No, you see the Australian Eastern Standard Time is the only true time zone, everyone else just haven't been setting their clocks right.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?Fear not, Norm is here to save the day.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?I am restless.
Do you know how restless I am?
I saw this
post on tumblr, felt guilty, and am now attempting to log back into my old Neopets account from when I was ten.
Oh wow.
It's been so long that the recovery email linked to the account, which I made when I was seven, has been deleted due to inactivity.
edited 17th Jul '14 4:21:06 AM by GameSpazzer
MY SOUL IS DARK BUT MY HAIR IS COLORFUL — Brahian Pokémon AlchemistNever really got into neopets or anything like that.
I think the furthest I got was Beyblades and Yu-Gi-Oh, because nine year old me didn't understand what a fad was and wouldn't listen to dad. Should have listened.
Stumbled on this
in my suggested viewing.
Reminded me how much I love The Prince of Egypt as a movie. That art, that soundtrack, that masterful use of silence.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?I never appreciated that movie when I was younger, because they made us watch it every other week in the religious school/camp I went to, and it got really fucking old very quickly. Now that I'm older and no longer exposed to the Jewish equivalent of Bible thumping on a regular basis, though, DAT ANIMATION.
I still have a shitload of Yu-Gi-Oh cards for basically the same reason. None of us knew how to play, but we never admitted that because everyone else was collecting the cards and knew how to play, so therefore you need to as well, and just say you do.
Neopets had a much shorter stint. Got an account, had it for two weeks, got tired after I found out it was basically impossible to make money and it was actually a more realistic prospect to just hang around the soup kitchen and be poor, because the minute you made over ten thousand (which wasn't easy to do), your easy access to food would vanish instantly, and you would have no choice but to spend yourself back into the poorhouse trying to keep yourselves fed, because food was crazy expensive, too.
Fuck Neopets.
I still remember my username and password after all these years, but it looks like it got eaten by the derelict account sweeper. Oh well.
You know what? Fuck it. I'm gonna get myself a new account, just to see what's changed over the years, and rope myself another group of critters to abuse.
Maybe I'll see if my old Club Penguin account works, too.
edited 17th Jul '14 4:38:28 AM by GameSpazzer
MY SOUL IS DARK BUT MY HAIR IS COLORFUL — Brahian Pokémon AlchemistI'm pretty sure I just decided that neopets were girly and stayed away from it. And yeah, I didn't know how to play Yu-Gi-Oh at all. Some kid at school made a whole bunch of Exodia copies and everyone had them soon enough, making our pathetic excuses for strategies even narrower.
Can you even strategise in a competitive card game? Like, not using a card with another card, that's tactics. I mean like devising a big strategy behind it. Because when you're drawing from a shuffled deck, thus making most of your plan fall to dumb luck, kind of seems dumb.
Prince of Egypt was a film my grandmother owned. I first watched it when I was eight and I think it was the first film to scare the shit out of me. I didn't watch it much, but I absolutely adored it.
The music, the animation, the subtleties and spectacles and hggnghghuhg
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?Oh man. I remember how I got into that crap in the first place. I had this friend, she had tonnes of stuff like this. She showed me Neopets, and Club Penguin, and some Harry Potter text-based MMO that, now that I think about it, was my first ever experience with roleplaying.
I'm gonna see if I can remember my username for that. I think it was based off some original character that's being heavily recycled in this plot. I remember being pretty proud of her because she was my first OC that actually managed to not be a Mary Sue or a Sheik expy, but she was bland as all fuck.
You can, sort of. It all comes down to saturation. You need to shove enough cards in your deck to where they're interchangeable enough so you can plan out an attack pattern without relying heavily on one card to make it happen. Use this card that buffs for three hundred, or this one that buffs five hundred in one stat and debuffs four hundred in another? It's still a buff card, so I can use it with this other one. That sort of thing.
In Magic, this is much less of a problem, considering the cap on max number of cards is greatly increased and you have the mana system instead (as a game, Yu-Gi-Oh really isn't designed very well, though I still find it fun at times), but even then it can still happen. I went an entire match once with only two mana, and the normal amount is somewhere around ten to twelve. Christ, that was rough...
At the account creation screen. Should I say I'm actually eleven just to see how many creepers try to hit on me?
edited 17th Jul '14 4:48:53 AM by GameSpazzer
MY SOUL IS DARK BUT MY HAIR IS COLORFUL — Brahian Pokémon AlchemistEh. Call it unfair but after Yu-Gi-Oh I've lost all interest in card gaming.
Though given I've gone on the miniature wargaming, I probably should have stuck with the cheaper option.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?Anonymous Friend keeps trying to get me back into Magic, but I've seen him blow sixty bucks a pop on that shit. No way in hell. I could get two games for that money, and I wouldn't even have to throw them out when the new games came after them.
Oh wow, it hasn't changed a bit.
◊ Looks just as hideous as the day we met. Sigh...
"Enter Your Parent's E-mail Address". D'awwwww...
edited 17th Jul '14 4:50:43 AM by GameSpazzer
MY SOUL IS DARK BUT MY HAIR IS COLORFUL — Brahian Pokémon AlchemistHow many Voldemorts have been stopped by how many chosen ones in this game?
Heheheheheheh
That's cute.
edited 17th Jul '14 4:51:37 AM by SR3NORMANDY
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?No idea. If I recall correctly, I think Voldemort killed me after I reached my second year.
My child has created an account on Neopets!
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edited 17th Jul '14 5:01:30 AM by GameSpazzer
MY SOUL IS DARK BUT MY HAIR IS COLORFUL — Brahian Pokémon AlchemistSpaz: proud mother of a neopet-owning child.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?Competitive card games are all about strategy. I didn't play any other one besides YGO but in YGO its all about keeping yourself protected and breaking down your opponents defenses. You'll need several staple cards like Negate Attack(Self Explanitory), Trap Hole(Kills monsters with less than 1000 Atk points), Magic Jammer, and Trap Jammer, and a few more.
But after you have some basic cards to protect you, you can do whatever you want with your deck, but you have to be careful about. The ratio of Monster:Spell:Trap cards needs to be just right or you'll end up drawing one type of card a bunch, and none of the others. You need to be able to use all of them. And with monsters in the early days you could just throw out whatever you want as long as you drew it. But now stronger monsters require the sacrifice of weaker ones to so you have to pay attention to how many weak and strong monsters go in your deck, because you can have all the 5000 ATK point monsters in the world but they won't do diddly squat if you can't summon them.
And then certain cards complement each other. You'll find a lot of spell cards that serve to boost or cripple monsters with certian attributes, so you'll want to design your deck around one attribute, as it doesn't much to do with battle if I rememeber correctly. And then there are cards that directly go with each other. So there's a lot of room for strategy to be made.
Just an example of a plan. Game starts, Player 1 draws his Trap Jammer and places it face down, so that it doesn't activate right away, and the enemy doesn't know what it is. Player draws and plays Umi, it boosts all of his water monsters attack and defense. This will allow his weak water monsters to survive until he draws his Ocean Dragonlord Deadalus, which he needs to summon his Neo-Deadalus, there is a difference. Skip ahead to Deadalus being drawn. Player 2 has set up some nasty defenses to counter your Umi. Player 1 summons Deadalus. UH-OH Player 2 had a trap card that can insta-kill Deadalus. Its okay, your Trap Jammer negates that shit. Deadalus is played. At this point Player 1 could destroy all monsters on the feild except Deadalus, but he's drawn Neo-Deadalus as well. He summons Neo-Deadalus next turn, and destroy's all cards on the feild with Neo's special ability. And then proceeds to wreck his opponents defenseless ass.
PM box is Closed, Indefinitely Friend Code: 3368-4181-6850There's far too much chance in the game for it to really appeal to me.
Not only in the deck, but in getting the cards for the deck itself, hoping that those booster packs you get come with useful cards, or buying the exact cards you want at ludicrous expense.
People can like whatever they like, but I just don't see it with collectable card games.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?Chance is part of the fun. Its great getting booster packs because you're always wondering what you're gonna get, and strategies just don't work out all the time. You have to build your deck to be flexible enough to deal with that. But that should be true of any instance of strategy, because you shouldn't count on things going the same way every time.
PM box is Closed, Indefinitely Friend Code: 3368-4181-6850They suffer, unwanted, unloved, forgotten.
Left behind in the coldness of cyberspace for eternity.
And in that eternity, they will never feel warmth again.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?Yeah, I don't like the idea of booster packs.
I've never seen the fun in having zero control over what I buy.
When I buy Space Marines for my 40k, I don't open the box to find Eldar.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?All these derelict accounts.
I'm not putting up a Neopets screenshot because there are so many you can just click on any random name in the roster and find one.
MY SOUL IS DARK BUT MY HAIR IS COLORFUL — Brahian Pokémon Alchemist

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