@doppelgreener Your answer made me laugh. "Ormendahl, Profane Prince [...] doesn't have anything available to transform it back into a building."

Didn't even think about the fact that it was a building transforming into a demon

Also, sweet, full on flashback theme in EM

@Waterseas I get the feeling that five people summoned a demon near the abbey. The building is definitely still there in the background on the card

Makes sense

@Rainbolt @murgatroid99 Either of you know much about java?

@Waterseas It's been a few years since I've used it but I have some experience with it

I guess this isn't technically a java specific question necessarily, but I have limited experience with Regex. Is 'namePrefix+".*"' a valid Regex pattern, where namePrefix is a string?

Nevermind, was able to confirm it in testing

I was about to day it looks right, but I don't know that much about Regex

Wasn't sure if you could use variables in regex patterns or not

@Rainbolt Also sorry, don't think I'm gonna feel up to writing up an answer for the judge question

Dunno how many people here have played this vefore, but highly recommend this to people sometime: boardgame-online.com

@Waterseas No worries

@Waterseas Regex has different flavors, but "Java" luckily isn't one of them. You can probably just test your regex here: regexpal.com

I mean, maybe Java Regex has some quirks, but I have never encountered any of them

I use that site to test regexes for C#, JavaScript, and Java and it has not failed me yet

Fair. In most regexes, is including a variable in them viable?

@Waterseas The Pattern() constructor takes a string that is a regex, and it can contain variables

Sweet, thanks

It's funny because that is literally the only language I know how to do that in

JavaScript has regex literals like /myRegex/ so I never bothered to learn the real way to do it

Fair XD

I don't know what you are building, but you know String has a startsWith() method?

Apparently myString.matches(prefix + ".*") works too

I do, am using it for file searching

I guess you better hope that nobody has special characters in their name

What do you mean?

If name prefix has any special characters and you pass it into the Pattern constructor, it will become part of the pattern

Ahh, true, nah, won't be an issue

I found this: docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/io/find.html

It might help you make your file searcher platform independent

Ehh, I'm just updating some legacy code

I just had a LOT of caffeine so sorry if I am going Google crazy

I also really enjoy Java so any chance I get to learn about it is fun for me

O.o that's unusual

What happened?

Nah, just meant someone who uses C# enjoying Java XD

Oh, I thought they were synonyms lol

Are you telling me that they are different languages?

Pffffft

Sarcasm aside, I think that the only real difference between the languages is that one has more support.

C# was first described to me as the bastard child of C++ and Java

Basically, although definitely closer to Java than C++

@Rainbolt haha, thank you. i wrote it out as a matter-of-fact thing then laughed myself.

Is that five or six people?

I can't tell.

Looks like five and a statue to me

Or 5 + leader

somebody's gotta tell the demon what to do

that'd do it. if there's six people -- yes that ^

This was interesting (from MTGSalvation):

> Afraid of main stream critcism on the growing game of Magic, both the creature type and the word “Demonic” disappeared in 1995.[5] For the same reason the pentagram got removed from the Fourth Edition Unholy Strength. For all practical purposes, demons were replaced by Horrors. Demons returned to the game in the fall of 2002 with the release of Onslaught.[6] WotC had realised that other popular entertainment (from Buffy, the Vampire Slayer to Hellboy) had made demons fashionable.[7]

Oh. Apparently Ormendahl took over after Lili killed Griselbrand

(but whatever happened to Withengar?)

apparently it's unknown

Haha

Gaming stack exchange always has the best titles: gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/264759/im-on-fire-so

@Waterseas I've been jealous of those for a long time...

@PatLudwig Nethack and other RPGs tends to have the majority of the best titles

I edited some titles here years ago, but it didn't catch on. It's likely I wasn't funny enough to spark the change needed :)

Helps when they're recent questions too

true

It really helps when they're hot questions

Those are the ones that really popularized the trend on Arqade

Though the title can help make them hot questions

I think the difference is that video games can allow you to do a lot of things that sound like real life actions but are impossible, immoral, or irrational in real life.

Definitely true

One of my top answers there contains the statement "I tested this by setting myself on fire"

Don't think I have any particularly interesting answers like that

Although the majority of mine are about hearthstone

With a few in goat simulator

Well, maybe I lied

"Alright, so after some time spent researching in game. (Mostly consisting of jumping on and licking things.)"

It's just harder to find that sort of stuff in board games because they tend to have smaller rule sets, which lead to questions that use rule-related wordings and don't really correspond to real-life actions

Yep

I guess I would say that board and card games generally have a more abstracted representation of whatever thing they're supposed to represent