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"Set expectations clearly for a better game experience."
"Do a quick save. This is the most important thing. You are going to be safe scumming until you get a set of armor that matches what you want."
"Games are not won in the first, second, or third quarter; they're won in the fourth quarter."
"If you want to run good games and not get burned out, you need to have limits."
"Never put the players in a situation where you're taking their agency away from them."
"Be open to your players' complaints and speak openly about why things went the way they did."
"The goal of commander and any Rules Committee should be to do as little as possible, not to be holding regular meetings examining and poring over the giant library of cards."
"If the Game Master doesn’t have fun, then the Game Master can stop running, and now you don’t have a group to play in."
"Set the tone for the game that you'd like to run."
"Someone that can run set the tone with his physicality and toughness allowed them to play a little more ball control."
"Please, please, and an overwhelming 62 percent of you said turn off the fire spread."
"Possession has to have a purpose you can't just knock it around your back four and think you deserve to win a game."
"FBX is a team that really understands how to snowball in different avenues."
"Proper control of your win condition is key to breaking through stall."
"Respecting your players' boundaries is crucial for a positive game experience."
"If you are going to decide to ban a spell from your game, you do owe it to your players to have a good reason and tell them the reason why at the start of the campaign."
"The downfall of feral affected many people, from the players who supported it financially to the moderators who were left to manage the entire Community by themselves."
"From start to finish, they were just in total control of the game."
"Cloud9 have actually been to me one of the most efficient teams of ending games."
"We're playing so silky... Odegaard is running the game."
"Optimize your commandery by balancing population and public order."
"It's a shame that these service games are so absurdly complicated to manage and maintain on a back-end level."
"Maintaining a healthy endgame is crucial for player retention."
"Winning your fantasy league is in my opinion about 80% how you draft and 20% everything you do after that."
"Why the refs gonna blow any second now? Why does Arted? Five minutes has been played, that let us down, last chance."
"The new management systems added in Jurassic World Evolution 2 will really challenge the player's ability to manage and successfully run a dinosaur park."
"Say less only works in the second half if you are losing."
"The game was done and it was about game management because we've got nine games left."
"In Planet Coaster, you don't just need to staff the shops and attractions, you need to provide places for your staff to go when they are on their breaks. I love this."
"This man is a god when it comes to game management."
"Dynamic youth ratings... it really has made me reconsider what save I'm going to be doing going into this year in Football Manager 2022."
"Sometimes punting is the right move, not picking it up."
"The downtime even if you're doing a whole session where it's just like guys we're just gonna this is a bookkeeping session right not like in the boring sense but just in the catch-up sense little things you wanted to do."
"The Titans hope in this game is that Derek Henry controls the clock."
"Recruit heroes strategically to avoid increasing army upkeep too quickly."
"They need someone to play quarterback and not turn the football over."
"Midweek felt very much like a coming-of-age performance... That maturity and that kind of experience, that big game management as well that we've learned from midweek, that's going to put us in so much good stead for today as well."
"FPL managers change their minds and adapting to new information... is very much a part of good FPL management."
"We won the game because we used the Ronaldo substitution to lure Arsenal into the Trap."
"Game Masters need to know a lot of rules... stopping the game halts the momentum, sucking the fun right out."
"Let's go man! Boom! Thanks for using those timeouts."
"Work all the players not the PCs the players players like to be engaged and if you are working through each one of them methodically asking them what their character is doing you create a sense of anticipation."
"It's okay if an encounter is harder or easier than you planned; accept it and worry less."
"Great catch by back, choosing not to use that last time out."
"As long as people are enjoying it, you cannot do it wrong."
"Don't be afraid to try a new house rule or rule set but also don't be afraid to admit when something's not working and change it."
"That was loose, get this get him off the pitch."
"If there's a problem player, it's the DM's job to handle it."
"It's super important that both the DM and the players agree on what kind of game they're playing."
"You had this game in your hand and let it slip through."
"Retraining, reflavoring, and retconning well requires very good judgment on the part of dungeon masters and players, as well as a healthy dose of moderation."
"Given the time and score... no issue whatsoever."
"Other than how much I disliked kingdom management, it was a good game."
"They need to give characters better defensive tools in general."
"I'm just a rook up, the only task that I have now is not to somehow screw it up."
"His concept and his processing of information and his control of the game. Very few mistakes, very few interceptions, very few bad checks."
"I actually like that. CLG is threatening the base before going to Baron. That's smart with Ryze."
"They take ownership of that and do quite a few resets meaning you're always gonna have something fresh."
"We're constantly evaluating Overwatch as a whole, improving what's working and finding fixes for what isn't. Our goal is to maintain team strategy while giving players more control over their individual experience."
"Our objective for WBE this season was to minimize the bans and allow Pokemon to flourish as best as we could."
"Georgino needs to play our big games. He's the guy that controls it 100%. He was absolutely phenomenal today."
"Item filters is basically a way to like hide things or not show things or highlight specific things that you're maybe looking for and is basically mandatory to play Path of Exile."
"The GM and players equal partners in the storytelling."
"Second half was brilliant. He knew Mourinho would sit back on a lead. He pumped the tempo up and he overwhelmed them."
"I thought the Greelish substitution on 65 minutes was a really clever move."
"This is not the kind of early game deficits that we know them to find themselves in. 2k along with two drakes, DAMWON Gaming total control."
"Isabelle, question. How's my island doing? Because, you know..."
"Hopefully we can get through to Epic and just revert or do something."
"He's just dictating everything, controlling this match right now."
"This is a mismatch: Bill Belichick versus Anthony Lynn in terms of clock management and just all the finer little things."
"Don’t just let it slide and just keep ignoring it and thinking maybe miraculously it’s going to go away. It probably won’t, and your game will just get worse and worse as a result of it."
"Never, never, never address a problem player by punishing the player’s character in game."
"Barcelona just controlling the tempo of the game."
"A couple turnovers early and then just be smart."
"Auto rotate goalies are back on, we are ready to start up year number four."
"A timely goal for Arsenal, they were cruising for most of that first 45 minutes."
"Liverpool in the driving seat, controlling the game."
"Just keep dominating the game, you know what I mean?"
"What we should have done is we should have gone until we've got the right technology to keep the game flowing we're not going to switch it on but they have switched it on."
"But if your campaign isn't regularly teetering on the edge of disaster, are you even really a DM?"
"I would rather have you shoot an NBA 3. Be smart with our possession."
"Never lend money if you wouldn't be comfortable considering it a gift."
"Clock management turns more games into wins than anything else. You need to manage the clock."
"I need to make a pen for our hunter slimes real fast, those are flutter slimes looking, they're all down here fluttering about."
"This may or may not be the hole Haley Deegan sunk my foiler."
"You want to drain the clock and not give your opponent a lot of time to get another possession in before halftime."
"He just feels two, three steps ahead. Once he gets the advantage in a play, he just never lets it go."
"Late in the game, oh yeah, they should probably have given up."
"They've had a lot more control in the second half."
"Turnovers don't matter when you don't let teams get first downs."
"Understanding how the game handles an unexpectedly high number of key items and badges in your inventory."
"Valve abandoning DOTA underlords raised questions about passion, dedication, and willingness to stick it out."
"Here's the DC, or, 'Here's the monster. Are we all feeling good?'"
"You've got to stay consistent with your game plan... I thought Jason did a really nice job today."
"Thronebreaker Witcher Tales... From the story to choices to management, it is fantastic."
"If someone says something unbearably cringe like the DM tends to do, just calling it what it is can go surprisingly far."
"It's unnecessary busy work especially in the late game when you get about 50,000 units that you have to micromanage."
"This is what I had to learn from him. This is how he closes out games."
"It's been announced that the end date for season 16 has been pushed back to May 12th."
"There's just no worse feeling than having the game in your hands and then just throwing it away."
"Don't put up with that crap at your table—it will only frustrate the rest of the group."
"I just loved everything about it it is a survival horror experience it is so unique and I really do think it is like survival horror no matter how cartoony and kind of scary it is like the you have to manage in that game I just love resource."
"If you have a lead and you can win the line of scrimmage you will win the game." - Joel Klatt
"If you can eradicate those real high numbers, you don't need loads of birdies. You just need to stop the high numbers."
"I think we're at half time, we are at half time. Let's stop the clock so it is one nil at half time."
"The jackdaw is your baby; you need to take care of it, you need to upgrade and customize it because it's going to be with you for the long haul."
"Use support NPCs to speed up your game by removing mundane tasks."
"They just let Brentford have the ball because that's the best way to get the ball back."
"I gave one ranger team the T-Rex and the other ranger team the herbivores."
"Don't just shut down problematic spells, talk to your players."
"Tibbs has to stop the set rotations and ride hot hands."
"Remember, it's always easier to get a ball in front of you."
"I crafted a bunch of shulker boxes and started organizing my stuff into them for convenience."
"It's understanding how to put games of football away."
"If something goes wrong, your players won't necessarily have a bad time. It's not true."
"Liverpool are very good at just working out a game of football."
"He's calm, he doesn't need to score again, he's 2-1 up."
"Your players don't need to know the final answer to anything until it's time for that to be revealed."
"Avoid DMPCs to maintain player agency. Keep important NPCs influential but not central to the story."
"It just depends on how you feel about the flow of the game." - Steve Kerr
"We've got a new task, our animals don't have water or enrichment, so let's track both of those."
"That's the thing about football, it's about eliminating chaos and randomness."
"Hunter born changes the way that you hunt and the results that you get once you make a kill."
"Ultimately, your job is to be the final arbiter of the game and keep things running smoothly."
"Set boundaries and expectations with your players."
"Substitutes are so important to have those fresh legs in the game when everyone else is dead."
"There's a lot of pieces to move, a lot of objectives to focus on."
"Make sure you try and get that in there as well. I think that personally I would put players first, me second."
"People are ruining complete servers... It is literally killing servers."
"A DM has to make rulings constantly in D&D. The rules aren't and really can't be crystal clear when characters aren't given a limited number of things that they can try or do."
"You have to know that this is like the only way to keep your center intact, okay?"
"If you're somebody who just doesn't want to think about their buildings, it's good to you can just largely ignore the province management side of things."
"It is nice to finally have both tyranny and aggressive expansion back down to 0."
"Game management was a huge issue with the Boston Celtics as we got deeper into that playoff run. It's essentially understanding the value of the hundred possessions over the value of the one possession."
"You're the DM, it's your game, and a big part of your job is controlling the flow of information in the game."
"I think that every single day that this is an issue, it will be bleeding players, bleeding respect, bleeding integrity, and the faster that they come out to stop it, the faster they stem that bleeding and actually start healing that wound."
"I would love to spend a ton of time pay people to create things and run a server and just have a really crazy version of the game."
"Victory formation, baby! Give me those timeouts."
"Running, building, and managing a prison... reminiscent of games like Dwarf Fortress and The Sims."
"It just really gives you flexibility on how many players you want to have X-factor, superstar, and star in your franchise."
"If you ask a pro which is the most important time in the match they will guaranteed answer the first 5 minutes because once you have the lead you can only Lose It Again by your own mistakes."
"Conserve your silver everything in this game cost silver."
"First and foremost, it's all about the ball."
"Bradley King takes his time sits himself and now the points are in the bag."
"The future for Overwatch is bright... definitely making the right decisions."
"Different is better because we should have run the ball more."
"Don't be afraid to go back to base if you're low on mana. It's better than spending gold on clarities."
"There's only so much incredibly durable armor that your opponent is going to be able to destroy per turn so taking a ton of these ridiculously durable vehicles could allow you to bully up the board and gradually grind the enemy down."
"Many DMs feel insecure that they'll ruin the game by giving players an inch, but it's important to remember that it's still a game and to prioritize player happiness."
"We've given Leicester a chance back in, and when you're one nil up, you can't do that away from home."
"That's exactly what Levis did. He knows he could burn it. You have a couple seconds, you get your field goal team out and hopefully, you end up with a three-point lead going into halftime."
"So from what I gather from this game man it was just Green Bay like the play calling the the defense like the confidence the Run game like Green Bay's ability to run the ball was key."
"Lamar kind of controlled the game."
"Absolutely, that's a plus. It is. It really is because it's third now and six and you still have two timeouts."
"Is the game continuing to run smooth or even run smoother, and is life getting easier or harder for the GM to run?"
"Paintball producer fails to listen to experienced advice, has his rule abused and removed from the game."
"It's easier to fix a rule before the game starts than after."
"She's actually a pretty solid player here, a player that was very good at managing their threat level and was really good at articulating their game."
"Every time Bosco loses this game, they're usually minus two, minus three in turnover. So protect the football and create a few turnovers on their own."
"The real good teams are the teams that, when you're up late, you can run the clock down because they know you're going to run and they still can't stop it."
"This is prime KJ Jefferson territory, he told us yesterday he knows when to take over a game."
"He's kicked pretty well, he's controlled the game pretty well."
"Possession is key in the game of sevens."
"They are so complete. Whatever intention they have, they know how to control the game with or without the ball."
"Football tactics are all about trade-offs."
"You're taking control of the game rather than letting it happen to you."
"Nobody pushes them around much, and that gives them a chance if you manage the game and do things the right way."
"He knows how to control the game with a lead."
"If we take care of the football at quarterback, we're always going to be in the game."
"You have to think about controlling the speed of play of your team."
"He's on top of all of the information and controlling the entire flow of the game right from go."
"The importance of finishing quarters, starting quarters."
"He's orchestrating the whole game."
"LiveOps is really about taking care of a game and taking care of the game's players over an extended period of time."