ScottWashburn  | 25 Feb 2014 1:19 p.m. PST |
I was reading an advertisemnet for a game and encountered this: "In ******, players carefully create and move their forces as they capture territories and expand their empires. A player's skill and strategy are all that stand between him and ultimate victory!" So, if I'm reading this correctly then your skill and strategy are what will PREVENT you from winning. So this is a game for dimwits? The ad needs editing, I think :) |
| Gavin Syme GBS | 25 Feb 2014 1:22 p.m. PST |
Yes…it is a negative inflected statement. 'are all that STANDS between' would have changed it for the better. GBS
15mm.co.uk |
 MrHarold | 25 Feb 2014 1:31 p.m. PST |
So, if I'm reading this correctly then your skill and strategy are what will PREVENT you from winning Isn't that often the case? |
Big Red  | 25 Feb 2014 1:34 p.m. PST |
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| Todd636 | 25 Feb 2014 2:24 p.m. PST |
I think we live in a day and age that if MS Word doesn't put it in red it must be OK. |
| OSchmidt | 25 Feb 2014 2:38 p.m. PST |
The fault of poor editing is not totally attributable to the fault of computer software. Twenty years ago I was reading a volume of the "Hornblower" series when I came across the sentence "Hornblower braced himself on the heaving duck." |
 Extra Crispy | 25 Feb 2014 3:03 p.m. PST |
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| plutarch 64 | 25 Feb 2014 3:06 p.m. PST |
Or the type of thing that can occur when you spend too long at sea? |
| Henrix | 25 Feb 2014 3:27 p.m. PST |
Poor duck. Probably seasick. |
| 15th Hussar | 25 Feb 2014 5:53 p.m. PST |
Gentlefolk, Almost all of your comments generated a few good honest chuckles out of me…and I needed them. Thank you all! |
| (Leftee) | 25 Feb 2014 7:11 p.m. PST |
What a canard! That can't be true. Bile filled duck – Pure quackery. |
| StarfuryXL5 | 25 Feb 2014 7:23 p.m. PST |
Poor duck. Probably seasick. Or in the throes of ecstasy.  |
| Bashytubits | 25 Feb 2014 8:15 p.m. PST |
All right, who stepped on the duck? |
| platypus01au | 26 Feb 2014 4:20 a.m. PST |
God knows how many times I've snatched a duck* from between the jaws of victory….. Cheers,
JohnG
*or defeat |
| Gustav | 27 Feb 2014 7:09 a.m. PST |
Heaving duck ?
it was just wrutten in a Kiwi axsunt…. :) |
 Bobgnar | 27 Feb 2014 11:49 a.m. PST |
"In ******, players carefully create and move their forces as they capture territories and expand their empires. A player's skill and strategy are all that stand between him and ultimate victory!" I'm not so sure this is really bad. Isn't it saying that the quality of the player's skill and strategy are what stand between him and victory. Of course in a wargame luck is what usually stands between a player and victory. The quote is saying that it's not luck but skill and strategy that are between losing and winning. |
| WaltOHara | 27 Feb 2014 12:31 p.m. PST |
And yet, despite Catalyst Games' poor editing, I find myself contemplating purchase. |
