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The last movie I saw was Green Room. It has Anton Yelchin it and was written/directed by Jeremy Saulnier. He also did Blue Ruin from 2013 that was pretty good. Green Room was also pretty good. I only really knew about either because the guys at Red Letter Media occasionally do a video where they...

One of the things that I find unfortunate about modern film making is that making money isn't enough for the studios anymore. They want to makecrazymoney AND have a franchise on their hands. They don't want to just make a Ghostbusters film that people like and is financially successful. They...

If it's better than people were expecting that's fine with me and it makes the actions of the studio even more ridiculous. If any of the reviewers I care about give it anything along the lines of "eh, it was alright" or better I'll go catch a matinee.

There's a review embargo so the only reviews you are seeing are from people who were given permission. Even if there wasn't a bit of a selection process from the studios the people with that privilege have an incentive to make positive reviews. Having early access and being first to critique a...

I'm still not against seeing it but shit like those RT reviews keeps me away. That site used to be decent and now their first week reviews of a major release are all obviously cherry-picked? C'mon.

When I was reading the approved reviews on RT yesterday it was easy to tell the gig was up. All the negative reviews were still positive.

It started as right and in my sunstroke I thought I fixed it.

Wright overtly sexist article, complain about sexism. Can't explain that.

Boy does that look like a cheap knockoff of Mr. Staypuft or what.

We're definitely going weird places now.

YOU DIDN'T MOVE THE BODIES YOU ONLY MOVED THE HEADSTONES This entire last act is comedy gold.

You work a part time job of which the income goes entirely towards Magic the Gathering.

Fine, you've convinced me that there's no point in continuing any discussion with you.

Everyone I know that plays those formats uses proxies. Putting a deck together takes time so there's no reason to not proxy up what you want to build and start playing with it the first afternoon. WotC says proxies are a no-go and doesn't even want stores running events in which they are allowed.

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I didn't say Legacy is dead. I said in a few years Legacy would be dead. The long term plan by WotC is to just let you all live on your own little island forever with minimal support and wait for Modern to take it's place. For black swans you've got a breakthrough in counterfeit card quality, a...

Dear Hasbro, I enjoy one of your products a great deal and while I understand you are a game and toy company a big part of my enjoyment of this product comes from other people being kept away and a big part of my self-identity is tied to being on the inside of this exclusion rather than the...

Out of my range? I've been playing on and off for over two decades. At different points I've owned a good chunk of everything there is to own. I care about Magic the Gathering as a game. I'd like more people to be able to play more formats because there's a whole bunch of cool cards throughout...

Alright, well I now know everything about you that I need to know.

We'll check back in 2019 and see how things are going.

vGrade is the anti-Mist, we have to keep them from ever coming into contact with each other or the universe will implode.

You'd be bored as fuck.

Matthew or "Matt" for short. Good strong name, Biblical.

And, importantly, you have control over how many chances you take so take a whole fucking bunch of chances. Also, while we may be too quick to take credit for our success we are also far far too quick to blame others for their failures.

That wasn't really my take away from the book.

In a few years when Legacy finishes dying I hope they introduce another eternal format that is Modern plus all of the other sets that are post-Reserved list. That would be Modern + Mercadian Masques, Nemesis, Prophecy, Invasion, Planeshift, Apocalypse, Odyssey, Torment, Judgment, Onslaught...

There's definitely some stinkers in his IMDB but I like Bachelor Party, The Money Pit, Dragnet, Big, The 'Burbs, and A League of Their Own all just fine for his early comedy rolls. I think I saw Joe vs the Volcano one time and can only remember a single scene from it. Probably was bad.

One of these days I'm going to win the Mega Millions and when I do I'll make an honest woman out of you.

There was definitely a very weird period where WotC ruled that if a card was marked without sleeves than it was marked with sleeves. That was a stupid couple of months with jerkasses thinking it was cute to get people to de-sleeve. Once everyone was on board with opaque sleeves and that ruling...

There's match has a play in game one where Fleishman attacks with his Ivory Gargoyle and Rade blocks with a Wooly Spider. Fleishamn casts Pyroclasm, it resolves, he points at the spider, and Rade doesn't move. "It takes two damage." The judge then reminds him that when the spider blocks a flier...

I forgot about Thawing Glaciers! That's a great shuffle to combine with Brainstorm. Olle Rade's deck is definitely shitty - 7 Forest 4 Karplusan Forest 7 Mountain 4 Deadly Insect 4 Fyndhorn Elves 4 Giant Trap Door Spider 1 Gorilla Shaman 2 Orcish Cannoneers 2 Storm Shaman 4 Woolly...

Yeah, once Necro starts picking up a red splash it gets just so damn much better. Whirling Dervish? White Knight? You just bolt those damn things. You pick up Red Elemental Blast/Pyroblast to deal with Stasis, and artifact removal for Winter Orb. I always really, really liked Randy Buehler's...

Brainstorm is one of the cards that I most find interesting in hindsight. There weren't a ton of shuffle mechanics available on the cheap like there are now but there's Land Tax and Merchant Scroll. Later with Mirage you get some acceptable fetch lands, there's Rampant Growth, Enlightened Tutor...

Sure, the second Black Vise got restricted people like Leon Lindback were showing up to their weeklies with Necropotence, but we were all pretty derpy as a whole in our card evaluations. The internet was in its infancy so information was slow to travel. It took time for Land Tax and Necropotence...

Illusions/Donate may be what people remember but it was Necropotence that broke everything. That card had made it through more than one Standard, got reprinted in 5th for another go, was unrestricted/unbanned in all formats, but once everyone figured out to use it to fuel combo decks shit got...

I don't think Mist is talking about wealth being discouraging but that there is a system in place that discourages. If you take a group of people and you tell them their whole lives the system is rigged against them, that they are judged by the color of their skin, that they'll never be treated...

Oh man, Planar Chaos Donate? Sign me up! edit - there has to be some gimmicky shit to do with that in Modern

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Reviews will be below average, it'll do fine in the box office but less than the studio hopes, and it won't leave any lasting cultural footprint.

I'm surprised she's in a regular Standard legal set and not some other product. WotC doesn't print cards that efficiently interfere with your opponent's resources hardly ever anymore. 10/10 would rare draft every time.