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RE: Gaming - 8/4/2009 10:09:41 AM

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oh, and another unsung online classic, alien vs predator2

for no other reason then the pure joy achieved by running up a wall, falling on your opponent, and eating their head 8)

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RE: Gaming - 8/5/2009 11:20:44 AM

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Heh, speaking of gaming, just started getting back into playing Magic, woo.

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RE: Gaming - 8/12/2009 10:17:44 PM

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I prefer online games myself. UO and Meridian 59 are about all I have time for at the moment. Even though Meridian is ignored by the developers and admins now. Hell I have the server software for that one :D I'm also developing one, loosly inspired by Fallout. for single player games... Fallout 2, Space Empires 5, Star Wars Empire at War, Conquest of the New World Deluxe and Eternam mostly (fyi those last two are a b*tch to get to work on XP, even with dosbox)

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RE: Gaming - 8/12/2009 10:23:15 PM

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Heh, speaking of gaming, just started getting back into playing Magic, woo.

Now that is an addictive game. As soon as I understood what it involved and such, I liked it.

However, when I had regular opponents, I would literally obsess over how to beat them. I would use the computer at work to go online and seek out 'rare' super-cards with which to lay the smackdown. This was during the time when the new edition of Magic cards had an "Avatar" for each color. I don't even begin to recall them all, but each was super expensive to cast and had lots of cool powers. Like the green one had trample blue was....oh I forget.

Anyway, I sought to make a mega-ass-whoopin' deck and went online and found an "avatar" that came out at least 2 full editions prior to the one we were in. It was called the "Seraph Avatar." It was QUITE expensive to cast and was a white card. I think it flew too, I'm not sure. But when cast, it had a power and toughness equal to your own life total. So if you could manage to get it out early....you had an unstoppable blocker that could, in theory, either wipe an army out single-handedly or kill your opponent in one hit.

Each card (I bought 2) cost $12. And the entire time I played after buying those cards....I wasn't able to get them on the table even ONCE.
Talk about irony.

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RE: Gaming - 8/12/2009 10:33:19 PM

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Now that is an addictive game. As soon as I understood what it involved and such, I liked it.

However, when I had regular opponents, I would literally obsess over how to beat them. I would use the computer at work to go online and seek out 'rare' super-cards with which to lay the smackdown. This was during the time when the new edition of Magic cards had an "Avatar" for each color. I don't even begin to recall them all, but each was super expensive to cast and had lots of cool powers. Like the green one had trample blue was....oh I forget.

Anyway, I sought to make a mega-ass-whoopin' deck and went online and found an "avatar" that came out at least 2 full editions prior to the one we were in. It was called the "Seraph Avatar." It was QUITE expensive to cast and was a white card. I think it flew too, I'm not sure. But when cast, it had a power and toughness equal to your own life total. So if you could manage to get it out early....you had an unstoppable blocker that could, in theory, either wipe an army out single-handedly or kill your opponent in one hit.

Each card (I bought 2) cost $12. And the entire time I played after buying those cards....I wasn't able to get them on the table even ONCE.
Talk about irony.

ahh serra avatar, http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=5713

with mother of runes, one of the most annoying white decks to iv dealt with,
i to spent far too much money on a yawgmoth's bargin deck. http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=15193
and many evil red burn and land destruction decks,

id get back into magic but find the new cards tacky and old sets like tempest, and urzas saga are going for way too much, i think a boster pack of tempest is 20$ canadian now adays

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RE: Gaming - 8/12/2009 10:55:51 PM

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ahh serra avatar, http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=5713

That's the one.

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with mother of runes, one of the most annoying white decks to iv dealt with,
i to spent far too much money on a yawgmoth's bargin deck. http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=15193
and many evil red burn and land destruction decks,

I had a pre-made deck I bought called The Plague. It was by far my best, especially in group games. You see it had Urza's Armor, which negated a single point of damage from any source that would affect you. So if you had pestilence on the field, everyone but you takes 1 damage every round. It negated 1 damage from EVERY source per round as well. So if you had MULTIPLE pestilence cards out....everyone else took 1 from each....except you.

I had a match....one of my first ones actually...where I used that deck since I'd just bought it. Everyone perceived me as a minor threat since I only had piddly zombies on the field. Yet every round, people would take more and more damage....except for me. I ended up winning that match.

I took that deck and as Tim Allen would say, I rewired it. I threw in 2 bounty hunters, a Lord of the Pit and a few other nasties. It got so nice for me....no one could properly prepare for it. Every time they faced that deck, they readied themselves for one 'bad thing' they knew was in there, only to lose because of another. It was quite fun.

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RE: Gaming - 8/12/2009 11:23:24 PM

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i love pestilance decks, i used to use crypt rats, http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=3612
and vampiric embrace, http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=9684
you kill a few 1/1s and the rats become beastly, typically 5/5 killing machines by turn 5, thrashing wumpus's work ok too i guess. but really why have anything but vampire rats of doom.

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RE: Gaming - 8/13/2009 12:30:41 AM

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i love pestilance decks, i used to use crypt rats, http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=3612
and vampiric embrace, http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=9684
you kill a few 1/1s and the rats become beastly, typically 5/5 killing machines by turn 5, thrashing wumpus's work ok too i guess. but really why have anything but vampire rats of doom.

That's not something I've done. My game-enders were: Lord of the Pit -- tough as hell flyer that can be resurrected (I think); lots of zombies which of course can be resurrected (mostly for shield reasons); the two bounty hunters (if they're out on the field at the same time, they are instant death for any creature -- tap one to place a 'counter' on the creature, tap the other to insta-kill the creature); the urza's armor; the pestilence....

I can't recall the rest, really. I of course had lots of other things....but it was just nasty. You'd never see the whole deck and each time you prepared for one 'game-ender' I would bring out another you didn't know about and totally fuck up your game. I 'might' have had my serra avatars in there as well, but I never got them out.

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RE: Gaming - 8/13/2009 12:33:15 AM

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I also had a red 'burn' deck (didn't everyone?) that had a few older 'tournament-banned' cards in it. I had a couple of the 'fork' cards which would duplicate any card I played. I had some man cards (I forget the name) which could sacrifice my life total for extra mana. And then I had fireballs, flame waves, etc.

I once won a match by flamewaving a guy (he countered it) but then I slapped down a fork and it hit him and his creatures anyway. It wiped out every creature he had and took his remaining life. I win.

He was NOT happy.

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RE: Gaming - 8/13/2009 1:06:42 AM

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bounty hunters were pretty sweet but hard to get ahold of, my favorite creatures for killing shit were the eastern and western paladins http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=5860
http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=5861
they are ignored by people untill you get disorting lens which changes creatures colors they become brutal cost effeciant killing machines, also some of the best art from magic is by Carl Critchlow, they are just some damn sexy skeleton knights

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RE: Gaming - 8/13/2009 1:32:39 AM

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quote:

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bounty hunters were pretty sweet but hard to get ahold of, my favorite creatures for killing shit were the eastern and western paladins http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=5860
http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=5861
they are ignored by people untill you get disorting lens which changes creatures colors they become brutal cost effeciant killing machines, also some of the best art from magic is by Carl Critchlow, they are just some damn sexy skeleton knights

Those are definitely nice. But I think I'd have rather had my bounty hunters. I got lucky when I got 'em, but they were nice. NO ONE knows to look out for bounty hunters. But get two of them together....and it doesn't matter what color the target is....he's going down.

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RE: Gaming - 8/13/2009 4:49:36 PM

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Heh, until a few weeks ago when I started getting back into it, I hadn't really played or gotten any cards or anything in about 11 years... And now I just spent way too much on getting a ton of random cards (some random, some specific cards), but I do have people to play with now, so it's all good... I think the reason I stopped 11 years ago was mostly due to not having people to play with very often, which is not the case now, so yeah.

Definitely a great game, in any case... Even if some things are way too expensive, and some things are way too ridiculous. (Heh)

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RE: Gaming - 8/14/2009 5:30:15 AM

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Heh, until a few weeks ago when I started getting back into it, I hadn't really played or gotten any cards or anything in about 11 years... And now I just spent way too much on getting a ton of random cards (some random, some specific cards), but I do have people to play with now, so it's all good... I think the reason I stopped 11 years ago was mostly due to not having people to play with very often, which is not the case now, so yeah.

I quit for the same reasons - no opponents. However, I've been told by my XBox Live friends that there is a downloadable version of it for the Xbox Live arcade. The main one I heard this from said it's very well done and they do downloadable expansions and you can make your deck just like you would in the real world. Think of the MASS of opponents you could find then. :)

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