rec.games.trading-cards.jyhad

Question about the Presence forum sign-up

19 messages from 10 participants · 19 May 2008 – 21 May 2008
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brandons...@yahoo.com

I'm trying to sign up for the Presence forum and it is asking me who the oldest and strongest Ventrue is and I say it's Ventrue himself, but it disagrees. What is the answer it is looking for so that I can bypass this lame test? Thanks, Brandon

LSJ

[ quoted text not captured ] Perhaps it is asking about the card game. Check the set of crypt cards and find the oldest Ventrue in print.

librarian

[ quoted text not captured ] Arika -- Super Fun Cards www.superfuncards.com *NEW Website!* auct...@superfuncards.com

librarian

[ quoted text not captured ] And it's to keep out bots. Not so lame the reason. best - chris [ quoted text not captured ]

Frederick Scott

"LSJ" <vte...@white-wolf.com> wrote in message news:G9iYj.1139$co7...@nlpi066.nbdc.sbc.com... [ quoted text not captured ] If this is some sort of well-meaning "test" for truly interested Jyhad players to keep out the riff-raff, then it should make clear that's talking about a *CARD*. :-P Fred

Frederick Scott

"LSJ" <vte...@white-wolf.com> wrote in message news:G9iYj.1139$co7...@nlpi066.nbdc.sbc.com... [ quoted text not captured ] If this is some sort of well-meaning "test" for truly interested [ quoted text not captured ]

brandons...@yahoo.com

> Arika > > -- > Super Fun Cardswww.superfuncards.com*NEW Website!* > aucti...@superfuncards.com Thanks, guys! Brandon

Peter D Bakija

In article <2ziYj.491$4m2...@newsfe09.phx>, "Frederick Scott" <nos...@no.spam.dot.com> wrote: > If this is some sort of well-meaning "test" for truly interested > Jyhad players to keep out the riff-raff, then it should make clear > that's talking about a *CARD*. :-P Nah. It is to keep spambots off the list. Lots of web BBS sites have questions like this (usually along the lines of "are you an actual person?"). I suspect that the one on the Presence list is just meant to be a funny question that should (in theory) be obvious to VTES players. Peter D Bakija pd...@lightlink.com http://www.lightlink.com/pdb6/vtes.html "It's too bad she won't live! But then again, who does?" -Gaff

Frederick Scott

"Peter D Bakija" <pd...@lightlink.com> wrote in message news:pdb6-D0D78B.1...@news-server.stny.rr.com... > In article <2ziYj.491$4m2...@newsfe09.phx>, > "Frederick Scott" <nos...@no.spam.dot.com> wrote: > >> If this is some sort of well-meaning "test" for truly interested >> Jyhad players to keep out the riff-raff, then it should make clear >> that's talking about a *CARD*. :-P > > Nah. It is to keep spambots off the list. Sure, that too. Wasn't really my point. > Lots of web BBS sites have > questions like this (usually along the lines of "are you an actual > person?"). I suspect that the one on the Presence list is just meant to > be a funny question that should (in theory) be obvious to VTES players. The point being, it's a question that can stump players because it was phrased wrong. It's kind of a pet peeve when guys like that set out to do something that in theory should be easy (devise a question that every player of the game should know) and screw it up like that. Fred

Obtenebration

On May 19, 4:00 pm, "Frederick Scott" <nos...@no.spam.dot.com> wrote: > "Peter D Bakija" <p...@lightlink.com> wrote in messagenews:pdb6-D0D78B.1...@news-server.stny.rr.com... > > > In article <2ziYj.491$4m2....@newsfe09.phx>, > > "Frederick Scott" <nos...@no.spam.dot.com> wrote: > > >> If this is some sort of well-meaning "test" for truly interested > >> Jyhad players to keep out the riff-raff, then it should make clear > >> that's talking about a *CARD*. :-P > > > Nah. It is to keep spambots off the list. > > Sure, that too. Wasn't really my point. > > > Lots of web BBS sites have > > questions like this (usually along the lines of "are you an actual > > person?"). I suspect that the one on the Presence list is just meant to > > be a funny question that should (in theory) be obvious to VTES players. > > The point being, it's a question that can stump players because it was > phrased wrong. It's kind of a pet peeve when guys like that set out > to do something that in theory should be easy (devise a question that > every player of the game should know) and screw it up like that. > > Fred the oldest and strongest Ventrue is Well, the problem is in the question itself. Strongest "Ventrue" is clearly Marcus Vitel.

Peter D Bakija

In article <ZDnYj.532$4m2...@newsfe09.phx>, "Frederick Scott" <nos...@no.spam.dot.com> wrote: > The point being, it's a question that can stump players because it was > phrased wrong. Yeah, I suppose. But it seems likely that it hasn't actually come up that much. [ quoted text not captured ]

Frederick Scott

"Peter D Bakija" <pd...@lightlink.com> wrote in message news:pdb6-D37F67.1...@news-server.stny.rr.com... > In article <ZDnYj.532$4m2...@newsfe09.phx>, > "Frederick Scott" <nos...@no.spam.dot.com> wrote: > >> The point being, it's a question that can stump players because it was >> phrased wrong. > > Yeah, I suppose. But it seems likely that it hasn't actually come up > that much. True. Like I said it's a pet peeve to mind stuff like that. It's something that shouldn't come up ever, so it bugs me even though you're right that the size of the problem it causes is likely miniscule. I'm not sure why things like that bug me. Or maybe I'm not sure why they don't bug other people. Fred

LSJ

[ quoted text not captured ] OCPD, obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (not to be confused with OCD). Welcome to the club.

jiazhou...@gmail.com

If you polled 100 VtES players with the question "Name a Ventrue," you would likely get "Arika" as the response 80%. Cheers, Dai

Frederick Scott

<jiazhou...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:ea78dcb6-7a8f-40c3...@l17g2000pri.googlegroups.com... > If you polled 100 VtES players with the question "Name a Ventrue," you > would likely get "Arika" as the response 80%. Oh, I doubt that.

Blooded Sand

On May 20, 11:00 am, "Frederick Scott" <nos...@no.spam.dot.com> wrote: > <jiazhouhuaq...@gmail.com> wrote in message [ quoted text not captured ] Yeah it would be Smudge the magnificent. No, wait, hold on, he's smudge the ignored. And he's not Ventrue. Vote for Smudge. He needs love too...

jcrossn...@gmail.com

On May 20, 5:00 am, "Frederick Scott" <nos...@no.spam.dot.com> wrote: > <jiazhouhuaq...@gmail.com> wrote in message [ quoted text not captured ] To add unreliable anecdotal evidence, I'd almost certainly think of her first.

jcrossn...@gmail.com

> Well, the problem is in the question itself. > > Strongest "Ventrue" is clearly Marcus Vitel. Ummm. That isn't clear to me. The strongest Ventrue is clearly Luccia Paciola.

The Name Forgotten

On May 20, 1:06 am, Obtenebration <ventu...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Fred > > the oldest and strongest Ventrue is > > Well, the problem is in the question itself. > > Strongest "Ventrue" is clearly Marcus Vitel. Yeah, there's only two problems with that claim: 1) Marcus Vitel is an undercover Lasombra 2) Everything else