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  • posted a message on [Primer] Moon's Essence (Mono Red Blood Moon Control)
    For those who've played him--how has Kargan Dragonlord faired? In a Moon style deck that runs higher land counts, it seems like Kargan Dragonlord and Plated Geopede are our best early game.
    Posted in: Deck Creation (Modern)
  • posted a message on Homebrew Campaign--Revamped Races
    Commentary, critiques, especially questions. I find that questions help me flesh things out. Thumbs Up
    Posted in: Speakeasy Archives
  • posted a message on Magic is worthless - it is a sad realization but it is true
    Quote from magnus warhol
    dump your vintage sets while its worth something. Its over.


    I'm thanking you for this statement--I would love access to all your Dual lands for my Invasion Dragon Legend deck. Thumbs Up
    Posted in: Magic General
  • posted a message on Santa Monica Shooting--Thanks, NSA!
    Quote from AdamM
    This is why we need stricter gun laws and background checks and all, and VERY STIFF penalties for anyone illegal owning, obtaining, holding or selling a gun.

    Any gun retailer that is found illegally selling guns or failing to do a proper background check should have his business shut down, all merchandise seized and not allowed to open another gun business.

    For people who illegally own a gun, either jail time or a serious fine.


    Background checks are an excellent idea. How do you catch someone illegally owning, obtaining, holding, or selling a gun? If our govt couldn't use illegal weaponry to crack down on the cartels (smooth move, AG Holder), they sure can't do much about domestic illegal guns until after the tragedy. Frown
    Posted in: Talk and Entertainment
  • posted a message on Sarah Murnaghan
    Quote from algebra
    Quote from ColonelCoo
    So is that Paul Ryan and the Republicans wanted to push Grandma off a cliff but Sebious (aka Obama's pick) and the Democrats want to push our grandchildren off a cliff?

    Funny how those Democrat attack adds just highlight again that whatever they claim the Republicans want to do will be exactly what the Democrats WILL DO.

    Death panels of government appointees saying who lives and who dies seems to be a spot on claim by alarmist when Obamacare started.


    I will just go out and say it. Death Panels are a good thing because of the demands of reality.

    There are X amount of people needing an organ to live. There are Y amount of organs that are donated. Because of the current situation in reality land X > Y.

    Therefore X - Y = D. D is the number of people that are going to die.

    It is the morally correct choice to have a panel of experts, not a judge, not the media, to determine a fair and logical procedure to determine which x's get y's.

    Or if you are a shrill partisan that wants to score meaningless points with your choir; you could say that the experts determine you will not get the organs so they are now a death panel instead of a group of experts trying to save as many lives as possible.


    Strong sociopath.
    Posted in: Debate
  • posted a message on Using Woogerworks?
    Is Woogerworks as good as Cockatrice was?

    http://www.woogerworks.com/
    Posted in: Magic General
  • posted a message on Santa Monica Shooting--Thanks, NSA!
    Quote from Oldaughd
    Hi there Mr. Bigot. Nice to meet you too. Enjoy the ban.


    I aware you on forums where **** isn't synonymous with bigot:

    http://forum.bodybuilding.com/forumdisplay.php?f=19

    Chillax mang! Smile

    Let the censor do its job. - Nai
    Posted in: Talk and Entertainment
  • posted a message on Homebrew Campaign--Revamped Races
    Took a challenge to throw a different spin on elves. This is what I've come up with:

    Elves: Humans that were abducted by Goblins and subjected to brainwashing at the Goblins' claws. The Goblins have mutilated their victims to create an immaculate, ageless beauty. After the Goblins had created a sizeable amount of Elves for trade with the continents Kara-Tur, Chult and Abeir, the Elves staged a violent revolution that resulted in a united resistance of Elf and Genasi. In the aftermath of the war, the Goblins returned to the mountains of the southern pole. The Elves remembered the Goblins’ lessons—that the Elves were nothing more than sex objects for the peoples of Faerun. The Elves initially took to abducting the offspring of every sapient race, raising the children, and then turning them into Elves.

    The Elf-Gnoll conflict was initiated when a devout Gnoll was left without a wide range of fresh corpses to practice her necromancy. In the aftermath, the majority of the Elves decided to relegate their cradle-snatching to humankind. Those that continued taking Gnoll, Sahuagin, and Saurial offspring were forced to flee Faerun. The outcast Elves settled on Kara-Tur, Chult, and Abeir.

    Elven scripture promotes the belief in a righteous deity—Corelleon—that led the Elves to rise up against their Goblin molders. Whereas Goblins molded Elves, Corelleon created Elves by giving the folk a purpose-driven life of exacting revenge against humankind.

    When an Elf passes away, it is custom for the Elf’s mates to use the skin and bones for clothing. The flesh, viscera, and brain are bound to fungi bartered from the Hook Horrors. This fungus comes from tunnels near what is rumored to be the resting grove of the Sarkudrun,

    The Elves allow the fungi to grow up around the flesh, viscera, and brain. At the end of the growing period, the Elves cultivate the mass of flesh and fungus into a hound-shape. The ensuing myconihounds provide a source of companionship and assist the Elves in their hunting excursions. A few of the neurons are bound within stones that the Elves call medukore. The medukore serve as storehouses of the neurons’ action potentials; these stones allow the Elves to reanimate a body. Embedding the medukore within a corpse allows the stone’s bound action potentials to reactivate the corpse’s organs and physiological processes.

    Here's what I've done for the Sahuagin:

    Sahuagin: Possess a thickly muscled tail tipped in a stinging barb. A ray-like carapace spans the length of the Sahuagin, giving the sea-folk a cloaked appearance. The ray carapace can be used to catch projectiles launched by the Sahuagin’s prey. The Sahuagin’s ancestors used their skills with deep-sea creature poisons to capture herds of sea-beasts for use as submersibles. Today, the Sahuagin use their sea-beasts as bio-organic pirate ships. The strongest of the sea-beasts have been subjected to genetic modification, which allows them to swim emerged or submerged below the ocean. The best of the modified sea-beasts are used as breeding studs, which has allowed the Sahuagin to create very bizarre-looking pirate ships.

    The Sahuagin have used their spellcraft and sea-beasts to bore into the continent of Faerun, creating underground channels and seas. These underground waterways have allowed the Sahuagin to establish a sort of criminal underworld on Faerun. Sahuagin society is based around piracy. The Sahuagin sell their poisons and weaponry to the pirates of Faerun. The caveat to accepting a Sahuagin-based weapon is that one must take on that Sahuagin as his or her patron. Thus, the best of the Sahuagin weaponsmiths are, effectively, mob bosses.

    Sahuagin society believes in providing people of all races with whatever form of outlaw goods and entertainment they desire. If these primitive, carnal desires were not met, the Sahuagin believe that any deprived society will fall apart as the politicians, merchants, and peasantry pursue their illegal interests. There are a few Sahuagin that come to revile the brutal norm of Sahuagin society. These objectors are taken via underground waterway to the Saurial libraries and given proof via historical accounts of fallen civilizations that the Sahuagin are a necessary evil that ensures the survival of Faerun. If the Sahuagin objectors still oppose the Sahuagin’s underworldly enterprises, the objector may be sold to Sahuagin scientists as test subjects for new weaponry or lobotomized and sent to the spawning caverns. In the spawning caverns, the lobotomized Sahuagin serve as a source of reproduction to ensure the survival of the Sahuagin race.

    The Sahuagin are hated by a portion of humankind for abducting humans—men/women, children/adults—and selling them to the Genasi and Hook-Horrors. The Sahuagin were not directly involved; their pirate captains and crimelords were responsible for the kidnappings and cradle-robbing. A Gnoll shaman examined a few of the mangled corpses that appeared to be somewhat human.
    Posted in: Speakeasy Archives
  • posted a message on My Little Pony: Speakeasy is Magic
    /mlp/ has some bootleg images from Equestria Girls if you're curious about the film. Also, basedFaust popped into /mlp/ for a brief Q&A. The brony way of love and tolerance came out in full force, especially from FinalDraft, Saberspark, and the other bronies of Equestria Daily. Laugh
    Posted in: the Speakeasy
  • posted a message on Confronting a man with a loaded Gun
    Quote from magickware99
    You really have no idea what you're saying at all do you Rake.


    Aware yourself, MW99. Nodding the Affirmative
    Posted in: Talk and Entertainment
  • posted a message on The best race at equipment? (Kor, Human, or Cat)
    If Goblins didn't have options outside of Goblin Lackey, Goblin Warchief, and Goblin Piledriver...it woud be Goblins. As it is...humans. Kor are only good at searching equipment. There's more quality human cards than kor or cats.
    Posted in: Magic General
  • posted a message on Confronting a man with a loaded Gun
    One of you keeps Rob's attention while another at the edge of the crowd slinks around behind him. You'd want the guy sneaking up on Rob to come from behind, at an angle, so that if Rob's finger slipped, the bullet would fire off, away from anyone.

    If someone else had a gun, at best Rob would've dropped his gun. At worst, Rob would've dropped it from a cold, dead hand. I'd probably hate Rob more than the gun. Try cutting and lifting to build some confidence. That way you can bertstare that beta FA. Thumbs Up
    Posted in: Talk and Entertainment
  • posted a message on Santa Monica Shooting--Thanks, NSA!
    Quote from Senori
    Eyebrow

    This is not a thread about NSA wiretapping. Keep it to the story at hand.

    This is tragic, and I hope those injured have swift recoveries.



    This thread is actually about how the NSA, or these **** (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/10106919/Obama-on-NSA-surveillance-scandal-nobody-is-listening-to-your-phone-calls.html or http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jun/07/uk-gathering-secret-intelligence-nsa-prism) failed to use their tech to prevent the tragedy.

    Infraction for Censor Evasion - Nai
    Posted in: Talk and Entertainment
  • posted a message on Santa Monica Shooting--Thanks, NSA!
    Quote from Tiax
    They're not keeping tabs on the country's citizens. Intelligence related to US Persons in minimized out of NSA collection.


    So then...who's been tabbing the US/UK civies' phone calls and online communications?
    Posted in: Talk and Entertainment
  • posted a message on You know what I realised today?
    Quote from Cervid
    Quote from Rake
    Quote from Cervid
    Who your kid ends up being friends with in school and beyond has just as much, if not more, influence on raising them. Do we hold friends responsible too?


    No, you hold parents responsible for being an active part of their children's lives.


    You totally missed the point. Even parents who are active in their kids' lives don't necessarily have the majority control over their child's raising.

    The whole "parents are responsible for their children" as it extends into adulthood, or even teenage years, is so ridiculous. It just tells me you don't have knowledge of, or care to have knowledge of, how things actually work in the real world.


    Dat dere parent of der yer.

    You instill a strong sense of ethics on your kid, and he/she will be fine. Don't be an FA :(.

    Flame warning.
    Posted in: Debate
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