Fencer: It's New Year! You should celebrate, not play, damn it!

Anyone else observing slowness with this website right now? The rest of my browsing seems fine, just here the pages are slow to load,...is Fencer up to something today????

(V): ....ahhh, now I know where your great wisdom comes from

baddessi: But when I'm wrong, I say I'm wrong. I was wrong I guess


really though? When I am wrong, I say I am wrong, except when I say I guess I was wrong

AbigailII: I was wondering the same thing!

Maybe thats why Netherlands is one of the highest ranked places to live in the world, 3 day weekends

nodnarbo: Fencer is in Tahiti, working on some new smileys, yeah right...

II dont know if this might be related, probably not... but I have noticed that when I refresh this page manually, by using the "main page" link, it refreshes just fine. But when I leave it and it tries to refresh on its own, the page never finishes reloading, my little clock thingy at the top right corner of my screen just keeps on spinning and spinning

Is this a site problem, or my browser issue? It could have something to do with why games wont time out correctly? I would assume that the fact that no comment from Fencer means that he is working right now to correct some sort of issue?

Czuch: LOL, I can still edit the first post i ever made on this site

Bernice: whoo whoo!!! Nice one bernice... thanks! I have seen a few fun reminders of our history as well!

Fencer: You cannot mean that seriously.

hahahah... just searching through the archives, and you wouldnt believe how many times you have replied to me like that in the past 6 years!

Seems like I can search for old posts with my name referenced in them, but not posts that i have written myself?

pauloaguia:

17. January 2005, 03:02:59
[pauloaguia, Portugal, Brain Rook (forever), Male] pauloaguia (hide)
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Czuch Chuckers:Some time ago there was a talk about limiting autovacation to 5 consecutive days. Maybe it's already implemented?
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LMAO! I was on this posting kick, and I looked back a bit at some of the old posts with my name in it... somethings never change, as the debate about vacation days usage was on at least 4 years ago!!

Are there any achievements geared towards how many posts someone has made on a discussion board, or anything along that line?

rabbitoid: Probable not

coan.net: 6 years... and I still cant teach you to say probably

tinksbell: The thing that really gets to me, is that it is because of a few rotten apples that spoil things for the majority of players. My guess is that you had a legit reason to be doing what you did, but there are a few who use that as a tactic to purposely slow down the pace of their games?

tinksbell: Like fencer said... it is always recommended to make changes after competing your moves, not before

Fencer: Why not Twitter?

Czuch: I have done some construction in my life, and I have personally manned a mounted saw, many times actually, but that is just me...

gogul: Ever man a mounted saw? Ay, forever.

rod03801: It was more than simply an inaccurate generalization, it was flat out a misrepresentation

rod03801: I think you have it backwards.... in baseball, the game will end if there is no mathematical way for the home team to lose!

AbigailII: This is crazy.... I can agree that you can be considered a sore loser if you simply quit when you get behind, but to resign a game with no mathematical possibility to win, that is completely different.


Baseball, there is always a mathematical chance to win, and that is true for all sports. But a game like backgammon, there is a point when it is not finished, where one player has no mathematical chance to win.

Of course, here on Brainking, there is always a chance that someone can timeout, which is not a normal situation for games in general.

Carl: not true.... you can always win by a timeout too

Roberto Silva:the main page it says there are 9 players on the tournament, but I only count 8.


I wonder if that is the crux of this problem? Maybe someone had signed up and then removed themselves, or been removed by the creator just before the start, or something like that?

MadMonkey: Yeah, that is totally whacky!

It looks like things will sort themselves in the next round.... that nobody will get a bye then, but the pairings of who plays who, make absolutely no sense at all?

Why does the guy rated 1900s get a first round bye anyway?

MidnightMcMedic

alanback:

Pedro Martínez: okay, thats what i was trying to say, I think.... it is not their weekend day for sure.

Czuch: So... maybe if you used a vacation day today already on another game that was ready to time out, then again on a different game the same day? The second time (and every other that same day) would only reduce your vacation days left on the first game?

auto vacation.... I had a player who was given an extra 24 hours added to their game, but their vacation days left did not go down?

Someone explain this to me, or show me where to read about this please?

You got me for 6 full years so far!!!

Yeah... and you can still see them on your friends online column, and there is still a green dot beside their name on your list for waiting games, but not on your online users list or your online opponents list?

rod03801: Thats right, but you also cant see them on your "opponents online" link, or your "players online" link as well?

Now I wonder.... if you are in a game with them, and you "move and go to the next game with an opponent who is online" would someone who has you blocked still count?

rod03801: That might be it then Rod, thanks!

I guess it is one way to find out who has you on blocked or enemies list....

Why should we even have any access to the profile of someone who has you on block then, I wonder?

Also, this issue of ponds, where people who have not been online cannot change their previous play, and people keeping track of this, makes it an advantage/disadvantage when this blocked user function comes into play, seems like this could be improved upon.... I gotta run now, but will have to give this some more thought

I am noticing that on most profile pages i see a "last action" line, says what time and day a person was here and what they are doing or if they have cloak mode....

But some profiles do not have this line available to see?

How does one have this info removed from their profiles anyway?

Also, I dont see this line on my own profile either, but I have done nothing to exclude it? Is it normal to not have this view for ourselves?

"GERRY": I always thought the old saying was "dont put the cart before the horse"?

(V): In the end the losers will be Paypal, as other and 'new' systems are available.

What are you saying??? The free market will work things out for itself???

...thought for sure you would advocate for the government to step in and make the evil paypal pay dearly for their bad business sense! Maybe even take over all online payment systems


Mayber we can move this on to the politics board.... have you explain to me the difference between the evil banks, who need the government to take over, or even your example of intel VS AMD, or online payment services??? How you can say in one breath thatpaypal will be a victome of its own bad business, but cant see that is how it should work for all businesses?

TheCrazyPuppy: Yeah, I guess you were, sorry, it seemed like you were also adding a bit of salt to the wound along with your "helpfulness", my bad...

TheCrazyPuppy: It only upsets me to see supposedly responsible, helpful people, act irresponsibly and unhelpfully...

TheCrazyPuppy: you should PM one of the Global Moderators with full details of the issue concerned and copies of all communication so far. The matter will be raised in the Global Moderator Fellowship, discussed and a decision made. The decision is final.


Thats all he needed to hear... the rest is just inflammatory to the situation.... even the most recent shark you posted, how is that helpful to anyone?

martes: .... be specific please?

gogul: Salt n Vinegar?

"GERRY": okay... $4.75 for me

SL-Mark: However, Americans can still gamble, but they can only lose against other Americans.



This isnt true.... but I do know what you are saying when it comes to the internet gambling thing... as an American, it is hard to get any money into play, you cant just use the ol credit card. First you have to make a deposit into someone like paypal, then have them put the money into the gambling site for you.... with all the transaction fees etc, we are already losing money before we even get started playing poker

But that does probably have something to do with why paypal can seem like a pain in the butt for someone like fencer, and others

SL-Mark:

Constellation36: WOW!!! Thanks so much.... when I have more time I will give it all a try!!

kleineme: I did now download winrar, and now I get an error message that the file is either unknown or damaged?

Pedro Martínez: er.... okay....

Pedro Martínez: Thanks! I guess my lack of correct punctuation didnt confuse you or my question....