Yes, I think I will refuse, not because I'm happy with how things are going, but because I want to pay for not paying attention. I've been playing all my games too fast, as you watched me blow it in my game with Warbler. I'd rather pay for it and try to stage a comeback.
P*15
Oops. For some reason I looked at that and thought it was a pawn. I didn't have it notated wrong, I was just being dumb. So there's a freebie for you I guess. I'm pretty much doomed after a move like that, but let's keep going. K-2.
Bx21+FS
Fair enough. SC-10
Well, sounds like a busy week. All that on top of school and Air Cadets, I'm sure you've been busy. Hange in there :)
I can't help but wonder if you'd like to take back that last move. It's certainly not the end of the world, but it looks like it might be an early mistake, and I'm sure you'd rather start off on the right foot. FSx17+B.
Ah, I see. Sort of like our JROTC. Good for you. That's awesome that you're involved in such a program. :)
Sorry I've been so busy lately. Lots and lots and lots going on.
SC-6
My brother once took a class on Alfred Hitchcock movies where they would watch the film, then analyze the symbolism and messages of his films. I was in high school at the time, but I visited my brother (who was attending a ways away from home) and attended a class with him. I thought it was brilliant. This Star Trek thing would be even more fun! I love Star Trek! And I'm with you Sadako, TNG is my fave.
Gs-4
Hope you had fun with the Air Cadets. Was it a birthday present sort of thing?
Busy again today. I'll be lucky to get a move in before I get home. We'll see. Glad you like the idea. Did you test it out yourself and see what I mean?
I'm going to suggest moving the FS back to their old starting squares right behind the geese (it's funny, but geese sounds wrong when one is simply referring to shogi pieces). My reason for this is because the silver cannon actually does a good job of getting in the way of the flying swallow. If you wish to bring the cannon forward, it takes several moves and likely exposing it to early attacks if you want to simultaneously bring the swallow out. And if you wish to bring the swallow out earlier, you have to retreat the silver cannon, making it take longer for it to be effective. As the two strongest pieces in the game, I think they do a good job in that position interfering with each other and preventing a player from making too much use of them too early. I might be wrong, but see what you think. I want to read your thoughts before my next move.
Sounds good. P-14
I will make a couple of moves tonight when I get home from work. Sorry to beat you again on your birthday ;) After this game, I would like to try a few other shogi games. I'd also be open to trying a chess variant or two with you simultaneously.
Happy completion of fifteen years, Ric.
I think I may agree. It means fewer pieces see the light of day, but I think it's better that way. A weaker game is usually a longer game with more strategic thinking involved. I could not have checkmated you on this last move if I could only drop the goose, for instance.
I also am thinking that it might be better to switch the values of the reverse chariot/silver cannon. I have hardly used the cannon since our first game, yet the chariot has actually proved very powerful in the right circumstances. Switching the two might force more cannon usage and give the piece the opportunity to get closer to the front lines in the early game (since the chariot can't get to the front till captured and dropped, except in very rare circumstances when all pieces in front of it are captured. So I think we should make that change and the drop and demoted value, and I think we'll be good. Do you think we should still have alternating promotions/demotions, or shoudl we go back to permanent promotions? I think I like the alternating better, but I want to know what you think.
"Never Gonna Get Us Past That Blockade" by Ric Olie, frequently used as an Internet Meme:
"You just got RicrOlied!"
Sometimes I don't see the obvious mating possibilities until I suddenly pull a checkmate on you. I shouldn't have even bothered with the previous warning. Cm*31 mate. So I'm thinking it might be best to let you go back to before you dropped your tile general (I'm not sure if you were saying you didn't want to take that back or if you jokingly didn't want to take back you cavalryman move). In either case, I hope you will go back and try to defend yourself.
Sorry I didn't catch that mistake in your last display, but unless I've made an error elsewhere, my piece there is a phoenix.
Sure you want to do that? Phx15+Gs
Bingowings said:
I wasn't myself portraying it as weird
Don't worry, I didn't take it that way. Just making the comment for any others reading this thread who haven't followed my other thread. :)
So I'm curious if anyone has played this and if The Card Game is better than The Customizable Card Game. I enjoyed the former as a kid, though I didn't get to play as much as I'd have liked. I wonder if this will outlive the other.
Bingowings said:
As for not being sure what I'm referring to ask a Mormon. A physical being on another planet would match most people's definition of an extraterrestrial intelligence.
Ah, I see what you are referring to. Yes, to most God is an ethereal everywhere yet no where being, which is far more logical I suppose ;) Thanks for including the link, as it explains my position so well I need not repeat it. God lives somewhere. Heaven is not on a cloud. Weird, huh? (In other words, I'll never understand why non-Mormons try to portray it as weird, since no other explanation makes sense--it is the logical conclusion)
I am fascinated by your preoccupation with Kolob. It's a matter that hardly is brought up. I can't say I've heard the term used even once in the past several years in church. It's not even where God resides but rather "nearest to". I take it to be a more symbolic than literal meaning, though I'm not sure if that's a correct interpretation or not.
Bx21+FS
Sorry for that error. Don't know why I would have believed I had such a piece in my arsenal. The only error I see your board is the presence of T/S in my hand, as I just dropped one and you have one in hand.
Ph*22
^Indeed. Though I wonder what on earth you are talking about here:
Bingowings said:
The Mormon churches are pretty much reliant on belief on other planets for their canonical narrative.
I am unsure of what you are referring to here. We do believe that God has created life elsewhere, but it is hardly significant to our doctrine or canonical narrative. If we were to change that one little item, it would not alter our manner of worship or any other aspect of our religious practice.
God isn't needed to create intelligent life any more than you need a carpenter to make a soft place to sit in a field (indeed some of the synthetic chairs on local buses are much filthier than a moss covered log or a grassy knoll).
You oversimplify a bit. Even non-believing scientists acknowledge that even under the rare perfect circumstances that our earth finds itself in, life, especially sentient life, are hardly inevitable. Only the vastness of our universe allows for those rare opportunities to arise in a spontaneous theory, and even then one cannot help but wonder how the laws that led to such creation came to exist.
But it's all pretty crazy and asinine anyway.
Yes, I must have made a mistake somewhere. I'll figure something else out. Can't make a move at present.