[Fedoras of Salvation] - White Knights ITT

[zemanjaski]

Also Kai > Finkel not close.

[LP, of the Fires]

I don't think it's fair to compare CFB to SCG all time since CFB was the only super team for like 2/3 years and most of the star city guys where on that team including Owen and Martell.

Granted it's ALL team CFB now

[zemanjaski]

If they are jumping it's good times for Zem.

[zemanjaski]

They new i was the hero they needed.

I really need to qualify for the PT

[LP, of the Fires]

Well, considering what both Kai and Finkel have said in the past, it sounds pretty close. And from everything I've heard, Finkel was more talented, he just quit early.

RE Pro tour: ME TOO. I have 3 PTQs and that's it this season since I doubt I'm going to anymore GPs this season. I did find out that one of the stores in the LA area is offering travel expense to the winners of it's GPTs from now on though which is sweet.

[zemanjaski]

Knew*

You can see why I need multiple editors.

[LP, of the Fires]

If you want an agro deck to play, GR agro is the shit so far in testing.

[zemanjaski]

Don't make me dig up the Sartre quote. All that matters is what you've done, never what you could have done. There's no shame whatsoever in being no. 2 all time, that's an incredible accomplishment.

[LP, of the Fires]

have done zero sideboard games though.

Prophet courser bant? Not so much

[zemanjaski]

I'm not that interested in playing a green creature deck tbh.

[zemanjaski]

Terror effects, wraths and Lifebane Zombie rule the format. Green creatures aren't where I want to be in a big field.

[LP, of the Fires]

I never was arguing accomplishments(or arguing period really). I'm just stating that the difference in skill between the two is marginal at best and from everything I've heard, finkel was the better player. Kai even said he had to be incredibly lucky to just win 7 pro tours. that's something like 21-0 in top 8 matches which is unreasonable by any metric.

[Lightning_Dolt]

CFB loses points for employing TWoo.

[zemanjaski]

This reminds me of when people try to say Fisher was the greatest chess player ever because he was so talented. There's winning and losing, beyond that there's nothing.

[zemanjaski]

It's good they employ Travis. It means I'm not the worst player on the roster.

[LP, of the Fires]

You can enjoy your myopic view all you want.

[Lightning_Dolt]

I need a PT invite too. I don't think I'm there yet though. We'll find out when I get home.

[LP, of the Fires]

While Basketball is a team sport and the metrics don't translate as well, that's like saying Michael Jordan was better then Bill Russell.

Apologies for acknowledging context.

[Lightning_Dolt]

How long until we get "Channel Z" videos?

[Lightning_Dolt]

Also, how did you get started with CFB?

[LP, of the Fires]

Josh Silvresti if I'm as smart as I think I am.

[zemanjaski]

With all the new players providing content I doubt there will be substantial demand for me to produce video content as well. Schedule is pretty packed as is and I'm lucky that ill be sticking around.

I got hired after someone linked my work to Josh Silvestri, following his write up of my PyroRed deck at gatheringmagic.com; josh asked me to write up a brief article on the deck for him to use as notes for his weekly column; they liked it so much it became a full article. My views are 40% higher than their average, so they've kept me around.

[LP, of the Fires]

Adding decks to my BNG testing gauntlet. Did the UW deck have 2/1 split was in favor of what? Ephara or Rapid hybridization?

[Platypus]

So this showed up in my Twitter feed today:

https://twitter.com/NathanFillion/statu ... 4984472578

[LP, of the Fires]

Saw a Twoo article had 175 comments and decided to some skimming.

The results? Vomit.

[zemanjaski]

I like how he takes mj's deck, makes it worse and calls it his own.

[RaidaTheBlade]

So, I WAS going to ask who TWoo was and why we hate him, and then I actually tried reading his article and gagged a bit.
The first 5 paragraphs is nothing but him stroking his own dick... >.>

And he's not NEARLY as good at that as Redthirst...

[zemanjaski]

He's the hero budg caj players deserve.

[zemanjaski]

Well, he also plagiarised some of my work last year, there's that too.

[zemanjaski]

He's done well for a ~1670 rated player! That's competitive at FNM!

[RedNihilist]

I've watched so much random anime that I don't even remember most of it. The ones that I do are therefore probably the best.

• Trigun
• Cowboy Bebop
• Fullmetal Alchemist
• Samurai Champloo

Going through the list at Funimation, some that I think I watched but don't really remember at all:

• Aquarion
• Black Blood Brothers
• Claymore
• Dance in the Vampire
  Bund (what?)
• Darker Than Black
• Devil May Cry (huge fan of the game, probably watched this)
• Eureka Seven
• FLCL
• Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom (this one I actually do remember, it was good)
• Speed Grapher
• Trinity Blood

I've come to find out that there's four things that almost always means an anime will be absolutely horrible

1. It's set in a school.
2. The protagonists are children.
3. The protagonist is clearly a Mary Sue.
4. The title is random garbage and/or couldn't be bothered to have an English translation

It's pretty easy to use these rules to spot garbage. To demonstrate, I will bold exactly where in the following synopses that you should first be able to tell that this series blows. There is no point in reading past the bold parts because you have all
of the information about how much the series sucks already.

Fairy Tale
"When four young wizards team up to take jobs across the kingdom, they forge a bond more powerful than any magic and grow stronger with every mission."

Heaven's Lost Property
"Girl-crazy Tomoki's quiet life gets turned upside down when beautiful, winged Ikaros falls from the sky -- and starts calling him master."

Soul Eater
"Maka and the other students at the Death Weapon Meister Academy must kill 99 evil humans and one witch, absorbing their spirits when they die."

Okami-san and Her Seven Companions
"Ryoko and her friends form Otogi Bank, a social club that specializes in resolving issues for classmates using some rather aggressive tactics."

Rosario + Vampire[/u:
16wjru7n]
"When Tsukune accidentally enrolls in a school for monsters disguised as humans, he must hide the fact that he's really human or risk losing his life."

My Bride is a Mermaid
"After a cute mermaid saves him from drowning, a young man agrees to marry his rescuer to avoid the wrath of her father."

Chrome Shelled Regios
"A talented but mysterious young fighter named Layfon uses his skills to battle the Contaminoids, an alien race that now rules the planet."

B Gata H Kei - Yamada's First Time
"Yamada is the cutest girl in school, and she wants to have her way with 100 different boys. There's just one problem: She's never even been kissed! Dear god, why are you still reading this?!&
quot;

Use this power wisely.

Soul Eater is actually good.

Soul Eater was good until Kurona, then the quality of it all started dropping.

[RaidaTheBlade]

Well, he also plagiarised some of my work last year, there's that too.

What? O.o And FoS didn't flay him alive? I would have imagined pitchforks getting involved...

[LP, of the Fires]

In general, I'm indifferent to so and so receiving credit or taking credit for something since in the age of the internet, it's not very important.

In my year or so with the clan, my stance is mostly the same with the amendment that credits not important so long as TWoo doesn't get any.

[zemanjaski]

It was pretty shitty times for us. That was before the clan was really formed as a solid entity; in many ways it was one of the first things that brought the early members together: yarpus, LP, redthirst, ham and a few others, including some who have moved on to other things all put huge work into that deck and primer and to have it brazenly taken and credit withheld was quite shit.

[LP, of the Fires]

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

[Khaospawn]

I think I was one of the few others.

Give me all of the spotlight!

[Khaospawn]

But, look what happened after all of that. We have a kick ass Clan (that's more of a brotherhood, really), we've moved on to a better site, and now Z has an outlet to move some knowledge to the masses. Things worked out pretty good.

[zemanjaski]

And that my friends, is history.

[TBuzzsaw]

So, I WAS going to ask who TWoo was and why we hate him, and then I actually tried reading his article and gagged a bit.
The first 5 paragraphs is nothing but him stroking his own dick... >.>

And he's not NEARLY as good at that as Redthirst...

I rather get kicked in the balls than to read his shit.

[zemanjaski]

http://www.twitch.tv/andrewcuneo/b/499254407

Amazing cube stream by Andrew Cuneo, includes beating an active Tamiyo ultimate (active for a lot of turns). He's a real master of technical play. Enjoy!

[deck]UGr Opposition[/deck]
Creatures
1 Acidic Slime
1 Deranged Hermit
1 Elves of Deep Shadow
1 Elvish Mystic
1 Flametongue Kavu
1 Huntmaster of the Fells
1 Man-o-war
1 Mystic Snake
1 Nantuko Vigilante
1 Shardless Agent
1 Thragtusk
1 Ulvenwald Tracker
1 Wickerbough Elder

1 Edric, Spymaster of Trest

Planeswalkers
1 Domri Rade

Spells
1 Impulse
1 Green Sun's Zenith
1 Opposition
1 Search for Tomorrow
1 Skullclamp
1 Survival of the Fittest
1 Tidings
1 Treachery

Lands
1 Gruul Turf
1 Hinterland Harbor
1
Rootbound Crag
1 Taiga
1 Yavimaya Coast
1 Strip Mine
1 Wasteland

5 Forest
5 Island
1 Mountain
[/deck]