~6 I’ve Always Like Playing Multi-Color!
Things are moving; the semester is so close to ending! And that is awesome!
I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how to deal with issues and I think I’ve come up with the perfect solution. It’ll take a lot of time, a ton of work, and who knows may painfully flop. However I feel very confident that it will provide the most realistic chance for success. The idea behind it all makes a lot of sense to me.
Magic cards is getting a new set called Shadowmoor next weekend! I’m really excited because the theme of the set is ‘hybrid’ which makes building decks with 2 or more colors really easy. I love multi-color. Mono color decks are very specific in their strategy, mono-red will agro-rush. Mono-white will agro-beat down. Mono-blue will do counter/bounce-control… yada yada yada. You can change the cards a little, maybe add in a neat effect, but it’s basically the same. If the strategy you are trying to pull off meets it’s nightmare you out of luck… lacking even the options to add to your deck later (black and red can’t do a thing to defend against enchantment cards for instance). Multi-color lets you expand you option base drastically. It lets you add in alternate win conditions and build a support system… even if one or two broad themes you deck employs end up failing, you still have the chance to eek out a win scenario.
To end this string of relations, I finished reading the Death Note manga. I wasn’t sure how to feel when it ended, but now I can definitely say I liked it. The mangas have a much better ending than the Anime (which turns out kind of random and lame). I really want to write my own manga. Check back with me in a week or so.
Random stuff: I finally cleaned my apartment today; I can actually walk around! My place actually doesn’t seem so bad sometimes when it’s clean, although it still feels like a timeless black hole of boredom when I'm home alone. I still need to do laundry. I recently realized that Google was affiliated with a blogging site, so I made another blog. My other blog isn’t anything like this one; it’s short, stays on a single topic, and is daily.
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I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the future these last two weeks. I wouldn’t call it cold feet exactly, but I do feel a little nervous. I have never lived with a person I could be happy with. Little things always start to grind my nerves, and without a reinforcing connection I end up with a sense of resentment. Tracy and me get along great since we have more or less compatible personalities, I can see where we might clash in a few areas but (most importantly) we’ve established communication that (I feel) can handle ‘bullshit-free’ conversations. Shelly and me aren't BBFs but we more or less get along and seem or have similar interests in the way of living style. Also she’s painfully blunt so while we may eventually have problems compromising situations, we will definitely be able to have a dialogue. I have been wondering exactly how I’ll get along with Justin; aside from being gay and having similar personalities we really don’t have much in common. We also have pitiful communication skills. I’ve been trying to figure out something that can give us a dialogue but I got nothing. I thought I found the answer in once or twice a week gym buddies, but he hated the idea (as he put it “that sounds like work! I hate work.”). Who knows… the good news is that he’s not moving in for a while, so maybe I can figure something out once school stops making things complicated.
Baring something unforeseen such as kleptomania or a drug addiction, the worst-case scenario I can think of is that people are over when I want to sleep at night… (Speaking from experience) the absolute worst is that they’re all drunk (as that case is especially complicated… people won’t be reasonable or be able to complete compromises… some may not be able to drive and therefore they won’t be able to leave the apartment… not to mention that I’m the only one over 21). Living with other people carries a certain level of risk. Given that I currently rely on the people I’m living with for a social network, that risk could be seen as higher than usual. The more I hyper-analyze the situation, the more paranoid I get. I can’t say that I regret my decision (yet), the living conditions are about as good as I could imagine them getting. It should be great if I establish and maintain comfortable dialogue with the other 3. Over analyzing the setup at this point is pointless, good, honest, comfortable communication is the only way I can expect any anticipatable problems to be resolved anyways; It’s also the only way I’m going to avoid harboring and accumulating bitter resentment when things (inevitably) don’t go my way.
~Click picture for information about Go~
In other (not psychotically obsessive news) Go club was canceled this week, which made me extremely sad. There’s only a few more Go-Fridays left in the semester, and after this semester Jarred is leaving off to parts unknown. He’s the current leader of the Go club, so no-ones quite sure who is going to bring the boards every Friday after he leaves. I still suck at the game, but definitely would be open to more or less hosting the club at B&N every Friday night. For the longest time I thought chess was the $%*t of games but now I can firmly say that Go is so much better. At the end of a game of chess the board is usually pretty empty and simple, at the end of a Go game the board can practically turn into a mathematic work of art, made by two people essentially having a mental war no less! I can understand how so much philosophy comes from the game.
On that romantic note I can say I’m ending this post, man talk about yammering on!
I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how to deal with issues and I think I’ve come up with the perfect solution. It’ll take a lot of time, a ton of work, and who knows may painfully flop. However I feel very confident that it will provide the most realistic chance for success. The idea behind it all makes a lot of sense to me.
Magic cards is getting a new set called Shadowmoor next weekend! I’m really excited because the theme of the set is ‘hybrid’ which makes building decks with 2 or more colors really easy. I love multi-color. Mono color decks are very specific in their strategy, mono-red will agro-rush. Mono-white will agro-beat down. Mono-blue will do counter/bounce-control… yada yada yada. You can change the cards a little, maybe add in a neat effect, but it’s basically the same. If the strategy you are trying to pull off meets it’s nightmare you out of luck… lacking even the options to add to your deck later (black and red can’t do a thing to defend against enchantment cards for instance). Multi-color lets you expand you option base drastically. It lets you add in alternate win conditions and build a support system… even if one or two broad themes you deck employs end up failing, you still have the chance to eek out a win scenario.
To end this string of relations, I finished reading the Death Note manga. I wasn’t sure how to feel when it ended, but now I can definitely say I liked it. The mangas have a much better ending than the Anime (which turns out kind of random and lame). I really want to write my own manga. Check back with me in a week or so.
Random stuff: I finally cleaned my apartment today; I can actually walk around! My place actually doesn’t seem so bad sometimes when it’s clean, although it still feels like a timeless black hole of boredom when I'm home alone. I still need to do laundry. I recently realized that Google was affiliated with a blogging site, so I made another blog. My other blog isn’t anything like this one; it’s short, stays on a single topic, and is daily.
~Click here for blog~
I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the future these last two weeks. I wouldn’t call it cold feet exactly, but I do feel a little nervous. I have never lived with a person I could be happy with. Little things always start to grind my nerves, and without a reinforcing connection I end up with a sense of resentment. Tracy and me get along great since we have more or less compatible personalities, I can see where we might clash in a few areas but (most importantly) we’ve established communication that (I feel) can handle ‘bullshit-free’ conversations. Shelly and me aren't BBFs but we more or less get along and seem or have similar interests in the way of living style. Also she’s painfully blunt so while we may eventually have problems compromising situations, we will definitely be able to have a dialogue. I have been wondering exactly how I’ll get along with Justin; aside from being gay and having similar personalities we really don’t have much in common. We also have pitiful communication skills. I’ve been trying to figure out something that can give us a dialogue but I got nothing. I thought I found the answer in once or twice a week gym buddies, but he hated the idea (as he put it “that sounds like work! I hate work.”). Who knows… the good news is that he’s not moving in for a while, so maybe I can figure something out once school stops making things complicated.
Baring something unforeseen such as kleptomania or a drug addiction, the worst-case scenario I can think of is that people are over when I want to sleep at night… (Speaking from experience) the absolute worst is that they’re all drunk (as that case is especially complicated… people won’t be reasonable or be able to complete compromises… some may not be able to drive and therefore they won’t be able to leave the apartment… not to mention that I’m the only one over 21). Living with other people carries a certain level of risk. Given that I currently rely on the people I’m living with for a social network, that risk could be seen as higher than usual. The more I hyper-analyze the situation, the more paranoid I get. I can’t say that I regret my decision (yet), the living conditions are about as good as I could imagine them getting. It should be great if I establish and maintain comfortable dialogue with the other 3. Over analyzing the setup at this point is pointless, good, honest, comfortable communication is the only way I can expect any anticipatable problems to be resolved anyways; It’s also the only way I’m going to avoid harboring and accumulating bitter resentment when things (inevitably) don’t go my way.
~Click picture for information about Go~
In other (not psychotically obsessive news) Go club was canceled this week, which made me extremely sad. There’s only a few more Go-Fridays left in the semester, and after this semester Jarred is leaving off to parts unknown. He’s the current leader of the Go club, so no-ones quite sure who is going to bring the boards every Friday after he leaves. I still suck at the game, but definitely would be open to more or less hosting the club at B&N every Friday night. For the longest time I thought chess was the $%*t of games but now I can firmly say that Go is so much better. At the end of a game of chess the board is usually pretty empty and simple, at the end of a Go game the board can practically turn into a mathematic work of art, made by two people essentially having a mental war no less! I can understand how so much philosophy comes from the game.
On that romantic note I can say I’m ending this post, man talk about yammering on!