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MtGO: Oh noes, we lost the game
2009-10-24 6:01 PM PDT
or not?

Was playing two-headed game with red white deck as a sidekick, me with usual black green one with stripped down to 275 cards or so.
Well we were down in the point where our opponents had this new landfall thingy going on where they put a 4/4 beast on table each time they get a land on table. And by the looks, there was lots of lands coming.
Well they were laughing and pointing at us that we lost as my partner had nothing on table and i had only 1/2 & 7/7 creature + one card in hand. As said, he had nothing on table and two cards in hand.
But.
He had not used any of his mana nor were the cards in hand creature cards.
So just before his untap phaze he dropped hefty 30 points of damage on opponent. Too bad they had only 16 left.
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MtGO: Need more cards in hand
2009-10-22 3:31 AM PDT
Lost seven games simply because i don't get enough draws from deck. Whats the idea of having +500 deck i can't get even 10% out of it before game ends?
And the silly blue decks i have been encountering last 10 or so matches. "discard card" "opponent draws tsiljon cards, then discards tsiljon cards" blaa blaa blaa. You can't win me with that, but you surely make me bored.
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New ownage record in MtGO
2009-10-10 3:43 AM PDT
Blue vs Black Green
[-403] - [56]
My strongest creature on table Rhys The Exiled with medicore buffing to 128/127
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DnD 4.0 : EL 6 & EL 8 at level 11
2009-09-18 3:52 PM PDT
So we did some more testing with this new 4.0 Dungeons and Dragons to see how it fits this game group.

Well the combats were slow, the information about powers were scattered over five books, there was dozen or so of little things to be remembered on each round and attack, there was no real threat and game was lot more focused on DPR than on special effects.

So we won the fights quite easily as no healing was needed and only one daily power was used, but so was also the fights quite boring. In 3½ there was more real impact on effects like spells and feats ect. While in 4.0 you just hack and slash dropping minor penaltys or bonuses. In 4.0 you get 'Oh noes, i am blind for total of one total round' when in 3½ there was 'Crap, i am blind permanently. Time to get creative' or 'I got -2 to all attacks i do for rest of the encounter? Wow, maybe i should swift to flank then' vs 'I got permanent -6 on attacks? Ok, this needs some planing'.

DnD 4.0 is just WoW on paper.
Even the effects are similiary ridiculously over hyped. 'You shatter armor and bone with a ringing blow.' and you do like 30 points of damage thats maybe 1/5 of targets HPs? Uuu, scary. In 3½ the DM said how well the hit was done, so when your fireball ended up with all 1's you didn't get any 'A fiery red bead streaks from your finger to the spot you indicate, where it bursts into a great ball of magical flame.'. You did less damage than average commoner with axe, why are you making all that show down there?

Its been quite some time that i have been feeling the way i do thus 4.0 is for casual players where you can bang your head against obstacels few times safely and don't need to know anything before hand, you got enough HPs and healing surges to figure out how to win the fights. No one really shines out, regaldess of ammount of metagaming, classes, races, tactics or strategy. You just grind 'em to death with At-Will powers after you have dished out encounter powers and search for loot.
The 3½ is where there the advetures are and the...
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Best BF2142 round this far
2008-03-26 3:45 PM PDT
Last night i made new personal record in every possible way while playing BF2142 in map Suez Canal as PAC.

I collected two pages of awards:
  • 3x Combat Efficiency Pin's
  • 2x Distinguished Combat Efficiency Pin's
  • 2x Infiltrator Pin's
  • Silver Star
24 kills in row.
132 points before rewards.
Best in my class (reconn), in my weapon type (zeller) and in vehicle type (battle walker).

And i can dare to say that my teams effort was the reason we won so clearly as we produced some serious presure behind the enemy lines.

Only sad thing was that i was not able to get a screenshot from the summarys.

Now the issue should be fixed and i am off to get a new record.
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Taking a break
2008-03-01 4:43 AM PST
i need more time for school and real life.
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DDO, round x
2007-12-29 12:33 PM PST
Pulled DDO out of naftaline in December.
Seems some bugs have been ironed out and new ones have been implented. Errr features i mean.

I has now been a week since i started a new character and seems that you can whip up a level 8 character in a week/24h. That was bit suprising as i didn't focus on grinding exp and i spent time doign exp wise silly things like gaining slayer from WaterWorks. Simply gaining the quests in elite before exceeding the quests level was only thing i was aiming.

Still inspired by the idea of the warforged focused guild, i pulled Ohm back up and started to look where the old Forged In War members are. Based on the growth we have encountered, doing a WF only raid seems possible nowdays. Specially if we get co-op with the French WF guild 'mon pap le titan'.
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Started to play BatMUD again.
2007-08-09 3:54 PM PDT
I got enough from the lack of D&D in DDO, its jsut another MMORPG with crappy balance and even worse than WoW. They had perfectly workind game rules that they could have implented and they screwed it up. Well back to basics, that is, to BatMUD.
I hope my g.friend won't kill me, she calls it the 'black screen' game.
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