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Friday Fun Thread for January 10, 2025

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Please remember that "50 percent plus 1" is an incorrect description of a simple majority. Robert's Rules of Order edition 10 § 44:1:

The word majority means "more than half". For example (assuming that there are no voters having fractions of a vote, as may occur in some conventions):

  • If 19 votes are cast, a majority (more than 9.5) is 10.
  • If 20 votes are cast, a majority (more than 10) is 11.
  • If 21 votes are cast, a majority (more than 10.5) is 11.

"More than half" is not the same as "at least 50 percent plus 1". Assuming integer votes, if 19 votes are cast, "more than half" = "more than 9.5" = "at least 10", while "at least 50 percent plus 1" = "at least 9.5 + 1" = "at least 10.5" = "at least 11" = wrong.

What is your favorite puzzle game? Tetris? Puzzle League? Klondike? Minesweeper?

I recently started playing Puzzle League (specifically, emulated Tetris Attack), and I have to say that it's the most fun I've had with a video game in a while.

"It's really crazy. People are climbing into delivery trucks to look around, stalking clerks, sneaking into storerooms. Sometimes they will line up before opening just to be the first to ask whether there's anything new," said the press secretary for the PLCB [Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board]. "We want to give the average Pennsylvanian the opportunity to buy a once-in-a-lifetime bottle. We don't jack up the price, and we don't make it hard to find."

Through the Attestations, the PLCB showed that Pennsylvania's bourbon-whiskey enthusiasts have a strong desire to lawfully purchase bourbon whiskey at the PLCB's [govt.-owned liquor] stores, causing annoyance and inconvenience. With regard to a "risk of physical harm to or the personal security of an individual" [sic], as required by [the law], the Attestations provided mere speculation. Therefore, we conclude that the PLCB failed to meet its burden of establishing that the requested records are exempt from disclosure under the personal-safety exemption.

When will people learn that high prices are better than shortages?

At least fifty percent, plus one half.

What is your favorite puzzle game? Tetris? Puzzle League? Klondike? Minesweeper?

I recently started playing Puzzle League (specifically, emulated Tetris Attack), and I have to say that it's the most fun I've had with a video game in a while.

I've never played the original Tetris Attack before, I assumed it was a Tetris game and was thoroughly confused by your framing. I loved puzzle league back in the day though, I ended up in hospital in a foreign country once and while my girlfriend at the time lent me dozens of her ds games, I pretty much just played planet puzzle league and picross all week.

What are you emulating it on and which emulator are you using?

I don't know about OP, but the SNES version is good. SNES emulators are pretty much solved by now, so any emulator is good enough, but for puzzle games on the go I'd recommend looking at chinese portable emulation consoles. For low end emulators like you'd need for puzzles, the Miyoo consoles are cheap and impressively well built for the price; they'll easily emulate 16 bits consoles and below, plus the PSX. If you wanna go further there's a whole rabbit hole for emulation consoles. Look for handhelds from Anbernic, Retroid, Trimui, etc...

Man that is a hell of a rabbit hole. I mostly emulate on my phone these days (ds and gba games work flawlessly on most android devices and that was my heyday) but my nephew's birthday is coming up and he's obsessed with emulation at the moment. Between this and the opening of steamos it's a good time to be a fan of portable gaming.

What are you emulating it on and which emulator are you using?

I'm just using BSNES on my computer.

What is your favorite puzzle game? Tetris? Puzzle League? Klondike? Minesweeper?

Tetris is evergreen for me. But sometimes I temporarily get into others (Puyo Puyo, Puzzle League, Columns, recently Cleopatra's Fortune). When I want to feel particularly angry I play the Tetris TGM games.

Please remember that "50 percent plus 1" is an incorrect description of a simple majority.

It's "50 percent (rounded down to the nearest whole number of votes), plus 1".

Let the bodies hit the floor, let the bodies hit the floor, let the bodies hit the … tss tss

FLOOOOOR

This made me laugh way harder than it should've. Well done, I thought about nominating this for AAQC but figured the mods would just be annoyed if I did.

Nah, we don't mind getting a goofy report or two. Well, maybe when the actual roundup is made?

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