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Another party board game mini-review, this time for a game called "Telestrations".

telestrat.jpg telestrat2.jpg

Telestrations is a light-hearted drawing game that works similarly to the kids game of "Telephone".  Each player gets a secret word (or phrase), and tries to draw it.  They then pass along their pad clockwise to the next player who looks at the picture they drew, and tries to guess (in words) a description what it is a drawing of.  Then that player passes along the pad clockwise and the recipient draws a picture of the description that the previously player wrote.  So as each pad goes around the circle, it becomes a sequence of drawing, description, drawing, description, etc..

After each pad has gone around the circle, players take turns becoming the center of attention and showing off the sequence of drawings and descriptions in their pad while everyone else laughs at how wrong things went.

The best part of this game is that the worst artists create the most fun.  Children will especially enjoy being the center of attention as people enjoy the mayhem.

It's a pure fun game that should work well for any group, has tons of laughs, and is great for kids of all ages.  Highly recommended.

The normal edition supports up to 8 players; there is a "party pack" that goes up to 11 or 12.
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Today's board game microreview is for "Wits and Wagers".
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Wits and Wagers is a very clever mixture of trivia, betting, and social interaction.  It's fast to play, super easy for anyone, and easily supports 7 players or more with teams.

Gameplay works essentially like this:  On each round a trivia question is read that has a numerical answer.  All players (teams) write down their answer on a dry erase card, and then all answers are laid out in numerical order.  At this point, everyone can bet on which answers are correct.  In this way, even if you have no idea what the answer is, you have a chance to bet on the answers from people who you think might know.

The social element of seeing what answers others gave, and how confident they are, and the range of answers -- is all quite fun.  And the strategy and risk taking of betting your accumulated chips is very fun.

I've played this twice now with large groups -- the first time was fun but not magical; the second time -- playing with people i didn't know well, was extremely fun.

Highly recommended if you have a large group of adults.  There are special editions for families and kids (though i think it works better with adults).
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General Software Discussion / Re: record screen
« Last post by mouser on July 08, 2014, 03:01 PM »
My program is probably the last one that should be recommended, as it is not "easy" (despite the name) and not very polished -- at least at this point.

There must be some other good free screencasting tools.
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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Errors/Program Termination on Save
« Last post by mouser on July 08, 2014, 10:36 AM »
What the? This happens to you too dluby?  Can you shed more light on what triggers it?  Can anyone reliably reproduce the error with a specific set of actions? If it can be reproduced it can be fixed.
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Living Room / More good web comics you've discovered
« Last post by mouser on July 07, 2014, 06:07 PM »
Here's one posted today on Neatorama:

http://owlturd.com/p...age-twitter-facebook

Screenshot - 7_7_2014 , 6_05_58 PM.png
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Mouser's Zone / Re: Error upon installation and when running.
« Last post by mouser on July 07, 2014, 10:45 AM »
Thanks for reporting squeaky.. I wonder why it was not able to create them itself..
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Screenshot Captor / Re: Capture only part of a scrolling window
« Last post by mouser on July 07, 2014, 10:25 AM »
You move the red box initially to cover the area of the screen that the content will be scrolling through -- so usually it will cover the entire size of the window on the screen; you will be able to trim off scrollbars and stuff later so don't even worry about that.  The fact that you almost always want to capture the entire window contents is why normally you leave the red box to autosize to the window.

Then you follow the instructions and scroll the contents of the window with the mouse or keys, and hit prtscr after each scroll.

Did you watch the video here: https://www.donation...c/3ds/sc29/sc29.html

In the end Screenshot Captor will stitch all the images together and let you tweak how they are stitched.
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Mouser's Zone / Re: Error upon installation and when running.
« Last post by mouser on July 07, 2014, 10:06 AM »
Something must be unusual about your system.. Did you use the installer or the portable version?
Did you copy over an installation (or configuration settings) from another computer?

It sounds like you are saying it installed ok but gives this error when it runs.  The behavior you are describing sounds to me like the problem is that it is trying to save its settings (and the screenshot folder) on a disk that it can't access.

If you have not copied settings from another machine:  Exit Screenshot Captor, then edit the ConfigDir.ini file in the Screenshot Captor install directory and provide it with a legal place where it can store your settings (make sure to remove the // comment characters when you do).

Let us know if it works.
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Screenshot Captor / Re: Capture only part of a scrolling window
« Last post by mouser on July 07, 2014, 09:48 AM »
Thanks for saying so, ScreenManiac  :up:
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Living Room / Re: Movies or films you've seen lately
« Last post by mouser on July 07, 2014, 09:46 AM »
Just saw Blue Ruin, a great thriller about revenge.

blueruin.jpg

[EDIT: Don't read the blurbs or watch the trailers, go into it knowing nothing]

Highly recommended low-budget low-key movie.  No real twists or surprise endings, just a slow, steady, satisfying burn.
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Screenshot Captor / Re: Capture only part of a scrolling window
« Last post by mouser on July 07, 2014, 09:05 AM »
The manual capture mode is brand new, and could use some refinement; the red box disappears but the area you selected the first time is the area used during the capture, even though the red box is no longer shown.
(I'll try to fix that and leave the red box on screen for the next release).
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Screenshot Captor / Re: Capture only part of a scrolling window
« Last post by mouser on July 06, 2014, 08:28 PM »
When I click Button 2 and follow the instructions , I do not get a red rectangle whose width and length
that I can change by "pulling on its corner", so that reshapes up/down and left/right to capture the screen area that I want
to capture.


By default the red box will be in OBJECT mode which will autosize to the window region defined by the window control under the cursor automatically.
But if you click on the gear button in the top left you can switch it out of Object selection mode and then resize that window to the exact size and position you want.
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So I've had a few reports recently about people being unable to paste their license key into the license key dialog of Screenshot Captor, and I haven't been able to think of why that's happening.

In the lastest case, they were getting the blank captures after install, which was confirmed to be the known problem with some over-eager security utility blocking the capturing of screenshots (see https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=20962.0 and https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=35475.0).

Which got me wondering.. is it possible that it's the security program blocking the pasting of an email snippet into a target application?

Does anyone know any mainstream security utilities that do this?
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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Key eMate
« Last post by mouser on July 06, 2014, 11:29 AM »
It might be nice to see a video of this in action to get a feel for how it works.. There are some free screencasting tools you could use.
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Ok but also let me remind everyone that we try to avoid talking politics on the forum, so let's try to avoid generic political debates here.
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It's a fascinating idea that an old transcript could have an error that gets passed down through the years -- and a fascinating idea that a punctuation change could make a dramatic difference.
On closer inspection, however, it looks like just that -- a cool idea that's too tempting to pass up, even if it doesn't amount to anything.
Period or not -- i don't see any change at all in meaning -- which is still very much in the eye of the beholder.
Whether there is a period in that spot or not is purely stylistic -- i see no way to credibly argue that it changes any meaning or even any emphasis.
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Living Room / Re: Animal Friends thread
« Last post by mouser on July 05, 2014, 08:51 PM »
I wish i had :(
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Scented Candles for Life’s Disappointments

http://theflickingca....com/collections/all

Some samples:
Flick-Candles1.jpg
Flick-Candles3.jpg
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Living Room / Re: Animal Friends thread
« Last post by mouser on July 04, 2014, 01:53 PM »
So I went back out today (next day), to finish up the digging.
My little bird friend was back!

This time he came over to me with a beak full of worms and tried a different approach -- i think he was trying to teach me how to get my own worms.  He would drop a worm near me and then pick it right back up.
I think we was saying: hey big dumb creature, you are doing a great job of digging up worms but you don't seem to know what to do next.
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Welcome to the site azcn!

Let me look into it this weekend and try to see what could be causing it -- I might ask you to try a beta version if you don't mind.
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Point Motivator / Re: Point Motivator - Showing Decimals
« Last post by mouser on July 03, 2014, 08:40 PM »
I just tested it here and it seems persistent.. Not sure why it wouldn't be for you.  Have you tested to see if any other options are being saved?
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Living Room / Re: Animal Friends thread
« Last post by mouser on July 03, 2014, 12:52 PM »
I spent this morning digging a trench in our front yard to lay bricks.
A bird came by and was really excited about all the worms we were digging up.
He had like 3 in his mouth and was bouncing around.
Then he came over to me and gave me one of his worms!
He was like "THANKS FOR ALL THE WORMS HERE HAVE ONE KTHX BYE".

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Capture only part of a scrolling window
« Last post by mouser on July 03, 2014, 12:39 PM »
if I select Option 3, but that option scrolls through the entire window, and it saves it as a picture that is
shrunk vertically to fit on one page when printed.

sounds like you may not have most recent version.

indeed option 3 is what you should choose, and then you should get a dialog that lets you select to do a manual scroll.
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Wlinker glowingly featured at ilovefreesoftware.com:
http://www.ilovefree...auncher-windows.html
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General Software Discussion / Re: Delete lines in a txt files according rules
« Last post by mouser on July 02, 2014, 10:25 AM »
Welcome to the site, Narny!
Contro -- the nice thing about Narny's solution is you can modify and extend it to do other things later.  Since you frequently need to do text manipulation, why not invest some time and learn a little perl so you can write your own scripts for such things?
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