Leonardo said:
I usually punch in the number manually, by modifying the address up there.
Thanks, not sure why I didn't think of that before...
^You're a day or two early. The Challenger was launched on the 29th.
January 29:
A.D. 1595: Probably the first performance of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliette.
A.D. 1845: Edgar Allen Poe publishes his famous poem, "Raven".
A.D. 1978: Sweden bans aeorosol sprays due to their negative effect on the ozone layer.
Except that....they hardly have any effect on the ozone layer, so it was a waste of time.
January 30:
A.D. 1835: Assassination attempt on U.S. President Andrew Jackson.
A.D. 1933: Adolf Hitler becomes German Chancellor.
A.D. 1939: Hitler calls for the extermination of European Jews.
January 31:
A.D. 1849: The Corn Laws are abolished in Britain.
A.D. 1865: General Robert E. Lee is named Commander-in-Chief of the Confederate Armies.
A.D. 1876: All Native Americans are ordered onto reserves by the U.S. government.
darth_ender said:
I am curious, did you alter your first move? Not that I mind, but I see the post was edited, and I thought you had moved your tokin to 1iv, not 2iv. If so, I responded to the wrong move. If not, I'm a dunce, though I can live with the move I made.
I'm back! No, I did not alter my move, just fixed a fragmentary sentence. Also, what move did you make? You didn't confirm that I had guessed what it was correctly. You called G-2i+L, but either you missed an 'i' or you were looking at the first part of the move on Zillions, which is the square you moved it from, not to. I assumed you meant G-2ii+L and moved accordingly.
Yeah, it's a tricky game that requires a lot of planning, but it's really fun. I am enjoying it much more than in the past, just because you're my playing partner.
Does that mean you enjoy playing a human player, or am I just a great guy? ;)
T-4ii+L
T-3iii+L
That works some of the time, but what if I don't want to read the whole thread, or if I've already read the pages and want to skip back to reference or quote something. If I'm in a thread that's over a hundred pages long, and I want something I think is around page fifty, it's going to take a while just clicking the back or forward arrow without being able to skip pages.
On a related note, topics on the forum pages display the number of pages like this:
1 2 3 4 5 ... 60
but could it instead look like this:
1 2 3 ... 58 59 60?
I find that I often want to read the last few pages of a long thread to get the context of the current conversation if I join in late. It would also be nice if it looked kind of like this:
1 2 3 5 <5> 6 7 8 60
or something similar, so that a person who wants to, say, retrieve information from a previous page, but doesn't want to click the back arrow fifty-bajillion times can do so? This would be especially helpful for fanedit threads which tend to get pretty long.
^LOL
I wanted my current signature to be my title, but maybe it's better off as it is.
darth_ender said:
Man, I am so tired and I have to get up early. I need to get to bed. Take care, and have a great night!
You too. I should probably follow suit. I really shouldn't be staying up so late, but at least I don't have to get up that early most of the time.
Assuming you missed an "i", I move L-2iii+T.
I like this one quite a bit, actually. It's difficult to play, but a lot of fun. I like how there aren't a lot of pieces, but since they switch back and forth the variety of moves isn't lost. This allows for a lot of possibilities that wouldn't exist in regular Shogi, though it can be limiting in other ways. I find I have to plan ahead a lot more, which is good practice since I'm fairly bad at that most of the time.
I did consider that and I guess I should have gone with it. I say we begin a new game. I'll go first so we don't waste any time.
T-2iv+L
K-5iii
K-4ii
Cool, thanks. I think I might follow along. It's not often that I watch a game from the outside, but it might be a helpful way to pick up new tactics/strategies.
Kx4iii
I hope that was the right thing to do. Looking at the board, I don't see any game-ending drops you can make, but I often overlook the ones you end up making.
Out of curiosity, what software are you using that allows you to make handicaps like that?
Looks like I won't be able to send my laptop in until tomorrow (hopefully tomorrow, it could be Thursday), so I'm still here for a bit.
R-3iii+P
I figured this was an appropriate enough thread to post this in:
Speaking of Shakespeare, a Shakespearean rendition of Star Wars would be equally entertaining.
I guess I'll probably save the game and pick it up later. I forgot that you wouldn't be able to post as much, but that's OK. I'll decide for sure whether or not it's worth it to continue the game when I get back.
It's Naboobian, not Nabooian.
Jay, could you make it so that titles of a certain length don't run into a person's post date on the right but instead begin a second line? I'm not necessarily asking for a longer character count to be allowed, but something to keep the title from overlapping with stuff on the right.
Thanks.
P.S. It's not a big deal, so if it isn't quick and easy, don't bother.
January 28:
A.D. 1547: 9 year-old Edward VI succeeds Henry VIII as king of England.
A.D. 1561: Persecution of the Huguenots is ended by the Edict of Orleans.
A.D. 1871: Paris surrenders to the Prussians near the end of the Franco-Prussian War.
Let's play with your typo, but when I disappear (which I might do pretty soon) we'll just stop if the game isn't over yet and start a new game when I'm back. I'm probably sending my computer in today, so I won't be available for a couple days and I won't be able to keep Zillions up on my computer. It's probably easiest if we start after that. I'll keep my original move, then. Gx4iii+N
I'll let you go with your planned move, in which case my move is K-3ii.
Gx4iii