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Post by pyr0maniacal on Mar 19, 2019 10:07:57 GMT
So. I’ve seen Captain Marvel twice now. I absolutely love it and encourage everyone to see it.
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Post by Soul Samurai on Mar 20, 2019 9:50:37 GMT
I had my first game of Magic the Gathering (well, my first game in 20 years) yesterday. It was a 6 player free for all. Interesting, and it was fun, but holy crap does Warmachine look incredibly fair, balanced, and accessible after that. I mean, constant cards that just wipe everything off the table, and some of those cards are freaking expensive. I do not think I'm going to be investing in the game.
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Post by michael on Mar 20, 2019 12:34:34 GMT
I had my first game of Magic the Gathering (well, my first game in 20 years) yesterday. It was a 6 player free for all. Interesting, and it was fun, but holy crap does Warmachine look incredibly fair, balanced, and accessible after that. I mean, constant cards that just wipe everything off the table, and some of those cards are freaking expensive. I do not think I'm going to be investing in the game. Yep. Magic is a cesspit of human misery. The last time I played — in roughly 2007, and bearing in mind that I just had some random cards a friend gave me and I was just messing around for fun — my opponent pulled out oh, something... Skullclamp? Skull tap? Something, whatever. The end result was that I had to discard a card every time I played a card, or took damage every time I played a card, something ludicrous like that. It was pointless. That was about as much fun as my first demo game of 40k. “Here’s your army!” *hands me a pile of like 150 Ork infantry* “Okay, here’s my army.” *pulls out like 6 tanks with missile launchers* He then proceeds to deploy us on opposite ends of a 6’ x 4’ table, with our models about 5’ apart. “Okay, movement phase!” “...My guns are range 12?” “Yes.” “....I run.” *push mob of orks about 12” closer* “I’m not going to move.” “...” “Okay, shooting phase!” “My guns are still range 12, right? I have no targets.” “Okay, let’s see...my missiles can shoot, uh, 108 inches....” *extends tape measure clear across to the next table* “I’m shooting right here...” *rolls bucket of dice* I then pick up about a third of my army and dump them in the box. You can probably guess how that game turned out. The sad part is that I already knew how stupid that experience was going to be going in. Also you can probably guess how many 40k models I own.
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Post by Soul Samurai on Mar 20, 2019 13:18:57 GMT
Ouch. 108"? He must have been playing Forgeworld models... but yeah, I've always heard complaints about 40K gunlines; I think there was something called Wave Serpent spam a few years ago that was supposed to be pretty silly. On the other end of the spectrum in 6th ed you could run an army of about a dozen Grey Knight Terminators with Kaldor Drago I think it was standing in front single-handedly tanking all the damage in the world and it actually worked. Also I've heard of running like five Thunderwolf Cav with reasonable success back then (I think it was Chaos Dave on the Imperial Voxcast who used to talk about that?). I might get a chance to try 8th ed sometime soon; while I don't doubt that broken combos do still exist, I was told that the core rules are much cleaner and less ambiguous, which is nice to hear.
The game of Magic felt utterly random; of course my playing a borrowed deck that I didn't know anything about didn't help, but still, it felt pointless to try to put out creatures and attack with them when they could be so trivially removed and damage could quite easily be dealt directly to the players, completely bypassing the whole "creatures" thing - I mean, what was the point of creatures in the first place if you can just ignore or remove them so easily? You could try to form a strategy based on the random cards you'd drawn, but at the same time you had no idea what OP nonsense your opponents had in their hands to casually nullify your plans.
Again, I did have fun: I got knocked down to a single point of health, would have been killed except I played a card that kept me alive no matter what for one turn, then played a creature that restored all my health. Then an opponent then killed the creature with a spell since I had a special ability that prevented all damage to all my creatures forever, and then another opponent "copied" that card from my graveyard and restored his health to full... yeah, it's super-swingy. I think it can be fun as long as you're OK with that much randomness and insanity, though I can't get over the idea of paying a ton of money for a single card that they CHOSE not to print many copies of; talk about "pay to win".
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Post by hocestbellum on Mar 20, 2019 13:37:15 GMT
Whenever I dip my toes back into magic, I stick to Standard play. It cuts out a lot of the truly mental combos.
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Post by Havock on Mar 20, 2019 23:21:40 GMT
I only play Commander when I play magic, it's casual and tryhards get mobbed.
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Post by CrazyUncleDouglas on Mar 22, 2019 21:11:21 GMT
So yay, my car was rear-ended on the freeway while I was heading home yesterday. Knocked me into the left lane where I was hit again. Sooooo yeah. My car is probably dead. On the bright side, four cars ended up in that accident, and there were no injuries.
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Post by michael on Mar 22, 2019 22:39:42 GMT
So yay, my car was rear-ended on the freeway while I was heading home yesterday. Knocked me into the left lane where I was hit again. Sooooo yeah. My car is probably dead. On the bright side, four cars ended up in that accident, and there were no injuries. WERE YOUR WARMACHINE MODELS SAFE?!
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Post by PrincessSparklefist on Mar 23, 2019 2:30:35 GMT
So yay, my car was rear-ended on the freeway while I was heading home yesterday. Knocked me into the left lane where I was hit again. Sooooo yeah. My car is probably dead. On the bright side, four cars ended up in that accident, and there were no injuries. Nope not allowed. I’m gonna have to talk to who ever is in charge here. I’m glad you’re ok though. That’s the most important thing.
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Post by tapecrawler on Mar 23, 2019 14:54:07 GMT
That’s awful, but I’m glad to hear everyone is okay. Was it your only car?
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Post by Havock on Mar 23, 2019 16:46:16 GMT
So yay, my car was rear-ended on the freeway while I was heading home yesterday. Knocked me into the left lane where I was hit again. Sooooo yeah. My car is probably dead. On the bright side, four cars ended up in that accident, and there were no injuries. Keep an eye on that, some injuries don't show until a while later.
All in all, it's an insurance issue?
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Post by pyr0maniacal on Mar 23, 2019 17:47:50 GMT
So yay, my car was rear-ended on the freeway while I was heading home yesterday. Knocked me into the left lane where I was hit again. Sooooo yeah. My car is probably dead. On the bright side, four cars ended up in that accident, and there were no injuries. Glad you're unhurt. This is why I hate driving - not my own lack of skill but other people's inability and lack of attention. Also, Brampton.
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Post by Armchair Warrior on Mar 24, 2019 18:04:31 GMT
I’m glad you’re ok, but be on watch for a couple of days. I hope your car insurance is able to make a quick payment and that you had rental coverage. Anyway if the person who hit you had insurance then their company should be reimbursing a rental car
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Post by CrazyUncleDouglas on Mar 25, 2019 21:28:06 GMT
Update (sorry folks, busy taking care of the kids as my wife felt especially unwell this weekend):
So here's what happened. I'm on the exit lane on the way home during the paradoxically named "Rush Hour" and stopping as the line of cars in front of me are all stopped. I look in the rear view and see this white Audi SUV approach me very quickly and all I can think is, "please slow down now, please slow down n--" SMASH! At the last second he notices me and starts to swerve only to hit me and send me careening into the next lane to the left where I'm hit again -- whereupon my car swerves off to the right (thankfully) and off the shoulder.
After pausing to catch my breath, I get out and a rather overweight fellow with jeans too tight, tattoos on his neck and arms, a ball cap perched gangsta style above his baby-face, and a pair of pink flips approaches, a walking cavalcade of poor decisions that culminated in not paying attention enough to stop in time for me. Normally I do try not to judge a book by its cover, but pink flip flops? There are some things I can forgive ... Anyhow, he says, "I didn't even see you!" I wondered why not, or why he didn't see the large work truck that was in front of me that was also stopped.
In the end, four cars were involved. Me, the car who hit me, the second car that hit me because I was propelled into her lane, and yet another car because the second car bounced off me and into her. So far, no one was hurt. Not dingus. I went to the doctor and they seem to think I look alright after some x-rays and examinations. After three days I'm feeling fine but rather saucy (as you might notice in this post) which is a good sign.
My insurance company has been quite responsive, and of course the one fellow is at fault for everything -- the second car wouldn't have hit me if he hand't hit me first. I'm still waiting on appraisal to see if my car is totaled or not (of which I have little hope).
My warmachine minis are without injury. The Butcher has expressed his displeasure at people who do not pay attention to the road.
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Post by Havock on Mar 25, 2019 22:09:37 GMT
Insurance companies tend to be pretty quick on the uptake if it is someone else at fault. It means there is money to be earned.
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