Meh, needs cheek bone surgery to pull that off. Probably auta pick a gender and remove the ***** too. I guess if she's all defensive and people are protective its best not to interact with this person. Isn't there a way to block seeing posts?
lol, JJ just got.....well....post raped?
I think seds, laika, and HKKid just need to come in and step down if they no longer want to be in the clan. They have history here and would be welcome to visit anytime. Maybe we should make a alumni policy stating that if you were in good standing with the clan for an extended time and just drifted away due to life or whatever then you can come and visit anytime. If those visitations start becoming often and regular then they can rejoin otherwise and occasional hi is nice. Seems to have happened with bellowing fool and seems to be an unspoken policy anyway.
As for cubbers, well I don't know him. I talked to him once or so and I guess I'll vote to remove him.
BLOD is a guy who was a posting fiend. I mean we're talking that he might still have the top posting number in News and if he doesn't I'd bet he is still a top 20 poster there.
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OMG, how could you use the r-word. Thats so mean and hatefull and blah blah blah. ... Bah, yeah I was watching all the news and controversy behind that tropic thunder movie. What the heck is the deal with all these minority groups taking a word, one historically considered not nice, then empowering the word by making a big deal about it. Just so they can empower themselves by enforcing a ban on this word to others.
The n-word has already gone through all that, only blacks can say it and if your not black and you say it your career is ruined. But there is history in that word and I'll avoid saying it like the plague.
Thing is, not every minority gets some word that they can hold over other people and call hate speech. Homosexuals recently got their own word. I never knew "***" was considered hate speech. Sure, rude, like queer, but not hate speech. Now that too can ruin someones career. And now the mentally disabled want their own one. I understand retarded can be a mean word and is politically incorrect, but its never been hate speech and just means slow. I've used the term myself to describe reagents in chemical experiments that slow the process down. What next, the term loser, geek, and dweeb are used in regards to the socially challenged, lets make that hate speech now. Take Geek and empower that, geek squad...similar to queer eye for the strait guy as far as word use, but loser, thats mean. That can be the next hate speech.
Grrraaahhh. Stupid world with its super conservative censorship or ultra liberal political correctness. /rant
Heres a pic of me fishing. I really like the poncho setup I've got. I use four pices of rebar now and use a sandflea rake to prop the middle. It really shades me better than the pick. I tried to move into the sun a little for the picture.
JJ, On second thought a public beach would be better than my island. Sure you get your own beach here any given day, but a public beach has lifeguards and thats always nice when with kids. Plus there is a bit of comfort knowing that if sharks attack they have a school of human swimmers to choose from on the buisy beach as opposed to the lone human out here. Course shark bites are few and far between. People don't seem to realize that there are loads of sharks in the water and some of them are 8ft long and stuff. Theres a reason most fishermen stay out of the water, they know whats in there. course if I get an 8ft shark I'm eating it.
Cheers,
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Chris, could you give me some pointers for survival in the playa? I'm going to be at Burning Man from Aug 24-Sept 1. As you know I have basic to moderate camping skills, but I'm out of practice and have never stayed in a desert. I'm going to need to buy/borrow a fair bit of equipment, too. Water is not provided (will be bringing in several large containers of it) and there's no electricity or anything. Also, it's a leave-no-trace camp.
~frowns~...I've wanted to go to Burning Man ever since I heard about it. A couple of years ago, a couple stopped at our yard sale and picked up some old Halloween costumes, some plastic tubing/hoses, and a shower head to use for their 'wardrobe' for Burning Man. I checked out the Burning Man page, and it looks like a really good time.
Long story short... I am soo jealous. Especially since my birthday is smack in the middle of it.
Long story short... I am soo jealous. Especially since my birthday is smack in the middle of it.
I can't really afford it, but then again I can't afford to miss it. It's too cool and eye opening and amazing to miss from what I've heard from my close friends who have ALL gone.
I'll be having my 33rd birthday there, on the day before they burn the Man
Chris, could you give me some pointers for survival in the playa? I'm going to be at Burning Man from Aug 24-Sept 1. As you know I have basic to moderate camping skills, but I'm out of practice and have never stayed in a desert. I'm going to need to buy/borrow a fair bit of equipment, too. Water is not provided (will be bringing in several large containers of it) and there's no electricity or anything. Also, it's a leave-no-trace camp.
Do you normally leave a trace? I'm confused as to why that's an issue. For water, I suggest getting at least two 5 gallon jugs per person. That's enough to keep a person in the desert heat for two weeks if with some light rationing (average person goes through about 2 liters a day, but in the heat it'll go up to 4 liters, as high as 8 if you are exerting yourself. That might seem like too much, but it's one thing you can't have too much of. The Wal-Marts here have them for like $6 each, though availability might be a little less that far up north.
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Things spring to being and again they cease
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Burning Man isn't far up north, is it? It's in the Nevada desert.
The reason it might make a difference if it's leave no trace or not? I don't know. But I mentioned it in case it matters to Chris, who has more experience than I do with these things.
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@Daron: If you're going to be in Nevada, we should meet up somewhere; I live like 5 hours from Vegas. When is this Burning Man event that you're going to?
It's August 25th to Sept 1st but I'll be with two other people and heavily involved for the entire time. They probably don't want to take any detours on the way there or back (24 hours of solid driving already). I could probably beg them to drop me off somewhere if it was on the way, but it doesn't sound like it is.
Still, I'd love to have a beer and game of Magic, if that could at all happen. Seems a waste to drive 24 hours and not see a friend!
Burning Man isn't far up north, is it? It's in the Nevada desert.
The reason it might make a difference if it's leave no trace or not? I don't know. But I mentioned it in case it matters to Chris, who has more experience than I do with these things.
EDIT: * rancored_elf waves at DUX who is sitting in the corner wearing sexy pants and rubbing his package *
Well, it's farther north than I've ever been up until a few months ago, so I guess it's all relative. I was assuming, however, that you'd want to get your supplies before you left, thus Canada is "that far north."
Daron, you should convince them all to take a short trip down to Mexico. Then you could stop in Tucson on your way. Just don't make the mistake Chris did in calling to tell me this 2 hours before actually being in town.
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Fleeting is this world
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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Because Chris isn't here to defend himself, and probably won't be until next week sometime, I'd like to point out that he tried to contact you before that, IIRC, but you waffled about it. And besides, a month's notice probably isn't enough for you, you are positively obsessed with school.
~frowns~ Is it just me, or are certain members of this forum being extremely coddled? Other than the FCC, I think I'm going to refrain from posting from now on. This place is quickly becoming unfun.
Anyway, here's the judgings for my card this round. I kinda thought the card would get me a 17/25 at most, so I'm happy. I now get to lose in round three instead of round two for once.:D
Bonus: 2/2
Balance: 10/10 This is difficult to judge simply because it's hard to say how good a CCCC creature can be. There also aren't a lot of champion cards to gauge the power that drawback buys you. Overall I'm not sure this is quite worth the price you pay, but it does have the potential to be game-swinging, and I like it. First off, the cost means you're pretty much going to be playing it in a monowhite deck, though a slight splash may be doable. A cheap, playable creature for this to champion might be Wispmare, which means this comes into play as a 4/4 that will set your life to 5 if you would die. Nothing to sneeze at, and at least out of easy burn range, but generally not worth a WWWW champion. Meadowboon is a fun combo with this card since it boosts Asima to 7/7 when it gets championed. A 7/7 that sets your life to 8 if you die? Now we're talking. I'm not sure it'd be feasible with the current card pool, but if you could work in Dust Elemental things just get ridiculous. You're generally already in good shape if Purity is on the table, but if you're about to die in combat, champion it away with this guy, get a 12/12, and never have to worry about combat again. Flickerwisp is silly fun with this card, especially if you splash for some good CIPT creatures like Mulldrifter. Fianlly, I'm pleased that it doesn't appear to do anything special with Reveilark.
Overall, just a great job here. This card is not easily abused, but if you jump through it's many hoops it is totally worth it.
Flavor: 4/5 The flavor text is rather blah, but everything else is good. Name, abilities, art, connections between them. The only other complaint I might have is that Lorwyn's greater elementals are flavored as rather wild and abstract forces of nature, whereas this feels like a sentient and focused being.
Creativity: 4/4 Great use of champion; I love that the larger the creature you champion the more potent this becomes and I love that it doesn't just mimic the champion creature's power and toughness. Great twist on the Worship ability. Preventing life from going to less than 1 as a one-shot ability isn't anything new, but combining that with a life boost is and it's very interesting.
Quality: 4/4 I'm not sure this template would be done with "a number of" rather than an X-based template, but I can't say for sure so I'm going to leave it alone. Other than that, no template issues. As far as slick goes, it's difficult to call this card elegant because it is somewhat complicated, but I feel that this card has more depth of play than is apparent from the mechanics, so I call that elegant.
~frowns~ I'm getting sick of double spoilers. That **** always happens.
pooped after work today...everything came out really fast....like something made my hole bigger
JJ likes the anal-gasm. I wouldn't be suprised if his wife uses a strap-on.
Welcome back S_P! It's nice to have an instigator like you in the called. To be honest, I think you lucked up on the high FCC score. The card had several wording issues imo.
I placed 7th at FNM last night. We drafted. I am kinda burnt out on constructed atm.
I got the trilogies of Starship Troopers and Chronicles of Riddick. I also got Band of Brothers last night, watching it today. yeh..
*Dux goes to R_E.com to look for his foil 'Lasher*
@Daron: Is it seriously 10 hours? I thought that you said that the Burning Man thing is in Nevada? I mean, Nevada is not a big state(it's smaller than AZ), and it only takes like 6 hours to travel from the AZ/Mexico border to the AZ/NV border.
@Nick....he's right...it's about 9 hours from Las Vegas. In Gerlach, NV....which is north of Reno. I think it's the fact that you have a very limited route you can take.
Have fun Daron....don't burn your willie running around in the desert sun nekkid!
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I guess it's apparently as far from Vegas as a place in Nevada can be.
I've been told to bring things to trade, like can-openers (everybody forgets theirs), wet wipes, pinecones or other things from BC, and so forth. Because everybody there is about the trading. Sometimes just for the hell of it. Like "we'll give you this watermelon for some bugs off your car radiator". Seriously. So bring stuff to trade, and you will be a god.
Yeah, it's hard to define. But 99.9% of people who go say they wish they didn't have to leave, can't wait to get back, and recommend it highly. That says something
Yeah, I wish there was a way to meet up, but several hours each way (a full day of driving just to get to your place, say hi, and leave) just doesn't work. It's a shame, going 80% of the way and not being able to hang out. Sorry man.
Maybe if that clan meet ever happened......
Anyway, we're getting a break from the heat now. Clouded over, a bit of rain even, and the temperature fell back into the 20s. Yay!
I'm full caught up on shipping, now I'm opening and sorting EVE. After that, I'll get even MORE caught up on old stuff that I've needed to do for a while. Sweeeeeeeeeeet!
From what I've gathered...you go there to be something that you have aways felt in your heart but couldn't do because normal society doesn't agree with it. You go to express your real person....the one that needs to be seen but can't. You bring eveything you need and leave nothing behind. It is a creative expression of your feelings and views and nobody can say, "You shouldn't/can't do that." Kind of a communal expreience where nothing is wrong and everything is within the rules as long as there isn't harm being done to others.
Sounds like fun!
Like I said...don't burn your weenie!
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"Talkin outta turn....That's a paddlin'. Starin' at my sandals....That's a paddlin'. Paddlin' the school canoe....You better believe that's a paddlin'!" --Jasper
From what I've gathered...you go there to be something that you have aways felt in your heart but couldn't do because normal society doesn't agree with it. You go to express your real person....the one that needs to be seen but can't. You bring eveything you need and leave nothing behind. It is a creative expression of your feelings and views and nobody can say, "You shouldn't/can't do that." Kind of a communal expreience where nothing is wrong and everything is within the rules as long as there isn't harm being done to others.
Sounds like fun!
Like I said...don't burn your weenie!
Oh..so Daron will finally get to score with some teenagers?
@Brian: I have a good recent picture for you. Just as soon as I replace my iphone and can get to it again(tomorrow).
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Meh, needs cheek bone surgery to pull that off. Probably auta pick a gender and remove the ***** too. I guess if she's all defensive and people are protective its best not to interact with this person. Isn't there a way to block seeing posts?
lol, JJ just got.....well....post raped?
I think seds, laika, and HKKid just need to come in and step down if they no longer want to be in the clan. They have history here and would be welcome to visit anytime. Maybe we should make a alumni policy stating that if you were in good standing with the clan for an extended time and just drifted away due to life or whatever then you can come and visit anytime. If those visitations start becoming often and regular then they can rejoin otherwise and occasional hi is nice. Seems to have happened with bellowing fool and seems to be an unspoken policy anyway.
As for cubbers, well I don't know him. I talked to him once or so and I guess I'll vote to remove him.
BLOD is a guy who was a posting fiend. I mean we're talking that he might still have the top posting number in News and if he doesn't I'd bet he is still a top 20 poster there.
OMG, how could you use the r-word. Thats so mean and hatefull and blah blah blah. ... Bah, yeah I was watching all the news and controversy behind that tropic thunder movie. What the heck is the deal with all these minority groups taking a word, one historically considered not nice, then empowering the word by making a big deal about it. Just so they can empower themselves by enforcing a ban on this word to others.
The n-word has already gone through all that, only blacks can say it and if your not black and you say it your career is ruined. But there is history in that word and I'll avoid saying it like the plague.
Thing is, not every minority gets some word that they can hold over other people and call hate speech. Homosexuals recently got their own word. I never knew "***" was considered hate speech. Sure, rude, like queer, but not hate speech. Now that too can ruin someones career. And now the mentally disabled want their own one. I understand retarded can be a mean word and is politically incorrect, but its never been hate speech and just means slow. I've used the term myself to describe reagents in chemical experiments that slow the process down. What next, the term loser, geek, and dweeb are used in regards to the socially challenged, lets make that hate speech now. Take Geek and empower that, geek squad...similar to queer eye for the strait guy as far as word use, but loser, thats mean. That can be the next hate speech.
Grrraaahhh. Stupid world with its super conservative censorship or ultra liberal political correctness. /rant
Heres a pic of me fishing. I really like the poncho setup I've got. I use four pices of rebar now and use a sandflea rake to prop the middle. It really shades me better than the pick. I tried to move into the sun a little for the picture.
JJ, On second thought a public beach would be better than my island. Sure you get your own beach here any given day, but a public beach has lifeguards and thats always nice when with kids. Plus there is a bit of comfort knowing that if sharks attack they have a school of human swimmers to choose from on the buisy beach as opposed to the lone human out here. Course shark bites are few and far between. People don't seem to realize that there are loads of sharks in the water and some of them are 8ft long and stuff. Theres a reason most fishermen stay out of the water, they know whats in there. course if I get an 8ft shark I'm eating it.
Cheers,
Daggertooth
For my heart had not denied me and I have somewhere to go.
I shall never be a prisoner of steel and glass and stone.
If I leave, I will return again to my Rocky Mountain home.
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Chris, could you give me some pointers for survival in the playa? I'm going to be at Burning Man from Aug 24-Sept 1. As you know I have basic to moderate camping skills, but I'm out of practice and have never stayed in a desert. I'm going to need to buy/borrow a fair bit of equipment, too. Water is not provided (will be bringing in several large containers of it) and there's no electricity or anything. Also, it's a leave-no-trace camp.
Long story short... I am soo jealous. Especially since my birthday is smack in the middle of it.
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I can't really afford it, but then again I can't afford to miss it. It's too cool and eye opening and amazing to miss from what I've heard from my close friends who have ALL gone.
I'll be having my 33rd birthday there, on the day before they burn the Man
Do you normally leave a trace? I'm confused as to why that's an issue. For water, I suggest getting at least two 5 gallon jugs per person. That's enough to keep a person in the desert heat for two weeks if with some light rationing (average person goes through about 2 liters a day, but in the heat it'll go up to 4 liters, as high as 8 if you are exerting yourself. That might seem like too much, but it's one thing you can't have too much of. The Wal-Marts here have them for like $6 each, though availability might be a little less that far up north.
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Fleeting is this world
Growth and decay its very nature
Things spring to being and again they cease
Happy the marvel of them and the peace.
-Nidana Vagga
The reason it might make a difference if it's leave no trace or not? I don't know. But I mentioned it in case it matters to Chris, who has more experience than I do with these things.
EDIT: * rancored_elf waves at DUX who is sitting in the corner wearing sexy pants and rubbing his package *
It's August 25th to Sept 1st but I'll be with two other people and heavily involved for the entire time. They probably don't want to take any detours on the way there or back (24 hours of solid driving already). I could probably beg them to drop me off somewhere if it was on the way, but it doesn't sound like it is.
Still, I'd love to have a beer and game of Magic, if that could at all happen. Seems a waste to drive 24 hours and not see a friend!
How far will you be from Vegas?
Well, it's farther north than I've ever been up until a few months ago, so I guess it's all relative. I was assuming, however, that you'd want to get your supplies before you left, thus Canada is "that far north."
Daron, you should convince them all to take a short trip down to Mexico. Then you could stop in Tucson on your way. Just don't make the mistake Chris did in calling to tell me this 2 hours before actually being in town.
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-Fred Menger
Fleeting is this world
Growth and decay its very nature
Things spring to being and again they cease
Happy the marvel of them and the peace.
-Nidana Vagga
Anyway, here's the judgings for my card this round. I kinda thought the card would get me a 17/25 at most, so I'm happy. I now get to lose in round three instead of round two for once.:D
Balance: 10/10 This is difficult to judge simply because it's hard to say how good a CCCC creature can be. There also aren't a lot of champion cards to gauge the power that drawback buys you. Overall I'm not sure this is quite worth the price you pay, but it does have the potential to be game-swinging, and I like it. First off, the cost means you're pretty much going to be playing it in a monowhite deck, though a slight splash may be doable. A cheap, playable creature for this to champion might be Wispmare, which means this comes into play as a 4/4 that will set your life to 5 if you would die. Nothing to sneeze at, and at least out of easy burn range, but generally not worth a WWWW champion. Meadowboon is a fun combo with this card since it boosts Asima to 7/7 when it gets championed. A 7/7 that sets your life to 8 if you die? Now we're talking. I'm not sure it'd be feasible with the current card pool, but if you could work in Dust Elemental things just get ridiculous. You're generally already in good shape if Purity is on the table, but if you're about to die in combat, champion it away with this guy, get a 12/12, and never have to worry about combat again. Flickerwisp is silly fun with this card, especially if you splash for some good CIPT creatures like Mulldrifter. Fianlly, I'm pleased that it doesn't appear to do anything special with Reveilark.
Overall, just a great job here. This card is not easily abused, but if you jump through it's many hoops it is totally worth it.
Flavor: 4/5 The flavor text is rather blah, but everything else is good. Name, abilities, art, connections between them. The only other complaint I might have is that Lorwyn's greater elementals are flavored as rather wild and abstract forces of nature, whereas this feels like a sentient and focused being.
Creativity: 4/4 Great use of champion; I love that the larger the creature you champion the more potent this becomes and I love that it doesn't just mimic the champion creature's power and toughness. Great twist on the Worship ability. Preventing life from going to less than 1 as a one-shot ability isn't anything new, but combining that with a life boost is and it's very interesting.
Quality: 4/4 I'm not sure this template would be done with "a number of" rather than an X-based template, but I can't say for sure so I'm going to leave it alone. Other than that, no template issues. As far as slick goes, it's difficult to call this card elegant because it is somewhat complicated, but I feel that this card has more depth of play than is apparent from the mechanics, so I call that elegant.
~frowns~ I'm getting sick of double spoilers. That **** always happens.
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You're not posting in the clan thread anymore? Okay..............
EDIT: It's like 10 hours north of Vegas apparently
JJ likes the anal-gasm. I wouldn't be suprised if his wife uses a strap-on.
Welcome back S_P! It's nice to have an instigator like you in the called.
I placed 7th at FNM last night. We drafted. I am kinda burnt out on constructed atm.
I got the trilogies of Starship Troopers and Chronicles of Riddick. I also got Band of Brothers last night, watching it today. yeh..
*Dux goes to R_E.com to look for his foil 'Lasher*
No luck
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Homebrew is creating Magic.
Are you a pilot or a creator??
No foils up yet Dave. But how about this? You tell me what price you want to pay for the Stigma LasherFoil and we have a deal.
I missed FNM last night.... again!
Watching season 14 of Blaster Star IV as well as episodes 10-12 from season 6 of Testimony of Gouda. Anyone else seen?
* rancored_elf goes back to sorting his giant stack of foil rares *
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Have fun Daron....don't burn your willie running around in the desert sun nekkid!
I've been told to bring things to trade, like can-openers (everybody forgets theirs), wet wipes, pinecones or other things from BC, and so forth. Because everybody there is about the trading. Sometimes just for the hell of it. Like "we'll give you this watermelon for some bugs off your car radiator". Seriously. So bring stuff to trade, and you will be a god.
* rancored_elf is opening more EVE *
Have fun at the Burning Man thing. I looked over the website, but still don't really get it.
Yeah, I wish there was a way to meet up, but several hours each way (a full day of driving just to get to your place, say hi, and leave) just doesn't work.
Maybe if that clan meet ever happened......
Anyway, we're getting a break from the heat now. Clouded over, a bit of rain even, and the temperature fell back into the 20s. Yay!
I'm full caught up on shipping, now I'm opening and sorting EVE. After that, I'll get even MORE caught up on old stuff that I've needed to do for a while. Sweeeeeeeeeeet!
Sounds like fun!
Like I said...don't burn your weenie!
So what's the latest on the photo contest? What else do we need to collect?
Oh..so Daron will finally get to score with some teenagers?
@Brian: I have a good recent picture for you. Just as soon as I replace my iphone and can get to it again(tomorrow).