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11 hours ago, Molimo said:
I dunno about you, but I wouldn't get tired of making the cash they're getting for this show. Some of the main cast is pulling in 100k-500k per episode!
Compare that with Charlie Sheen who reportedly made $1.8M per episode of Two and a Half Men. No wonder he was always smirking.
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9 hours ago, Dunnar said:
Its making money for everyone, right? So why not take the time and do it right.
Unless the folks involved are just sick of doing it. Lot of them have gotten big time now.
I dunno about you, but I wouldn't get tired of making the cash they're getting for this show. Some of the main cast is pulling in 100k-500k per episode!
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I take frequent, yet short breaks from competitive formats where I have a lot of time, money, and pride invested in the outcome of every game and borrow decks from friends to play casually for a while. I also try to focus more on trading and judging tournaments versus forcing myself to sit through tournaments. When I play at all, it's mostly cube drafts and commander, some booster draft or sealed deck, and less modern or standard.
When I'm ready to jump back into constructed formats, I pick up a couple of my pet decks that consistently perform well and jam a bunch of warm-up matches with a couple friends in a casual environment (at someone's house or at the shop, but not in a tournament). We play a lot of face up games where both players have full knowledge of what's going on in the games and talk through plays to practice identifying and making the proper calls in situations. This helps to rebuild mechanical skills and confidence, along with a familiarity with any changes to the metagame and individual card choices in popular decks, all in comfortable settings to help facilitate learning. If there's a solid enough new deck in a format, I'll borrow or trade/buy into that deck to shake things up for myself and broaden my range a little. Worst case scenario, I relist the deck for sale after learning the strengths and disadvantages of the deck, and I'm out a little time (maybe a little cash if I wait too long to move the cards), but I've gained some firsthand experience and know what I need to change in my own decks and play patterns.
Usually by the time a new set comes out I'm ready to at least draft a few times, and shortly after the new set there are shifts in the constructed formats that revive some interest for me. I hope this can be of some help to you as well.
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7 hours ago, Jag said:
I don't either. With all its popularity, why not take more time with it?
In terms of taking their time to cover the material, somewhere between what they're currently doing, and the Hobbit would have been good.
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Dammit. I was trying to make a special effort to follow your rules about Lego, I forgot 1 god damn time and here you are.
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1 hour ago, Jag said:
I don't either. With all its popularity, why not take more time with it?
Its making money for everyone, right? So why not take the time and do it right.
Unless the folks involved are just sick of doing it. Lot of them have gotten big time now.
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1 hour ago, Jag said:
Now I can buy Legos and Stick it to the MAN at the same time.
No. You can only do that if you buy LEGO.
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Damn. Well, you have talked about burnout for awhile now. I kinda of felt the same way when I was writing/blogging about hockey... eventually, the fire goes out and the passion wanes. That said, don't be a total stranger. -
I loved seeing pauper on camera, but it also showed that why WOTC wouldn't want it to be on video more often: The matches took for-ev-er. MTGO forces players to click and play fast, especially Dinrova Tron and the like... those paper matches had a lot of moving parts and really did drag.
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I'm glad I'm not the only one who despises social media. There are definitely cliques and if you aren't in one of them or align yourself with what they think like a lemming, it will make it much harder to get your content out there. Lots of the bigger creators talk about 'muh community' but it's all lip service. With one click to share a link or a post from another creator would expose that content to thousands of people. They don't owe anyone anything, of course. They don't have to do anything to help anyone else, but don't talk about how much you love the community and how much you want to help and do next to nothing to help new creators or creators who have been grinding for years but just need that one click to push them over the edge. Twitter especially is such a cesspool of negativity and drama. Creating content is tough, and I have the utmost respect for those of you who put in the time, money and energy to create content that most of the time goes unnoticed by most players. It's too bad, because theres so much great stuff out there that doesn't get the attention it deserves. I'm glad some of you still create content because I enjoy it and know there are others out there who do too. -
Well, like any draft, if you can't decide on a path early enough, you end up thin on playables. It hurts a bit more in a multicolour set because if you draft Orzhov or Simic cards and end up Azorius, you may have dead cards you can't play without good fixing, even worse if I had picked up Gruul. The lack of 5 guildgates (from the other set) means splashing only works for certain combos I also probably ended up passing good Azorius cards. I was the only true Azorius player, but the guy who went 4-colour gates had a few of the cards I would have loved to have.
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If you don't decide on a guild and spread out a little, does it spread you too thin?
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