Listening to:

DragonForce - The Power Within. Still alright.

At 4/8/12 12:32 PM, SCTE3 wrote: Exp rank #998!

Finally in the top 1,000 Exp rankers!!

Nice one man.

At 4/8/12 06:02 PM, Haggard wrote: Listening to:
Deathfist - Demons

You should check them out, Bahamut! You can download the EP on page.

Free EP, eh? Can't complain about free stuff, except for games when I have enough to go through already.

At 4/8/12 09:16 AM, Bahamut wrote: You're not going to get anywhere with a flat appearance.

So dragons are more shallow than humans? Interesting...

Oh, humans are much worse.

From what I've seen, they are a fun range of subcreatures to play.

But compared to Goblins they just suck. :P

So Goblins are good to play.

Don't ask me when I'll even get to those.

And you should also check out Broadwalk Empire.

It'll take years before I even get to that.

At 4/9/12 03:23 AM, Jolly wrote:

At 4/8/12 09:16 AM, Bahamut wrote: Well, keep in mind that this is coming from someone who still hasn't took the time to watch Doctor Who...

I watched the first two episodes of Dr.Who today.. I don't really like it. Seems a bit overrated, to me.. but I don't really like science fiction.

I'm guessing it's a show that requires a lot to watch before really getting into it. That and the fact that there are tons of episodes are why I haven't dived right in for Doctor Who.

At 4/9/12 06:04 AM, Coop wrote:

At 4/8/12 09:16 AM, Bahamut wrote: Thread title change? :P

Now who is capable of that? Admins only.

Maybe they appreciate you enough?

From what I've seen, they are a fun range of subcreatures to play.

I was given Chandra Ablaze for my birthday and now my elemental deck needs an overhaul. That should give it some nice power, though. See below.

Oh yes, those Planewalkers. All of them do look immense.

Wolverine claws

23,000 experience

B/P Rank increase from Corporal to Sergeant, and upgraded to a Bronze whistle.

29,000 Experiences

Only 100 days to reach EGSC for experience!

At 4/9/12 08:01 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 4/8/12 06:02 PM, Haggard wrote: Listening to:
Deathfist - Demons

You should check them out, Bahamut! You can download the EP on page.

Free EP, eh? Can't complain about free stuff, except for games when I have enough to go through already.

Yeah, the stack of unfinished games gets bigger and bigger while the stack of finished games stays about the same size. LAME!

At 4/8/12 09:16 AM, Bahamut wrote: You're not going to get anywhere with a flat appearance.

So dragons are more shallow than humans? Interesting...

Oh, humans are much worse.

So, if a human is capable of overlooking a flat experience, then dragons should have no problem with it.

From what I've seen, they are a fun range of subcreatures to play.

But compared to Goblins they just suck. :P

So Goblins are good to play.

Goblins are PERFECT.

Don't ask me when I'll even get to those.

And you should also check out Broadwalk Empire.

It'll take years before I even get to that.

I know what you mean. Currently I watch Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother (every now and then), Dexter (just finished Season 4) and Broadwalk Empire. My sister-in-law reccomends The Walking Dead as well as Breaking Bad... not enough time to watch it all...

Coop potters about in the office, while congratulating:
SCTE3: 25,000 Medal Points
Pokemonpoeguygcn: Level 36 - Cosplay Wolverine claws.
LegolaSS: 23,000 Experience
Austerity: Level 10; Gold Whistle
VJF: Sergeant; Gold Whistle

At 4/9/12 08:01 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 4/9/12 06:04 AM, Coop wrote:

At 4/8/12 09:16 AM, Bahamut wrote: Thread title change? :P

Now who is capable of that? Admins only.

Maybe they appreciate you enough?

What, to make me an admin? I doubt that :P

From what I've seen, they are a fun range of subcreatures to play.

I was given Chandra Ablaze for my birthday and now my elemental deck needs an overhaul. That should give it some nice power, though. See below.

Oh yes, those Planewalkers. All of them do look immense.

Now I have to spend hours overhauling my decks to work out what goes where. I think the artifacts deck will benefit, as will the merfolk deck.

Listening to:

Katatonia - Brave Murder Day. I'm convinced that Mikael from Opeth has been in every Swedish death metal band ever.

At 4/9/12 12:52 PM, SCTE3 wrote: Thanks, was wondering when I would enter the top 1,000.

It's very rough in these times. When I reached the top 1,000 I only had 6k-ish EXP. Now you need over double just to get there.

At 4/10/12 03:02 AM, Coop wrote: 29,000 Experiences

Only 100 days to reach EGSC for experience!

Hey, that works! I'm also working on EGSC for posts. Will be interesting to see which out of EXP and posts will reach 30k first and when I get both, I'll be first for 4x30k.

At 4/10/12 04:28 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 4/9/12 08:01 AM, Bahamut wrote: Free EP, eh? Can't complain about free stuff, except for games when I have enough to go through already.

Yeah, the stack of unfinished games gets bigger and bigger while the stack of finished games stays about the same size. LAME!

And yet we keep revisiting the games we love.

Oh, humans are much worse.

So, if a human is capable of overlooking a flat experience, then dragons should have no problem with it.

Hah, those humans are weak.

So Goblins are good to play.

Goblins are PERFECT.

Good, then I shall not focus on anything else.

At 4/10/12 05:45 AM, Coop wrote:

At 4/9/12 08:01 AM, Bahamut wrote: Maybe they appreciate you enough?

What, to make me an admin? I doubt that :P

Why the heck not?

Oh yes, those Planewalkers. All of them do look immense.

Now I have to spend hours overhauling my decks to work out what goes where. I think the artifacts deck will benefit, as will the merfolk deck.

Of course. With Magic there's a lot of planning to consider with the deck. You can't just splash any card in your deck and expect it to work which is a good thing since balance is always good.

I hit 1,500 blams today :). I can remember when I used to be able to get around 10 blams a day but they seem to have got alot rarer nowadays. Too many of the crap flashes get through judgement, I blam the users that mindlessly voting 5 on everything thats submit.

Congrats To
hiddeninthecrowd - 6th NG Berfday
iscrulz - 32,000 Experience
SCTE3 - Top 1,000 Experienced & 25,000 Medal Points
Cootie - Commander Rank
Extralife - 11,000 Experience
Jolly - 10,000 Experience
Pokemonpoeguygcn - Level 36
LegolaSS - 23,000 Experience
Austerity - Level 10 & Gold Whistle
VJF - Sergeant Rank & Gold Whistle
Coop - 29,000 Experience

Thanks To
Coop
Odyssic

I just learned that Garbage are going to release another album this year. FUCK YEAH!

Listening to:
Black Sabbath - Paranoid

At 4/10/12 08:34 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 4/10/12 04:28 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 4/9/12 08:01 AM, Bahamut wrote: Free EP, eh? Can't complain about free stuff, except for games when I have enough to go through already.

Yeah, the stack of unfinished games gets bigger and bigger while the stack of finished games stays about the same size. LAME!

And yet we keep revisiting the games we love.

True that. I recently popped in Resident Evil 3. Turns out I have to play it upstairs on our new TV because the old TV downstairs only shows the picture in Black & White (fuck you, NTSC!).
This is strange, though. I have played NTSC games before when I still lived with my mom. I only had a very tiny TV and connected my PS1 via my VHS Recorder to the TV. I could play the games in colour... so either I connected the VHS to the TV in a different way or it's just that the TV standing in my gaming room now doesn't support 60Hz, while my other TV did...

Oh, humans are much worse.

So, if a human is capable of overlooking a flat experience, then dragons should have no problem with it.

Hah, those humans are weak.

Well, dragons have to hide themselves... now who's the weak one? :P

So Goblins are good to play.

Goblins are PERFECT.

Good, then I shall not focus on anything else.

I'm glad you agree with me.

74,000 Saves

Now to see if I can try to catch the Blams up a little...

Coop subjects the office to Iron Maiden concerts, while congratulating:
SCTE3: 1,234 Reviews (Movie / Game)
Martin: 44,000 Saves

Listening to:
Iron Maiden - Flight 666 (Churchill's Speech; Aces High)

Thank you to:
Odyssic

At 4/10/12 08:34 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 4/10/12 03:02 AM, Coop wrote: 29,000 Experiences

Only 100 days to reach EGSC for experience!

Hey, that works! I'm also working on EGSC for posts. Will be interesting to see which out of EXP and posts will reach 30k first and when I get both, I'll be first for 4x30k.

Well, I've got to work on 3 x 30k first... Those Blams are infuriating!

At 4/10/12 04:28 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 4/9/12 08:01 AM, Bahamut wrote: Oh, humans are much worse.

So, if a human is capable of overlooking a flat experience, then dragons should have no problem with it.

Hah, those humans are weak.

Until the turn into werewolves. Innistrad decks can really take the piss :P

So Goblins are good to play.

Goblins are PERFECT.

Good, then I shall not focus on anything else.

That's not a good idea, IMHO.

At 4/10/12 05:45 AM, Coop wrote:

At 4/9/12 08:01 AM, Bahamut wrote: Maybe they appreciate you enough?

What, to make me an admin? I doubt that :P

Why the heck not?

Lack of a definitive job for me to do. They already have Luis for the "what the hell do you actually do here" role :P

Oh yes, those Planewalkers. All of them do look immense.

Now I have to spend hours overhauling my decks to work out what goes where. I think the artifacts deck will benefit, as will the merfolk deck.

Of course. With Magic there's a lot of planning to consider with the deck. You can't just splash any card in your deck and expect it to work which is a good thing since balance is always good.

Yeah, I've stripped half of the enchantments out of my elemental deck and replaced them with instants and / or sorceries. I just need to trim it down a little from 72 cards, closer to 60.

Listening to:

Pentagram - Relentless

At 4/10/12 07:09 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 4/10/12 08:34 AM, Bahamut wrote: And yet we keep revisiting the games we love.

True that. I recently popped in Resident Evil 3. Turns out I have to play it upstairs on our new TV because the old TV downstairs only shows the picture in Black & White (fuck you, NTSC!).

Some TVs don't react well to 60Hz but this is NTSC.

This is strange, though. I have played NTSC games before when I still lived with my mom. I only had a very tiny TV and connected my PS1 via my VHS Recorder to the TV. I could play the games in colour... so either I connected the VHS to the TV in a different way or it's just that the TV standing in my gaming room now doesn't support 60Hz, while my other TV did...

Wait, is this a HDTV? I would have expected better. Then again, this is an attempt to play NTSC games on PAL so results vary.

Hah, those humans are weak.

Well, dragons have to hide themselves... now who's the weak one? :P

Only that weak one there.

Good, then I shall not focus on anything else.

I'm glad you agree with me.

This is becoming too easy.

At 4/11/12 05:08 AM, Coop wrote:

At 4/10/12 08:34 AM, Bahamut wrote: Hey, that works! I'm also working on EGSC for posts. Will be interesting to see which out of EXP and posts will reach 30k first and when I get both, I'll be first for 4x30k.

Well, I've got to work on 3 x 30k first... Those Blams are infuriating!

At least the blams are around 500 away, even though that's still a long time.

Hah, those humans are weak.

Until the turn into werewolves. Innistrad decks can really take the piss :P

I'm well aware of the transformation cards. They are damn weird since they break the whole concept of a playing card.

Why the heck not?

Lack of a definitive job for me to do. They already have Luis for the "what the hell do you actually do here" role :P

They'll add more of them.

Of course. With Magic there's a lot of planning to consider with the deck. You can't just splash any card in your deck and expect it to work which is a good thing since balance is always good.

Yeah, I've stripped half of the enchantments out of my elemental deck and replaced them with instants and / or sorceries. I just need to trim it down a little from 72 cards, closer to 60.

Heh, shouldn't you keep it to 60? I can hardly see this game getting close to decking out.

Listening to:
Sanguis et Cinis - Personenkult

At 4/11/12 06:04 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 4/10/12 07:09 PM, Haggard wrote: This is strange, though. I have played NTSC games before when I still lived with my mom. I only had a very tiny TV and connected my PS1 via my VHS Recorder to the TV. I could play the games in colour... so either I connected the VHS to the TV in a different way or it's just that the TV standing in my gaming room now doesn't support 60Hz, while my other TV did...

Wait, is this a HDTV? I would have expected better. Then again, this is an attempt to play NTSC games on PAL so results vary.

No, downstairs it's an old TV set. No flat screen or anything like that. The TV upstairs is a pretty new Plasma TV. No problems there.

Hah, those humans are weak.

Well, dragons have to hide themselves... now who's the weak one? :P

Only that weak one there.

But why do other dragons hide as well?

Good, then I shall not focus on anything else.

I'm glad you agree with me.

This is becoming too easy.

To quote Homer: "BOOOOOOOORING!"

Base Voting Power: 8.88

Feels like that took forever.

Coop hopes to get home tonight to Iron Maiden En Vivo. Congratulations to:
gamejunkie: 8.88 Base Voting Power

At 4/11/12 06:04 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 4/11/12 05:08 AM, Coop wrote:

At 4/10/12 08:34 AM, Bahamut wrote: Hey, that works! I'm also working on EGSC for posts. Will be interesting to see which out of EXP and posts will reach 30k first and when I get both, I'll be first for 4x30k.

Well, I've got to work on 3 x 30k first... Those Blams are infuriating!

At least the blams are around 500 away, even though that's still a long time.

Shh, every time people say that Blams are becoming easier to get, the bottom falls out of the market and people seem to save everything in sight.

Hah, those humans are weak.

Until the turn into werewolves. Innistrad decks can really take the piss :P

I'm well aware of the transformation cards. They are damn weird since they break the whole concept of a playing card.

That's why you get an opaque backed set of deck protectors - that way, people can't see what is in your hand.

Why the heck not?

Lack of a definitive job for me to do. They already have Luis for the "what the hell do you actually do here" role :P

They'll add more of them.

Sweet. Get me on the payroll!

Of course. With Magic there's a lot of planning to consider with the deck. You can't just splash any card in your deck and expect it to work which is a good thing since balance is always good.

Yeah, I've stripped half of the enchantments out of my elemental deck and replaced them with instants and / or sorceries. I just need to trim it down a little from 72 cards, closer to 60.

Heh, shouldn't you keep it to 60? I can hardly see this game getting close to decking out.

I've got some decks that are over 120 cards - less chance of me getting what I want, but also less chance of being milled to death. Jace Belerin has a lot to answer for >:(

At 4/12/12 12:09 AM, gamejunkie wrote: Base Voting Power: 8.88

Feels like that took forever.

Wait until you try to get 9.99 :P

Listening to:

Accept - Stalingrad. Somewhat of a stepdown from the last album but it still has some good tunes to hear.

At 4/11/12 02:30 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 4/11/12 06:04 AM, Bahamut wrote: Wait, is this a HDTV? I would have expected better. Then again, this is an attempt to play NTSC games on PAL so results vary.

No, downstairs it's an old TV set. No flat screen or anything like that. The TV upstairs is a pretty new Plasma TV. No problems there.

I see. I do recall having those issues once or twice in my life. An old TV is actually more ideal for sixth generation games. On HDTV it looks horrible.

Only that weak one there.

But why do other dragons hide as well?

Who else does that?

This is becoming too easy.

To quote Homer: "BOOOOOOOORING!"

BOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Oh boo yourself!

At 4/12/12 12:09 AM, gamejunkie wrote: Base Voting Power: 8.88

Feels like that took forever.

If it makes you feel any better, getting to 9 base voting power won't be long from hereon.

At 4/12/12 05:12 AM, Coop wrote: Coop hopes to get home tonight to Iron Maiden En Vivo. Congratulations to:

You know, I haven't even picked that up but I feel Maiden have done enough live releases already. Ever since the 1999 reunion, they've released one live album for each studio album they make. Brave New World has Rock in Rio, Dance of Death has Death on the Road, A Matter of Life and Death has Flight 666 (well, there IS a live CD album along with the documentary) and The Final Frontier has En Vivo.

At 4/11/12 06:04 AM, Bahamut wrote: At least the blams are around 500 away, even though that's still a long time.

Shh, every time people say that Blams are becoming easier to get, the bottom falls out of the market and people seem to save everything in sight.

So no encouraging the blams, eh?

I'm well aware of the transformation cards. They are damn weird since they break the whole concept of a playing card.

That's why you get an opaque backed set of deck protectors - that way, people can't see what is in your hand.

Well, you NEVER get transparent sleeves anyway, especially not with those transformation cards. BTW, with the Venser vs Koth decks, I feel I could be playing Venser quite a bit since the mixture of plain and island cards look interesting. Could be alright for a casual play but with the upcoming set released in a few weeks time, there'll be the intro pack for that as well.

They'll add more of them.

Sweet. Get me on the payroll!

I'll be on the waiting line as well. :P

Heh, shouldn't you keep it to 60? I can hardly see this game getting close to decking out.

I've got some decks that are over 120 cards - less chance of me getting what I want, but also less chance of being milled to death. Jace Belerin has a lot to answer for >:(

I really can't see how a 120 card deck will work out.

Not much of a milestone but 5,555 experience points :).

You passed 21,000 Saves. Way to go!

At 4/12/12 05:12 AM, Coop wrote:

At 4/12/12 12:09 AM, gamejunkie wrote: Base Voting Power: 8.88

Feels like that took forever.

Wait until you try to get 9.99 :P

Way to kill my feeling of euphoria!!

At 4/12/12 09:20 AM, Bahamut wrote: If it makes you feel any better, getting to 9 base voting power won't be long from hereon.

That's what I wanted to hear. Thanks for restoring my euphoria.

Rank # 450 in EXP

31,000 B/P Points.

At 4/12/12 09:20 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 4/11/12 02:30 PM, Haggard wrote:

At 4/11/12 06:04 AM, Bahamut wrote: Wait, is this a HDTV? I would have expected better. Then again, this is an attempt to play NTSC games on PAL so results vary.

No, downstairs it's an old TV set. No flat screen or anything like that. The TV upstairs is a pretty new Plasma TV. No problems there.

I see. I do recall having those issues once or twice in my life. An old TV is actually more ideal for sixth generation games. On HDTV it looks horrible.

True, that's why I keep my old consoles downstairs. ;)
If I wasn't so lazy I'd just plug in my NES on the HDTV and see what it looks like.

Only that weak one there.

But why do other dragons hide as well?

Who else does that?

You. Or why else do you hide in human disguise if you walk through the streets?

At 4/12/12 05:12 AM, Coop wrote: I've got some decks that are over 120 cards - less chance of me getting what I want, but also less chance of being milled to death. Jace Belerin has a lot to answer for >:(

I really can't see how a 120 card deck will work out.

True. Too many cards kill any deck instantly because you never get what you need during a game. I know it's really hard for beginners (or sometimes novices as well) to trim down a deck. If you found a combination of cards you like you of course want to use it in a deck. It's REALLY hard to trim down a deck. It might help if you try building a deck around a single combination of cards and see how that works out.

16,000 saves

Although I will probably not be here at the time, I will pass 19,000 total B/P in about 16 hours

You became a Captain!
You passed 14, 000 B/P!

At 4/13/12 02:23 AM, Haggard wrote: If I wasn't so lazy I'd just plug in my NES on the HDTV and see what it looks like.

I can answer that. It looks awesome. There's nothing better than a bout of SNES Rock'N'Roll Racing on it. I quite often plug in my old units to my plasma, the only thing that wont work on it is shooting games though, you need a cathode ray tube TV for them too work. Which is a pity because I love playing Sega Saturn - Virtua Cop and Virtua Cop 2, because they would look amazing on the plasma, but alas they just wont work. Thankfully I kept an old Panasonic 100cm to play them on.

I passed 4,000 saves. Starting to get more then the average user :).

Listening to:

Dantesco - De La Mano De La Muerte

At 4/12/12 11:23 PM, gamejunkie wrote:

At 4/12/12 09:20 AM, Bahamut wrote: If it makes you feel any better, getting to 9 base voting power won't be long from hereon.

That's what I wanted to hear. Thanks for restoring my euphoria.

There's a bit of a problem after that, though. Your next VP milestone will then be 15 in total and then it's just getting to the last level. At least with the current level system is a million times easier to reach 16 VP.

At 4/13/12 02:23 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 4/12/12 09:20 AM, Bahamut wrote: I see. I do recall having those issues once or twice in my life. An old TV is actually more ideal for sixth generation games. On HDTV it looks horrible.

True, that's why I keep my old consoles downstairs. ;)
If I wasn't so lazy I'd just plug in my NES on the HDTV and see what it looks like.

After trying out The Simpsons Arcade on PS3, it didn't look too bad. Mega Man X on the Wii on the other hand, the pixels give me a headache from time to time but at least it isn't all blurry like GameCube games are.

Who else does that?

You. Or why else do you hide in human disguise if you walk through the streets?

Haven't I always said only my partner will see it in full action?

True. Too many cards kill any deck instantly because you never get what you need during a game. I know it's really hard for beginners (or sometimes novices as well) to trim down a deck. If you found a combination of cards you like you of course want to use it in a deck. It's REALLY hard to trim down a deck. It might help if you try building a deck around a single combination of cards and see how that works out.

And this is why it's best to focus on one colour rather than trying out multiple. The mana cards are very similar to the Pokemon card game and when I played that and attempted multiple energy cards, it made the deck inconsistent. I know for a fact that with Magic there are cards out there that make it easier to play multicolour decks.

Coop gets frustrated by Liu Bei and the speed that he can run. Congratulations to:
Decky: 5,555 Experience; 4,000 Saves
Tycrane: 21,000 Saves
Jolly: 31,000 B/P
DiMono: 16,000 Saves
Gimmick: Captain; 14,000 B/P
Odyssic: 33,333 B/P

Thank you to:
Odyssic

At 4/12/12 09:20 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 4/12/12 05:12 AM, Coop wrote: Coop hopes to get home tonight to Iron Maiden En Vivo. Congratulations to:

You know, I haven't even picked that up but I feel Maiden have done enough live releases already. Ever since the 1999 reunion, they've released one live album for each studio album they make. Brave New World has Rock in Rio, Dance of Death has Death on the Road, A Matter of Life and Death has Flight 666 (well, there IS a live CD album along with the documentary) and The Final Frontier has En Vivo.

Nah, Flight 666 was the Somewhere Back in Time tour, which contains no tracks from Life and Death

At 4/11/12 06:04 AM, Bahamut wrote: At least the blams are around 500 away, even though that's still a long time.

Shh, every time people say that Blams are becoming easier to get, the bottom falls out of the market and people seem to save everything in sight.

So no encouraging the blams, eh?

See? 7-9-2 was my blams progression for the past few days. I'm not just missing Blams to prove a point here >:(

I'm well aware of the transformation cards. They are damn weird since they break the whole concept of a playing card.

That's why you get an opaque backed set of deck protectors - that way, people can't see what is in your hand.

Well, you NEVER get transparent sleeves anyway, especially not with those transformation cards.

I've got transparent sleeves - I don't have any of those cards, either.

They'll add more of them.

Sweet. Get me on the payroll!

I'll be on the waiting line as well. :P

Then I'm buggered - you're the golden boy of Newgrounds and I won't beat you to employment with NG.com inc any more than I could have beaten you to a Tank award :P

Heh, shouldn't you keep it to 60? I can hardly see this game getting close to decking out.

I've got some decks that are over 120 cards - less chance of me getting what I want, but also less chance of being milled to death. Jace Belerin has a lot to answer for >:(

I really can't see how a 120 card deck will work out.

When 2 players you play against have cards that cause a player of their choice to put the top 4 cards of their library into their graveyard, you pack a few more. One of them does it for 20 cards, so I took it out of play, by adding a lot more low powered stuff in there.

At 4/12/12 11:23 PM, gamejunkie wrote:

At 4/12/12 05:12 AM, Coop wrote:

At 4/12/12 12:09 AM, gamejunkie wrote: Base Voting Power: 8.88

Feels like that took forever.

Wait until you try to get 9.99 :P

Way to kill my feeling of euphoria!!

No problem, realism is the state I'm in here

At 4/13/12 02:23 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 4/12/12 05:12 AM, Coop wrote: I've got some decks that are over 120 cards - less chance of me getting what I want, but also less chance of being milled to death. Jace Belerin has a lot to answer for >:(

I really can't see how a 120 card deck will work out.

True. Too many cards kill any deck instantly because you never get what you need during a game. I know it's really hard for beginners (or sometimes novices as well) to trim down a deck. If you found a combination of cards you like you of course want to use it in a deck. It's REALLY hard to trim down a deck. It might help if you try building a deck around a single combination of cards and see how that works out.

Play against a Jace themed deck and see how you get on with just 60 cards, then.

At 4/13/12 05:03 AM, gamejunkie wrote:

At 4/13/12 02:23 AM, Haggard wrote: If I wasn't so lazy I'd just plug in my NES on the HDTV and see what it looks like.

I can answer that. It looks awesome. There's nothing better than a bout of SNES Rock'N'Roll Racing on it. I quite often plug in my old units to my plasma, the only thing that wont work on it is shooting games though, you need a cathode ray tube TV for them too work. Which is a pity because I love playing Sega Saturn - Virtua Cop and Virtua Cop 2, because they would look amazing on the plasma, but alas they just wont work. Thankfully I kept an old Panasonic 100cm to play them on.

Yeah, but the SNES as 16bit, the NES only 8bit. :P
I've heard the upscaling really destroys the picture. Maybe I try it out next week.
What I can say is, that a PS3 connected to a CRT TV via component cable looks somewhat good. A PS3 connected to a Plasma via component cable looks pretty good. But a PS3 connected to a Plasma via HDMI cable... WOW! It's a difference like day and night!

At 4/13/12 07:33 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 4/13/12 02:23 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 4/12/12 09:20 AM, Bahamut wrote: I see. I do recall having those issues once or twice in my life. An old TV is actually more ideal for sixth generation games. On HDTV it looks horrible.

True, that's why I keep my old consoles downstairs. ;)
If I wasn't so lazy I'd just plug in my NES on the HDTV and see what it looks like.

After trying out The Simpsons Arcade on PS3, it didn't look too bad. Mega Man X on the Wii on the other hand, the pixels give me a headache from time to time but at least it isn't all blurry like GameCube games are.

I would expect the old games re-released on the Wii should look better. Maybe I should do some testing next week... ^^

Who else does that?

You. Or why else do you hide in human disguise if you walk through the streets?

Haven't I always said only my partner will see it in full action?

Maybe. But why hide from humanity?

True. Too many cards kill any deck instantly because you never get what you need during a game. I know it's really hard for beginners (or sometimes novices as well) to trim down a deck. If you found a combination of cards you like you of course want to use it in a deck. It's REALLY hard to trim down a deck. It might help if you try building a deck around a single combination of cards and see how that works out.

And this is why it's best to focus on one colour rather than trying out multiple. The mana cards are very similar to the Pokemon card game and when I played that and attempted multiple energy cards, it made the deck inconsistent. I know for a fact that with Magic there are cards out there that make it easier to play multicolour decks.

Multi colour decks can be fun to play. And you won't run into problems with creatures that have protection from a single colour. I know when I first started playing my friends all played single black decks. I got so fed up with it that I created a single white deck with lots of stuff that had protection from black, haha.
Also, there are some very nice multicolour cards out there. I don't know if "double lands" are still in use. Those give mana of two colours (for example either red mana or black mana), you can decide which one when you tap them.

At 4/13/12 12:29 PM, Coop wrote:

At 4/13/12 02:23 AM, Haggard wrote:

At 4/12/12 05:12 AM, Coop wrote: I've got some decks that are over 120 cards - less chance of me getting what I want, but also less chance of being milled to death. Jace Belerin has a lot to answer for >:(

I really can't see how a 120 card deck will work out.

True. Too many cards kill any deck instantly because you never get what you need during a game. I know it's really hard for beginners (or sometimes novices as well) to trim down a deck. If you found a combination of cards you like you of course want to use it in a deck. It's REALLY hard to trim down a deck. It might help if you try building a deck around a single combination of cards and see how that works out.

Play against a Jace themed deck and see how you get on with just 60 cards, then.

Sorry, I stopped playing after the "Tempest" block, I never had to deal with a Planeswalker. :P
How about using cards that lets you destroy a permanent? ^^
But I had a deck that followed a similar theme once: Let the opponent draw cards until his library is empty... or until he was crushed to death by the Black Vise.
It was awfully slow, but very fun to play. Especially since I didn't had any creatures at all in this deck.
My fastest deck was the one with two Recycles. I could play the entire library in one single turn if everything went right.

Also: Do you have "Duels of the Planeswalkers" for the PS3? If so, we could play online.