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3 years ago ::
Aug 20, 2010 - 3:59PM
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This thread is for discussion of this week's Making Magic, which goes live Monday morning on magicthegathering.com.
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3 years ago ::
Aug 22, 2010 - 9:02PM
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I was totally owned by Mark. I choose to interpret this as a sign of his genius, rather than my gullibility. (Though, I am a data analyst now, not a programmer.)
Lee Sharpe
Data Analyst
Wizards of the Coast
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3 years ago ::
Aug 22, 2010 - 9:12PM
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Wicked art and design...both in the positive and negative senses.
You said you were touched, but did you feel any guilt over the people who messaged you with concern? If, God forbid, you should have an actual crisis, do you think you could actually do a repeat and not have it taken as another joke or game?
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3 years ago ::
Aug 22, 2010 - 9:32PM
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What convinced me it was a set-up (beside the unfamiliarity of it, having been a DailyMTG reader since its birth) was that the One Hundred and Counting blurb for the article in question was written in the present tense (explore). On its own not quite enough, but enough of a red flag to confirm my suspicions.
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3 years ago ::
Aug 22, 2010 - 9:43PM
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I have been punked. Well played.
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3 years ago ::
Aug 22, 2010 - 9:58PM
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I admit, you sure know how to provoke a reaction. Still, like guyinthetie pointed out, you made it seem like you had some sort of private emergency, which I'm guessing made a lot of people (myself included) rather sad. On the whole, I don't know whether the article's cleverness and appropriateness quite make up for all the bad feelings spread around. I'm left admiring the idea, and admiring almost all of the execution, but I'm left wishing that you could have made it more clear that neither you nor your family was hurt, you didn't have cancer, etc., etc. Also, not to nitpick, since it's relatively minor compared to my above complaint, but I think you've misunderstood or misrepresented some of your readers' responses. For instance: "ObsidianDice @ maro254 Yes - I've read every article on Making Magic, Latest Developments, and Serious Fun." ObsidianDice isn't saying that he remembers reading your article. He knows he must have, because he's read all of your articles. At no point is his memory playing tricks on him. Even his logic is sound, although it's based on the mistaken belief that your article had actually been published before. Similarly for troacctid, heinisms, EliShffrn, and several others. You present their statements as if their memory was playing tricks on them, but this does not in fact follow from what they are saying. Their memory is fine (they did read all your articles), and their reasoning is fine. It's just their premises are incorrect.
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3 years ago ::
Aug 22, 2010 - 10:09PM
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Utterly fooled as well. Bravo.
However, I will be lefting wonder if any link to a previous article in the future is actually real.
"People want balance but can't accept this homogenization that occurs as a result of that balance being implemented. then they complain that the fighter is weaker than the wizard ad nauseam.: - Teitan
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3 years ago ::
Aug 22, 2010 - 10:21PM
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I was suspicious at first, since I very much didn't remember the column; my very first thought was that you were doing exactly what you were doing. I didn't notice any contextual clues, but just figured that creating a fake article to make a point about memory being fickle was the kind of thing you would do. I went and checked the One Hundred and Counting article for confirmation, but didn't really go any farther than that; I figured that if you had planned it well enough in advance to make that kind of alteration, you probably had all the obvious bases covered, since rewriting history is pretty easy online.
...Besides which, I agree entirely with your comments regarding memory being far less reliable than we usually believe it to be, so I figured not remembering it was no reason for it not to have existed.
And so people say to me, "How do I know if a word is real?" You know, anyone who's read a children's book knows that love makes things real. If you love a word, use it! That makes it real. Being in the dictionary is an artificial distinction; it doesn't make the word any more real than any other word. If you love a word, it becomes real.
--Erin McKean, Redefining the Dictionary
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3 years ago ::
Aug 22, 2010 - 10:26PM
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Mar 13, 2004
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He got me good.
I fell into the trap of "I've read every article he's written therefore i've read this one".
A very good article, and an interesting look into memory.
… and then, the squirrels came.
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3 years ago ::
Aug 22, 2010 - 10:43PM
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The only problem with the previous column is that, because I thought I had read every Making Magic column previously, I just didn't read it and missed out on the entire thing. This probably has to do with the fact that I hate reading things I've read before, also.
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