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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> "My colour is blue. I value knowledge, logic, and deceit. I love to
> pursue wisdom but also to manipulate and deceive. At my best, I am
> brilliant and progressive. At my worst, I am treacherous and cold. My
> symbol is a water droplet. My enemies are green and red."
>
> This is *so* begging for a parody...
>
Think they got something wrong there.. In my experience, people that
value knowledge and logic ***despise*** deceit, its the insane people
that value wishful thinking and *belief* that use deceit all the time to
not just lie about everyone that doesn't think like they do, but prop up
the beliefs, so they can pretend that "wishing" does something for anybody.
Then again, this is damn near the modern American standard for
"immoral". If you value knowledge, instead of wallowing in ignorance,
you use logic, instead of tradition, then you are a) immoral, b)
probably an atheist, c) liberal, d) elitist, and e) Anti-American. Where
did you find this gem, the AFA website? lol
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>>> Didn't know you were into Magic:The Gathering.
>>
>> I'm not. This is some random person's signature on a message board
>> somewhere.
>
> Ah. It's refering the the Magic:The gathering card game. There are 5
> colours of magic; red, blue, green, white and black
Yeah. I remember that from my initial research. ;-)
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"Patrick Elliott" <sel### [at] npgcable com> wrote in message
news:490e1665@news.povray.org...
>
> Think they got something wrong there.. In my experience, people that value
> knowledge and logic ***despise*** deceit, its the insane people that value
> wishful thinking and *belief* that use deceit all the time to not just lie
> about everyone that doesn't think like they do, but prop up the beliefs,
> so they can pretend that "wishing" does something for anybody.
It's got nothing to do with people. It's talking about colours of magic for
a card game and the traits those colour embody.
White is order, righteousness, healing, law, community.
Green is life, nature, evolution, interdependence.
Blue is intellect, reason, illusion, trickery, dreams
Red is chaos, destruction, passion, fury, freedom
Black is death, power, ambition, greed, corruption.
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Gail wrote:
> I don't actually play the game, though I know people who do. I havew a
> bunch of cards though. They make great bookmarks.
I got as far as reading the rules of the game.
Ouch.
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"Gail" <gail (at) sql in the wild (dot) co [dot] za> wrote:
> "Orchid XP v8" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
> news:490da65b@news.povray.org...
> > Gail wrote:
> >
> >> Didn't know you were into Magic:The Gathering.
> >
> > I'm not. This is some random person's signature on a message board
> > somewhere.
>
> Ah. It's refering the the Magic:The gathering card game. There are 5 colours
> of magic; red, blue, green, white and black
I thought the colour of magic was Octarine. :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_Discworld_concepts#Octarine
Stephen
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"Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
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> Gail wrote:
>
>> I don't actually play the game, though I know people who do. I havew a
>> bunch of cards though. They make great bookmarks.
>
> I got as far as reading the rules of the game.
>
> Ouch.
Yeah. It's complex. It's got more and more so over the years as more options
are added, more card types, etc.
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>> I got as far as reading the rules of the game.
>>
>> Ouch.
>
> Yeah. It's complex. It's got more and more so over the years as more
> options are added, more card types, etc.
Yeah. Like somebody said "each turn you lay down a card and then the
other person does"... and sure, that's "essentially" how you play it...
but the Official rules are *way* more complicated than that! Each turn
there are half a dozen optional things you can do if you want to ("but
usually players don't"), and rules that apply in special obscure cases
and... Jesus, does anybody actually *play* this game?! o_O
Still, the only reason I enquired was this:
http://www.bash.org/?106851
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"Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
news:490ed805$1@news.povray.org...
>>> I got as far as reading the rules of the game.
>>>
>>> Ouch.
>>
>> Yeah. It's complex. It's got more and more so over the years as more
>> options are added, more card types, etc.
>
> Yeah. Like somebody said "each turn you lay down a card and then the other
> person does"... and sure, that's "essentially" how you play it...
More accuratly, each turn you tap your lands, play some creatures (to block
or attack) and cast some spells
> Jesus, does anybody actually *play* this game?! o_O
Lots. There are lots of tournaments every year all over the world. If
I visit the local gaming shop over the weekend, there'll be anywhere between
3 and 5 games in progress. At gaming conventions there are usually hundreds
of people playing.
You think it would still be around and still getting additions, new chapters
and the like if no one played it?
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>> Yeah. Like somebody said "each turn you lay down a card and then the
>> other person does"... and sure, that's "essentially" how you play it...
>
> More accuratly, each turn you tap your lands, play some creatures (to
> block or attack) and cast some spells
Indeed. But looking at the Official rules... well let me put it this
way. If you need to actually include a flowchart just to explain what
the rules are, the rules are too complicated. :-P
>> Jesus, does anybody actually *play* this game?! o_O
>
> Lots. There are lots of tournaments every year all over the world.
>
> You think it would still be around and still getting additions, new
> chapters and the like if no one played it?
Logically, I guess not. But on the other hand, the game seems too
absurdly complicated to actually play...
(Also... how do you know it's still getting new additions? Oh, wait,
it's Gail. Heh. OK, I rephrase: how would anybody else know that?)
BTW, I attempted to visit the official site shortly after this thread
began. But I figured I'd have to cast some kind of time-travel spell to
get to the part where the site finishes loading. Jesus it was slow! o_O
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"Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
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> Indeed. But looking at the Official rules... well let me put it this way.
> If you need to actually include a flowchart just to explain what the rules
> are, the rules are too complicated. :-P
Why do you think I don't play? (other than the cost of all the cards)
> (Also... how do you know it's still getting new additions? Oh, wait, it's
> Gail. Heh. OK, I rephrase: how would anybody else know that?)
I'm a gamer. Roleplaying, not cards, but the news still gets around and many
people play both
New Magic additions are as much news as new roleplaying books or new
editions of games. Also I usually visit gaming shops every couple months and
see the Magic cards (and all the other collectable card games) on sale. Add
to that the posters advertising new releases at the shops, on the websites
and at conventions.
It's kinda like asking if you would know when a new edition of Haskall is
released.
If you were into the game, you'd probably visit forums on it daily, plus the
official site and know months in advance about new additions. I just know
there are ones. Don't know how recent, don't know the names of the latest
expansions
> BTW, I attempted to visit the official site shortly after this thread
> began. But I figured I'd have to cast some kind of time-travel spell to
> get to the part where the site finishes loading. Jesus it was slow! o_O
Yeah. Wizards is pretty good at games, terrible at websites and web apps.
You're lucky it loads at all. I keep getting errors. It worked a lot better
(faster, more reliable) before they decided to move the entire site to
flash.
You can skip the entire opening flash movie. Doesn't make it much faster
though
http://www.wizards.com/magic/TCG/Default.aspx
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