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"It's not any fun."
11 years ago
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Decided to split this journal in two halves, start the downer half here, do the other half where it's happier afterward so it's the one on my front page =O
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Downers
Two in particular really, one more minor than the other overall, but bugging me more
First one being financial minded, after being happy that I paid my way into the prerelease and my money was invested elsewhere?
The stereotypical magic player is of a sizable girth, and unfortunately, tables are placed in close proximity to one another, and even with the nifty fact that DCI sets up tournaments so that if someone's there in a wheelchair they can have a designated spot that folks came to me rather than me having to be pushed about to find them?
It was still quite a squeeze, aaaaand, as one member of the group got up and squeezed past, bumping the table for the sixth time that day? Down went my iPad, and at first I think it's okay, it just fell off the table right?
Open the cover up and there's a huge crack on the corner it landed squarely upon, which has splintered out across the entire front
Damnit
Well!
Apple want HOW much to replace this?
I'm not sure what to do since I rely on the little thing for entertainment and such a lot while laid up, reading my books and such inside it, but I certainly as hell CANNOT afford how much Apple want to fix this, and I know that a lot of cell phone stores will do it much cheaper, but I'm terrified of what job they might do, or if they'll try and peek at my stuff inside while it's with them
Or even just the cost of the slashed price cost @_@
I certainly can't fix it myself, I've seen how people fix it and I've nowhere near the steady hands necessary to repair it myself, that's even before the wrist cast in the way to boot
So
Yeah
Trying to think what to do there is a bad thing, looks like I'll need to open up commishes after all once I finish Nathan's comic
Finally?
Back to that topic at the start of the journal, "It's not any fun."
I have a problem with one of my Magic friends, and he's actually the person who mostly got me into Magic =o
The thing is, recently there's been a thing he's done, whenever we're playing, where he suddenly complains when I pull off a big move or a combo, that he'll just complain that my decks aren't fun to play against
At first, I think, okay, he's just having a bad game or two, it happens, people tilt out once or twice in Magic, hell, I had someone at my table who had an awesome deck that just wouldn't work for him, and ended up physically smacking his fist into the table when he conceded
But no, my friend doesn't get physical, maybe a swear word or something, toss down his cards, but eventually he'll just scoop and then voice the same complaint every time, that the problem is that I 'build every deck like I'm building a tournament' and that I'm not playing for fun
And it really stings, I spend a lot of time coming up with stories to go with my decks, and although I'll use one or two powerful cards, nothing stupidly overpowered ever enters the fray
Prime example, last game we played, I used my Heroic deck, which is all these little creatures that you pile up enchantment cards and they get stronger and stronger with every new attachment, basically it's like a voltron thing =o
My friend complains about Blue cards, counter, detain, Daxos in particular, my starting hand has a Daxos and a counterspell, and I just decide to sit on those cards the whole match and not use them
He plays a cat deck which is all about lifegain, indestructible cats and tons of cat tokens swarming the field
So literally all I do is create big monsters to smack into his and he still complains afterward that it's not fun, I even ask him afterwards what was wrong and he just shrugs , I ask him how HE would have made the deck differently and nothing again
In Magic, there are different players, Timmy, Johnny, Spike, with Spike's being the uber competitive people who play to win no matter what, and even though a good friend reassured me that this is my friend just being a sore loser, but it hurts to think I'm putting winning over my friends at any point
I'd just avoid playing with him, but he's kind of our main player and whenever we hang, he always wants to play, and I dunno what to really do here x_X
But it's a really fine line between competitiveness and all, and it honestly is still nagging me even while writing this, trying to think where the line lies, it's so hard to judge whether or not I've crossed it already x_o
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Downers
Two in particular really, one more minor than the other overall, but bugging me more
First one being financial minded, after being happy that I paid my way into the prerelease and my money was invested elsewhere?
The stereotypical magic player is of a sizable girth, and unfortunately, tables are placed in close proximity to one another, and even with the nifty fact that DCI sets up tournaments so that if someone's there in a wheelchair they can have a designated spot that folks came to me rather than me having to be pushed about to find them?
It was still quite a squeeze, aaaaand, as one member of the group got up and squeezed past, bumping the table for the sixth time that day? Down went my iPad, and at first I think it's okay, it just fell off the table right?
Open the cover up and there's a huge crack on the corner it landed squarely upon, which has splintered out across the entire front
Damnit
Well!
Apple want HOW much to replace this?
I'm not sure what to do since I rely on the little thing for entertainment and such a lot while laid up, reading my books and such inside it, but I certainly as hell CANNOT afford how much Apple want to fix this, and I know that a lot of cell phone stores will do it much cheaper, but I'm terrified of what job they might do, or if they'll try and peek at my stuff inside while it's with them
Or even just the cost of the slashed price cost @_@
I certainly can't fix it myself, I've seen how people fix it and I've nowhere near the steady hands necessary to repair it myself, that's even before the wrist cast in the way to boot
So
Yeah
Trying to think what to do there is a bad thing, looks like I'll need to open up commishes after all once I finish Nathan's comic
Finally?
Back to that topic at the start of the journal, "It's not any fun."
I have a problem with one of my Magic friends, and he's actually the person who mostly got me into Magic =o
The thing is, recently there's been a thing he's done, whenever we're playing, where he suddenly complains when I pull off a big move or a combo, that he'll just complain that my decks aren't fun to play against
At first, I think, okay, he's just having a bad game or two, it happens, people tilt out once or twice in Magic, hell, I had someone at my table who had an awesome deck that just wouldn't work for him, and ended up physically smacking his fist into the table when he conceded
But no, my friend doesn't get physical, maybe a swear word or something, toss down his cards, but eventually he'll just scoop and then voice the same complaint every time, that the problem is that I 'build every deck like I'm building a tournament' and that I'm not playing for fun
And it really stings, I spend a lot of time coming up with stories to go with my decks, and although I'll use one or two powerful cards, nothing stupidly overpowered ever enters the fray
Prime example, last game we played, I used my Heroic deck, which is all these little creatures that you pile up enchantment cards and they get stronger and stronger with every new attachment, basically it's like a voltron thing =o
My friend complains about Blue cards, counter, detain, Daxos in particular, my starting hand has a Daxos and a counterspell, and I just decide to sit on those cards the whole match and not use them
He plays a cat deck which is all about lifegain, indestructible cats and tons of cat tokens swarming the field
So literally all I do is create big monsters to smack into his and he still complains afterward that it's not fun, I even ask him afterwards what was wrong and he just shrugs , I ask him how HE would have made the deck differently and nothing again
In Magic, there are different players, Timmy, Johnny, Spike, with Spike's being the uber competitive people who play to win no matter what, and even though a good friend reassured me that this is my friend just being a sore loser, but it hurts to think I'm putting winning over my friends at any point
I'd just avoid playing with him, but he's kind of our main player and whenever we hang, he always wants to play, and I dunno what to really do here x_X
But it's a really fine line between competitiveness and all, and it honestly is still nagging me even while writing this, trying to think where the line lies, it's so hard to judge whether or not I've crossed it already x_o
So yeah, don't know the player by person, but small area, he's known at least to the store
The biggest deck everyone uses is a commander deck, unlike other games you're only allowed ONE of each card, and you get to choose one of your cards to kind of be your first mate, even if your opponent beats it in a fight, you can keep bringing it back, I chose mine as one who could search the deck for allies and special spells or things to be able to help in different situations
Next week? He's played a card that stops me from searching at all and shuts down my deck's whole point
I'm ONLY happy that I've yet to meet a corn creature in Magic, lol, and don't ever wish to or I'll never take it seriously XD
I can definitely empathise with Lady Rainicorn that episode <<
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Although saying that, if ONLY magic cards could do the whole hologram thing, but then it'd maybe take away from the whole tabletop fantasy element of using your imagination to make a narrative for it =B
I just don't know how to call him out on it, he says I'm the one taking it too seriously and he's the one playing for fun
It's just all kinds of gah whenever I play him and manage to pull off any kind of big move
Suck-ception
Perhaps with some of your friends who aren't too keen on playing you, why not considering working with them and possibly work it into playing some multi player games, like 2/3-headed giant?
Mercurial Pretender, that was just released in the prerelease, wasn't it?
And true, you do bring up a point... The Hydra and Xenagos are both still adequate card playing activities together =D
All my shock lands D=
It's a shame you're not enjoying playing with the guy who introduced you to the game - it might be time to start calling him out on it, which is never fun.
I think Scot's onto something? If he doesn't want to lose in one on ones so often, mix it up and play more multiplayer stuff where we end up teaming up against challenge decks
The one who's complaining is the one who has a problem.
(Although I've publicly acknowledged one of my decks is far too strong and depressing for 'casual' play and is locked in a box for fear of ending friendships)
The idea is supposed to be about having fun and that's where the linen's all blurred, just saying to outright not play feels like punishing both parties, and it's hard to know exactly how far I need to hold back to make the game more challenging if I'm winning constantly
This is what I really don't don't get. You don't hear people saying that it's not fair to castle in Chess. I suppose Magic does add the element of cards not available symmetrically. It sort of opens the door to "You're not beating me, your deck is."
Now, Magic has approximately a few thousand INDIVIDUAL cards, each with unique rules and interactions with how they effect other cards, so it's not hard for Wizards to release a new card, then suddenly realise that card paired up with one from five years ago can create an infinite loop for instance or a very unfair win condition
So between players there are a few card combinations that will really gain you ire for playing with
"Grand Theft Ashiok" as my suitably shunned deck, is one of them, through a combination of seemingly innocuous cards, I can steal my opponents cards to fight for me for the rest of the game, turn other monsters they control into sources of energy to plunder AND get rid of cards off the top of their deck before they can play them and then hijack them myself
It plays like it sounds, very cheap and nasty >_>
Of course, it makes sense that some combinations of cards are broken, given how big the game is.
Because of the whole way the color system in Magic is made, no one color has superiority over the others, so there's a fairly nice rock-paper-scissors element there on which color does best against one another
Decks that focus on burn use tons of spells to do direct damage to the opponent, so use very few creatures, which means that a lot of the decks ability to focus on using the opponents creatures need to be substituted for bigger creatures to ram at the opponent instead