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9 months ago ::
Sep 15, 2012 - 8:32AM
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Baloth walks into a giant rock.
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9 months ago ::
Sep 15, 2012 - 3:18PM
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Oct 21, 2011
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Thalia slumped into her chair and savoured the gentle steam of her freshly made cuppa, breathing 'Please Avacyn — just this once.'
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9 months ago ::
Sep 15, 2012 - 3:29PM
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Ha ha. Thanks you guys. I'm really enjoying all of these, and I'm amazed that we're still on topic. I guess I will add one in a little bit. I have to run some errands first.
Whiny weenie and observant aren't the same thing pablo, somehow I thought you'd understand.
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9 months ago ::
Sep 15, 2012 - 4:01PM
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May 19, 2012
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"The young priest stepped into his new quarters, adorned with lime green Shag, and glittering torches, with his scantily-clad man servant, Pylar, crouching anxiously in the corner, and he quietly thought, "So. . . this is how they do it in en-Vec."
Whiny weenie and observant aren't the same thing pablo, somehow I thought you'd understand.
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9 months ago ::
Sep 15, 2012 - 4:13PM
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Expanding the previous idea:
It was not unusual for Jaya Ballard to be bored--quite the opposite, in fact; however, the overwhelming fog of boredom she had been drifting through for the past week was unprecedented, and it had only become worse over time as those familiar with the task mage's erratic moods had quickly found reasons to absent themselves from first the room, then the building, and finally the town when the pall had shown no sign of lifting, knowing that when her funk inevitably broke it would take everything in range with it in a radius directly proportional to its duration.
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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9 months ago ::
Sep 15, 2012 - 4:22PM
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Bolas appeared in his meditation realm, and was unsuprised to hear a familiar voice, "Glad you could make it."
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9 months ago ::
Sep 15, 2012 - 11:49PM
#17
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Date Joined:
May 30, 2010
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"...Parcher!?"
Embrace imagination.
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Each of its nine tails is imbued with supernatural power, and it can live for a thousand years.
My Standard deck: Setting SunThink of how Neo couldn't beat the robots, but they kept him around anyways to defeat Agent Smith. Sure, the robots might not like having a Neo running rampant because instead of playing their favorite 4 drop fatty robot, they have to play a bunch of one mana Matrixs to contain him, but at least Neo keeps Agent Smith from reanimating an Iona on turn two.
Are you saying I'm trying to blame my loss on something? I don't care that I lost, I care that he's a sore loser, and a cheater, and a liar.
CKY, are you bad at anything?
I really enjoy imagining this from Kevin's perspective. Because in Kevin's world, Rosewater actually reads everything he types. Mark is sitting there right now, reading this, and thinking "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled. . ." Or some such. He chuckles low, then clicks on "The Best Of KEVINSET" and says "Yes, this'll do just fine. A busty lady with banding who deals direct damage to Zones!? Why this will be the star of my next set, and no one will ever believe you Kevin." Then he closes his Macbook, so his servant may move it out of the way, while another servant puts a Fetal Richard Garfield Clone lathered in Steak Sauce in front of him. Then Mark Feasts.
I mean, In KevinWorld, Mark is reading the very words I'm typing as well. Heck, in KevinWorld maybe I am Mark.
I'm beginning to think CKY may be anime in real life...
Don't go anywhere CKY, I need to crash dramatically through your window and propose marriage and I don't want you throwing off my paradrop.
[In response to a thread about how hard grading is]
Upon reading this, I've found myself completely unable to operate in the world. I tried to decide what to eat for breakfast, and pondered the vast consequences of my choice. How do I balance my dietary needs against my desire to eat good-tasting food? Should I factor in how long it takes to prepare? Cereal is ready in moments, but bacon takes longer to cook.
Then there is the impact on other industries. Do people in the cereal industry deserve to be employed more than people in the bacon industry? Which industry should I support? I don't even have the data regarding HOW MUCH the cereal industry benefits from me eating a bowl of cereal, or how much the bacon industry benefits from me eating a side of bacon. How can I compare two qualities I can't even quantify?
And let's not forget the milk on the cereal. In addition to determining whether or not milk is healthy for me, how much that benefits the milk industry, and how much the people in the milk industry deserve my support, we have to factor in the fact that cows are put under brutal conditions in order to collect thier milk. Of course, the same goes for the pigs, and then they get killed. Of course, I really like bacon. So I need to come up with a scale that compares the value of cow happiness to pig happiness to my happiness. What trade-offs am I willing to make here? Does the fact that the pig gets put out of its misery count as a plus or a minus? Isn't bacon bad for me anyway?
Deciding what to eat for breakfast (or any meal) is impossible. Help me!
I must admit chinkeeyong, you have the most interesting character ideas; and you play them well.
Anyway, you'd be surprised about Time Stop. When I first saw that card as a relatively new player I didn't see its full potential until I read the reminder text. Is it that unintuitive, though? Mine I mean. What is possibility? Is it possible for me to type these words with my tusks? No, because I don't have tusks. Although I am now tempted to go buy some - obviously not from poachers or whatever - and use them as typing apparatus. I could be the best secretary ever. "What's your words per minute sir?" "Well, only six, but I use these tusks to type them." "You're hired!" That was the interview. And is anyone else disappointed that "apparati" is not the plural form of apparatus? I just could strangle a dictionary, because "apparatuses" is a real word. I guess it sounds pretty cool. I'll call them my Apparatusks.
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9 months ago ::
Sep 16, 2012 - 7:09AM
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Date Joined:
Aug 28, 2012
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"...Parcher!?"
And we have a winner.
"The fuel on which science runs is ignorance. Science is like a hungry furnace that must be fed logs from the forests of ignorance that surround us. In the process, the clearing we call knowledge expands, but the more it expands, the longer its perimeter and the more ignorance comes into view." -Matt Ridley, Genome
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9 months ago ::
Sep 17, 2012 - 9:49AM
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May 15, 2009
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"It was a dark and stormy night..."
The man in red sighed, ennui eating at his soul; he shouldn't be apathetic, he thought, he should be tense, nervous, even excited - but he wasn't, which was odd; after all, it isn't every day you set out to kill a god.
Really like zamm's entry as Jaya Ballard is one of my favourite characters. Not least because (with a bit of a stretch) you can translate her name into Victory Song.
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Morgothra has the Syntax and Grammar of a God.
I love this card.
I can't compete with this.
CKY and magicpablo666 combined ingenuity and silliness to win a Summer fUn contest each!
vlord beat the rest to become the architect of a better tomorrow in Build it and they will come!
CityofAs pranced masterfully to victory in Skipping Merrily!
ConfusedAsUsual conquered both tropes and opponents ascend in Metafiction!
FirstTurnKill condensed Success into Art form in Summing it Up!
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9 months ago ::
Sep 22, 2012 - 8:25AM
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Ashling looked through bosk, through its tangles and dank air, into the sun, And ashling felt the warm embrace of freedom that she had once indulged before.
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