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2 years ago ::
Jun 16, 2011 - 10:34AM
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his thread is for discussion of this week's Latest Developments, which goes live Friday morning on magicthegathering.com.
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2 years ago ::
Jun 16, 2011 - 9:14PM
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Date Joined:
Aug 13, 2001
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AGAIN with the sea of links. It's not that bad if, like me, you're used to navigating with a mouse with an extra button mapped to the Back function, but it's still more annoying than it needs to be. And it's a real hassle for people used to navigating by keyboard, or so I understand. Would it really be that much trouble to just copy/paste the comments into the article?
(As an added bonus, with a simple search and replace you could get rid of the accent marks and such that Aaron uses to dodge the frankly asinine censoring on Gatherer comments.)
Jeff Heikkinen
DCI Rules Advisor since Dec 25, 2011
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2 years ago ::
Jun 16, 2011 - 9:28PM
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About Neurok Stealthsuit  : I doubt we’d print this card today as a common, as we have been consciously trying to cut down on common on-board tricks, as they lead to some real feel-bad moments. Nothing feels as bad a casting a spell at a creature only to have your opponent pay  to give it shroud with a card you should have realized was in play. Magic is hard enough without this kind of slap-you-in-the-face occurrence happening frequently.
Not wanting to make people feel bad for making stupid plays factors into design.
Yay? Why not just make a card game that plays itself and be done with it?
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2 years ago ::
Jun 16, 2011 - 9:35PM
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Silly me thinking you'd change the format of this article to have actual content in the article, rather than leaving the inelegant list of links. Oh well, yet another week I don't get content from here.
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2 years ago ::
Jun 16, 2011 - 11:15PM
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I agree with the previous posters that it would be simpler for us to just put the comments in the article but that isn't the reason I write this post.
I just wanted to say that I like Aaron's comments of the day and wanted to ask if there was a way to check it daily (apart from searching the user and then try to find in the whole list of cards that he had commented on the one I hadn't read yet, that won't be very easy in a couple of months). If you plan on making this article a staple every 3 weeks or so then I guess it would be ok just to wait for it.
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2 years ago ::
Jun 16, 2011 - 11:22PM
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The link at the top goes to staging.wizards.com, which presumbably only works in the WotC office.
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2 years ago ::
Jun 16, 2011 - 11:27PM
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We always called Onulet Omulet... And it almost always was played in a deck with Ruhk Eggs.
And I don't care what anyone says, I love Clockwork Steed. It fits my Horse Theme I occasionally try to put it together, and it's a horribly nostoligic card for me. It's one of my favorite cards in terms of art and play. Sure, it's weak by modern standards, but I still love it to ... umm... peices... darn clock works!
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2 years ago ::
Jun 16, 2011 - 11:29PM
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Date Joined:
Oct 11, 2005
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AGAIN with the sea of links. It's not that bad if, like me, you're used to navigating with a mouse with an extra button mapped to the Back function, but it's still more annoying than it needs to be.
Is there a reason you don't use tabs? I mean, even Explore supports them nowdays.
(I can see you complaining if you are using old technology for web browsing, or are using a Phone to do so. If the case is you are using a moble, please ignore this comment.)
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2 years ago ::
Jun 17, 2011 - 1:57AM
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I hate to post a "me too" post, but just like the last one of these articles, I won't be reading this because I can't be arsed to click back and forth a million times to get to the contents of the card comments. Just cut and paste all the damn comments into your article and give your readers what they want, already.
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2 years ago ::
Jun 17, 2011 - 5:05AM
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Mar 16, 2004
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But that wouldn't persuade people to go to the discussion thread for each card and add their own comments! I've commented on Clockwork Steed  and several others, but on the card itself, rather than in this thread. It's quite a blunt-instrument way of saying "USE OUR COMMUNITY FEATURES D*** YOU", but I can kinda see why they do it. And yeah, it's a heck of a lot easier if you just Ctrl-click or middle-click each link, and then read each one in its own tab in turn. (Oh, also, the censor is completely ridiculous. Who designed it to censor words like "classified", "accumulated" and "analysis"? What were they thinking? Or rather, were they thinking? Ridiculous. It drags down the reputation of the whole discussion feature that Wizards are trying to promote. "Card discussion? ...Oh, yeah, that one with the stupid filter, and where you have to type ten characters to insert a card link rather than three.")
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