So your main fear is that humans will one day become subservient to mechanical overlords? I daresay many of us are slaves already, and are quite happy with our enslavement. Imagine if this 'slavery' gave you access to near-instant communication, all of your favorite videos, musical pieces, and games whenever you want them, and more reading material than you can shake a stick at. Wouldn't you want to serve this new, shiny, box-like master? Wouldn't you want to spend hours and hours each day, hunched over a terminal, submitting your mind and body to decadent decay? I say that the overlord we need fear is not that which threatens us with suffering, but that which wins us over with pleasure. Our race relies so heavily on computer technology and the internet already that if some force cut it off, there would be widespread chaos. In the not-to-distant future you will be unable to go a single day without logging in. Not because you're addicted, but because the rest of the world no longer functions entirely within the realm of physicality. You say you fear the day robots and androids make us their slaves. I say that computers and the internet already have.
The Birkebeiner is a 50km cross country ski race that takes place each year in Hayward, WI. It happens to be this weekend and I happen to be skiing in it.
1. For me personally a bit of guilt, as I don't write my parents as often as I feel I should. However the overwhelming sensation would be happiness and relief that they're proud of what I did.
2. I made the Dean's list, and my parents took the time to find out on their own and congratulate me? Sweetness.
3. Oh God, has it really been that long since I last wrote Dad? Well now I feel like a terrible son.
I admit that's a very narrow response and likely only applies to a few people, but in that situation the email would evoke both feelings of pride and guilt.
And those are just instants and sorceries (I'm too lazy to look through creatures, but fungi are fun). The benefit of token producers over regular creatures is two-fold. First, many of them are instant speed and allow you to wait until your opponent's end of turn to decide whether or not to try to cast your spell. Secondly, they usually produce more than one creature, which makes opposing spot removal a bit worse against you. Also there are a few cards (which I included above) that can double your tokens (Doubling Season itself isn't half bad). So that's my recommendation. Best of luck to you.
1. Funeral by Arcade Fire, Discovery by Daft Punk, and the best recording of Scheherezade I can find.
2. Singin' In the Rain, Children of Men, Godzilla (the one with Mathew Broderick in it)
3. Minecraft, the possibilities really are endless.
4. Me, but slightly older.
5. Battleship (it'd be fun in an ironic sort of way)
6. The Bible, The Koran, Color of the Sea by John Hamamura
7. Turner: Snow Storm: Steamboat off a Harbour’s Mouth
8. A litter of kittens.
9. A cello.
10. Discovery Channel and Al Jazeera.
11. That at least for one day in each person's life, they experience true happiness.
Can someone tell me, first of all, why people get offended about things in the first place? Words are just words, and even if someone is using, say, a racial slur in a highly racist way, what is the point of getting offended?
Well that's simple enough. Words exist to convey meaning. Without meaning words are just noise. So if we treat words as the sentiment they represent rather than the sound they consist of then it should become clear how they can be offensive. If a man says he intends to murder my best friend, and then proceeds to do so, I wouldn't be pleased if, at some point in the future, he made a joke about murdering someone. Yes, it was used in a joking manner, but because of certain actions in the past I, as an individual, am primed to see that joke as threatening.
It is somewhat the same with slurs. They convey the meaning that the target is a lower form of human being than the speaker, that the speaker is civilized while the target is not, that the speaker is powerful, while the target is weak, that the speaker is master and the target a slave. If someone held those feelings towards another me, and made them known, then it would be very hard not to be angry at them. Especially if, at some point in the past, they had, or had attempted to, ensure that their sentiments became reality.
If this doesn't make any sense, let me know and I'll try to work it out with you.
And just for reference, I am a white, hetero, middle class, college educated (ongoing) male. So it is indeed possible for those of our persuasion to be sensitive to these sentiments.
I can't say right now, it certainly seems fun though, and I'd love to try it. When the set's prerelease debuts online that'll be my first order of business.
My one big gripe is probably one that many people don't even have to think about.
Because my university requires students to log in to their infranet in order to access the internet, I periodically have to re-log in, as it automatically kicks you out after about two or three hours. As you can imagine this makes drafting or any other competitive online play very precarious. However sometimes I am forced to exit MTGO and log nn again after I've reconnected. This used to be a simple matter, log off, retype my password, log on. However for some reason they decided it would be a brilliant idea to force MTGO to exit completely whenever you log off. This means the whole process, which used to take roughly half a minute, now takes around two, which is really just awful when you consider the scenario of being on pack 3 pick 2.
So for me, the ability to log off without exiting the client would be a dream come true, even if they never gave a clear reason for why they removed the feature in the first place.
People who play without sleeves are obviously just a bunch of ignorant, no good, mean spirited skullduggers.
Honestly I prefer to play with sleeves when I can, but I'm not going to go out of my way when I'm at a friend's house to find enough of one type of sleeve to make sure each deck I play is sleeved. Most of my competitive Magic is played in the limited format, and when I do draft I like to keep my deck in sleeves, if only for the sake of it being easier to distinguish between the deck and the sideboard. If someone is playing without sleeves I really think nothing of it. I've cakewalked those with sleeves and been cakewalked by those without. This is magic, your skill level is not determined by the amount of protection your cards have. Although I will say that those who use sleeves likely know more about the monetary worth of their cards than those who don't.
But that trailer looks like the ☺☺☺☺!
Best of luck to you, then!
2. I made the Dean's list, and my parents took the time to find out on their own and congratulate me? Sweetness.
3. Oh God, has it really been that long since I last wrote Dad? Well now I feel like a terrible son.
I admit that's a very narrow response and likely only applies to a few people, but in that situation the email would evoke both feelings of pride and guilt.
On an unrelated note what's a Berkie?
Green itself has more generic token producers than you can shake a stick at (Parallel Evolution, Bestial Menace, Gilt Leaf Ambush, Grizzly Fate, One Dozen Eyes)
And those are just instants and sorceries (I'm too lazy to look through creatures, but fungi are fun). The benefit of token producers over regular creatures is two-fold. First, many of them are instant speed and allow you to wait until your opponent's end of turn to decide whether or not to try to cast your spell. Secondly, they usually produce more than one creature, which makes opposing spot removal a bit worse against you. Also there are a few cards (which I included above) that can double your tokens (Doubling Season itself isn't half bad). So that's my recommendation. Best of luck to you.
2. Singin' In the Rain, Children of Men, Godzilla (the one with Mathew Broderick in it)
3. Minecraft, the possibilities really are endless.
4. Me, but slightly older.
5. Battleship (it'd be fun in an ironic sort of way)
6. The Bible, The Koran, Color of the Sea by John Hamamura
7. Turner: Snow Storm: Steamboat off a Harbour’s Mouth
8. A litter of kittens.
9. A cello.
10. Discovery Channel and Al Jazeera.
11. That at least for one day in each person's life, they experience true happiness.
Well that's simple enough. Words exist to convey meaning. Without meaning words are just noise. So if we treat words as the sentiment they represent rather than the sound they consist of then it should become clear how they can be offensive. If a man says he intends to murder my best friend, and then proceeds to do so, I wouldn't be pleased if, at some point in the future, he made a joke about murdering someone. Yes, it was used in a joking manner, but because of certain actions in the past I, as an individual, am primed to see that joke as threatening.
It is somewhat the same with slurs. They convey the meaning that the target is a lower form of human being than the speaker, that the speaker is civilized while the target is not, that the speaker is powerful, while the target is weak, that the speaker is master and the target a slave. If someone held those feelings towards another me, and made them known, then it would be very hard not to be angry at them. Especially if, at some point in the past, they had, or had attempted to, ensure that their sentiments became reality.
If this doesn't make any sense, let me know and I'll try to work it out with you.
And just for reference, I am a white, hetero, middle class, college educated (ongoing) male. So it is indeed possible for those of our persuasion to be sensitive to these sentiments.
How did you get MTGO to display Mirrodin Besieged cards?
Because my university requires students to log in to their infranet in order to access the internet, I periodically have to re-log in, as it automatically kicks you out after about two or three hours. As you can imagine this makes drafting or any other competitive online play very precarious. However sometimes I am forced to exit MTGO and log nn again after I've reconnected. This used to be a simple matter, log off, retype my password, log on. However for some reason they decided it would be a brilliant idea to force MTGO to exit completely whenever you log off. This means the whole process, which used to take roughly half a minute, now takes around two, which is really just awful when you consider the scenario of being on pack 3 pick 2.
So for me, the ability to log off without exiting the client would be a dream come true, even if they never gave a clear reason for why they removed the feature in the first place.
Or at least that's what I plan on.
Honestly I prefer to play with sleeves when I can, but I'm not going to go out of my way when I'm at a friend's house to find enough of one type of sleeve to make sure each deck I play is sleeved. Most of my competitive Magic is played in the limited format, and when I do draft I like to keep my deck in sleeves, if only for the sake of it being easier to distinguish between the deck and the sideboard. If someone is playing without sleeves I really think nothing of it. I've cakewalked those with sleeves and been cakewalked by those without. This is magic, your skill level is not determined by the amount of protection your cards have. Although I will say that those who use sleeves likely know more about the monetary worth of their cards than those who don't.