Recent content by A. Smith

Fetches will not be in KoT. See here: http://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/the-game/modern/554589-aaron-forsythe-no-fetchlands-anytime-soon Basically, Magic R&D chief Aaron Forsythe said they want to reprint them, but the urgency of the reprint only became apparent recently, and there is a long...

Quebec french is interesting in that not only do we have the common swear words ("merde" means shit, "Fuck" is used as it is in english, sometimes we use "pute" or "putain", which means whore), our most common swear words are religious words reapropriated as swear words. "Tabarnak" is derived...

Foreword: I am an atheist, and I have only read the book, not seen the movie. With this out of the way... I find the book to be much more of a study of why we (as a species) tend to believe in deities rather then the other pushing it on us. As an atheist, the final question had an obvious...

I've got a few Magic cards that are pretty rare... No Alpha Black Lotus, by any stretch, but still a few things here and there.

R/U/w is probably the best choice. Mercurial Chemister and Niv-Mizzet are insane bombs, and the rest of the pool seems decent. One thing I noticed, though... You seem to have included Judge's Familiar in both the fliers and the control deck... I'm really not a fan of the card. The body is too...

Read the Forbes article... the numbers were extrapolated from Xfire data. Granted, that means you have to consider xfire a representative sample of gamers, but I don't think that if it's biased it would be biased against LoL. If anything, WoW players who would tend to play days of the game are...

I know a couple of people who would like to use this for legit research purposes. Telescope time is super hard to get, and this seems pretty cheap.

There's some more of it here and there... Looking back, there's some at 1:13 and 3:43 (which is funny, considering the line at the time is "as long as I got my wall I'll never die" and how often walls explode in BF3). Looks like it's all campaign, though 1:13 could be multiplayer. In...

I think Picard is the best captain, in large part because he's the best actor of the lot. He brought a lot of class and gravitas to the show. That said, DS9 is probably the ebst series, with Sisko being the number 2 captain. Sure, the first season was kinda crappy (like every other Star Trek...

This is actually fairly important info for most people. I still make these kinds of mistakes. The other day, for instance, my opponent had used Gitaxian probe on me and had seen a land (a swamp) and two other cards. On my next few turns, I drew a land or two, and I played those rather then...

I know a few guys that work for Beenox (I live 10 minutes away from them), and while I can't say I know the inner workings of the company, they've told me the work environment is great. Sure, they sometimes get crunch time like everyone else in the industry, but overtime is paid and management...

See, here's the thing. We humans are a social bunch. We like bonding with other humans, and multiplayer games allow you to form bonds. Seems to me that would make games worth it to most of us. Plus, sports and games are a way to express our competitiveness in a safe, consequence-free (or...

Guys, calm down about Vexing Devil. The thing about it is that the choice element makes it far, far less good. Here's the thing about red decks (and aggro decks in general). How they win is by playing several small, cheap creatures in the first few turns, attacking with them to maximize their...

One thing about the ASoIaF series: I have heard that they plan to do seasons 4 and 5 as a mash-up of books 4 and 5, putting all the pieces in chronological order. Makes sense, at least because of contractual issues with actors (most of whom you just wouldn't see in one season or the other).

The "sharpie method" is also known as proxying. You can't take deck with proxies to tournaments, but in casual settings everyone I've seen is just fine with them, especially for the more expensive cards. You can also print the images of the cards your proxying and then glue them to random...