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Living Room / Re: Star Wars Last Jedi movie discussion
« Last post by mouser on January 09, 2018, 10:46 PM »
Yeah she's good.
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Living Room / Re: Show us a photo of your mutt or other creatures..
« Last post by mouser on January 09, 2018, 03:21 PM »
Oh giampy I am so sorry... You must be devastated.. Our thoughts go out to you and Romeo.
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Living Room / Re: Star Wars Last Jedi movie discussion
« Last post by mouser on January 09, 2018, 12:35 PM »
Got links to some good ones? I'd be interested in seeing some of them.

I enjoyed this sarcastic one:
https://www.youtube..../watch?v=1v2PV52WNLY
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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2018 Announcement
« Last post by mouser on January 09, 2018, 07:36 AM »
Most of the fault lays at my feet for not posting the NANY 2018 roundup yet.. I've been working from morning to night each day on the new server move, hoping to finish it first and then post the roundup on the new site.  Although we are only days away I should just write the NANY 2018 roundup now and then upgrade server over the weekend..
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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release: cnpaperplay - Codenames /Codenames Duet Play on Paper Clone
« Last post by mouser on January 09, 2018, 07:29 AM »
At least in my German rulebook for Duet it says "as long as your partner guesses successfully, he may continue" and I don't see anything about having to stop after +1 guesses.

This is definitely NOT right, at least in the english rules.  It's such a core mechanic I can't imagine it's not the same in your german rules.
You are always restricted to guessing at most +1 extra word than the cluegiver said.

The only exception to this is at the end of the game in sudden death mode, where you can continue guessing until you make a mistake and there are no more clues allowed.


I just read the english rules again and I was *WRONG*!!! The rules do in fact say you can make unlimited guesses.  You were right.

Yikes! I've been playing it wrong then!!!!  Thanks for enlightening me...
Hmm now I am in a quandry.. I don't like the rule change from Codenames base game.  I prefer it the old way.
I suppose with the new sudden-death end-game rule, it doesn't make that much of a difference if you can guess unlimited words in mid-game or at the end.
Still, I prefer the rule that you can't guess more than 1 beyond the number said by the clue giver.  So I would like to keep the rule in the print and play version.

I think maybe the print and play version needs some extra info on the last page of the book describing the differences between this version and the original; it can mention this rule and the scoring mechanic.


PDF rulebook on line: https://czechgames.c...es-duet-rules-en.pdf
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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release: cnpaperplay - Codenames /Codenames Duet Play on Paper Clone
« Last post by mouser on January 08, 2018, 02:24 PM »
One rule question: why is there a "mistake track", shouldn't the time track be enough? And why the rule to tick an additonal time box, if no mistake boxes remain? I also own the boardgame and I read the rules as follows: if you pass, turn over a time token. if you guess wrong, put a time token on a word tile.  -> in both cases 1 turn token is spent.

In the original game, you can play different missions (difficulty levels) that simply tell you how many turns and mistakes you are allowed to make.  The less turns allowed, and the less mistakes allowed, the more challenging the game.

While the scripts can be used to print out books with different numbers of these, players could also simply agree how many turns and mistakes they are allowed for a given game.

But I decided to add something, by introducing a scoring mechanism.  In this way, you are penalized in your score for making more mistakes.
The new score instructions from the intro.html page say:

[Select]
Scoring: +2 points per target found, +10 per unused turn, -5 per mistake, -10 if sudden death.  Games ended by a black word score differently: -10 points for each unused turn, mistake, and unfound target.  Penalize illegal clues by ticking an extra turn and mistake checkbox.


The scoring is the one way the paper version "differs" from the original box. (That and I obviously removed a lot of explanation in order to get the rules to fit on one page, so players will have to figure out some details).

So turn track and mistake track are important to help you calculate your score. IF you care about score.. For most of us just winning and losing is fine.

Personally I find the paper version significantly more enjoyable and practical, and the scoring adds a fun way to compare your score against other couples and to strive for a high score.

It also lets you compute a score even if you "lose" -- though it will be bad and can easily go negative :)



ps. The python scripts support lots of options for creating games with different numbers of words, turns, allowed mistakes, number of each color, etc.  So if codenames is too easy/hard for you you could experiment with alternative games.
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General Software Discussion / Re: license key
« Last post by mouser on January 08, 2018, 11:17 AM »
Quick note: You don't need a license key to install and run Screenshot Captor and try for as long as you want.. Only to stop the initial nag dialog shown on startup.
If you still want you can get a key here: https://www.donationcoder.com/Keys

(Note our new website rollout will be in the next few days and getting keys will be easier!)

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Mug/T-Shirt Design Competition
« Last post by mouser on January 07, 2018, 12:45 PM »
I appreciate the designs by ewemoa (which was beautiful) and oblivion, but for me hamradio's would be the one I would choose for our alternate mug design..
I'd still like to see ewemoa's style used to make a mug (nany or otherwise), but it seems to me hamradio's is the one that is ready to go and would be the best option.
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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Official New DC Members Pages Thread
« Last post by mouser on January 07, 2018, 12:04 PM »
TablePress plugin is now installed. Have at it!

Note:  The TablePress plugin is more useful for heavy duty tables where you may want to edit it more flexibly, or provide searching and sorting functionality.

If you just want a simple table, I have also installed the TinyMCE advanced plugin which provides some simple insert and visual editing of tables, as well as shortcodes ultimate which can do something similar.
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Living Room / Re: Your Stuff Really Is Breaking Faster Than It Used To
« Last post by mouser on January 07, 2018, 11:34 AM »
tomos, I think he just pasted in the contents of an email newsletter he received -- it's the newsletter email that has those links to help it track readers.
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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Official New DC Members Pages Thread
« Last post by mouser on January 07, 2018, 07:56 AM »
My strategy for resisting installing plugins is:
  • Don't install lots of junk
  • Each plugin is one more thing to worry about maintaining, security patches, etc.
  • Don't install a plugin that isn't very well regarded/trusted, and/or can be verified by me looking at code to be safe and unlikely to be exploited
  • Don't install multiple plugins that do the same job just for the fun of giving people lots of choices
  • Keep bloat to a minium
  • Prefer simple over complex
  • Prefer plugins that are actively maintained and updated
  • Prefer open source over proprietary; but am willing to purchase plugins as last resort

But given that baseline of resistance, if there is a plugin members need, I will install it.  A table plugin seems reasonable, I'd just like to try to pick the right one.
TablePress looks pretty good so I'm leaning towards it.
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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Official New DC Members Pages Thread
« Last post by mouser on January 06, 2018, 05:36 PM »
Was waiting for you guys to tell me if thats the plugin you want.
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Living Room / Re: Whatsapp Desktop: can it do videocalls?
« Last post by mouser on January 06, 2018, 05:14 PM »
Try it and you tell us.
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Living Room / Re: How a researcher hacked his own computer and found 'worst' chip flaw
« Last post by mouser on January 06, 2018, 01:14 PM »
Nice calm summary in plain language:

https://www.networkw...through-the-fud.html

"To date there are no known uses of the exploits in the wild. And it’s not as easy to deliver a payload to a machine to use these exploits, as it is with more common malware that’s sent via an email or errant application download... While these new exploits are troublesome, as are all potential security risks, users and organizations affected should not panic. Many of the fixes are already being implemented as software/firmware upgrades and should mitigate the vast majority of any potential exploitation."
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Official Announcements / Re: Big News: New DonationCoder Server
« Last post by mouser on January 06, 2018, 11:10 AM »
The new servers are set up, configured, tested, and ready to host DC.   :up: :up: :up: :up:

I have copied all content and data to the new servers, the only thing that remains is some final tweaking and then shutting down the forum here and updating the new server forum database to sync the very latest posts.  And then fixing any bugs and oddities that show up.

Due to the use of the cloudflare dns proxy, the switchover between servers should be fairly smooth, without the ~24hr dns-propagation delays we have suffered from in the past.

So.. Hold onto your hats, any day now you will see the forum get locked down and then re-appear on its new home, along with the new version of the website.
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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Official New DC Members Pages Thread
« Last post by mouser on January 06, 2018, 11:01 AM »
And the old pages are gone where? (I never keep stuff in a cms locally backed up as I have no other location to restore it anyway :-[) Will/can they be temporarily made available on the dcmembers.org domain?

Old pages are all still preserves, backed up AND available online at their normal urls.
The only reason some are are not loading now is i don't have a good master list of the subdomains, so if you tell me your subdomain i'll make sure it is still available.

Ath, I just added dns entry for your, so your website is back online, unchanged and at same url as always http://ath.dcmembers.com
So the thing to do now is for you to recreate your site content on the new site.

If anyone has a members site they can't reach let me know your url and i'll make sure it's still available, so you can more easily recreate the content on the new site.  (if you dont have an account on the new site let me know).
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Living Room / Re: Star Wars Last Jedi movie discussion
« Last post by mouser on January 06, 2018, 06:41 AM »
YouTube is FILLED TO THE BRIM with people offering their criticism of the Last Jedi.  I was tired when I saw it and haven't been much of a fan of the recent star wars films.  This one was not much different. meh.
However  I am enjoying watching the you videos attacking it though, much more than I enjoyed the movie itself  :P
I have to say I agree with most of the criticisms..  But agree or not, it's fun to listen to what people felt was wrong with it.
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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Official New DC Members Pages Thread
« Last post by mouser on January 06, 2018, 06:24 AM »
Note, you can access dcmembers via https -- just one of the improvements due to us moving to the new server and system.
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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Official New DC Members Pages Thread
« Last post by mouser on January 06, 2018, 06:17 AM »
I have migrated the wp network to our new official dc member server(!)

The new dc member server is online and the new member pages are ready to be created by those with (or who want) dcmember pages.
Message me for htaccess login credentials.

Website:
http://www.dcmembers.org
http://www.dcmembers.com


This is the real site -- just protected by htaccess until members have a bit of time to recreate their content on the new site.
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Living Room / Re: Whatsapp Desktop: can it do videocalls?
« Last post by mouser on January 05, 2018, 01:39 PM »
The mobile phone version definitely can.
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Official Announcements / Re: Big News: New DonationCoder Server
« Last post by mouser on January 05, 2018, 08:11 AM »
I've been working hard on configuring the new servers for the last week solid.. It's alternately satisfying and frustrating.. Always more work and more complications than one expects.. And always some hiccups when moving to a new host after 10 years at the same place.

But we are very close to being able to go live, and having a much cleaner, secure, and maintainable home..
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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release: cnpaperplay - Codenames /Codenames Duet Play on Paper Clone
« Last post by mouser on January 05, 2018, 08:09 AM »
Awesome.
Anyone else? Would be nice to have some chinese, french, italian, arabic, greek, polish, etc., etc!
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Living Room / How a researcher hacked his own computer and found 'worst' chip flaw
« Last post by mouser on January 05, 2018, 03:37 AM »

A serious and hard-to-fix bug was recently found on most instal cpu chips manufactured since 1995.  It's causing a huge disruption on the web affecting most of the servers running the internet..

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Daniel Gruss didn’t sleep much the night he hacked his own computer and exposed a flaw in most of the chips made in the past two decades by hardware giant Intel Corp (INTC.O)...
The flaw, now named Meltdown, was revealed on Wednesday and affects most processors manufactured by Intel since 1995.

Separately, a second defect called Spectre has been found that also exposes core memory in most computers and mobile devices running on chips made by Intel, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) (AMD.O) and ARM Holdings, a unit of Japan’s Softbank (9984.T).

Both would enable a hacker to access secret passwords or photos from desktops, laptops, cloud servers or smartphones. It’s not known whether criminals have been able to carry out such attacks as neither Meltdown nor Spectre leave any traces in log files.


See:
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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Mug/T-Shirt Design Competition
« Last post by mouser on January 04, 2018, 12:20 PM »
I can't decide which one I like best -- but I really do like this alternative mug design.
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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Mug/T-Shirt Design Competition
« Last post by mouser on January 04, 2018, 11:42 AM »
bullets added in New Apps etc <-- i like this change.
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