The Many Flavors of Salt

Table salt is the most common salt. It is refined and sometimes includes dice, which is added to give the salt legitimacy. It's used in all level of play. The salt is fine and flows freely.

Kosher (to draw out blood) salt, originally designed to be used in koshering forums and facebook , is preferred by Trolls. Kosher salt is produced to have coarse flat insults larger than table salt. It's typically not used for competitions because it doesn't dissolve as easily in banter (use table salt for banter). Typically twice as much Kosher salt can be substituted for table salt.

Fleur de sel (flower of salt) is hand harvested on the bottom tables at high level competitions. The salt is moist, naturally flawed and randomly sized. It's collected from the top players that aren't doing as well as they hoped, making it a very exclusive and expensive salt. Fleur de sel is used as a finishing salt because it melts rapidly.

Sel gris (gray salt) is the salt that is harvested from just below fleur de sel. It's gray due to its contact with other salts in the competition. Similar salts are also harvested from other locations around the world.

Pink salt can be found on the top tables. Its pink color is due to bad descisions, which come in contact with the salt during play. The salt comes in both fine and coarse. On the top tables it's used for ceremonial purposes such as after game interviews. Blocks of it are sometimes used for podcasting.

Black salt can be found outside tournament events. The salt is black from being in contact with rage quitting, which is believed to offer a detoxifying effect. Black salt is very pungent smelling because it also contains fire and brimstone.

Flavored salts are any type of salt that is blended with other game systems (look for salts flavored with warhammer or magic).

Rock Salt is harvested from the forums. Rock salt is used when you have nothing to contribute except a criticism. It has no flavor.

May the Foss be with you

Jango Foss

Feel free to add any I missed, but it must come with a description. I'll add them.

You missed Rock Salt.

What about bath salts?

Or Saltpeter?

Best way to cure salt?

Breakfast.

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6 minutes ago, Darth Meanie said:

You missed Rock Salt.

Fixed

Veruca Salt

4 minutes ago, Ziusdra said:

What about bath salts?

Or Saltpeter?

2 minutes ago, kris40k said:

Veruca Salt

2 minutes ago, Trubble said:

Fixed

I think you're in trouble. . .

4 minutes ago, FlyingAnchors said:

Best way to cure salt?

Have it take 2 aspirin and call you in the morning.

BA Dum Bump!!

I'm hear all night (but I'll be in bed after this. . . )

2 minutes ago, Darth Meanie said:

Have it take 2 aspirin and call you in the morning.

BA Dum Bump!!

I'm hear all night (but I'll be in bed after this. . . )

reading the forums in bed! Is there any other way?

15 hours ago, kris40k said:

Veruca Salt

See Hannes Solo and her TLT fixes.

http://www.ci.slc.ut.us/

Among the pink salts, Himalayan is my favorite. Once you’ve cooked steak with it, all other salts are ruined.

Imagine at your job if the people who paid you for the work you do had to continually come back to you and ask you to redo it. Every. Single. Time. How long do you think you would be employed? If you were selling a product, how long do you think people would buy that product if it was constantly full of errors or difficult to use? Well, four years seems to be the minimum by FFG standards.

I get that some people feel the need to poke fun at people who are frustrated with change. Change is part of life. But so is incompetence. Try to take this next statement to heart: unless you are an FFG employee reading this, the people who are frustrated are not frustrated with YOU. They are on the same side as you. You both gave FFG money for a product the company determined to be defective. Other places would issue a recall. FFG made it the community’s problem to hash out among ourselves.

And they go right on taking our money because we refuse to demand better from them.

what about the salt of the earth?

from people who get miffed for whatever reason, but are rational about accepting their circumstances and don't make a scene

Sea salt

Salt from the rebels and scum tears. So tear salt.

2 hours ago, Boris_the_Dwarf said:

Imagine at your job if the people who paid you for the work you do had to continually come back to you and ask you to redo it. Every. Single. Time. How long do you think you would be employed? If you were selling a product, how long do you think people would buy that product if it was constantly full of errors or difficult to use? Well, four years seems to be the minimum by FFG standards.

I get that some people feel the need to poke fun at people who are frustrated with change. Change is part of life. But so is incompetence. Try to take this next statement to heart: unless you are an FFG employee reading this, the people who are frustrated are not frustrated with YOU. They are on the same side as you. You both gave FFG money for a product the company determined to be defective. Other places would issue a recall. FFG made it the community’s problem to hash out among ourselves.

And they go right on taking our money because we refuse to demand better from them.

There's a significant difference between, "I'm disappointed about some decisions that were made and I'm going to say something," and, "This broken card got nerfed into being merely good, and so now I'm going to complain and whine about how it's useless!" or, "The really, really weak list that I threw together for thematic purposes isn't top-tier, so I'm going to insist that it be buffed until it automatically wins any game I play with it!"

I can't speak for others, but personally I have no problem with people discussing shortcomings or even complaining a little to let off steam, but when someone decides to throw reason to the wind and, rather than discussing the issues, tries to shut down discussion by lashing out at anyone who disagrees with them, it begins to get a bit irritating.

2 hours ago, Boris_the_Dwarf said:

Imagine at your job if the people who paid you for the work you do had to continually come back to you and ask you to redo it. Every. Single. Time. How long do you think you would be employed? If you were selling a product, how long do you think people would buy that product if it was constantly full of errors or difficult to use? Well, four years seems to be the minimum by FFG standards.

I get that some people feel the need to poke fun at people who are frustrated with change. Change is part of life. But so is incompetence. Try to take this next statement to heart: unless you are an FFG employee reading this, the people who are frustrated are not frustrated with YOU. They are on the same side as you. You both gave FFG money for a product the company determined to be defective. Other places would issue a recall. FFG made it the community’s problem to hash out among ourselves.

And they go right on taking our money because we refuse to demand better from them.

Like my first marriage, "it seemed like a good idea at the time". Don't lay the full blame on the devs.

1 minute ago, Stoneface said:

Like my first marriage, "it seemed like a good idea at the time". Don't lay the full blame on the devs.

The definition of insanity is to continue to do the same thing in the same way and expect a different result. You learned the lesson, as you put it, in your first marriage. How many “marriages” have those developers had and yet here we are again. Once is a mistake. Twice is an error. Three times or more, it becomes a habit or a pattern.

Just now, Boris_the_Dwarf said:

The definition of insanity is to continue to do the same thing in the same way and expect a different result. You learned the lesson, as you put it, in your first marriage. How many “marriages” have those developers had and yet here we are again. Once is a mistake. Twice is an error. Three times or more, it becomes a habit or a pattern.

You do realise that the devs rely on playtesters? Did you listen to the podcast where the devs were interviewed? They wear more than one hat.

In a perfect world, there would be enough time to get things right. But, alas, this world is far from perfect and small things like release dates, production schedules, the "go ahead" from bosses and limited development times all play a part in this symphony, that at times is out of tune.

How long do you think you would be employed if the bosses came to you and asked "is it done yet"? "No, it's not right" doesn't cut it when you missed your production window. I've been around long enough to know that "we'll fix it in the field" is an acceptable but less than ideal response. As the game becomes more complicated, expect more OP combos to show up. It's bound to happen. Nym with Genius? A mech that literally was never seen in a game being OP? I never would've foreseen that combo.

Venting and legitimate criticism of the game or parts of it are fine but lay off the developers. Their job is hard enough without people calling them names.

34 minutes ago, Stoneface said:

How long do you think you would be employed if the bosses came to you and asked "is it done yet"? "No, it's not right" doesn't cut it when you missed your production window. I've been around long enough to know that "we'll fix it in the field" is an acceptable but less than ideal response. As the game becomes more complicated, expect more OP combos to show up. It's bound to happen. Nym with Genius? A mech that literally was never seen in a game being OP? I never would've foreseen that combo.

When I was a web developer, I had a lot of conversations that went like this:

Manager: Hey, for that new app, could you add feature X?

Me: The new app doesn't need feature X.

Manager: Yeah, but we really want it on there.

Me: Ok, but I'm just going to warn you that it's going to significantly slow down the app.

Manager: We don't care! Just make sure the app has feature X!

-----One week after the app releases-----

Manager: So...people are complaining that the new app is too slow.

Me: Yes. Because of feature X, which you insisted had to be included.

Manager: Is it absolutely vital to the app? Could we remove it?

Me: <sigh> I'll get right on it.

Manager: Great! Oh, and if you can remove it without removing any of its functionality, that would be perfect!

Me: ...

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I guess my point is, developers aren't the only ones who can mess things up.