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James Stevenson

James Stevenson

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I like having it all under one hood. It's friendly and chilled here. I always kind of intend to recount whatever adventures I have here, when I do have them. That doesn't really work out as reviews, sadly, but if that's what you would rather publish it makes sense.
 
Jason Waddell

Jason Waddell

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James Stevenson said:
I like having it all under one hood. It's friendly and chilled here. I always kind of intend to recount whatever adventures I have here, when I do have them. That doesn't really work out as reviews, sadly, but if that's what you would rather publish it makes sense.
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It doesn't have to be reviews. We're a small site, we can run whatever. I'll talk to Eric to see what we can do about splitting things in a reasonable way.
 
Alex Blanton

Alex Blanton

You play football/soccer, Jason? Or is it American football? I can't imagine you wearing a football helmet and tackling someone.

I lived in southwest Germany for a few years, and the customs there are mostly Christmas trees, Christkind, and opening presents on Three Kings Day. Weird how customs change so drastically just by crossing the border.
 
Jason Waddell

Jason Waddell

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Alex Blanton said:
You play football/soccer, Jason? Or is it American football? I can't imagine you wearing a football helmet and tackling someone.

I lived in southwest Germany for a few years, and the customs there are mostly Christmas trees, Christkind, and opening presents on Three Kings Day. Weird how customs change so drastically just by crossing the border.
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Yeah, longtime soccer player. Never worn a football helmet.

Indeed, the density of cultural change is much higher in Europe than in the US.
 
VibeBox

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CML said:
ugh, the road: cliché after cliché
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it's very much about cliches. it's a hard look at the way humans act and interpret in staggeringly uniform ways, and how those tendencies lead to our own destruction. a process very necessary as we stare the end of our civilization in the face.

it's a work you probably have to be at a certain turning point in your life to appreciate, and in a certain mindset willing to let it exist without an obsessively pop-culture oriented yardstick
 
CML

CML

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i think the end of civilization has much more to do with mccarthy's own attitude towards his own bad clichés than my attitude about his. as for pop culture i am (not proudly) ignorant, but i do remember a vintage 'family guy' episode with the central plot point concerning a 'twinkie factory in natick' (which i later found out was real) that was better than the road. the road, being pure genre, is blissfully unaware that all its potential lies in being contemporary parody fodder. firefly is better than the road. the starcraft plot is better than the road. the space race victory in civ 5 is more moving than the road. that one stupid shooter where you kill zombies in a western setting is strictly better than the road.

i'm not done! pure genre is even worse when you compare it to the past. i was a literature student in college, so my judgment is even harsher when i compared it to good books of a similar, uh, vibe. i will make a list:

dystopias: love among the ruins, 1984 / more orwell, the trial, the castle, some vonnegut stuff, the GW-hosing enchant world
odysseys: divine comedy, the other coen brothers movie, various waugh travel writings (incl. parts of scoop and a handful of dust), all naipaul travel writings, the draft format with Torment and Judgment
dystopian odyssey: gulliver's travels, part 2 of lolita (i am happy with this comparison)

i will concede that 'the road' is better than the book with the extra preposition, but not by much. DE GUSTIBUS EST DISPUTANDUM
 
VibeBox

VibeBox

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CML said:
i was a literature student in college
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join the club. doesn't mean much.
don't know what lead you to be obstinante about mccarthy, but even discussing vidya games in the same conversation makes it pretty clear there's no need for us to discuss literature anymore.
 
VibeBox

VibeBox

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btw, jason, if you'd like to try another piece of apocolyptica that's easier to connect to (and actually much better) you should try margaret atwood's the handmaid's tale.
 
Jason Waddell

Jason Waddell

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VibeBox said:
join the club. doesn't mean much.
don't know what lead you to be obstinante about mccarthy, but even discussing vidya games in the same conversation makes it pretty clear there's no need for us to discuss literature anymore.
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I think CML just likes to hate things. :)
 
James Stevenson

James Stevenson

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Any of you guys know how to get javascript to check if a certain program is running? It looks like autohotkey has functions for doing this, but I've found nothing for JS. I am not very knowledgeable about any of this.
EDIT: I worked something out, forget about it.
 
CML

CML

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VibeBox said:
don't know what lead you to be obstinante about mccarthy, but even discussing vidya games in the same conversation makes it pretty clear there's no need for us to discuss literature anymore.
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we weren't discussing literature, we were discussing "the road"
 
James Stevenson

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HAHAHA oh man Jason. Don't make me laugh at things I'm not supposed to.

then again this is the internet, where I don't have to write "HAHAHA" if I really cared.
 
anotak

anotak

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so I know y'all aren't too big on commander, but here's the naya guy. I just wish they'd put more into GWx than just tokens tokens tokens. sort of like how they love to staple mill onto every UB card for no reason. feels like a boring lazy way out of designing a card. oh look Ulasht, the Hate Seed and Ghave, Guru of Spores had a kid. i've seen this movie somewhere
 
anotak

anotak

I'd agree with you in a constructed 20 life format, but edh is a whole different barrel of fish. Efficient beaters are useless in that format. I wouldn't even play a 1 mana 5/4 in edh. that card is only going to end up legal in legacy and EDH. In legacy it'll be obviously unplayable, in edh will be another token commander. I guess people won't have to shell out $40+ on Hazezon Tamar if they want to play naya tokens edh now? (thanks reserve list). Oh, wotc said that naya card is getting "x can't be 0 errata" already.

I'm sure there'll be one or two cards like scavenging ooze/flusterstorm like the last commander set but other than that it'll be mostly irrelevant to non-EDH formats.

I might as well post the other shard commanders that got spoiled
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edit: to clarify, I don't really think any of these have much cube potential.... well maybe Derevi, hm
edit edit: the more i think about it, its pretty sweet. sure, color heavy, but that just needs the right environment. 2 mana for a 2/3 + other abilities, or 3 mana for etb tap + other ability, and that other ability might just untap all your lands and let you go nuts. hmmmmmmm
 
CML

CML

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i love all the new commander cards. they are perfect except for the commander part

soccer game vs vancouver tonight:


 
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