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Author Topic: [MILK] There were 12 eggs here what did you do with them? (Happy thread?!)  (Read 16176039 times)

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Re: [Poi] The deadly game of poi (Happy thread? Poi! B.. Baka!)
« Reply #160725 on: July 30, 2015, 08:20:25 am »

And there was the guy (I honestly cannot remember his name. Pretty sure it was in China, though) that had very few men to defend a city. So he left the gates open and played an instrument in it. The guys SUPPOSED to be besieging thought it was a trap and left.
It's happened several times throughout history when enemies faced generals and warlords who had reputations for being cunning tactical geniuses. The enemy would see aforementioned warlord in an obviously disadvantaged position, ripe for the slaughter - and the enemy would assume this is only because that general wants it to appear so right before the ambush. And then it turns out they were bluffing and counting on their reputation for cunning stratagems to trick the enemy into being overcautious.
The one you're referring to is Zhuge Liang's work, and is legendary and possibly mythical; it nonetheless makes a good story. Zhuge Liang has very few soldiers left, Sima Yi is marching on the city he's stuck in and Zhuge Liang orders all the gates be opened and all his soldiers dress up as civilians to sweep the streets while he calmly played his Guqin, which is like a guitar if you played it with the instrument resting on a table. The tension comes about in that if he played a single note wrong and showed his anxiety, Sima Yi would march through the city and kill him. He maintains his calm composure and Sima Yi is unnerved by this, as Zhuge Liang has a reputation for being so calculative he literally does math calculations for fun in his spare time. He makes the judgement that Zhuge Liang would not be so calm and would not make such a risk as Zhuge Liang never takes risks, thinking that Zhuge Liang's apparent weakness is just a sign of his surety in his safety - there must be an ambush within the city. He withdraws his armies.
Eventually he figures out what just happened, but by then Zhuge Liang already escaped.
My favourite one has to be when Zhuge Liang invented the wheelbarrow, had his men use the wheelbarrow to transport grain across the treacherous mountain roads (whose bridges had been sabotaged by Sima Yi), then had his wheelbarrows deliberately captured by Sima Yi. It doesn't end there, as Sima Yi sees the wheelbarrow and thinks "this is awesome, reverse engineer it and manufacture it at once" to also increase the strength of his own supply trains. He loads up his grain on these wheelbarrows and sends them to a secure mountain Fortress. This supply train is intercepted by some soldiers claiming to be from Sima Yi, in reality they are Zhuge Liang's troops who have marched deep into enemy territory wearing enemy uniforms - they take the grain, the captured wheelbarrows and bring them back to friendly lines to save the campaign which was about to end due to starvation.
The guy did math for fun

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Re: [Poi] The deadly game of poi (Happy thread? Poi! B.. Baka!)
« Reply #160726 on: July 30, 2015, 08:32:39 am »

See, Julius Caesar and Tacticus never did cool stuff like that.
How annoying.
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Re: [Poi] The deadly game of poi (Happy thread? Poi! B.. Baka!)
« Reply #160727 on: July 30, 2015, 10:22:59 am »

Yup, that was ol' C.
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Re: [Poi] The deadly game of poi (Happy thread? Poi! B.. Baka!)
« Reply #160728 on: July 30, 2015, 05:06:04 pm »

Gencon day 1.  Exhibit hall closed.  It took a couple days, but I managed to stop thinking about work all the time.  Now I'm thinking about what books I'm going to buy.  Found a copy of tenra bansho zero, and I might be able to get it for free as long overdue payment for some artwork I did for a local game shop a couple years ago.
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Re: [Poi] The deadly game of poi (Happy thread? Poi! B.. Baka!)
« Reply #160729 on: July 30, 2015, 06:33:47 pm »

There is something almost perversely enjoyable about blasting Rage Against The Machine whilst driving a Mercedes.  There's a small part of me that wants to say I've become everything I always hated, but honestly, there was never a time that I actually hated anything about this.
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Re: [Poi] The deadly game of poi (Happy thread? Poi! B.. Baka!)
« Reply #160730 on: July 30, 2015, 07:16:14 pm »

There is something almost perversely enjoyable about blasting Rage Against The Machine whilst driving a Mercedes.  There's a small part of me that wants to say I've become everything I always hated, but honestly, there was never a time that I actually hated anything about this.
To be fair, it's apparently a 10-year-old Mercedes. I don't know when you bought it, but I wouldn't consider that too ridiculous money-wise.
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Re: [Poi] The deadly game of poi (Happy thread? Poi! B.. Baka!)
« Reply #160731 on: July 30, 2015, 07:23:45 pm »

Best way to fight the power is to subvert it from within, right?
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Re: [Poi] The deadly game of poi (Happy thread? Poi! B.. Baka!)
« Reply #160732 on: July 30, 2015, 07:31:51 pm »

Best way to fight the power is to subvert it from within, right?

That's what I've always said.

The best part about fighting The Man from the inside is I get to be The Man until the revolution comes.
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Re: [Poi] The deadly game of poi (Happy thread? Poi! B.. Baka!)
« Reply #160733 on: July 30, 2015, 07:35:16 pm »

My Great Aunt Betty's cancer was successfully removed, no chaemo, just radiotherapy. Same as what happened to my Aunt Mary. I don't know quite how lucky one family can be.
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Re: [Poi] The deadly game of poi (Happy thread? Poi! B.. Baka!)
« Reply #160734 on: July 30, 2015, 08:43:16 pm »

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I mean, grass is always greener, of course. But still. First the Liquor Lordship and now this. I gotta get around to getting that chin implant.
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Re: [Poi] The deadly game of poi (Happy thread? Poi! B.. Baka!)
« Reply #160735 on: July 30, 2015, 09:09:56 pm »

Best way to fight the power is to subvert it from within, right?

That's what I've always said.

The best part about fighting The Man from the inside is I get to be The Man until the revolution comes.
Hah. You were the revolution. The coming revolution is just the next Man.
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Re: [Poi] The deadly game of poi (Happy thread? Poi! B.. Baka!)
« Reply #160736 on: July 30, 2015, 09:36:21 pm »

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« Reply #160737 on: July 30, 2015, 09:43:01 pm »

I am in a relationship now, I think. Not with that cute guy, unfortunately, but a cute girl.

So yeah, this is a first. A relationship, I mean. So yeah. Interesting.
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Re: [Poi] The deadly game of poi (Happy thread? Poi! B.. Baka!)
« Reply #160738 on: July 30, 2015, 09:44:39 pm »

That's just as cool!
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Re: [Poi] The deadly game of poi (Happy thread? Poi! B.. Baka!)
« Reply #160739 on: July 30, 2015, 09:52:20 pm »

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