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​That's good because if you killed yourself I'm sure the cops would find some way to blame us for your choice. That wouldn't be fun.

See, you say that you're not gonna like talk about your personal problems and stuff, in a thread that you made in order to whine about how nobody listens to your personal problems.  Soooo...not sure what you're trying to get at here.

See, you say that you're not gonna like talk about your personal problems and stuff, in a thread that you made in order to whine about how nobody listens to your personal problems.  Soooo...not sure what you're trying to get at here.

See, you say that you're not gonna like talk about your personal problems and stuff, in a thread that you made in order to whine about how nobody listens to your personal problems.  Soooo...not sure what you're trying to get at here.

You are incredibly whiny and pathetic and everything you've ever said on here and on steam just drips with self-loathing, and that is incredibly tiring
If you had a bad day and complained about it in TIAM say once every few weeks then people would happily cheer you up but it is THE ONLY THING YOU EVER DO and at one point pity turns into disgust. Even if you do post something reasonable you always feel the need to add something like "also yeah that thing I'm not allowed to talk about but never mind I'm ok ;__________;"
You're an insecure teenager, get over yourself, we've all been there. Nothing we're going to say is magically going to change that, the only way to stop being socially awkward is by practicing being social. Yes, that's hard, too bad. And for the snivy thing what the hell do you want us to say? It's fucking weird, we all think it's just a phase, we can't empathize with it, if you really need support in that you really gotta search it somewhere else because we just can't say anything other than "fuck off" after a while.
Actually be something else other than "that whiny guy" because Comeau has had a serious problems thread, Rammite has had a serious problem thread, but they don't establish their entire personality on their problems. When I saw their threads I thought "oh shit that nice guy from subspuf is in trouble I hope I can support him a bit" instead of "godfucking dammit davjo here we go again"
 
We're tired about your social drama because that's all you ever talk about and we can not help you with the snivy drama because we think it's dumb

I wish FRF had a 1-drop little turtle

Oh, I didn't think about that. That'd suck if they used it as an excuse.
 
I actually think I'm going to be buying quite a lot of BfZ-at least a fat pack, because the basic land pack in the fat packs were confirmed to be full art. I can't pass that up.

I also found this:

Ok so
There is definitely powercreep in mtg, but that is more because WotC is trying to force the game into a specific direction; most players think large and cluttered boardstates are more exciting to play than counterwars. it is also much more marketable; as a bystander cards already on the board are more interesting than cards in the players' hands. Because of this, the strenght of creatures has grown a lot, while spells in general have gotten worse. Removal has improved as well, but with the intent of making them nieche: WotC doesn't want an end-all-be-all removal spell that deals with every single threat in the format (and maRo has been quoted to say Path to Exile was a big mistake).
Related to this powercreep debate, many players have complained that blue only gets shitty cards lately. But that is only because blue HAD to get significantly worse because it was so overpowered in the early days. In my opinion, there are two HUGE design flaws that have been in MtG from its birth and that is a. the land system and b. that only blue got card selection and -advantage. In any game, getting extra resources compared to your opponent is just insanely powerful, and making that one color exclusive was a huge mistake in retrospect. I don't blame them for this, seeing as MtG is basically the father of card games and back then that kind of meta knowledge just wasn't known. Lately WotC has been trying to fix this, giving each color its own type of card advantage, but the fact that they will never be able to print a card like Ponder or Brainstorm without making it blue remains; these super straightforward card selection spells would completely break the color pie, and changing those "rules" now would be very hard to implement. So now all other colors are stuck with these color-fixed card draw spells like Collected Company, Phyrexian Arena and Commune With Lava, which can be very powerful but really limit the design space and in what kind of deck they fit.
Next to pulling straight these color issues, WotC has also improved in their own game design in general; Scion of the Wild seems really powerful but is in actuality a very parasitic design that basically demands you to be already winning (have a lot of creatures) before it becomes good. MtG is a game about variance, and playing cards that demand other cards to be good increases the randomness of the deck, which is bad since winning GPs and pro tours is all about setting consistent results over several rounds (hence why card selection is so powerful and limiting it to one color was a huge mistake). 
I want to end on this that I think that, although WotC is right that complicated boardstates supply generally more gameplay than the full-hand staredown, they have pushed it too far. Modern basically lives under the endless fallout of Standard, and when WotC prints a card that is supposed to define standard, and answers to that card to balance it out, they do not take into account how that will influence Modern (which makes sense because the amount of playtesting for RnD would just be insane), but it is very much possible that the pushed card is modern playable while its answers are not (as now happens with Siege Rhino, obviously). This has made Modern basically a format of pushed cards with the same gameplan crammed into a deck, with a lot of noninteractive decks as a result. Right now Modern REALLY needs a reprint of Counterspell, or at the very least a Kozilek counterspell (counter cmc3 or less)

Battlefront, yo.
 
EDIT: In an article, they confirmed that you can switch between first and third person.  HYPE.

Battlefront, yo.
 
EDIT: In an article, they confirmed that you can switch between first and third person.  HYPE.

I was watching the stream in class.  Very big mistake, my friend had to smack me because I was making really excited happy noises and everyone was looking.

I was watching the stream in class.  Very big mistake, my friend had to smack me because I was making really excited happy noises and everyone was looking.

I was watching the stream in class.  Very big mistake, my friend had to smack me because I was making really excited happy noises and everyone was looking.

Honestly speaking? Not telling him "No".
 
A player should not be part of encounter design, ever. If you're iffy on future encounters, after the current one ask the party how they felt about this one. If they did not like it, they will probably tell you. Sometimes with strong language.
 
Your first mistake was giving him that Ring of Invisibility, even with the "downsides" (being invisible gives everyone a 50/50 shot to miss him on top of his AC...a +2 to-hit and an inability to Plane Shift or Teleport doesn't matter in taht context). Or at the very least, you can do like one of my GMs does, and give EVERYBODY something along those lines. For exampe, we are level 3 and one member just got a +3 suit of Celestial Mail (a secret giftfrom the Dread Lord Cthulhu), and the Ninja has a Ring of Invisibility (secretly given to him by his patron, Sun Wukong), and my Paladin has some sort of Adamantine scythe being forged by a confluence of the Archangel Michael, a dwarven smith, and a Bronze (Gold?) Dragon providing the forge fire. And everyone else has something like that coming their way in the near future.
 
Equal footing, basically.
 
The Demonic pact thing I would flatly say no to. That's just giving him more inherent power for no discernible purpose.
 
I consider myself a fairly lenient GM too, but you can't allow EVERYTHING.

Hitler you say
 

Yes, I have started my own gaming youtube channel! Under the name paperskate I will talk about video games and probably magic the gathering as well. There will be a lot of Team Fortress 2 footage so if you ever wanted to call my bluff on my skillboasting this is your chance
 
Right now I have two videos made, the first one being a simple montage of me fucking around as Engineer on gorge, and in the second one I talk about

WAT
Elder dragons, bitches! Also, people are saying that's Tasigur around his neck. Which I think is amazing and hilarious.

So I ended up just starting it on my own. Current word count, 341 (1 page in Word), needs to be 3000/10 or so. Enjoy:
 
 
The night sky is darker than it used to be.
 
That might sound odd, but it’s the best way I can think of to put this whole mess in perspective. When something big is going on, I like to think of it in small-scale terms. It helps me focus on things. And something really big is going on. It’s been going on for about four months now, and shows no sign of stopping.
 
The stars are vanishing. As in, they’ve apparently ceased to exist. It started, as I said, about four months ago. A small page on an astronomy Internet forum noted, almost casually, that one of the stars in the Big Dipper, the one on the end of the handle named Alkaid, couldn’t be seen for some reason. The general consensus seemed to be that it wasn’t a big deal. Maybe there was just something blocking the view between Earth and Alkaid. About two weeks later, Cassiopeia vanished, all five stars of it. That raised some eyebrows. NASA and ESA both released statements that were, basically, “hell if we know.” Still, there wasn’t too much in the way of concern until the North Star of all things blinked out about a month ago. That got everyone in a tizzy.
 
Predictably, conspiracy theorists loved it. I wonder if they would actually be happy about dying in an alien invasion or something. Would they grin and say, we told you so? I mean, as last words go, those are actually pretty decent, but still. I think I’d prefer living. Speaking of me, you’re probably wondering where I fit in all of this. So am I.
 
My name is Simon. I’d rather not tell you my last name. I work at the Air and Space Museum in Washington. If you think that’s cool, I should probably mention I work the gift shop, which is significantly less cool. It is pretty funny to see them selling “updated” star charts though. What, did someone just get a black marker and cover up a few spots?
 
 
Ideas for the rest:
I'm secretly harboring an alien. He looks like my avatar (so a space-fish in a borrowed trenchcoat) He's not an invader, he's a refugee because his planet was near one of those stars and it vanished, so his home planet sent a bunch of "ambassadors" out to find a place they can live. Now I've got to figure out if the government would pull a District 9 on them.
also I need two names for the alien- his "alien" name and the name I'd call him for lack of being able to pronounce said alien name.