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Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 5:17 am
by TubeHunter
I know a guy who doesn't mind vexing devil.

Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 5:22 am
by Kazekirimaru
And tournament's over, I won! :crazy:

Huge thanks to all y'all for your advice and thoughts not just after the past two days where I was off, but since I joined and have been trying to get better.

The tournament was at the level of an iq/ptq for player skill, as it had pretty much every big tourney player in atlanta, and most of the people who travel around the area to all the big events, so this means a huge deal to me in terms of confidence...


Seriously, thank you all so much. I have felt like my play has improved quite a bit since I joined. I mean, last standard I had 2x Vexing Devil in my deck...
You are all awesome, and I wish to give you hugs. HUGS!
Awesome! Good job!

Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 5:28 am
by RaidaTheBlade

Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 5:47 am
by Khaospawn
Fyi Brian May's guitar sounds the way it does because he built his own treble-booster that was either in the guitar or attached to his amp.

The warmth of tube amps on recordings comes from the tape it was recorded on, not the tube amp. See digital recordings of tube amps. It has similar warmth live, but it's a popular misconception that old bands live sounds = recorded sounds, and because of the technology that is simply not the case. Most of the popular recordings of the classics are also massively retouched, because the quality of the originals was shite compared to your typical mp3.

Tl;dr: Live amp sound has very little to do with recorded amp sound.
Brian May's aound: Until recently the only way to really duplicate his sound was to plug
an overdrive, like a Tubescreamer, into an AC30. Preferably an entire wall of them, which is what he play through live.

Sounds in general: yes, live amp sounds are different than recorded sounds. I don't think that was ever the point. The point was analog vs digital, and analog gear fetches a higher price on the market due to age, desirability, and availability.

But on to older recordings, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I've listened to my dad's original Black Sabbath records. Yes, records. Perfect the way it was. The reason is that it sound live was because it pretty much was : they set up live in the studio, punched record (basically) on some analog gear, and played.

Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 5:58 am
by Khaospawn
And tournament's over, I won! :crazy:

Huge thanks to all y'all for your advice and thoughts not just after the past two days where I was off, but since I joined and have been trying to get better.

The tournament was at the level of an iq/ptq for player skill, as it had pretty much every big tourney player in atlanta, and most of the people who travel around the area to all the big events, so this means a huge deal to me in terms of confidence...


Seriously, thank you all so much. I have felt like my play has improved quite a bit since I joined. I mean, last standard I had 2x Vexing Devil in my deck...
You are all awesome, and I wish to give you hugs. HUGS!
Our little boy is becoming a man!

Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 6:00 am
by Lightning_Dolt
Congrats! Link is dead. Also, are you going to write a report?

Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 6:11 am
by Lightning_Dolt
DTR has started emailing meveverytime a thread I follow has a replt. How do I turn it off?

Inb4: kill it with fire

Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 6:12 am
by RaidaTheBlade
Woulda swore the link worked... It was just a link to the store's facebook saying I won and givign the list and all that. I will post the trophy picture though :P

Image

Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 6:26 am
by DarthStabber
What's the point going to mcdonalds if it's going to be slow? I have received my food faster at denny's, and it was much better food than mcdonalds. The way I see it is that I am trading time off my life to get my food a little faster when I eat at mcdonalds and now their killing me and making me wait.

Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 6:35 am
by Kazekirimaru
What's the point going to mcdonalds if it's going to be slow? I have received my food faster at denny's, and it was much better food than mcdonalds. The way I see it is that I am trading time off my life to get my food a little faster when I eat at mcdonalds and now their killing me and making me wait.
just go to in n out

or del taco

or whatever you have wherever you are

Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 6:39 am
by TubeHunter
Jimmy Johns is freaky fast Freaky good.

Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 7:29 am
by rcwraspy
Only when I'm being surly. I'm here because it matters to her, so I guess there's no place I'd rather be. Strict upgrade over my family anyway.
Feels weird, huh? Can't stand my family but my in-laws are great.

Been busy this week with holiday stuff - I hope all you fine FoSers had a great holiday and have fun plans lined up for New Year's.

Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 7:37 am
by Helios
Raida: Good work!!!!

Khaos: My point was that the recording medium adds a lot to the "sound" of guitarists on old albums- not the fact that the amps were analog. Totes agree that tubes are better all around, just a fun fact about old recordings.

Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 7:59 am
by DarthStabber
[quote="[url=viewtopic.php?p=168650#p168650:3jmkdfxc]rcwraspy » Sun Dec 29, 2013 1:29 am[/url:3jmkdfxc]":3jmkdfxc][quote="[url=viewtopic.php?p=166916#p166916:3jmkdfxc]zemanjaski » Wed Dec 25, 2013 3:07 am[/url:3jmkdfxc]":3jmkdfxc]Only when I'm being surly. I'm here because it matters to her, so I guess there's no place I'd rather be. Strict upgrade over my family anyway.[/quote:3jmkdfxc]
Feels weird, huh? Can't stand my family but my in-laws are great.

Been busy this week with holiday stuff - I hope all you fine FoSers had a great holiday and have fun plans lined up for New Year's.[/quote:3jmkdfxc]

Got one step weirder. My ex-fiancé's family is still great, and I spend a good chunk of time around the holidays with them even though the engagement broke off years ago.

Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 8:39 am
by magicdownunder
Ahhh! memories classic Australian Beer Commercial :munch:

Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 8:48 am
by LP, of the Fires
Congrats Raida. I similarly won a tourney today. 1k/GPT/TCG Platinum event. I got some benjamins, 2 buys to the Sacramento GP, a bitchin plaque, and an invite to a sweet tourney.

Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 9:05 am
by magicdownunder
Congrats Raida. I similarly won a tourney today. 1k/GPT/TCG Platinum event. I got some benjamins, 2 buys to the Sacramento GP, a bitchin plaque, and an invite to a sweet tourney.
Very nice :smileup:.

For any MODO player who cares, MOCS2 will be alt art Tropical Island the format hasn't been decided yet (its most likely going be another sham mocs aka Cube Queues) but since its a really awesome land card I don't even mind :grovel: so on Jan 4th (when grinding starts) I highly recommend grinding 60 QP before Jan 29th
so you get 4 shots at the queues to farm a play set of Tropical Island (if were lucky we'll only need 30 QP and we'll get a real mocs again but I doubt it).

Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 9:13 am
by magicdownunder
I forgot to mention the Championship Qualifiers are on from January 8, 12:00 AM PST, through January 14, running every 3 hours (format standard). I hope to see you guys playing in the Championship with me :smileup: (yeah, I'm bold enough to state that I'll win at least one of these darn events).

Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 9:21 am
by Sasky
Congrats LP!!

Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 12:24 pm
by Lightning_Dolt
Congrats Raida. I similarly won a tourney today. 1k/GPT/TCG Platinum event. I got some benjamins, 2 buys to the Sacramento GP, a bitchin plaque, and an invite to a sweet tourney.
Good job man!

Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 1:58 pm
by windstrider
Congrats to both Raida and LP. Well done, gents.

Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 2:24 pm
by Valdarith
Congrats guys!

Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 3:01 pm
by Valdarith
Ladies and gentlemen, Mutavault is now $30 in paper.

Selling these off for a set of Arid Mesa sure is enticing...

Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 3:23 pm
by redthirst
Kaze and Khaos: y'all need to just fuck already.

Aren't the fetches all $50 now?

Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 3:56 pm
by Valdarith
Blue fetches are $50. Arid Mesas and Marsh Flats are $30.

Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 4:45 pm
by Kazekirimaru
Fetches > Mutavaults

Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 4:58 pm
by Khaospawn
Ahhh! memories classic Australian Beer Commercial :munch:
This was awesome.



Congrats to Raida and LP!

Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 4:59 pm
by Calamity
Damn... I'd definitely ditch my mutas if I didn't need them for a tourney in January at my LGS where the prize is a FTV20 (four rounds of standard, cut to top 8 where we play out out in an MMA draft)

Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 5:11 pm
by Valdarith
I'm wondering if the price will go down when the new set is introduced. It could push the meta toward more two color strategies which would reduce the number of Mutavaults being played (full set down to 2) or maybe none at all for decks like GW with such an even split on colors. Using them to invest in Modern staples is a good move in my opinion. I'm using two of my four in my current deck in paper but I'd be more than happy to give them all up for Arid Mesas even though I rarely play Modern.

Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 5:47 pm
by Calamity
I've got a play set of arid mesa and scalding tarn,one marsh flats, and need just two more copies of misty for a play set. Though, I'm pretty close to tempo twin, just need cryptics, kiki jiki, splinter twin, and some random commons...

Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 7:35 pm
by Valdarith
After taking pictures of all my 40k army and doing some research I realized I had over $700 in stuff. Sent a message to my LGS owner with pics and details and he's going to get the word out.

And now I'm having those sad nostalgic feels.

Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 8:24 pm
by Link
man I feel you Vala.

I felt that way when selling some of my magic cards to make rent one month

It was like... "well I MIGHT use this in a deck SOMEDAY...." and I ended up not selling a bunch of cards (like boros reckoners when they were back at $20 or w/e"

Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 10:34 pm
by Link
My uncle hit a deer. Lost his eye. Somehow maintained control of the vehicle regardless.


youre gonna need to explain the mechanics of this one to me

did the windshield shatter or somethin?

Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 10:47 pm
by Kazekirimaru
I guess. Apparently a car going the other way hit the deer first, knocked the deer into his windshield, and according to my cousin in the back seat: "It's like the deer went through and just exploded on impact." Fucking exploding deer.

Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 10:48 pm
by Kazekirimaru
He's in Indy right now post-op. He lost one eye and can barely see out the other.

He's trying to get discharged early to get a cheaper hospital bill.

Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 11:04 pm
by Khaospawn
Your uncle sounds like a badass. Exploding deer takes his eye and he doesn't even lose control of the car. Then wants to leave the hospital asap.

He ain't got time to bleed.

Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 11:14 pm
by Kazekirimaru
I hope he isn't driving himself home.

Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 11:23 pm
by Khaospawn
Only a badass would.

Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2013 12:37 am
by Kaitscralt
it would be great if he drove himself home and it happened again and this time the exploding deer got his other eye

Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2013 12:37 am
by Kaitscralt
and he still kept control with zero eyes