[Webcomic] PVP Discussion

Piotyr

Piotyr

It's funny to me because that was pretty much the same reason my friends and I stopped playing Magic: the Gathering.
 
bigcountry23

bigcountry23

I just assumed this is how most magic games ended, or something similar (Thicket basilisk/lure/regen)... Good times. Yeah, best PVP of the year.
 
North_Ranger

North_Ranger

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Never played more than one hand of M:tG... yet for some reason a group of mutual acquaintances dubbed me "the hairy little Magic player". I don't play M:tG, I'm far from little and hairy... well, okay, that one's correct.
 
North_Ranger

North_Ranger

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I'm more of a tabletop gamer, actually. But mind you, I know how to play Magic, I just don't have a deck and am not very good at it.
 
Zappit

Zappit

Staff member
HCGLNS said:
Why do you need a banned list for a deck of 100 cards with no duplicates allowed?

Today's PVP was funny though. There's no folding in in MTG :)
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Simple - tons and tons of tutor cards. It's easy to search out a cheap, ridiculous combo that can take out an entire playgroup.

Some cards, like Karakas, completely screw over nearly any general. Gifts Ungiven is a "super-tutor", and Yawgmoth's Bargain lets you draw an unfair number of cards with a starting life total of 40, etc...
 
Piotyr

Piotyr

It's a little ironic, really, Scott has tried so hard to get away from the geek and gaming humor because he apparently thinks he can't be a serious cartoonist without serious issues and overarching plot or drama, and yet the two guys he moved in with have basically done just geek and gaming humor for about 10 years, no character development, always keeping the status quo, constant geek and gaming humor, and they're wildly successful, have a TV show, a multi million dollar charity, and a movie deal in the works.
 
drifter

drifter

Since when did serious content equate with success?

Also, I think by any but the most stringent of measures Scott is quite successful. It was a while ago, but I remember reading a transcript where he claimed his earnings were something in low 6 figures. A pittance compared to Mike and Jerry's empire, but a living 99% of other independent cartoonists (hell, almost 99% of anyone) would envy.
 
Kovac

Kovac

So Scott is once again sick/injured but has to work through it anyway since he has no buffer?

What a munter
 
Adam

Adam

Piotyr said:
It's a little ironic, really, Scott has tried so hard to get away from the geek and gaming humor because he apparently thinks he can't be a serious cartoonist without serious issues and overarching plot or drama, and yet the two guys he moved in with have basically done just geek and gaming humor for about 10 years, no character development, always keeping the status quo, constant geek and gaming humor, and they're wildly successful, have a TV show, a multi million dollar charity, and a movie deal in the works.
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PA has Khoo. PVP has Kurtz. Plus the PA guys aren't afraid to work hard.
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sixpackshaker said:
No he jumped on a hotel bed and bounced off, onto the floor.
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Of the room below him, AMIRITE! Fat humour ftw.
 
Null

Null

And now, more LOLBAT. If I ever meet Kurtz at a convention, I am probably going to slap him.

Which will then result in six weeks of LOLBAT strips as he recovers.
 
Wahad

Wahad

Read Game of Thrones (or watch the series). Then you'll get it.

It won't be any funnier for it, but at least you'll get it.
 
W

wana10

also helps if you're from seattle. pike place market is a famous landmark where the clerks toss fish about the stall.
 
Espy

Espy

I get the concepts thrown around in it but... it has no timing or flow, it just isn't doing it for me I guess.
Now if you want a funny Monday morning comic go on over to PA... cuz holy cow was it funny this morning.
 
drifter

drifter

Scott Kurtz before he was invited to the Reubens: The NCS is a bunch of old fogies living off tradition and my contribution to the medium will be seeing those old bastards die off.

Scott Kurtz after being invited to the Reubens: The NCS is a proud and historic group who needs to set standards for webcomics and stick to them.

It's always different on the other side, eh?
 
Tress

Tress

drifter said:
Scott Kurtz before he was invited to the Reubens: The NCS is a bunch of old fogies living off tradition and my contribution to the medium will be seeing those old bastards die off.

Scott Kurtz after being invited to the Reubens: The NCS is a proud and historic group who needs to set standards for webcomics and stick to them.

It's always different on the other side, eh?
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Anyone who is shocked by this, please raise your hands. Anyone?
 
Espy

Espy

Wait, these Reubens awards folks are the people that Scott wrote that pissy diatribe about? How he was so happy to never be accepted by them, etc, etc? Really?
 
drifter

drifter


Yep. To be fair, his opinion is somewhat more nuanced than my simplification, but it's still rather amusing to see him take that stance now that he's 'in.'
 
SpecialKO

SpecialKO

Maybe if he just calmed down a bit, he'd discover that he'd still be able to do everything that he's done and be recognized for it without the stress.
 
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