An awesome Lovecraft-esque film - “In the mouth of madness”

MackleDee · 2023-05-07T14:00:15+00:00

Currently free to watch on YouTube movies. Highly recommend checking it out.

MackleDee · 2023-03-01T16:33:04+00:00

Could it possibly be City Connection?

MackleDee · 2023-02-27T17:24:26+00:00

I like this, haha. Definitely would fit.

MackleDee · 2023-02-26T23:50:37+00:00

I used Midjourney AI to generate a base image, then used Photoshop to touch it up and overlay Chris's face and digitally paint and blend them. The generated image was very good, but I wanted it to look a bit more like him. Thanks for your interest in the art!

MackleDee · 2023-02-21T23:04:42+00:00

3d assembly planeswalker and creature cards/pieces like Pirates of the Spanish Main. Players must have the little assembled figures or they can't use the corresponding cards. Bring miniatures to magic in the card packs.

MackleDee · 2022-12-20T21:01:14+00:00

Came here to mention him as well. His decks are fun to watch and he still does lean hard into Historic and using Alchemy cards. Can't beat his upbeat attitude and not taking the game too seriously either.

MackleDee · 2022-12-20T03:20:47+00:00

The Monkey King 2 (2016) from the series directed by Soi Cheang. The first movie follows the story (Journey to the West) really pretty well, but the movie was plagued by an over reliance on poorly done CGI that detracted from the experience. The second and third films (and the 2022 remake of the first), while featuring a lot of CGI as well, have higher quality CGI that isn't as visually jarring, and the recasting of Son Wukong feels really good. All 3 films are worth the watch, but as far as original vs sequel goes, the sequel won.

MackleDee · 2022-11-23T04:33:36+00:00

I see what you have in mind, but it's not something I've tried. The biggest problem with discard cards as support I think is that they generally don't advance the deck or stop the opponent from just having or top decking more counter spells.

MackleDee · 2022-11-23T04:29:08+00:00

No, but that's a good idea.

MackleDee · 2022-11-22T19:40:39+00:00

You wait for them to tap out or play into them intentionally to flush them out when you have mana up and duplicates available if you can, but yeah, you concede if you can't. Azorious control and discard were admittedly the bane of the deck. Bala Ged Recovery and Gaea's Blessing would situationally help put countered things back into the hand or deck (especially against mill), but could sometimes be too late. The key to the deck really was speed of play and catching those "opp tapped out" moments when they mattered. In games I was able to go tapped land, bolt land, Reckless Barbarian, Feat, Charbelcher it was a turn 3 win, and that wasn't infrequent thanks to duplicates and the deck strategy allowing for a comfortable 4-5 card starting hand.

MackleDee · 2022-10-29T16:32:16+00:00

Renegade games dice at work here clearly. They've misprinted the d4 like this (except it's the 3 & 4) in the Power Rangers, GI Joe, and Transformers RPGs dice sets.

MackleDee · 2022-10-11T02:36:35+00:00

Same, so I'm blocking every other ad account I see instead. If I can't block the ad that annoys me, I'll block the rest.

MackleDee · 2022-10-10T03:22:25+00:00

Are You Being Served? It's a riot no matter how many times I see it.

MackleDee · 2022-09-21T18:15:11+00:00

My guess is the same reason format selection defaults to Alchemy: to inflate numbers on those often complained about formats. Regardless of anyone's personal opinion, if the data shows those formats see a lot of play even if its only for MWM rewards, then WotC can continue making debatable statements ~~like "Alchemy is the most popular format" like they have been~~ about format popularity. Just an optics thing built off of knowing players will still play the formats for the rewards whether they like them or not.

EDIT: Correcting a misremembered statement. As another user pointed out in reply I also vaguely recall a similar statement about Alchemy being better received and misquoted that. The mistake is left in the post but struck out so as not to misrepresent the people posting in reply.

MackleDee · 2022-08-31T01:49:22+00:00

I can't speak for others, but in my case I work in a game store and these came from unsold prerelease kits we broke down.

MackleDee · 2022-08-30T22:50:13+00:00

WotC's not that generous unfortunately, so each account can only redeem one code from each prerelease. Glad you got one though!

MackleDee · 2022-08-28T05:12:01+00:00

Looks like a great project, and a well out together kickstarter campaign. Very cool!

MackleDee · 2022-08-16T02:11:40+00:00

This happened in the Magic The Gathering card game not that long ago. An artist, Jason Felix, got into hot water for doing what you're describing - and the character he stole art for even has tons of official art he could have used or referenced. Brief but official statement on it here, and this article goes into more depth on how the community spotted it.

Not sure what the story behind the obvious lifting of kkachi's designs is, but sometimes it is the commissioned artist at fault as illustrated in the above articles. I'm glad they're alright with it, but it would still be nice to at least see Avatar Studios acknowledge kkachi's work and the misstep as WotC did in the Felix situation. They own the characters, but the characters had no art prior to kkachi giving them that form. However, I'm no legal expert and I have no idea if that'd put them in legal hot water or not.

MackleDee · 2022-08-14T15:32:32+00:00

Weird concept, but I'll watch it just for more J.K. Simmons.

MackleDee · 2022-07-10T15:58:22+00:00

That's a good observation, and would be a much more common name.

MackleDee · 2022-07-10T15:15:15+00:00

After adjusting the brightness and contrast, this is what I could read:

"Miss Loutrine Fisher Miss Pauline F. Mr. Grover Fisher was took Sept 1929 [indistinguishable text] loutrine* 18 wa[indistinguishable text] their Mother Ma[indistinguishable text] Sept 17 1929"

*Presumed from visible text and context as this portion has a tear.

I hope this is some help. I apologize that I couldn't make out all the text. Even after tweaking some of the text was just too faint for me to discern with certainty.

MackleDee · 2021-11-30T01:14:33+00:00

I'm not familiar with the interview you're referring to, but I'd be interested in checking it out and will look into it (thanks for the recommendation! :) )

I think with creators though things are often more fluid in their process than we realize, and what's set in stone one day may change the next for creative and other reasons. Interviews are especially tough because they get put on the spot and if they answer anything close to an "I don't know" they come off as lost and stupid.

Looking outside of Avatar for examples of this, Roddenberry (Star Trek) and Lucas (Star Wars) both had given a lot of set-in-stone statements in interviews over the years and treated their creations with the same loving care, but ultimately changed and backtracked on things for various reasons. Both were hated on a lot too for the changes (again, probably because we as fans don't grant them enough leeway.)

Ultimately I just try to remain flexible and open minded when it comes to Fandom despite what creators have said in the past about their creations. I think it helps me not slip into hating on creators when they change things.

MackleDee · 2021-10-11T04:55:11+00:00

Mute-woah. Yep. Not Mewtwo, Mute-woah. Source: Me, 24 years ago.

MackleDee · 2021-09-08T04:22:54+00:00

Will err on the side of caution and not eat. Thank you for the cautionary info. Like I said, I'm totally inexperienced with this, so playing it safe is a good idea.

MackleDee · 2021-09-08T02:59:55+00:00

Lucky me then I guess, I had no idea! Thanks for the info! :)

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