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Sig: 8/10 Size isn't everything. I'm sure people remember the Kenshin gif I had in my sig for a while, and I think it was even smaller than that one. Plus watching Kon ricochet around the room is funny.

Why didn't I see this sooner?

I play and actually go rather frequently to Friday Night Magic at my local card shop. In college I helped start a huge club that's still going strong where we all would show up with our cards, play, trade, and deckbuild. It was there I was introduced to other formats other than the standard 1 on 1 games.

I typically play black/red or green/red, occasionally green/black. I like any deck that let's me build 'em up big and drain away or disrupt my opponents.

I second the 'don't buy packs' motion. If I want a certain card, I'll go buy it. But if you really want a good stock of cards or want to stockpile mana for building decks, try eBay. Some sellers will list large collections for small prices that are perfect for deckbuilding. I used to split the costs with a couple friends and get like 500 cards or something we'd split together.

Excellent. Have you seen the Bauhaus Building? Truly marvelous.

That's exactly where I drew the line. They're making an effort to get away from him, and he kept going. That's when I saw it go more from "self defense" to "'let's see you even try to pull that stunt again" to I'm not quite sure what. Insanity, anger issues, I don't know.

I am starting to lean towards both at fault. Them for starting the whole deal, him for not drawing the line.

I'd also like to know, did anyone even try to call the cops when they first jumped the counter?

I sided with the employee...up until he decided it was okay to strike them even more while they were down. That's a big no.

You have to be able to defend yourself. Once they're down, have someone restrain them and call the cops. That's how I was trained when I worked a grocery store in a poor, urban area, where a cashier had been maced for refusing to run beer as food stamps. They attack you, you attack back, restrain, and call 911. Any more than that and it's you who gets sued for assault, not them.

Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut.

I've never read any of his novels before, felt this was a good place to start.

Also, were you playing over Nintendo WFC or within close range of somebody else? I don't know if this was fixed with the 3DS, but I know a lot of games (and some DS systems) have issues with routers that use WPA or WPA2 security coding. They'll only work on WEP. Close range gaming between systems should be fine, but over WFC can be tough.

Just another thought. I have yet to get a 3DS myself so I'm going by what I've experienced with my phat, Lite, and XL systems.

$25 per application, I should have said. I forget that pop means soda or coke elsewhere.

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Unless you're yanking my chain or something, cause now I feel like an idiot.

Oh yeah.

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Until he whips out that slot machine gun from Unwound Future

Oh sweet Jesus I gotta think way back now...I've been a college grad for a year now.

I remember applying to five state colleges, and each one sent me this little packet about 4 pages long like a job application. They wanted to know what my GPA was, extracurricular stuff (at the time, just newspaper club and National Art Honors Society), all kinds of junk. Then the essay question was usually something kind of random, like "If you could have dinner with any three people, living or dead, that made a difference in some manner, who would you choose and why?". I remember getting three or four of those kind of questions per app. I don't think they were any more complicated than that, I didn't dare apply to any Ivy League schools like Yale or Harvard (didn't have the money).

Since I didn't do much in school that they would have looked at, I put down a lot of stuff I did outside of school. Like I was a girl scout for 10+ years (HUSH YEW, I loved every moment of it), did volunteer work at my church, and listed other skills I had.

I remember the fees the most, though. At $25 a pop, they bled little ol' minimum wage me dry. But I really only focused on schools that had a good education program so I could get my Elementary Education degree. The one I went to in the end did it the best and offers me 5 years to go back for my Master's (I graduated with a Bachelor's). I ended up getting two degrees, one in Education and the other in Spanish.

Might as well bend over and take it like a champ now, I guess.

Started work on the Void Cube today. Unfortunately the only Rubix Cube I could find has plastic colored tiles rather than stickers, so I've been taking them off one by one. Some come off in one piece, others in fragment.

Oy vey.

Also found a studded bracelet in my brother's room I can use for the bracelet on his right arm, I don't think he'll miss it.

I like making a chicken salad sandwich with celery and Craisins. Tastes amazing. Also works with turkey.

Dangit, I want some now. But it's early.

Also, hi 9 guests peeking at this ol' thread.

Were you playing multiplayer on someone else's host? Maybe the host had a less than ideal connection to begin with and you were feeling the effects of it. The same sort of thing happened to me when my brother was playing Black Ops on his Xbox and he was having connection issues, despite being hardwired to our router. When he left that host's game and played in another one, he wasn't lagging as much.

YOUR SIG.

It amuses me so. I've got "Born This Way" playing and AMG. Stitches in sides.

Just made some peppermint tea cause it's cold. Anyone care for some?

I'll jump on the bandwagon with the English and Aussie-accent lovers here, but I also like German accents. I have an uncle who lives in Saarbruken (I believe that's how it's spelled....) and I love it whenever he calls the family because I get to hear him talk in that accent, and he always adds a "no" to the end of everything. Like, "It's finally starting to warm up over here, no?"

I'm from New England, and I actually can't stand my own accent. I sound weird. I don't live in Bah-stahn, I live in Boh-ston. I'm not going to the pahk, I'm going to the park. I'm having a beer, not a beah.

I'll have to demonstrate sometime, I guess.

I won't lie; at first I thought I wouldn't like the book because I barely made through Fellowship of the Ring, actually I never finished any of the LotR novels.

Boy was I wrong.

I had the most fun watching Bilbo's character change from the beginning, from a hobbit who started to remind me of Arnold from Magic School Bus ("I KNEW I should have stayed at home today!") to a hobbit who occasionally thought of returning home, but focused more on the adventure. I guess I could say I related to Bilbo; I felt the exact same way when I took my first steps away from my parents when starting out on my own, longing to stay with them but realizing that it's much more fulfilling to go on your own adventures, even if you're not the adventuring type.

Hands down my favorite part was the riddle battle with Gollum.

Go as a Companion Cube.

I saw a great one two years ago at Anime Boston, it was about 4 feet wide and rolled around on wheels. The person inside stalked random people and followed them around.

Or you could always be Missingno.


I'm a veteran cosplayer myself, but my first cosplay was Axel. Big mistake, I found myself getting frustrated at many of the more complicated details.