Dies to Removal

Alex

It's like a thirty second Google search. I'm at work and can't pull links but you won't have trouble finding them.

Alex

ITT: We learn James doesn't know what Excel is.

Alex

I'm pretty sure if every DTR member had an invitational card, mine would probably be Midnight Haunting though. It was another card that I just looked at and was like "Whoa this card is really good..."

Alex

The more I think about it though, I don't think I really question anyone's actual testing/results. But I am starting to wonder how seriously they take it. Like, do some people just play a few games and then come back saying, "This card was fucking BONKERS and I LOVE it"? And then people just take that and run with it? I dunno.

I'm just sitting in my corner testing a bunch of little Red aggro decks and not really liking any of it.

I'll admit that's how I felt about Rally the Peasants and Dynacharge. I played very few games with them before going to GP Charlotte with them. They
performed well but it was a total shot in the dark.

Alex

That's just your spurglord defense.

You should see how angry my girlfriend gets when things that upset her don't bother me at all.

"Oh my god the fish died!

"
"Oh, that sucks."
"You're not upset!?"
"No, it's just a fish."
"..."

Alex

MDU at least has video proof.
Okay, so when I say that I spent the last 2 afternoon proxying up various Red decks and playing one of my friends against his proxied up decks for a few hours, do I need to take pics and post it so that you actually believe that someone is telling the truth? Do you really think that somebody like me, who obviously has no shame about posting his stupid, drunken antics or terrible relationship decisions for the entirety of DtR to make fun of, have
a reason to make shit up for no reason? Especially about something like Magic, no less.

C'mon, dude. You should know some us of by now.

Who's mad now?

Alex

Oh, turns out that I am totally doing that.

Alex

Why does Purp not have a custom title? And why am I not abusing my admin powers to fix this?

Alex

Someone will post a bad list and people will circlejerk them and pretend like they've "tested" with it (we all know you didn't actually do that) and it just irritates the shit out of me because we're better than that.
Are people
really doing that? I believe LP, MDU, and even Kait when they all talk about testing results. I have my doubts about some people, but I hardly think it's enough to like, rage out or anything.
It happens at least three times a week, sometimes more. Lately more.
You probably hit up more threads than I do. As a creature of habit, I routinely hit up my 5 favorite threads on the site before going back to the first one.

I cycle through the site pretty regularly. My job is boring and slow-paced.

Alex

MDU at least has video proof.

Alex

Someone will post a bad list and people will circlejerk them and pretend like they've "tested" with it (we all know you didn't actually do that) and it just irritates the shit out of me because we're better than that.
Are people really doing that? I believe LP, MDU, and even Kait when they all talk about testing results. I have my doubts about some people, but I hardly think it's enough to like, rage out or anything.

It happens at least three times a week, sometimes more. Lately more.

Alex

The only person I believe when they say they've tested something is LP.

Alex

It isn't an single person, it's when the collective jumps behind a blatantly dumb idea. (It happens often.) Someone will post a bad list and people will circlejerk them and pretend like they've "tested" with it (we all know you didn't actually do that) and it just irritates the shit out of me because we're better than that.

Back on MTGS I would have chimed in and told everyone how fucking dumb they're being, but I can't bring myself to do it here because I like you guys as people but fucking hate you as Magic players.

Alex

Do you need a hug, Alex?
Are you going to be able to give me a proper hug from your knees? You seem to spend most of your time there.
You can do better than that.

Let the hate
floooooooow through you.

Usually when you guys are being stupid enough to anger me I just don't post at all. I find this amusing more than anything.

Sheep mentality is something I find very interesting.

Alex

Do you need a hug, Alex?

Are you going to be able to give me a proper hug from your knees? You seem to spend most of your time there.

Alex

>make post to highlight fellow FoS member.
>Zem makes idiotic post trying to shortsell said member
>call him out for being a dickwad
>"Alex is so negative!"
>

It's like you guys actually believe he's infallible or something.
It's k boss he's just jelly I'm on the DTR front page.

#madeit

Alex

>make post to highlight fellow FoS member.
>Zem makes idiotic post trying to shortsell said member
>call him out for being a dickwad
>"Alex is so negative!"
>

It's like you guys actually believe he's infallible or something.

Alex

No.

It just tells you how many of each colour you need; it doesn't look at the available mana in the format or your mana curve and construct the mana base for you.

Seriously, I'm sure that sometimes you're deliberately dimwitted.

Spoken like a true simpleton. If you know how to use Excel it can do some unimaginable things. There have been manabase spreadsheets for a long time that can make corrections for duals, fetches, and curve.

Sometimes I'm sure that you're deliberately a fucking jerkoff without even so much as checking to see if you're wrong.

Next thing you know we're going to be picking our mana bases based on "
feelings" and playing Purge the Profane! All thanks to our fearless leader Zemanjaski!

Alex

That table diesnt actually teach you to build a manabase.

You don't need to learn to build a mana base when you can have Microsoft Excel build you the most mathematically accurate mana base available?

Alex

Best mana-base builders would probably be Me, Pedros, and Zem.

Um, Ham...?

Alex

I haven't exactly been following standard. Is there a red spell for under 4 mana that kills pretty much everything in the format, or is tempo red pretty much a lost cause?

Battlecruiser Magic is back in full swing.

Alex

Didn't play any Magic this weekend, regret nothing.

Alex

Yes, it came out in 1999 on Nintendo 64, 2001 on Gamecube.

Alex

Maybe it's just me, but I don't know how people are unaware of Smash Bros in this day and age.
Being 33, married, and having a career?

If you went to college or hang out with Magic players you should have encountered it at least in passing.

Alex

What I want to know is how half of the shitposters here have more posts than I do.

Alex

That gimmick was so shitty they Sarnath'd it out of existence.

Alex

Maybe it's just me, but I don't know how people are unaware of Smash Bros in this day and age.

This is how I feel when people say they don't know about Pokemon. Like, seriously, what rock did you live under for the vast majority of the last 20 years?

Alex

Another thing I noticed about Smash players is that they govern themselves about a million times better than Magic players. There's no sweaty ass smell when I walk through a group of Smash players.

Alex

Mango is god but nobody expects to be as good as him, he's kind of an idiot savant.

Alex

Ken hasn't been relaveant in years unless he's back to having.

Best marth was m2k.

Yeah he's playing again. I think Smash 4 got him back into the hype.

Alex

I could ask the same of people who are still playing Magic and not Smash.

Alex

I've always wanted to play against Ken, his Marth is the most next level shit ever.

Alex

California has the world's best Smashers living locally. I'm jealous honestly, the only high tier players we have here are PPMD and Husband/Wife for teams.

Alex

It's something I personally stopped hearing about long ago, guess I am in the wrong (right) crowds

It's got a hardcore following, and those people are fanatic. It's not a TON of people, it's mostly big on college campuses. I live right by UNCC so I run into those types a lot.

Alex

To be fair most esports pros/personalities are like 16-22

Whereas most magic pros/personality are in their mid 20s or older

Most of the top Smash players are 20-25. I think Hungrybox and Mew2King are both older than that.

Alex

I mean, that doesn't make it much different than Magic. At the end of the day it's still a giant pack of neckbeards.

Alex

Cool, it seems I have discovered time travel and returned to high school, because nothing else explains all these people talking about competitive Smash Bros

Competitive Smash is a HUGE thing, it's being played on most major gaming circuits and there's also a documentary.

Alex

They actually don't ban characters, the only banned character in any Smash has been Meta Knight because he actually had game breaking glitches.

Alex

Wtf, no ice climbers?

Probably did it to avoid ban list discussions regarding wobbling/infinites.

No, Ice Climbers are not really good even with Wobble present. (It's incredibly hard to do and very easy to predict and avoid, especially if you're a spacie) They removed them because they're trying to cycle old characters out and new characters in, they didn't want the roster to get out of control.

Alex

Plus the new game could be completely terrible and it doesn't matter, Smash players will just keep playing Project M and Melee like they are now. Brawl may as well not even exist.

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