Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Maxperson]

I've entered enough rooms like that and flipped on the lights only to get yelled at, "hey what are you doing!?" to know to ask before acting. It is a little weird that after asking and finding out its darker for no apparent reason they just go with it though.

Yeah. Ask because someone might have a migraine or something. If it had been me the exchange would have been something like....

Me: "Why is it so dark in here?"

Hussar: "Because I missed one of the switches when I walked in and just sat down."

(click Me turning on the light because no one cares and I like light)

Me: "Let there be light!" because I'm a smartass and just can't help myself.

 

[Maxperson]

Had a nice weekend. A little over a year ago I moved away from my home state to an adjacent one. While I've been able to get a D&D game going with some of my new friends which has been wonderful, I haven't had much luck finding a new play group for Magic: The Gathering. Back home I had a dedicated group of friends, and we would (They still do) meet at least monthly to play at a brewery.

I went back this last weekend to visit and we put together a draft. One of my friends got a box of Modern Horizons 2 and we had ten people show up to draft it! I did horribly. Draft is possibly my favorite way to play MTG, but I'm really, really bad at it. I just have no ability to pick cards. I ended up putting together a Black/Blue Discard deck, and while I had plenty of discard synergy.. It ended up being mostly enabling effects, and not enough payoffs for them.

0-2 Round one.
2-0 Round two.
0-2 Round three.

All in all I had a blast. Hung out with some old friends. Drank a lot of really good beer. Four of us got together and ended up staying up until midnight playing commander that evening too. I also made time to visit my parents, my grandmother.

Did I miss any really fun threads while I was away?

I like draft. I LOVE sealed. At this point when I do play, I won't play constructed. Glad you had fun!

 

[payn]

Yeah. Ask because someone might have a migraine or something. If it had been me the exchange would have been something like....

Me: "Why is it so dark in here?"

Hussar: "Because I missed one of the switches when I walked in and just sat down."

(click Me turning on the light because no one cares and I like light)

Me: "Let there be light!" because I'm a smartass and just can't help myself.

Id go with "Aziz light!!" myself, but yeah.

 

[Meech17]

I like draft. I LOVE sealed. At this point when I do play, I won't play constructed. Glad you had fun!

Yeah, Limited has become my favorite way to play MTG these days. I've found a really nice LGS where I live now and I've gone for several events. I always have a blast at pre-release or other limited events, but EDH night tends to be a crapshoot.

I find that I tend to perform better at sealed, which leads me to believe that I'm decent at deck construction.. It's really just the card selection I struggle with.

 

[Ryujin]

Id go with "Aziz light!!" myself, but yeah.

This quote comes up at least once every couple of months, at work.

 

[Maxperson]

Yeah, Limited has become my favorite way to play MTG these days. I've found a really nice LGS where I live now and I've gone for several events. I always have a blast at pre-release or other limited events, but EDH night tends to be a crapshoot.

I find that I tend to perform better at sealed, which leads me to believe that I'm decent at deck construction.. It's really just the card selection I struggle with.

Yeah. Draft is harder, because not only do you need to recognize the good cards, but you also have to be able to recognize which colors are being drafted by the people to either side of you by the lack of decent cards of specific colors. One tactic is to force the neighbor into a color by passing the best card in the first pack opened and taking the next best one instead.

 

[trappedslider]

Odd lunchtime conversation.

I enter the teacher's room first, miss one of the two light switches and only turn on one of the lights. Not terribly fussed about it, I sit down and eat my lunch while reading my laptop. 5 minutes later, fellow teacher comes in and comments about how the room is dark.

"Yes, I missed the switch on the way in. The switch you just walked passed in order to come and tell me how dark it is in the room."

Said teach proceeds to sit down and eat her lunch.

5 minutes later, Teacher 2 enters the room and asks why we are sitting in the dark.

"I missed the light switch that is five inches from your elbow on the way into the room. You can turn on the light if you like."

"Oh, I thought the light was burned out." Proceeds to sit down without turning on the light.

"It's really dark in here."

Sometimes I just have no words for how happy I am that I am an independent contractor and don't have co-workers.

I've entered enough rooms like that and flipped on the lights only to get yelled at, "hey what are you doing!?" to know to ask before acting. It is a little weird that after asking and finding out its darker for no apparent reason they just go with it though.

Yeah. Ask because someone might have a migraine or something. If it had been me the exchange would have been something like....

Me: "Why is it so dark in here?"

Hussar: "Because I missed one of the switches when I walked in and just sat down."

(click Me turning on the light because no one cares and I like light)

Me: "Let there be light!" because I'm a smartass and just can't help myself.

This just makes me think about how almost every website now has a dark mode.

 

[payn]

This just makes me think about how almost every website now has a dark mode.

For some reason, I first read that as "has a dark web mode"...

 

[Mad_Jack]

I expect most of us have experienced this effect. When you are trying to look up something in a hardcopy document you've referenced before, like the PHB - maybe you looked in the index for a page number, but maybe you just flipped through the book until you found the page that looked right. Your brain stored how the information you wanted was right after that page with a picture in the upper-right corner, or the like.

That association gives you an extra handle on the data that can aid retention even when you don't have the book at hand. This is one reason wny good graphic design in our game books is about more than whether a particular piece of art is to our liking. The graphic design provides the "landmarks" upon which we build our mental maps.

For me, retaining information, especially game rules, is something that contains both visual and somatic components (pun intended)... My mind tends to index information in rule books not primarily by chapter number or page numbers but by retaining a "physical map" of the book itself - by the time I've read a particular game rule enough times to learn it well, I can pick up that book without looking at it and open it up to within one or two pages of the one it's on.
I can also tell you which facing of the physical page it's on and most of the time which paragraph you want: "Find the chapter on Combat, flip three pages in, it's on the back of the last page you flipped, right-hand column, three quarters of the way down, second paragraph in that section..."
I'm often asked if I have some sort of "photographic" memory because, when recalling information to mind, it helps me to close my eyes and physically make the gestures of flipping through the book. Or, when remembering scenes/dialogue from a movie, I start by going to the mental representation of the shelves and stacks of my dvd collection and making the motions of sorting through them to find the film and rewinding/fastforwarding by making circular motions with my finger.

 

[Gradine]

It never fails to amaze (and, honestly, depress) me what things end up being controversial