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On a related note I now have that vid's slogan stuck in my head. "Science it's a Girl thing. Science . . ." I guess one thing they got right was the focus on chemistry and physics stuff. The Biology boat is already filled with girls.

Create the South America one.

BBQs smell better than they taste.

It was honestly Frances game to win until they decided that England was a threat. I had no intention of breaking the alliance with France before that point. I pretty much had the worst alliance ever with both Germany and France hemming me in. But thank you to everyone for playing.

Yeah, I didn't have enough left to stop him at Stalingrad, or push west. Apologies to my Turkish ally.

I think it depends a lot on what you have used your card for in the past. I traveled down to California (from Canada) a few days ago and used my card here and there, but nobody at VISA called me. Unusual is the key word, I believe, not price.

Originally Posted By: Randomizer The group I played with was passive/aggressive about letting in players that most of the group couldn't stand. This resulted in D&D games where some players would die repeatedly so they would leave for a while to make a new character. Or a night of new character creation where players tried to outdo each other in creating the worst characters. While most of us got along, we had a few that it would have been better if we had just banned for good. I once had a DD group super mad at me because i decided to have my character go off and sleep during a major combat. I don't know, I found it funny. And besides, they all got slaughtered any way.

That guy is a jerk. Respect in this case would be NOT turning the cat into something it wasn't. Cats I am sure have no desire to be helicopters. You want to Taxidermy the animal fine, but why change it. If you change it, and keep it around, you didn't have respect or love for the original, and therefore should not have had it. "Oh, I always loved Mom in life. In fact, I think now that she's dead I'll swap her head for a flower pot, yeah, that will be an awesome memorial"

I do play games to win most of the time, just not always. But it's the time spent with friends that I value not the game itself. I could think of numerous better things to do at times than playing Risk or Diplomacy again, but if everyone wants to do it I'm always game. I couldn't care less what the activity is, it's the people doing it that matter. I find that most people do not share this attitude, and instead say no to way too many opportunities. But if you say No enough times, people stop asking.

Why break the rules? Because most people follow them and therefore there is great benefit in doing the opposite. In my opinion, one of the funner things about board-games is just messing with people. I don't always play games to win, I play to create chaos among friends . . . and I must say it amuses me greatly. I mean, most games are pretty boring if played strictly by the book. I don't mean one needs to cheat, just do unconventional stuff to have an interesting game. I suppose I would call my playing style Chaotic Neutral. For example, I once let a friend and enemy in Risk get all of Asia just because it never happens and I found the idea amusing. I kept telling my ally (North America) that we should just "wait and see what happens" and that "there would be time to do something about it". Turns out there wasn't anything we could do about it, lol.

Oh, I thought that because my name showed up on my computer it showed up on everyones.

Sorry, but how does one join anonymously?

My thoughts: (I was Turkey) This is a very fun game. I played once before in person, but that wasn't so fun. I had a tough time remembering how pieces moved and exactly what can and cannot be done. On many occasions I second guessed myself because I didn't know what was possible from the opposing forces, and all those different coloured lines afterwards didn't help much. I also realized that the game doesn't count supply centres until the end of a year. I spent way too much time planning the last round because I thought it wouldn't matter if England got Munich—I thought that would be supply centre 17. But all around I enjoyed the game.

This might help too: How to Hit This question comes up often enough that there should be a sticky for it.

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Yeah, I don't understand what's happening in Gunnerkrigg. Maybe I need to start at the beginning.

Originally Posted By: Nioca Agreed. It's strategy, plain and simple. Yes, exactly what I was thinking. It's a perfect game to to play by correspondence.

I would prefer France to just quit entirely, if that's possible, and leave the territories to whoever. It would at least mean speedy turns. I don't mind losing. BTW: Gunboat is a fun version of this game.

Originally Posted By: Lilith Originally Posted By: Dintiradan Besides, most people seem to think that the "papers stapled together" style of thesis is an anti-pattern. it makes for a bad thesis but good papers. guess which one is more important to your career in the long run Yeah, go for papers. But it doesn't matter if you don't publish them right away. It's the layout and style that matters. The best advice I ever received was to forget about writing a thesis and focus on writing papers in the same style that a journal would like them to be in. This takes the focus away from writing a book and puts the focus on writing chapters, which coincidentally is more or less how a thesis turns out in the end. I admit that if your individual research projects are not related in some way, this approach will be difficult, if not impossible. But if you can do it, the only thing you need to add to your thesis is an introduction and a discussion that ties everything together. Of course my advice is based on research in the natural sciences (Biology: Ecology) so you may be hindered by things I don't have to deal with. Originally Posted By: Randomizer It depends upon the papers. If all the papers are unrelated then it would be hard to merge them into a thesis. Also same experiment is repeated with different samples. What you want is to expand the paper in more detail than publications would allow unless you are already famous or it's a major discovery. I wouldn't expand the paper at all. Short and to the point is a much better read than long and wandering. Ask your committee, I suppose.

Originally Posted By: Student of Trinity Have you made a detailed outline of your thesis? Having that is supposed to help with writing it, because then you can see steady progress, instead of it being this infinitely giant project. Creating the outline itself is, of course, no easy task. But the outline kind of generates its own outline. You can sketch out names for the chapters in a few minutes. Then you list sections in one of the chapters in another few minutes, and so on. Once you've got chapters and sections of chapters, then that's the outline for the detailed outline. Don't write a thesis, write papers.

It's only a problem if your work or whatever is suffering because of the distractions. If they are, than stop being distracted.

Originally Posted By: Schoolin' Salmon Anyone else think it's odd that the Finns are the one nationality who have established themselves as a sub-group of webbers? And I don't count Canadians because honestly, who believes that that is a real country? Originally Posted By: Dintiradan Not even us Canadians. Our minds are of course infected by American ideas and customs, more so know that Stephen Harper is king. Geography is unkind indeed. And just so I don't get banned for that, I'll add that all I'm saying is that it's hard for a smaller nation with a young history to avoid becoming much like a nearby large nation, especially with an open border for both communication and travel.

Originally Posted By: Sylae Originally Posted By: VCH Just because someone says something hurtful about you in the "heat of the moment" doesn't mean they necessarily believe what they said. Gender and homophobic slurs are common missiles to sling because they are good pointy projectiles no matter who you aim them at. I may smash you in the face with a rock during a fight, but that doesn't mean I want to continue smashing you afterwards. So that means it's okay to drop racial slurs if I ever get in an argument with a black person? No matter what way you cut it, the metaphorical face has been smashed, whether or not you would continue smashing is irrelevant. A rock thrown is a rock thrown. Trenton said something very insulting. We can give him the benefit of the doubt and say that he didn't know it was insulting (which, let's be honest, he obviously did know), but after he was informed that it was insulting, he went and did it again. No, it's not OK, but it will happen. The natural reaction when hurt is to hurt back. People on the outside need to think about things they've said at one time or another to get back at someone; maybe they were crude remarks maybe more calculated, the point is, this [censored] happens. It's only a problem if its persistent and from the same person. For the slurs or hurtful phrases to change, and I am adamant that they will only change from one thing to another, we need to focus on accepting people and their choices. However, I doubt this change will come from "banning" words/thoughts/expressions. That only makes them stronger and more hurtful. Disclaimer: Of course these boards should be a place that everyone feels safe. Thus, the mods have the responsibility to judge things on a case by case basis and make appropriate actions.

The Nephilim win because they have goblin allies. Also they can use long-bows, whereas the Sliths can use only javelins as ranged weapons. Moreover, the Nephil, being mammals have the advantage of being warm-blooded which allows them to move around in the colder caves of Avernum. The Sliths in comparison are restricted to the warmest locales.

Originally Posted By: Randomizer The idea is to come here and express views without insulting other posters. Sometimes this is not so easy . . . no?