Posts made by ThatGuyThere202

@maggie2moo there is a Getty Museum in the Basque region?

@itsazure If you are trying to set up a table for more than two players, there is a setting for "Number of players" in the menu that opens up when you click to create a New Table.

@dan I see. Yes, I admit that the world of challenge games (and even moreso, the world of e-mail games) is alien to me.

@wlfogarty I haven't played very many challenge games, but on the basis of what I know, anybody who is willing to draw outside the lines presumably could check a word on some dictionary website before deciding to challenge. Depending on how much time the game clock allows them, of course. How would turning off that feature affect this?

@mapmakere Interesting! But it doesn't help clear up the mystery of the language's origins. It's apparently one of those "isolates."

@sakamvari This post unfortunately says little or nothing about the unique Basque language (unrelated to any other European language, with its origins still completely obscure). Knowing how to say "hello" is I guess valuable... but there is much more that could be said!

@roymccoy I don't even want to know that such sites exist.

Interesting problem. Man...the type of game you play is so different from mine, it's almost incomprehensible.

@jrp32 Funny comment (but it seems to have fallen flat)...

@mistertoad Hah! I use carrier pigeons.

(but the real-world me uses a desktop too; presumably the reason I don't see the list you mention is that I am playing in real-time, not e-mail)

@mistertoad "under the board?" I see no such thing in the games I play. Presumably you and I play different sorts of games on different devices.

@sparks Um... yeah, sure. I can say I've been told after a game to "Get F****d" ... is that what we are calling the GF experience? No. waitaminute. Girlfriend experience? "Gee, Fantastic" experience?
Being a child of the last century, I'm probably not as up-to-date as I ought to be on all the Netspeak.

@jrp32 then there's "long in the tooth".

@dan sounds good!

@roymccoy said in Score thermometer weirdness:

Here's a cute little maneuver, set to be triggered by opt-ctrl-t:
Type the A Keystroke
Type the Return Keystroke
Pause for 1 Second
Type the Delete Keystroke
Type the B Keystroke
Type the Return Keystroke
Pause for 1 Second
Type the Delete Keystroke
Type the C Keystroke
Type the Return Keystroke
Pause for 1 Second
Type the Delete Keystroke
[...]
Type the Z Keystroke
Type the Return Keystroke
Pause for 1 Second
Type the Delete Keystroke
Play Sound "Basso"
Type the ⌘A Keystroke

Nope sorry, I don't see what that does since I am not a Mac person. I used to use quite a few macros back in MS-DOS days; these days I simply use keyboard shortcuts whenever I need to save time (and when I know what the shortcuts are). My favorite program back in the day was Nota Bene, the word-processing program for scholars, which was/is very macro heavy.

@roymccoy I'd never heard of Keyboard Maestro so I looked it up. Amazing! You can automate computer functions using macros?? (a bit of sarcasm there ... I remember DOS and the format wars... )
[EDIT: I mean the OS wars, of course. Around the same time as the VHS-Beta Format War!]
In any case, I do have complaints--well, one complaint--about the functioning of the arrow. The types of game that you and I play are so different as to be almost beyond comparing, but here's my complaint: When you click on a square to place the arrow so that you can rapidly type your word, the arrow is sometimes pointing to the right and sometimes down. It used to be (in the old version) that you could count on Right for the first click, and Down after clicking a second time. This is still how it behaves in the new game ... but not all the time. If you are at the very end of a game of seconds, it is possible to lose when your clock runs out while you are placing your last word, because you clicked once and the arrow is pointing down instead of right (yes, it happens. Twice yesterday).
I will try to remember to post something about this in the Features Complaints section or whatever it's called. Although I think have done so in the past!

@jrp32 I'm totally with you on that. I have some with whom I have played a number of games, and they are decent players, but who have never said a word ("typed" a word, more correctly). Some of these people have landed on my censor list because I prefer not to play with what I call "grumpfaces." (of course I find it even more irritating when the grumpface is out of my league and almost always beats me ... so there are more of that kind of player on my list than the other kind)
Bottom line, the game should have some social component; otherwise you might as well be playing a robot.

@roymccoy OK point taken. It was someone else who was complaining about the arrow's color I guess. I have noticed myself that the blanks behave oddly (letter is not centered on the tile after one types it in); but haven't bothered to mention it because I am too busy playing (and usually losing) games. To each his own.

@roymccoy Try playing some real-time games some time... maybe with a short timer! That way you will be less focused on minor aesthetic issues like what color the arrow is, and more focused on the words themselves. (just kidding ... I know each person has his or her own preferences for the type of game they prefer to play.)

@sparks bring it to the lobby... then I can "bring you down to my level and clobber you with experience" (like the idiot I am).