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Best WTF yet.
Kickstart is RTWTF, am I right?
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frist backer here
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Today is June 3rd, not April 1st.
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Why the OS cards have UNO-like design?
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If there isn't a Paula Bean card, I will lose all faith in humanity.
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You might want to double check that Dan North card for likeness infringement with the Cartoon Network lawyers...
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Where it gets ridiculous.
"You're not allowed to satire the satire. It's copywrited!!!"
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As an MTG player I recommend you review existing game play mechanics to make the card instructions clear and concise. For example, the take a random card from any other player, can be confusing to the elite and newbies.
secundum
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KEEP THE RULES AS CLEAR. CONCISE. AND CONSISTENT AS POSSIBLE. THE LESS RULES THE BETTER.
That said this game is for fun and not for elitist bullhockey. No one is trying to munchkin here.
Captcha plaga: Too many rules are a plaga on card games.
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Exactly!
And just in case, there's an alternate Dan card that I drew that didn't make the cut...mostly because megalomaniacs are cooler than most other things.
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Will this game be designed using the FAD-methodology? I'd definitely back it in that case!
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Yes, definitely a good point. The two "complexities" outside of the standard trick trade is variable scoring and special/face cards. For "beginner play" (i.e. never played any trick trade game before), we will suggest to use the face cards only for their number/suit (i.e. no special rules).
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Re: "Did you know that no synonyms for shipping start with 'R'? We do now." -- How about "Reposition product on globe"!
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Are the official game forums run on Discourse?
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I will send you $1.00
Thanks for the play.
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Stupid question is stupid...
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I see: so you can't even be trusted to get a simple thing like a new choice of forum software right, and yet we're supposed to believe that you can make the rules of a card game intelligible?
I don't think so.
Writing clear rules for a game of any type is an insanely difficult task. I'd almost rather write a Brainf*ck compiler.
In Brainf*ck.
Since TDWTF is doing everything in Pair Programming style these days, can I dare to hope that you have got Jeff Atwood and Yosemite Sam hard at work producing a "civilized" version of the rules?
"To pass a card to your left, use the keyboard shortcut 'H'..."
That I would pay cash money for.
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Okay, this post is deserving of the new threaded comment system!
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I was hoping for Card based Calvinball myself
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How about forum software based Calvinball? I'm pretty sure that's how they coded Discourse.....
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Incidentally, and I'm just asking, and I'd like to ask on the Discourse half of this brain because that would be the appropriate one if only I didn't get whacked by "this email already taken," as if that mattered for a second (not millionth spamming) login, but I can't, and as if I really wanted to sign up at all except that I wanted to make a few cogent objections to the entire concept of Discourse, not simply on TDWTF but even on sites that I hate and despise and wish fervently that they disappear, but even those sites don't deserve to have pre-alpha "bright reinventions featuring stupid vi shortcuts like slash for search" inflicted on them for community QA purposes, yet still ...
... I've forgotten what I was going to say.
Oh yes.
The only possible way that I can see "Discourse" driving "a civilized conversation" is by actively encouraging us unshaven, unwashed, and generally naughty people away entirely. It hasn't done that yet. So far it appears to have encouraged the least "civilized," yet if I am honest, remarkably honest and knowledgeable, "discourse" with a small d I have seen in a very long while.
And whilst I am being fair to this ludicrous abortion of a project: I can guarantee that it will achieve its aim. And it will, despite what anybody claims, do so because of its PaulaBean intentions.
After all, if only fifty people can be bothered to fight their way through the system and comment, it doesn't really matter whether you use pagination or a lying "infinite" scroll with idiot floaties, does it? Both are equivalent.
Oh yes, I just remembered. That idiot green floatie?
Other "infinite scrolling" sites do it right, and have done for years. Think "cassette recorder." Fast wind back, fast wind forward. One track back, one forward. And, as a bonus, these ancient systems normally have the ability to pick a track number in the middle.
And that "52 of 45" WTF? Do you even realise what a WTF is?
Using Peano numbers, 52 is definitely a successor-successor... to 45.
How hard is it to just pick "45 of 45? Even if it's the wrong answer?
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Who did the art?
CAPTCHA: odio - Discourse is odio(us)
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Since I am violently opposed to all card games that do not use ordinary decks of cards, I will not be backing this. And I sincerely hope it fails.
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Crap, it's too late. The KS has already succeeded at 3x the goal. I fear for the fate of the world.
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Remember that 99% of software fails. If you're lucky it fails early, before the first developer gets hired. If you're less lucky, the project gets cancelled midway (in a large company) or the company goes bankrupt (in a small company). If the project survives that, the software gets released. Then before you know it, the software starts getting tested. Then finally the company goes bankrupt (in a small company) or it's too late to fix the bugs but customer feedback will be duly ignored in the next version (in a large company).
Ah, but what about the 1%? Then your software gets released, and it works, so a monopoly company comes along, makes a bad copy of it, and takes over your market.
So you shouldn't even try to release it. Quit while you're ahead.
However, this is a project that lends itself well to software. Let players participate in a LAN like Microsoft Hearts, or over the internet. When you get a big enough crowd, start charging for optional add-ons that no one needs for basic play, such as test before release.
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(http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/bonecrusher-loves-his-cat-food/436/118)
You don't track positioning for anonymous users. And I'd hardly expect you to. But. It means that we are forced to jump to the end of the thread and then scroll backwards to find where it was we were up to.
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(Yes I know that jumping to the end then scrolling up doesn't suffer from things being peeled off and then peeled back like scrolling down then scrolling up, I was more complaining about how terrible having to scroll up is in general. Should have paid more attention to everything I was quoting.)
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Hold on: it's been a while since I read Calvin & Hobbes, but as far as I remember the point of Calvinball was that you make up the rules along the way. Are you proposing Alex just distributes blank cards?
Captcha: vereor
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It's no "Cones of Dunshire"
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Heated bicycle handlebars sounds like an excellent idea to me. Some days are just so unbearably cold that the thickest gloves just can't hack the task. But driven from the pedals may not be adequate, because if you need to push the bike uphill a lot, your hands are going to get pretty cold by the time you've got to the top.
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The word is "copyright", as in: the right (or not) to copy.
"Copywrite" sounds like a word invented by someone whose writing technique consists of using ctrl-c and ctrl-v a lot.
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I just want to say, I don't like most card games, and this one falls into that category.
Now that the on topic stuff is there, Who knows when my last post will be... Only Alex knows, as I refuse to use the cthonic abomination that is discourse.
Oh and Alex, when at GenCon this year, we could meet up, I'm always here. Do you have a schedule to meet your fans while there? Perhaps a bar visit one night?
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I hope there is MFD characters/drawings slipped in.
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No, you're forced to use bookmarks, which will perfectly persist your location for any anonymous user. If you don't want to register, it's up to you to save your own place.
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Discourse is such a menagerie of bad ideas, I can only hope it sputters out after the early adopters move on to whatever bad idea is the new hawtness.
Sorry Jeff, but it's true.
Captcha: erat - please erat•icate Discourse
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"I know software isn't the most exciting game theme..." Well, it worked for Transistor. So there's that.
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Either way, it's more work for something that's supposed to be easier to use. I don't need to use bookmarks or scroll from either extreme (ignoring threads which only have a single page) in the old forums.
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Indeed.
"copywrite" is a legitimate word, and it means to write copy (as in advertising copy).
Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko
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Yes, and it also sounds like a word invented by someone whose writing technique consists of using ctrl-c and ctrl-v a lot.
Sincerely,
anonymous
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Kickstarter is for:
1)People who don't have the money to back their project 2)People who don't trust their project enough to back it themselves
I find it hard to believe Alex is in category 1)...
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Is there a LYLE card?
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very nice
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