Comments on: Magic 8-ball, or 8-ball of Magic? http://underpantsontheoutside.com/blog/2007/06/27/magic-8-ball-or-8-ball-of-magic/ Funny stories and superheroes Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:59:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Nevan http://underpantsontheoutside.com/blog/2007/06/27/magic-8-ball-or-8-ball-of-magic/#comment-12074 Nevan Sun, 09 Nov 2008 04:04:05 +0000 http://underpantsontheoutside.com/blog/2007/06/27/magic-8-ball-or-8-ball-of-magic/#comment-12074 Absolutely brilliant read. I haven't played Magic in close to a year, and it was only with one person at that. I miss the good old days, this made me really nostalgic. Absolutely brilliant read. I haven’t played Magic in close to a year, and it was only with one person at that. I miss the good old days, this made me really nostalgic.

]]> By: z http://underpantsontheoutside.com/blog/2007/06/27/magic-8-ball-or-8-ball-of-magic/#comment-7832 z Fri, 29 Jun 2007 13:49:43 +0000 http://underpantsontheoutside.com/blog/2007/06/27/magic-8-ball-or-8-ball-of-magic/#comment-7832 What are you talking about? Social awkwardness and math. Sounds EXACTLY like middle/high school to me. What are you talking about? Social awkwardness and math. Sounds EXACTLY like middle/high school to me.

]]> By: John Law http://underpantsontheoutside.com/blog/2007/06/27/magic-8-ball-or-8-ball-of-magic/#comment-7830 John Law Fri, 29 Jun 2007 02:48:13 +0000 http://underpantsontheoutside.com/blog/2007/06/27/magic-8-ball-or-8-ball-of-magic/#comment-7830 Z, I take my comment back about your weekend reminding me of middle/high school after reading the host's description. It sounds nothing like that at all. Z, I take my comment back about your weekend reminding me of middle/high school after reading the host’s description. It sounds nothing like that at all.

]]> By: Mind Ober Manner http://underpantsontheoutside.com/blog/2007/06/27/magic-8-ball-or-8-ball-of-magic/#comment-7825 Mind Ober Manner Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:20:25 +0000 http://underpantsontheoutside.com/blog/2007/06/27/magic-8-ball-or-8-ball-of-magic/#comment-7825 Shocked that you didn't mention the almost 50/50 ratio between actually playing games and debating about how we were going to play games. It was almost more of an argument retreat! I think the fun part of the obsessiveness is that it kind of feels like we're on some crazed mission... like we're codebreakers in world war two or something, and there's no time to eat or shower, we must fight the battle! Also, total escapism... there are no jobs, girlfriends/wives, bills, sunlight... I guess it's kind of a theme for me: total immersion. I'm a musician and I love touring for that reason, I love extreme camping trips, romantic getaways, psychadelic drugs, vacations (who doesn't?) and the occasional "quixotic and mostly ineffective" enterprises (like monitoring voting stations in Florida) and at the end of the day I don't give a shit about giants and dragons and magic spells, I just like lighting up my neurons and "bro-ing out" with other likeminded connoisseurs of stimulus. A good social vibe is the most difficult to engineer... and when you are hanging out with people who like to think and do math those same people tend to be less tuned into human emotions, it's true, and kind of a drag, but whaddya gonna do? You can't enjoy extreme symbol manipulation with a bunch of people who wrote that their primary interest was "people" in their freshman facebook. Thanks for taking the plunge with us Zach, we need more magic nuts who also have a sense of humor about it! - host of the retreat Shocked that you didn’t mention the almost 50/50 ratio between actually playing games and debating about how we were going to play games. It was almost more of an argument retreat! I think the fun part of the obsessiveness is that it kind of feels like we’re on some crazed mission… like we’re codebreakers in world war two or something, and there’s no time to eat or shower, we must fight the battle! Also, total escapism… there are no jobs, girlfriends/wives, bills, sunlight… I guess it’s kind of a theme for me: total immersion. I’m a musician and I love touring for that reason, I love extreme camping trips, romantic getaways, psychadelic drugs, vacations (who doesn’t?) and the occasional “quixotic and mostly ineffective” enterprises (like monitoring voting stations in Florida) and at the end of the day I don’t give a shit about giants and dragons and magic spells, I just like lighting up my neurons and “bro-ing out” with other likeminded connoisseurs of stimulus.

A good social vibe is the most difficult to engineer… and when you are hanging out with people who like to think and do math those same people tend to be less tuned into human emotions, it’s true, and kind of a drag, but whaddya gonna do? You can’t enjoy extreme symbol manipulation with a bunch of people who wrote that their primary interest was “people” in their freshman facebook. Thanks for taking the plunge with us Zach, we need more magic nuts who also have a sense of humor about it!

- host of the retreat

]]> By: John Law http://underpantsontheoutside.com/blog/2007/06/27/magic-8-ball-or-8-ball-of-magic/#comment-7817 John Law Thu, 28 Jun 2007 05:02:43 +0000 http://underpantsontheoutside.com/blog/2007/06/27/magic-8-ball-or-8-ball-of-magic/#comment-7817 Zach, as your former magic playing buddy, you really outdid yourself on this one. Excellent post. Though I honestly imagine it was really fun. I felt like I was in middle/high school again. Which you know, makes me wonder why you're experiencing this again at 28, but hey, whatever works. Zach, as your former magic playing buddy, you really outdid yourself on this one. Excellent post. Though I honestly imagine it was really fun. I felt like I was in middle/high school again. Which you know, makes me wonder why you’re experiencing this again at 28, but hey, whatever works.

]]> By: z http://underpantsontheoutside.com/blog/2007/06/27/magic-8-ball-or-8-ball-of-magic/#comment-7809 z Wed, 27 Jun 2007 20:39:44 +0000 http://underpantsontheoutside.com/blog/2007/06/27/magic-8-ball-or-8-ball-of-magic/#comment-7809 I'd actually say they're pretty low. I tried to write it so I could be mocked universally. I’d actually say they’re pretty low. I tried to write it so I could be mocked universally.

]]> By: Spideyjunkie http://underpantsontheoutside.com/blog/2007/06/27/magic-8-ball-or-8-ball-of-magic/#comment-7808 Spideyjunkie Wed, 27 Jun 2007 19:54:29 +0000 http://underpantsontheoutside.com/blog/2007/06/27/magic-8-ball-or-8-ball-of-magic/#comment-7808 What are the odds that 98% of the responses to this will not only be made by those that went on this trip (Magic: The Brotherhood), but will contain inside jokes the rest of us will not possibly be able to comprehend? What are the odds that 98% of the responses to this will not only be made by those that went on this trip (Magic: The Brotherhood), but will contain inside jokes the rest of us will not possibly be able to comprehend?

]]> By: Hunter Slaton http://underpantsontheoutside.com/blog/2007/06/27/magic-8-ball-or-8-ball-of-magic/#comment-7807 Hunter Slaton Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:46:03 +0000 http://underpantsontheoutside.com/blog/2007/06/27/magic-8-ball-or-8-ball-of-magic/#comment-7807 Excellent anti-report, Zach -- I laughed out loud more than once. Cheers, Hunter Excellent anti-report, Zach — I laughed out loud more than once.

Cheers,

Hunter

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