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Lady Naga posted:The Dot Hack one. doesn't exist anymore outside of wholesalegaming.biz which, if you ever want to visit a fuckin museum of dead games? that website has them. its rad
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 04:06 |
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Literally The Worst posted:doesn't exist anymore outside of wholesalegaming.biz Also the dot hack one was actually pretty good I just wanted to namecheck it.
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 04:10 |
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Literally The Worst posted:yugioh because its the worst card game with the worst players I think I'll pass and just keep to crpg games That's slightly less weird and stigmatizing than openly keeping any anime titties paraphernalia
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 04:13 |
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Twerkteam Pizza posted:I think I'll pass and just keep to crpg games or you could play magic, which is still probably the best tcg in existence and the one with the least stigma attached to it Lady Naga posted:Also the dot hack one was actually pretty good I just wanted to namecheck it. yeah that's fair, i usually go with magi nation or l5r depending on how nerdy i think the person i'm talking to is l5r is coming back next year though without randomization, get hype
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 04:17 |
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Literally The Worst posted:or you could play magic, which is still probably the best tcg in existence and the one with the least stigma attached to it I may, depending on how good Bloomington IN is to me
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 04:19 |
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or you could see if there's a Living Card Game community in your area and play those, because there's no randomization or secondary market you buy a core set. it is identical to every other core set. you buy an expansion/booster. it is identical to every other booster/expansion with the same name as it. it kinda rules
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 04:25 |
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Literally The Worst posted:or you could see if there's a Living Card Game community in your area and play those, because there's no randomization or secondary market It's a fairly small college town so I'll look into it!
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Literally The Worst posted:or you could play magic, which is still probably the best tcg in existence and the one with the least stigma attached to it Or you could play Dominion, which, is structured like a proper loving game rather than extended nerdbait, so winning is based on skill rather than willingness to spend money in the secondary market (Dominion has no secondary market; everybody buys the same standardized box sets), and it's actually popular with people who like tabletop games in general, as opposed to the hypernerd subset that congregates around MTG. Dominion arguably did for card games what Settlers of Catan did for board games: make them actually fun and start/ride a huge wave of popularity for mainstream tabletop games.
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 05:19 |
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Curvature of Earth posted:Or you could play Dominion, which, is structured like a proper loving game rather than extended nerdbait, so winning is based on skill rather than willingness to spend money in the secondary market (Dominion has no secondary market; everybody buys the same standardized box sets), and it's actually popular with people who like tabletop games in general, as opposed to the hypernerd subset that congregates around MTG. Dominion arguably did for card games what Settlers of Catan did for board games: make them actually fun and start/ride a huge wave of popularity for mainstream tabletop games. they're entirely different types of card games you dingbat, also no it absolutely did not do for card games what catan did for board games comparing magic with a deckbuilding game so that you can scoff at something with an entirely different model as being inferior is the height of nerd snobbery, gently caress off with it edit lmao actually readin this you just have a huge hateboner for magic which is fine but it is legitimately the best TCG on the market and has been for a long time, p much the only one i've played that i liked more was the World of Warcraft one because i fuckin LOVED its resource system, and you busting in to go WELL ACTUALLY YOU COULD PLAY SOMETHING ENTIRELY DIFFERENT is just kinda silly double edit extra lmao at the idea that magic is no skill and all money BENGHAZI 2 has a new favorite as of 05:25 on Aug 12, 2016 |
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and you picked basically the worst deckbuilding game to do it with and the one that has a bazillion 40 dollar expansions the correct deckbuilding suggestion was Star Realms because it's like 80 bucks for everything that's out right now and its actually a better game
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 05:26 |
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Literally The Worst posted:and you picked basically the worst deckbuilding game to do it with and the one that has a bazillion 40 dollar expansions I was with you up until this, but Dominion is still the best deckbuilder out (mostly because all the other ones after it were really bad.)
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 05:32 |
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Asymmetrikon posted:I was with you up until this, but Dominion is still the best deckbuilder out (mostly because all the other ones after it were really bad.) star realms motherfucker fifteen bucks for a two player game about buying spaceships and shooting people with spaceships, the absolute purest form of deckbuilding with no cruft another like 50 for all the expansions that are currently out including another one that's the size of the base game, costs fifteen bucks, and adds a shitload of new cards plus enough basics for two more players when hero realms comes out that'll probably be a close race because i love star realms, and i love the idea of a deckbuilding game with a campaign mode like Pathfinder ACG
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 05:32 |
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Literally The Worst posted:star realms motherfucker Is #CommonCore the ultimate idiocracy or complete anti-white sabotage? A good friend of mine recently has become embedded in his state’s common core debate and, as a result, I’ve been been proxy to some of the chain emails among his friends. I’ve always thought common core a bad idea for various reasons but it’s never been something I’ve really looked into. Some states have recently dumped common core, as it has been attacked both by traditionalists and even some inner city districts. But as the ship is going done, it seems to become more and more radicalized. Based on the info I’ve received recently from a couple friends, one of whom is a professor of mathematics, here are some interesting facts I’ve discovered about Common Core. – Common Core was originally packaged as standardized testing on reading and math, which was supposed not to involve content, but that quickly changed. The original intent, it seems, all along was to modify content. – Common Core has radically change the way mathematics is taught — basically the general trend from Newton / Leibniz to the present has been overturned. Most of the symbols, notations, descriptions, vocabulary, etc., have been discarded and are replaced by more “visual” approaches, often involving silly video-game-like graphics. A math professor I know said students who have learned math by this approach aren’t even able to comprehend traditional math because it seems like a foreign language to them. Apparently the unspoken rationale behind this approach is that blacks and mestizos cannot learn traditional math and Common Core is more “POC friendly,” although it seems to have made little difference in test scores. Nonetheless, at least trying to advance blacks is a worthy cause to discard two thousand years of accumulated mathematical wisdom. – Common Core has dumped the study of grammar altogether. Literally, no grammar. Grammar has been replaced by “feel good” unstructured expository writing and basic new-speak guidelines. There are students now who have no idea what an adjective or relative clause is. Students who learn English this way would never be able to learn an inflected grammar-heavy language, like Latin or German, but maybe that’s the point. Rationale? Apparently the Schools of “Education” think grammar is racist because blacks and mestizos cannot fully comprehend it. Modern (as in post-Middle) English grammar must be discarded to make way for some new Third World hybrid language (Dindu-Spanglish?). – Although Common Core was originally sold as “content free,” it quickly scrapped nearly all the European and other white writers from reading lists. Vergil’ Aeneid, Beowulf, Goethe’s writings, and Shakespeare’s plays have made way for bunch of non-white writers complaining about something — usually white people for their shortcomings. Star Realms is garbage and you should be playing Dominion instead. Defenders of Common Core say it prescribes no particular books. It’s about “how to read,” not what to read. It just so happens in learning “how to read” one shouldn’t read white people. If these descriptions are true, and I really have no reason to believe they are not, as I’ve seen many of the source materials, what in the hell is going on here? Is it complete idiocracy or a deliberate ((( attempt ))) to sabotage learning and the accumulated knowledge of the past 2000 years? Both? If you know kids in a public school, tell them to GTFO. The bitch is run by Upgrayedd now. tl;dr Problem: If you try to teach children reading, writing, and arithmetic, People of Color will underperform. Thus teaching reading, writing, and arithmetic has disparate impact. Solution: Yo Stop teaching dem dat racist whitey sheeit what ‘chew thinkin’ man? A child who has been educated with common core is a child who cannot do maths, cannot spell correctly, nor write grammatically. He is cut off from the past two thousand years of civilization. Gabba gabba weebeejabba. Yo shizzle shizzle think I gotta pizzle! No need to teach the three R’s any more, we teach the three S’s: sex, self-esteem, and social justice!
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 05:59 |
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Lottery of Babylon posted:Is #CommonCore the ultimate idiocracy or complete anti-white sabotage? I hate/love you
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 06:22 |
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Sorry to poo poo up the pay-to-win card games thread, but I just split out a RationalWiki article on the alt-right from the more general neoreaction one. It looks split-off too, and needs some work. In particular, historical: just when did memelord neo-nazis start tagging themselves "alt-right", etc.
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 06:42 |
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divabot posted:Sorry to poo poo up the pay-to-win card games thread I swear to god I'm gonna hit start hitting people with rocks
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 11:49 |
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My favorite card game is about four different kingdoms' royal aristocracy dominating the lower class and being the only people with actual faces, the rest of society is just assigned numbers.
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 14:44 |
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Divabot I like you and all but you're married to a weird fandom person you have no right to judge other people for their hobbies.
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 14:45 |
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Twerkteam Pizza posted:I may, depending on how good Bloomington IN is to me Bloomington has two game stores that do FNM so you are in good shape.
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 14:59 |
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Lady Naga posted:Divabot I like you and all but you're married to a weird fandom person you have no right to judge other people for their hobbies. Also anyone who thinks Magic is pay to win hasn't watched someone buy a competitive deck and then get fuckin clowned on because they don't know what they're doing Also they haven't ever heard of casual play which makes up some absurd percentage of their player base
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 15:01 |
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Literally The Worst posted:Also they haven't ever heard of casual play which makes up some absurd percentage of their player base Or something like Pauper.
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 15:07 |
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Or sealed formats (my personal favourite)
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 15:10 |
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Lottery of Babylon posted:Is #CommonCore the ultimate idiocracy or complete anti-white sabotage?
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I'm gonna show this to my paleontologist friend and watch him pop a loving blood vessel. I am far from an expert in these things but my guess is we're lucky we have as many varieties as 250,000 after millions and millions of years.
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 15:42 |
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you guys you guys i've got it right how about pay-to-win dark enlightenment cards
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 15:50 |
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Electric Lady posted:I'm gonna show this to my paleontologist friend and watch him pop a loving blood vessel. Even after all these years I have no idea what that cartoon is even claiming about fossils. I guess a finite number of species preserved by relatively rare geologic processes means creationism happened.
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 16:15 |
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Jack Gladney posted:Even after all these years I have no idea what that cartoon is even claiming about fossils. I guess a finite number of species preserved by relatively rare geologic processes means creationism happened. I know we're not on the young earth thing here exactly but I just think about the Ken Han vs Bill Nye debate and how Ken thinks that carbon dating is just made up and that humans lived with dinosaurs and ugh. If I remember right one of Bill's retorts to him was "There are trees older than you think the planet is."
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 16:19 |
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I like to imagine the cartoonist read the "glasses on a table" argument about perceived gaps in the fossil record and was like "hmm. How can I make an object-based analogy to dispute this, except with literally the dorkiest object possible?" It could only be more cringeworthy if the dude had used, I dunno, MLP-based sex toys.
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Antivehicular posted:I like to imagine the cartoonist read the "glasses on a table" argument about perceived gaps in the fossil record and was like "hmm. How can I make an object-based analogy to dispute this, except with literally the dorkiest object possible?" It could only be more cringeworthy if the dude had used, I dunno, MLP-based sex toys. It's kinda tripping my satire alarm for that very reason
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 16:36 |
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The Vosgian Beast posted:It's kinda tripping my satire alarm for that very reason Nope.
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 16:43 |
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The Vosgian Beast posted:It's kinda tripping my satire alarm for that very reason You've not seen the rest of the dude's comics, then.
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 16:44 |
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Puppy Time posted:You've not seen the rest of the dude's comics, then. Poe's law I suppose
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 16:45 |
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Comic's like seven years old at this point.
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 16:48 |
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Antivehicular posted:I like to imagine the cartoonist read the "glasses on a table" argument about perceived gaps in the fossil record and was like "hmm. How can I make an object-based analogy to dispute this, except with literally the dorkiest object possible?" It could only be more cringeworthy if the dude had used, I dunno, MLP-based sex toys. I'm actually not familiar with the "glasses on a table" argument. What's the gist of it?
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 17:04 |
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The Vosgian Beast posted:It's kinda tripping my satire alarm for that very reason They used to say that about Reagan too
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 17:16 |
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Lady Naga posted:Comic's like seven years old at this point. I meant I believe it, it's just absurd
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 17:19 |
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Parallel Paraplegic posted:Odd, I generally play as female characters with gender-ambiguous usernames and I've gotten plenty of weird nerds bein' weird at me. I'm aware of a few academic papers on the subject, but they're all from the late 1990s and focused on MUDs and MUSHes. A good start but pretty out-of-date in their demographics, though the basic behavior patterns don't change too dramatically over the years. I played on large MUDs back then, on a VT terminal program on an Amiga 500 over a 9600 baud modem. I think this one was the first one I played a female character on, and it was enlightening. Within a few days I got cyber-raped, but another time some guy treated me with the whole "M'lady" thing for a while. After both I had to +++ disconnect and process wtf had just happened. It was a formative experience. I think its one of those educational situations that everyone should probably go through when they're young, like minimum wage manual labor. It won't help prevent the real sociopaths, but might give some people a bit of a baseline with which to comprehend other peoples behavior and experiences.
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 17:40 |
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another by this moron
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# ? Aug 12, 2016 18:07 |
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I'm 9/11
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Twerkteam Pizza posted:
This kind of owns.
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