Twitter Week: 2010-01-29
- @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. #