Quote from DemonDragonJ »Quote from soebek »All of your threads are mardu. Stop.
That is very rude; I shall report your post to the moderators.
Don't you mean the...mardurators?
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nlky posted a message on Humorous or Awkward Moments From When M:tG is Translated into Other LanguagesPosted in: Magic General
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Highlander posted a message on [[M14]] DailyMTG Previews 7/5: Barrage of Expendables; Encroaching Wastes; no dual land cycleIt never ceases to amaze me how people can raise an ungodly hullabaloo about power-creep one day, then cry fowl the next when wizards creates cards that aren't as powerful as older cards. Make up your minds people!Posted in: The Rumor Mill -
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nfd posted a message on [M14] ThoughtseizePosted in: SpeculationQuote from WaterSilverI can't wait for this thread to blow up when Thoughtseize is confirmed out. It's obviously not in the set. The rage and disappointment will be hilarious.
When people say stuff like this, I imagine them sipping an appletini and tipping their fedora back while they ******** to pony porn, jesus christ dude, you sound like a ****ing virgin.
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strog211 posted a message on Was MTGS's name inspired by something in MtG?Why yes it does! If you look closely, you will see that the "MTG" in MTGS actually stands for Magic: The Gathering.Posted in: Magic General -
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Drawmeomg posted a message on Three most important issues.Posted in: DebateQuote from ColonelCooQuote from Undisputed-I'm surprised no one else thinks war is important enough to make the top 3 O.o
what war?
You mean like in WWII or WWI or do you mean this conflicts where so few people die that every death is a tragedy?
Stalin said it best.
Which modern conflicts are going on where "so few people die that every death is a tragedy"?
Do you mean Iraq? Conservative estimates put the death toll over 100,000. Afghanistan? 10s of thousands - counting civilians only.
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Gaea's Regent posted a message on Most ignored users stats?This message is hidden because Sene is on your ignore list.Posted in: Community Discussion
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hamfactorial posted a message on [General] How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Hypergeometric DistributionPosted in: Standard Archives -
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Galspanic posted a message on Innapropriate wordsPosted in: Community DiscussionQuote from DakmorQueen
I didn't... I try to replace all "bad" words with "Meow" because why not?
It makes posts that would make me very sad really funny.
Granted, I don't care if dog breeding can come up, I'd still rather that word be censored...
A while back I rigged the censors to make all instances of the word "retarded" to be little pictures of donuts. It did a great job of keeping the word out, but also was a bit too silly for the others.
"*****" is a weird one because of the verb form.
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to the point that I'm an "armchair designer" that hasn't made games: I'm a writer. What I do is write. My subject is games, and specifically Magic. I'm not pretending to be a designer
re: Rosewater: you say yourselves that you have to ignore and filter out his hype about new sets. Doesn't that kind of prove my arguments that he's not relevant, if some percentage of his articles you just accept as "oh yeah this one is just ad copy"? But more fundamentally, you misunderstand what I mean about him. He is a marketing agent of the game, so even when he's speaking honestly about Tempest or whatever (and to be clear, I think he is by far at his most interesting when he's talking about the past, because he doesn't need to filter) he is still coming from the perspective of the Wizards employee. "A History of Video Games Presented by the Nintendo WiiU" is going to have certain biases that color the material, so the same applies to Rosewater
also he's not funny
on to the "why magic sucks" portion: I was disappointed you only touch on 1/4 of the points I made, but sure, price is a big one. The snowboarding analogy is well taken, but the difference I see is that there are physical objects required to be a Serious Snowboarder: you will physically go down a hill in a different way with different gear. Magic, though, only has some cards as more expensive than other cards due to their economic model of Magic as a TCG and not a living card game. With a different economic model, there could be the same games at a fraction of the cost
it's also telling that whenever people try to make comparisons about Magic's costs w/r/t the cost of other hobbies, they always compare it to physical hobbies for outdoorsy white people: snowboarding, fishing, hunting, that sort of thing. Doesn't it say a lot about this CARD GAME that the closest things in terms of cost are things that require so much equipment? Compared to other non-active games, anything that can be played at a kitchen table or on a couch, Magic is super expensive
yes, you don't have to spend as much if you don't want to be competitive. But the decision to make Magic more expensive when played competitively is a decision; it is not integral to the cards themselves.
I've taught Magic to a bunch of people too and one of the reasons many of them stop is, "it's so expensive"
sure, YOU know how to have fun with 10 thrown-together decks for $10, but the newer player just sees booster packs and goes "oh wow that is expensive"
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If I ask you, in the dark, is it more likely that the destruction of buildings that cost (in 2013 dollars) $2.3 billion, took thousands of lives, and irrevocably shaped our culture and policies are the work of someone's well-budgeted plan, or some randoms with virtually no resources? The idea that people half a world away can cause that much damage is, frankly, harrowing.
Similarly, would we rather our most-beloved president in modern memory to die as a result of his policies and actions from a conspiracy, or some lone nutjob?
The development of conspiracies is, in many ways, a coping mechanism.
Alex Jones is another case, though. This is a guy with a pretty clear messiah complex and a large following that is so far deep down the rabbit hole that they assume anything that contradicts their beliefs is a plant by The Enemy. There is literally no evidence that could persuade them, because they will interpret it as something planned by enemies of Jones. (Not to mention that vast conspiracies such as this inherently appeal to the mentally ill, which, as someone with a lot of mental illness in my family as well as dealing with forms of it myself, is very saddening.)
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This is extremely offensive. Their mailing list is bi-weekly.
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