What cool things should you be too old for?Follow

Man, now y'all have gotten me thinking back to my Magic days. Like my Living Death deck; a Lord of the Pit being fed by Saprolings.

I was an avid M:tG tourney player for years, especially once I started working a real job and had money to blow on it. Lately though there are more and more things pushing me away from the game. I'm pretty much a kitchen table player exclusively now.

On topic: I don't like anything that is currently cool. Get off my lawn!

Edited, Jan 31st 2012 2:04pm by AshOnMyTomatoes

Legos, I just saw photo of the LOTR Mini Figure set that is coming out soon and I'm determine to get them before my soon to be 10 year old grandson does.

I also have a large collection of Penguin stuff animals and plastic figurines. Not to mention coffee mugs, stone figurines and anything else I can find with penguins on it.

I dunno, I don't really think of myself as too old for anything I want to do. I'd hesitate to take up an EXTREME sport. Luckily I have zero interest.

Oh dear, I'd be tangled up for weeks.

That reminds me, I just got a free app that allows my iphone to play over 20 radio stations. Good ones, too. They are probably streaming them, but since I barely ever use my net allowance on my iphone, I can afford it. Oh the lulz.

That's the one thing that really pissed me off about iphones: no radio, and it was obviously purely a commercial rather than technical choice.

Huh, now I want to dig out my cards from storage and sell them.

I had one of those Microsoft Zunes for a while; it had a FM receiver on it. I really did like that player, but someone stole it from my car, along with my ashtray and stereo faceplate. :(

Edited, Feb 1st 2012 11:38am by Spoonless

Nope, no irony. The portable FM receivers I've had all relied on the headphone wire as an antenna. Moving your head could easily disrupt the signal.

Maybe it's a question of how dense the signals are in your area. There's very little clean bandwidth in the Chicago region so it's very easy to bleed into a neighboring signal when adjusting an antenna or playing with a manual radio dial.

There are far too many cards for them all to be leagal and in tournaments with moxs and black loctus you can't be creative, you have to play the perfect deck and hope you go first. It's really dumb. Limiting the card pool you can select from is actually what inspires creativity. Also cards are T2 legal for 2 years for expansion sets, one year on core sets but those are mostly reprints anyway.

I quit for 5 years and started playing again a couple years ago, it's a totally different game now but it's still the best.

Casual play has also been revived in my opinion by the Commander format. It's a blast and you can play so many fun cards.

Spellfire>M:tG



kids

That's been true for a decade or more.
It's kind of why I quit, I couldn't afford to buy a boosterset for each new expansion so I didn't have enough of the newest need-to-have cards to have a competitive T2 deck. Which meant playing few tournaments which meant not getting much better and eventually you just run out of things to do. Also WoW came around and was much cheaper.

/shrug

I really think that those cards have gotten such a mystical rap that they're attributed to way more power than they actually had. I played in tourneys back when Magic was just starting to have tourneys, and they really weren't that significant. The problem is that every once in a great while, someone would get super luck and draw a couple mox and the black lotus in his initial hand and have sufficient other cards to be able to utilize the mana to do something nasty on the very first turn and everyone would be like "OMG! Did you see that!!!?". Then they'd conclude that it was unbeatable and unfair.

But they didn't make note of the 1000 other times the same cards were put into a deck in the same numbers and didn't result in a first turn boost like that.



I always saw it the other way around. Creative is coming up with ways to win that aren't the stock methods that everyone talks about. One of the things I found is that the combinations that everyone talked about were super powerful on the rare occasion they worked perfectly, but were mostly just average (or even less than average) most of the time. The best decks were those which could do something useful and powerful every time. I remember a girl I knew who constructed a deck that seemed to win nearly every time. The odd thing is that there didn't seem to be *any* plan to it. There were no obvious card combinations within it. No overloading of certain types of cards to ensure a combination at all. Just a seemingly random jumble. You couldn't look at the cards and figure out why it won. It just did.


Now that was a Magic deck! And it required something well beyond creativity. Hell. The thing was a kind of art. I'm more of a planned strategy player. I could never figure out that deck. But it worked. Go figure!

Except that the truly creative decks were the ones built to beat the decks made by guys who thought that just stacking their deck with powerful and utility cards would allow them to win. By banning cards you actually stifle the creativity. Honestly, it was usually super easy to wipe out the guys who spent tons of money buying lotus and mox and angels and thinking their deck was unbeatable because of this. Those guys usually didn't last through the first round because they were copying what the big strategy was last time around. But the creative players moved on. Similarly, the banned list followed what was the strong combos the last time around as well. All it really did was prevent the second string guys from copying last years super-combo (and likely losing).

I load everything up in the front of the cart, then hop on the rear bar and ride it across the parking lot.

But back then, there weren't any decks that pretty much guaranteed a kill within 4 turns and none that were capable of killing on the first turn.
Without banning or limiting cards, every deck in a T1 tournament would be capable of killing on the first turn which would mean that everyone would be forced to play blue for a set of Force Of Will's just so you can stop that because that's still about the only counter you can use without having any cards in play and lets face it, everyone being forced to play blue cards @#%^s up creativity quite a bit.
Back when they were made the P9 weren't as strong because while they made the game/your deck a lot faster, decks weren't that fast yet. By now decks are so much faster that these cards in full sets would just result in too many turn 1 kills where one player doesn't get to do anything.


The fact that you still seem to think of Serra's Angel as a powerful card shows just how awfully outdated your knowledge is.
This is the kind of stuff people do with moxes and black lotus.
And if those cards were allowed everywhere, decks such as this one wouldn't be viable anymore because it simply can't compete with the speed that P9 cards give a deck.

And as far as creativity goes, try figuring out how this deck wins.

I've been ruminating on a Casual Despised Therapy deck, myself.


Edited, Feb 4th 2012 10:19am by Timelordwho

Timelord, what is the quote in your signature from? I really like it.

It's a common japanese poem. TLW may have got it from Shogun 2.

Roses are red
Violets are, too
Omae wa mou
Shindeiru

Speaking of I made a deal with my roomie that I would watch Naruto if he watched Gurren Laggan. He refuses to watch mech shows and I refuse to watch garbage. Naruto is just as bad as I thought it would be and he was pleasantly surprised.

I didn't get it from Shogun 2, but from background research after playing it a bit. It's a bit of zen commentary on the leadership styles of the three men who united Japan.

Because it makes you look like a spastic, helmet-wearing glue-eatewr?

I was actually going for "what is physical changes?"

Did you miss Madonna at the Superbowl? She's 53.