Fun with maps
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@Zerosquare I think we’re done at this point.
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@Zerosquare said in Fun with maps:
Since this sounds like a discussion that has the potential to go on for days... maybe it could be Jeffed into a "
Funnot really a lot of fun with cards" thread?It's more ing than fun, or even . But yeah, I think we're done. We've both out-bored the other with insignificant details that neither of us care enough to actually check
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@remi said in Fun with maps:
We've both out-bored the other with insignificant details that neither of us care enough to actually check
Welcome to TDWTF. Also, "unfunny bickering about unfunny stuff".
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@Zerosquare said in Fun with maps:
Since this sounds like a discussion that has the potential to go on for days... maybe it could be Jeffed into a "Fun with cards" thread?
You'd think the two of them were German.
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@LaoC my wife’s German, does that count?
Also just to rerail the thread i spectacularly fail at navigating even with a map.
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@remi said in Fun with maps:
@Gurth said in Fun with maps:
@remi That version’s rules are far clearer than the revised one’s posted earlier.
That's debatable
Okay, let me rephrase my remark: “To a non-ruleslawyering, non-M:tG player like me, the first version is far more comprehensible than the later version.”
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@remi said in Fun with maps:
@Arantor said in Fun with maps:
@remi it’s not really a contradiction. It’s the fact that casting inherently must leave time for a counter, which means “summoning + time for response (plus any counter-counter chain)” is really an atomic action whose end state is “creature is in play”.
Rules lawyering for the win.
IIRC (and again, that changed across editions, and I think MtG have completely removed interrupts anyway nowadays?), only interrupts could
be playedhappen in between paying the mana cost and the card coming into play (typically, a Counterspell is an interrupt, for that very reason).This is correct for the rules as they were back then: Interrupts were the only cards that could be played in response to anything. Instants could be played at any time (including during an opponent's turn) and happened "faster" than other non-Interrupts. Summons, Sorceries, Enchantments, and Lands could only be played on your turn and not during combat.
The current rules have a more rigidly defined stack concept and have, as mentioned, gotten rid of Interrupts. Instants now go on the stack and are resolved as they are popped off of it, so they can counter other effects still on the stack.
Anywho, I played Blue back then and had a set of Doppelgangers and Clones. I don't think I ever tried to play one without a card in play to copy. I'm pretty sure we picked the copied card as it was played, before Interrupts happened. (Under the current rules you wouldn't pick until it was popped off the stack and resolved.)
Hopefully I haven't screwed anything up; it's been a long time since I played regularly. :)
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@remi said in Fun with maps:
think the wording I was used to was the one of the Alpha edition, though I never played it (who actually did?).
Though I think my Doppelganger is a Beta edition card.
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@boomzilla said in Fun with maps:
Though I think my Doppelganger is a Beta
It's submissive and asks permission before copying another card?
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@Arantor said in Fun with maps:
@LaoC my wife’s German, does that count?
Maybe she has an opinion on whether to split a "Spaß mit Karten" thread off the "Spaß mit Karten" thread?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT5GpFnRMEQ
(also things that remind you of members)
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@boomzilla it's no joke the big spiky ocean thing is what killed Amelia Earhart.
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@Gurth said in Fun with maps:
a feature the Kiribati government capitalized upon as a potential tourist draw.
But did it work?
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@hungrier said in Fun with maps:
@Atazhaia said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
This is what happens when a Vaporeon swallows the ocean...
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@Gąska said in Fun with maps:
@dkf said in Fun with maps:
@boomzilla The bit in the middle should be marked SUPER LARGE DEATH VALLEY: NOBODY GOES HERE.
Australia or USA?
Australia.
In the USA we use death mountains by and largeyou, tbf largely death foothillshear, most of the valleys clock in fairly low on the threatdownbanjos. The eponymous Death Valley can be safely discarded as an outlier.
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@boomzilla surprised you found the time...
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@Carnage ew, cucumber.
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Google Maps can be embedded in other web sites. It's possible to oddly fuck that up:
Something is wrong near the meridian. But also at 10°E and at 20°E...
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@BernieTheBernie
That's your fault for running an adblocker
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@izzion
It didn't block any swear words ...Also: whatever it's tracking I seem to be smack in the middle of a hotspot.
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@Luhmann said in Fun with maps:
whatever it's tracking
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@Gurth Frogs don't move very fast. They're not toads, after all!
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@dkf said in Fun with maps:
@Gurth Frogs don't move very fast. They're not toads, after all!
(I think you have that the other way around, but I'll roll with it)
On the other hand, they move by themselves. They are not towed.
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@dkf My experience is frogs moves quite fast while toads just stand still in one spot and gives you stuff.
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@Atazhaia Cane toads are known to move pretty quickly in Australia, and they're so vile that the local wildlife has taken to leaving them alone (for the most part; the ones who don't learn that end up poisoned).
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@dkf said in Fun with maps:
@Gurth Frogs don't move very fast. They're not toads, after all!
Ever tried to catch a frog with your bare hands? They might sit still for long times if they have no reason to move, but when they do move, like as soon as you touch the frog, it’s not usually slow.
(Turns out it is easier to use a small box: set it diagonally behind the frog and tilt it forward until it covers the frog, because it apparently doesn’t see that as a threat. Then slide a piece of cardboard under the box. I’ve had to do this a couple of times to save a frog from one of my cats, which is why I had to develop a technique for it.)
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@Gurth said in Fun with maps:
Ever tried to catch a frog with your bare hands? ... I had to develop a technique for it.
Tsk. The recommended method is to feed it full of birdshot so as to weigh it down.
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@Luhmann said in Fun with maps:
@izzion
It didn't block any swear words ...Also: whatever it's tracking I seem to be smack in the middle of a hotspot.
Yes, we know. Brussels is a bad swamp. And the frogs like it as much as €U bureaucrats.
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@boomzilla Passes over an upside-down map of the Russian north coast
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EDIT: Someone made an alternative version for a different country:
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IDELAND shudder
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@boomzilla ViM forever!
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@PleegWat said in Fun with maps:
@boomzilla ViM forever!
With GLOBAL integration and mouse support set up, it makes a decent IDE.
I like Ikeland.
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@Zerosquare You made my son and leave the room. Thank you.
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Don't remember if this has already been posted or not:
How A Spectacular Piece Of Pedantry Created An International Enclave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT5GpFnRMEQ
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@Zerosquare said in Fun with maps:
Don't remember if this has already been posted or not:
How A Spectacular Piece Of Pedantry Created An International Enclave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT5GpFnRMEQWhat I got from that is that this forum is fit for a long.
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@boomzilla That's actually a sausage map of France!
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@BernieTheBernie said in Fun with maps:
@boomzilla said in Fun with maps:
North Korea not excluded
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@BernieTheBernie I don't see any sausage. Or maybe some, if you count salami as sausage, but the ham and cured ham are clearely not sausages.
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@Bulb It's WURST to me anyway!
(In German we say "ist mir wurst" meaning "i do not care" or "it's the same")
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@BernieTheBernie said in Fun with maps:
North Korea not excluded
You can actually visit North Korea as a foreigner. Granted, this is probably not a Good Idea, and you'll only see what the authorities want you to see, but technically you can.