When I first learned to play Ticket to Ride at a board game store open games night, our group called drawing off the top of the deck "heart of the cards".
I think it might have been unintentional, but from a certain time onwards everyone starts to ask to use cards to get a route as if they were asking for a ticket at an actual train station.
I love how everyone has their own train stash layout. Ian and Cam took care to arrange their trains, Beej did as well, but it's a fun little wave. James doesn't give a shit and just has a pile.
Personally I'd love to see *Galaxy Trucker* I don't have as much fun with it any more because I've gotten too good at it. The game is at its best when everything is going wrong, and if most of the players are unfamiliar, it's _delightful_.
You should buy the first expansion, it adds a deck of "and now you are soooo fucked" cards, I need to play with 5 or 6 of them for something to go wrong, but they make the game fun again for me.
With this game, you should always take the top card (no-scope) before getting a card that is layed out because you have a chance to "no-scope" a locomotive rainbow card and then get the color that you need. Protips
Not necessarily. If you need two cards of a specific colour which are laid out, then going for a blind top card is just unnecessary risk. Best case scenario you get a rainbow locomotive that you're using as the colour of the card already laid out. Worst, and most likely, case you get a different colour.
As always a brilliant video. There is however no need to "correct" the use of "he". It is the gender neutral pronoun in English. "He or she" is often used, as in MTG, but is done purely in cases where companies want to look more inclusive. "They" and "their" are plural and should never be used in the singular. As Canadians you should know better! ;-)
Since the 14th century the use of "they" to change a singular to a plural has been used. Such as "Every soldier is expected to do their duty." This is a plural (their) referring back to a singular (every), however as "every" is a plural in meaning if not in its grammar it still works. The use of "they/their" as a replacement for he to denote a person of "undecided/non-binary" gender dates to the 1950s in English inheritance law and was often not used as "it" was considered more proper (though quite a derogatory term in my opinion). This mirrors the singular use of "you" from the 15th century, which is now considered correct. However I fear that if we lose the distinction of singular and plural we will have a lot more problems than solutions. I suggest we adopt "hen" pronounced more like "han" from Swedish, this is a gender "unknown" singular pronoun that is the same as the singular "they" but without the confusion.
The Oxford Dictionaries say that singular dates back to the 16th century, but there are documented uses of various forms of the word used that way at the end of the 15th century. They've used it both ways for over 500 years, so saying one is wrong is just not true. Besides, personal pronouns are generally messed up in English. They haven't even split singular and plural second person, opting to go with "you" for both. If they can work through that, I don't think "they" will cause much additional trouble. Also I wouldn't just adopt "hen" cause the objective and possessive form would probably be "hem" and "hes" which just sounds like an Irish person saying "him" and "his".
The thing is that just because it's gramatically correct to just use "he", that doesn't mean it's particularly kind. Many dialects use "they" as a singular pronoun for gender neutrality and because that is the case it means that however correct "he" is as gender neutral, it just doesn't have that association any more. That means that if someone were to use "he" many people would take that to mean exclusively male. So however correct it might be, people *will* take it that way, which makes it feel like its intended audience is also exclusively male. I hope that doesn't sound condescending :)
"Never ever will we play Risk."
*looks 3 videos down in the playlist*
Yup, perfect prediction there, James.
People are allowed to change their minds, aren't they?
When I first learned to play Ticket to Ride at a board game store open games night, our group called drawing off the top of the deck "heart of the cards".
The game starts at 16:45
I think it might have been unintentional, but from a certain time onwards everyone starts to ask to use cards to get a route as if they were asking for a ticket at an actual train station.
I love how everyone has their own train stash layout. Ian and Cam took care to arrange their trains, Beej did as well, but it's a fun little wave. James doesn't give a shit and just has a pile.
I want to play this now!
Love this game, and a very entertaining stream! To the victor the spoils!
I just bought this on my Xperia Z4 because these guys make it look really good.
And at 41 minutes we have genesis of Orville & Wilbur Ronk characters that Beej & Ian used on Qwerpline!
Personally I'd love to see *Galaxy Trucker*
I don't have as much fun with it any more because I've gotten too good at it.
The game is at its best when everything is going wrong, and if most of the players are unfamiliar, it's _delightful_.
You should buy the first expansion, it adds a deck of "and now you are soooo fucked" cards, I need to play with 5 or 6 of them for something to go wrong, but they make the game fun again for me.
Luiginicon Yeah, it's on my list, but, y'know, board games are expensive, so, SOMEDAY.
With this game, you should always take the top card (no-scope) before getting a card that is layed out because you have a chance to "no-scope" a locomotive rainbow card and then get the color that you need. Protips
Not necessarily. If you need two cards of a specific colour which are laid out, then going for a blind top card is just unnecessary risk. Best case scenario you get a rainbow locomotive that you're using as the colour of the card already laid out. Worst, and most likely, case you get a different colour.
@49:06 Oh how wrong you were james.... oh how wrong you were
Hello from 2023!
Um, I had no idea this game had a plot.
Ian is right Figi is less commercial than Tahiti
Ian went to Fiji for the Fiji Water.
i think it is funny that they would never play risk, when late the play risk
ian took to of the all color one
#LetsFuckSomeTrains2016
Duluth is nowhere near where it is in real life.
If Beej wants to eat turn off the damn mic! :P
Ian cheated at 20 mins in
If by "cheating" you mean; "made a mistake which got immediately corrected the minute after"... then yes.
As always a brilliant video. There is however no need to "correct" the use of "he". It is the gender neutral pronoun in English. "He or she" is often used, as in MTG, but is done purely in cases where companies want to look more inclusive. "They" and "their" are plural and should never be used in the singular. As Canadians you should know better! ;-)
Singular they has been in use in English for hundreds of years.
Since the 14th century the use of "they" to change a singular to a plural has been used. Such as "Every soldier is expected to do their duty." This is a plural (their) referring back to a singular (every), however as "every" is a plural in meaning if not in its grammar it still works. The use of "they/their" as a replacement for he to denote a person of "undecided/non-binary" gender dates to the 1950s in English inheritance law and was often not used as "it" was considered more proper (though quite a derogatory term in my opinion). This mirrors the singular use of "you" from the 15th century, which is now considered correct. However I fear that if we lose the distinction of singular and plural we will have a lot more problems than solutions.
I suggest we adopt "hen" pronounced more like "han" from Swedish, this is a gender "unknown" singular pronoun that is the same as the singular "they" but without the confusion.
The Oxford Dictionaries say that singular dates back to the 16th century, but there are documented uses of various forms of the word used that way at the end of the 15th century. They've used it both ways for over 500 years, so saying one is wrong is just not true.
Besides, personal pronouns are generally messed up in English. They haven't even split singular and plural second person, opting to go with "you" for both. If they can work through that, I don't think "they" will cause much additional trouble.
Also I wouldn't just adopt "hen" cause the objective and possessive form would probably be "hem" and "hes" which just sounds like an Irish person saying "him" and "his".
"They" is a perfectly good gender neutral singular pronoun, and is what is used in every level of formality in English except formal English itself.
The thing is that just because it's gramatically correct to just use "he", that doesn't mean it's particularly kind. Many dialects use "they" as a singular pronoun for gender neutrality and because that is the case it means that however correct "he" is as gender neutral, it just doesn't have that association any more. That means that if someone were to use "he" many people would take that to mean exclusively male. So however correct it might be, people *will* take it that way, which makes it feel like its intended audience is also exclusively male.
I hope that doesn't sound condescending :)