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Ascended_Demon_Physiology

I would cut him with all of my edge
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i feel like ketchup can automatically bring any bland food up to a minimum of a 4/10 experience. maybe even up to like a 7/10.

however, it doesn't help food that's already great

so ketchup is good at what it does
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Yeah I kinda wish gfaqs had a "sage" option sometimes

Like, I want to enjoy correcting stupidity, but I don't necessarily want to reward it by sending it to the top
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Bazinga

Yeah unfortunately dumb butts are the meat and potatoes of the board

Hard to say where the line would ideally be drawn in terms of acceptable dumbness
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best heel in speedrunning !!!!
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but i guess that means any game can be a hobby/lifestyle game, assuming you take it seriously enough
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i'm not sure either

to me a hobby game is like... warhammer. where the majority of the "activity" isn't actually playing the game, but rather painting pieces, building armies, and reading up on tactics and the setting. CCGs are like that, too

but that might be a limiting definition

i guess with chess you would spend a lot of time studying up outside of the game
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yeah, after the handholding of ixalan i'm going to be kind of clueless on how to play this set in limited
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I was thinking craw wurm as well, but I really have no idea.

Was probably eight at the time
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@Vlado
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Prospector was better when damage used the stack ;(
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good god
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I really enjoyed seeing those "super effective" messages on offense, so I would plan out as close to 100% type coverage as possible from the start.

Would stick with starters as well as the first Pokemon that filled the types I was looking for. Would make sure I wasn't wasting exp, plus EPs make single player easy
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The aj fight was oddly boring. I went in expecting too much, I guess. I think the problem was that they oversold each other's moves way too much, or didn't understand why the characters were liked in the first place

Asuka fight, Rousey fight, and intercontinental fight were the most entertaining. I liked what they did with Elias, Cena and the undertaker.

Among the rest, the results were good, but the actual fights were boring.
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SeabassDebeste posted...

this was really fun to read! makes me want to join a group online or something, as I just feel like my groups won't be able to "lose ourselves" in the role-playing aspect

Thanks! And I think as long as the people you know are reasonable and actually want to play, things are bound to go well.

I think there are some d&d podcasts/streams that set impossible standards for voice acting/immersion/whatever, that really isn't necessary at all. I've never tried playing online, but supposedly it can be good

I think if people can get "into" a board game they can get "into" an RPG, if only because there are objectives (treasure, xp, plot hooks)
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Follow-up question: Do your kids know you post on gamefaqs??
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i think proxies for cubes are a great idea

you're leaving the legit cards in circulation for tournament players that actually need em

the only downside is your own potential internal displeasure as a completionist
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yes my bro got very overweight and i told him to lose it!!!!
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guffguy89 posted...

People act like this hasn't already been happening for years now. Kids who are homeschooled grow up to become average adults just like the rest of us. Sure, maybe some are a bit more socially awkward, but others are just fine.

i strongly disagree with this sentiment, but it's not like either of us brought evidence to bear

i can anecdotally say that every single home-schooled person i know has had a lot of trouble adjusting to public life and life outside of their family in general

i am totally fine with considering online learning, i think it's an interesting topic. i do believe the social downsides will be too great, unless you specifically have, like, class from 10 to 2 and forced daycare/sports from 3 to 5 or something.
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your dad doesn't care that you mastrubate
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oh yeah, i should add that this has been a great couple of topics.

Bonus question - What is your favorite game (or favorite X games), and why?

Dungeons & Dragons is the greatest cooperative game of all time. It's structured make-believe, and through that it transcends the normal handcuffs that video and board games impose upon you. Pen & Paper RPGs are the only games where you actually can "do anything", in contrast to every video game that advertises that exact phrase.

There are plenty of other pen & paper RPG systems, but I think certain editions of D&D do a good job of treading the fine line between being too structured (RIFT, GURPS, arguably Pathfinder) and not structured enough (Nobilis, Exalted, World of Darkness, BESM). The key is to be free-flowing enough to have fun and reward comedic timing, but to also be structured enough to add weight and reward to the world and your actions.

Of course, your mileage varies by the people you play with. And if you have zero interest in a fantasy setting, you'll have to look for a different game in the pen and paper sphere.

I don't think there's any better way to keep a lasting bond with someone than to have shared memories of the fictional world that you all created together.
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fb says i have an interest in china's army and navy because of an ad i clicked on
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Wow, I had almost forgotten about epic duels.

That game led to possibly my most bitter gaming argument as a child ever.

We were playing Yoda vs. Vader, and I think Yoda had some kind of spell that read "target enemy is knocked down and can't move or attack for X turns" or something to that effect. Maybe it was a force whirlwind.

My memory is fuzzy, but this game used cards for actions. I think they would be labeled things like "movement", "attack", or "special".

So the Yoda player knocked Darth Vader over. The Vader player argued he could still use the Force Choke power, because it was a "special" and not an "attack".

I don't even remember which player I was, or what the final result ended up being. I just know it took forever and everyone was unhappy
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What a terrible being
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red
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red x iii
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i find betrayal games fun, but you have to be in the mood for a silly and somewhat complex time

they're not particularly competitive, and don't feel all that strategic. it mostly seems to come down to who draws the haunt, how early in the game it is, and how that particular haunt is balanced

they're good, flavorful romps
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red thirteen
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red xiii
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red 13
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red
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how many firings did we have over the course of 166?
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there is definitely one that redirects me away without me actually clicking on anything, or maybe trigger when i click on a normal topic link

pretty much impossible to hit 'back' the correct number of times to get back to where i want to be, as they have their 5 link auto-forward /popup/whatever system going, have to just kill the window
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red
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Anagram posted...

Most of the pop culture references really aren't that bad except at the beginning and end and the car. Spielberg really toned it down from the book.

yeah, i was really nervous after the opening sequence. they did an okay job of keeping things in check otherwise
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very enjoyable movie, despite the terrible references. they mostly managed to make the main character stupid enough that i didn't mind as much when he was getting really into pop culture garbage. i was very disappointed when artemis wasn't a dude or old or fat or anything.

the special effects were so good. favorite part was absolutely the entire "movie" segment.
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codenames is nice because it can get all sorts of people playing and it's still somewhat strategic and competitive

however, 99% of the time when i have a group ready to play, i just know that telephone pictionary would be an even bigger hit
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wait... but mtg hasn't shown up on the list yet...
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Chiming in to agree.
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Coming a second time?

That's what the calendar says, at least
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and i think the other half was that i wasn't having fun playing with strangers at game stores

and if i'm just going to be playing with one friend or two... why not pick something complete and balanced from the get-go?
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i really need to figure out how to "cash out" of magic! i've always assumed i'm only going to get like 50% of the amount i paid in, tops.

maybe i've just been doing it wrong- my pattern was primarily just go to prereleases, not to buy singles or anything like that

i'll admit part of my motivation for finding another game was the sense of malaise i get from looking at my shoeboxes of mtg cards
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Inviso posted...

I just strongly disagree with the lightspeed ram criticism because it was cool and I don't think it's even remotely "world-breaking", and I do feel like it's overpushed (much like Leia's space flight) as a negative to heap negative criticism onto the film.

oh, i dunno. i think it's just easier to get people to respond to something silly like the light-speed technology than to engage on more complex topics

like how in the last page i talked about how episode 8's message is "nothing matters, let the past die and watch cool fights and fight forever"
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why don't they make light-speed missiles
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SeabassDebeste posted...

Bonus question - What is your favorite lifestyle game? What games are you into that have their own community around them?

in no particular order- dungeons and dragons, world of warcraft, and magic; the gathering were my three.

i consider these all lifestyle games because i spent way more time thinking, theorycrafting, and creating than actually playing the games

although i could see netrunner replacing mtg on that list. It's an LCG- not a CCG- and feels balanced with surprisingly joyous, exciting gameplay. I'm in a honeymoon phase, I think.
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in order for the kamikaze attack to have worked, we have to collectively agree that every general, weapons designer, commander, etc. in the history of the galaxy was a complete and utter moron
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ChaosTonyV4 posted...

If lightspeed kamikaze works and has been talked about, then what makes it UNIVERSE BREAKING when someone finally goes through with it?

this isn't a particularly huge deal to me, but i will say that it doesn't make sense that this is the first time the tactic has ever been used in the history of the galaxy.

star wars is a space fantasy, not science fiction. we're all collectively agreeing to certain unrealistic, fantastical inaccuracies- ship engine noises in the vacuum of space, no battle AI, ww1 style dogfighting, etc. etc.

but we've agreed to that as part of the setting. it feels cheap to pull out the rug and retroactively change the rules almost 50 years into the franchise
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i've kind of soured on the movie

from my perspective, the entire message of the film is "who cares about context or emotion. just let the past die and enjoy fight scenes instead, because we're going to be fighting forever"

i like star wars because of its pathos, sense of history, morality plays, and sense of progress. the original trilogy was centered around religious, environmental and emotional themes and motifs.

i will come out and say that i'd be more amped if carrie fischer were still alive.

i'm still not sure if there's a reason for me to want to see episode 9. here's what we know:

there's going to be more fighting. the universe will go on. we'll constantly have villains and heroes with cool glowing weapons. the big mysteries and big bads are gone

what can we look forward to in episode 9, really? i guess we'll get to see the same lightsaber duel for the third movie in a row
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