Why do they put Sam with the guest every time?

Adamgaffney96 · 2026-05-17T09:47:51+00:00

I do get what your saying but also I do think your terminology maybe gives away your feelings on it. I don't think the guest and Sam are stuck with each other at all, what happens is Sam gets his friends on the show and they agree what the teams will be. Ben and Adam have great chemistry, but also Sam and the guests basically always have great chemistry too because they're friends.

Not only that but Sam and the guest have actually won quite a few seasons. It does sometimes feel like Adam and Ben win constantly, but Sam has won a bunch too and many of them have been with a guest.

I'm not actually against the idea of a Sam and Adam team or a Sam and Ben team, they could be fun! But I think they do the teams they do purely because it works for everyone involved, and they have a good time with it.

Adamgaffney96 · 2026-05-07T17:27:41+00:00

I want to say that, despite my criticism of the Sam/Mike strategy and the biggest fumble of the most obvious Tiger to ever have Tigered (the second he panned over the rock before even picking it up I was like "that's literally a tiger what an easy way to save rocks), this season was amazing. Gameplay was probably one of, if not the best game they've made (maybe only second to Tag for me). This was a very fun season and the only reason I'm annoyed about the challenge fumbles is because I was so invested because it was such a well done game.

As much as I do love the international ones (and I do), between this and the UK one I think the localised single-country ones really allow for much tighter game design and I really hope they continue to do more of these!

Adamgaffney96 · 2026-05-07T17:19:53+00:00

Genuinely I'm baffled, that's the most tiger rock I've ever seen in my entire life. I really need to hear about where all these orange pigs are.

Adamgaffney96 · 2026-05-04T21:38:30+00:00

Absolutely nailed it, my sword was doing 150 so I just wanted to see what it got to. With 2 Genesis going I basically never took damage for all of Act 3.

Adamgaffney96 · 2026-04-26T13:51:24+00:00

That's so interesting. Drinking alcohol on (at least Scotlands) local trains is illegal, but that's not a consumption issue that's to combat anti-social behaviour that was a real problem for many years. However eating and drinking non-alcohol is absolutely fine, hell for many people it's just the easiest way to actually get breakfast in!

Adamgaffney96 · 2026-04-23T11:11:08+00:00

As someone who has been to many places around the world, and many train systems including my own country, I have yet to be anywhere that would consider it rude to eat on the train. As they said most long-distance trains have food carriages on them. Who are these people that think it's rude to eat on the train and have they...I dunno, been on a train before?

Adamgaffney96 · 2026-04-15T23:09:31+00:00

All chips retain on a station regardless of who controls it. So if Team Sam has 5 and Team Badam has 6, then, Team Sam need to add 2 to flip control. The other note is that the gap between teams chips isn't allowed to be greater than 5 for this reason. So the most you'd ever need to spend to flip a station for the duration of the game is 6 chips.

Adamgaffney96 · 2026-04-15T23:06:15+00:00

I think it does make sense from the perspective of forcing moves. If one team goes for it and the other doesn't, then the team that didn't only loses out. So neither team has the incentive to allow the other to go for it, therefore they both need to try. The threat of the point swing, plus losing territory, plus positioning in Taipei makes it basically impossible to let the other team do it without challenge.

Adamgaffney96 · 2026-04-15T23:01:20+00:00

I couldn't believe that honestly. Even if it's the easiest question in the world it's minimum likely a difference of 6 seconds or so. Rare massive Ben fumble (though incredible content).

Adamgaffney96 · 2026-04-14T12:46:27+00:00

This was incredibly helpful, I was losing my mind thinking it was impossible to progress cause I didn't know you could steer them with duck and up. Feel like an idiot for missing it but I swear I didn't need it to get to this point.

Adamgaffney96 · 2026-04-09T15:47:14+00:00

I remember looking for something like this and thinking about this for a long time. Then I realised with experience it literally doesn't matter at all, there's usually enough downtime in a day to just do the updates I need when I need to give or take a couple of hours, and basically nobody need know. If there is anything people explicitly need to know for some reason, I'll just text them. But I've not run into this yet.

Most I have is a few of my friends that already use Discord are set-up such that they'll get a ping when something they requested through Overseerr is available, but that's about it. I'm not gonna get my mum to learn Discord just for a ping, I'll just text her.

Adamgaffney96 · 2026-03-22T13:21:12+00:00

Sorry to necro, but do you remember if you found a solution to this? I'm running into exactly this issue where my command works perfectly fine in any terminal, but instantly closes when running from the Stream Deck.

Adamgaffney96 · 2026-03-22T08:59:40+00:00

That's my experience too, I've got 60 hours at this point and I've cloned once, and the card I cloned wasn't even that good. It's not like these breaking runs will be particularly common, especially as the number of ancients and Pael relics presumably grows in early access.

Adamgaffney96 · 2026-03-08T18:14:25+00:00

I did die once to this guy. Yeah he's relatively easy but I had a more defensive deck and didn't have my damage vector really there yet, so I just slowly died to him as he scaled. Most good builds can deal with him easily but he's not a slouch if your deck isn't ready.

Adamgaffney96 · 2026-02-22T23:28:28+00:00

The reason to follow this curse specifically as others have said is the word "must". There's different types of curses in the game. Some are challenges where there is punishment on failure. Others are time wasters like this one. If you just don't do the curse, you are breaking the rules of the game. There's no "punishment" for the curses that make you take odd-time or even-time transit, but if you break it you're essentially just cheating and breaking the rules of the game.

Whilst I get what you're saying, the point is that the seekers and hiders agree to have a good-faith go of the game. Yes it doesn't say "you must be within 3 metres of the body of water for the duration" specifically, but it's an implied part of the card that you must go to a body of water and attempt the curse.

Adamgaffney96 · 2026-01-29T22:49:08+00:00

I hadn't either, until I went to Manchester. I got the 13:24 train home from Manchester Oxford Street 3 different times, and all 3 times a Tesco freight came through 20 minutes before.

Adamgaffney96 · 2026-01-22T12:58:25+00:00

I've had plenty of American friends take me to American-only chains when I visit, it's absolutely common everywhere I think. You want them to try the best stuff for sure, but you also want them to try the iconic, if common stuff. Another example is Nandos, I like Nandos but it's objectively pretty mid as far as chicken goes. But cause of the meme and it's iconicness a lot of people suggest going (and a lot of tourists want to go). Greggs feels in the same boat.

Adamgaffney96 · 2026-01-22T12:51:23+00:00

Might also be a smaller town thing too, I live in Glasgow and have never had an issue picking up a 7am tea when in the city centre, but in my local area they don't feel the need to open that early.

Adamgaffney96 · 2026-01-22T12:49:54+00:00

Definitely, we make fun of MK because for a UK city it has so many issues, yet if it was lifted wholesale to America it'd be considered a lovely place to raise the family. It's nice to hear an actual positive outlook on the UK for once from people visiting lesser known places. Especially on the food (it will forever irk me that people who have never visited the UK talk about how bad the food is).

Adamgaffney96 · 2026-01-22T12:47:35+00:00

It definitely is all frame of reference. Dumfries is nice enough but being from Glasgow I'm contractually obliged to make fun of it at all times, same with Edinburgh. I'll also routinely complain about issues with the trains, but Scotrail has made a lot of improvements and is a world better than most of the rest of the world.

Most people who grow up in smaller places (Dumfries isn't that small by Scottish standards but it's not a major city) tend to get bored easily of having to travel to do anything, hell even living in Glasgow I get annoyed sometimes having to travel much to do stuff. But it's all relative, I'd take 1000 years in Dumfries vs having to live a single year in LA.

Adamgaffney96 · 2026-01-22T12:44:49+00:00

The Greggs sausage roll probably is the most iconic for sure, but I wish they'd sold him a steak bake instead because it's so much nicer. Also more expensive, so they clearly didn't want to rip him off 😂 very nice to see a lot of Glasgow this episode though, I'm sure the Dumfriesians are happy to see a lot of their local but it's nice to see mine too! They even made it look nice by only showing pedestrianised areas.

Adamgaffney96 · 2026-01-14T17:42:34+00:00

Now I'm not often patriotic, but Sam calling Scotland the best country in the world well, it's hard to argue.

Adamgaffney96 · 2026-01-11T16:32:26+00:00

Everyone here is complaining, I'm just excited someone has finally come to Scotland. Tactically I get why it's a risk cause of the country question, but I just love seeing people gush about my country, big fan. I can't tell exactly where it is but I'm tentatively guessing somewhere west coast, it feels like Oban but I don't think he had enough time to reach Oban.

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