While We Wait: Writer's Block & Other Lame Excuses

[mayor]

Just thought I'd drop in and say hi since I recently started my third attempt at NESing and I really don't want to write this essay I'm supposed to be working on...

 

[Terrance888]

Hi Mayor! Join us on #nes or #neverending.

Anyway, you are doing fine at Seoul so far. If you have any questions PM (or better yet, VM if not totally secret) me or ask in thread.

Anyway, schoolwork is still essential even if you love to NES. NESes only update every week/month/year, generally. What I usually do is do a set of homework- say about 30 minutes to 90 minutes, and then read the new diplo posts and respond as needed as my "break".

 

[mayor]

Yeah, I have decided that I have done enough for today under the pretext that it is my brithday

I'll finish it tomorrow...

 

[Tycho]

Drat, seems to be that Tranquility is down for emergency maintenance. Was using it while waiting for diplomacy and stuff like that today.

 

[nutranurse]

Belated Halloween in Ohio with my girlfriend's friend and one of their moms. This is insufferably boring and there's not enough alcohol in the world to deal with this. Also 3 dogs and 3 cats, one of the friends owns all of them.

Edit: oh, and now phantom of the opera. :C

 

[Grandkhan]

Halloween with a crazy cat lady. The scariest thing of all, really.

Whenever I see people with a ridiculous amount of pets, I always wonder if they use them to eat the bodies to get rid of the evidence of their serial murders or something. Thats the only reason you could ever want six pets.

 

[Angst]

Some people like to have a lot of their hands. I don't get people wanting six kids either, but whatya know, it happens surprisingly often.

 

[nutranurse]

Yeah, but that would be fine for an older person who has given up on human interaction. She's about 21.

 

[Luckymoose]

My family has six cats. We also have enough room for them and some.

 

[Ninja Dude]

Good luck! Tell me how the new format feels

Well, I'm almost completely new to organized play. The only other thing I went to really was the Return to Ravnica Prerelease. Went 3-2 in the singles sealed and 2-2 in the Two Headed Giant sealed thing.

But yeah, since I don't spend huge amounts of money getting the best cards and stuff, I got railed pretty hard. Had pretty bad luck with my opening hands, and my deck wasn't that great to begin with. I was playing White/Green Humans, except without many of the cards that make that kind of deck effective Got into a stalemate with a guy first round until he took control of my only good creature two turns in a row and swung for some serious damage. Second round there was a guy that seemed kinda new to it like me, except he still had some cards that were decent (I have yet to pull a ******* Rancor ) So he beat me. He played more removal than I had creatures, plus I got swamped in mana.

Third round I got really aggressive against a guy with a token deck. It kinda took him a while to get the ball rolling, but once he dropped Tostani I pretty much hit a huge roadblock. Starts populating everywhere and soon I have six 5/5 wurms trampling over me He gave me two free Mayor of Avabrucks though since he saw how my deck really wasn't that great.

Fourth round one of the guys dropped, so I won automatically

Although my deck was pretty crappy, I do have a somewhat tenuous grasp on the metagame I think. Thragtusk is EVERYWHERE, with Restoration Angel right behind it. I hear that there's lots of people sideboarding zombie-hate, but there were no zombies at the FNM I went to. Lots of Cavern of Souls to make countering hard, but I did see a couple control decks put up good fights.

But yeah, I got steamrolled every game. It was a learning experience though, and I still had fun. I think I'll stick to Sealed and Draft where I'm on a little bit more equal footing with people

 

[merciary]

I've never actually done FNM though I've been meaning to. I typically do prereleases and casual with my friends so I expect my best standard deck, Red/Green werewolf, would probably get smacked down hard.

 

[Nylan]

Hi guys! I'm datamining my old stories for NaNoWriMo fodder, so I thought I'd drop in and say hello.

 

[Masada]

Poverty has made some Canadians humble and others angry.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

What?

 

[Angst]

I've went 8th once with a red deck. I don't really like playing anything but red competetively, so I don't play atm. The only winning card is Hellrider (Although the new Rakdos hybrid is decent at times too), the others die too early, including Stromkirk Noble.

 

[Daftpanzer]

So, election eh? Are you voting for Pepsi or Coke?

Seriously one of you should just coup the USA already. I can fly over there and join the revolution.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

Viva la Robolution

 

[Daftpanzer]

Technocracy? I'd follow you to the grave! Can we have this as our soundtrack?


Link to video.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

Negative, as that song is already associated strongly with ZPNESV, and is thus inappropriate for any other NES-related venture until the community has experienced a higher-percentage player turnover.

 

[Milarqui]

Due to very heavy time constraints (the joys of living on your own, working 40h a week and limited Internet access), my RPG CFC.com has been cancelled, and so far there is not much of a chance of my being able to get enough time to do so. Maybe after I get a few things out of the way I'll be able to, but, for the time being, I've chosen to cancel it.

Thus, I would like to ask people that want to mod it in accordance to what is shown in the CFC.com thread (check my sig) to send me a PM or say so in the CFC.com thread, so that I can pass onto him the relevant information and give the players the chance to keep playing with it and continue travelling the multiverse.