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On March 01 2017 13:00 jcarlsoniv wrote:Show nested quote +On February 28 2017 21:43 Alaric wrote:Wait. Waitwaitwait. I ticked when he mentioned his job, but now that you say this, his first name is familiar... + Show Spoiler + Gizbro is a pretty chill guy. I played a local league tourney with him in CT back in the day he left riot for wavedash games last week
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That video made me want a commander deck again. Which would be pointless since I have no one to play with.
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On March 02 2017 00:31 mordek wrote: That video made me want a commander deck again. Which would be pointless since I have no one to play with. I know those feels
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You've both got kids tho.
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Have you tried teaching mtg to a 10 year old before Alaric I have and it wasn't easy or that fruitful. Pretty sure my kids would pick it up quick but still, not for another ten years or so. Just have to be patient.
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I was 10 when I learned to play Magic, and I kind of just figured it out on my own--there wasn't anyone to teach me. Plenty of the people I eventually played with had been playing for like 2-3 years before that too.
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As did I but let's not pretend like everyone picks things up that well or ignore the main point that neither Wave or I have a child remotely close to that age
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Sure, I just would have picked an age a little lower than that to make your point.
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On March 02 2017 04:37 TheYango wrote:Sure, I just would have picked an age a little lower than that to make your point.  10 was my personal experience from my Little. Haven't had an opportunity to teach magic to anyone else under the age of 20 since as long as I can remember. Magic ain't easy. I would totally play with my kids. Maybe it actually is the time to start building that commander deck... those things take time.
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Commander seems like a cool way to do it since you get a bit more than just kitchen table but less than more restrictive formats. Also the prebuilt decks from what I heard are quite fun.
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I haven't even attempted to teach anything I'm into to my son because he just doesn't seem to be into anything that he doesn't find himself.
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Just surreptitiously leave Magic cards around the house for him to find then.
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One that holds me back a bit beyond I play once a year with my brothers is that when you and others aren't really familiar with the cards play slows down so much and greatly diminishes the experience. Watching the players in the video Wave linked was enjoyable because they knew decks potentials and recognized cards as played. This is all obvious and I'm just continuing the conversation because the meeting I'm in just keeps going and this guy can't stay on one rabbit trail
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Yeah this is the most action the thread has seen in a week or so
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Or... save your kid from a lifetime of poverty by letting him not know papercrack exists.
I know I wish I could go on, ignorant of the paper cracks. Free from the urges to spend all my money and more on it.
:O
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On March 02 2017 06:09 WaveofShadow wrote: Yeah this is the most action the thread has seen in a week or so Thread's been going at a steady pace of about 2 pages between Music Mondays for some time now.
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On March 02 2017 06:22 TheYango wrote:Show nested quote +On March 02 2017 06:09 WaveofShadow wrote: Yeah this is the most action the thread has seen in a week or so Thread's been going at a steady pace of about 2 pages between Music Mondays for some time now. Show your work I demand graph analysis
I am so frigging tired right now
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I can post a funny story today.
I apparently broke up with my girlfriend in my sleep.
I wake up from some dream I don't remember, and she's like really upset and going "BUT WHAT ABOUT US?!?" all broken voiced and distraught. I had no idea what was going on. It took an hour to calm her down.
Shit's fine now, but... Yeah. Odd thing to happen at 3 AM.
My life is boring these days. Well not boring, it's fun, it just doesn't make good TL posts. I just hang out in Malaysia, teach a lot and don't have time for video games. I'm gonna go to Thailand in April and Borneo+Philippines in August, that should be fun?
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When it comes to magic I don't think I'd know how anything works if it wasn't for xmage laying out what the crap all the "phases" are and not letting me screw things up. Pretty sure I screwed up a lot of things when I played it as a young lad.
On March 02 2017 06:09 WaveofShadow wrote: Yeah this is the most action the thread has seen in a week or so
My opinion wave is that you are the center of our community discussion and without you things kinda peter out. Even if you aren't directly engaging in every conversation you keep things rolling. So this thread is basically one loooong wavebait.
Or maybe I am stupid and wrong but it's fun to think about it that way.
On March 02 2017 07:19 Ketara wrote: My life is boring these days. Well not boring, it's fun, it just doesn't make good TL posts. I just hang out in Malaysia, teach a lot and don't have time for video games. I'm gonna go to Thailand in April and Borneo+Philippines in August, that should be fun?
Borneo is great, I worked for a professor who had a cool field site there (though I didn't get to go). You should do some nature tourism!
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Yeah nature tourism is going to be the theme of Borneo.
GF's family lives there too, so there will be family barbeques, mountains to climb, oceans to dive, jungles to trek.
Should be funsies.
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