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LeafHouse posted:drat, why’d they have to make Dustin complete and utter rear end? I don't know who was clamoring for a less good, Azorious version of Dalakos with limited partner, but I guess we have one now? 
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Season 1 of Stranger Things is legitimately good, after that it's seriously just worth ignoring.
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Oct 14, 2021 21:25
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It's like TWD where normal brained people like the secretaries at my work and my GF's extended family love it but jaded online posters think it sucks rear end. I haven't seen it but it's fun to talk poo poo about things. At the very least I have to assume people won't find any of the characters as morally objectionable as Negan.
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Oct 14, 2021 21:31
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fadam posted:normal brained people Ah, the two genders.
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Oct 14, 2021 21:32
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fadam posted:It's like TWD where normal brained people like the secretaries at my work and my GF's extended family love it but jaded online posters think it sucks rear end. I haven't seen it but it's fun to talk poo poo about things. My fiance regularly roasts me for not watching shows that came out after 2007 and I took to Stranger Things like gangbusters. To be honest if you are a 35-45 year old internet nerd, the show was basically made for you.
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ShaneB posted:Season 1 of Stranger Things is legitimately good, after that it's seriously just worth ignoring. Season 2 gave us Steve and Dustin as a character pair and it loving ruled Season 3 had Robin and the russian guy and it loving ruled Stranger Things is good and fun but overhyped Edit: season 2 also has an episode that's just a big homage to The Invisibles and most people hated it, but if you have an unhealthy love of Grant Morrison then you'll love it (it's me I'm that guy) Silhouette fucked around with this message at 21:58 on Oct 14, 2021 |
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I don't care one iota about the licensed MTG cards that are only playable in EDH other than the fact that its pretty funny that the kind of cards people just make up on twitter are almost always more compelling and fitting for the characters than the ones Wizards does.
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Oct 14, 2021 21:57
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fadam posted:At the very least I have to assume people won't find any of the characters as morally objectionable as Negan. It is astounding how they found exactly the wrong product to start with in TWD. If they'd done D&D first, then LOTR, then maybe 40K, the boiling water would have been turned up so slowly that many wouldn't have noticed. But instead they start with TWD, and just poured scalding water from the kettle into the bare pan.
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whydirt posted:has no one told fadam that they’re a villain in an anime? I'm super disappointed that Fadam is who the GCI assigned to me but wygd?
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Stranger Things practically rubs itself raw over 80s nostalgia so it was absolutely engineered to snare in a certain demographic of nerds and pulling in normies was collateral
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Silhouette posted:Season 2 gave us Steve and Dustin as a character pair and it loving ruled If they were more willing kill off the audience favorites (i.e Hopper in S2) and lean more into the anthology format they could've done some interesting stuff. Still entertaining enough but very much empty content calories.
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Oct 14, 2021 22:08
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Very strange choice to go all in on mechanically unique cards instead of going with the Godzilla Series approach, especially when these mechanically unique cards kind of blow mechanically.
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Oct 14, 2021 22:26
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I Before E posted:Very strange choice to go all in on mechanically unique cards instead of going with the Godzilla Series approach, especially when these mechanically unique cards kind of blow mechanically. They will print non-standard legal versions of these cards with different names/art in 6 months or so. They will be printed in "THE LIST".
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I Before E posted:Very strange choice to go all in on mechanically unique cards instead of going with the Godzilla Series approach, especially when these mechanically unique cards kind of blow mechanically. they're putting out rethemed non secret lair versions in the future unless you mean something else by 'the godzilla approach'
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I thought Season 1 of Stranger Things was good, Season 2 was OK.... but the art on those magic cards isn't very good...
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Oct 14, 2021 22:42
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flatluigi posted:they're putting out rethemed non secret lair versions in the future unless you mean something else by 'the godzilla approach' The one they used for the Ikoria cards where they had a Godzilla version but were functionally identical to an existing card.  There's no shortage of cards in Midnight Hunt that could be reasonably aliased with this Stranger Things flavor, and I doubt the promise that these are mechanically new is what's selling the $30 boxes with 5 cards in them
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Oct 14, 2021 22:47
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i before e just wants them to be reprints and not new cards, which is understandable, but the TWD cards sold incredibly well apparently and this is at least a way to get unthemed versions out there while the ip holders insist on getting new cards good news though, the fortnite cards are gonna all be reprints
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I Before E posted:The one they used for the Ikoria cards where they had a Godzilla version but were functionally identical to an existing card. someone posted an article earlier that goes into this https://www.ign.com/articles/as-magic-the-gathering-grows-fans-dont-know-what-its-future-holds quote:The Fortnite Secret Lair will be reskinned cards like the positively-received Godzilla reskins before it, but the ones for Stranger Things and Street Fighter will also feature mechanically unique cards. That left many wondering why reskins didn’t become the norm, which Heggen says is partially due to the significantly greater success of the unique cards and partially for the benefit of WOTC’s designers. “To be clear, we do still absolutely love what we call the overlay technique, what we did with Godzilla,” Heggen explains. “We also love being able to just task our team with saying ‘don't find the closest approximation,’” enabling them to design something explicitly for the flavor of a certain crossover character. tho the flavor in these stranger things seems pretty dogshit
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fadam posted:At the very least I have to assume people won't find any of the characters as morally objectionable as Negan. Okay, this is a complaint I've seen multiple times, and I genuinely don't get it: what is wrong with them printing Negan? It's not like Magic is a stranger to printing evil characters on cards- Nicol Bolas enslaved an entire plane to turn into a zombie army factory, and for stuff that hits closer to home, we have people like Massacre Girl, who is literally just a serial killer. Of all the issues that the TWD secret lair had, I don't get why "they made a card for a villain" is one of them.
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serefin99 posted:Okay, this is a complaint I've seen multiple times, and I genuinely don't get it: what is wrong with them printing Negan? It's not like Magic is a stranger to printing evil characters on cards- Nicol Bolas enslaved an entire plane to turn into a zombie army factory, and for stuff that hits closer to home, we have people like Massacre Girl, who is literally just a serial killer. Of all the issues that the TWD secret lair had, I don't get why "they made a card for a villain" is one of them. I don’t either, but other people do and that’s just the way she goes. There’s no value in relitigating this again.
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babypolis posted:someone posted an article earlier that goes into this I guess the mechanical uniqueness is a big selling point. Answers my question, then. Still doesn't really explain why the cards are so mechanically underwhelming when being mechanically unique is such a selling point, but nevertheless. serefin99 posted:Okay, this is a complaint I've seen multiple times, and I genuinely don't get it: what is wrong with them printing Negan? It's not like Magic is a stranger to printing evil characters on cards- Nicol Bolas enslaved an entire plane to turn into a zombie army factory, and for stuff that hits closer to home, we have people like Massacre Girl, who is literally just a serial killer. Of all the issues that the TWD secret lair had, I don't get why "they made a card for a villain" is one of them. From what I understand there are elements of sexual violence to the character that make it more contentious and uncomfortable than "here's the god of the torture circus cult" or "here's a machine freak who experiments on still living creatures".
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I've not watched Stranger Things, how much of an action man is Jim Hopper, that he can duel Guan Yu to a draw? Anyway I have to play some Friends Forever thing because of Miami Connection.
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Leperflesh posted:THREAD RULES AND GUIDELINES This is probably too buried in the wall of text in the OP, huh? And I put it under the "magic is doomed" heading. Maybe it needs its own heading.
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Hopper is a fat middle-aged sheriff who's constantly miserable and is the best character on the show Edit: his SLD card sucks though
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Leperflesh posted:This is probably too buried in the wall of text in the OP, huh? And I put it under the "magic is doomed" heading. Maybe it needs its own heading. My apologies.
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No, I genuinely think folks aren't seeing that, and that's on me. It's too easy to miss, especially since so much of this thread's OP is a reprint of the previous one. I'll try and pull it out more prominently.
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Leperflesh posted:This is probably too buried in the wall of text in the OP, huh? And I put it under the "magic is doomed" heading. Maybe it needs its own heading. Sorry, didn't know we had a moratorium on that discussion.
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Yeah, I know. Sigh. Did you guys know I write documentation? Like, as my real job. It's quite absurd, really.
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Silhouette posted:Hopper is a fat middle-aged sheriff who's constantly miserable and is the best character on the show I think his is the best one, it's a shame that he can't partner with anything relevant to investigating. Same with Mike and reanimating. Mike/Tevesh Szat. Friends through eternity, loyalty, honesty.
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more stranger things cards     more secret lairs     speaking of too much text: "read the fine print"  apparently also the MTG flavored version of the Stranger Things cards will show up in New Capenna Set Boosters. Approx 1 in 8 set boosters will have one of the MTG-equivalent versions. https://clips.twitch.tv/YummySparklingStarHumbleLife-TM1Ty6pEGlv42lDH
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I Before E posted:I guess the mechanical uniqueness is a big selling point. Answers my question, then. Still doesn't really explain why the cards are so mechanically underwhelming when being mechanically unique is such a selling point, but nevertheless. i dunno anything about commander but it seems to me that the friends forever mechanic basically forced them to be dogshit
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These are neat. Not functional as game pieces but if I collected I would pick them up
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Okay the Mind Flayer card is a really good flavor hit for how it works in Stranger Things
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