Terrier

[Firesprout]

Lag helps too. You can't kill a laggy terr. :P I've found that good terring consists of good dodging, knowing burst shots and knowing when and when not to shoot. I like the newb warbirds who shoot you and miss then you hit em with one of your whimpy terr bullets and they die.

same with xs...the shoot and port works for alot of them

[Jeansi]

Utopia, haha good one.

[Rab]

i'm the best player in the world, go home

[Nockm]

I hope it doesn't bother you for me to ask this, but would you mind easing up on the ellipses?

You might need to explain to him what ellipses are.................

[sice]

You might need to explain to him what ellipses are.................

Honestly, I don't know either. But an ellipse is kind of like an oval. And periods are like circles (which is almost like an oval). I'm going to take a guess that he's referring to when you contantly............type...........like........th is.........with......all..........the............p eriods. The only time you need to use a "period" (or ellipse?) is at the end of the sentence.

[GoldenPlums]

I was going to ask why you call them ellipses too, I don't get it.

[Firesprout]

Some background info :english:

Apostrophe - '
Colon - :
Commas - ,
Dash - ¯
Ellipse - ...
Exclamation Point - !
Hyphen - -
Parentheses - ( )
Period - .
Question Mark - ?
Quotation Marks - " "
Semicolon - ;
Underlining - _____

Ellipses
They are valid punctuation marks used to indicate the omission of a word or the interruption of a sentence. Always make sure it is an ellipse you need and not a dash and please don’t overuse them. Don Marquis once wrote about ellipses in this fashion:

"When you see . . . three little dots . . . such as these . . . in the stuff of a modern versifier . . . even in our stuff . . . it means that the writer is trying to suggest something rather . . . well, elusive, if you get what we mean . . . and the reason he suggests it instead of expressing it . . . is . . . very often . . . because it is an almost idea . . . instead of a real idea."

The ELLIPSE is THREE periods in a row (no spaces). It shows several things. First, it is used to show spoken word trailing off.
Ex.: "I don't know..." he said thoughtfully.
Secondly, it indicates omitted words from a quoted sentence (see QUOTING YOUR SOURCES).
Ex.: Jones notes that "Socrates...held astronomy in check for...years" (Jones 456).
Third, it may be used sparingly to link clauses. The second clause would be an added bit of information...like an afterthought.
Ex.: The second clause would be an added bit of information...like an afterthought.

[Vykromond]

Actually, I'm pretty sure Nockm knows what they are. Read his post again.

In case you're wondering, "ellipses" that look like this -> ... ksjfks ... sdljfksld ... skdkfd <- aren't grammatically equivalent to the graphical "ellipses" that you're studied in geometry. The singular form of the graphical form is "ellipse," whereas the singular form of the text form is "ellipsis."

However, they both come from the same Greek root, "elleipsis," which refers to a falling short. The connection here is somewhat whimsical for graphical ellipses, but if you remember that a lot of early Greek philosophers thought of circles as the image of perfection, you can extrapolate the idea to ellipses as a "falling short" of that circular, even perfection. Text ellipses, meanwhile, are a "falling short" or a "leaving out" of text.

Ellipses are grammatically acceptable only when used in quotes, to leave out unnecessary text that occurs between instances of text that you are quoting. They are not acceptable as substitutes for periods, or in the more common literary method of denoting time passage. The latter usage has gained some measure of acceptance, though.

[Vykromond]

Looks like Firesprout beat me to this one, even though our posts tended in widely divergent directions (of which I prefer mine, since I wrote it myself rather than copy/pasting :turned: ).

[GoldenPlums]

Cheers Vyk, that pretty much explains it!

[Firesprout]

i wrote the first line ^-^

[Mythrandir]

When the game (either ?go base, or any pub) doesn't really matter, don't be afraid to play as aggressive as you can. You'd be surprised at how often you can kill warbirds/spiders without getting killed off yourself. And moves that are considered suicidal, actually will work out if you time them properly.

That's my little piece of advice; it's so much easier to ensure your safety by doing some aggressive moves in order to prevent escalation of the situation.

[My_wade]

<_< ok maybe i did over use "..." just abit, ok alot. but i wasnt sure what to write and i didnt want to sound like a prat. well i guess at that failed.thanks for the terr help and the english lessons :P . thanks

Wade

[NaiLed]

you british my_wade?

[My_wade]

yeah, im guessing you are because of the Arsenal comment. how did you know?

Wade