Hey, what's going on everybody? I had a short but good sleep this morning. Today is day 9 of no carbs... we decided to go two full weeks instead of just one. My workout partner hasn't called me yet so I don't think we're working out today, so I don't have an accurate weight to report... but I'm thinking I'll be under 170 now. I don't feel particularly strong today. Maybe it's the stress, and the fact that it's been several days since a workout.
No movement on the lawsuit issue. No contact yet.
Sales on the site are pretty slow. A $6 order here, a $20 order there. No $80 or $200 orders for a couple weeks now. People are probably stockpiling money for Guildpact! I need to figure out how many boxes to order. I'm thinking around 60.
Alex, how's the date situation?
And where's Mike lately? Depressed or busy... or both?
Dating is fun!
On Friday night I went to see Underworld2 with Megan. We cuddled up pretty nicely It was lots of fun. She was actually rubbing my hand by the end of the night. That was a pretty good date.
Saturday I was supposed to spend the day with Eden, but she had her weekend plans mixed up and was busy moving all day. But I took a raincheck for wednesday afternoon. Coffee at starbucks
So instead of hanging out with Eden, Megan came over! We picked up a cake from DQ because Luke (roomie) was comming home from his moms *which he spent a week in Coquitlem?* and then she washed some dishes, gave me two back massages, I gave her one, then she washed my hair because she's a shampoo girl at a saloon and I wanted to see what it was like, and we watched a movie. Then we kissed. Then kissed some more
Now tommorow morning i'm going to her house to hang out.
I think this girl likes me
And where's Mike lately? Depressed or busy... or both?
Yes.
Tonight I'm hosting my weekly LAN so that's bound to increase both of those. Speaking of which, I need to go get the pizzas now, so I'll have to post more maybe tomorrow.
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Growth and decay its very nature
Things spring to being and again they cease
Happy the marvel of them and the peace.
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Don't forget to do your lan-dry. Oh, man. Sorry, that was bad. I could erase it, but then this post would have no content.
So, how about the latest lawsuit, huh? MTGS being attacked by WotC because of the Rumor Mill?!? They're really trying to tear down the fanbase, it seems. Attack the players and the people who love the game, in hopes of boosting sales, or something. Maybe it made more sense the way they said it when they were discussing it. Hmm.
In light of this, which is about the fourth hugely wrong thing to happen to me and all of us together in the past couple weeks, can we agree to put our bickering in the past? I'd really appreciate the clan to be something we can all consider a safe place, a group we're tight with, who we can depend on. Not yet another source of problems and stress.
In light of this, which is about the fourth hugely wrong thing to happen to me and all of us together in the past couple weeks, can we agree to put our bickering in the past? I'd really appreciate the clan to be something we can all consider a safe place, a group we're tight with, who we can depend on. Not yet another source of problems and stress.
Done and DONE!!!!!!!!:D
Finally putting together another trade list! Soon....very soon!:embarrass:
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I have to post this somewhere. I can sort of see the corporate view of this situation - on the table, lawyerball style - but I wonder how the people who are actually making the game feel. I know they put in a lot of hard work to design this stuff to be FUN, but what is FUN about chasing the community up a wall? Can we really be costing Hasbro so much $_$ that they need to go all LucasFilm on us?
LucasFilm. . . Actually, this does remind me of what happened to theforce.net during the Star Wars prequels. During the filming of the Phantom Menace, it was a great site. Spoilers, people coming out of the woodwork to speculate + hang out online, lots of spirit. By Attack of the Clowns there had been a bit of a crackdown from Lucasfilm - not so much spoilage, more secrecy, everyone was a little more tense, all that stuff. By the time filming for RotS was being done, theforce.net was all inbred + stupid - nothing from "Hyperspace" (the sw.com pay site) could be posted, no images of spoiler stuff were allowed, + the spoiler community seemed to turn 12 overnight. No front page news that wasn't Lucasfilm approved. It turned from being a Star Wars community haven to a media outlet for Lucas. . .
Hmmm, I never knew any of that rianalnn... interesting. Star Wars is awesome. Great movies. Star Trek's movies weren't quite that good, but the TV shows were better? What? Star Wars wasn't a TV show?
So I got a night workout in - 9pm to 10pm. Weigh-in confirmed I'm losing weight.. duh.
178 3 weeks ago
started eating less chocolate and fries
174 2 weeks ago
continued eating less crap
171 1 week ago
started no carb diet
166 today
So I've lost 12 pounds in 3 weeks, for an average of 4 pounds a week. I'm going to finish this second week of no carbs and then move to low carbs. Can't wait to eat some pasta, whole wheat bread, fruit. Bananas look so good right now.
A friend and I were chatting and I mentioned I had some new cards to add to my site. He said what are they, and what conditions? I was so hungry for sugar, I told him:
VG plate of spagetti
EX side of fries
M chocolate
If you don't get it, you have to say it aloud. And yeah, it's not that funny, but it's all I've got right now.
I lost 3 pounds last week. I have begun working out in a gym this week so my weight should start dropping a little more significantly now.
I tell you....there is no inbetween with the people discussing the lawsuits...they either agree...(habro plants:D) or disagree with what has happened.
I like the LucasFilms analogy...hehe...that word has anal in it!:p
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I kind of take offense to the notion that everyone that agrees w/ the lawsuit is a 'Hasbro plant'. I know you're only kidding, but still, everyone has their right to their own opinion, regardless of what it is, you know? It's hard enough being of that opinion on this site, but it's alot worse when your own Clan pokes fun at it.
Anyway. It's outstanding that you guys are doing so well with your weight loss.
Just thinking about mock duck makes me contemplate ordering a pizza from down the street. Its the best pizza topping since tomato sauce...
About this whole lawsuit thing; shouldn't people be discussing how its torn the online player's community (and an undertermined amount of the offline players) instead of bickering about whether its right or wrong?
I grew up playing Magic, and now it feels like a good friend just stabbed me in the back. Worst of all, there really isn't a good place to talk about it either... not without a lot of mud-slinging from folks that enjoy doing that sort of thing.
Anyway, its 9:30am, time to make a day of it. By that I mean, order that pizza and play The Movies. Maybe I should get some writing done today, as well...
I kind of take offense to the notion that everyone that agrees w/ the lawsuit is a 'Hasbro plant'. I know you're only kidding, but still, everyone has their right to their own opinion, regardless of what it is, you know? It's hard enough being of that opinion on this site, but it's alot worse when your own Clan pokes fun at it.
Anyway. It's outstanding that you guys are doing so well with your weight loss.
I only said that as a joke because there are a lot of "new" people posting in these with opinion favoring the decision to proceed with the lawsuits.
And yes...it is hard to cut out the foods you love, but I'm finding that protion control is the key to it all!:embarrass:
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Mock duck is fake duck. It looks like duck, tastes like duck, but it isn't duck. Actually, I'm not sure what it consists of... it may not even be meat. Like a substitute for a vegetarian.
I write for several different reasons. All of it professional. Currently, I'm writing a screenplay for a short film some friends have wanted me to make since a (really crappy, I might add) short story was posted on my Myspace.
I've been thinking about writing an article about Magic, but I'm not sure how that would work because I'm a bit biased when it comes to my card/color choices.
*yawn* good morring to all....
Congrats to Daron and jonny for the weight loss *huggles*
no real new news here... i died my hair red again *woohoo* and thats about it...
Honestly, Hasbro, as a company, needs to pursue the suit. Think about it. Hasbro is a for-profit company. They don't care about making their players happy or alienating their fanbase; they care about making money. Big companies also care about their reputation on a professional level.
And all big corporations need to assert their legal authority whenever possible . Microsoft can't just let oh, say, portions of their Longhorn code sneak out into the public, and you'd bet they'd pursue legal action if it was stolen. Companies like Hasbro need to maintain the distribution of their content.
There's another important reason, too. If information doesn't leak, Hasbro can put a "spin" on their product. Saying "[X Set] is so great, blah blah, it's a very exciting set that you'll enjoy, blah blah" enticing the consumer to purchase the product. But in the case where the set sucks *coughLegionscough*, advanced information can hurt sales because they lose their own manipulation on their product, or at least at the initial sales.
Hasbro has an interesting dilemma, though, there's no competitors to Magic (I mean, c'mon now), and they literally force you to play with their most recently released sets. So you're going to end up playing with it like it or not, which is why leaked information probably matters less to them, than say, Microsoft where third-parties could expose the weaknesses of the code, nevertheless they have two direct competitors (though one is open-source).
So I don't know. Hasbro was right in making the suit, but it's still kind of bull**** they didn't pursue it in the past as extensively when other pics were posted. They should be consistent, imo.
I tell you guys....its amazing how much is NOT read in posts. I explained the fact that it was a joke and gave reasons why the joke was made in the first place. It was a post or two after the initial comment but that is the way a joke works. You don't just blurt out the punchline at the end of the body of the joke....that would be so counterproductive.
Saka...you...a Hasbro plant....???...is that like a phylladendron?:p
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Sorry...it is "Philodendron" and it is a plant....it was a joke...Plant...plant...nevermind!:swear:
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Good work Jonski! I hope it's going to be enough so you don't have to shave your head! I'm not sure where portion control comes in because I have to admit I'm eating as much as I can stuff into myself. It's just that if there's no carbs in what you eat, your body can't fuel itself that way and has to switch to fat burning. Have you read the Atkins book, or Sugarbusters, or maybe even a diebetic type nutrition book? I find educating myself about it, and making my decisions based off what I learn, is best. Some people like following commands based on what someone else writes... I read and absorb and then figure out my plan.
My wife and her mom took Gavin out for lunch while I stay here with Everett having his nap. They're going to bring me back some ribs (hold the BBQ sauce... it's 75% liquid sugar).
Not sure I wanna talk about the lawsuit(s) in here, sorry. It's being talked about in every other thread on the website except for a couple threads in Outside Magic and one in the New Card Ideas forum. And in every PM I get. Every email I get. Every order someone makes on my site. Every IM.
As for mock food, I'm not sure I'd eat anything starting with mock, immitation, pseudo, or faux. Unless I had a really good reason.
I'd really appreciate the clan to be something we can all consider a safe place, a group we're tight with, who we can depend on.
Extremely well said! Now that sounds like something I'd like to be a part of..
RUBRDUX Name: Dave Slate Location: Nashville, TN USA Age: 26 Gender: Male Eyes: Blue Hair: Blonde Marital Status: Single, lonely, and damn sick of being so.. Children: 0 Occupation: Manager of an Auto Body Shop AIM sn: Rubrduxdave Email: [email]rubrdux@comcast.net[/email] Interests: Magic, partying, creating cards, movies and all the other crap that makes people happy.. Pets: 2x Siamese; Sidney and Simon Fav Magic card: Tangle ..Dunno why.. Playing since: Started around Unlimited and quit during Homelands (Can you blame me?) Started again during Mercadian Masques and have been going strong since. Why I'd like to join: I've never been in or even asked to join a Clan before. It was never really anything I cared about, I always figured them to be clicks or groups of kids after school. The Called has been around forever. Through the years I have seen a post or two, here or there, from the Called. So I came here to find out what it is all about. Come to find that there are some cool people here with great ideas, funny things to say and even a shoulder to cry on from time to time. I work 7-5pm Mon-Fri. and am pretty much at my computer most of that time. I have maybe 5 friends I talk to on AIM and a few sites I regularly post at, so most of the time I am bored. I just figure It'd be nice to have some new people to talk to and hopefully make some new friends.
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Mock duck is fake duck. It looks like duck, tastes like duck, but it isn't duck. Actually, I'm not sure what it consists of...
..I just scratched 'Mock Duck' off my list of new things to try.. :redface:
Talena's got the right idea: Wake'n Bake!!
I missed 24 last night b/c I lost time watching The Sopranos OnDemand. Doh!! I'd like to get one of those DVR or TiVo things.
Well there aren't any real topics going for me to comment about. I have no lost pounds to brag of nor anyone to sling mud at. If any of you get the chance, make a quick vote on this poll for me.
EDIT: Oh! I forgot about the contest JJ! Homer Hair is just around the corner!
Wow I really would have never expected an application from RUB!
This morning I went to Megans for breakfast! But a gentleman will never kiss and tell so I won't mention anything else we did
Completly off topic, but where's the nipple talk
I picked up this awesome movie poster today of "Oceans Twelve". It wasn't too cheap; but it's cool as hell and I need at least SOMETHING on these walls...
*Goes back to graphic design work*
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No movement on the lawsuit issue. No contact yet.
Sales on the site are pretty slow. A $6 order here, a $20 order there. No $80 or $200 orders for a couple weeks now. People are probably stockpiling money for Guildpact! I need to figure out how many boxes to order. I'm thinking around 60.
Alex, how's the date situation?
And where's Mike lately? Depressed or busy... or both?
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On Friday night I went to see Underworld2 with Megan. We cuddled up pretty nicely It was lots of fun. She was actually rubbing my hand by the end of the night. That was a pretty good date.
Saturday I was supposed to spend the day with Eden, but she had her weekend plans mixed up and was busy moving all day. But I took a raincheck for wednesday afternoon. Coffee at starbucks
So instead of hanging out with Eden, Megan came over! We picked up a cake from DQ because Luke (roomie) was comming home from his moms *which he spent a week in Coquitlem?* and then she washed some dishes, gave me two back massages, I gave her one, then she washed my hair because she's a shampoo girl at a saloon and I wanted to see what it was like, and we watched a movie. Then we kissed. Then kissed some more
Now tommorow morning i'm going to her house to hang out.
I think this girl likes me
Yes.
Tonight I'm hosting my weekly LAN so that's bound to increase both of those. Speaking of which, I need to go get the pizzas now, so I'll have to post more maybe tomorrow.
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So, how about the latest lawsuit, huh? MTGS being attacked by WotC because of the Rumor Mill?!? They're really trying to tear down the fanbase, it seems. Attack the players and the people who love the game, in hopes of boosting sales, or something. Maybe it made more sense the way they said it when they were discussing it. Hmm.
In light of this, which is about the fourth hugely wrong thing to happen to me and all of us together in the past couple weeks, can we agree to put our bickering in the past? I'd really appreciate the clan to be something we can all consider a safe place, a group we're tight with, who we can depend on. Not yet another source of problems and stress.
.
Done and DONE!!!!!!!!:D
Finally putting together another trade list! Soon....very soon!:embarrass:
I have to post this somewhere. I can sort of see the corporate view of this situation - on the table, lawyerball style - but I wonder how the people who are actually making the game feel. I know they put in a lot of hard work to design this stuff to be FUN, but what is FUN about chasing the community up a wall? Can we really be costing Hasbro so much $_$ that they need to go all LucasFilm on us?
LucasFilm. . . Actually, this does remind me of what happened to theforce.net during the Star Wars prequels. During the filming of the Phantom Menace, it was a great site. Spoilers, people coming out of the woodwork to speculate + hang out online, lots of spirit. By Attack of the Clowns there had been a bit of a crackdown from Lucasfilm - not so much spoilage, more secrecy, everyone was a little more tense, all that stuff. By the time filming for RotS was being done, theforce.net was all inbred + stupid - nothing from "Hyperspace" (the sw.com pay site) could be posted, no images of spoiler stuff were allowed, + the spoiler community seemed to turn 12 overnight. No front page news that wasn't Lucasfilm approved. It turned from being a Star Wars community haven to a media outlet for Lucas. . .
So I got a night workout in - 9pm to 10pm. Weigh-in confirmed I'm losing weight.. duh.
178 3 weeks ago
started eating less chocolate and fries
174 2 weeks ago
continued eating less crap
171 1 week ago
started no carb diet
166 today
So I've lost 12 pounds in 3 weeks, for an average of 4 pounds a week. I'm going to finish this second week of no carbs and then move to low carbs. Can't wait to eat some pasta, whole wheat bread, fruit. Bananas look so good right now.
A friend and I were chatting and I mentioned I had some new cards to add to my site. He said what are they, and what conditions? I was so hungry for sugar, I told him:
VG plate of spagetti
EX side of fries
M chocolate
If you don't get it, you have to say it aloud. And yeah, it's not that funny, but it's all I've got right now.
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*goes back to stir-frying mock duck*
So Jonski.... how goes it for you? Are the pounds and bodyfat percentage points coming off quickly?
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Mock duck. It's gluten, of some kind
Anyway. Little bit smokey, was good. Like duck, said damama, + I guess she'd know.
*waves to Goblinboy*
I tell you....there is no inbetween with the people discussing the lawsuits...they either agree...(habro plants:D) or disagree with what has happened.
I like the LucasFilms analogy...hehe...that word has anal in it!:p
Anyway. It's outstanding that you guys are doing so well with your weight loss.
About this whole lawsuit thing; shouldn't people be discussing how its torn the online player's community (and an undertermined amount of the offline players) instead of bickering about whether its right or wrong?
I grew up playing Magic, and now it feels like a good friend just stabbed me in the back. Worst of all, there really isn't a good place to talk about it either... not without a lot of mud-slinging from folks that enjoy doing that sort of thing.
Anyway, its 9:30am, time to make a day of it. By that I mean, order that pizza and play The Movies. Maybe I should get some writing done today, as well...
I only said that as a joke because there are a lot of "new" people posting in these with opinion favoring the decision to proceed with the lawsuits.
And yes...it is hard to cut out the foods you love, but I'm finding that protion control is the key to it all!:embarrass:
Writing for school; or professional writing?
I've honestly never heard of 'mock duck'..how does it taste? Why is it called 'mock duck'?
I write for several different reasons. All of it professional. Currently, I'm writing a screenplay for a short film some friends have wanted me to make since a (really crappy, I might add) short story was posted on my Myspace.
I've been thinking about writing an article about Magic, but I'm not sure how that would work because I'm a bit biased when it comes to my card/color choices.
Congrats to Daron and jonny for the weight loss *huggles*
no real new news here... i died my hair red again *woohoo* and thats about it...
Welp im off to go smoke and wake up..
Honestly, Hasbro, as a company, needs to pursue the suit. Think about it. Hasbro is a for-profit company. They don't care about making their players happy or alienating their fanbase; they care about making money. Big companies also care about their reputation on a professional level.
And all big corporations need to assert their legal authority whenever possible . Microsoft can't just let oh, say, portions of their Longhorn code sneak out into the public, and you'd bet they'd pursue legal action if it was stolen. Companies like Hasbro need to maintain the distribution of their content.
There's another important reason, too. If information doesn't leak, Hasbro can put a "spin" on their product. Saying "[X Set] is so great, blah blah, it's a very exciting set that you'll enjoy, blah blah" enticing the consumer to purchase the product. But in the case where the set sucks *coughLegionscough*, advanced information can hurt sales because they lose their own manipulation on their product, or at least at the initial sales.
Hasbro has an interesting dilemma, though, there's no competitors to Magic (I mean, c'mon now), and they literally force you to play with their most recently released sets. So you're going to end up playing with it like it or not, which is why leaked information probably matters less to them, than say, Microsoft where third-parties could expose the weaknesses of the code, nevertheless they have two direct competitors (though one is open-source).
So I don't know. Hasbro was right in making the suit, but it's still kind of bull**** they didn't pursue it in the past as extensively when other pics were posted. They should be consistent, imo.
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Saka...you...a Hasbro plant....???...is that like a phylladendron?:p
Phylladendron??? I've never heard that word before.
For some reason, I thought it might be some kind of ocean dwelling Lovecraftian horror.
But, that's just me.
My wife and her mom took Gavin out for lunch while I stay here with Everett having his nap. They're going to bring me back some ribs (hold the BBQ sauce... it's 75% liquid sugar).
Not sure I wanna talk about the lawsuit(s) in here, sorry. It's being talked about in every other thread on the website except for a couple threads in Outside Magic and one in the New Card Ideas forum. And in every PM I get. Every email I get. Every order someone makes on my site. Every IM.
As for mock food, I'm not sure I'd eat anything starting with mock, immitation, pseudo, or faux. Unless I had a really good reason.
Yeah, okay... you do that.
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Whew.. Thank God the drama is over!
Extremely well said! Now that sounds like something I'd like to be a part of..
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Name: Dave Slate
Location: Nashville, TN USA
Age: 26
Gender: Male
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Blonde
Marital Status: Single, lonely, and damn sick of being so..
Children: 0
Occupation: Manager of an Auto Body Shop
AIM sn: Rubrduxdave
Email: [email]rubrdux@comcast.net[/email]
Interests: Magic, partying, creating cards, movies and all the other crap that makes people happy..
Pets: 2x Siamese; Sidney and Simon
Fav Magic card: Tangle ..Dunno why..
Playing since: Started around Unlimited and quit during Homelands (Can you blame me?) Started again during Mercadian Masques and have been going strong since.
Why I'd like to join: I've never been in or even asked to join a Clan before. It was never really anything I cared about, I always figured them to be clicks or groups of kids after school. The Called has been around forever. Through the years I have seen a post or two, here or there, from the Called. So I came here to find out what it is all about. Come to find that there are some cool people here with great ideas, funny things to say and even a shoulder to cry on from time to time. I work 7-5pm Mon-Fri. and am pretty much at my computer most of that time. I have maybe 5 friends I talk to on AIM and a few sites I regularly post at, so most of the time I am bored. I just figure It'd be nice to have some new people to talk to and hopefully make some new friends.
..I just scratched 'Mock Duck' off my list of new things to try.. :redface:
Talena's got the right idea: Wake'n Bake!!
I missed 24 last night b/c I lost time watching The Sopranos OnDemand. Doh!! I'd like to get one of those DVR or TiVo things.
Well there aren't any real topics going for me to comment about. I have no lost pounds to brag of nor anyone to sling mud at. If any of you get the chance, make a quick vote on this poll for me.
EDIT: Oh! I forgot about the contest JJ! Homer Hair is just around the corner!
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Homebrew is creating Magic.
Are you a pilot or a creator??
This morning I went to Megans for breakfast! But a gentleman will never kiss and tell so I won't mention anything else we did
Completly off topic, but where's the nipple talk
I picked up this awesome movie poster today of "Oceans Twelve". It wasn't too cheap; but it's cool as hell and I need at least SOMETHING on these walls...
*Goes back to graphic design work*