Magic The Gathering, up until 4th edition, was a wonderful concept and game. I enjoyed it very much. Then abilities such as shadow, flanking, phasing etc were added to make it about money. Holographic cards made it about money. Preconstructed decks made4 it about money. Magic is now a waste (Ok, not a waste, but still....)
AD&D. 1st edition (found the books at a yard sale $1 a piece) was insane. Good stuff. 2nd edition, while smacking of commercialism, still good stuff. 3rd edition.... do you realize how many books you need to play???::sigh:: thus dies another RPG...
Pokemon. About $$ from the beginning. Bad from the beginning (and I have tried.)
I am at school right now, so the computer system may automatically censor some of the things I try to say.
And maybe that is part of the problem.... that hatred and revenge are repressed and feared, rather than considered forms of art, which they should be. At least by my standards, the five topics of art are comedy, tragedy, love, , and revenge... revenge being the purest of these. For how better to deal with hatred and misanthropy (I am, incidentally, a proud misanthrope) than to create with destructive energy?
Even when revenge is exacted, it can be done with cleverness and nonviolence... when I was beaten by a "clique" of people, I went into school two hours early and switched their belongings amongst various storage spaces. Almost a "hack" a la MIT... certainly better than ing them all.
If hatred is d rather than respected, then we as a society are never going to go anywhere. The lack of respect for those who are different- Goth, atheist, ortohdox religious, , furry, antisocial, unintelligent, whatever- is the probelm with today's society, the problem which caused these people to , caused the s before them and will continue to cause tragedies until something is done.
Anyone who wants to talk to me about this.... I've been thinking about it a lot... email me. It's up to people who understand to educate those who don't; not for theur sake, but for our own.
You know what? How about we just use IP addresses instead? While this might seem like a bad idea at first, think about it.... there would be no pseudo-domain names (like mine, i know, i know) and you would have to be honest about your IP! I guess not everyone has my propensity for remembering numbers, but computers do.... so while television ads for 24.0.148.95 (I think that's my friend's cable modem, except I changed a digit) would fail to grab your attention, email would work just fine. AND.... it would remove the "dot com" television advertisement FOREVER.
They create variations on the standard PC theme, but its not like "Wow, a Mac can do that and my PC can't do anything even close to it". Granted, you're right about some of that... but show me a PC in gigaflops. G4 can do that. Because G4 is good.:)
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Magic The Gathering, up until 4th edition, was a wonderful concept and game. I enjoyed it very much. Then abilities such as shadow, flanking, phasing etc were added to make it about money. Holographic cards made it about money. Preconstructed decks made4 it about money. Magic is now a waste (Ok, not a waste, but still....)
AD&D. 1st edition (found the books at a yard sale $1 a piece) was insane. Good stuff. 2nd edition, while smacking of commercialism, still good stuff. 3rd edition.... do you realize how many books you need to play??? ::sigh:: thus dies another RPG...
Pokemon. About $$ from the beginning. Bad from the beginning (and I have tried.)
that's all....rax morgant
I am at school right now, so the computer system may automatically censor some of the things I try to say.
And maybe that is part of the problem.... that hatred and revenge are repressed and feared, rather than considered forms of art, which they should be. At least by my standards, the five topics of art are comedy, tragedy, love, , and revenge... revenge being the purest of these. For how better to deal with hatred and misanthropy (I am, incidentally, a proud misanthrope) than to create with destructive energy?
Even when revenge is exacted, it can be done with cleverness and nonviolence... when I was beaten by a "clique" of people, I went into school two hours early and switched their belongings amongst various storage spaces. Almost a "hack" a la MIT... certainly better than ing them all.
If hatred is d rather than respected, then we as a society are never going to go anywhere. The lack of respect for those who are different- Goth, atheist, ortohdox religious, , furry, antisocial, unintelligent, whatever- is the probelm with today's society, the problem which caused these people to , caused the s before them and will continue to cause tragedies until something is done.
Anyone who wants to talk to me about this.... I've been thinking about it a lot... email me. It's up to people who understand to educate those who don't; not for theur sake, but for our own.
Artiraxin "Rax" MorgantYou know what? How about we just use IP addresses instead?
While this might seem like a bad idea at first, think about it.... there would be no pseudo-domain names (like mine, i know, i know) and you would have to be honest about your IP!
I guess not everyone has my propensity for remembering numbers, but computers do.... so while television ads for 24.0.148.95 (I think that's my friend's cable modem, except I changed a digit) would fail to grab your attention, email would work just fine.
AND.... it would remove the "dot com" television advertisement FOREVER.
They create variations on the standard PC theme, but its not like "Wow, a Mac can do that and my PC can't do anything even close to it". :)
Granted, you're right about some of that... but show me a PC in gigaflops. G4 can do that. Because G4 is good.