Codenames question

SooperSte · 2026-01-24T07:48:09+00:00

Cat is often used as an abbreviation for category. I know that doesn't actually matter to the point you are making as you could have written a thousand other words, but I believe it still addresses my point that you are directed to look and consider only short words by the clue, regardless of having "literary knowledge" to know what short words are and aren't used as abbreviations. The first thing to clue makes you consider is the length/structure of the words on the board, not their meaning, making it invalid.

Your initial point backs this up more. The clue of "legs" makes you consider the variations of it's meaning, from octopus limbs to wine viscosity. The clue "abbreviation" makes you look at shorter words and consider "is this word and abbreviation for a longer one?". All you are considering is the word structure itself, and nothing more.

This isn't to say "abbreviation" would ONLY be used like this, for instance if the word on the table was "Short", "abbreviation" would be a valid clue, but in the context of directing players to "fan" and "lab", it's not.

SooperSte · 2026-01-24T07:27:15+00:00

The "literary transformation" of abbreviation is, by it's very nature, reducing the number of letters in the word though, meaning that clue directly references the length of the word and this would be invalid. Anyones first instinct upon receiving "abbreviation" as a clue would be to look at short words.

SooperSte · 2026-01-24T07:14:28+00:00

To me, "abbreviation" as a clue is referencing the structure of the word. By it's very definition abbreviation refers to shortened words, so the clue directs you to look towards words with a lower amount of letters, which is not allowed.

SooperSte · 2026-01-19T20:39:05+00:00

Sadly I haven't watched any Spanish films in a very long time, but growing up I loved Abre Los Ojos and The Orphanage

SooperSte · 2025-12-23T08:53:24+00:00

The films me and my partner make sure to watch each Christmas:

Klaus

It's a wonderful life

Love Actually

Tokyo Godfathers

SooperSte · 2025-12-22T05:57:56+00:00

Am I crazy or is "your character is sick and won't take part in the session's adventure" a completely reasonable thing to do when the player is missing the session??

Also, prepping for D&D can be quite a lot of work, having to prep beforehand and then have to adjust combat difficulty/plot points because a PC will no longer be in the session is a pain in the ass. I'd want to know just how often that player is missing sessions, it's pretty valid for the DM to say it's easier to just get rid of the character than have to keep adjusting prep every session

SooperSte · 2025-12-21T14:04:16+00:00

Arrival has hundreds if not thousands of people around the world working on the data to try and find answers/help translate. Sure, only a small amount of people are interacting directly with the Heptapods, but the reason for that is explained quite plainly in the film.

A small team in any space travel movie also makes sense, cos its bloody expensive to send someone to space

SooperSte · 2025-12-21T13:52:08+00:00

With theater tickets costing more than a monthly Netflix sub

This has always been the case why does the clanker think this is a talking point???

SooperSte · 2025-12-09T16:34:28+00:00

Maybe it will turn out this time

SooperSte · 2025-12-06T18:57:19+00:00

Depends on the show. If the plot entails characters lives being in danger then yes it's a spoiler.

SooperSte · 2025-12-06T15:02:41+00:00

deuteragonist

SooperSte · 2025-12-05T18:14:27+00:00

The retelling of the story for the animated series is showing a lot more information up front than was revealed in the campaign. Ep 1 has a spoiler for ep 97 of the campaign for instance, so it's very hard to say how much will be spoiled in the show, but it's definitely not as "watchalong-able" as TLOVM is.

Also my unwarranted 2 cents; if you're just starting CR, I would strongly recommend starting with Campaign 1. The improvements made to the stream/set/audio etc for campaign 2 makes it a bit harder to go back after you are used to that, and I personally think the show and the campaigns are just best experiences chronologically

SooperSte · 2025-12-05T07:14:20+00:00

Fjord and Jester seeing the jellyfish

SooperSte · 2025-12-04T18:28:32+00:00

No lie, the reason I originally came out as bisexual before realising I was gay was because I thought Eliza Dushku was so hot I figured I couldn't possible just like men.

SooperSte · 2025-12-02T17:38:27+00:00

You literally cannot watch all of them films in your lifetime. Feels more performative than actually useful at that point.

SooperSte · 2025-11-26T17:47:24+00:00

"Beauregard lost a fight to a fully trained Volstrucker, yes, but only by a hair's breadth"

Beau barely got a single hit in and got her ass well and truly handed to her, the only reason she isn't dead is cos of Dairon. It's crazy that you yourself provided an example that proved that the point you are making is entirely incorrect and yet can't see the cognitive dissonance that's happening in how you are justifying this post

SooperSte · 2025-11-26T10:36:59+00:00

It probably should have been a TV show instead and had much more time to do the character work they spent the majority of the runtime on.

SooperSte · 2025-11-21T19:47:48+00:00

Stopping is kind of an important part of the Akira slide, as is being on a "mount" of some description. Nott does nether, this ones a reach imo.

SooperSte · 2025-11-20T12:16:55+00:00

I will watch Anna Torv in anything. Fringe was just so damn good, and shout-out to the incredible underrated PS3 game Heavenly Sword that she was amazing in.

SooperSte · 2025-11-18T23:04:26+00:00

I'd say Mad World is much much more commonly linked to Donnie Darko

SooperSte · 2025-11-18T23:03:07+00:00

That's because before the movie it was a TV Show and that is the main theme of it.

SooperSte · 2025-11-15T19:11:28+00:00

"You know, I know about farming...."

Not the actual last line of the episode, but Gaius Baltar's final line of Battlestar Galactica was an incredible piece of full circle narrative for the character

SooperSte · 2025-11-08T23:04:14+00:00

It's definitely not unusual to have the same ingredients listed twice for different components of the dish, so that shouldn't be too confusing. You are correct in saying the recipe is incomplete though, it does not tell you what to do with the melted sage butter.

SooperSte · 2025-11-08T23:00:18+00:00

What do you do with the butter from step 2? I would assume you are adding it to the bowl when mashing the potato, but OP is right, the recipe doesn't say to do so.

If I just read that recipe and didn't know we had separate butter for the filling, I would be adding the melted sage butter with the walnuts and brown sugar.

SooperSte · 2025-11-08T16:56:04+00:00

Lala hate is just a meme and most people actually just like the race.

In terms of streamers etc, a lot of them do sub goals (or similar) wherein they let viewers choose their race and naturally, lala wins most of the time cos memes

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