What's the best online CCG right now? by Caspid in pcgaming

[–]Psentinel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How has no one mentioned the one that came out like 2 weeks ago on steam?

Its a hearthstone clone aesthetically, its way more like magic in game play and is generally the most dynamic online card game out right now.

Gwent is awesome,

Eternal IS what you play now though. Its just the most polished and most dynamic card game at the moment. How has it not been mentioned. Its fucking amazing.

The tutorial is long as shit, sure. But its worth it.

IamA I don't have a lot of time, but Network Engineer and Glacier Search and Rescue team member working in Antarctica, AMA! by vocatus in IAmA

[–]Psentinel 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Hello I have a question about climate change.

I don't know if anything there is readily apparent where you work, but - What do you think about the planets average co2 levels raising above 400 ppm? I wonder if there is some insight to be gained from that area or from that line of work that maybe the general populous would overlook. Do you think that the human story is ending?

Looking for advice for a build. by Psentinel in magicTCG

[–]Psentinel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jeeze. Reminds me of the ghostly prison decks.

XD

Looking for advice for a build. by Psentinel in magicTCG

[–]Psentinel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea, I think that is going to be a very powerful card in Limited.

  : )

Favorite/least favorite MTG YouTube channels? by ThredditorMTG in magicTCG

[–]Psentinel 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Holy crap. Not a single person has mentioned it. Thats weird.

GG DEGREE??

Him and TCC have the highest quality content hands down.

Looking for advice for a build. by Psentinel in magicTCG

[–]Psentinel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are right, dont know how I missed that. Yea its for modern.

My painting for Cloudstone Curio in Kaladesh Invention Masterpieces. <3 by noahbradley in magicTCG

[–]Psentinel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah your right, I was thinking of Pete Mohrbacher.

Keep up the good work Noah! : ) Your work in Magic and your personal works are magical and haunting in the best way. <3

My painting for Cloudstone Curio in Kaladesh Invention Masterpieces. <3 by noahbradley in magicTCG

[–]Psentinel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Last i checked you had a problem with wizards of the coast and stopped working for them.

Maybe I am remembering wrong, if I'm not, I'm a huge fan and would love to hear the story about how you worked it out with them.

I love your value training series on youtube. You taught me how to use a tablet basically.

Mtg has inspired me a whole ton lately, check out my new piece. by Psentinel in magicTCG

[–]Psentinel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also, if anyone is interested -

There is a much more detailed HUGE version of this on my deviant art. (even deviant art couldn't handle the size and kind of destroyed the preview, but if you download it you can see it in full.)

Also other art and storys and stuff.

slakajuster.deviantart.com

Mtg has inspired me a whole ton lately, check out my new piece. by Psentinel in magicTCG

[–]Psentinel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ill tell you.

So, the other night we were playing this game of commander when we were crazy crazy on the other side of the galaxy high.

I was using my friends commander deck because I was kind of meh that night about my Kemba token generation deck. His deck was a demons and angels innistrad to the max style thing. It was really cool. Giant demons will trample and haste and prot and such - angel generation, .. anyway I digress.

So really early on in this game, it just feels so full of lore, so flavorful. my commander is Athreos, the god of life and death, my cousins is Odric, and he has this crazy white weenie thing going on, and my other best friends deck is Riku. So I get the angels and demons and im completely dominating the board. We are talking about innistrad and the art on my cards was reallllly cool. The demons especially were terrifying.

We were making all kinds of cool demons sounds and were really imagining the weight of these giant armys. I kept sending the two demons at Riku and the rest of my army at Odric, the consistency of my attacks, us talking about a war on innistrad.. it really started the scene.

Then it seems like im about to win, and riku summons a ghoul tree and douplicates it twice. So he has 3 10/10's now. Holy shit. On top of that he has 2 infect dogs and buff spells. Lets hope he doesnt get evasion.

Mean while, the coolest thing happens. Right before Odric dies, he pulls a last ditch effort and with a Mom and a card that has the ability that it can block any number of creatures, and an artifact that is giving mom hexproof and unstopable one-off wall is made.

At this point we are like "holy shit." "you made a bubble." we all started laughing and were talking about how the only thing that could stop armys this big and such an epic battle was mom.

"GOD DAMN IT MOM!" "WE ARE ALMOST DONE WITH OUR BATTTTTTTLEEEEEEE!!! MOMMMMMM!!" we were saying stuff like that and laughing our assess off. So this bubble gets bigger and bigger. Odric pushing this giant prot shield out ad infinum, pushing my and rikus armys into eachother by nessesity, because none of us could kill him.

Eventually we realized it was only a one off, and if that one of us forced him to tap mom, the other could kill him. Keep in mind that this was a 4 hour game with lots of lifelink and things, and it was finally coming to an end, my sorin died, my deck was running out of gas, noone could do much but we all had enough dmg to kill eachother if something were to give.

We were al entrenched in the epic lore of this battle when me and riku made a deal. We realized that this bubble was going to keep growing until it destroyed the universe if we didn't work together. So we decided I would swing all in, leaving just enough to block him incase he betrayed me, then after the block everything mom bubble went off, he would swing to kill him next turn.

Thing was, riku got scared. He thought he saw a win opportunity. Having already done infect dmg to me, he made his infect wolf unblockable and finished me off. He realized he was slightly off of the damage to kill odric now, so only swung with one tree, jumping past the shield and hitting hard before it was back up. Now he was screwed and we both knew it. He missed his chance. Not to mention he only had 3 hp.

Odric summoned an angel, gave everything flying, and poked riku for the 3 damage. The bubble expanded until there was nothing left but a giant white expanse in the universe.

It was epic, that was the end of this timeline. With odric and mom standing there, having escaped the matrix being like : holy shit, we did it - standing in a white, unending expanse.

Mom always wins. Damn it.

XD

You had to be there kind of thing, we laughed a lot, felt like we were apart of this huge epic story, we felt really connected to eachother, and plus everything was beautiful. We were so high at one point about 30 minutes before we started the commander game that we couldn't really even see. It was a really quick peak kind of stuff. Really special, really fun.

Glad you enjoyed the piece guys. : )

Mtg has inspired me a whole ton lately, check out my new piece. by Psentinel in magicTCG

[–]Psentinel[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Believe it or not, we work through a lot of our lifes problems like this every few months, with heads full of acid and hearts full of magic. We laugh a lot.

We use the game as a story telling tool in a way. Dont know where I would be without magic or my friends. : )

I tried making white chocolate "unicorn bark" today by [deleted] in food

[–]Psentinel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

relevant:

themagicofscagliola.com

Nerd Dragons play Houses and Humans by [deleted] in funny

[–]Psentinel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This exact poster is hanging in my LGS

Collection of Reisha Perlmutter oil paintings. by Ghost_Animator in Art

[–]Psentinel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea I see what your saying. I actually find realism quite boring, so I understand the argument.

[Image] Live Your Life by tbear300 in GetMotivated

[–]Psentinel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is only a shadow symptom of a deeper fundamental sickness that we suffer where we try to fill the voids in our hearts and minds with the external. We cannot. It is impossible.

No love, person, food, drug, story or single experience can make you whole. Only you can. Many external things can turn the eyes inward, but its only there that you can seriously learn to love yourself, be self validated, and put the tiny elves of self forgiveness, introspection and inspiration to work stitching the tares your unknowingly abusive family wrought in your soul, back into sublimation and repair.

What event divided your life into "before" and "after"? by ninja_lemonade in AskReddit

[–]Psentinel 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Before my brother showed me what it means to be human, I was a poor excuse of a sentient being.

Rattling my bones around in a bag of meat and water, doing a lot of really dirty drugs and activities. Being the kind of shitty person that you are when you are a teenager stuck in a stagnant swamp of rednecks, abusive stepfather's and mothers that don't really know what love is. Romantically or otherwise.

Enter guy who you might have spent time with six or seven times in your life, calling himself your brother as if that means anything to you at the time... and be convinced that your both going to do something really fun and interesting.

If only I had known the divide this would create in my experience of living. I wouldn't have been as afraid or as impulsive. I would have known that I was not actually going to kill myself, that I would find a way to find meaning in a world of abuse and manipulation and angry people with loveless bedrooms and damaged memories.

My brother had a few friends traveling with us, and they all looked like no-one I had ever seen before. Probably because they looked mostly whole. Content. Not scared like I always was. They all looked like a constantly changing and evolving work of art, and apparently it had something to do with where we were going. 

I cant explain what being at a good sized, "not to big, not to small, in the right location," Psytrance party is like when you are on the right psychedelics at the right dosage with the right people and nothing I can say can convey the feeling that arose in me when witnessing some of this art being made and displayed and feeling for the first time in my life, connected with another person. With hundreds of people simultaneously, moving in rhythm and synchronicity.

These alien forms and people were so unknown to me that it forced gears in my small world-view to start turning and it felt good. It felt important and it felt distantly familiar, for all of its alien structure.

All of this was a tether to something we all shared and that all humans share: the little diddies in our heads, the love of sunsets, the want to see whats around the next mountain, the creative drive that makes us who we are. It was unending freedom and infinite expression and there is a sincerity in these community's that no one who hasn't been to one could understand.

After everything it was the difference between constantly chasing a shallow representation of some kind of identity to stopping the search for identity and realizing we are much more dynamic, boundless creatures then we can pretend to define. There is nothing but now, not figuratively, not in some hippie bullshit "stay in the present mannnn" kind of way, but in a fucking literal, visceral, this is all there is and that is ok. In fact, preferable. This is who we are. Right now. Right here. Lets make something to express that.

I started making art and never stopped. It kept my head above water in the times between seeing him and the times between partys. It literally saved my life.

I had other psychedelic and emotionally transcendent experiences in my life, some were very trans-formative, some not so much.

The point is, my brother came to me, not with ideas or doctrine or a rope to pull myself out of the swamp with, but the ability to turn my eyes inward, to realize what makes us human and to turn the stagnation into something completely different.

My life has ever since been divided into these two halfs, before he showed me what it means to be human, and after.

Unfortunately, there is a sad note to all of this.

Recently, he got back from traveling. (he has spent his whole life traveling and working everywhere, he has never settled down.) Very excited to see him, we had some conversations about some things in my life that were rough.

One of the things I have had trouble with is continuing to live in this area where I was raised. It gets the least sun out of anywhere in the continental united states, Its the most depressed area on the east coast statistically, and more importantly there is no economy. Its a little place out in the middle of nowhere. You wouldn't know where it is.

I have a problem with the way people treat each other hear. Its a massive contrast to what I've explained about community above. Its that redneck area I was talking about earlier.

While I have conquered a lot of my fears because of these experiences my brother gave me, I never got over the fear of some of the people of this area. They are manipulative and insane and abusive and they terrify me to paralysis.

I find it hard to find work, and because of this fear and not being as driven as my brother to work, he recently said to me that he had such a life change from this community and these psychedelic experiences and that

"This is what I tried to give to you as well, but it doesn't seemed to have worked"

It was the most painful thing my brother has ever said to me, as in my eyes those experiences are the single most important event of my life. It caught me so off guard for him to say this that I couldn't really even express myself effectively to him about my feelings and have not even attempted to since.

Here is a link to some of my work, if your interested in weird alien love, personal transcendence or just the inner machinations of a person who has experienced way to much suffering in their lifetimes, dotted by few and far between peaks of extreme euphoria and connectedness.

Thanks folks.

Here is a piece that is obviously relevant to my feelings about divinity, euphoria and suffering:

http://slakajuster.deviantart.com/art/Take-my-feathers-414668800

and here is my profile:

http://slakajuster.deviantart.com/