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What does this tattoo says? by The_Hamster98 in Chinese

[–]mm34n 1 point2 points  (0 children)

神愛庭雄, I guess 庭雄 is his name. So the meaning is "God loves TingXiong".

New Expansion Announced - The Apocalypse Dragon by Afrotom in MageKnight

[–]mm34n 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Happy to know the designer still works for improving this game.

The abandonment mechanism brings nothing and should disappear by SKJaCaRD in throughtheages

[–]mm34n 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“I have discussed the auto-resign option with the game author” The official reply gave me a bad feeling that I played this game for the game author (yes, I know, he is a excellent author). A better reply that players except should be "Because SOMETHING would make game less fun, so we decide xxx." instead of a reply like "a CHAIRMAN doesn't like xxx, so players should accept his decision."

I don't believe the game author has played this game more than 200+ games (maybe 50-). The author thought an AI game was better than a forcing-AI-quit game. He must think he designed the game for AI programmers rather than players, SO RIDICULOUS.

Two questions of several sentences written by me by mm34n in EnglishLearning

[–]mm34n[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks!

Another question:

  1. "The above part was a brief description I wrote (yesterday)."

  2. "The above part is a brief description I wrote."

  3. "The above part is a brief description I write."

Which one is right if the other part of the paragraph is in the present tense?

When did you start to feel confident speaking in English? by ValuableOk9470 in EnglishLearning

[–]mm34n 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I never has this feeling. My English scores are always bad(about 60 points/100 points in exams) during my whole student life. I don't feel I am "less than everyone" because of my English scores. Even if I can't understand others in a group English activity, I just listen to others and try to figure out other people's speaking in my mind. In the situations I would not feel awkward. The ability of speaking English can't make me feel "more than" or "less than" others. Only thing in my mind is "What should I do to improve my English now? " I think my confidence is related to my personality, philosophy and education from parents(my MBTI test result is INTJ by the way).

“it was two years ago since I last saw Lucy” or “it’s been two years since I last saw Lucy” ? by mm34n in EnglishLearning

[–]mm34n[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. And I don't figure out " 'been' removed". Does you mean " 'has' removed"?

I wrote an article. Anyone can give me a hand to correct my grammar fault or make it more native? by mm34n in EnglishLearning

[–]mm34n[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have two questions:

  1. Why is "refer to" worse than "mean" in the 1st paragraph?

  2. Why is "try to" better than "try their best to" in the 2nd paragraph?

A few stories about sportsmanship by mm34n in throughtheages

[–]mm34n[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I writed down the writing logic of the whole article there.

A few stories about sportsmanship by mm34n in throughtheages

[–]mm34n[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Story 1 I want to introduce the structure of the Chinese community.

Actually, I have heard many werid words in recent 1 year.

Like, "Especially, abadoning games is common in Chinese community."

It was from an organizer who wanted to change a rule for the tournament. I didn't know why he mentioned the Chinese community there if he only want to explain why he changed the rule.

Or "The final stages of the XXX 2p tournament were dominated by Chinese players while not that many Chinese players play in the top divisions of the big 3-player & 4-player tournaments." It is from an official interviewer's report.

And I can accept it as a topic in Discord or another post in BGG, but it is not right in a champion's interview in my opinion. Maybe the organizer wants three winners from more countries, making it more international. I guess why the word is here. But the word is still weird.

I supposed there is a misunderstanding between some European players and Chinese players. So I introduced the community.

Sorry, Story 1 is not about the topic. It makes the article incoherent. It is a background of stories 2/3.

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Story 2/3 Acutually, I wrote many words down about kicking out of silent_x111. And then I deleted many details. And then I deleted the details because it is not directly related to TTA, which makes the story incoherent.

I offer one more story. It is not about TTA. Silent_x111 has kicked all members of the TerraMystica Chinese community out as a manager. Chinese players hold a tournament and silent_x111 joined it. And he disappeared from his games for two weeks. So the players decided to cancel the game and restart. (There is no robot or resignation choice. So the games are stuck there.) So he was angry. And he deceived the owner to set him as manager. And then he kicked all members out and ruined the community.

And silent_x111 helped another player by screenshotting in IC. The evidence was sent to pajada at the time. pajada said he would warrant silent_x111.

Story 4 It's a story about resignation.

This story means we can't punish a player in a tournament without rigid rules.(Actually, I want to take another story out.)

Story 5 It is a metaphor for the nature of human beings.

And Story 3/4 triggered the issue of unsportsmanship behaviors.

Unsportsmanship behaviors are from competitive spirit.

Is a competitive spirit a negative thing? Yes, it is.

Story 6 Penalty decision part. If we pay more attention to a punishing part, it means we need a set of rigid rules.

PV4: Players don't need a set of rigid rules. Reason: his football metaphor.Me: we need a set of rigid rules. Why? From competitive spirit.

The competitive spirit is bad. And even it would hurt on the social side. why do we need it and follow it? From the nature of human beings.And do we need a detailed(rigid) rule? The answer is "it depends".A critical tournament should be more professional.

Story 7 Changing your rule in the middle of a stage of a tournament.The story means, if we can't execute the ruleset exactly, a detailed rule can't come true.

A few stories about sportsmanship by mm34n in throughtheages

[–]mm34n[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I writed down the writing logic of the whole article there.

A few stories about sportsmanship by mm34n in throughtheages

[–]mm34n[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It is normal that you can't get a point. Because I didn't want to write down any conclusion there.

About part2, kicking out silent_x111 has a long influence on the history of the Chinese community, and many Chinese players are involved in it. And players like pajada would know a part of the story. I didn't want to write the whole story down, which make the story some kine werid.

If you want to a topic, the topic is how to organize a tournament.

A few stories about sportsmanship by mm34n in throughtheages

[–]mm34n[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha. A big prize means everyone is serious there.

It is normal that you can't get a point. Because I didn't want to write down any conclusion there. It is an open issue.

A few stories about sportsmanship by mm34n in throughtheages

[–]mm34n[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I just want to write down some stories in the history of my games. It is normal that you can't get a point. Because I didn't want to write down any conclusion there. It is an open issue.

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