Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[overgeeked]

Talk like that is why you don't get an In-N-Out Burger. (Seriously, you want Southern California's food, I promise.)

Especially the Mexican food. Canada should annex the coasts. That would sort most of it.

 

[FrogReaver]

Highlander II /discussion

I’m confused. I thought their could only be 1.

 

[Umbran]

"I can't have an opinion on it, I haven't read it," is the least interesting possible opinion, by some definition/s of "interesting."

"I don't have to have an opinion on everything," however, is one of the wisest opinions to have.

 

[Maxperson]

If you got yourself a Babblefish, you wouldn't be having a problem understanding the fish.

 

[Maxperson]

Talk like that is why you don't get an In-N-Out Burger. (Seriously, you want Southern California's food, I promise.)

We do have us some great food of all types.

 

[MNblockhead]

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.

"Hey! What are you doing?!"

"Chasing away the grues."

If they laugh, I know I've found my demographic: old 80s era nerd.

 

[MNblockhead]

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?

Nothing says coming home like a game day with old friends.

 

[MNblockhead]

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.

I do the same thing, or kinda stare off into space. What I'm asked about / accused of is not, however, photographic memory.

For me it is less related to books and more that I am a big user of mind-mapping and flow-chart tools. I'm also like this with direction. I have a terrible natural sense of direction but am good at reading maps. When I move to, or will have to spend some time in, a new area, I'll buy a physical map and study it for a while. I can commit major neighborhoods, landmarks, and highways and important streets to memory, so even if I get turned around, I know, generally, where I am. But I can drive in a place for long time with GPS and will never pick up the lay of the land. Also, for some reason, zooming out in google maps doesn't do it. I think it is because most digital map tools remove and add text labels and other info as you zoom out. A PDF of a map would likely do the trick, but I still like to have physical maps to learn an area and to keep in the glovebox as a backup.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Talk like that is why you don't get an In-N-Out Burger. (Seriously, you want Southern California's food, I promise.)

There’s SoCal cuisine I like. But In-N-Out burgers? Y’all can keep ‘em.

 

[Autumnal]

"I don't have to have an opinion on everything," however, is one of the wisest opinions to have.

This is from Gene Wolfe conducting a self-interview:

Q: You have the reputation of being one of the nicest guys in the field. We both know you’re a hyena on its hind legs. How have you fooled everyone?

A: By keeping my mouth shut when I read garbage.

Q: Have you found that difficult?

A: No. I’m constantly running into people who’ve read bad books clean to the end. I admire them more than I can say, but I can’t do that—when I get naughty word in my eyes I close them fast and cry.

Q: You also throw the book at the wall and scare the dog.

A: Yeah. And then when somebody asks me how I liked the book, I say I haven’t read it, because it’s really not fair for me to judge without finishing the book. Maybe the last nine-tenths is marvelous. But I doubt it.