Comments on: Magic: the (re)Gathering; Friends and Family http://underpantsontheoutside.com/blog/2006/04/27/magic-the-regathering-friends-and-family/ Funny stories and superheroes Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:02:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: pokey http://underpantsontheoutside.com/blog/2006/04/27/magic-the-regathering-friends-and-family/#comment-631 pokey Sat, 29 Apr 2006 06:30:15 +0000 http://underpantsontheoutside.com/blog/2006/04/27/magic-the-regathering-friends-and-family/#comment-631 I give your friend and his roomate 2 weeks before they start regularly kicking your ass... I mean they have like 23 life points and you're dead, game after game... Sorry, but that's just how I see it in the cards for you z. I give your friend and his roomate 2 weeks before they start regularly kicking your ass… I mean they have like 23 life points and you’re dead, game after game…
Sorry, but that’s just how I see it in the cards for you z.

]]> By: Robbb http://underpantsontheoutside.com/blog/2006/04/27/magic-the-regathering-friends-and-family/#comment-626 Robbb Fri, 28 Apr 2006 19:03:02 +0000 http://underpantsontheoutside.com/blog/2006/04/27/magic-the-regathering-friends-and-family/#comment-626 I think there's a spectrum of nerdiness: on one end are the idle wizards, vulcans, and super-heroes, and on the other end are all the computer, chess, and classical music geeks. The triple-C's spend years developing discipline and dedication so that they may ACTIVELY engage in cerebral pursuits. OG's science guy fits into this club. The wizards, vulcans, and super-heroes usually lack discipline and spend all their time obsessing about pulpy pop culture, oblivious as grades and pussy pass them by. There's your Simpsons Comic Book Guy. "Magic: The Gathering"? Sounds like a chess-geek strategy thing ornamented in fantasy shlock. Some of those kids will be working at the Pentagon one day. I think there’s a spectrum of nerdiness: on one end are the idle wizards, vulcans, and super-heroes, and on the other end are all the computer, chess, and classical music geeks.

The triple-C’s spend years developing discipline and dedication so that they may ACTIVELY engage in cerebral pursuits. OG’s science guy fits into this club.

The wizards, vulcans, and super-heroes usually lack discipline and spend all their time obsessing about pulpy pop culture, oblivious as grades and pussy pass them by. There’s your Simpsons Comic Book Guy.

“Magic: The Gathering”? Sounds like a chess-geek strategy thing ornamented in fantasy shlock. Some of those kids will be working at the Pentagon one day.

]]> By: GQSmooth00 http://underpantsontheoutside.com/blog/2006/04/27/magic-the-regathering-friends-and-family/#comment-624 GQSmooth00 Fri, 28 Apr 2006 13:13:30 +0000 http://underpantsontheoutside.com/blog/2006/04/27/magic-the-regathering-friends-and-family/#comment-624 <blockquote>I was playing against a kid who was mopping the floor with me, when he turned to the elderly guy playing next to him and said, “Dad, you should play that differently.” Dad??? DAD???</blockquote> As a kid, it was never ok for my dad to play where I hung out. This is why the kids of today are so screwed up.

I was playing against a kid who was mopping the floor with me, when he turned to the elderly guy playing next to him and said, “Dad, you should play that differently.” Dad??? DAD???

As a kid, it was never ok for my dad to play where I hung out. This is why the kids of today are so screwed up.

]]> By: Big Brother http://underpantsontheoutside.com/blog/2006/04/27/magic-the-regathering-friends-and-family/#comment-623 Big Brother Thu, 27 Apr 2006 20:45:35 +0000 http://underpantsontheoutside.com/blog/2006/04/27/magic-the-regathering-friends-and-family/#comment-623 "Schools" has the right idea, but you should take it up a notch by ramping up both the quality of the handshake and the wetness. Let me explain. Thunder Lizard says that I don't give a good handshake. It is not wet or limp or anything like that, but firm and protected. Like most good handshakers (guys) the edges of our hands touch more than the squishy palms. This is just how it is done. Thunder Lizard, who is a girl, says that the palms should touch as well. She is wrong but persistant and in our house, we try to be sensitive to everyone's views. On that note, when TL and I have a serious deal to make we make it old school -- spitting on our palms first. And that's my advice to you as well. Go get em, champ. “Schools” has the right idea, but you should take it up a notch by ramping up both the quality of the handshake and the wetness. Let me explain. Thunder Lizard says that I don’t give a good handshake. It is not wet or limp or anything like that, but firm and protected. Like most good handshakers (guys) the edges of our hands touch more than the squishy palms. This is just how it is done.

Thunder Lizard, who is a girl, says that the palms should touch as well. She is wrong but persistant and in our house, we try to be sensitive to everyone’s views. On that note, when TL and I have a serious deal to make we make it old school — spitting on our palms first. And that’s my advice to you as well.

Go get em, champ.

]]> By: OG http://underpantsontheoutside.com/blog/2006/04/27/magic-the-regathering-friends-and-family/#comment-622 OG Thu, 27 Apr 2006 19:28:28 +0000 http://underpantsontheoutside.com/blog/2006/04/27/magic-the-regathering-friends-and-family/#comment-622 in terms you can understand: http://www.neutralground.com/items.php?id=32976 in terms you can understand:

http://www.neutralground.com/items.php?id=32976

]]> By: z http://underpantsontheoutside.com/blog/2006/04/27/magic-the-regathering-friends-and-family/#comment-621 z Thu, 27 Apr 2006 19:02:34 +0000 http://underpantsontheoutside.com/blog/2006/04/27/magic-the-regathering-friends-and-family/#comment-621 Really? Is that really the distinction? Or did you just draw an arbitrary line in the sand and declare that your side is the "cool side." Really? Is that really the distinction? Or did you just draw an arbitrary line in the sand and declare that your side is the “cool side.”

]]> By: OG http://underpantsontheoutside.com/blog/2006/04/27/magic-the-regathering-friends-and-family/#comment-620 OG Thu, 27 Apr 2006 18:43:36 +0000 http://underpantsontheoutside.com/blog/2006/04/27/magic-the-regathering-friends-and-family/#comment-620 I think you need to make a distinction between the 2 different factions in the nerd civil war, and then clearly side with one or the other. Basically, it's the wizards versus the vulcans. The wizards derive from D&D (in all it's forms: MTG), comics, and generally anything else that invloves magic (including super powers). These people manage to do poorly in school, while simultaneously receiving frequent beatings. Their social status and general quality of life steadily decline from the time they are 12 years old, until ultimately, they end up in the Android's Dungeon as Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons. Then you've got vulcan science nerds. They study a lot, enjoy science fiction, and are prone to contests where you try and see who can name various physcial and mathematical constants to the most decimal places. If you think pi is just 3.14 then you're nothing but a scruffy nerf herder. That sort of thing. Science nerds get beat up plenty in junior high too, but they unltimately end up with good jobs, money, and, as per Scarface's postulate, then they get the women. quit lumping them all together and declare where your allegiance I think you need to make a distinction between the 2 different factions in the nerd civil war, and then clearly side with one or the other.

Basically, it’s the wizards versus the vulcans.

The wizards derive from D&D (in all it’s forms: MTG), comics, and generally anything else that invloves magic (including super powers). These people manage to do poorly in school, while simultaneously receiving frequent beatings. Their social status and general quality of life steadily decline from the time they are 12 years old, until ultimately, they end up in the Android’s Dungeon as Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons.

Then you’ve got vulcan science nerds. They study a lot, enjoy science fiction, and are prone to contests where you try and see who can name various physcial and mathematical constants to the most decimal places. If you think pi is just 3.14 then you’re nothing but a scruffy nerf herder. That sort of thing. Science nerds get beat up plenty in junior high too, but they unltimately end up with good jobs, money, and, as per Scarface’s postulate, then they get the women.

quit lumping them all together and declare where your allegiance

]]> By: schools http://underpantsontheoutside.com/blog/2006/04/27/magic-the-regathering-friends-and-family/#comment-619 schools Thu, 27 Apr 2006 16:50:28 +0000 http://underpantsontheoutside.com/blog/2006/04/27/magic-the-regathering-friends-and-family/#comment-619 i think once you get back into fighting shape, you should crush those 13 year-old hands with man handshakes. but as long as you continue to lose, offer a wetter noodle (it will either earn their trust, or scare them, giving a glimpse of their limp-wristed futures). a win-win for the z-man i think once you get back into fighting shape, you should crush those 13 year-old hands with man handshakes. but as long as you continue to lose, offer a wetter noodle (it will either earn their trust, or scare them, giving a glimpse of their limp-wristed futures). a win-win for the z-man

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