Comments that you have to stop yourself from posting on the Geek
Dane Peacock
United States
Stansbury Park
Utah
That tickles
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While surfing the Geek, do you ever find that you have to bite your tongue, so to speak, to you stop yourself from becoming unbearably annoying? I do. All the time.
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Dane Peacock
United States
Stansbury Park
Utah
That tickles
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In every suggestion request thread, I mean every single one, I feel like posting: "Have you tried Ticket to Ride?"
Example:
Quote: I need a suggestion for a massive, meaty, two-player war game that will consume at least three weekends
"Have you tried Ticket to Ride? It is easier to learn and it plays in just 90 minutes. Plus, more than two can play at the same time!"
Example:
Quote: Which is the best fantasy adventure game: Runebound, Prophesy, Talisman, or Return of the Heroes?
"May I suggest Ticket to Ride? It is a good idea to get Ticket to Ride first just in case you don't like the other games."
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Dane Peacock
United States
Stansbury Park
Utah
That tickles
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I feel like replying to EVERY complaint, niggling criticism, or minor concern about any game with a profound:
"FUN, isn't that what games are supposed to be about:Fun?"
Example:
Quote: I love everything about this game!!! I give it a perfect 10 despite the fact that the colors are too similar and I am colorblind.
"Who cares about the colors just as long as the game is FUN? Isn't that what games are supposed to be about: Fun?"
Example:
Quote: The components are crap, gameplay is boring, and this game is nothing but blind bidding. I HATE blind bidding
"Maybe so, but what about FUN? Isn't that what games are supposed to be about: Fun?"
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Dane Peacock
United States
Stansbury Park
Utah
That tickles
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For whatever reason, I always feel like adding the following statement to any assessment that I make about any game:
"Although I have never played this particular game..."
Example:
"In summary, World of Warcraft's problems outweigh the positives: The ridiculous downtime frustrates me to no end, it is clearly broken out of the box because of the end game issues, and although I have never played this particular game before, it can drag on and on."
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Dane Peacock
United States
Stansbury Park
Utah
That tickles
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Whenever Aldie posts a new thread about the latest upgrade or new feature, I feel like posting:
"It's about time. The German Boardgamegeek has been doing this for years."
Oh wait, I already do that. Not very funny really, just annoying. See what happens when you don't stop yourself?
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Dane Peacock
United States
Stansbury Park
Utah
That tickles
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Back in the old days, I used to do this one: Whenever I tried to make a point, I would preface it with:
"The number one rule in all of gaming is..."
Example:
"The number one rule in all of gaming is never use dice when rock/paper/scissors will suffice."
That got really annoying, especially to me, because I had to keep defending myself on why I thought that whatever my point happened to be was the number one rule in all of gaming.
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Dane Peacock
United States
Stansbury Park
Utah
That tickles
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When I see any type of story or joke that ends with a big punch line, I always have to stop myself from adding:
"Then what happened?"
Try this with any joke. It works great!
Joke Teller: "The blonde stood there for five minutes putting money into the vending machine, receiving Coke after Coke.
The guy behind her finally asks, 'Are you about done yet?'
The blonde replies, 'Are you crazy? I'm still winning!!!'"
Me (not laughing but acting very excited): "Then what happened?"
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Dane Peacock
United States
Stansbury Park
Utah
That tickles
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Whenever someone makes a brief, supposedly profound, one-liner, I always want to reply with:
"(Username), what the hell are you talking about?"
For example:
sky knight x wrote: FUN, isn't that what games are supposed to be about: Fun?
"Sky Knight X, what the hell are you talking about?"
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Matthew Barratt
United Kingdom
Royal Leamington Spa
Warwickshire
Beware the nun of doom
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I have to stop myself from recommending this as an introduction to the 18XX series.
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Eric Knauer
United States
Heathrow
Florida
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Things I often feel like chiming in on, but don’t.
Quote: “How bad can a game be if it has Pirates (or Zombies) in it?”
I find this one of the lamest reasons for excusing a crappy game. If the game sucks, it sucks. End of story. Zombies were neat when you were 10 years old. Now that you're 40, they shouldn't be.
Quote: Getting excited for a game because of the spiffy components.
Granted, I do like nice components and artwork, but if the games blows, nice pieces are just an attempt to mask a mediocre game. Plus, you can find the same (if not better) porcelain creatures, animals, etc. in any glass encasing at the mall.
Quote: Complaining about a weak theme in a card game especially a filler.
C’mon people- you’re playing a 30 minute card game. Complaining that you don’t feel like you’re actually exploring for lost cities seems silly. Is your imagination that fertile that you actually feel like you’re flying balloons (Balloon Cup)? Good nitpicking grief.
Ok, enough ranting and negativity. 
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W M Shubert
United States
Portland
Oregon
KGS is the #1 web site for playing go over the internet. Visit now!
Yes, I really am that awesome.
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I should learn from you, SkyNight.
Several times my attempts at "humor" fell flat and just annoyed people. The worst was when I logged in with a fake account, and posted this question in Power Grid:
"We tried this last night, and had a blast! But I think we got something wrong, because we couldn't find the fuel for the purple player. Red, yellow, and black had their fuel, but purple had none, so we used brown instead. Is that what you're supposed to do?"
I was expecting hilarious fun as people try to figure out how you can get the rules so wrong and still say you "had a blast!"
Instead, a bunch of people got angry and posted nasty messages about how wrong my fake account was playing. When I acted even stupider to try to make it clear that it was a joke, people just got angrier about how dumb I was. Finally an admin erased the thread.
This would all have been better if only I had been like SkyKnightX and kept my annoying humor to myself... 
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Board Game: Snob
[Average Rating:5.00 Unranked]
Crypt Keeper
United States
Palmdale
California
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Whenever someone posts something that's already been posted or has already been done before (sometimes to death), I have to bite my tongue from pointing this out. Why? Because it's seems rude, it isn't fair to newbies, and every time I see someone point this out he/she comes across looking like a snob (no matter how correct he/she is).
[Also discussions on politics and religion beg for me to "straighten" everyone out, but I just don't want to go there on BGG.]
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Steve Donohue
United States
Allen Park
Michigan
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Sky Knight's response to the Power Grid item reminds me of a comment that I make more often than I should.
"The modders don't always get it right, but they don't always get it wrong either."
I've made this comment or one like it a few times and I always regret it. The people who hate the mod system (and in some cases I think the people who use it) are not worth arguing with. They seem convinced that the mods always get it wrong or at least get it wrong so often that the geek will sink under the weight of the low quality contributions the mods have approved.
At least they don't usually take it out on the contributor directly.
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Drew
United States
Eau Claire
Wisconsin
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Huh. Totally not the sort of comments I was thinking about when I read the list title. I had something else in mind.
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Aaron Tubb
United States
Fuquay Varina
North Carolina
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Whenever I see a game on a geeklist that I have never played or that I didn't enjoy all that much, I must resist the urge to say:
"I don't understand how anyone can actually enjoy this game. It is too fiddly and takes way to long to play. It's theme is badly pasted on and it feels more like a multilayer solitaire puzzle than an actual game. It is childish, chaotic, random, and idiotic. Your grammar sucks, your avatar is stupid, and frankly, you have poor taste in games and I'm better than you."
I don't say it anymore because I just hate confrontation and any kind of arguing, even though I know I'm right.
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Aaron Tubb
United States
Fuquay Varina
North Carolina
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Whenever I see a geeklist with less than twenty-five (25) items, I have to fight back the nearly uncontrollable urge to comment:
the voice in my head wrote: Shouldn't this be a forum post? 
Now that we have red flags, I don't have to. (though the flags never seem to work)
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Ziegreich
New Zealand
Auckland
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This gets me: Posts from people that assume readers should know them well enough to pick up that some comment was meant ironically, and respond derisively if a reader doesn't "get it".
You may be famous in your own lunchbox, town, state or even country. But the Geek is global. We don't all know you. We don't know your views and can only go by what you say. If you say Nazism is great, we don't know you're a Jewish comedian. We think you're a stormtrooper. If anyone takes your statements at face value, it's not because they're dumb. It's because you're obscure.
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Marc P
United States
Green Lake--Seattle
Washington
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Whenever I see this little fellow I wish that I had access to an emoticon that could punch that emoticon in the face.
Also, when people use this one  when complaining about something, I have a similar reaction. If someone dies, or you had a horrible day, then fine. But to complain about a site feature? It says to me, "Look at my sad face...LOOK AT IT! I'M REALLY SAD OVER HERE!".
Good thing I'll have the good sense never to post this.
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Preston Fuller
United States
Ashland
New Hampshire
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What game would my girlfriend like to play?
It is the classic post and every time I hold back this burning desire to say
1. "Well for starters she seemed to LOVE the game she and I played last night?"
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2. "Look you have a girlfriend. Games and even more the case, BGG Geek Lists were made for people who don't have girlfriends and have nothing more to do at 10pm on a Saturday.
[i]Don't turn the Geek on when you could be geting your freak on![/i]
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Tor Iver Wilhelmsen
Norway
Oslo
Unspecified
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Whenever there is a heated debate about GeekModding and someone says they declined a picture because it didn't show gameplay or components, but was a funny picture tangentially related to the game, I want to point out that this is a boardgaming community and hobby site - not just a database of games. And therefore they ought to be more accepting in the contributions added.
Never do, though. I think.
(I mean, you cannot GeekMod away geeklists that are barely related to the hobby, so why not have some leniency in other contributions as well?)
Every funny "meeple in the wild" picture beats all 5 megapixel photos of individual cards in some game anyway.
Now if you will excuse me I have to go and write a blow-by-blow session report for Tic-tac-toe.
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Josh Luub
United States
San Jose
California
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The opposite of WIN is LOSE. It has ONE O. LOOSE is the opposite of TIGHT. You're gamers, you should know this.
While we're at it, your curiosity is PIQUED, and you WHET your appetite.
Yessir, I'd be one gigantic jerk if I kept posting that all over the place.
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Nate Sandall
United States
Portland
Oregon
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I thought about not posting this item.
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But I've refrained long enough. And this seems like a good opportunity to post some things I've thought about but refrained from.
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Ever since my work started blocking my access to the boardgamegeek.com my participation in the discussions going on here dropped off quite a bit.
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There were many times someone posted something that just made my skin crawl and I wanted to tell them just how big of a bitch or asshole that individual really is.
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But I decided I didn't have time mostly because I wouldn't be willing and able to follow it up. And then I'd look like the bitch or asshole.
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I stopped reading long winded postings because I didn't have time.
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I missed the whole "ameritrash debate" apparently.
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I wish I was a better writer, then I'd write more and people would appreciate me better.
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One day someone posted that the so called "ameritrash debate" was over and that those who wanted to call their games trash had won. I wanted to tell him to....to.....to do something that would seriously get me flagged. (email me and I'll be happy to share several of the ideas of things I would have said that would make even sisteray blush). I didn't participate in this "debate" and not sure I would want to now because it seems so middle school to me.
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So now I hate the world "ameritrash". I love all kinds of games regardless of their origins. And while I'm fond of many of the people who are fond of declaring themselves part of this "movement" I didn't want to be the ass wasting my time telling them what I thought about this.
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I checked out the boardgamegeek.com entry over on wikipedia.org, and I can't believe someone actually put in that there was a debate over censorship and the banning of an abusive user. I was so tempted to become a wikipedian just so I could link that part of the article to the wikipedia article about internet trolling and how that now banned user was simply a troll. The world is so much bigger than just this one little website and, well, I just don't have the time to waste anymore on people who think what they think is the be all and end all. Much as I'd like to try to influence our hobby with my own ideals I fear that I would just become bitter and frustrated. I have to pick and choose my battles in life, and, well, I'm sorry but I've chosen to severely limit the number of battles I wage over the internet.
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So I've resisted posting all this over the last couple years because I don't want to sink time I don't have into a debate that nobody in a hundred years will ever give a flying fig about. Many times I've thought about creating and participating in such conversations, but never felt it would be worth it. So this geeklist seemed like a place where I could put a little of my thoughts down that I've had. Feel free to respond any way you like and I may read it and I may or may not respond. Just know that I'm out doing something better than trying to overtly inflict my own personal agenda out on the community. I prefer to work behind the scenes and affect one person at a time with the skills that I have that are much better than my writing abilities.
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I miss Chris Farrell
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Martin Wallace games are overhyped and overrated.
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I love the new boardgamegeek application on Facebook.com.
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I really hate myspace
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I'm horny
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I'm out of geeklist ideas and I wish that weren't so.
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I love this community!
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Board Game: Camp
[Average Rating:6.92 Unranked]
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I fight the urge to start each post with "This one time, at band camp..."
For example, this post could have easily been:
Quote: "This one time, at band camp, I had to fight the urge to start each post with 'this one time, at band camp...'
I was going to get all cute and try a multilayered self-referential post here, but it's just not worth it. Not like this one time, at band camp...
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Adrian Hague
United Kingdom
Leamington, Warwickshire
West Midlands
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"This is the first game I thought of when I saw your list"
...it's been a while...
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Posted Fri Sep 7, 2007 6:29 pm
LOL!
Yaaaaarrrr! 
Seriously though, I don't have much of a problem with any emoticon. Actually I'm thinking of upping the usage of new ones a bit with the advent of inline images.
