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Bkeela is offline Bkeela
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It is much less effort to identify a forum game thread in its title, than for people like me who HATE such threads and RESENT them clogging this section, to work which is which by trial and error.

Who knows, maybe there are even forum game thread geeks who get disappointed to find a thread about actual game news?

To those who do clearly identify such threads - thanks.

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If it has a roman numeral in it, it's probably a game thread. Otherwise, deal with it.

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I thought this thread would be another game forum. Instead its a community-style complaint thread.

What a waste of my time.

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Please identify specific whining threads. I HATE and RESENT hearing about forum game thread hating geeks whine about forum games.

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Maybe all non-forum game threads should be clearly marked.

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If it has a roman numeral in it, it's probably a game thread.



"The Disease"? No they dont always have roman numerals, and of course some threads about PC games DO have roman numerals.

lord of the mark is offline lord of the mark
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Please identify specific whining threads. I HATE and RESENT hearing about forum game thread hating geeks whine about forum games.



thats not unreasonable - a thread ABOUT the forum could be identified with a tag - I suggest (meta) or [meta].

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Originally posted by Bkeela
It is much less effort to identify a forum game thread in its title, than for people like me who HATE such threads and RESENT them clogging this section, to work which is which by trial and error.

Who knows, maybe there are even forum game thread geeks who get disappointed to find a thread about actual game news?

To those who do clearly identify such threads - thanks.



Good idea - I agree.

Lets all play together nice, and respect each others preferences, shall we?


edit - and sorry for Arnelosing, but these were seperate response to seperate people.

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"The Disease"? No they dont always have roman numerals, and of course some threads about PC games DO have roman numerals.


Its a Tass game. I doubt it will get past round 1.
Most threads about computer games that have a roman numeral in them are because they are sequals, hence people have probably heard of the games prequals. Who is going to be interested in Doom III for instance if they had never heard of Doom at all?

Much ado about nothing.

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Who knows, maybe there are even forum game thread geeks who get disappointed to find a thread about actual game news?



But the forum game geeks participate in non-forum game threads more than you ever have since I have joined.

Perhaps they spend more time playing than whining.

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Its a Tass game. I doubt it will get past round 1.
Most threads about computer games that have a roman numeral in them are because they are sequals, hence people have probably heard of the games prequals. Who is going to be interested in Doom III for instance if they had never heard of Doom at all?



There might be a game where ive never heard of the original, but might be interested in a sequel - that happens when youre interested in relatively obscure areas, like history games, TBS, etc. You see Society IV, and figure there may be some game called Society, that youve simply never heard of - maybe it was a released by a tiny shop, maybe net only, maybe shareware - but it sounds interesting (yes i know Society IV or whatever is a forum game, cause I been around here)


I just dont see what the big deal is - How hard would it be to add the tag "FG", for forum game to the title of an FG thread? Why NOT do it?

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But the forum game geeks participate in non-forum game threads more than you ever have since I have joined.

Perhaps they spend more time playing than whining.



He needs to have a minimum post count in certain threads to make a (very modest) suggestion? He didnt whine, he made a suggestion. Whats the deal. Methinks some people have a really massive "chip on their shoulder"

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Actually, next game I host I will (if I remember) add the FG tag to the front of it. But it is quite a bit of effort when the only saving is to prevent people who don't want to play games in a social environment from wasting a few seconds of their time.

In other words, my gives a **** is broken.

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He needs to have a minimum post count in certain threads to make a (very modest) suggestion? He didnt whine, he made a suggestion. Whats the deal. Methinks some people have a really massive "chip on their shoulder"


Well if you think the tone was that of a modest suggestion then read again. That post was *guaranteed* to attract the kind of responses it did.

In the past when the case was reasonably made I did say (if you recall) that I thought it was a reasonable suggestion, albeit as a solution to a rather small problem.

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Actually, next game I host I will (if I remember) add the FG tag to the front of it. But it is quite a bit of effort when the only saving is to prevent people who don't want to play games in a social environment from wasting a few seconds of their time.

In other words, my gives a **** is broken.


Yeah, why not consolidate the MP and SP forums for each game?

Some people just enjoy a forum better when its well ordered, and they can glance at it and see whats interesting. Call me OCD if you like, clutter is annoying. If I had my druthers, we would have tags for board games, console games, and PC games, and for broader gaming issues. But I wont even suggest THAT level of compulsiveness on everyone - though i just might try to lead by example.

But forum games really are more different than just about any of the other things we discuss here. So it seems more reasonable to ask for a tag.


And by the way, not everyone who doesnt play forum games doesnt like gaming socially. I play board games regularly . Just not into forum games, thats all. And i presume there are people here who dont play forum games, but who do play MP games.

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But it is quite a bit of effort


Right.

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Well if you think the tone was that of a modest suggestion then read again. That post was *guaranteed* to attract the kind of responses it did.

In the past when the case was reasonably made I did say (if you recall) that I thought it was a reasonable suggestion, albeit as a solution to a rather small problem.


He gave HIS reactions, identifying them clearly as his. By way of rationale for his suggestion. I might have phrased things more diplomatically, but I can easily see a much more whining tones. Take a look at the "is civ3 crap" thread to get a sense of what whining around here sounds like.

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Just not into forum games, thats all.

I'm trying to troll here. Stop being reasonable.

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Just not into forum games, thats all.

I'm trying to troll here. Stop being reasonable.


Have you seen my replies to Paiktis in OT? As far as staying reasonable in response to trolls, now THATS a challenge. Comparitively, yours are like playing an SP game on a low level, compared to MP (to bring us back on topic )

By the way, I did try playing Mornington Crescent, so Im no purist - but I lost dismally

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The OT? Not if I can help it!
I know, I am also too reasonable.

Maybe I should call you a limey bastard.

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In that case, I call Cockfosters.

Sorry, got excited at the prospect of more MC, but it seems to have drifted away into the archives.

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I just dont see what the big deal is - How hard would it be to add the tag "FG", for forum game to the title of an FG thread? Why NOT do it?


I just don't see waht the big deal is - how much time does it take, opening a thread and then hitting the 'back' button?

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In that case, I call Cockfosters.

Sorry, got excited at the prospect of more MC, but it seems to have drifted away into the archives.


I thought it got slapped down as too spammy

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I just don't see waht the big deal is - how much time does it take, opening a thread and then hitting the 'back' button?


How about we just dont title threads at all then?

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The whole point of MC is to make a big deal over your move. I mena, you may have to wait a couple of days until your next turn, so you should be able to string out a simple shunt to Embankment into an essay discussing the relative merits of potential strategies for you and your opponents, consider the cultural background by comparing the current game to celebrated MC matches, and generally let your imagination run wild a bit.
It'd probably be better off in Stories and Diplomacy or whatever it's called, though as Major-General Hawpington-Smith referred to it in his titanic struggle against Lady Heloise Badminton in the 1865 tourney........

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though as Major-General Hawpington-Smith referred to it in his titanic struggle against Lady Heloise Badminton in the 1865 tourney........


must have been a titanic struggle, since if London Underground was even open that year(was it?) it was one line only.

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That just goes to show how difficult the Coxton shunting really is. Why, in 1876, when Lord Farthingworth was defending his title, he didn't let mere reality get in the way of moving to St Pauls. He wouldn't let the fact that the London Undergroud not being invented stop him from using the service.

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How about we just dont title threads at all then?


It's marketing. If you don't title your thread, you'll get less people. However, putting "FG" probably isn't going to attract many more.

 
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