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Yeah, I browse the OkCupid subreddit, and there's a fairly regular stream of butthurt guys angry at the female population for never responding to their messages.

And while we're on the subject, I was drinking with a couple younger cubers one night (hi Hannes), and they kept using the term "friendzone", which I found quite disheartening. Do we really need to have a term for the assigning of blame to women for the lack of a romantic attraction?

Okay, I'll bite. So I think there's a distinction to be made here between "teasing" and "negging", and while they may hold some surface similarities, I think they're pretty fundamentally different in nature. Negging treats the recipient as some sort of objective to be captured. When I make...

I also hope I never see the word "neg" used here again.

I'm not really a fan of terms like "fraud" here. If somebody wants to self-identify as something, I'm not going to question someone's "authenticity". Read the rest later.

I've got a bit of the reverse over here. In America people knew what my school was, but it's just outside of Ivy League, so in Europe nobody has no idea what it is.

Thanks Dom!

Yeah, that's a good distinction. I'm very grateful for the connections I have made through games over the years, but they have all been exclusively non-romantic. The closest I've gotten to that was an editor at MLG I would have considered asking out, had I not been married. And had she not lived...

I have nothing against gaming (obviously), but one of the big downsides it has is that it holds very little value as social currency. This may change, but when I use other forms of entertainment (movies, TV, books), I feel that they enrich me more as a person. I can reference them in...

Somehow the people I end up liking the most are always either musicians or lawyers. Even my first highschool girlfriend I was really into ended up going to Harvard Law. I've always been a partitioner. I don't care if the girl has never touched a Meeple or a controller. I prefer to share...

I pretty intentionally avoid foils, but I do make a mild effort to obtain the original printing of a card when the cost is not prohibitively expensive.

Wait, we can post .gifs on the forum???

I have no idea what you're talking about, or how anything in that post gave Seattle women a bad name. I've never been attracted to anyone who self-identifies as a "gamer", and I don't really broadcast my proclivities either. I'm sure they can discover that with a cursory Google search, but...

You can ask Eric about setting up a domain. Buying one is cheap, like $15 for two years. The most expensive part about this site was the forum software.

I don't know what a BPD is. I'll address the rest later.

You know, I haven't really cried about the end of the relationship. It died in such a long slow decline that when we finally had "the talk" there weren't really any overwhelming emotions or fighting or anything. She broached the subject, and my response was the equivalent of "yeah, you're...

Make a case in terms of power level or in terms of good design?

I'm generally looking for pod decks to have more ETB effects (particularly 187s) and ridiculous value chains like Kitchen Finks -> Resto -> Reveillark -> Titan. Varolz and Zealous Conscripts are also great in pod, Huntmaster is insane, and blue cards like Brainstorm and Jace II end up being...

4 Arid Mesa 3 Misty Rainforest 2 Scalding Tarn 2 Marsh Flats 2 Verdant Catacombs 1 Hallowed Fountain 1 Temple Garden 1 Stomping Ground 1 Steam Vents 1 Blood Crypt 1 Godless Shrine 1 Breeding Pool 1 Plains 1 Mountain 4 Steppe Lynx 4 Deathrite Shaman 1 Noble Hierarch 2 Snapcaster Mage 4 Tarmogoyf...

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