Lotish posted:I look at the column on bridge when I read the paper and it seems to be completely unfathomable gibberish. Bridge is gibberish. Bridge is not a real game. It's Calvinball for old people. Four septuagenarians sit around a table saying random numbers, pretending to understand rules they're making up as they go, and shuffling playing cards back and forth for a few hours while taking furtive hits from road-flare sized reefers and giving each other tug jobs under the table.
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I want someone to do an ask tell on bridge but answer all questions by running it through google translate via 4 or 5 different languages and it'd probably make about as much sense.
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Nov 12, 2014 06:18
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Centripetal Horse posted:saying random numbers The best Numberwang
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Nov 12, 2014 06:18
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EXAKT Science posted:It also depends on the game. The traditional Spades>Hearts>Diamonds>Clubs ranking is what's used in Bridge, and something that I thought was fairly universal. gently caress all y'all, it's Dragons>Winds>Won>Circles>Bamboo. Mahjong 4 Lyfe!
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Nov 12, 2014 07:41
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Frostwerks posted:I want someone to do an ask tell on bridge but answer all questions by running it through google translate via 4 or 5 different languages and it'd probably make about as much sense. When I was little, I used to try to decipher the bridge examples they ran in the local paper next to the Jumble and crossword. I usually made it as far as "West opens".
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Nov 12, 2014 07:44
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:Yes and no. Like, I always knew it was Aaliyah who died in the plane crash specifically. But just in simply being dead, yeah I think so. Did you possibly get her mixed up with Selena?
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Nov 12, 2014 09:01
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Bobby Digital posted:When I was little, I used to try to decipher the bridge examples they ran in the local paper next to the Jumble and crossword. I just looked up the Wikipedia article on bridge because I realized I had no loving clue what the game was all about. I still have no idea. Calvinball for old people indeed.
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Nov 12, 2014 13:14
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Nov 12, 2014 13:18
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Bertrand Hustle posted:I just looked up the Wikipedia article on bridge because I realized I had no loving clue what the game was all about. 100% fact. My mom has played bridge every Wednesday for about 35 years, and about 20 with the same set of people. The actual play is pretty much the same as spades or hearts, but there's this whole secret language in the bidding process. The scoring is really bizarre as well. She's tried to teach me a few times, but it just doesn't sink in.
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Nov 13, 2014 08:41
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The first time somebody tried to explain cribbage to me I thought they were loving with me, and actually asked them if it was like Calvinball when they mentioned that a hand scoring zero points could be referred to as a "nineteen". But I just looked up bridge, and holy poo poo this is a whole new level of bizarre.
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Nov 13, 2014 15:49
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A FUCKIN CANARY!! posted:The first time somebody tried to explain cribbage to me I thought they were loving with me, and actually asked them if it was like Calvinball when they mentioned that a hand scoring zero points could be referred to as a "nineteen". But I just looked up bridge, and holy poo poo this is a whole new level of bizarre. This is just a joke because it's impossible to have a hand score 19 in cribbage.
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Nov 13, 2014 17:53
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Having no experience with bridge I just read the wiki article and it sounds like "Government Contracting: The Game"
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Nov 13, 2014 18:16
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I know someone who is a grandmaster (or whatever) in bridge. He is basically Sheldon Cooper.
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Nov 13, 2014 18:50
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When I was around18 I was hugely into grunge, punk and heavy metal (still am), I had a good number of friends, partied a lot, did student politics and ... Played bridge. I stopped because the whole "secret language" thing was hard and I had a tendency to give up if I wasn't instantly good at something.
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Nov 13, 2014 19:45
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There are the same number of major and minor thirds in a major triad as a minor triad.
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Nov 13, 2014 20:07
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I don't know if they still do it (because gently caress American Mahjong) but I know during it's heyday the American Mahjong society used to send out a thing every year that introduced new hand/tile combinations and win conditions, basically a video game patch for a table top game which is both mind boggling and also a vaguely interesting idea.
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Nov 13, 2014 20:19
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mng posted:Lick a toad, eat a fish... What other animals can I get high from? This is like the title of a banned children's book.   
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Nov 13, 2014 23:36
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El Estrago Bonito posted:I don't know if they still do it (because gently caress American Mahjong) but I know during it's heyday the American Mahjong society used to send out a thing every year that introduced new hand/tile combinations and win conditions, basically a video game patch for a table top game which is both mind boggling and also a vaguely interesting idea. Eh its not that rare.
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Nov 14, 2014 03:20
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I just learned that Debbie Reynolds is Carrie Fisher's mother.
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Nov 14, 2014 04:12
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El Estrago Bonito posted:I don't know if they still do it (because gently caress American Mahjong) but I know during it's heyday the American Mahjong society used to send out a thing every year that introduced new hand/tile combinations and win conditions, basically a video game patch for a table top game which is both mind boggling and also a vaguely interesting idea. Some of the more popular tabletop games do this either as an update on the website or the rulebook in an expansion with retroactively change some old rules.
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Nov 14, 2014 06:28
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Inzombiac posted:Some of the more popular tabletop games do this either as an update on the website or the rulebook in an expansion with retroactively change some old rules. I mean, I play miniatures games, I know. But very few of them do it in this style where they mail out a little card on a timed basis with minor scoring changes and variants in hands and stuff. It's not like rules cleanup or a game expansion, it's more like a patch for WoW.
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Nov 16, 2014 05:20
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El Estrago Bonito posted:I mean, I play miniatures games, I know. But very few of them do it in this style where they mail out a little card on a timed basis with minor scoring changes and variants in hands and stuff. It's not like rules cleanup or a game expansion, it's more like a patch for WoW. Miniature companies have to put at least a little effort into rules updates or else people won't buy the $50 rulebook or the $200 limited edition rules.
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Nov 16, 2014 15:01
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The word "taquito" is simply a diminutive form of the word "taco". Accordingly, taquitos themselves are essentially just small tacos that have been rolled up and then fried.
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Nov 18, 2014 04:40
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That the Warcraft 2 peon image is actually different to how I've been seeing it for the past two decades. I thought the left ear in the portrait was a horn, and the left tusk was the entire mouth and that the peon was showing the side of his face to the camera. Mind blown. 
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Nov 18, 2014 05:51
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I learned when debunking a crazy political forward that humans are innately terrible at big numbers. For the cost of the Iraq war, we could fund the annual salary of every congressperson in the United states for eighteen millenia. Similarly, the F-35 JSF could fully cover social security payments at current levels for the next two hundred and fifty years.
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Nov 18, 2014 06:57
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Mr. Welfare posted:That the Warcraft 2 peon image is actually different to how I've been seeing it for the past two decades. Explain, I can't see it.
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Nov 18, 2014 09:59
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CAT rear end now!!! posted:Explain, I can't see it. Same.
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Nov 18, 2014 10:09
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It's sort of hard to do so, as I first saw it when I was four, at a smaller resolution, but I'll grab a few pictures. 
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Nov 18, 2014 12:02
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Mr. Welfare posted:It's sort of hard to do so, as I first saw it when I was four, at a smaller resolution, but I'll grab a few pictures. Riiiight. I guess it might make sense if you ignore like the entire right half of the picture and think the orc has a really weird flat nose and no second eye, plus its mouth is a bronze-coloured turd. Then again maybe this is one of those things you look at once and never really think about again, so the first impression you get is a pretty lasting one.
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Nov 18, 2014 12:08
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CAT rear end now!!! posted:Riiiight. I guess it might make sense if you ignore like the entire right half of the picture and think the orc has a really weird flat nose and no second eye, plus its mouth is a bronze-coloured turd. Guess so.
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Nov 18, 2014 12:12
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The name of Ricardio the talking heart in Adventure Time is a play on the word 'cardio'.
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Nov 18, 2014 13:01
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Mr. Welfare posted:It's sort of hard to do so, as I first saw it when I was four, at a smaller resolution, but I'll grab a few pictures. It's almost like you have that brain thing where you just can't notice anything on either the left or right of something because anything to the right of the midpoint of that image just destroys the illusion for me. I can just about see what you mean when you cut off half the image completely. Did you have an incredibly lovely monitor back then? It does make the peon look sly and mean so that would be weird considering the pathetic servility they're meant to show.
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Nov 18, 2014 14:58
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Refried beans aren't refried. It's a translation error of "frijoles refritos" which means "well-fried beans."
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Nov 18, 2014 21:52
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I just found out I'm not the only one who saw the peon incorrectly. That makes me feel better.
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Nov 18, 2014 23:45
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Master Twig posted:I just found out I'm not the only one who saw the peon incorrectly. That makes me feel better. Wow, so I'm not crazy. Anyway, to answer your questions, I had a 14" CRT monitor and I'm pretty sure I don't have prosopagnosia. EDIT: Whoops. Mr. Welfare has a new favorite as of 00:32 on Nov 19, 2014 |
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Nov 19, 2014 00:08
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Mr. Welfare posted:Wow, so I'm not crazy. fourteen loving feet?! You have no excuse
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Nov 19, 2014 00:27
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mng posted:fourteen loving feet?! You have no excuse well, he's probably blind at this point.
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Nov 19, 2014 02:30
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cowboythreespeech posted:well, he's probably blind at this point. Well, if most goons had a 14 foot monitor there would be a lot of porn involved.....so yes, he'd probably be blind at this point even if it wasn't due to eye strain.
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Nov 20, 2014 14:38
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Bran means raven. GoT is amazing.
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ZenMaster posted:Bran means raven. GoT is amazing. Bran is part of a plant. GoT is amazing. Also it keeps your bowels regular, so we know who Dany will be teaming up with soon.
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