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Offline TheCatLver
 Post subject: Re: Why did you start playing Go?
Post #61 Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2014 9:14 pm 
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Offline DrStraw
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Post #62 Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2014 3:28 am 
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hey there, I believe I owe you a teaching game. but I started playing go because it mentally challenges me and I need that. your friend should definitely try it as it is much more complicated

oh, gosh. Please please please please :bow: I asked you for a game but then the hyperminded me got distracted and totally forgot. What time would you be free? I am usually free around 11:40 a.m -12:25 p.m.. And will of course be ready at almost anytime in the summer. Although I'm not quite sure about the time-zone, since I'll be in VN for a month in a week. Can I pm. you so we can set up a game? pleasssseee? :bow: :) Thank you for your generosity before hand :D :salute: :clap:


Shouldn't this be relegated to a PM?

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Offline TheCatLver
 Post subject: Re: Why did you start playing Go?
Post #63 Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2014 6:08 am 
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DrStraw wrote:
TheCatLver wrote:
KoyoToya wrote:
hey there, I believe I owe you a teaching game. but I started playing go because it mentally challenges me and I need that. your friend should definitely try it as it is much more complicated

oh, gosh. Please please please please :bow: I asked you for a game but then the hyperminded me got distracted and totally forgot. What time would you be free? I am usually free around 11:40 a.m -12:25 p.m.. And will of course be ready at almost anytime in the summer. Although I'm not quite sure about the time-zone, since I'll be in VN for a month in a week. Can I pm. you so we can set up a game? pleasssseee? :bow: :) Thank you for your generosity before hand :D :salute: :clap:


Shouldn't this be relegated to a PM?


already did. Thanks for reminding me.
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Offline DalekSnare
 Post subject: Re: Why did you start playing Go?
Post #64 Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2014 12:57 am 
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I had a friend who would download anime fansubs, and one day in 2002 he showed me Hikaru no Go as a joke because he thought it was funny that it was being all dramatic about a board game. So did I, actually; the show portrayed with dramatic excitement what looked to us as if stones being put randomly on a board for no reason. I only watched that one episode then, but later I saw a cheap go board at a game store in the mall, and I recognized the game. I told the friend who there with me about the funny show that tried to make a board game look exciting, and we ended up getting it out of curiosity. We quickly realized the game was awesome and I have been playing ever since. Also, Hikaru no Go became and still is my favorite TV show.

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Offline EdLee
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DalekSnare wrote:
stones being put randomly on a board for no reason.
Still true for many of mine. :oops:

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Offline Marcus
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EdLee wrote:
DalekSnare wrote:
stones being put randomly on a board for no reason.
Still true for many of mine. :oops:


Yours probably have mroe thought put ito them than many of mine, Ed. We all have our moments. :D
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Offline EdLee
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Marcus wrote:
Yours probably have more thought put ito them than many of mine, Ed. We all have our moments. :D
Hi Marcus, I meant even when I've put in my best efforts,
many of my moves still appear to a pro to be played by a monkey. :mrgreen:

(OTOH, monkeys have already demonstrated their vastly superior
pattern recognition speed and accuracy
v. humans. There's a YouTube clip somewhere... :) )
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Offline Bonobo
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Post #68 Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2014 6:41 pm 
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<ahem>

8-(*)

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Offline EdLee
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Bonobo. :mrgreen:
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EdLee wrote:
Bonobo. :mrgreen: [..]

From http://aphelis.net/james-mollison-photo ... apes-2004/

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Artist statement:

While watching a nature program on primates I was struck by their facial similarity to our own. Humans are clearly different to animals, but the great apes inhabit that grey area between man and animal. I thought it would be interesting to try to photograph gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and orangutans using the aesthetic of the passport photograph- its ubiquitous style inferring the idea of identity.

I decided against photographing in zoos or using ‘animal actors’ but traveled to Cameroon, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo and Indonesia to meet orphans of the bush meat trade and live pet trade.


:-)


Cordially 8-(*)

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