Anyways Im having a tideous playtest of the new MGA archetype im constructing for the MGA thread in standard competative. Im calling it Scryban Fist that abuses Scryb Ranger and baru, fist of krosa. Here is a sample playtest list im workin on.
Thats it. I think Ill be introducing this as the 4th MGA archetype. the 3 basic types are
1. Snowy Scryb & Force (by truly yours, Hunter44)
2. Monogreen Haste (by my MGA friend Trainswalker09)
3. Monogreen Evasion - the traditional build
Anyway many people in the house are type 1 users so I think seldom will be interested.
Looks good hunter I was wondering if chord of calling would fit in here since you seem to have alot of extra mana floating around that you could use and a whole lot of creatures to abuse the concove ability from the chord. Then you can power out big creatures at a faster rate although just a suggestion though.
I also think harmonize could help your mid to late game as well by drawing cards that are needed to finish the match in your favor.
I also dont think vinelasher kudzu really fits in there considering you don't really run any fetchlands to make it decently big to pose as a threat factor on the table. Although adding some vesuvas and some terramorphic expanse could fix that nicely though but ill leave that up to you.
Hi Cecilia. I'm doing okay. Insomnia sucks. One of my good friends is coming in to town this sunday though, so that should be fun. We're going to play some magic, mabey chess and have a little bbq.
Yeah insomnia is bad.... i always have relatively some insomnia when i have to get up early the next morning to go to work and i had alot of it when i was doing clinicals in the x-ray program as well. Always good to have a good friend to hang out with and have fun shah!
Ok See you in ym. Hope we can talk sometime. I would also like to know how to effectively beat stasis decks.
Yeah we will definetly get to talk sometime on yahoo. Ohhhh stasis decks hehehe i always hear about them from time to time but ill see what i can do to solve your situation against them.
Well i am probably going to get ready for work in about 2 hours from now and then i have 2 days off in a row. Ill still be here and possibly play some dragon quest 7 as well too. See you all soon and have a great weekend everyone! *hugs and blows kisses*
I work at a grocery store its owned by one of the largest food companies in the nation safeway. It gets to be alot of work when im the courtesy clerk there but recently ive gotten alot more help but it still can be a long day and also pretty tiring but i enjoy it im looking to move up to supervisor in the grocery store one of these days. Its good to see you again shah how are you?
Love,
Cecilia
I think you and I work for the same company. I'm also working 33 hours this week, but I'm thinking of calling out today. With all the stress and whatnot about next week's hours, and now the fact that apparently, while I was at work yesterday, a red car put a dent into the car. I haven't seen it so I don't know how bad it is, but I could have done without it.
@Nai: Ouch, man. That really sucks. I would have said something to them and gotten my money. I really don't like not getting credit for things I did.
I think you and I work for the same company. I'm also working 33 hours this week, but I'm thinking of calling out today. With all the stress and whatnot about next week's hours, and now the fact that apparently, while I was at work yesterday, a red car put a dent into the car. I haven't seen it so I don't know how bad it is, but I could have done without it.
Oh thats pretty cool. Aww i hope everything works out for you though. Yeah about half of the days this week when i had to wake up early werent really that great either considering i was sick and didnt feel good but im glad i went to work though and did my best there. That really does bites buzz i hope your stressful situations will ease quickly.
Ooh, that was low. Which I'm sure was the point.
In seriousness, I don't wear a very big shoe size.
Oh dear... I didn't mean to be low, I was just making a little play on words. I didn't realize your hieght was a sore spot, I thought it was something you were fairly neutral on. I'm very sorry.
On an unrelated note, I may have to adjust my self-perception as someone who sucks at Magic. As I said a couple weeks ago, not only did I win something for the first time ever at the FS prelease, but I finished in the top prize tier (against a couple hundred people in five rounds). Then last week I won my local FNM, and then last night I won our local release event. Is it a lucky streak? Is it the end of an unlucky streak? It is the fact that the power level is more even among cards and makes it easier to win with a non-killer-net-deck, and easier to put a good sealed deck together? Or have I actually improved that much in the past year since I started playing again? It's baffeling...
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I apologize to mamelon for saying lol to kraj's joke as well. Please forgive both of us mamelon? *hugs*
Well i have work in about an hour and a half from now. Ill be back later tonight though and ill see if i can get up legacy of the week later tonight or tommorrow but im going to try hard to do it tonight. see you all soon! *hugs and blows kisses*
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It seems like a lot of people have been less active here lately.
I know I have. I tend to only post when I feel I have something at least remotely relevant (or at least funny) to say, and there's been fewer situations where I feel that way. I feel no need to respond to "Hey everyone, I still have a pulse, how are you guys?" posts, and I'm not going to pretend that I have any sort of insight into people's personal lives or that I'm somehow qualified to give people relationship advice. Even though we cycle through discussions rapidly, the coffeehouse has general tenors that last much longer than individual discussions. While I like the coffeehouse, I feel no particular special obligation to it; I read (or skip) posts primarily for my own entertainment, and respond primarily for my own entertainment. Lately, other demands on my time have seemed more compelling than skimming pages of 'hiya everyone, how are your feelings?' and hittin' on people twice your age or half of it, so I've generally been less involved. My interest in Magic is all but dead as well, (gagged on the wretched TS block) so discussions of the game seem less compelling as well.
I finally got around to watching these. They’re random but hilarious. Is it safe to assume quite a bit is lost in translation? All the words seem really simple but then switch to more elaborate vocabulary. Seems a bit odd, but I’ve never watched much anime before that. Also, the kitty in the show reminds me a bit of MBM's avvy.
@Alcohol: I don't feel as strongly about alcohol as I used to. I drink it every now and then, though it seems a bit overrated. Though it's much more more enjoyable than I first assumed, so I dunno.
Emphasis added by me
Overrated is exactly the feeling that seems to come from it. (I think this may be more of a Western or American thing though, anyone please correct me if I’m wrong.) It’s enjoyable but people exaggerate its feeling a bit too much in my opinion.
@Danica: I'm sorry to hear your bad news. That can feel like a pretty harsh setback, but you'll make it. Just keep trying, hun. *hugs* That actually happens to a lot more people than you'd think.
I completely forgot to comment on this before but Mamelon got the words better than I could have said them myself.
Yeah, tell me about it. It's shameful at times. Some members are worse than others. Caring about feelings is looked down on a lot, but they're an inevitable part of interacting with people, and I always find that trying to understand each other always make such discussions go much better.
I wish people were more open with feelings and that it was more natural and accepted everywhere. Everyone thinks it’s all emo or something, but really feelings happen and are a part of life. If everything else can be shared, those should be as well.
You’re far from mean. I would say passionate is a better description. I’ve never ventured over to the debate forums, but seeing you talk about subjects in the Coffeehouse I see more passion than meanness.
Welcome, Coffeehouse! Lately I needed a little break from MTGS, so I wasn't around much... but it's really nice to pup in after a while.
* Umgenni Kemo orders a cup of raspberry and lemon tea.
Also, just to switch the roles for once,
* Umgenni Kemo serves Dreia a glass of cranberry juice, along with some white-chocolate-coated raisins. (Try them... they're unbelievably good. ;))
*Dreia serve Umgenni a cup of raspberry and lemon tea, leaving an extra cup ready as well as pink grapefruit as a backup*
Thank you so much! I’m a sucker for white chocolate so that definitely helps too. It’s not actually chocolate and in my opinion tastes better than chocolate. I might have to check those out. I’ve tried white chocolate covered craisins (dried cranberries) before too.
Actually one should treat both the people one cares for and those one is indifferent to well, hmm? Of course, that's might not be an easy task...
It seems that in the Western culture, people may be all nice and polite to strangers, just because the rules of social behavior tell them to do so, but when they're alone with their families they can be quite unpleasant to be with. I also heard an opinion (though I don't know if it is true) that in some of the Eastern cultures people have too much respect for the ones they care for (like family members) to be rude to them, but sometimes can become quite impolite to strangers.
Of course, both cases are generalizations, which obviously may exist everywhere in the world. In the modern world, most cultures are capable of producing individuals with a strong sense of decorum as well as ones lacking of; similarily, behavior towards the people one cares for may differ.
It is quite arguable which one is better, to be caring and polite to those you love but rude to strangers, or rather to be nice and helpful to people you don't care much for and *****y towards your family. An individual of the first kind might not have many friends or be liked by the society, but having a few people who know him or her better might just be enough for him or her. But of course it's always more complicated than that.
People should treat others with care and respect no matter if close or strangers. (Unless those people prove otherwise, some are just hopeless.) Obviously, one would have different feelings to people close to them especially if they love them or care more for them. I just don’t think it is fair to be a complete jerk to someone without ever giving them the chance. If one treats all others in a jerk-like manner, they may lose their close friends/family and not have anyone left. It doesn’t have to be a constant peachy keen to everyone someone comes across but a simple greeting would suffice. Treating them like a jerk is just plain rude for the first time one meets another.
Exhausting day at work. Lots of people off. Doing all their work. Finally running for the pub, where I'm going to hit the first beer like a French chaffeur into a tunnel. Apologies if anyone's offended - I'm too tired to care.
I'm very good at fingerpicking on the guitar. But for over a year now, I've been playing nothing but rock.
I just pulled out my 1959 grestch and just poured so much into it. What I played started out as improvisation, but soon I started finding little melody hooks, and I kept weaving in and out of minors and majors. I realized where it was going, and realized that I was basically rewriting Somewhere over the rainbow, and well, it was just beautifull to me.
I had been thinking of selling my old Grestch, because I need college money, but I just convinced myself that I can't sell it.
That sounds simply amazing and words cannot be placed to it.
Hahahaha, oh my God. That's awful. It made me laugh, though.
It's been such a boring morning, and it's looking to be a boring afternoon, too. Leaving in a bit to go do laundry and visit my parents- and by visit, I mean sit around their house and do nothing.
Hmmm boring night with parents sitting around and doing nothing. I hope you enjoyed. Poor guy.
Good lord the angry (drunk) boyfriends! I have a story about that that I can share sometime later (like when I'm not sneezing every other minute)... and thankfully it only involves me minimally.
So I got invited to a party tonight...Should be fun..its a "stoplight" party.. you wear red if you're taken, green if you're available.. I'm wearing red obviously
We had a stoplight spirit day in high school once. Ours was green for single, yellow if you were “talking” and red for taken. It was an odd choice for a spirit day.
Also, glad you found your ring. Losing important sentimental(?) possessions such as that makes for a rough time.
Ugh....I literally want to stab whomever makes the schedules at work. Today, I found out I'm going to be working the next 5 days. So including tomorrow's shift, and the ones I've worked this week already, that makes a grand total of 9 days in a row.
Check the labor laws in your state Buzz. Many states have a law stating that you can only work so many days in a row without a day off. That being said, it means you can call in on the Xth day(whatever the law provides) and they can’t punish or fire you for it. Unfortunately, I think the most common is 10 days straight.
Two friends of mine had thei birthday so we decided to put up a barbeque. It was quite fun. I ended up cooking with another person because the only person that knew how to cook is afraid of fire so for the first time i cooked on the barbeque and no one complained
All in all it was pretty fun, we spent a lot of time talking and enjoying ourselves in general
Glad to hear you enjoyed the barbeque! Do we have another chef in the making?
I feel for you, Buzz. I had weeks like that in my work. And I also got screwed on my paycheck. Working EVERY day of Spring Break, working over 40 hours that week (illegally, I might add, as I was under 18). I was supposed to get both extra cash or the Spring Break hours and for the overtime hours, and I got neither. I got the exact same paycheck for 40 hours the next week. Lovely, ne?
Doesn’t that grind you? Granted the hours were illegal, but having known that they should have paid you to cover their asses. Plus you worked all that time and didn’t get compensated even remotely fairly.
On a related note, does ANYONE actually read those who isn't a member of the clan? Because I always link to them and I never get any feedback. That's...offensive, seriously.
I’m not entirely sure I know what you’re talking about. I know I’ve clicked on a few of your links and read them. I just don’t know much about the whole thing.
I have considered something in gaming journalism, but I don't really know how qualified I'd be. Sure, I play a lot of games, but I dunno. I've really thought about applying the next time a preview or editorial position opens up at RPGamer.
From what I’ve read, I’d say you have a pretty good chance. You have a good talent for writing. Very bad comparison but the way I look at it: if the idiots on G4 can keep their job, you could easily get a journalism job for game reviews.
Haha, it wasn't so much soup labels this time as it was like, 45 pairs of worn out underwear and a pair of ratty old cowboy boots, but yeah.
It’s an odd collection of items, but not unheard of.
Depending on his age, it’s quite common. I remember helping clean two of my great grandmothers houses and they collected a lot. Both of them lived through the Depression and rationing lived on with them their whole lives. I remember some of the things were bread ties, peanut butter lids, bread wrappers, Styrofoam meat trays, and plastic deli containers. I couldn’t understand it. We took nine huge garbage bags of that type of stuff from the one house. It’s crazy. Obviously, my grandma noticed it and started freaking out.
On an unrelated note, I may have to adjust my self-perception as someone who sucks at Magic. As I said a couple weeks ago, not only did I win something for the first time ever at the FS prelease, but I finished in the top prize tier (against a couple hundred people in five rounds). Then last week I won my local FNM, and then last night I won our local release event. Is it a lucky streak? Is it the end of an unlucky streak? It is the fact that the power level is more even among cards and makes it easier to win with a non-killer-net-deck, and easier to put a good sealed deck together? Or have I actually improved that much in the past year since I started playing again? It's baffeling...
Just give yourself a little more credit. We always think less of ourselves. Congrats on the winnings as well.
@Nai & Mamelon: Thnaks for your concern. The paper was stuck back together, and I reckon it'll be fine. My tutor was very sympathetic, and it was just one of those 'final straw' things.
Glad to hear things worked out with the paper. Hopefully you can find out about the girl pretty soon. If not, just give it a go anyways. It may be well worth it.
It seems like a lot of people have ben less active here lately.
I’ve noticed that as well. It doesn’t necessarily seem slow, but the posts have been shorter sometimes. It has been mainly only a few people posting.
Welcome back Hunter.
About British sayings. At work a guy just moved down to our floor and I'm assuming he's originally from England. It makes me smile every time I hear cheeky and bloody just naturally flow in conversation. It's quite grand when I'm used to people who speak like me instead of a different region.
I'm sure this post is long enough by now so I'll update a bit later as well.
@FL's banner:
Not commenting till after the poll goes up, but I feel CD may have made a small mistake this week that gives the rest of us a chance.
Good luck with the SAT, SB.
@Kraj:
How much experience have you had with limited before? I feel I'm really good at limited, but I'm not sure how I'd fare in a constructed environment. You may be just developing a heretofore undiscovered limited talent.
@Dreia:
Somebody actually watched it? Cool! As for the translations, well, not a whole lot is lost. I think A.F.K. (the subbing group) actually did a very good job with the translations for this one. Depending on the group, sometimes the subs for an anime are terrible, and sometimes they are good - this time, I think they are fairly good. As for the randomosity, hehe, yeah... it reminds me of Azumanga Daioh, both in that and in the animation style. It does contain a lot of references to other anime and nerdly things, though, so unless you are up on your anime some jokes will just fly right by, or seem strange.
Fox untaps his/her permanents It is now the Beginning Phase, Upkeep Step It is now the Beginning Phase, Draw Step Fox draws a card It is now the Precombat Main Phase Fox plays Steam Vents from Hand Fox untaps Steam Vents Fox's life total is now 14 (-2) Fox taps Mountain Fox taps Steam Vents Fox plays Chain of Plasma from Hand <Fox> discarding 4 <Fox> =15 damage to stuffy Fox puts Stuffy Doll to Graveyard from Hand Fox puts Demonfire to Graveyard from Hand Fox puts Izzet Signet to Graveyard from Hand Fox puts Izzet Signet to Graveyard from Hand <Fox> gg? <DDangelo> uh <DDangelo> That kinda sucks
'Fox.
ROFL!!!!! That's awesome :p.
@Mr. Stuff: Thanks, but I already took it ;).
I'm so excited for Spiderman 3. Only 4 more hours...:D.
@SB: Yeah I know. But he whined a lot this guy, which made it less fun. He got annoyed with my Derranged Hermit + Recurring Nightmare deck, when it looked so much like he'd win, but turn by turn, I built up an army, and regained life with Essence Warden. He quit, eventually. Ah well, the Sutffy thing was great. I wish I could have seen the look on his face!!!
I'm off to see Spiderman 3 on Monday, when I've got a day off. Hopefully, there'll be a big group of us, and unknowing to one member, we're all conspiring to set me up with her. Should be fun. You the the drill though, I got on about this like a little kid, and it never works. I'll explain how on Tuesday.
'Fox.
Lol, yeah, I know how that goes. Well, good luck to you, I know how nerve wracking that is to ask someone out. But as long as you have friends helping you out and supporting you, I'm sure you'll be fine. Good luck :).
Oh god... forgot about the story... I'm glad someone keeps me honest to these things but first a few quick things:
1) @Fox: LOL Chain = broken!
2) @SB: GL when the score comes in!
Now for the (quick) story. I dunno if I should be telling this but I'll keep it as PG-13 as possible:
See there's this bar up north of the border that my friends decided to go to one day last year sometime and I decided to go for the heck of it. Don't like the places but frankly I wasn't feeling like staying in town at the time. Near the bar is a strip club. Never set foot in the place and still havent but the group split half going to the club the other half sticking with the bar. When the nights over and everyone's sufficiently drunk (myself, one or two other people, and the drivers excluded) we head out to the parking lots. Well it turns out that one of the guys got himself into a mess at the strip club.... He decided to have sex with one of the strippers - whose boyfriend was in the audience that night... and was completely hammered. You can venture what happened from there.
As if I didn't already dislike going out at nights to bars, etc.
Just thought I'd pop in and say hi :).
Not that I've got anything useful to say, but then you'll probably get used to that as I continue to post and blab in here :P.
This is a fine alternative from studying for finals
Hey!! How ya doin? I'm Strongbad, nice to meetcha :). Hopefully you come back more often; we've been getting kind of low on activity around here lately. And good luck with finals ;).
Oh god... forgot about the story... I'm glad someone keeps me honest to these things but first a few quick things:
1) @Fox: LOL Chain = broken!
2) @SB: GL when the score comes in!
Now for the (quick) story. I dunno if I should be telling this but I'll keep it as PG-13 as possible:
See there's this bar up north of the border that my friends decided to go to one day last year sometime and I decided to go for the heck of it. Don't like the places but frankly I wasn't feeling like staying in town at the time. Near the bar is a strip club. Never set foot in the place and still havent but the group split half going to the club the other half sticking with the bar. When the nights over and everyone's sufficiently drunk (myself, one or two other people, and the drivers excluded) we head out to the parking lots. Well it turns out that one of the guys got himself into a mess at the strip club.... He decided to have sex with one of the strippers - whose boyfriend was in the audience that night... and was completely hammered. You can venture what happened from there.
As if I didn't already dislike going out at nights to bars, etc.
Thank you.
Lol, that sucks big time for your friend, although it was pretty much his fault; actually, entirely his fault from what I can see. Still, hopefully he didn't get hurt too badly. I'm glad you had a good time at least (I hope).
P.S. I can't imagine having a girlfriend who is a stripper. That seems just dumb, I'm sorry. At least if you do, don't get super mad at someone for having sex with her. She's practically having sex with everyone in the room, really :rolleyes:. Don't people care if their girlfriend is the fantasy of tons of people every night? I wouldn't get close to anyone like that.
P.S. I can't imagine having a girlfriend who is a stripper. That seems just dumb, I'm sorry. At least if you do, don't get super mad at someone for having sex with her. She's practically having sex with everyone in the room, really :rolleyes:. Don't people care if their girlfriend is the fantasy of tons of people every night? I wouldn't get close to anyone like that.
Don't judge people.
Not that I condone stripping, I must say that there's a huge difference from a girl stripping, and a girl sleeping with everyone in the room. Now, is a girl stripping generally good for a relationship? No, not usually. But passing someone off as a whore simply because of their questionable profession is taking things a bit far.
Now, if you wouldn't date a stripper, that's your prerogative, but they're people too. They're children of God just like everyone else on this earth, and you looking down your nose at them doesn't change that.
@Kraj:
How much experience have you had with limited before? I feel I'm really good at limited, but I'm not sure how I'd fare in a constructed environment. You may be just developing a heretofore undiscovered limited talent.
Not much at. Came back to Magic by playing in the Rav prerelease and have played sealed in every pr since then. The previous best I had done was win two matches out of five. I had also played two or three FNM tournaments and finished in the bottom half and then in the middle. I think it's a bit early to claim any talent. I've probably just been lucky to have deep red, which is definitely the strongest color in this block, in my sealed decks lately.
Neither of you knew this when you posted but I think it's pertinent information for the story - sort of. The sex was a completely mutal thing from the way I understand it (he did end up dating that very same stripper a few times later that year) but its well known that they take money under the counter/in the back room for ummmm... How to keep this PG-13.... certain acts?
Ninja Edit: @Kraj: It's definitely partially talent because you wouldn't have won those if you didn't make the plays that counted... Especially in the pre-re.
Hey Thanks man. Your the very first one to welcome me back.^_^Ive read the pages everyday, its just that i wasnt allowed to post. Havent you seen me still watching the thread for the past week? Too bad even if Im in the "currently active users viewing this thread", no one noticed me or greet me. Well anyway Im glad Im back.
HUNTERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR~! I missed you so much!!! OMG sa wakas may pilipino ulit sa bahay ng kape!!! How are you???
Anyway, greeting to you guys! I'm in Bagiuo right now... it's a city on top of a plateau. I'm just taking a vacation from all the work and heat in Manila. I'm going back tomorrow. I'm in Starbucks right now, just updating everyone that I'm okay... though something came up last night. Won't talk about it, but if anyone's interested I'll just PM it to them.
So how's everyone? I'm fine here. It's very cold in Bagiuo. I love it. Bought so many things under seven dollars (350 pesos)!! I got a ring that's 150 ($3)... it's an engagement ring; my mom was nagging at me as to why I wanted one, so i said plain is pretty.
There are so many Koreans here... THere are also many Americans and Europeans.
I miss all of you guys! It's a little boring here with just my mom, but so far I found a way of passing time: Sitting on top of the mountain and listening to classical music while admiring the view.
@Mamelon: Whoever said you're mean is mean. You're far from being mean.
@Psychoburner: Hope you enjoy your weekend! (I know I am)
K that's all... So I'm going back tomorrow, but then I'll be busy next week... Man...
Hey everyone! I just got home from work and I'm about to watch some Nartuo. I found out that I can *maybe* switch with someone and get Tues day off, but have to work Fri. It'll be worth it if I can. I really need a day off to do laundry among other things. If you want to message me or whatever, feel free to do so.
I also started playing Contact yesterday. Its weird, but great.
Sorry that i am not going to respond to anyone in this post. I just wanted to say goodnight to everyone. Ill be on aol for a little while though but i think im just going to play some games and then go to sleep. I am pretty tired too. Ill talk to you all soon though and have a great rest of the weekend everyone. See you all tommorrow! *hugs and blows kisses to everyone*
Love,
Cecilia
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Oh dear... I didn't mean to be low, I was just making a little play on words.
I'm sorry because I kind of overreacted. I wasn't really trying to call out you on it, though I admit I did think at first you may have intended it to come across that way (for some odd reason, as it would have been very uncharacteristic of you).
I didn't realize your hieght was a sore spot, I thought it was something you were fairly neutral on. I'm very sorry.
To be honest, I am sensitive about it. But I know you weren't being mean, you were just playing, and it's not your fault anyway because you didn't know. Please don't feel bad.
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I apologize to mamelon for saying lol to kraj's joke as well. Please forgive both of us mamelon? *hugs*
Nothing to worry about, sweetpea. I guess I just took it too personally, that's all. *hugs* It actually was a cute joke.
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I know I have. I tend to only post when I feel I have something at least remotely relevant (or at least funny) to say, and there's been fewer situations where I feel that way. I feel no need to respond to "Hey everyone, I still have a pulse, how are you guys?" posts, and I'm not going to pretend that I have any sort of insight into people's personal lives or that I'm somehow qualified to give people relationship advice. Even though we cycle through discussions rapidly, the coffeehouse has general tenors that last much longer than individual discussions. While I like the coffeehouse, I feel no particular special obligation to it; I read (or skip) posts primarily for my own entertainment, and respond primarily for my own entertainment. Lately, other demands on my time have seemed more compelling than skimming pages of 'hiya everyone, how are your feelings?' and hittin' on people twice your age or half of it, so I've generally been less involved. My interest in Magic is all but dead as well, (gagged on the wretched TS block) so discussions of the game seem less compelling as well.
I guess I've kind of been that way too. I feel like I've been occupied with some other activies lately, and as I described before, I've come to feel like I spend an awful lot of time online just responding to stuff, and I wanted to change my habits a bit.
The conversation here has seemed a little uninvolved recently. Several people have been inactive, and others mostly seem to just check in and update. That seems to happen every now and then, and I guess that's fine. But it just hasn't felt like we've had much in the way of topics to discuss in-depth.
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Overrated is exactly the feeling that seems to come from it. (I think this may be more of a Western or American thing though, anyone please correct me if I’m wrong.) It’s enjoyable but people exaggerate its feeling a bit too much in my opinion.
Yeah. I've always been puzzled by the attitude that drinking was in itself an occupying pasttime.
I completely forgot to comment on this before but Mamelon got the words better than I could have said them myself.
Telepathy.
I wish people were more open with feelings and that it was more natural and accepted everywhere. Everyone thinks it’s all emo or something, but really feelings happen and are a part of life. If everything else can be shared, those should be as well.
I wish people were more open about their feelings, too. I wish there weren't such stigma against that.
You’re far from mean. I would say passionate is a better description. I’ve never ventured over to the debate forums, but seeing you talk about subjects in the Coffeehouse I see more passion than meanness.
Well, good. Apparently, some people find me kind of intimidating at times. I certainly don't mean to be.
People should treat others with care and respect no matter if close or strangers.
I agree very much.
I literally busted out laughing. Crude but grand.
'Crude but grand' sounds like an awesome custom title.
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@Mamelon: Whoever said you're mean is mean. You're far from being mean.
Well thank you. It's not that someone said I was mean, it's more that when arguing things vigorously, one can come across as belligerent without intending to.
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On an unrelated note, I may have to adjust my self-perception as someone who sucks at Magic. As I said a couple weeks ago, not only did I win something for the first time ever at the FS prelease, but I finished in the top prize tier (against a couple hundred people in five rounds). Then last week I won my local FNM, and then last night I won our local release event. Is it a lucky streak? Is it the end of an unlucky streak? It is the fact that the power level is more even among cards and makes it easier to win with a non-killer-net-deck, and easier to put a good sealed deck together? Or have I actually improved that much in the past year since I started playing again? It's baffeling...
Sounds about right, I'd think. Magic seems like one of those games where you can play one game with a deck and feel like, "wow, have I always been this good?" I think skill level improves as understanding of game mechanics improves, but also as one's attitude towards the game changes. I often think that this is what is behind winning and losing streaks. In addition, most players seem to have a sympathy or proficiency with different kinds of decks.
I'd wager that you really are a better player than you thought, it's just that you never really before paid notice to it or had much of a chance to notice
@Strippers: I think I'd feel a bit weird dating a stripper, and yet I don't really think it's the same as dating a prostitute. In either case, any potential weirdness for me wouldn't come from thinking badly of the person, but feeling unsure of my relationship with that person and uncomfortable with what our standing was with each other.
Well, tonight we played a session using my True20 Mod rules. True20 is a fairly new RP system developed by Green Ronin, based off of the core d20 system (D&D, d20 Modern, etc.). True20 is called such because the system only ever involves a d20 roll, no d6, d8, d4, d10, so forth. The basic system uses wounds and similar systems, though I made up HP rules for my Modification. The True20 system is very cool because it has a lot of what I call building blocks. I spent a lot of time developing my own classes and some custom rules, so I was anxious to see how it turned out. It seemed to go over better than I expected, and it was fun. So I feel pretty good about that.
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All that I yearn for, for richer or poorer, is to be the light that you see. All that I yearn for, for richer or poorer, is to be the peace that you feel. All that I yearn for, for richer or poorer, is to fill your heart on my own.
But the rainbow is an image of hope for many reasons, as it is a brilliant sight coming out of oftimes dismal weather.
Hiya coffeehouse! Ive just got home. Me and my fiance watched spiderman 3, and wow! Sandman was cool! I just couldnt think that Eddie Brock/Venom is the same person I watch at "That 70's show". Kinda funny really.
@Kev: yeah, maybe Ill put some harmonize in it. I like the synergy of baru, scyb and kudzu and it works for me so Ill still be using it. Anyway Im using my snow white to beat a type1 statis so I will really have alot of troubles.
Well, tonight we played a session using my True20 Mod rules. True20 is a fairly new RP system developed by Green Ronin, based off of the core d20 system (D&D, d20 Modern, etc.). True20 is called such because the system only ever involves a d20 roll, no d6, d8, d4, d10, so forth. The basic system uses wounds and similar systems, though I made up HP rules for my Modification. The True20 system is very cool because it has a lot of what I call building blocks. I spent a lot of time developing my own classes and some custom rules, so I was anxious to see how it turned out. It seemed to go over better than I expected, and it was fun. So I feel pretty good about that.
Don't be so modest, you implemented a good deal more than just an HP system. The classes alone were a feat, and then the stunt system, new powers, and combat skill system were really versatile and creative.
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Looks good hunter I was wondering if chord of calling would fit in here since you seem to have alot of extra mana floating around that you could use and a whole lot of creatures to abuse the concove ability from the chord. Then you can power out big creatures at a faster rate although just a suggestion though.
I also think harmonize could help your mid to late game as well by drawing cards that are needed to finish the match in your favor.
I also dont think vinelasher kudzu really fits in there considering you don't really run any fetchlands to make it decently big to pose as a threat factor on the table. Although adding some vesuvas and some terramorphic expanse could fix that nicely though but ill leave that up to you.
Yeah insomnia is bad.... i always have relatively some insomnia when i have to get up early the next morning to go to work and i had alot of it when i was doing clinicals in the x-ray program as well. Always good to have a good friend to hang out with and have fun shah!
Yeah we will definetly get to talk sometime on yahoo. Ohhhh stasis decks hehehe i always hear about them from time to time but ill see what i can do to solve your situation against them.
Well i am probably going to get ready for work in about 2 hours from now and then i have 2 days off in a row. Ill still be here and possibly play some dragon quest 7 as well too. See you all soon and have a great weekend everyone! *hugs and blows kisses*
Love,
Cecilia
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I thank Sakura for the animation of my avatar.
"Miracles are only worth happening if you make them happen."
--Cecilia
Yoda of Legacy since 2006.
Member of the 2005 and 2007 MTGS Magic Team.
Also known as kevinliu2333.
Current favorite Magic card is Time Elemental
I think you and I work for the same company. I'm also working 33 hours this week, but I'm thinking of calling out today. With all the stress and whatnot about next week's hours, and now the fact that apparently, while I was at work yesterday, a red car put a dent into the car. I haven't seen it so I don't know how bad it is, but I could have done without it.
@Nai: Ouch, man. That really sucks. I would have said something to them and gotten my money. I really don't like not getting credit for things I did.
Windmills do not work that way!
*waves to everyone*
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Oh thats pretty cool. Aww i hope everything works out for you though. Yeah about half of the days this week when i had to wake up early werent really that great either considering i was sick and didnt feel good but im glad i went to work though and did my best there. That really does bites buzz i hope your stressful situations will ease quickly.
@mamelon: yes thats very true.
Love,
Cecilia
I thank Mr. stuff for my banner and avatar.
I thank Sakura for the animation of my avatar.
"Miracles are only worth happening if you make them happen."
--Cecilia
Yoda of Legacy since 2006.
Member of the 2005 and 2007 MTGS Magic Team.
Also known as kevinliu2333.
Current favorite Magic card is Time Elemental
Oh dear... I didn't mean to be low, I was just making a little play on words. I didn't realize your hieght was a sore spot, I thought it was something you were fairly neutral on. I'm very sorry.
On an unrelated note, I may have to adjust my self-perception as someone who sucks at Magic. As I said a couple weeks ago, not only did I win something for the first time ever at the FS prelease, but I finished in the top prize tier (against a couple hundred people in five rounds). Then last week I won my local FNM, and then last night I won our local release event. Is it a lucky streak? Is it the end of an unlucky streak? It is the fact that the power level is more even among cards and makes it easier to win with a non-killer-net-deck, and easier to put a good sealed deck together? Or have I actually improved that much in the past year since I started playing again? It's baffeling...
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She knows why.
Well i have work in about an hour and a half from now. Ill be back later tonight though and ill see if i can get up legacy of the week later tonight or tommorrow but im going to try hard to do it tonight. see you all soon! *hugs and blows kisses*
Love,
Cecilia
I thank Mr. stuff for my banner and avatar.
I thank Sakura for the animation of my avatar.
"Miracles are only worth happening if you make them happen."
--Cecilia
Yoda of Legacy since 2006.
Member of the 2005 and 2007 MTGS Magic Team.
Also known as kevinliu2333.
Current favorite Magic card is Time Elemental
MBM.. your avatar is so adorably cute. Gah!
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And speaking of scores, I lost the FCC by one point :(. Ah well, I'll just have to do better next time.
And...
SPIDERMAN 3 TONIGHT!!!!
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I finally got around to watching these. They’re random but hilarious. Is it safe to assume quite a bit is lost in translation? All the words seem really simple but then switch to more elaborate vocabulary. Seems a bit odd, but I’ve never watched much anime before that. Also, the kitty in the show reminds me a bit of MBM's avvy.
Thankfully Photon couldn’t bag Clive Owen, so we all have you around. You’re good people and your company is well-enjoyed.
Overrated is exactly the feeling that seems to come from it. (I think this may be more of a Western or American thing though, anyone please correct me if I’m wrong.) It’s enjoyable but people exaggerate its feeling a bit too much in my opinion.
I completely forgot to comment on this before but Mamelon got the words better than I could have said them myself.
I wish people were more open with feelings and that it was more natural and accepted everywhere. Everyone thinks it’s all emo or something, but really feelings happen and are a part of life. If everything else can be shared, those should be as well.
You’re far from mean. I would say passionate is a better description. I’ve never ventured over to the debate forums, but seeing you talk about subjects in the Coffeehouse I see more passion than meanness.
*Dreia serve Umgenni a cup of raspberry and lemon tea, leaving an extra cup ready as well as pink grapefruit as a backup*
Thank you so much! I’m a sucker for white chocolate so that definitely helps too. It’s not actually chocolate and in my opinion tastes better than chocolate. I might have to check those out. I’ve tried white chocolate covered craisins (dried cranberries) before too.
People should treat others with care and respect no matter if close or strangers. (Unless those people prove otherwise, some are just hopeless.) Obviously, one would have different feelings to people close to them especially if they love them or care more for them. I just don’t think it is fair to be a complete jerk to someone without ever giving them the chance. If one treats all others in a jerk-like manner, they may lose their close friends/family and not have anyone left. It doesn’t have to be a constant peachy keen to everyone someone comes across but a simple greeting would suffice. Treating them like a jerk is just plain rude for the first time one meets another.
End of ramble that probably made no sense at all.
I literally busted out laughing. Crude but grand.
That sounds simply amazing and words cannot be placed to it.
Hmmm boring night with parents sitting around and doing nothing. I hope you enjoyed. Poor guy.
You’re always a yo-yo love.:p
That completely sucks. Enough said!
Get better already. I want to hear this story.
We had a stoplight spirit day in high school once. Ours was green for single, yellow if you were “talking” and red for taken. It was an odd choice for a spirit day.
Also, glad you found your ring. Losing important sentimental(?) possessions such as that makes for a rough time.
Check the labor laws in your state Buzz. Many states have a law stating that you can only work so many days in a row without a day off. That being said, it means you can call in on the Xth day(whatever the law provides) and they can’t punish or fire you for it. Unfortunately, I think the most common is 10 days straight.
Glad to hear you enjoyed the barbeque! Do we have another chef in the making?
Doesn’t that grind you? Granted the hours were illegal, but having known that they should have paid you to cover their asses. Plus you worked all that time and didn’t get compensated even remotely fairly.
I’m not entirely sure I know what you’re talking about. I know I’ve clicked on a few of your links and read them. I just don’t know much about the whole thing.
From what I’ve read, I’d say you have a pretty good chance. You have a good talent for writing. Very bad comparison but the way I look at it: if the idiots on G4 can keep their job, you could easily get a journalism job for game reviews.
It’s an odd collection of items, but not unheard of.
Depending on his age, it’s quite common. I remember helping clean two of my great grandmothers houses and they collected a lot. Both of them lived through the Depression and rationing lived on with them their whole lives. I remember some of the things were bread ties, peanut butter lids, bread wrappers, Styrofoam meat trays, and plastic deli containers. I couldn’t understand it. We took nine huge garbage bags of that type of stuff from the one house. It’s crazy. Obviously, my grandma noticed it and started freaking out.
Just give yourself a little more credit. We always think less of ourselves. Congrats on the winnings as well.
Glad to hear things worked out with the paper. Hopefully you can find out about the girl pretty soon. If not, just give it a go anyways. It may be well worth it.
I’ve noticed that as well. It doesn’t necessarily seem slow, but the posts have been shorter sometimes. It has been mainly only a few people posting.
Welcome back Hunter.
About British sayings. At work a guy just moved down to our floor and I'm assuming he's originally from England. It makes me smile every time I hear cheeky and bloody just naturally flow in conversation. It's quite grand when I'm used to people who speak like me instead of a different region.
I'm sure this post is long enough by now so I'll update a bit later as well.
Have a good one!!
~Dreia
Not commenting till after the poll goes up, but I feel CD may have made a small mistake this week that gives the rest of us a chance.
Good luck with the SAT, SB.
@Kraj:
How much experience have you had with limited before? I feel I'm really good at limited, but I'm not sure how I'd fare in a constructed environment. You may be just developing a heretofore undiscovered limited talent.
@Dreia:
Somebody actually watched it? Cool! As for the translations, well, not a whole lot is lost. I think A.F.K. (the subbing group) actually did a very good job with the translations for this one. Depending on the group, sometimes the subs for an anime are terrible, and sometimes they are good - this time, I think they are fairly good. As for the randomosity, hehe, yeah... it reminds me of Azumanga Daioh, both in that and in the animation style. It does contain a lot of references to other anime and nerdly things, though, so unless you are up on your anime some jokes will just fly right by, or seem strange.
ROFL!!!!! That's awesome :p.
@Mr. Stuff: Thanks, but I already took it ;).
I'm so excited for Spiderman 3. Only 4 more hours...:D.
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This is generally a busier time of year. Once summer rolls around, the activity will pick up again.
Lol, yeah, I know how that goes. Well, good luck to you, I know how nerve wracking that is to ask someone out. But as long as you have friends helping you out and supporting you, I'm sure you'll be fine. Good luck :).
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1) @Fox: LOL Chain = broken!
2) @SB: GL when the score comes in!
Now for the (quick) story. I dunno if I should be telling this but I'll keep it as PG-13 as possible:
See there's this bar up north of the border that my friends decided to go to one day last year sometime and I decided to go for the heck of it. Don't like the places but frankly I wasn't feeling like staying in town at the time. Near the bar is a strip club. Never set foot in the place and still havent but the group split half going to the club the other half sticking with the bar. When the nights over and everyone's sufficiently drunk (myself, one or two other people, and the drivers excluded) we head out to the parking lots. Well it turns out that one of the guys got himself into a mess at the strip club.... He decided to have sex with one of the strippers - whose boyfriend was in the audience that night... and was completely hammered. You can venture what happened from there.
As if I didn't already dislike going out at nights to bars, etc.
Hey!! How ya doin? I'm Strongbad, nice to meetcha :). Hopefully you come back more often; we've been getting kind of low on activity around here lately. And good luck with finals ;).
Thank you.
Lol, that sucks big time for your friend, although it was pretty much his fault; actually, entirely his fault from what I can see. Still, hopefully he didn't get hurt too badly. I'm glad you had a good time at least (I hope).
P.S. I can't imagine having a girlfriend who is a stripper. That seems just dumb, I'm sorry. At least if you do, don't get super mad at someone for having sex with her. She's practically having sex with everyone in the room, really :rolleyes:. Don't people care if their girlfriend is the fantasy of tons of people every night? I wouldn't get close to anyone like that.
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Not that I condone stripping, I must say that there's a huge difference from a girl stripping, and a girl sleeping with everyone in the room. Now, is a girl stripping generally good for a relationship? No, not usually. But passing someone off as a whore simply because of their questionable profession is taking things a bit far.
Now, if you wouldn't date a stripper, that's your prerogative, but they're people too. They're children of God just like everyone else on this earth, and you looking down your nose at them doesn't change that.
Not much at. Came back to Magic by playing in the Rav prerelease and have played sealed in every pr since then. The previous best I had done was win two matches out of five. I had also played two or three FNM tournaments and finished in the bottom half and then in the middle. I think it's a bit early to claim any talent. I've probably just been lucky to have deep red, which is definitely the strongest color in this block, in my sealed decks lately.
Quite true. A lot of people have finals and term papers coming up.
That was quite an entertaining story, 'Fox.
I would. And I'd be like... "See that girl you all want? She's mine, not your's sucker!"
Current New Favorite Person™: Mallory Archer
She knows why.
Ninja Edit: @Kraj: It's definitely partially talent because you wouldn't have won those if you didn't make the plays that counted... Especially in the pre-re.
HUNTERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR~! I missed you so much!!! OMG sa wakas may pilipino ulit sa bahay ng kape!!! How are you???
Anyway, greeting to you guys! I'm in Bagiuo right now... it's a city on top of a plateau. I'm just taking a vacation from all the work and heat in Manila. I'm going back tomorrow. I'm in Starbucks right now, just updating everyone that I'm okay... though something came up last night. Won't talk about it, but if anyone's interested I'll just PM it to them.
So how's everyone? I'm fine here. It's very cold in Bagiuo. I love it. Bought so many things under seven dollars (350 pesos)!! I got a ring that's 150 ($3)... it's an engagement ring; my mom was nagging at me as to why I wanted one, so i said plain is pretty.
There are so many Koreans here... THere are also many Americans and Europeans.
I miss all of you guys! It's a little boring here with just my mom, but so far I found a way of passing time: Sitting on top of the mountain and listening to classical music while admiring the view.
@Mamelon: Whoever said you're mean is mean. You're far from being mean.
@Psychoburner: Hope you enjoy your weekend! (I know I am)
K that's all... So I'm going back tomorrow, but then I'll be busy next week... Man...
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I also started playing Contact yesterday. Its weird, but great.
Windmills do not work that way!
Love,
Cecilia
I thank Mr. stuff for my banner and avatar.
I thank Sakura for the animation of my avatar.
"Miracles are only worth happening if you make them happen."
--Cecilia
Yoda of Legacy since 2006.
Member of the 2005 and 2007 MTGS Magic Team.
Also known as kevinliu2333.
Current favorite Magic card is Time Elemental
To be honest, I am sensitive about it. But I know you weren't being mean, you were just playing, and it's not your fault anyway because you didn't know. Please don't feel bad.
Nothing to worry about, sweetpea. I guess I just took it too personally, that's all. *hugs* It actually was a cute joke.
I guess I've kind of been that way too. I feel like I've been occupied with some other activies lately, and as I described before, I've come to feel like I spend an awful lot of time online just responding to stuff, and I wanted to change my habits a bit.
The conversation here has seemed a little uninvolved recently. Several people have been inactive, and others mostly seem to just check in and update. That seems to happen every now and then, and I guess that's fine. But it just hasn't felt like we've had much in the way of topics to discuss in-depth.
Yeah. I've always been puzzled by the attitude that drinking was in itself an occupying pasttime.
Telepathy.
I wish people were more open about their feelings, too. I wish there weren't such stigma against that.
Well, good. Apparently, some people find me kind of intimidating at times. I certainly don't mean to be.
I agree very much.
'Crude but grand' sounds like an awesome custom title.
Well thank you. It's not that someone said I was mean, it's more that when arguing things vigorously, one can come across as belligerent without intending to.
Sounds about right, I'd think. Magic seems like one of those games where you can play one game with a deck and feel like, "wow, have I always been this good?" I think skill level improves as understanding of game mechanics improves, but also as one's attitude towards the game changes. I often think that this is what is behind winning and losing streaks. In addition, most players seem to have a sympathy or proficiency with different kinds of decks.
I'd wager that you really are a better player than you thought, it's just that you never really before paid notice to it or had much of a chance to notice
@Strippers: I think I'd feel a bit weird dating a stripper, and yet I don't really think it's the same as dating a prostitute. In either case, any potential weirdness for me wouldn't come from thinking badly of the person, but feeling unsure of my relationship with that person and uncomfortable with what our standing was with each other.
Well, tonight we played a session using my True20 Mod rules. True20 is a fairly new RP system developed by Green Ronin, based off of the core d20 system (D&D, d20 Modern, etc.). True20 is called such because the system only ever involves a d20 roll, no d6, d8, d4, d10, so forth. The basic system uses wounds and similar systems, though I made up HP rules for my Modification. The True20 system is very cool because it has a lot of what I call building blocks. I spent a lot of time developing my own classes and some custom rules, so I was anxious to see how it turned out. It seemed to go over better than I expected, and it was fun. So I feel pretty good about that.
All that I yearn for, for richer or poorer, is to be the peace that you feel.
All that I yearn for, for richer or poorer, is to fill your heart on my own.
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Hiya coffeehouse! Ive just got home. Me and my fiance watched spiderman 3, and wow! Sandman was cool! I just couldnt think that Eddie Brock/Venom is the same person I watch at "That 70's show". Kinda funny really.
@Kev: yeah, maybe Ill put some harmonize in it. I like the synergy of baru, scyb and kudzu and it works for me so Ill still be using it. Anyway Im using my snow white to beat a type1 statis so I will really have alot of troubles.
@Myta: Yo wassup fellow pinoy. Im back
@Mamelon: Hi!!! Missed you!^_^
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Don't be so modest, you implemented a good deal more than just an HP system. The classes alone were a feat, and then the stunt system, new powers, and combat skill system were really versatile and creative.