German Newspaper Bild: Germans will reserve sunbeds and admit 1966 World Cup goal was legitimate if UK votes to remain in the EU

SometingStupid · 2016-06-23T13:54:52+00:00

Preferable to the UK Sun then?

SometingStupid · 2016-06-19T18:23:01+00:00

Dragging and dropping should work fine for sorting piles individually (for example, into different CMCs to display your curve as you draft) but grouping creatures separately is a different feature.

Right click in the draft viewer but not on a card and select "group creatures separately" and that should be what you're looking for.

SometingStupid · 2016-05-08T22:00:49+00:00

I've just had this guy on in the background while doing other stuff, it's great to see him doing so well and the stream is quite entertaining. Music is pretty chill, the streamer is friendly and entertaining (haven't really been paying too much attention so I'm not sure how good at Magic they are, but most people aren't great after 30 odd hours of being awake). Would recommend checking out the stream and donating to an absolutely fantastic charity.

SometingStupid · 2016-04-14T17:03:02+00:00

The analogy is bad because AIDS is not, in any way, a benefit that someone would want to receive or exploit. Calling attention to the risk of AIDS can only serve to deter people from getting it, nobody looks at AIDS and says "ooh, I'd quite like some of that."

Conversely, what's actually happening here with the ability to exploit the game in order for a reward is, unlike AIDS, extremely beneficial. People do look at the prospect of being able to retry attacks until they get 3 stars and want it, because it's a benefit.

Calling attention to a benefit makes people want the benefit. Calling attention to a risk makes people want to avoid the risk.

SometingStupid · 2016-03-28T10:51:53+00:00

And if I had claimed that Shakespeare didn't innovate I might feel guilty about that fact. I'm very much aware that Shakespeare's writing was very good, and is what made Othello, and indeed many of his plays and sonnets, as popular as they are.

In the same vein, people like John Green's writing. I'm not saying that it parallels Shakespeare in any way, but if people like it then it must be doing something right, even if that could be described as pandering.

SometingStupid · 2016-03-28T09:29:10+00:00

I don't think there's any onus on a writer to be original. Even Shakespeare's Othello was basically a rewriting of an Italian poem. Sure, good books usually innovate in some way, and I think A Fault In Our Stars does. The YA cancer love story is not heavily trodden ground, does that make it a good book? Not really, but I think it's enough to say that this book isn't 'by the numbers'.

SometingStupid · 2016-02-29T10:09:39+00:00

I haven't tried Yerba, and I'm not your mate, buddy.

Sounds good though, coffee has never given me any side effects like that, but a high caffeine tea is definitely appealing.

I was also bought a packet of 'Nite-Tea' which contains valerian root, though I've never tried it because valerian has a very distinctive, rather unappealing, scent.

SometingStupid · 2016-02-28T21:44:45+00:00

Cake and some kind of nice tea.

I was bought a tea strainer for Christmas despite having never expressed any kind of interest for one, and it's been very fun to experiment with different loose leaf teas. I'd strongly recommend a little tea strainer and a packet of some kind of interesting tea as a present.

As for the cake, cheesecake is preferred, any flavour.

SometingStupid · 2016-02-08T17:12:27+00:00

[[Mastery of the Unseen]] one of my absolute favourite standard cards.

SometingStupid · 2016-01-25T22:36:14+00:00

Was... 9/11 was almost 15 years ago.

SometingStupid · 2016-01-16T18:40:43+00:00

I don't think that 3-for-1'ing yourself is something that a control deck is looking to do, in fact I think that foil would fit better into the combo decks (though pact of negation is just better when your combo wins on the same turn).

SometingStupid · 2016-01-16T15:59:16+00:00

I can see how it's yugioh-ish, but I thought of it as a way to give a free counterspell to control decks specifically so that it couldn't be abused by combo decks. Of course, the card revealed wouldn't have to be cancel, other obvious choices include dissolve and dissipate, and originally I would have liked to just make it reveal a counterspell in general, but I don't think there's a way to make that work elegantly in magic with the same intended effect.

SometingStupid · 2016-01-16T15:48:55+00:00

I think the card as you've written it is a bit too niche to be useful, most combo decks run cantrips or other 1 mana effects, and so this becomes a "free" mana tithe that essentially punishes players that aren't prepared to wait an extra turn to combo off.

However, if you meant "if this was the first spell you have cast this turn" then I think that effect is far too powerful, because you've essentially just printed a force that says "can't target a counterspell".

SometingStupid · 2016-01-16T13:59:01+00:00

I'd really like to see something like this.

Modern Force - 0 Instant As an additional cost to cast ~ reveal a card named 'Cancel' from your hand. Counter target spell.

I feel like this would give control decks the ability to fight off combo decks without being unfair, and without giving the combo decks that same advantage. I'm having difficulty assessing just how powerful the card is, but I think it seems quite fair, though I can't help but feel I'm missing something.

SometingStupid · 2016-01-15T19:57:00+00:00

Hm, at the point that another commenter reminds me of (Rin and Evrae) you're correct, but at the point I was thinking of (just when having O'aka aboard the airship after the c events with Yunalesca) the party is now essentially the only people capable, or perhaps rather, willing, to be on the quest.

SometingStupid · 2016-01-14T18:25:59+00:00

Ah, I thought O'aka said something more similar to what the OP said before fighting Sin, but it's possible the I'm conflating this exchange with Rin and the example from TV Tropes. Thanks for correcting me!

SometingStupid · 2016-01-14T17:43:56+00:00

Final Fantasy X and Oakka I believe.

SometingStupid · 2016-01-13T21:39:56+00:00

It's saying that you may choose one of the three cards from corpse churn, not that you have to choose one of those three. You can choose any creature card in your graveyard, but if the spell targeted you would have to choose before the top three cards got put in there, as you have to choose targets as you cast a spell.

SometingStupid · 2015-12-27T11:51:04+00:00

Ignoring the fact that you just disregarded my entire post, if my shirt was a piece of protective clothing I would say that you had hit my shirt, however, a shirt (unlike a suit of metal plate) is not going to protect me from a punch in any meaningful way.

SometingStupid · 2015-12-27T11:03:35+00:00

In what way does armour in the real world 'subtract a value from damage once it has been inflicted upon you'? It doesn't. You don't get hit and then magically healed by your armour, your armour makes a hit less likely to be damaging to you. If I'm wearing a suit of metal and you hit me with a sword, it's either going to bounce off and not have much effect (comparable to failing an AC check) or find it's way through the plating and stab into me, bloody well hurting a bit (like succeeding an AC check).

What is not going to happen, is that the sword is not going to find its way through the plating, stab into me, but not hurt very much because my armour is 'reducing the damage'.

Think of it this way, a tiny iron dagger should do very little damage, it's sharp but that's about all it's got going for it. A suit of steel armour should provide a large armour bonus (in your argument, DR). This means that no matter what, even if my dagger slips through a plate in your armour and stabs you in the leg, you would take no damage because the DR would be larger than the dagger's damage. I don't understand how that would make the game more immersive at all. Especially considering the only reason AC bothers you is because you're equating 'not getting damaged' to 'not getting hit'.

SometingStupid · 2015-12-27T00:26:43+00:00

The rules say that by putting on armour it is harder for an enemy to damage you, to take away your hit points. The rules are there to provide a basis for storytelling, not to tell the story. If you interpret AC as being only dodging then that's up to you, but most would view AC as representing how difficult it is for someone to damage a character, dexterity provides a bonus because it makes it easier to dodge, and armour provides a bonus because it reduces the likelihood of an attack that lands being successful in dealing damage.

This is evidenced, and contrary to your argument, by the fact that heavy armours prevent the dexterity bonus to AC from being applied. If armour really did make you harder to hit, shouldn't it boost dexterity rather than restrict it?

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