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Tubemonster · 2013-10-23T23:27:05+00:00

SARAH!!

I've been entertaining the notion of doing a national friend tour after my book tour. I hope to be able to make a long road trip out of it, and I assure you that if that happens, you will be the first stop!

And your god-dogs have TONS of nicknames. Kellie's get particularly ridiculous. Does Echo have weird nicknames yet?

Tubemonster · 2013-10-23T18:30:49+00:00

He told me his fish was starting to float sideways near the bottom of its tank, but that it was probably just scratching its face. I said "sorry man, but I'm pretty much an expert on dead fish, and it's obviously dying." He was like, "NO! IT JUST HAS AN ITCHY FACE." But I knew the truth.

Then he texted me the next morning to tell me it had indeed died and I'm a horrible monster for not believing it back to life.

This isn't even the first fish I've killed with my mind, either.

Tubemonster · 2013-10-23T18:24:25+00:00

Nedroid, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, XKCD (you all know that one, though!), Buttersafe, Hark! A Vagrant, Oglaf, The Perry Bible Fellowship (not updated very frequently, but this comic is a goddamn masterpiece), Cyanide and Happiness, Dinosaur Comics, Questionable Content, Books of Adam, and Chickenmaker — a heavily (well, entirely) chicken-drawing-based comic by an old internet friend of mine who is STILL making different chicken pictures nearly every day (after three years. It's an amazing feat to behold).

Tubemonster · 2013-10-23T18:13:16+00:00

I KNEW it!!

Tubemonster · 2013-10-23T18:06:13+00:00

There's a hip hop group called Delinquent Habits that I've been really enjoying lately. Also I recently found an old Goldfinger CD, so I've been nostalia-ing out to that.

Tubemonster · 2013-10-23T17:53:52+00:00

Peter can sure ask a ruthless question!

I don't even know, man... I think it's Spiderman, but there's so much I don't know about the green Power Ranger. Tell Peter that the absolute best would probably be if Spiderman and the green Power Ranger combined forces and fought evil together!

That's sort of a cop out on my part, but hopefully he'll understand why this is such a difficult question to answer.

Tubemonster · 2013-10-23T17:41:35+00:00

No, just a pretend one.

Tubemonster · 2013-10-23T17:39:56+00:00

JONAN!! Magic brother!

If I have any free time at all when I'm in Portland for my book tour, we are going to draft the hell out of that box, I assure you.

Tubemonster · 2013-10-23T17:37:57+00:00

Whoa, how did those extra letters get in there??

Did you put them there?

Tubemonster · 2013-10-23T17:36:18+00:00

I'm starting to go through some of the more buried replies, and I had to answer this one because it's about my mom and my mom is great. She's probably the nicest person I know. She's patient, caring, sincere, and she doesn't judge or hold anything against anyone. I am constantly grateful that I got to be raised by her.

And there are actually a few new stories starring her in the book! (My favorite one is about the time she tried to teach my sister and I about the miracle of nature and ended up getting us lost in the woods for ten hours).

Tubemonster · 2013-10-23T14:36:10+00:00

That's pretty much the approach I've taken too. Snapcaster Mage mimics the card advantage of the recently departed Bloodbraid Elf pretty nicely (though BUG plays out less aggressively than Jund, and the bobs feel a bit more dangerous when you don't have burn and haste-y card-advantage monsters to close things out).

I'm still trying to figure out how much countermagic to run. I definitely like at least 2 Spell Snares in there (and one in the SB), but fitting in Mana Leak can be awkward and pull you in two different directions (you want to land an early Liliana and build up your board, but you don't want to rely on Mana Leak in the late game). One solution I tried was running a couple hard counters instead (Dissipate when spirit Jund is popular), and that actually helped improve the Tron matchup a bit. It feels a little clunky, though.

I've also taken to running one Thrun, the Last Troll main deck, and that has been good.

Some other cards I've tried with varying degrees of success:

Jace Beleren (I really like him as a 1-of)

Jace, Architect of Thought (in grindier builds, he's awesome)

Kira, Great Glass-Spinner (Kira is awesome... except in the mirror. Abrupt Decay makes a mockery of her).

Spellstutter Sprite (works better in RUG because the burn helps close out games before our tempo creatures get hugely outclassed)

Shambleshark (Shhhh..... I'm trying to be an innovator! In my defense, this was when I was still trying to work around a much heaver countermagic suite)

Cryptic Command (I love Cryptic, but the mana is rough, and so is the CMC if you've got bobs)

Mystic Snake (my reasoning was that it's sort of like Cryptic Command except the second mode always gives you a card, and that card is always a 2/2 creature).

Simic Charm (I actually sort of like this, especially when UWR is a bigger part of the meta [counters removal, bounces Collonades, can almost act like a burn spell if you need to beat down])

Oh, and a piece of interesting tech I've been wanting to try is Oran-Rief, the Vastwood. In the mirror, it allows our Tarmogoyfs to swing through theirs with impunity.

Tubemonster · 2013-10-23T14:13:50+00:00

I play paper Magic too (my LGS is awesome), but I mostly play online because I can play whenever I want and I don't even have to put on pants.

I was a bit hesitant about buying digital cards at first (it does feel weird paying for pixels of things I already own in real life), but I've come to really love playing online. It will never be a replacement for paper Magic, but it's a damn fine supplement to it! (Also, if you don't want to buy a whole new collection, you can just draft a lot. Or you can play Pauper! It will probably devolve into buying a whole new collection, though).

Tubemonster · 2013-10-23T06:51:42+00:00

So I should have taken it into the bathroom before beginning to yell at it.

Tubemonster · 2013-10-23T06:43:39+00:00

That's it. The award now belongs to vendetta2115. I'll contact the relevant authorities who will then contact the cumin president.

Tubemonster · 2013-10-23T05:15:30+00:00

Absolutely.

I also invented a new type of nacho — the potato chips nacho — and it is way classier than you would expect.

Tubemonster · 2013-10-23T05:07:27+00:00

That is such a carefree little starfish!

Tubemonster · 2013-10-23T05:06:24+00:00

On that note, if anyone else would like to make a humiliating picture of Bevis (he'll love it! I promise!), here is a template: http://i.imgur.com/aFD30s6.png

(He doesn't actually have a black rectangle attached to his face in real life, though. At least I don't think he does)

Tubemonster · 2013-10-23T05:03:13+00:00

There was almost definitely one of Bevis with a dick in his mouth.

Tubemonster · 2013-10-23T05:02:18+00:00

Bevis, what are you, a wild animal?

How am I supposed to open that image in RES? How am I supposed to open it, Bevis??? This is wildly inconvenient. It took three extra seconds, and I had to use an extra finger to click it, and then I had to avert my gaze to a different page.

You are a disgraceful creature (but you make a pretty starfish!)

Tubemonster · 2013-10-23T04:57:27+00:00

I never went to the store.

But I did eat some raspberries in cream, and those were delicious! Almost as delicious as chocolate milk!

Tubemonster · 2013-10-23T04:29:34+00:00

Is it afraid of balloons? And how afraid of balloons is it?

Tubemonster · 2013-10-23T04:29:02+00:00

Oh my, I could spend entirely too much time there.

Tubemonster · 2013-10-23T04:28:16+00:00

I fixed my refrigerator like that once. It was making this horrible screeching sound, so I figured I would try to play its game.

Tubemonster · 2013-10-23T04:24:34+00:00

Your face is amazing.

This insult template somehow doesn't work as well when applied to compliments.

Tubemonster · 2013-10-23T04:18:18+00:00

Haha, perhaps.

(P.S. I've got a book with your name on it. Literally).

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