Bay 12 Games Forum

Um, no, they actually have implemented tiered matchmaking. It's based on win rate. Came into effect... late last month? Or earlier this one. Check here for more information, under matchmaking.

Quote from: Girl on the bus with obvious spanish heritage

We aren't mexicans! The fact that we were born and raised in Mexico is pure semantics.

Ummm:
1) You obviously have spanish heritage
2) You were born and raised in Mexico

Yep, that about fits the definition of "Mexican" to me.

If... they've naturalized wherever they are now, and it's not Mexico, then. Yeah, they're no longer mexican? If someone spent the first, say, five years in one country, and then then next 10-20 in the one they're in now... I'd say they're of the latter, m'self. They're from Mexico, sure, as per Tomato, but I wouldn't particularly consider 'em mexican anymore.

I can see where they're coming from, and I do imagine it's a source of great frustration for a lot of immigrants. Y'spend decades of your life in another country and they still label you as "other", despite you being one of them in basically every way but maybe skin tone and a few years back when you were a kid. Annoying, at the very least.

So... you're wanting to rephrase that to "An actually decent world history class". I'm fairly sure I might as well have slept through the college history classes I had and, at this point, barely remember anything from them (which isn't to say I haven't picked up stuff over the years, but it wasn't because of those classes). Same for the dual-enrolled stuff I took in high school (which was American history, but the point stands. It was far from challenging* and not terribly engaging.). From what I've been able to pick up over the years... my experience was unfortunately a lot closer to the norm than yours.

Lucky you (seriously, we need more of that), but most folks aren't going to have had experienced that. As scrdest noted, more or less.

*I still remember one particular test quite well. I had been sick the week before, and I had no idea what the test was on, what chapter we were on... anything. I hadn't read the reading for that test (because I didn't know what it was) -- didn't even know there was a test that day until it started being passed out. I was literally unprepared to the point I would have known as much about the tested content on the day I walked into the class as I did when I took it.

Ended up scoring either a low A or high B, and doing better than a good 3/4ths to 4/5ths of the class.

... so they've grown to such enormity they collapsed in on themselves and begun forming stellar masses?

Seems legit. Soul Cal 6 shall obviously be a universe simulator instead of a fighting game.

Good thing they aren't lemons.

The lemon tree probably only has around 60-75 lemons on it

Huh. Good to know. Only time I've had to get a towing so far was to get tires replaced (Not just one of the spare tires I had, but both were flat Had been in the car too long or somethin'.) and it set me back around a hundred bucks. Was... somewhat painful.

Makes me think I should probably look up what normal rates for that stuff is, bleh. And hopefully continue to avoid situations that'd get me towed for a ticket.

*waggles hand* Sorta'. Casinos are considerably more sophisticated about ripping off its patrons,* particularly since Salty, near as I can tell, isn't actually (intentionally) rigged in any particular fashion (there's not really a house to win). S'also a very different sort of game than, say, slots or roulette, and different still from card games. More accurate would probably be about how careful you should be before going to the dog/horse tracks, or betting on sports (/fighting events). But... close enough, I guess. A warning against gambling in general, almost definitely

*Any time you walk into one, what you're actually betting on is that the statistics games the house is running to pull profit isn't going to land on you, this time.

That. That makes more sense. Thank you.

Though, uh. How is that not an organ concerto in A minor? Organ transcription of a concerto'd still be a concerto, right?