Twitter Week: 2010-01-29

29 January 2010
Category: Twhit-Twhoo!

@frandallfarmer I don't believe either the new or the old sets of numbers. The polar ice-cap & glacier loss statistics are more compelling. in reply to frandallfarmer #
@BrenoKummel For 1848? I've yet to have a game in which all the companies weren't floated before the 5-trains. Why dawdle that long? #18xx in reply to BrenoKummel #
@BrenoKummel In an 1830-esque games I'll happily float then for the capital, but it will be a shit company. Train-feeder. #18xx in reply to BrenoKummel #
@BrenoKummel Capital multiplication (6->10) & stock appreciation. Open early & fast as long as you can get a good par. #18xx in reply to BrenoKummel #
@BrenoKummel: Running multiple companies well is HARD but also rewarding. Most players are bad at it. Something to learn & practice. #18xx #
Sometime in the last year I've become able to focus & concentrate at will so absolutely that it leaves me shaking when I pull out. Scary. #
It isn't the shakiness that frightens, but that the universe disappears except for my focus until I extract. It is so…absolute, so binary. #
I wonder, do I now need to promise to only use my new-found powers for good? #
@andsoerinsaid In someone else? Not sure. I suspect I only know how to say things which are true but don't help. #
@ingredientx: If we lived in the same state we might fulfill the LHC prophecy and implode the universe. #
@andsoerinsaid: I don't chew gum. I do like chewing raw cardamom pods. #
@Infernarl Similar to flow, but closer to tunnel-vision and a fair bit more intense and exhausting. It is debilitating. in reply to Infernarl #
@scottredracecar I found 18Ardennes insipid. Nothing actually compelling & little reason to play it again. Colourless. #18xx in reply to scottredracecar #
A small piece of encouragement for a friend whose professors have deviated below the mean: http://is.gd/7bXMe #
@scottredracecar Fair point. There were teaching errors in our game. But the corrections from David weren't encouraging. Shrug. #18xx in reply to scottredracecar #
Working on an article about stock-trashing in #18xx, when it is required for Good Play, & the reasoning behind its necessity. Suggestions? #
Looks like we're going to be doing an #18xx fiesta at DundraCon: http://www.dundracon.com/ 18C2C, 18FR-RCE etc – 3 days of good stuff. #
@thisdarkpen There is more to say than I'd expected. Genericy vs practice. #18xx in reply to thisdarkpen #
@scottredracecar Saw your post to David. Ditto our game. Games need imbalance to be interesting. #18xx in reply to scottredracecar #
@andsoerinsaid And people wonder why I almost exclusively read BGG via my subscriptions list. Just skip the blather (& thus most traffic). in reply to andsoerinsaid #
What Apple is really selling with the iPad: http://is.gd/7fgfT Next comes the seamless integration play that threatens most media markets. #
It isn't the #iPad stupid, it is the iPad+iPhone+iMac as a vertical solution. #
@jdludlow: Bugger, can't believe I wrote that rating comment. #
Come on guys, the #iPad isn't a laptop-wannabe or an iPhone++. It's a smart network device with a big screen & a million smart network-apps. #
@MidgardDragon No more than an unjail-broken iPhone. Red Herring & ignores subsequent market development and definition (and HTML5). #iPad in reply to MidgardDragon #
Given the public uncertainty on what it really offers, the name is a brilliant way to keep press coverage on the #iPad. #

Twitter Week: 2010-01-22

22 January 2010
Category: Twhit-Twhoo!

Ah, 5mil laminated #110 stock is almost as good as 5mil laminated #120 stock for making #18xx, but doesn't jam Office Max' printers. Win! #
@Infernarl Make sure you got the corrected Stock market for 1830 if you're using Peter Mumford's version. I'd do Coalfields next. #18xx in reply to Infernarl #
@Infernarl 18EU is also excellent. Hold back on 18FR until I release the new files. Ditto 18Kaas. 1812 may be good if you like 1861. #18xx in reply to Infernarl #
@Infernarl 18NEB art requires fixes. 1886 looks interesting. 1873 is pending English rules. 1857 & 1876 are iffy. 18NL, maybe. #18xx in reply to Infernarl #
18FR-RCE went well. Train roster isn't quite right. Going to be hard to know when they're right. Release to open play-test anyway? #18xx #
@andsoerinsaid Here Tobago is the game that gamers piteously beg other gamers to rescue them from. No joke. There was pleading & promises. in reply to andsoerinsaid #
@andsoerinsaid I sat out Tobago & thanked Dave-who'd-begged-me for letting me watch. He said I owed him big time for making him suffer thru. in reply to andsoerinsaid #
@BrenoKummel At the end of each set of ORs the govt takes a train. 2 trains if the 1st taken makes a new type available. Owie! #18xx in reply to BrenoKummel #
Final track from yesterday's 18FR-RCE: http://twitpic.com/yim51 #
@brettspiel Oft my relatioship to a design-in-progress is armed truce. The design has a huge problem. I blithely ignore it. in reply to brettspiel #
@brettspiel Main time I stop on a design is when there's a problem & no idea how to isolate/ID the problem. Oft just flail about & give up. in reply to brettspiel #
@Infernarl Nice idea, but I'm not up to building & maintaining yet another #18xx geeklist. Three is enough. in reply to Infernarl #
Pleasant chat with nice FBI lady about IDing terrorists, payment systems & false positives vs customer support. These are the end times? #
I like how my game designs keep ebbing right up against my basic failures in learning math. Yay group theory! Yay number theory! Y'all suck #
Taught Lokomotive Werks to DdJ yesterday. He: "First mover advantage!" Determining how big today was surpringly hard. Weak probability-fu. #
@brettspiel My too many shelves are usually indistinguishable from graveyards for the lost & damned. in reply to brettspiel #
@BrenoKummel That is exactly what I mean. I doubt this is a game DTG would be interested in. Just posted the pic on the geeklist BTW. #18xx in reply to BrenoKummel #
@andsoerinsaid You mean gaming isn't personal? (Au contraire!) in reply to andsoerinsaid #
@andsoerinsaid You don't seem such a high-volume tweeter to need to segregate your tweets. in reply to andsoerinsaid #
@BrenoKummel I find 18FR-RCE too derivative. A good intro GL would be great. #18xx in reply to BrenoKummel #
@BrenoKummel Everything is derivative somehow. I am not hiding 18FR-RCE from DTG. A fine also-ran. I will not push it on John. #18xx in reply to BrenoKummel #
@BrenoKummel Understood. You go advocate it to John when I'm done okay? I've made my reply to Tom McThorn (IIRC) on the #18xx list already. in reply to BrenoKummel #
The old adage of not shopping for food when you're hungry is true. it also applies to eating when hungry. Dear gods, please, I can't move! #
@andsoerinsaid I've been trying to think of how to classify your parts by interest categories. I'd make a lousey anatomist or pornographer. in reply to andsoerinsaid #
Into every life some rain must fall. I'm stickering 18C2C. It must be about time for Noah. #18xx http://twitpic.com/ym7×7 #
18C2C — Simply amazing, & a great afternoon: http://bit.ly/8BCPTv #18xx #
Discussion of privacy & what it isn't, in the social-network age: http://is.gd/6CFmC This is why I find #Twitter useful and #FB useless. #
#ReadItLater app for iPhone and plugin for Firefox; http://readitlaterlist.com/ Revolutionised my mobile browsing habits. Excellent. #
@andsoerinsaid: I assume there's an internally compelling reason to stay rather than an external compulsion to stay. #
@andsoerinsaid Kids are incredibly persuasive. It is hard to fight eons of evolutionary preference. in reply to andsoerinsaid #
@jdludlow Awwwww! in reply to jdludlow #
@jdludlow Ahh, I got to clean up some old/stale thumbs. Thanks. in reply to jdludlow #
@endgameoakland Do you have/can you get Container: 2nd Shipment? If so, please get/hold a copy for me. #
@andsoerinsaid: I see $3 saved! Rock! Your retirement is once more secure… #
@andsoerinsaid: Game this sentence no I verb. #
@EndGameOakland: Container 2nd shipment is supposed to be entering US distribution now. In limited #s of course. Sigh. #
@andsoerinsaid @ingredientx FYI: http://is.gd/6MXhR #
So, Dundracon or OrcCon? 18C2C is calling, calling, calling & I am of weak mind & easily seduced. Oh, whatever shall I do? #18xx #
@andsoerinsaid The MySpace angle is cheap, easy & has low standards. Of course it is attractive to men. in reply to andsoerinsaid #
@andsoerinsaid A cleavage shot with eye contact, a flirt smile & that shows you doing something interesting. Magic Girl? in reply to andsoerinsaid #
@andsoerinsaid Magic Girl: http://tr.im/Lgin Of course you should use Wabash Cannonball instead of MtG. A clear winner! in reply to andsoerinsaid #
@andsoerinsaid: http://is.gd/6QK0w (Tom Leher's Smut) #

Twitter Week: 2010-01-15

15 January 2010
Category: Twhit-Twhoo!

@brookscl Yes, Villa Paletti is worth it. A clever game if players fight to control who adds levels or is stuck pulling a weak support. in reply to brookscl #
@brookscl But Villa Paletti is weak if just played as a HaHa party game. It needs the positional fight to shine. in reply to brookscl #
Looking to buy more poker-chip sets for #18xx: http://tr.im/K2ft One nice 300 chip set, one economy 1,000 chip set. Recommendations? #
@BrenoKummel My 500 chip-set is only barely big enough for 18C2C. I find denominated chips slower/harder to use. Mentally jarring. #18xx in reply to BrenoKummel #
@msaari The NexGen Pros or ProGens seem the most likely. I'll probably order a sample set. #18xx in reply to msaari #
@BrenoKummel Want 2nd 300 set when we have 2 games going. Using my 500 is clumsy. Also want less-slippy chips for default game. #18xx in reply to BrenoKummel #
18C2C has arrived. Three, no, four, no, five bags full of tokens to sticker. Oy vey, I paid for this honour? I should be so lucky. #18xx #
@andsoerinsaid: Figure 400+ tokens, tweezers, micrometer, robotic controls, electron scanning miscroscope,.. Piece of (yellow) cake! #18xx #
@jdludlow: Subversion is to SCM as cockroaches are to filet mignon. #
@jdludlow The thing that impresses me most about SVN is how much worse it is than CVS, and CVS was & is painfully and brutally broken. in reply to jdludlow #
@EndGameOakland: (Auction + Aaron) Woot! /me does happy dance. #
@icheyne: Java will take a long time to die. I hope not very long. Sadly, JS is here to stay — AJAX has ensured that. #
@jdludlow: There aren't that many upcoming #18xx: 18Ardennes, 18NEB, 18IO, 18FR-RCE, 1812, 1817..Okay, maybe a few. #
@jdludlow: (smug) grin! #18xx #
@andsoerinsaid: I'm fairly sure y'all don't call it "hiding the sausage" (or "making whoopee", my long-time favourite) #
@jdludlow: Just to make you happy. http://is.gd/6dBeF #18xx. #
@andsoerinsaid: I'm tempted to say how much of an stiff uptight prick I am WRT sex, but I won't slide into such easy temptation. #
@andsoerinsaid: Dammit. I get lewd and you go all undriven snow on me. No wonder guys always lose. #
@andsoerinsaid: Challenge schmallenge. The basic male wet dream: "Come & get 'em!" It really doesn't matter who says that. #
@andsoerinsaid As representative of the Guild of Y-Chromosomes I'm not worried about that. The Double-X Chromosome club wants to have words. in reply to andsoerinsaid #
@andsoerinsaid Amidst your recent tit muscle, wandering breasts, bush obsession & thermal-wrapped derriere, I seem to be in fine company.Ah! in reply to andsoerinsaid #
@andsoerinsaid I fear for the next hapless scruffy tween you meet in an elevator. (Fear, encourage, warn, envy? At least one of those) in reply to andsoerinsaid #
1854 has (finally) arrived & in the same week as 18C2C no less. I'm overcome with unplayed #18xx goodness. To the tables! Attack! Attack! #
@BrenoKummel: My 1854 is straight in from Helmut Ohley. #
@andsoerinsaid: I resent the implication that I may not have sent a mixed message. Ahem. #

Twitter Week: 2010-01-08

8 January 2010
Category: Twhit-Twhoo!

@jesnellm I dunno about 1830 Wabash variants. My rules are 1 page. I didn't think the oddly small paper limits and no-diesels were obvious. in reply to jesnellm #
So I got a copy of 18C2C. I don't think there's any chance or hope of recovery from here. I'm doomed, doomed I tell you, DOOMED. #18xx #
@smok Game, diesels & CD. #18xx in reply to smok #
About to release 18FR-RCE to public playtest. David Hecht has a cow about historicity. He's right, damn it. So much chrome to fix. #18xx #
Just in case anyone was wondering: I (hate|resent|loathe|despise|abhor|curse|detest) NFS. Just in case there was any doubt mind you. #

Twitter Week: 2010-01-01

1 January 2010
Category: Twhit-Twhoo!

@BrenoKummel I think 2030 is worth it, but I also think the original is the leaner & tighter game. 2030 is a considerable change of pace. in reply to BrenoKummel #
@scottredracecar: 1830 Wabash is still missing the rules. I have them. They are under-license, interesting and…not trivial. #18xx #
@BrenoKummel: I created the 1830-Wabash BGG entry. Bohrer holds the copyright, licensed to Janich, but Bohrer may re-license. #18xx #
@jdludlow: In short: Coalfields without the coal or the train-obsolecence, but with a tighter NYC area & a more track-heavy end-game. #18xx #
@jdludlow: Like Pere Marquette, JDG's Simple or Chesapeake Bay Bridge etc, it is an interesting twist, not a fundamentally new game. #18xx #
@jdludlow: And what's missing are the rules, and given my last chat with Bohrer, you ain't gonna get them unless you buy a copy. #18xx #
@scottredracecar: Where are y'all based? LA area IIRC? We've talked about making trips down to LA to play #18xx with Vanderpluym etc. #
@scottredracecar: Oh, MN. Oh well… #
I need a better #linux #twitter client. gwibber, gtwitter, twitux, twit2 aren't it. #
@scottredracecar: Hehn. Always. Can't live or without 'em. #
@scottredracecar: We've also noodled doing a ~quarterly #18xx convention here. Informal, just a weekend. Could be interesting. #
@scottredracecar: I grok. I have 30+, poss ~50 local #18xx players, but have to kill to get more than 5-6 in a room at once. #
@BrenoKummel #18xx over? Why? in reply to BrenoKummel #
@BrenoKummel: Ouch. I forsee a recruiting/evangelism drive! #18xx #
Bugger. New Years plan just disintegrated. Blast. Time to scramble. #

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