Player characteristics

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Richard Galka <galkarb@cc.umanitoba.ca> writes:

Richard, you are on to something that has been noticed before.
I also do M-B right on the borderline of all four. Dippers do
tend not to resolve well in M-B. It's all a continuum. Enneagrams
are more forgiving of the continuums.

Jim-Bob

>Well....
>I completed the personality test as well... but perhaps I got some
>questions wrong?!?

>I am an ESTP - Action oriented, Pragmatic, Outgoing, Realistic...
>Mentions many times about outgoing individual... not exactly me...

>Possibly because I found in 3 of the 4 screen I was unable to really
>decide which choice to make (~1/2 of each column described me (in my
>opinion))


>Craig at ANZ wrote:
>> I just did the sprinters (4 question, 30 seconds) version of a
>> meyers-briggs personality at http://haleonline.com/psychtest/
>>
>> I am an ENTJ. Extroverted Intuitive Thinking Judging
>>
>> I wouldn't be surprised if there is a trend using this test.
>>
>> Anyone else care to try it?
>>
>> (a longer test is available at
>> http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes1.htm)
>>

 

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Alan Ritchie wrote:
> My little brother just said "ball" and "castle"
>
> Eg,
> Tennis players bounce the ball before serving.
> The children played on a bouncy castle.
>
> So the dip term is pretty accurate for the image of a unit bouncing off
> another, and returning to where it started. But I cannot translate it into
> any other languages with any confidence.

Oh, I didn't have much problems to use a dictionary, but the dictionary
didn't tell me which way the word is used normally.
And I thought I'd ask for it, since there are several words used for
different types of "bouncing" in german.

 

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Jim Burgess wrote:
> The simplest and obvious one is people who like to play games where all
> the rules are spelled out and clear are NOT dippers.
>
> The second most obvious is that people who are unwilling to put
> a personality into a game (it can be playacting or real) are NOT
> going to be happy dippers.

Interesting idea to list the things a dipper probably is not.

I try to add:

A dipper is not a guy who avoids personal conflicts if they arise.



Hm, now that I think about it, some things
come into my mind a dipper probably could
be more then normal.

I recognized these things at myself, who did as well:

I tend to a "live and let live" - mentality,
and don't get upset about other people's actions often.

I can't do much things without enthusiasm, "just for the fun of it."
That means, in almost everything I do because I like it to do, I think
I am more ambitious then usual.



Ok, now I am very enthusiastic
about getting my legs laid up.

good evening,
Dieter

 

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Dieter Drobny <einsvornkoffer@web.de> writes:

>Jim Burgess wrote:
>> The simplest and obvious one is people who like to play games where all
>> the rules are spelled out and clear are NOT dippers.
>>
>> The second most obvious is that people who are unwilling to put
>> a personality into a game (it can be playacting or real) are NOT
>> going to be happy dippers.

>Interesting idea to list the things a dipper probably is not.

>I try to add:

>A dipper is not a guy who avoids personal conflicts if they arise.



>Hm, now that I think about it, some things
>come into my mind a dipper probably could
>be more then normal.

>I recognized these things at myself, who did as well:

>I tend to a "live and let live" - mentality,
>and don't get upset about other people's actions often.

>I can't do much things without enthusiasm, "just for the fun of it."
>That means, in almost everything I do because I like it to do, I think
>I am more ambitious then usual.



>Ok, now I am very enthusiastic
>about getting my legs laid up.

>good evening,
>Dieter

You've just described two of the enneagram traits (that are more
likely to be PRESENT in dippers (the enthusiast and live/let live)).

Jim-Bob

 

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Tim wrote:
> I just did the short test and the humanmetrics test and got ENTJ with a
> notable 'N' score.
>
> Come to think of it, I scored ENTJ in the test the school's carrerrs
> department made me do 2.5 years ago, so I guess the test is somewhat
> accurate (except it reccommended I be a security guard, golf club
> manager [I kid you not] or a typist, none which seem to interest me -
> then again, entrepeneur also appeared and thats kinda cool.]
>
> TL
>
I think combining those 3 could yield a rewarding occupation 😉

 

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In message <3pj8s9FaavffU1@news.dfncis.de>, Dieter Drobny
<einsvornkoffer@web.de> writes
>Tehipite Tom wrote:
>> A quick test to determine if you're a Diplomacy player:
>> MAO: former Chinese leader, or large body of water?
>> Con: jailbird, or city in Turkey?
>> Par: golf score, or capital of France?
>> Bud: part of a plant, or Balkan supply center?
>> Gal: dame, or key strategic province?
>> Bonus question: when you hear the word 'breast', do you immediately
>> think '...to English Channel'?
>
>🙂
>
>Could someone do me a favour and ask some non-dipper, but native
>english speaker what he associates to a "bounce"?
>I'd do it myself, but there are no native english speakers around here.

Colloquial British English:
"Where have you been tonight?" "I went to see Steve, but he was out, so
I called on Harry, but I bounced there too."

Nick
--
Nick Wedd nick@maproom.co.uk

 

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"Dieter Drobny" <einsvornkoffer@web.de> wrote in message
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> Alan Ritchie wrote:
>> My little brother just said "ball" and "castle"
>>
>> Eg,
>> Tennis players bounce the ball before serving.
>> The children played on a bouncy castle.
>>
>> So the dip term is pretty accurate for the image of a unit bouncing off
>> another, and returning to where it started. But I cannot translate it
>> into any other languages with any confidence.
>
> Oh, I didn't have much problems to use a dictionary, but the dictionary
> didn't tell me which way the word is used normally.
> And I thought I'd ask for it, since there are several words used for
> different types of "bouncing" in german.

Now I am just curious, what are the different types of bouncing in German?

 

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INFJ, here .. is someone tabulating these?

-- TTK

 

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Alan Ritchie wrote:
>
> Now I am just curious, what are the different types of bouncing in German?
>

Let's see:

For those children in the bouncy castle - that's a Hüpfburg.
The ball bouncing against something - We call this an Aufprall.
(sort of a small impact in meaning)
Then my dictionary tells me a check can bounce - "platzen" in Germany.
(which has the meaning of a small explosion, a balloon "platzt" as well)

And about that:
Nick Wedd wrote:
> Colloquial British English:
> "Where have you been tonight?" "I went to see Steve, but he was out,
> so I called on Harry, but I bounced there too."
I don't know how to translate that directly.

 

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I like to play diplomacy.

Dieter Drobny wrote:
> Hey group!
>
> I had some time recently (too much, actually)
> to think about several useless stuff.
>
> And now there is a question I have to ask:
>
> Do you guys think that there are characteristics
> which are much more common under Dippers then under
> "normal" people?
>
>
> I suppose that there are some,
> but since I don't know many dippers personally,
> I would make most of my assumptions probably
> out of my own characteristics.
> And before I post them here, I hope to get some other
> impressions first 🙂
>
>
> Dieter

 

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"Dieter Drobny" <einsvornkoffer@web.de> wrote in message
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> Alan Ritchie wrote:
>>
>> Now I am just curious, what are the different types of bouncing in
>> German?
>
> Let's see:
>
> For those children in the bouncy castle - that's a Hüpfburg.
> The ball bouncing against something - We call this an Aufprall.
> (sort of a small impact in meaning)
> Then my dictionary tells me a check can bounce - "platzen" in Germany.
> (which has the meaning of a small explosion, a balloon "platzt" as well)
>

I had forgotten about bouncing cheques. Exploding ones sound quite cool.

 

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TTK Ciar <ttk@remove_this_and_all_after_org.ciar.org.forbes.com> writes:

>INFJ, here .. is someone tabulating these?

>-- TTK

You can, but I'd be shocked if you found much of a pattern.... someone
can tabulate and prove me wrong, but so far it's been balanced, and with
more than a few "I fall in betweens".

Jim-Bob

 

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Popular topic isn't it.

How about some more charachteristics:

Opinionated (did I already list that one?)
Like history (and historical documentaries)

Not a mathematician, scientist of engineer tho... Communicator, a
people person (in a systematic way)

 

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Craig Brown wrote:
> How about some more charachteristics:
>
> Opinionated (did I already list that one?)
I haven't thought that this thread would become an english lesson to me 🙂
Does "opinionated" have a positive or negative meaning most of the time?
The german translation(s) have both, depending on the situation and person.
If opinionated means that you are not easy to manipulate, I agree.
I suppose this does includes that after having made a decision you know
why you did it, and don't simply do something because it came into your
mind.

> Like history (and historical documentaries)
Could be - I visited a history lecture last Semester just for the fun of
it. It was about the "punic wars", and my interest lies in the military
and strategical topics more then in the cultural or social ones.