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Richard Garfield Magic The Gathering
Richard Garfield Magic The Gathering
30 aug 11
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Come on, come on. Don't let my comments distract you. Tell us about the work, trolly! Or about that time when you and your friends discovered the pirate treasure by overcoming a thousand obstacles, chased by a gang of dangerous criminals!
Richard Garfield Magic The Gathering
Richard Garfield Magic The Gathering
30 aug 11
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But no! Geenoo lived by an unspoiled river with fish, otters, and beavers building dams. He and his best friend Tom Sawyer went there every afternoon with their bamboo rods, using a cork as bait. Sometimes their friend Polly Hanna would join them. Then they would light a fire, roast the carp they had caught, and dine under the moonlight. What happened after dinner I can't tell you, but according to reliable sources, it inspired the screenwriters of Brokeback Mountain.
Richard Garfield Magic The Gathering
Richard Garfield Magic The Gathering
30 aug 11
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Come on, friends!! We all know that your peers only took you around to use your butt as a bicycle parking lot! "I went fishing for fish in the river under my house"?!! Where the hell did you live, in Canada in the '50s?!? :D You've read Stand By Me too many times! But then, excuse me: telling us about when you played frisbee and were used as bait for the cod isn’t “sweeping in out territories”?!? Tell us about the opera, Trolly!
Richard Garfield Magic The Gathering
Richard Garfield Magic The Gathering
30 aug 11
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I’m saving that for the day when geenoo will graciously share an opinion instead of just trolling. ;)
Richard Garfield Magic The Gathering
Richard Garfield Magic The Gathering
30 aug 11
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Read a book by Stephen King that will fry your brain. As usual, you’re careful not to comment on the reviewed work and prefer to provoke other users for no reason. I see that the vacation you had at the taxpayers' expense hasn't changed you at all: you're just a tanned (piece of) troll.
Richard Garfield Magic The Gathering
Richard Garfield Magic The Gathering
30 aug 11
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Ahhh... engineers playing Magic! Basically, a digivolution of the cheese-smelling kid from elementary school and the one who wears a tracksuit during gym class in high school. I remember them on the train and subway, in the morning on my way to university: you recognize them because they are the only ones, even at 20 and over, who have their shirts tucked into their pants and always travel in groups of six, or however many fit into a compartment on a Varese-Milan interregional train. If a seventh tries to join, they isolate him, treating him like a loser until he finds a girlfriend that they mock, considering her a goose, or they attempt to take him out with Lightning Bolt attacks like in the S4doll video. They always have some loser friend living at the station where the train departs, holding the seats for the other five, so they can sit close together and talk throughout the journey about motherboards, graphics cards, sound cards, smartphone reviews, video games, Magic tournaments that took place the previous Saturday night in someone's basement, science fiction movies, calculus 1-2-3-4-etc etc, physics 1-2-3-4 etc etc, and they laugh compulsively at jokes about any of those topics. When the conductor arrives, they immediately become very serious and worried, but as soon as he passes by, they immediately break back into laughter among themselves. Then there are all the subgroups: telecommunications engineers are usually the worst, people for whom a vasectomy should be mandated by law, while management students are more in touch and even manage to kiss before graduation. Father, punish them because they know what they are doing...
Richard Garfield Magic The Gathering
Richard Garfield Magic The Gathering
29 aug 11
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No, no. No stereotypes. I could give you names and surnames of all the people I've talked to, list places, tell stories until tomorrow night. I reiterate that I discovered this game when I first arrived in Italy, (I believe) in '94: no TV advertising, no mega awesome expansions, no stalls at the Lidi Ferraresi like Inferno talks about, no little kids playing with it at the beach. It was just loser stuff, period. And you didn’t find the cards at the newsstand (at least at the beginning), but only at comic shops. And I reiterate: I have absolutely nothing against the collectible aspect: I myself am a semi-maniac completist + I've seen collections of the worst crap in the universe, so I don’t doubt that collecting Magic could also be fun. But believe me, when you see university students in their 5th year who are still not done burning their afternoons getting beaten at Magic by middle school kids, you realize that a sentence to hard labor might not be the worst possible solution.
Richard Garfield Magic The Gathering
Richard Garfield Magic The Gathering
29 aug 11
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I have a ton of stories to tell about comic book stores and the characters who frequented them. One of the best involves a former high school classmate whom I'll call Renzo for convenience. In high school, he was pretty much an anonymous guy; he was definitely stupid, but not enough to stand out as such. After finishing high school, I started to run into him at the comic book store: no matter when I passed by, he was always there, friends with everyone, respected by everyone, beloved by the lizard man, adored by kids. One day, I bombed an exam, went to the comic book store, and vented to the lizard man. He said to me, "Ehhh, something like that could never happen to Renzo: he's super cool, he's amazing, he just has to read once to score 35 on all his exams." And I was like, "But come on, that's impossible; he's an idiot!" And the lizard man replied, "No. You're the idiot for believing he's an idiot." Well, years went by, and Renzo started dating someone who, in comparison, makes a Mocho Vileda look like Megan Fox. She started pushing for marriage, for them to live together, the usual script, you know. And what do we find out?!!? That he had lied to everyone: mom, dad, Mocho Vileda, and Lizard Man thought he just had to discuss his thesis, but he hadn't even taken a SINGLE EXAM! Buahahahahaahah!!!! Who's the idiot now, Lizard Man?!?! Buahahahaha!!!
Richard Garfield Magic The Gathering
Richard Garfield Magic The Gathering
29 aug 11
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But I had my fantasy phase too: I read Tolkien, that dry crap by Brooks and Zimmer Bradley, I dabbled in role-playing games (mostly Call of Cthulhu, GIRSA, and a few others), I have the CDs and T-shirts of Blind Guardian, I went to comic shops and I worn myself out with Video Girl Ai. But Magic has always filled me with deep disgust: truly too far beneath the human threshold... Every respectable comic shop had its "lizard man": an over 40-year-old, overweight, with advanced baldness, definitely a virgin or at best separated and unable to pay alimony to his wife, at ease only with boys under 16. In my area, several comic shops have shut their doors: as far as I'm concerned - and despite loving comics - it's a glimmer of hope in the fate of all humanity.
Richard Garfield Magic The Gathering
Richard Garfield Magic The Gathering
29 aug 11
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I was (un)lucky enough to discover this game when it arrived in Italy. Personally, I've always thought clay warrior armies were just terrible: really a dinosaur nerd thing, a monstrous bore, something for losers like I've never seen in my life. The collecting aspect was definitely more interesting than the gameplay itself: collect, unbox, the territories... but come on, just play a game of briscola, for crying out loud! Before long, even all my loser friends dropped it, but I know people who, at 25-30 years old, would still spend every afternoon at the comic shop challenging 10-12 year old kids who, of course and rightly so, treated them like fools to be fleeced. People for whom salt mines should have dedicated areas. People who couldn’t spell the word "FIGA" even if dictated to them.
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