Just remember, "Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo." is a proper English sentence.

On 6/27/2018 at 11:35 AM, TreebeardTheEnt said:

Dyslexia. I have to memorize spellings because the rules don’t make sense to me. So if it’s not on the list I’ve memorized I spell phonically.

True or not ... I'm stealing this next time someone gives me grief about my spelling. (Though part of me wishes 'Dyslexia' wasn't a word you'd memorised .. Dislecksia? Dislekseeya?)

I was at a conference and a guy I was talking to said "I'm sorry, I'm on the Asbergers spectrum and find conversation really difficult, if I say anything inappropriate please forgive me. I'm trying very hard". We then had a 'normal' conversation.

Afterwards I thought, that was brilliant! He'd laid down a perfect 'get out of jail free card' .. I couldn't call him out on anything he said or I'd look like an inconsiderate scumbag.

14 hours ago, Pewpewpew BOOM said:

I am not a speaker myself but I believe in Mandarin the words for horse, scold, and mother are all “Mah” with different tones.

Tone in English influences the message conveyed (sarcsm, etc.), but I can’t think of any examples of it changing the word from one concept to another. In the example above, I think a Mandarin speak would consider each “Mah” a distinct and different word. English has homophones like “cool” (the action of losing heat) and “cool” (like the cool kids) but that is different; a Mandarin speaker does not need to determine the definitions through context because tone conveys which “mah” is being used.

The Australian accent (particularly the broad accent) often has a high rising terminal at the end of sentences. Some students studying English (whose native language is a tonal language like Mandarin, Cantonese, Vietnamese, etc.) can struggle because they're told that when a sentence goes up at the end it means there's a question.

Maybe I missed it, but I didn't see any definition in the rules for some of the terms we've seen on some cards, specifically "evading". Also don't see any reference to being able to lock objects other than ships. Are they in there and I've just missed them or are they not in the core rules?

17 hours ago, ScummyRebel said:

Is anyone else a little disappointed that when they had the chance to add new shapes of obstacles, they wimped out and reused ones from past core sets/expansions that introduced debris?

I remember devs clarifing about this matter.

Old obstacles are valid. New obstacles will be introduced (Core?)

Rules Reference? Will it be PDF only?

1 hour ago, Malasombra said:

I remember devs clarifing about this matter.

Old obstacles are valid. New obstacles will be introduced (Core?)

Old obstacles will be valid. Mix of existing rocks and debris in the new core.

10 hours ago, GLEXOR said:

Just remember, "Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo." is a proper English sentence.

That's not as long as the most commonly provided example: Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

Though yours is still proper English and that's neat.

10 hours ago, Samwise Gamgee said:

I’ve always felt that R2-D2 has skewed the perception of the value of shields. I always thought the shield and hull upgrade cards were fairish baselines for what the designers deemed to be the worth of each type of extra hit point. I say “fairish” because of the variance of the value of an extra hit point for any given ship.

However, when you compare a shield upgrade card and R2-D2 from 1.0 (same cost of 4), this throws that baseline out the window. And thus the deservedly harsh regen nerf.

This all to say, I think 3 charges vs 2 charges is a significant difference in a balanced game that correctly values regen. In that case, R2-D2 would remain an “elite” or “special” astromech.

I agree.

Don't think of R2-D2 as "just 1 more charge", think of it as "50% more changes!"

11 hours ago, MegaSilver said:

Open 'em up so we can see the rulebook.

Not allowed to. Actually not allowed to make ANY videos on this stuff yet. Apparently there's alot of "stuff" going on right now.

14 minutes ago, Crabbok said:

Not allowed to. Actually not allowed to make ANY videos on this stuff yet. Apparently there's alot of "stuff" going on right now.

what kind of stuff?

1 hour ago, Ixidor said:

That's not as long as the most commonly provided example: Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

Though yours is still proper English and that's neat.

Still not as long as the longest possible grammatically correct version:

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo.

(Translated: New York Bison that New York Bison fool, in turn, fool [presumably other] New York Bison that New York Bison fool.)

36 minutes ago, PanchoX1 said:

what kind of stuff?

I, too, am curious

he's not the only reviewer I've heard of that's gotten stuff and can't really do much with it. over on Fortressat we got some 'first impressions' from using this stuff, but he's wasn't supposed to go that deep into it.

1 hour ago, Crabbok said:

Not allowed to. Actually not allowed to make ANY videos on this stuff yet. Apparently there's alot of "stuff" going on right now.

Rules are made to be broken. You could be a "many bothans" to bring us this information.

@Crabbok

Could you at least say if it's Legal/Non-disclosure Agreement "stuff" or FFG behind the scenes "stuff" or Lucasfilm "stuff" or anything else.

If you can, of course.