Not been registered yet.

On ‎11‎/‎14‎/‎2018 at 11:42 AM, Admiral Deathrain said:

Tbh 'the farmer of racism' is a neat supervillain name

Let's not forget that he's a Titan-Flayer. That racism crop is in for a nasty reaping.

On 11/9/2018 at 7:22 PM, Raahk said:

Hasn't the whole liberal society turned into hypersensitive crybabies?

Edit: Take a look at who likes this post. Someone is taking this way too serious. This guy went through the trouble of making 4 accounts to spam me

Edit 2: deleted Edit #1

Yeah, that loon did the same to me. He/she even went so far as to PM me death threats against myself and my family.

Naturally that got reported.

Loonies and trolls and lunatic trolls always find someone to pester.

But it looks like the mods did their duty, so all is well.

On 11/11/2018 at 11:09 AM, Ravener2 said:

I got a "Lord Devildrool the Rusty Princess"

Well, she (he?) would be rusty, what with all the drooling ?

On 11/15/2018 at 4:51 AM, Kalandros said:

Not mine but definitely unfortunate

Oh my…

1 hour ago, debiant said:

Oh my…

Emperor Yoshiro , is that you?

1 hour ago, debiant said:

Oh my…

* In George Takei's voice. *

On ‎11‎/‎15‎/‎2018 at 10:10 AM, jonamok said:

Not been registered yet.

...and it probably couldn't be registered. The FF article said that if you try to register an "unfortunate" deck, it will just give a message telling you that the deck can't be registered, that it can't be used in official play, and that you can turn it in for two replacement decks.

Computers playing Madlibs 200000 times, for our entertainment! Heh!

Good point. Though it raises the question, how do they flag inappropriate deck names? I can see ‘racism’ being belatedly added to the naughty list, but ‘boys’? It can’t be phrases that get flagged surely, the combos are in the quadrillion.

45 minutes ago, jonamok said:

Good point. Though it raises the question, how do they flag inappropriate deck names? I can see ‘racism’ being belatedly added to the naughty list, but ‘boys’? It can’t be phrases that get flagged surely, the combos are in the quadrillion.

Perhaps when they realized the mistake, they literally assigned each employee to review several thousand names (already printed) over the course of a few weeks before the app was to go live?

I don't know how the algorithm works to build decks, but I am going to guess something really clever, like...

The name of the deck directly correlates with the 15-digit code associated with that deck, and the contents of the deck is directly determined by that code. In other words, you use a random number generator to produce the 15-digit code, which tells you what the name of the deck will be and what exact cards will be in that deck. As each deck is generated and printed, its 15-digit code is recorded. So every deck in existence is known, and therefore so is its title.

If something like that is true, you could simply generate a list of every deck's name and then search that list. So "racism" might be a problem word? Generate a list of all the deck names with "racism" in it that have been printed. Use more filters to see if other combinations spring up that could be problematic. Not easy, but doable. The Logos faction could accomplish this easily, with the proper cybernetic implants.

Has FFG said that you have to register the deck with the app to use the deck in official events? Can you get away with using a flagged deck if you don't register it?

Even if you can't use them, I think these banned decks will be worth money.

How about a unofficial banned deck tournament?

1 minute ago, Ken on Cape said:

Has FFG said that you have to register the deck with the app to use the deck in official events? Can you get away with using a flagged deck if you don't register it?

Even if you can't use them, I think these banned decks will be worth money.

How about a unofficial banned deck tournament?

I think every deck that has been printed is known from its 15-digit code. So there is no "hiding" your deck by refusing to register it. In some sense, they know it is out there even if you don't tell them it's yours. I expect that when you register for a tournament, you're going to have to tell them what deck you are using.

Unofficial banned deck tournaments are another matter, of course.

4 minutes ago, RobertK said:

you could simply generate a list of every deck's name and then search that list. So "racism" might be a problem word? Generate a list of all the deck names with "racism" in it that have been printed. Use more filters to see if other combinations spring up that could be problematic.

Yes, I must assume that's how the names are associated with the deck lists, and they obviously have a master list, or the app wouldn't work at all to record or look up decks. That method you described would work well for individual words, but combinations of words will require a lot of manpower to review, whether through manual brute force (the method in my previous comment) or associational algorithms that are similar to the ways good search engines can find sets of words close to one another in documents, or a combination of both. That is to say that it will take a long time to read the titles by hand or it will take a long time to generate the lists of words or phrases you don't want and to have the database find them for you.

2 minutes ago, Keithustus said:

That method you described would work well for individual words, but combinations of words will require a lot of manpower to review, whether through manual brute force (the method in my previous comment) or associational algorithms that are similar to the ways good search engines can find sets of words close to one another in documents, or a combination of both. That is to say that it will take a long time to read the titles by hand or it will take a long time to generate the lists of words or phrases you don't want and to have the database find them for you.

Yes, my suggestion of how to search was very crude. I think your search engine analogy is probably really close to the mark in thinking about how it could be done practically with little human intervention.

40 minutes ago, RobertK said:

I don't know how the algorithm works to build decks, but I am going to guess something really clever, like...

The name of the deck directly correlates with the 15-digit code associated with that deck, and the contents of the deck is directly determined by that code. In other words, you use a random number generator to produce the 15-digit code, which tells you what the name of the deck will be and what exact cards will be in that deck. As each deck is generated and printed, its 15-digit code is recorded. So every deck in existence is known, and therefore so is its title.

If something like that is true, you could simply generate a list of every deck's name and then search that list. So "racism" might be a problem word? Generate a list of all the deck names with "racism" in it that have been printed. Use more filters to see if other combinations spring up that could be problematic. Not easy, but doable. The Logos faction could accomplish this easily, with the proper cybernetic implants.

The deck gets created by randomly selecting 3 houses, then it starts pulling individual cards. Some of the cards are linked to other cards so that the likelihood of the second card getting pulled gets significantly more likely - that's how the four horsemen are often pulled together. After that, it goes through a few checks - making sure the deck works(?), making sure the deck list has not been previously built, etc. After that, a random name is either generated or maybe a previously generated name is applied. Then the back is added. Then it goes to the printer. From The Unique Story of Unique Games :

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What concerns me, is that I may end up choosing to play a deck based on its name over its playstyle!

So Fascism is one of the words apparently

Or it could be “Elder”, who knows ?

7 hours ago, Palpster said:

So Adolf wasn’t even Hitler’s final form?

Scary.

17 hours ago, Palpster said:

That’s too bad, but is it a good deck?

Its cool that you get an extra deck for sending in your bad deck. It must of been a monstrous task to get the print first print run down to >.05% error.

4 hours ago, Duciris said:

That’s too bad, but is it a good deck?

Dunno, it’s not mine. Was opened in a store reasonably close though, might see it in casual play sometime

On ‎11‎/‎16‎/‎2018 at 2:57 PM, Ken on Cape said:

Has FFG said that you have to register the deck with the app to use the deck in official events? Can you get away with using a flagged deck if you don't register it?

Even if you can't use them, I think these banned decks will be worth money.

How about a unofficial banned deck tournament?

I can speculate for you but we are still in a wait and see pattern on this. When you go to an official tournament (I imagine store champ level and above) you will have to scan your deck with whoever is running the tournament. Plus with the opaque sleeves you're cards will have to be in they will have to review your deck or something like that. More than likely you would go to scan your flagged deck and it would come up as such, meaning they will ask you to run a different one.

That's my guess at least, I think even with the rules document available online many of us are waiting to see how this is going to pan out and actually work.

Now unofficial banned deck tournament, that's pretty good. Too bad I haven't gotten one!

On 11/17/2018 at 1:39 AM, Deathseed said:

So Adolf wasn’t even Hitler’s final form?

Scary.

Mussolini. Adolf just jumped on the bandwagon. 😜