Melody's Melodramatic Meltdown on Mitt Romney (Tounge Twister?)

[Malacite]

Re: Melody's Melodramatic Meltdown on Mitt Romney (Tounge Twister?)

lol like the new G/W dyriad that's a 2/1 for hybrid mana? R/B also got one a 1/1 unleash for hybrid...

I miss playing MTG, I don't miss spending all my money on it though lol... used to play it religiously with all my buddies in highschool. Good times.


BTW, that's not even the full clip of what Romney said... he goes on further to disparage Blacks & Latinos... it's such a mess, and it shows just what an asshole he really is. Obama has is own similar screw-up that some on TV are comparing this to, but it's not even fair. It might not have been worded right, but he was basically saying something that's true of everyone - when people are feeling really down on their luck, we cling to whatever's comforting or reassuring. It's a natural reaction.

Romney's basically writing off nearly half the country outright, insulting them, and then goes on to write off blacks and talk about latinos like they're nothing more than a mark that they're in danger of losing. Jon Stewart as usually did a pretty good job of putting him in his place; According to his own logic, Romney's father would be 1 of these 47~48% who would never vote for him. Eat a moose cock, sir.

And yeah you're right TM, everyone has a different idea of success - and that's a good thing, IMO. But there are generally shared conceptions of that as well. You can't have everyone making the same money for different jobs, that just kills incentive and innovation - it also just doesn't work either lol. But there really needs to be an increase in wages across the board, increases to the capital gains tax (that are means tested of course - winning the lottery is not the same as making millions regularly off investments) and a god damned cap on Executive Compensation.

Holy shit does there ever need to be a limit on that. Sorry, but it is just wrong any way you slice it that the avg CEO makes 500 times what an avg employee does. Nobody works hard enough to get paid that well, nobody. Even the President only makes $400k a year, and before that it was around like 200 (G.W.B. raised it). For that matter, members of both houses shouldn't get pensions either. At all. Getting paid to do the job & serving your country should be reward enough. It's absolutely disgusting that guys like Chris Dodd can retire with up to a 6-digit pension as early as 55 depending on how early they started their career in the Senate. Never mind that a lot of these guys are already filthy Rich (or in cases like John Kerry, married into wealth). You've got literally millions of kids living in poverty, starving in the richest nation on the planet, while a bunch of old white guys get paid exorbitant sums to have daily pissing matches with each other?

Shit ain't right.

[cidbahamut]

Re: Melody's Melodramatic Meltdown on Mitt Romney (Tounge Twister?)

Every time I see them print something that's Savannah Lions only better, I get grumpy. I don't particularly care if it's perfectly tame in-block, because I've never played Standard and stuff like that tends to just ramp up the power level of the game to the point where I can't play my dumb decks and have fun losing with them( my griffin deck).

[Yellow Mage]

Re: Melody's Melodramatic Meltdown on Mitt Romney (Tounge Twister?)

For what it's worth, Kird Ape is also in White, and outside of Planar Chaos, to boot.

Don't think it saw a lot of play, though. Though, when you're printed in the same set as Jace, the Money Scalper . . .

[Taskmage]

Re: Melody's Melodramatic Meltdown on Mitt Romney (Tounge Twister?)

I saw a green/white hybrid 2/1 first turn drop with a bonus ability and got turned off. New magic is still being silly.

They brought Kird Ape back a few years ago. Back when I started playing I remember that card being so BS overpowered. (This was back when I didn't recognize what was so great about Ancestral Recall.) When they banned it from Extended I thought "well, duh." Apparently that's where the power curve starts now. Considering when I last played there were very few one-drops that were even worth playing much less slotting in your deck, I don't think it's such a bad thing.

But that's not a particularly helpful stance when there are SO MANY idiots in this country who can't see past their own prejudices.

It's clearly problematic. I just prefer to characterize people first by what is good and honorable about them and second by what's standing in the way of that.

[cidbahamut]

Re: Melody's Melodramatic Meltdown on Mitt Romney (Tounge Twister?)

Not I. I've got nobody to play with IRL anymore.

Pretty much in the same boat.

I used to be a MtG fiend in college. I got everyone in the computer lab playing and organized a bunch of drafts for older blocks. One guy even referred to me as his pusher.

Then we all graduated. I really do miss it.

[Icemage]

Re: Melody's Melodramatic Meltdown on Mitt Romney (Tounge Twister?)

Let's put it this way: Everyone wants people to do well, but not everyone recognizes everyone else as a person.

But that's not a particularly helpful stance when there are SO MANY idiots in this country who can't see past their own prejudices.


Icemage

[Yellow Mage]

Re: Melody's Melodramatic Meltdown on Mitt Romney (Tounge Twister?)

I like the direction this thread has gone while I wasn't looking.

Anyone going to the Return to Ravnica prerelease next weekend?

I'm totally going to be hitting it up.

Keeping up with Standard can screw itself with a pike, but several of the Azorius/Selesnya cards seem like pretty darn good fits for my Rafiq of the Many EDH deck, including Archon of the Triumvirate, the Azorius Prerelease promo. This potentially includes Dryad Militant, the card cid is butthurt about, since graveyard recursion is currently a powerful thing in my local EDH meta.

Which, speaking of, I'm totally loving all of this graveyard hate that's being printed in the wake of Innistrad block. Seems like a very very very good thing for every format that it will be legal in.

[Taskmage]

Re: Melody's Melodramatic Meltdown on Mitt Romney (Tounge Twister?)

Let's put it this way: Everyone wants people to do well, but not everyone recognizes everyone else as a person.

[Icemage]

Re: Melody's Melodramatic Meltdown on Mitt Romney (Tounge Twister?)

I agree that the best society is the society that allows and enables all of its citizens to do well. I think most people would agree with that. But that still leaves a lot of room for disagreement about what it means to "do well" and what measures or environment would best facilitate that.

You're being a lot more generous than I would be. There are a lot of twisted and clueless people out there who think they're good people, but only want good things for people who are like them: i.e. if you're not "normal" to them, they don't care about you, and sometimes will not shed a tear if you suffer at the expense of others. That definition of "normal" bends and shifts depending on the person.


Icemage

[Taskmage]

Re: Melody's Melodramatic Meltdown on Mitt Romney (Tounge Twister?)

actual politics

I think generalizing about what "the right" or "the liberals" or whatever is a convention we should abandon. Individuals believe what individuals believe, and any time you lump someone in with their camp you're usually mischaracterizing their viewpoint. Unless of course someone's identity is highly conflated with the identity of the party, again referring to certain cable news personalities.

I agree that the best society is the society that allows and enables all of its citizens to do well. I think most people would agree with that. But that still leaves a lot of room for disagreement about what it means to "do well" and what measures or environment would best facilitate that.

[Icemage]

Re: Melody's Melodramatic Meltdown on Mitt Romney (Tounge Twister?)

I'm pretty sure Tinker is limited in formats where it isn't outright banned. While there are plenty of ways to cheat it into play, there's also plenty of easy counters to it. Pacify, Swords to Plowshares, Threaten, there's a lot of answers to that.

Better pray your opponent isn't holding Force of Will, because you basically have one shot to kill it.



Icemage

[Taskmage]

Re: Melody's Melodramatic Meltdown on Mitt Romney (Tounge Twister?)

My son got into Magic recently, so that got me playing again. Otherwise I have the same problem of none of my friends playing anymore. We're gonna do a two-headed giant tourney at the prerelease.

[Malacite]

Re: Melody's Melodramatic Meltdown on Mitt Romney (Tounge Twister?)

RtR is a pretty cool set.

The original Ravnica was my favorite block ever. They're a little insane with some of the newer cards they're printing though. The new Rakdos for example is just completely batshit....


http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/attac...1&d=1347763388


LOL @ the "drawback" XD (love that art too).

[Yygdrasil]

Re: Melody's Melodramatic Meltdown on Mitt Romney (Tounge Twister?)

Not I. I've got nobody to play with IRL anymore. The wife and I play... but that's it. Aside from the odd draft we used to do with strangers at the comic shop... we didn't get to play too often... so we quit.

I'd love to play... but lets just put that complaint right on the top of the pile of reasons why I wish I lived closer to TM... or vise versa.

[cidbahamut]

Re: Melody's Melodramatic Meltdown on Mitt Romney (Tounge Twister?)

I like the direction this thread has gone while I wasn't looking.

Anyone going to the Return to Ravnica prerelease next weekend?

I saw a green/white hybrid 2/1 first turn drop with a bonus ability and got turned off. New magic is still being silly.