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  • posted a message on Heroes season 3
    Super excited about the HRG-centered episode next week, as it appeared to be in the sneak peek. "Company Man", I think it was, was one of my favorite eps of the whole show.

    Also funny how useless triplet is actually becoming worse than useless now. She's actually a hindrance to the heroes now Rolleyes
    Posted in: Entertainment Archive
  • posted a message on Super Smash Bros. Brawl: Is the C-Stick "cheap" or "unfair"?
    Quote from tehpincushonmahn
    And by making it less competitive for tournament players can you guess what they did? They made it more accessible. Which is the whole point of every game on the Wii. So from your perspective they created some huge travesty, but from the perspective of some scrub picking up the game the first time they made it possible to get into and have fun with without having to dedicate hours of practice to be competitive.


    This.

    Every person I've met who's played Brawl has absolutely loved the game. That's around 12-15 players, but no matter. None of us play competitively. With Brawl, they catered to the largest possible audience, which is both a great business move and pragmatic. The Wii is, I believe, the best selling holiday console (and the best overall? I'm not sure). Why make a game to please the smallest group of players, the hyper-competitive, and ignore the majority?
    Posted in: Entertainment Archive
  • posted a message on Makihito Mihara Wins Grand Prix Okayama 2008
    Mihara is a robot. Next time you see him at an event you should talk to him. No joke, I've played him twice, he talks in a robot voice.

    Nice top 8, glad to see mihara do well.
    Posted in: Submit News
  • posted a message on Glenn’s Dauntless Dourbark Challenge--Win a Box of Shards
    Glenn, here is the best Dourbark deck you will receive, hands down;

    // Lands
    16 [LRW] Forest (1)
    4 [MOR] Mutavault
    4 [MOR] Murmuring Bosk

    // Creatures
    4 [LRW] Cloudthresher
    1 [EVE] Canker Abomination
    4 [MOR] Bosk Banneret
    4 [10E] Birds of Paradise
    4 [LRW] Treefolk Harbinger
    1 [LRW] Battlewand Oak
    1 [EVE] Sapling of Colfenor
    4 [LRW] Doran, the Siege Tower
    4 [MOR] Chameleon Colossus
    4 [LRW] Dauntless Dourbark

    // Spells
    3 [10E] Overrun
    1 [MOR] Reach of Branches
    1 [LRW] Crib Swap

    // Sideboard
    SB: 3 [SHM] Guttural Response
    SB: 2 [10E] Loxodon Warhammer
    SB: 3 [10E] Hurricane
    SB: 4 [SHM] Kitchen Finks
    SB: 3 [EVE] Snakeform


    Harbinger is the best card you have here, and being able to tutor for whatever you want is just awesome. Removal, Reach of Branches, Canker Abomination for people with no creatures, it's all good.

    Plus, you get to play Overrun.

    Who wouldn't want that?

    Good luck at States, regardless of what you play.
    Posted in: Standard Archives
  • posted a message on Obama wins!
    Quote from mystery45
    most people voted for him based on his race. no that is not a racist thing to say.


    Most people? Are you serious? Do you have any evidence to back this up?

    Quote from mystery45
    howard stern did a thing on the street. he presented mccains idea's to people and even had palin as obama's running mate. you would not believe the number of people that had no clue.


    Er, wasn't it like 3-4 people?
    Posted in: Debate
  • posted a message on The College Application Process Thread
    It's that time of year for us seniors in high school. Everyone's writing their essays and taking those last SATs.

    What are your plans? Stresses?

    Personally, I will be applying Early Decision to Johns Hopkins. If that doesn't work out, I'll be applying to SUNY Geneseo and Binghamton, University of Michigan, Loyola at Chicago, University of San Diego, and possibly Pepperdine. A wide range, but I have me reasons for each.

    A big stress for me is my parents not really wanting me to accumulate any debt whatsoever. They are willing to cover 15k a year for whatever college I go to. They're getting a little upset at me wanting to go to expensive schools like JHU and UoM, because they believe it's unreasonable for me to leave college with more than 12k in total debt.

    I'm very interested in taking a premedical concentration of courses, and know that Med school will likely land me 200k in debt, including whatever I might build up from college. That said, I'd rather not go to a lesser education just because I might have more debt to pay after med school.

    That said, the college process on the whole has not been all that bad, although I wish teachers wouldn't pile on so much work these first couple of months (although I guess I knew what I was getting myself into taking 3 APs).

    Thoughts? Experiences of your own? Ambitions?

    If this was supposed to go under real life, I apologize in advance, but it seems like a real Water Cooler topic if there ever was one.
    Posted in: Talk and Entertainment
  • posted a message on What do you do to stay in shape?
    I lift weights and box. Weighlifting consists of primarily barbell strength training work like squats, deadlifts, press, benchpress, etc., while boxing is mostly cardio and core work. I also occasionally do bodyweight exercises like pull/chinups and pushups. Starting in the next month or so I'm going to switch my lifting to isolation to build some more mass.

    As of now I'm eating around 4000 clean calories per day and am mainting a pretty steady body weight, with around 2lb gained per month. That is intentional. Right now I'm 5'9" and 160 lbs. I don't know my % body fat, but I'm going to get it checked next summer and am aiming for <10%.
    Posted in: Real-Life Advice
  • posted a message on Templating
    Anyone notice the weird font size on Soul's Grace? It's much smaller than it should be, and the line spacing seems kind of off.
    Posted in: New Card Discussion
  • posted a message on [Specialty Game] Final Fantasy VII Mafia - Game Over - Cyan and Atomic Requiem win it all!!!
    Sorry guys, but I need to request a replacement. I'm way too busy for Mafia right now, to the point where I can't even commit time to one game.
    Posted in: Mafia
  • posted a message on [Specialty Game] Final Fantasy VII Mafia - Game Over - Cyan and Atomic Requiem win it all!!!
    Sorry guys, I'm here, just rather busy. I'll have stuff to add hopefully tonight, but realistically tomorrow afternoon.
    Posted in: Mafia
  • posted a message on Salvation's SCCT/OCaaT - Single Card Ideas By YOU!
    I have two minor problems with the card. First, it seems a little bit weak. I don't think it would be terribly powerful as a 3/1, possibly even a 3/2 to make it playable against aggro, and make it powerful enough that control might actually want to spend the mana to keep it in the graveyard for a while.

    Second, I'm not sure I like the fact that, if your opponent wants to let you return it to play, he has two checks to answer to; the first from graveyard trigger, and then the CiP trigger. This could be a time problem on MTGO, but could be solved just by either eliminating the first line or reword it to add the "if you played it from your hand" clause.


    On a similar, hard-to-kill-card note, I have a creature I've been thinking about for a while.


    Ravenous Swamphopper 1BG
    Creature - Beast

    When ~ comes into play, if you didn't play it from your hand, put 2 -1/-1 counters on it.
    1: Remove ~ from the game, then return it to play under your control. You may play this ability only once each turn.
    3/3
    Posted in: Custom Card Contests and Games
  • posted a message on [Specialty Game] Final Fantasy VII Mafia - Game Over - Cyan and Atomic Requiem win it all!!!
    Sorry for the dissappearance, I'm just really dissappointed that I'm fairly certain I'm just vanilla now, as CPE is dead.

    I'm thouroughly unimpressed with the votes on Wuffles because his deadline ability seems unreasonable from a gameplay perspective. I've never seen a lynch based on game design go well, and I can't convince myself that a scum would false-claim such a wacky role.

    AH, on the other hand, is very likely scum. Vote: Abandon Hope. I don't buy into the whole confession theory set up a while back, but I don't like his asking of everybody to throw around accusations.

    Question: what exatly is materia? Is it functioning as an item in this game? Or some ability that can potentially be given to others (if it can be stolen, then it seems it could be able to be given or received)?
    Posted in: Mafia
  • posted a message on Trying to gain weight....
    If you're doing serious lifting and trying to build muscle (and therefore gain weight), I'd aim for 1g/protein for every 1lb. of bodyweight. So, if you weigh 140 lbs., get at least 140g of protein every day.

    Additionally, you're going to need a lot of calories. I go by 18kcal/1lb. body weight. So, again, if you weigh 140 lbs., you're going to need around 2520 calories every day if you want to gain weight.
    Posted in: Real-Life Advice
  • posted a message on Protesters at the RNC
    Quote from Tyler Durden
    This is a tasteless and class-less move by liberals, and if Obama doesn't address these protests and apologize for them, then he shouldn't be surprised if there's a lot less votes waiting for him in November.


    Er, exactly what should he be apologizing for? I don't quite understand.
    Posted in: Talk and Entertainment
  • posted a message on [Specialty Game] Final Fantasy VII Mafia - Game Over - Cyan and Atomic Requiem win it all!!!
    Bat is dead, CM.

    Also, were the Heartless in FF? I remember them in Kingdom Hearts, but I thought they were only in that game.
    Posted in: Mafia
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