You definitely have the correct attitude IMO. No illusions. I basically agree with you.
The reason I still play at all is because I love the game. The amount of strategy is incredible. It's got so much variety (especially Limited), compared to deathly boring games such as Chess.
I play mostly on Magic Online these days, and I wish I could make a living off it. I guess that's what everyone hopes to do, make a living off their favourite hobby.
Kibler is a great player and has taken up "Pro" Magic as a full-time thing. However, he's one of those 99.995% that doesn't make enough money to justify making it a career.
He's probably one of the 100 best Magic players in the World.
I've played Magic tournaments off and on for 6 or 7 years. I've played in the Pro Tour. I still play the occasional limited tourney. Limited means that you dont bring along your expensive cards to play. You open brand new randomized packs like everyone else, and make a deck.
99.995% of those who attempt or think they can make a living playing Magic, are dreaming. The prizes are very top-heavy, so that only the top 4 players per Pro Tour event (6 per year) can even hope to turn a decent profit.
And that's only for one year! Next year they have to manage an insane finish once again. Rarely do "name" players actually make repeat Top 4's in Pro Tours. I could count on 1.5 hands the number of players that are making a good living (i.e. 30K/yr) off this game.
Actually to some of us the deja site was essential and used it daily despite it's quirks.
The least Google could have done was make the millions of current users happy by keeping the deja site working in the meantime (especially since they say it will be back up RSN.)
For once I'm pissed at google (my fave search engine).
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Yeah that is the one moment where I can recall where I was.
I was 9 years old and by some fluke I was sick that day and had stayed home from school. I actually watched the launch live. It was pretty freaky and I never forgot the fact that I saw it live and was at home from school sick.
That was the same year as the Chernobyl meltdown, although I do not recall where I was when that happened, but I do still have a vivid mental picture of the schemas they showed on TV.
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I think mstone's post is a parallel dimension event... evidenced by the paragraphs composed of only one sentence, where each includes one or more ellipsis manifested in a slightly different manner than in this dimension: ".." rather than "..."
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You definitely have the correct attitude IMO. No illusions. I basically agree with you.
The reason I still play at all is because I love the game. The amount of strategy is incredible. It's got so much variety (especially Limited), compared to deathly boring games such as Chess.
I play mostly on Magic Online these days, and I wish I could make a living off it. I guess that's what everyone hopes to do, make a living off their favourite hobby.
Kibler is a great player and has taken up "Pro" Magic as a full-time thing. However, he's one of those 99.995% that doesn't make enough money to justify making it a career.
He's probably one of the 100 best Magic players in the World.
I've played Magic tournaments off and on for 6 or 7 years. I've played in the Pro Tour. I still play the occasional limited tourney. Limited means that you dont bring along your expensive cards to play. You open brand new randomized packs like everyone else, and make a deck.
99.995% of those who attempt or think they can make a living playing Magic, are dreaming. The prizes are very top-heavy, so that only the top 4 players per Pro Tour event (6 per year) can even hope to turn a decent profit.
And that's only for one year! Next year they have to manage an insane finish once again. Rarely do "name" players actually make repeat Top 4's in Pro Tours. I could count on 1.5 hands the number of players that are making a good living (i.e. 30K/yr) off this game.
I even made a nice little chart: http://goa_entranced.tripod.com/pic/protour.jpg (damn filter refuses an underscore in the URL.)
And yet, there are hundreds of thousands of players who chase the illusion of making a living playing Magic.
You've got to hand it to Wizards, they have hit a goldmine of addicts.
> What do you eat ALICE?
ALICE eats Electricity.
> How does electricity taste?
Like chicken.
The least Google could have done was make the millions of current users happy by keeping the deja site working in the meantime (especially since they say it will be back up RSN.)
For once I'm pissed at google (my fave search engine)._ __
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I was 9 years old and by some fluke I was sick that day and had stayed home from school. I actually watched the launch live. It was pretty freaky and I never forgot the fact that I saw it live and was at home from school sick.
That was the same year as the Chernobyl meltdown, although I do not recall where I was when that happened, but I do still have a vivid mental picture of the schemas they showed on TV._ __
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I actually had a high school final English exam which featured this story[ about 8 years ago]._ _______
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I think mstone's post is a parallel dimension event... evidenced by the paragraphs composed of only one sentence, where each includes one or more ellipsis manifested in a slightly different manner than in this dimension: ". ." rather than "..."
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and I type 100 words/min with 2 fingers._ __
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