General Game Discussion

StrangerCoug · Post Post #13 (isolation #0) » Sat Jul 30, 2016 3:41 pm

My Skype is the same name as pretty much everywhere: strangercoug

StrangerCoug · Post Post #53 (isolation #1) » Sun Jul 31, 2016 12:51 pm

In post 52, racefan12 wrote:And I couldn't figure out where to put the join link in the standalone Skype program.

I don't think you do. Open the standalone Skype program, then click the link while you're signed in.

Oh, it looks like somebody took care of that while I was typing

StrangerCoug · Post Post #107 (isolation #2) » Tue Aug 02, 2016 4:45 am

I think nobody gives a damn

*gets stabbed*

StrangerCoug · Post Post #129 (isolation #3) » Fri Aug 05, 2016 4:48 am

In post 124, mastin2 wrote:I actually thought our score was a good one.

I thought ours middle of the road thereabouts.

StrangerCoug · Post Post #150 (isolation #4) » Sat Aug 06, 2016 4:56 am

In post 148, Realeo wrote:I am sorry. We millenial kids don't watch old movie.

*forces you to watch every movie that was considered cool before 1980 or so*

StrangerCoug · Post Post #159 (isolation #5) » Sun Aug 07, 2016 5:15 am

In post 156, Realeo wrote:
In post 151, zakk wrote:^ Star Wars

I rest my case.
Star Wars is just a /hype. Imagine Star Wars first movie is produced on 2016.

#totalFlop

I mean really, why waste 2.5 movies to show who is the Darth Vader?

I never said you had to like what I was showing you

StrangerCoug · Post Post #290 (isolation #6) » Fri Sep 02, 2016 9:37 pm

Mods: Please note sig.

StrangerCoug · Post Post #295 (isolation #7) » Sun Sep 04, 2016 9:25 am

Mod: Able to use my desktop again.

StrangerCoug · Post Post #315 (isolation #8) » Wed Sep 14, 2016 7:22 am

*laughs at the people trying to unscrew themselves when they know they're screwed*

StrangerCoug · Post Post #354 (isolation #9) » Tue Sep 27, 2016 4:02 am

I feel like there should be a demotivator from trying to spell phony words. Wouldn't know how to do it, though.

ETA:

Perhaps checking after each move whether the spelled letters

COULD

spell a word, but that increases mod work.

StrangerCoug · Post Post #356 (isolation #10) » Tue Sep 27, 2016 4:28 am

Theoretically, yes. The problem I perceive the game has having is showing up when people know they're screwed, so they put a letter they know won't spell a word (or, in a couple of cases that have happened, even a non-letter symbol). That prolongs the game, and it's dragging enough as it is. It actually makes me feel glad I've already been eliminated.

StrangerCoug · Post Post #359 (isolation #11) » Tue Sep 27, 2016 10:31 am

In post 358, racefan12 wrote:Bluffing is part of the game.

Then why are they being made and called at such a high rate? I understand people picking letters that spell out uncommon words to try to draw an unsuccessful challenge, but unless I have a fundamental misunderstanding of the spirit of the game...

StrangerCoug · Post Post #362 (isolation #12) » Tue Sep 27, 2016 10:43 am

In post 360, Save The Dragons wrote:I don't know if having it happen a lot here means it's not appropriate for the game. I suspect that it isn't often that a bluff works overall, but not every hearts game includes attempting to shooting the moon.

Good point.

StrangerCoug · Post Post #382 (isolation #13) » Thu Oct 06, 2016 11:14 am

...only 1.) Neither Jeopardy! nor Wheel of Fortune are any longer network game shows and 2.) Wheel airs at 6:30 PM where I live.

StrangerCoug · Post Post #386 (isolation #14) » Thu Oct 06, 2016 12:57 pm

In post 384, zoraster wrote:he's being pedantic. They're syndicated shows, not network. Technically.

This.

StrangerCoug · Post Post #388 (isolation #15) » Fri Oct 07, 2016 5:26 am

I know Jeopardy's only a half-hour long.

StrangerCoug · Post Post #476 (isolation #16) » Wed Jan 18, 2017 4:50 pm

*sings the Jeopardy! theme as loudly as possible and deliberately off-key*

StrangerCoug · Post Post #498 (isolation #17) » Mon Jan 30, 2017 3:11 pm

I liked the variety of game types. The only serious qualm I have other than my bad luck is how long the competition took—I agree with zoraster that it shouldn't go over three months.

Being one myself by then, I felt that having the eliminated players provide scenes for Scenes from a Hat was fun for me. I wouldn't be against something like that happening again.