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18 Jan 13 UTC

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Face to face

Played my first face to face last weekend. Bought an 18 pack of PBR and played with 6 total on the board. 3 of us had played before and 3 never. Ended up the 3 that had played drew E/F/G. We made it to 1905 before we ran out of time, but one of the noobs was hooked immediately and ordered the game online next day. He's trying to set up another face to face this weekend.

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Ghost Rating Viewer

Spending some time on a side project making a GR viewer

Yonni (136 )
15 Jan 13 UTC

So, I've been mucking around in Excel for a bit creating a workbook to
view your GR and whatnot over the years. I figured it was a good way
to learn some VBA during my downtime and might be something that
people are interested in. It currently only goes back one year and
only includes the general ghost ratings because grabbing the data from
the web was going really slowly on my computer. Alderian said he'll
give me a dump of CSV files at some point so I'll incorporate them
then.

The macros are expectedly obtuse considering I have almost nil
programming experience but I've cut them down enough so it's working
even on this shitbox of a machine. I'm also not sure how it translates
into other versions of Excel from 2010. It doesn't appear possible to
an Excel file to the internet while maintaining the micros so you'll
all just have to download it. I've given a dropbox link to d/l it
below. I'm not sure if this is the best way to share the file so let
me know if you have other suggestions.

So, I'm really just posting the working file here wondering if anyone
has suggestions or requests for me to add in to the thing. Doesn't
matter how mundane it is, if it tickles my fancy to try figure it out
in VBA, I'll give it a shot.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ck3uiw7s4m5fxk8/GR.xlsm

The Hanged Man (4160 )
15 Jan 13 UTC

Looking forward to a GR Viewer! http://www.neighborhoodvalues.com/nv/else/pixs/PixSm/NV_els33.jpg

goldfinger0303 (3157 )
15 Jan 13 UTC

Are macros really the best way to run that? You have to go in a record each one for each player, right?

Then again, I'm not really sure how else I'd do it. I mean, I could get all the data from each spreadsheet for the player with a a preprogramed HLookup, but that would take a long time to test and I'm not sure how I'd get the results in graphical form.

Yonni (136 )
15 Jan 13 UTC

Nah. You don't have to record macros. You can type them up yourself. I'll sometimes record one just to see what expressions and syntax Excel suggests but otherwise I'm just typing them up.

Yonni (136 )
15 Jan 13 UTC

I actually do have the VLoopkup commands all programmed in already to one of the spreadsheets. The macro really just copies and pastes it. I was considering adding them into the code though just for completeness.

goldfinger0303 (3157 )
15 Jan 13 UTC

Alright, I had though you were going through and recording a macro for each player lol. It seems pretty well designed though

Yonni (136 )
15 Jan 13 UTC

Haha. God no. That'd be hell. And thanks.

StackelbergFollower (1463 )
15 Jan 13 UTC

This is an awesome idea. I did run in to a few kinks.

The drop down menu also won't populate the list of names to plot for me. The macro for it seems to be missing - Excel thinks it was called "DropDown3_Change" but I can't find that macro in the list of macros.

The interface is pretty sweet though.

Yonni (136 )
15 Jan 13 UTC

Hmm. It seems to have disappeared on my computer too. I stopped using it when I realized how much more difficult it was to find the name in the drop down than to just type it.
I'll try figure out where it went though.

Yonni (136 )
15 Jan 13 UTC

Ah the macro is there. It's just not assigned to it. To make it work, right click on it and hit assign macro. It's called nameselect

goldfinger0303 (3157 )
18 Jan 13 UTC

So in the end will this be added to the ghostratings site, or what?

Yonni (136 )
18 Jan 13 UTC

I dunno, haven't spoken to TGM or Alderian about that. If this Dropbox link works, I can keep posting it every time he posts the GR or, if it works for everyone, he can add it to the site.

I've got some ideas for when I get the rest of the data. Alderian has been indisposed but, pending gettig the data, I should have it running by February. My only worry is that, once I add the rest of the data, the file will be too large and sluggish. Excel can be the worst.

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EOG: Livestrong, take drugs

gameID=108531

Placeholder for pending eog

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17 Jan 13 UTC

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Interest in Passworded Full Press Live game tonight?

Interest in quality Full Press Live game tonight?

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17 Jan 13 UTC

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US employee 'outsourced job to China'

US employee 'outsourced job to China' for a fifth of his salay and spent his days watching cat videos on YouTube and playing diplomacy. Own up who is it?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21043693

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Should Knowledge Be Free?

We've had this debate ad nauseum regarding music, movies, games, etc. In light of the Aaron Swartz debacle, I think it's worth talking about Piracy in the context of Science.

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16 Jan 13 UTC

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAD MARX!!!!!!!!!!

From: Sandgoose!

P.S. Mine (Draugnar) is next Monday. I'll be 47. How old are you?

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16 Jan 13 UTC

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Ah... I forgot to do the 6th annual Pitirre Awards... so: dip awards 2012

the year has finalized and the awards has come in so we can get an idea of who's who in 2012.

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17 Jan 13 UTC

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Craziest story I've ever read

this is a good read, even if you dont care about sports . http://deadspin.com/5976517/manti-teos-dead-girlfriend-the-most-heartbreaking-and-inspirational-story-of-the-college-football-season-is-a-hoax

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17 Jan 13 UTC

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Looking for final player for game

Game is http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=107933, full press and 7 day phases. Not anon as the rest of us know each other IRL. One player short, pm for password if interested.

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Coming soon: national database of the mentally ill

"The official attitude will be: anyone who sees a psychiatrist is a potential killer... The motto will become: destroy the patient, before he can destroy others."
http://lewrockwell.com/rappoport/rappoport12.1.html

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13 Jan 13 UTC

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Sitter

I need a sitter from the 19th through the 27th... it may go a day or so beyond that as well. I hope to have most of my games paused but I'll still have between 5-8 to play. None are shorter than 24 hour phases. If anyone is available and could do this, I'll pay you in hugs and maybe a box of chocolates if you're dumb enough to give an ass like me your mailing address.

Thanks :D

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17 Jan 13 UTC

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phone unlock help

can someone help me to unlock this phone?
i don't need to unlock the service just the personal lock sistem,i got it from someone who does not remember the code.
nokia 1208 type:RH-105 imei:358317/03/833725/5

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10 Jan 13 UTC
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Favorite Movie Quotes

What movie quotes do you find so memorable and/or useful that you find yourself saying them in everyday life?

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15 Jan 13 UTC

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Hitler: Evil Overlord or misunderstood genius? You decide.

In honor of Ulytau

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16 Jan 13 UTC

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i am back

hi guys,remember me? i am back

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17 Jan 13 UTC

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Where do you draw the line?

Another thread about copyright issues. How to define piracy, where do you think the actual act of theft occurs?

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How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/story-man-outsourced-china-could-135701981.html

See what I did there?

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16 Jan 13 UTC

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Help

How do you find out the id number for a game.

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16 Jan 13 UTC

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Dutch diplomacy screwed up here

My sincerest apologies on behalf of our dwarf nation.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2262061/Its-date-Cameron-rushes-forward-Big-Speech-Europe-Friday-avoid-upsetting-French-Germans.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

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Can't unpause.

Some friends and I are having some tech troubles with our game <http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=102754> in that it won't let us unpause the game. This might not be the right place for this but couldn't find it. Halp? Thanks much!

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16 Jan 13 UTC

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Diplo Turn Limit?

Hi there, just wondering if standard Diplomacy games have a turn limit, ie do they end in a particular year if the game is not finished by then?

Thanks

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15 Jan 13 UTC

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Sandy Hook Conspiracy Video

Not sure if this thread has already been made, or if this video is "old". But it's circulating quite a bit on my Facebook at the moment. I'm interested to see what you guys think of this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx9GxXYKx_8

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15 Jan 13 UTC

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webdip identity

Possibly, I brought this up already, but I find this interesting. When I'm on webdiplomacy.net arguing / playing Diplomacy, am I redhouse, or am I the person behind the computer?

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16 Jan 13 UTC

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Why all the Lori Grimes hate?

I'm only through the second episode of season three of Walking Dead, but why all the Lori Grimes hate? We've all done dumb things, like drive off in a car without telling anyone and crashing into a walker, and who hasn't lost a child (a few hundred times), so beyond the obvious complaints (crashing car, losing son), why all the Lori Grimes hate?

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happy birthday gourd

free jimbo.

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14 Jan 13 UTC

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Leaving Notes in Games

Hi there, I have about ten games going at once atm, and I'm wondering if theres some in-system way of leaving notes for myself regarding each game. Who I'm allied with, etc. Thanks

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On GM crops

"France, remember, long refused to accept the potato because it was an American import. As one commentator put it recently, Europe is on the verge of becoming a food museum. We well-fed consumers are blinded by romantic nostalgia for the traditional farming of the past. Because we have enough to eat, we can afford to indulge our aesthetic illusions."

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14 Jan 13 UTC

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Why is the forum so slow to load?

Lately it's been taking forever with everything. I demand more speed. I'm an American, and I pay my taxes.

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Please pray for my mom

For those of you who believe in God, or, hell, those of you who don't if you're willing, please pray for my mom. If you remember my post from a week ago, she had a brain aneurysm, and now the pressure in her brain is increasing and she is probably going to die. So please pray.

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