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One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
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I think to a native speaker it sounds a little bit old-fashioned or formal; "approve" in this sense is being used as a synonym of "endorse" or "support", and in modern English it probably would be more common to use one of those words instead. The reason that it's "approve" and not "approved" is that you're saying that your support of the message is ongoing, rather than just that you supported it at the time it was written but maybe you don't any more.
Basically, the reason you say "I approve this message" is the same as the reason you would say "I play Angband" and not either "I play with Angband" ("play with" is a related but slightly different thing from "play") or "I played Angband" (implies you did at one point in the past but maybe not now).Comment
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Agreed with everything you said, except sounds "a little bit old-fashioned or formal" and "more common to use [synonym] instead". Especially during a Presidential Election year, at least in the US, we native speakers are inundated with political television advertisements ending with, e.g., "I'm Hillary Clinton, and I approve this message."
It's a near constant barrage right now.“We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are DeadComment
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Where did I ever complain of that? I don't recall it. I spend very little time grinding. But I don't ever stand in LoS of Morgoth at less than 30 speed if at all possible. If you love excitement so much, why not fight Morgoth with less than 600 total hit points (or whatever the value of mana storm is)? That would get your blood pumping.
There is overcautious, and there is just plain stupid. Allowing a Morgoth double move is pretty stupid in my book. But hey if you like to play that way, rock on bro.Comment
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PGiven that he won that game in 57k player moves, he is not actually given to stupid risks. Calculated risks are a very different thing. If you are saving your calculated risks for the final fight, you are doing very close to optimal play. Further note you can count turns so you will rarely actually be surprised by a double move. And extra shots archery almost completely eliminates the double movesComment
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I didn't want to address this before, for fear of diluting my apology. But now that we're past that ...
While manastorm has a max of 600, there is a range, and 600 is unlikely. I have killed M with fewer than 600 hp, more than once. Apparently I didn't bother to post a dump, probably because I typically play with modded code and I usually don't keep track of whether I savescum for debugging purposes. Truly, I did worry about having only 631 hp in my most impressive win, but I didn't resort to scumming for spawned or summoned monsters to get a better con ring even so.
Worrying about two manastorms on consecutive moves when you are at speed +29 is misguided. Sure, avoid it if you can, but it's not worth spending 2 hours real time scumming for a higher speed ring unless you are going for your first win. My guess is that you have taken significantly larger risks in every game you have won, much earlier on, perhaps without realizing it.
The biggest common mistake that is "just plain stupid" is being overcautious.
The game is more fun and just plain better when played the way I play.Comment
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For you. That's the great thing about angband: "there's more than one way to play." For me, investing time in a character only to lose in the finale because of not taking a simple precaution is not fun. Sure, I lose focus throughout the game and take risks and sometimes I die because of it sometimes. Total safety like LoS abuse and pillar dancing does get boring. But I bet you factor in things without knowing it, like distance as you mention. You have your minimums too, you probably just haven't enumerated them. Sure +29 is probably pretty safe, but how about +25? +20? +10? +0? At some point you too would say "well that's just a ridiculous risk." And everyone's point is different.Comment
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No, but I was responding to your claim of it being "pretty stupid" to go against M with less than 20 base speed. It is certainly risky. But given the evidence of a 57k play win, it is demonstrably not uniformly stupidComment
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Nick is, as usual, correct. It's not a formal vs informal distinction. "Approve" and "approve of" are simply different verbs. An annoying part of my job is approving some of my colleagues' expenses. I don't always approve of all the expenses I approve. There are other people whose expenses I'm not responsible for approving, but I might well approve of some of their expenses.Comment
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Right, but it's just really unusual to hear it in the present tense. (I think that's the grammatical tense in "... and I approve this message"?)
It wouldn't sound weird at all to me to say "... and I approved this message". This would also (arguably) be a more logical thing to say since, by the time the viewer sees/hears the message it's already been approved.
Anyway...Comment
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