All your creatures have toughness 2 or less and you run 4 volcanic fallouts. Does that work or does it harm you more than help?
I'm thinking of actually trying to play constructed, blogs like this help me out! thanks!
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Jun 20, 2009dimir impersonator posted a message on [fnm Report] T2 - 6/19/09Posted in: Sir Auron25's Farplane
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Jan 23, 2008dimir impersonator posted a message on CloverfieldI'm not sure if you are even supposed to sympathize with the characters. I mean, Jason calls his brother a d-bag in the beginning and I think that label could probably be attached to most of them. There's no character developement because there doesn't NEED to be. It's taped on a camcorder for pete's sake, they all know each other. You don't need to know them to have a good time watching giant monster chaos. And your ending would not only be silly and unrealistic, but it'd be even more cliche than the movie already was!:o I loved that it didn't have a typical "survivors getting away while watching the destruction they barely escaped" ending. We've seen that ending a thousand times. Usually in American-made films. The ending of Cloverfield was a refreshing departure from normal popcorn movie junk. I had more fun watching this movie than ANY of the big flicks of 2007, including Spider-man 3, Pirates 3, and Transformers. The only exception being Bourne 3.Posted in: Alacar's Design Zone
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This is the insanity I was talking about. I can watch it and pretend the prequels don't exist. I can divorce myself from the bad aspects of the new films and enjoy the originals just fine. Everyone should be able to do this, but you're making a conscience decision not to.
Truth, IMO, can never be rude. It can be harsh, but never rude.
EDIT: Speaking of bad and good aspects of Star Wars, the originals are not without fault. Luke is terribly whiny in Episode IV and the bad guys are only bad guys because we're told they are bad. They blow up a planet, but one could make the argument that they were acting in a militarily strategic manner. The plot is thin, overall. We still love those films because of what they were when they were originally released and because, let's face it, Han Solo is freaking cool.
Dammit, I'm too lazy too look up how to spell his name! Don't blame me if everyone loves their goofy, fantasy inspired names that I can't remember. If his name was "Bob" I would have gladly said "Bob thinks Star Wars can't be an insular experience." Valanarch is the person in question, I'm not afraid to ever call anyone out (I think I've been on the verge of being banned from these forums on a few occasions for being to pointed at others), I'm just too lazy sometimes to open another tab and figure out how to spell someone's name. Yours is easy, though!
@Drawmeomg Do you now watch Episode V and think "this is now less enjoyable because George Lucas lost his mind?" I doubt it. I still watch the original trilogy with the same enjoyment I got when I was 7 (maybe more enjoyment, in fact) even though I really, really hate Episode I.
IMO, if someone can't remove themselves from ancillary properties or even bad sequels/prequels then the problem is with that person and not the property in question.
This person claims that by throwing out the Star Wars extended universe the new films will ruin the enjoyment he got by reading the novels/comics/etc. because they are no longer official cannon. There's a few things wrong with this, but I want to get to a specific point.
There's tons of people I've talked to, listened to on various podcasts, or chatted on forums with that claim that the Matrix sequels took something away from the original film because they fell so short of the original.
The similar theme here being that, in both cases above, something is retroactively destroying one's enjoyment of something they loved.
This is impossible.
No matter how bad a sequel is, no matter what the new Star Wars will do to continuity, they cannot travel back in time and ruin the first experience a person had with something they loved. Watching The Matrix Revolutions (something I suggest no one ever do), cannot affect how you actually felt the first time you watched the film...and yet I've encountered people who act like that exactly what happened.
The thing about all media is, no matter how intrinsically tied to something else (a sequel for example), can be viewed and enjoyed wholly on its own merit. It is possible to enjoy just The Matrix without taking into account the sequels (in fact, we all did it the first time we watched that film!). It is possible to enjoy Star Wars the films as their own thing and Star Wars the novels as something else.
Rant over. Flame away.
It's impossible for something to retroactively take away enjoyment. You read the EU and enjoyed it. That enjoyment is gone, done, over, cannot be brought back, therefore cannot be destroyed.
WOW!
So you are completely unable to separate the films from the EU?!?!?!?!?! The problem then is with you.
You have just completely blown my mind. It's impossible for one thing to "invalidate" another because they are completely different things.
**** it, I'm done. I need to sever my internet connection.
Again, the films stand alone. They are not a part of EU continuity. They aren't even created by the same people. In fact, the EU is authorized fan fiction. Did you stop reading Harry Potter novels because they diverged from internet fiction?
The EU is linked to the films because *gasp* the films have to exist for the fan fiction to exist. But none of the films are linked to the EU and never have been, to my knowledge.
Hey, that's a totally valid reason. :/
Can't you just have the EU and the films be separate things and enjoy (hate) each individually?
This is NOT a Michael Bay movie. He just produced it. For those who don't pay attention, that means he was there to get the money to get the film made. That's all. It's not a Michael Bay film so stop calling it that. He was producer on a ton of terrible horror remakes and none of those had explosions, Sepiriel. He also produced The Purge and it's sequel and that first film didn't have any of his trademark crap; it managed to suck all on its own.
Johnathan Liebsman directed this and every film he's directed has been terrible, so this film will be terrible becuase he made it, not Bay.
My point, because I obviously wasn't clear enough, is that it could be a common 3/2 that kills you. Running one or two counters isn't strong because you never know what they are running or what cards are going to hit the table that will lose you the game.
<God, I really hate the limited forums. Everyone wants to make everything into a debate.> I wasn't wrong in my reason, even if countering an Elspeth is always favorable. Again, you don't know how things will play out in limited, you don't know what's in their deck, and you don't know, without certainty, what card will beat you in the long run.
EDIT: The only reason I used Elspeth in my first post was because someone else had already mentioned her. Sorry.
Flaming/trolling. Infraction issued.- Hardened
My personal reason for not running them unless I have to is really the case of tempo. I've never liked leaving the bulk of my mana open unless I have other instants to cast or activated abilities on the board (some of the guildmages in Ravnica block, for example).
They are NOT aliens. Pretty sure that rumor was debunked...also they show the ooze in the preview. :/
First off, it's a teaser. It's not going to have a lot of action in it. Hell, some of the best teasers don't even have footage from the film. They're not going to waste all the really cool stuff on the teaser.
Second, my guess is they probably don't have a lot of the effects shots done. This was just the sample to get people excited. In a month or two they'll release a full trailer with tons of what you want to see.
I know with today's effects motion capture was probably the best way to go with a live action Ninja Turtles film, but they still just don't look like they are a part of the same world as the live action characters. I truly wonder sometimes if we will ever cross the uncanny valley. I know Hollywood types and effects people say they've done it or they're really close, but they must be watching something different than everything I've ever seen...
Cause she's hot?
I'm going out on a limb here and saying the people posting in this thread aren't the target audience for this movie, unless you guys are buying the action figures and playing TMNT on the playground at recess...
I reserve judgement until my kids drag me to see this.
It's extremely difficult to nail down movie rumors for a movie that never happened, but there was a time when Matthew Vaughn, director of First Class, was set to direct a sequel. He had a treatment for Days of Future Past but there was nothing concrete. He had the idea but no one signed off on it and it wasn't planned. He dropped out of directing and Singer took over and it became a thing. The only person who ever had it in mind was Vaughn, not Fox.
This is the best I could find, but I spend most of my free time reading movie rumors and news and I remember clearly there was a space of time where no one was pushing a sequel other than Vaughn. First Class was the second lowest performing (worldwide gross, US box office it was the lowest of all of them) film of all the X-films including X-Men origins: Wolverine. The sequel almost didn't happen.
When making First Class there was no plan to make Days of Future Past. They couldn't have planned for it. They ignored the entire previous story and still tried to tie the films together.
I never read X-men comics and only know any of the history because of social knowledge. I'm not fanboy ranting, I'm pissed because the first trilogy specifically said they were friends (Magneto and Xavier were supposed to build cerebro) for years and they peed all over that with First Class. The third film begins with them being friends in the late 70s early 80s.