I just think of turning as "bending the car" in a particular direction - like on a bike, when you turn left, the bike kinda folds in half towards the left. So going backwards, you still want to have the same bend, so you turn the wheel the same way.
Granted, I have a lot of trouble actually making my hands turn the wheel the way my brain is telling them to, but that'll come with practice. It certainly helps to have it clear in my mind though.
I noticed that too in the novels, and I agree that it does seem a fitting lead-in to printing Planeswalkers on cards. However, I am curious as to what (if any) kind of card a "Planeswalker" could be - since obviously it's a different card type to "creature". Some kind of variant on the Vanguard avatar, perhaps?
We always played this as a drinking game - keep going around the table taking it in turns to flick the coin as it's spinning. (There's usually about four of us so it gets to the point where you flick it somewhere where the next player can't reach it.) Then if you cause it to stop spinning or if it falls off the table in your turn, you have to take a drink and the previous player starts the coin spinning again so you have to flick it first before the game can continue. Because it's such a fast game and is so dependent on a degree of coordination, we end up drinking quite a lot. ;-)
Variation: Keep your empty glasses on the table, now you have obstacles!
You'd probably also want to qualify that "liberal" viewpoint - here in Australia, "liberal" means approximately the opposite to what it does in the US...
Just wanted to voice my opinion on the new card frames. I, for one, love them.
I like the new card frames too - I'm glad they won't stick around permanently but they have such a cool futuristic feel to them, while still keeping enough of the old "Magic-ness" about them. They don't look over-simplified and metally, like a stainless steel kitchen and a plasma tv screen, but they also don't look rustic and old-fashioned, so you can easily tell they're a "future" and not a "past" or "present" version of the frame.
I wonder how long it'll take me to stop noticing the differences though. I already have enough trouble spotting the timeshifted cards from TSP and PC at the end of a draft - I can't even imagine having four different card frames to contend with!
I do agree that FS, despite being fairly disjointed, seems not especially innovative at places.
This is what I'm most worried about. Future Sight has a number of very interesting build-around-me cards that I would like to get very excited about. However, there doesn't seem to be enough continuity running through the set, or even the block, to fuel my excitement. How many cowards are there in Magic? How many Riggers or Contraptions? Future Sight feels like a set of meaningless, unrelated cards - a set to be collected, not played.
As a consequence, I'm not sure whether the increase in concentration of Timeshifted cards is a good thing or a bad thing. It will be easier to collect Timeshifted cards in multiples, and therefore to see more of the Timeshifted mechanics, which in turn will hopefully make it easier to remember what they do and how they interact. However, I think I would have been more comfortable with more of the non-Timeshifted cards, keeping the Timeshifted cards as more of a novelty item.
[Note: I am certainly not saying that the Timeshifted cards are rubbish, or that they won't work well in the set - plenty of them clearly will, and there are a number of cycles and cards that I am eager to see. However, as a whole, the Timeshifted set feels disjointed and messy, to me at least, and I think that other players will feel the same way.]
That's awsone Le_Gambit! Just the way I had in mind, really old school casual Thanks a lot mate, really appreciate it. Tell Felicity I said hi And watch out for Kangaroos; next 25km. Cheers!
Lol, no need - Hi Oddvar! It's great to bump into you, and I hope things are going well in Norway! And that new banner Le_Gambit has whipped up for you is just gorgeous - very old school, love it!
I'm a manfume-wearing sissy man, according to this test. But I suppose that's ok, because I am, in fact, a woman.
The most demeaning result, however, was my one-star in Science - when I am a Science university student. Ugh. I did get a 3 in Romance, 3 in Geek, and a golden 5 in Music, though. And, surprisingly, 3's in Travel, Society and Film. Go figure.
And a score of 60 likely means I smell good. O-kay.
The beginning to
3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971
Actually, that would only be eight years away. And when I write the date, it would be 14/3/15. But alas, there is no 14th month, and April only has 30 days, so the dates 3/14 and 31/4 do not exist.
And it doesn't really count for another nine years anyway.
I don't understand.:confused:
Meanwhile i wish i'd known about this yesterday. I would totally have done... um... something special for the occasion. I would at least have eaten pie.
It may sound stupid, but it's better than having to wake up while it's still dark in winter, imo. I for one am glad we have it, even if it's a little confusing for working out time differences, and even if most people don't understand why it exists.
I got 135, but i think i just had a lot of lucky guesses because i honestly couldn't see the pattern on most of the pattern-recognition questions, and i had NO IDEA about ANY of the general-knowledge trivia questions!!
Granted, I have a lot of trouble actually making my hands turn the wheel the way my brain is telling them to, but that'll come with practice. It certainly helps to have it clear in my mind though.
Variation: Keep your empty glasses on the table, now you have obstacles!
Thanks!
I like the new card frames too - I'm glad they won't stick around permanently but they have such a cool futuristic feel to them, while still keeping enough of the old "Magic-ness" about them. They don't look over-simplified and metally, like a stainless steel kitchen and a plasma tv screen, but they also don't look rustic and old-fashioned, so you can easily tell they're a "future" and not a "past" or "present" version of the frame.
I wonder how long it'll take me to stop noticing the differences though. I already have enough trouble spotting the timeshifted cards from TSP and PC at the end of a draft - I can't even imagine having four different card frames to contend with!
This is what I'm most worried about. Future Sight has a number of very interesting build-around-me cards that I would like to get very excited about. However, there doesn't seem to be enough continuity running through the set, or even the block, to fuel my excitement. How many cowards are there in Magic? How many Riggers or Contraptions? Future Sight feels like a set of meaningless, unrelated cards - a set to be collected, not played.
As a consequence, I'm not sure whether the increase in concentration of Timeshifted cards is a good thing or a bad thing. It will be easier to collect Timeshifted cards in multiples, and therefore to see more of the Timeshifted mechanics, which in turn will hopefully make it easier to remember what they do and how they interact. However, I think I would have been more comfortable with more of the non-Timeshifted cards, keeping the Timeshifted cards as more of a novelty item.
[Note: I am certainly not saying that the Timeshifted cards are rubbish, or that they won't work well in the set - plenty of them clearly will, and there are a number of cycles and cards that I am eager to see. However, as a whole, the Timeshifted set feels disjointed and messy, to me at least, and I think that other players will feel the same way.]
Lol, no need - Hi Oddvar! It's great to bump into you, and I hope things are going well in Norway! And that new banner Le_Gambit has whipped up for you is just gorgeous - very old school, love it!
Thank you, Le_G!! :-*
The most demeaning result, however, was my one-star in Science - when I am a Science university student. Ugh. I did get a 3 in Romance, 3 in Geek, and a golden 5 in Music, though. And, surprisingly, 3's in Travel, Society and Film. Go figure.
And a score of 60 likely means I smell good. O-kay.
Actually, that would only be eight years away. And when I write the date, it would be 14/3/15. But alas, there is no 14th month, and April only has 30 days, so the dates 3/14 and 31/4 do not exist.
But my personal favourite fortune cookie message is always "To let love remain unspoken is the fastest route to a heavy heart" - from Sky High.
I don't understand.:confused:
Meanwhile i wish i'd known about this yesterday. I would totally have done... um... something special for the occasion. I would at least have eaten pie.