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Envisioner
2014-02-07 15:02 UTC
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Any player who never has that scenario come up isn't playing enough (or just doesn't like to play against Voss).
Any player who never has that scenario come up isn't playing enough (or just doesn't like to play against Voss).
Your evocation of the law of large numbers is the same rational that keeps gamblers poor
which is funny considering how much he's argued against certain statistic things being 'so low chance you shouldn't worry about them' or similar statements.
*gets popcorn* Well this is gonna be interesting.
*steals some of Drakossozh's popcorn*
*acquires ice cream, steals some popcorn, flicks popcorn at Silverleaf*
*sets up a game of Sentinels in the corner*
*is done with the conversation, so doesn't really know what the popcorn's for, but sticks around to watch with mild curiosity*
Popcorn, ice cream and Sentinels? Could this day get any better?
*Brings the Tacos*
What is this party for?
Fun and heroics!
Right? 
Omgtacos!
It got better.
I lost track about six posts ago. Can I have a taco?
Sorry to disappoint, folks...I had no intention of arguing this statistics thing, because it doesn't really pertain to this issue. A game of SOTM is not a roulette wheel...heroes' HP starts the game at a predetermined amount, so there are relatively narrow ranges of possible outcomes. In a sufficiently large number of SOTM games, it's extremely probable that Voss will end up double-punching a hero at some point...it's built into the game's mechanics, especially with characters like the Scholar that are built for tanking, and cards like Smoke Bombs that encourage players to stay at the same HP total. The text of the cards, not exclusively luck, will be what determines whether this situation arises...if you fight Voss more than twice or thrice, it's extremely likely you'll see this happen, or at least be able to tell that it could have.
Someone doesn't understand statistics at all.
Whoever's been breaking off these off-track conversations into their own topics is doing a great job. Keep it up! It's fun to see a new topic appear with a crazy title like "let's argue about statistics" or "discussions about grammar" and think "why would someone want to do something like that?" only to realize that it had already happened in another thread. Plus, it helps to keep things neat and clean around here, which I'm sure our mothers would all appreciate.
Yay, go moderators! (Or whoever it is.)
One thing about the break-outs though, they tend to start mid-stream (of course). This one, for example, references a scenario that we can't see because it's still back in the original thread. If you weren't following the original topic thread, you may have a hard time figuring out what the heck is going on. Maybe there's some way to indicate when a thread is a break-off from some other one so people won't be disoriented.
I just noticed that I've now gone off-topic in an off-topic thread. How meta...
Its me. Its always me... :)
Yeah, it would be nice if the break-off thread automatically referenced the originating thread. However, the power to split threads (with which I am already going mad) was brought to me by Joel writing a custom plugin for our forum, and adding other features like that is farther down on the priority list than other Super Important Website Programmy Projects from Joel.
Is anyone keeping statistics on the broken off threads?
Their usefullness would just be argued to no end.
Look at that. I feel like this use of "their" would do well in the grammar thread haha
Shouldn't this topic now be split, since it now talking about Paul's descent into madness with the power to split topics?
S.I.W.P.P.
See what F.I.L.T.E.R. has done, everytime I read a post from an Admin I trun things into Acronyms.
I read "Power to Split Tacos."
I was like "OMG, it's Taco Jesus!"
Imagine my dissapointment.
If Jesus was involved with tacos, I'd have to seriously reconsider my atheism.
Tacos are already divine morsels. Are you sure he didn't die for our tortilla salvation? Much less depressing than the whole "sins" angle IMO
Speaking of tacos! I just ate 10 of them for lunch. So delicious!
Hmmm, people seem to think spliting tacos is divine but I can split tacos, is this my previously undiscovered superpower?
Little known fact:
Jesus turned water into wine, and fish and loaves into fish tacos.
Seriously, his name is Jesus, he probably built a taco stand in his teens. When I lived in Chicago there was a kid who worked a taco cart whose name was Jesus, I think he may have been related, those tacos were awesome.
When splitting posts, maybe you could just edit the first post (of the newly-created split-thread) and insert a line to the effect of "This post was split from X thread"?
Incidentally, I've never eaten a taco. I think they're more of an American thing though, aren't they? Originating in Mexico?
Incidentally, I've never eaten a taco.
Really?? That is kind of shocking and amazing to me! Have you eaten pizza? What about hamburgers?
Lol yes I've eaten pizza (mmm...Domino's...and also, Frankie and Benny's omg yum :D)...and hamburgers ;). Can't remember the last time I had the latter since if I'm having a burger these days it's usually chicken. My last pizza was erm...a couple of weeks ago. My partner and I tend to have pizza on one or two nights when one of us is round the other's house. So probably not till next weekend as he's busy this weekend and we'll only be seeing each other for a few hours on Monday.
This is one of many deficiencies with this forum software, compared to Simple Machine Forums or PHPBB. In addition to having better subscription functions, which can find all the threads you've ever posted in rather than only the ones you personally started, it also has Quote buttons which automatically include a link to the quoted post, which remains on-target even if the quoting post is later Split into a separate topic. As it stands, while I or a mod could find the original post that this split off from, then edit my split-off post to include a link, doing so would have to be done by hand, a tedious and laborious process (which, in my case, would be further complicated by my browser's tendency to crash on this website).
EDIT: To be clear, this is not a criticism of CajunJoel; I'm sure he's doing the best he can with the software he put together. I'm just saying that if the forum had originally been founded on some other platform, it might well have been more stable and convenient than it has turned out to be, but I completely accept that there must have been reasons why it was done the way it was. If this was the Wizards of the Coast website, I'd be (and was!) far more critical of the shortcomings of their software, because I expect a large company like Hasborg to have the resources to do better. >G gets a pass on a lot of things I wouldn't put up with elsewhere, by virtue of being like five people who have consistently proven their general excellence…I don't fault them for being less than perfect, since they're already a lot closer than many people ever try to be.
Taco Bell has probably not been as successful overseas as McDonald's and Dominos have been…this may be silly of me, but I have a feeling that nobody but Americans would stand for such low-quality Mexican food. And places that make high-quality Mexican food don't have the billions of dollars you need to franchise into multiple countries on other continents. (Which is a sad comment on the effectiveness of quantity-over-quality corporatism.)
I have heard of Taco Bell…do you have Taco Bell restaurants over there then? Is that a thing? Because I've never seen one here - I don't even know if we have Taco Bell here. But that's fine because we have Harvester and stuff :D.
We have no Taco Bell. And, frankly, I'd trade Harvester of Taco Bell in a heartbeat.
I have had tacos, though. Like, twice.
We have people that own taco trucks that drive around and sell their little bits of heaven all over.
We have Taco Bars (like one near me that is amazing) where you drink and eat Tacos.
Taco bell is for desperation tacos, when you are out of ingredients (through criminal lack of planning) and other places are too expensive or closed, or for game nights when no one wants to make 40 tacos.
I've had tacos a couple of times. Wasn't that impressed, although I do like Mexican food. Don't know what's going on there, but I'd rather have enchiladas.
Of the tacos I have eaten I would put the ratio of those I have liked and those I have eaten at 1:1. I buy the 'make at home' Old El Paso kits in supermarkets for when family comes round but I am 50% sure that they are not 'proper' tacos. If I had a pie chart (Mmmm pie) of times I have made tacos and times I have made too many it would be filled with a single colour.
If >G ever comes to Pittsburgh for some reason I'll make Chicken and Steak Tacos (seperate, not mixed) that are awesome for everyone. They aren't my recipe, got them in chicago from a co-worker who was Cuban.
For whatever reason, Dayton is gifted with some great family-owned Mexican restaurants around the city.
Mmmm…chorizo…
My favorite things at Taco Bell are the Caramel Apple Empanada, which is just gooey and delicious deep-fried crispy awesomeness, and the three varieties of what I think they call Mini-Grillers or something, which sell for a dollar apiece during "Happier Hour" (weekday afternoons, which is usually when I'm out and about anyway).
Weirdly, I've seen at least two Taco Bell franchises in my area close recently. I'm accustomed to thinking of them as a giant evil company and therefore indestructible, but it seems as though they must be struggling a bit compared to other chains.
It was very exciting when my home town got a Taco Bell when I was a kid. Don't know if there were any other Mexican restaurants – we didn't eat out much. On very rare occassions my mom would make tacos for dinner. I'm not sure if that started before or after we got the Taco Bell. My parents grew up in LA, so I might presume that they had Mexican food growing up, but I'm not sure how prevalent it was in the 40s and 50s.
I've seen... one? Taco Bell here. I think? But I have eaten tacos. I just made them myself.