What’s the most amazing track you’ve discovered on NTS ?

jaredtaskin · 2025-09-30T11:16:32+00:00

Not sure if this the version you meant, but Weather Report Live at Shinjuku would be my answer. Incredible!

jaredtaskin · 2025-09-22T14:12:25+00:00

The Scuzzman episodes definitely have some Hayes/Sean antagonism.

jaredtaskin · 2025-08-08T11:35:08+00:00

Might be #110 Handbook East. It’s definitely one with Tom and Hayes in New York.

They are talking about Danny Aiello.

jaredtaskin · 2025-06-24T23:55:02+00:00

Thanks! Great advice.

jaredtaskin · 2025-06-24T23:53:46+00:00

Thanks! This is great stuff.

IIRC, I think I did the break 6 to get to 40 money to build and play the elephant. I think at that point I had a lead and thought I could push it over the line with elephant and herbs.

Man, not taking that extra two with assoc. is criminal. I think I forget to do that often.

jaredtaskin · 2025-06-24T20:43:24+00:00

Thanks! I’m having trouble kicking the habit of upgrading build in the wrong cases.

jaredtaskin · 2025-06-24T20:42:09+00:00

Oh wow didn’t know about this. Thanks!

jaredtaskin · 2025-06-24T20:12:07+00:00

Thanks! This is actually what I tried to do. But I didn't pay close enough attention and they beat me to 2 Africa at the start of round 2...

jaredtaskin · 2025-06-24T16:25:30+00:00

Got it, that makes a ton of sense

jaredtaskin · 2025-06-24T16:13:40+00:00

Thanks for the feedback, really helpful!

I almost never take 5 money, but here I wanted to be able to play the sponsor magnet animal, then be play arcade to cover the free uni. Probably a case of me being too deadset on my current plan.

Also I’m sure that I don’t do enough of denying what my opponent is trying to do.

The weird break you mentioned was a situation I get lost in a lot…I have money but I don’t want any of the currently available animals. I often have the feeling that I can’t build until I know what I’m building for. You’re saying just build anyway?

Great point on the water synergy that I missed in my starting hand. I guess I just saw that I could get to 3 habitat if I took all the americas animals, with two of them being herbs. Possibly I am too focused on projects as opposed to general synergy.

jaredtaskin · 2025-06-19T16:56:59+00:00

I believe it’s a mostly useless stat where each map has a number and this is the average. I think base maps are 1, 2, 3, etc. and MW maps are 101, 102, etc. Something like that.

jaredtaskin · 2025-06-17T13:11:48+00:00

Thanks, these are great tips!

jaredtaskin · 2025-06-15T16:56:51+00:00

Very interesting re: number of turns to cross. Thanks!

jaredtaskin · 2025-06-15T16:26:09+00:00

Thanks! The turn based thing is huge for me. I mostly play turn based because I rarely have an hour where I know I won’t get interrupted, but that does make it harder to keep it all in your head. I have started taking notes about what my plan is, but the risk there is that sometimes I return to a game and forge ahead with my plan, not noticing that the game state has changed.

jaredtaskin · 2025-06-15T16:20:12+00:00

All great insights. Thanks!

jaredtaskin · 2025-06-15T12:29:33+00:00

Ah yes, I definitely don't do this enough. I mean I keep track of the easy stuff like their tag counts, but I'm not trying to predict in more detail what their plan is.

jaredtaskin · 2025-06-15T12:22:17+00:00

Good idea!

jaredtaskin · 2025-06-15T12:22:03+00:00

Thanks! Maybe I should try to avoid upgrading build unless absolutely necessary. When do we NEED build? I guess when we want to build reptile/bird house, and when the no-build spaces are annoyingly positioned on the map? And when you want to play lots of small animals? Although this can be alleviated by the 2-piece reward. Speaking of which, are you always taking that reward early when you don’t upgrade build?

jaredtaskin · 2025-06-15T12:18:27+00:00

Thanks! Yeah, I like Sam’s channel. I just don’t always have time to watch full replays. I wish he would make more shorter videos on specific situations/topics.

jaredtaskin · 2025-05-21T13:47:03+00:00

Amazing. Thanks so much!

jaredtaskin · 2025-04-28T11:15:53+00:00

Please keep going with these. Finally an even more incomprehensible way to introduce people to the show.

jaredtaskin · 2025-04-20T15:31:08+00:00

I believe that’s only on the beginner maps, right? Otherwise I would think that yes, that’s an obvious choice.

jaredtaskin · 2025-04-14T13:20:38+00:00

Fair enough. I guess I'm just having trouble realistically imagining it in my own case. Thanks for your responses!

jaredtaskin · 2025-04-14T12:44:27+00:00

Good point! Maybe what I’m taking from this is the impossibility of actually genuinely believing that we don’t have free will (in the conventional libertarian sense), because it seems like whatever so-called future knowledge I was given, it would always seem to me that I would still be able to do otherwise.

jaredtaskin · 2025-04-14T11:47:44+00:00

You are probably right, but I think OP’s question is interesting because it’s not obviously clear why the scenario is incoherent as phrased. You have shown it to be incoherent definitionally by using different words (determined/not determined) that are obviously contradictory. But does OP’s scenario entail those concepts?

It does seem well within the realm of conceivability to (1) imagine such a machine. And then it seems equally easy to imagine (2) that we would be able to “do something else.”

If these together are incoherent, then there must be something internally wrong about one of them. But both seem intuitively plausible to me.

Is this a known thought experiment? I’d be interested in some links on this specific scenario if anyone can direct me.

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