As a lot of mine have already been hit on, I'm only going to mention two.
1) In line with the borrowing dice thing, people next to me who ask to borrow my pen/pencil to sign their match slip. You can see I'm taking my own notes for my own match, right?
2) The old card shop I used to play at had a semi-pro player that would always put both of his earbuds in and not say a word. You might as well have been playing solitaire when you played this guy.
About a year ago at PTQ Tampa, Florida, I showed up with a rather severe and highly debilitating hand injury due to fighting. Long story short, I effectively didn't have use of the bottom 2 fingers on each of my hands, so shuffling was problematic at best.
I'd pile shuffle and do the Yu-Gi-Oh! shuffle a few times and pile again, but I shuffled slowly due to my injury either way. Riffle shuffling was completely impossible, and I still have trouble with it to this day.
anyway. I was playing Valakut against a RUG deck, my opponent was a complete asshat. He sat there smugly the entire time and said things like, "Oh of course. Valakut, the poor man's RUG." And "You do know that deck takes absolutely no skill to play, right?"
And I just smiled and played on.
Eventually he looked at my shuffled and presented deck and said, "that's it?" and I said, "what?" he cut it and we played. Game 1 he dominated me, game 2 was very close but i managed to get it after I put in autumn's veil and 4 summoning traps, and game 3 I shuffled and he had this smug look and smile on his face (more so than usual) the entire time I was shuffling. As soon as I presented he raised his hand and called for a judge.
The HEAD JUDGE comes over, and hears us out. my opponent wanted me to get a game loss for improper randomization, and when i explained my disibility to the judge and proved it by demonstration of my mangled fingers, he gave me a Warning and told me that at the end of the round, he'd inform the other judges to stop by my table at the start of every round and inform my opponent that their choices were
A. Shuffle my deck for me.
Or B. Let a judge shuffle my deck every time it required shuffling. (Seeing as I was playing ramp, I trolled the judges quite a bit with this lolol)
BUT.
the entire time the head judge was trying to talk to us, my opponent was talking over him like a little yappy dog, "ITSAGAMELOSSITSAGAMELOSSITSAGAMELOSS!!! BUT ITS A GAME LOSS! GAME LOSS! GAME LOSS!"
and at the end the judge smacked him with an "Unsportsmanlike Conduct: Minor" and penalized him with a game loss, netting me the match win.
That is -exactly- what mana weaving is, and if it's "helping you", you're cheating. A randomized deck does not necessarily have an even spread of land. A properly randomized deck could have lands spread more or less evenly, or it could end up with 15 lands in a row. If your mana-weaving is having a notable impact on your games, then you aren't shuffling sufficiently, and you're cheating. If your shuffling afterwards is enough to undo it, then you wasted time weaving at all.
Also, you act like shuffling for a full minute it somehow a bad thing. Players have 3 minutes for pre-game procedures before each game. You've got 3 minutes to sideboard, randomize your deck, and resolve mulligans. As long as they do all that stuff in 3 minutes, I don't care if they spend 2:30 of it shuffling.
And why should someone ignore the rules and just let things slip on the grounds that they're 0-2 and not gonna place? Should I let you stack your deck however you want because I'm 0-3? No. The rules don't change from table 1 to table 50.
Shuffling is fine. But your not gonna make it any more random for 20 seconds of shuffiling to 3 minutes.
And its not deck stacking. If I laid out all my cards on the table and then flipped through them in a 2-1 order of lands to non lands then I could understand someone calling me on mana weaving.
But if i'm just looking through my deck and just so happen to cut it in teh middle of a mana clump a few times then its not mana weaving. If I did the lay out and stacked my deck so I would always draw a titan first hand then its some bs. But cutting the deck through some clumps of land wouldn't qualify as Mana weaving. In any case how would one govern that kind of thing? how could one prove that is what I was doing? its not a slight of hand and i'm allowed to look through my deck all I want if its not during the game. One has to do that during sideboarding and other such things.
I'm not saying that if I moved all my lands around that it wouldn't be. But if its a single clump and I cut my deck I don't see how its mana weaving.
5. Acting high and mighty after you win a match against me. I'm a newbie to competitive public games. I've played sealed once or twice before, you're not some god at the store, show some class and shake hands. Don't go cheering to your friends.
4. Being a poor sport. You built your deck, you shuffled, you kept your hand. Don't moan and complain about the hand you were dealt. You play this game enough to know what to do and that mana clumps happen. Don't shove off the table like a monkey and go cave man on your deck.
3. Speeding up the game like it's race. I have decisions to make, I have removal to use in my hand, I have a chance to figure if I need to concede or not, I have a counter I could use. You trying ti psyche me out is just going to force me to take longer. Grow some patience, I know we're on a timer and I'm not stalling. I will work in a timely manner.
2. Hand shuffling. Stop it and I will call a judge over after I ask you to stop it if you continue. If that won't work, I will drag the game out because you're distracting me with your flicking.
1. Tacking on extra money on your cards worth, or taking off money on my cards worth. If we can't come to one site to use for both sides because you have a special feeling, you can just go kick rocks. I can buy the cards if I really wanted them, and I'll be happy to sit on the cards I want to trade until something proper comes along. Tell me that you only want certain cards for that card and I will understand, or tell me that you're not trading them. Don't tell me, "I value this more because I like the art; you don't see this around here; it's a legacy card and yours is Standard." The price is established, get with it.
One thing that I never thought I would see because it is so bizarre but that really irritates me:
People pretending other people's content is their own. I was at a tournament this weekend, and we were talking about our least favorite cards in Innistrad limited, and one person quoted Luis-Scott-Vargas's commentary on Invisible Stalker verbatim. Like they didn't mention him at all or make any reference to it being from somewhere, just acted like they had come up with this awesome explanation of why it's an unhealthy card for Limited on their own. Then later, they basically quoted the entire Platinum Angel comedy article, but acting like it was their own, spur of the moment, wacky idea ("Hey, you know what I want to do some time? Play Platinum Angel and ....")
How pathetic do you have to get to not even be able to come up with your own words to talk about a game you spend so much time playing?
Not telling me that you're done with your turn, I can deal with when I'm sitting across the table from you. I hate when I'm playing MTGO or MWS and people don't hit the end turn button. YOU DON'T HAVE TO SAY ANYTHING, JUST DO IT. In MTGO, I can't play a turn until you click that you're done. Don't make me ask. Just end your turn. I know you're not doing anything during the end step, and I've already skipped it 'cause I'm tapped out.
About a year ago at PTQ Tampa, Florida, I showed up with a rather severe and highly debilitating hand injury due to fighting. Long story short, I effectively didn't have use of the bottom 2 fingers on each of my hands, so shuffling was problematic at best.
I'd pile shuffle and do the Yu-Gi-Oh! shuffle a few times and pile again, but I shuffled slowly due to my injury either way. Riffle shuffling was completely impossible, and I still have trouble with it to this day.
anyway. I was playing Valakut against a RUG deck, my opponent was a complete asshat. He sat there smugly the entire time and said things like, "Oh of course. Valakut, the poor man's RUG." And "You do know that deck takes absolutely no skill to play, right?"
And I just smiled and played on.
Eventually he looked at my shuffled and presented deck and said, "that's it?" and I said, "what?" he cut it and we played. Game 1 he dominated me, game 2 was very close but i managed to get it after I put in autumn's veil and 4 summoning traps, and game 3 I shuffled and he had this smug look and smile on his face (more so than usual) the entire time I was shuffling. As soon as I presented he raised his hand and called for a judge.
The HEAD JUDGE comes over, and hears us out. my opponent wanted me to get a game loss for improper randomization, and when i explained my disibility to the judge and proved it by demonstration of my mangled fingers, he gave me a Warning and told me that at the end of the round, he'd inform the other judges to stop by my table at the start of every round and inform my opponent that their choices were
A. Shuffle my deck for me.
Or B. Let a judge shuffle my deck every time it required shuffling. (Seeing as I was playing ramp, I trolled the judges quite a bit with this lolol)
BUT.
the entire time the head judge was trying to talk to us, my opponent was talking over him like a little yappy dog, "ITSAGAMELOSSITSAGAMELOSSITSAGAMELOSS!!! BUT ITS A GAME LOSS! GAME LOSS! GAME LOSS!"
and at the end the judge smacked him with an "Unsportsmanlike Conduct: Minor" and penalized him with a game loss, netting me the match win.
Rivaltuna, this post just made my day... well, night actually.
I had a very similar thing happen to me about a year ago, when I royally messed up both of my hands after a not-so-pleasant sparring match. A week later, I was playing a match (against yet another asshat player) who just went to town on my inability to shuffle properly that night. I offered him the chance to shuffle for me, and he simply replied, "do I look like your butler?"
I called a judge to shuffle, but the event was understaffed for judges, so my opponent got upset that things were "taking too long" every time I needed a shuffle. Finally, I just held both of my hands (splints and all) in front of him and told him that I really didn't have much of a choice. He could either shuffle for me, wait for a judge, or calm down and let me do the clunky-shuffling. He just decided to continue whining the rest of the night.
Good to hear that the player you were up against got what he deserved. =)
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Ive read it a few times in this thread but everyone keeps saying that they hate when someone is tapped out and still says ok when they play something. Someone once said to me "you are mono red and tapped out stop pretending like you have plays" so I said oh sorry I guess and then when I responded with mutagenic growth when he tried to incinerate my beserker and said oh I guess I did as he scooped up his cards in anger...
In essence you should always respect someone following the proper order of operations as its a good habit to get into anyway.
There are lots of things that bother me, like BO. However the only MTG related thing is people who take the game way too seriously.
No one likes losing, it sucks, but if you turn into the hulk with your rage, maybe you need to step back and evaluate what your 'hobby' is.
1) stop spending money on ****
2) do something spontaneous
3) spend money on rent/cars/fuel
4) stop saying gay/f#gt, stop saying ****ty bad jokes at the lsv which embarress us all and the 1 girl that ever came
5) stop playing magic
6)stop waiting for spoilers with glee rubbing your hands...lol waiting to buy more inflate pieces of plastic! Yippe! Spent 35 dollars on a junk rare in 6 months time! Winning...
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Given up magic because a)its a waste of money b)it sucks the joy out of life c)im doing more interesting things than tapping pieces of plastic that have no intrinsic value.
I encourage you to do the same. Instead of FNM try Friday Night Something Spontaneous. Instead of thousands of hours and dollars on plastic imagine it with a significant other or friends sharing something meaningful. I randomly typed a new password, so bon voyage itches i encourage you to follow suit! Cheers
Well most of the time it's not a problem because people either don't flicker or shuffle their cards really hard. So as you say because of the noise of the tournament I don't hear it. But every once in a while comes a super spaatz Kibler wanna-be that makes more noise than if he was tapping ten fingers very loudly against the table and that's when I have the problem. But in some FNM when there's not many players on in PTQs when most people are very quiet playing it's easy to hear it when they do it non stop.
Well Rivaltuna, I don't think it's everyday when 2 people with opposite medical problems play against each other. I suppose it would be a very weird game.
I would like to bet a very large sum of money that 90% of the people who flick their cards have no idea that Kibler was the first person to be recorded doing it, and I would also like to bet a large sum of money he probably wasn't the first person to actually do it in a competitive environment... maybe for magic, but I doubt he was truly the first... I know people who have been playing poker for a very long time, and that's actually where I picked up the card flicking, from my dad's best friend. He used the motion and a deadly stare to cause unease in other people he was playing with to keep them from seeing some of his major tells when he was bluffing... if you ice them, then they are more likely to misread your hand. This is just as true in Magic. The first time I did this was when him and my dad taught me Spades, and then I used to watch them play poker growing up and I noticed he would win more than he'd lose, so I started doing it while playing Pokemon back when I won a regional championships (a very long long time ago). Ever since then, I have continued flicking my cards...
Why do I say this? Because this is the third or fourth time this thread someone mentioned Kibler wanna be's, and that can definitely be added to my list of pet peeves... seriously, just because people flick their cards does not mean they wanna be Kibler... people emulate the people who are successful when they start learning the in's and out's of magic, and if people in your area are doing well at your FNM's and PTQ's, you generally start to pick up on their habits. 90% of the time I'm going to guess that does not mean they are emulating Brian Kibler.
5) Players with poor hygene.
4) The one high school kid with anger issues whose entire vocabulary is "***" "gay" and "f@#$".
3) Stinky players who don't shower.
2) The one guy who uses the high TCG price when valuing his cards in a trade, but the low one when valuing yours.
1) Players who smell like they've been cursed by some sort of otherworldly excremental. Seriously, what is up with Magic and poor hygene? It's on a good percentage of the lists here. There's one regular player at my FNM who smells so bad he has to play in his own little side room. I used to work in a homeless shelter and I'm consistently around worse smelling people at Magic tournaments.
5) If you Smell worse then a homeless guy DO NOT come to the LGS i play and work at
4)Talking broken english out loud about all the possible options on the board....Dude i have 7 cards in hand a flipped delver you have 5 land and your top decking not much going on....
3)Losing to someone and then them trying to give you advice to how you can be better...Dude i got blown because you had the nuts not because your a better player
2)Getting all butt hurt that you lost...while i find it amusing and i laugh while trying to be sympathetic it gets old
1)Not knowing when to take a joke...
Assuming they reprint Goyf, they could make it uncommon if they really wanted to. It's not like it would break limited or anything. I'm just not sure they'd want to drive its price into the ground for all of time. Shocks could be uncommon, too. It's not like dual lands are going to warp limited.
I would like to bet a very large sum of money that 90% of the people who flick their cards have no idea that Kibler was the first person to be recorded doing it, and I would also like to bet a large sum of money he probably wasn't the first person to actually do it in a competitive environment... maybe for magic, but I doubt he was truly the first... I know people who have been playing poker for a very long time, and that's actually where I picked up the card flicking, from my dad's best friend. He used the motion and a deadly stare to cause unease in other people he was playing with to keep them from seeing some of his major tells when he was bluffing... if you ice them, then they are more likely to misread your hand. This is just as true in Magic. The first time I did this was when him and my dad taught me Spades, and then I used to watch them play poker growing up and I noticed he would win more than he'd lose, so I started doing it while playing Pokemon back when I won a regional championships (a very long long time ago). Ever since then, I have continued flicking my cards...
Why do I say this? Because this is the third or fourth time this thread someone mentioned Kibler wanna be's, and that can definitely be added to my list of pet peeves... seriously, just because people flick their cards does not mean they wanna be Kibler... people emulate the people who are successful when they start learning the in's and out's of magic, and if people in your area are doing well at your FNM's and PTQ's, you generally start to pick up on their habits. 90% of the time I'm going to guess that does not mean they are emulating Brian Kibler.
You're right, my wording about the Kibler wanna-be was wrong,I'm sorry about that, I actually agree with you in that most people that do it probably haven't even seen Kibler doing it or started doing before seeing him.
I was just using him as an example of what kind of hand shuffling/flickering is loud/constant enough to trigger my medical problem with it.
I've got a new biggie... people who have nothing but disrespectful things to say about female players. I'm not sure why it's ever been thought that girls can't game... but with the rise of GOOD female players over the last few years... I would hope that this disrespect would stop. We're living in the freaking year 2012...
I've got a new biggie... people who have nothing but disrespectful things to say about female players. I'm not sure why it's ever been thought that girls can't game... but with the rise of GOOD female players over the last few years... I would hope that this disrespect would stop. We're living in the freaking year 2012...
This. Watching the live stream of GP Baltimore and the disrespect that Jackie Lee was getting... that was disgusting.
This. Watching the live stream of GP Baltimore and the disrespect that Jackie Lee was getting... that was disgusting.
I agree 100% about the disrespect of female players. Gosh I think we all want MORE people playing the game and making it more popular with the other half of the population is an excellent thing in my book.
Also something I forgot that makes me angry/sad. People being disrespectful to down right bigots with fellow foreign players from our neighboring countries when they come to play big tournaments here.
I won't give detailed examples but sometime ago a good foreign player almost won a big tournament here and facebook was filled with comments saying "I want anybody but him to win, the prize should stay in this country,etc"... that's sickening to me. Honestly I like the South American magic community to grow and that kind of attitude goes against that, we're all people.
I'm going on record right now and stating that before the end of 2012 we will see foil dual lands in booster packs (The real, Alpha dual lands). You can quote me on that.
Assuming they reprint Goyf, they could make it uncommon if they really wanted to. It's not like it would break limited or anything. I'm just not sure they'd want to drive its price into the ground for all of time. Shocks could be uncommon, too. It's not like dual lands are going to warp limited.
I've got a new biggie... people who have nothing but disrespectful things to say about female players. I'm not sure why it's ever been thought that girls can't game... but with the rise of GOOD female players over the last few years... I would hope that this disrespect would stop. We're living in the freaking year 2012...
This *never* happened at my LGS. Then I started playing at more stores, reading the comments on all the coverage I watch, and it's horrifying. Some of these people are worse than the manchildren on XBox Live!
5. On MTGO, don't rage quit because you are getting your butt handed to you. Finish out the game and act like an adult.
I don't really get this type of complaint. If the game is effectively decided already, why play it out? Some people have limited amounts of time to play, and would like to get in as many games as they can. Finishing out a game that is a foregone conclusion is pointless.
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1) In line with the borrowing dice thing, people next to me who ask to borrow my pen/pencil to sign their match slip. You can see I'm taking my own notes for my own match, right?
2) The old card shop I used to play at had a semi-pro player that would always put both of his earbuds in and not say a word. You might as well have been playing solitaire when you played this guy.
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I'd pile shuffle and do the Yu-Gi-Oh! shuffle a few times and pile again, but I shuffled slowly due to my injury either way. Riffle shuffling was completely impossible, and I still have trouble with it to this day.
anyway. I was playing Valakut against a RUG deck, my opponent was a complete asshat. He sat there smugly the entire time and said things like, "Oh of course. Valakut, the poor man's RUG." And "You do know that deck takes absolutely no skill to play, right?"
And I just smiled and played on.
Eventually he looked at my shuffled and presented deck and said, "that's it?" and I said, "what?" he cut it and we played. Game 1 he dominated me, game 2 was very close but i managed to get it after I put in autumn's veil and 4 summoning traps, and game 3 I shuffled and he had this smug look and smile on his face (more so than usual) the entire time I was shuffling. As soon as I presented he raised his hand and called for a judge.
The HEAD JUDGE comes over, and hears us out. my opponent wanted me to get a game loss for improper randomization, and when i explained my disibility to the judge and proved it by demonstration of my mangled fingers, he gave me a Warning and told me that at the end of the round, he'd inform the other judges to stop by my table at the start of every round and inform my opponent that their choices were
A. Shuffle my deck for me.
Or B. Let a judge shuffle my deck every time it required shuffling. (Seeing as I was playing ramp, I trolled the judges quite a bit with this lolol)
BUT.
the entire time the head judge was trying to talk to us, my opponent was talking over him like a little yappy dog, "ITSAGAMELOSSITSAGAMELOSSITSAGAMELOSS!!! BUT ITS A GAME LOSS! GAME LOSS! GAME LOSS!"
and at the end the judge smacked him with an "Unsportsmanlike Conduct: Minor" and penalized him with a game loss, netting me the match win.
Shuffling is fine. But your not gonna make it any more random for 20 seconds of shuffiling to 3 minutes.
And its not deck stacking. If I laid out all my cards on the table and then flipped through them in a 2-1 order of lands to non lands then I could understand someone calling me on mana weaving.
But if i'm just looking through my deck and just so happen to cut it in teh middle of a mana clump a few times then its not mana weaving. If I did the lay out and stacked my deck so I would always draw a titan first hand then its some bs. But cutting the deck through some clumps of land wouldn't qualify as Mana weaving. In any case how would one govern that kind of thing? how could one prove that is what I was doing? its not a slight of hand and i'm allowed to look through my deck all I want if its not during the game. One has to do that during sideboarding and other such things.
I'm not saying that if I moved all my lands around that it wouldn't be. But if its a single clump and I cut my deck I don't see how its mana weaving.
i looked at your trade thread and saw this:
Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite (accepted after rotation or half value)
so whats up with you low balling other people's elesh norns? you ever think of taking your own advice and accepting its established price?
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People pretending other people's content is their own. I was at a tournament this weekend, and we were talking about our least favorite cards in Innistrad limited, and one person quoted Luis-Scott-Vargas's commentary on Invisible Stalker verbatim. Like they didn't mention him at all or make any reference to it being from somewhere, just acted like they had come up with this awesome explanation of why it's an unhealthy card for Limited on their own. Then later, they basically quoted the entire Platinum Angel comedy article, but acting like it was their own, spur of the moment, wacky idea ("Hey, you know what I want to do some time? Play Platinum Angel and ....")
How pathetic do you have to get to not even be able to come up with your own words to talk about a game you spend so much time playing?
Rivaltuna, this post just made my day... well, night actually.
I had a very similar thing happen to me about a year ago, when I royally messed up both of my hands after a not-so-pleasant sparring match. A week later, I was playing a match (against yet another asshat player) who just went to town on my inability to shuffle properly that night. I offered him the chance to shuffle for me, and he simply replied, "do I look like your butler?"
I called a judge to shuffle, but the event was understaffed for judges, so my opponent got upset that things were "taking too long" every time I needed a shuffle. Finally, I just held both of my hands (splints and all) in front of him and told him that I really didn't have much of a choice. He could either shuffle for me, wait for a judge, or calm down and let me do the clunky-shuffling. He just decided to continue whining the rest of the night.
Good to hear that the player you were up against got what he deserved. =)
Some travel til' the end of worlds seeking glory. Others are just trying to find the way home.
In essence you should always respect someone following the proper order of operations as its a good habit to get into anyway.
No one likes losing, it sucks, but if you turn into the hulk with your rage, maybe you need to step back and evaluate what your 'hobby' is.
2) do something spontaneous
3) spend money on rent/cars/fuel
4) stop saying gay/f#gt, stop saying ****ty bad jokes at the lsv which embarress us all and the 1 girl that ever came
5) stop playing magic
6)stop waiting for spoilers with glee rubbing your hands...lol waiting to buy more inflate pieces of plastic! Yippe! Spent 35 dollars on a junk rare in 6 months time! Winning...
I encourage you to do the same. Instead of FNM try Friday Night Something Spontaneous. Instead of thousands of hours and dollars on plastic imagine it with a significant other or friends sharing something meaningful. I randomly typed a new password, so bon voyage itches i encourage you to follow suit! Cheers
I would like to bet a very large sum of money that 90% of the people who flick their cards have no idea that Kibler was the first person to be recorded doing it, and I would also like to bet a large sum of money he probably wasn't the first person to actually do it in a competitive environment... maybe for magic, but I doubt he was truly the first... I know people who have been playing poker for a very long time, and that's actually where I picked up the card flicking, from my dad's best friend. He used the motion and a deadly stare to cause unease in other people he was playing with to keep them from seeing some of his major tells when he was bluffing... if you ice them, then they are more likely to misread your hand. This is just as true in Magic. The first time I did this was when him and my dad taught me Spades, and then I used to watch them play poker growing up and I noticed he would win more than he'd lose, so I started doing it while playing Pokemon back when I won a regional championships (a very long long time ago). Ever since then, I have continued flicking my cards...
Why do I say this? Because this is the third or fourth time this thread someone mentioned Kibler wanna be's, and that can definitely be added to my list of pet peeves... seriously, just because people flick their cards does not mean they wanna be Kibler... people emulate the people who are successful when they start learning the in's and out's of magic, and if people in your area are doing well at your FNM's and PTQ's, you generally start to pick up on their habits. 90% of the time I'm going to guess that does not mean they are emulating Brian Kibler.
4) The one high school kid with anger issues whose entire vocabulary is "***" "gay" and "f@#$".
3) Stinky players who don't shower.
2) The one guy who uses the high TCG price when valuing his cards in a trade, but the low one when valuing yours.
1) Players who smell like they've been cursed by some sort of otherworldly excremental. Seriously, what is up with Magic and poor hygene? It's on a good percentage of the lists here. There's one regular player at my FNM who smells so bad he has to play in his own little side room. I used to work in a homeless shelter and I'm consistently around worse smelling people at Magic tournaments.
4)Talking broken english out loud about all the possible options on the board....Dude i have 7 cards in hand a flipped delver you have 5 land and your top decking not much going on....
3)Losing to someone and then them trying to give you advice to how you can be better...Dude i got blown because you had the nuts not because your a better player
2)Getting all butt hurt that you lost...while i find it amusing and i laugh while trying to be sympathetic it gets old
1)Not knowing when to take a joke...
You're right, my wording about the Kibler wanna-be was wrong,I'm sorry about that, I actually agree with you in that most people that do it probably haven't even seen Kibler doing it or started doing before seeing him.
I was just using him as an example of what kind of hand shuffling/flickering is loud/constant enough to trigger my medical problem with it.
This. Watching the live stream of GP Baltimore and the disrespect that Jackie Lee was getting... that was disgusting.
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I agree 100% about the disrespect of female players. Gosh I think we all want MORE people playing the game and making it more popular with the other half of the population is an excellent thing in my book.
Also something I forgot that makes me angry/sad. People being disrespectful to down right bigots with fellow foreign players from our neighboring countries when they come to play big tournaments here.
I won't give detailed examples but sometime ago a good foreign player almost won a big tournament here and facebook was filled with comments saying "I want anybody but him to win, the prize should stay in this country,etc"... that's sickening to me. Honestly I like the South American magic community to grow and that kind of attitude goes against that, we're all people.
Miscongeniality of the thread award goes to...
gotta love how your brain auto fills in words when reading.......
This *never* happened at my LGS. Then I started playing at more stores, reading the comments on all the coverage I watch, and it's horrifying. Some of these people are worse than the manchildren on XBox Live!
Krark Clan Eggs
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Miracles
Sneak'n'Show
Elves
Mono-Red Burn
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Thraximundar
I don't really get this type of complaint. If the game is effectively decided already, why play it out? Some people have limited amounts of time to play, and would like to get in as many games as they can. Finishing out a game that is a foregone conclusion is pointless.
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