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The Magic In Me

January 28, 2011 Family / Friends / Games / Music / Post-A-Day 2011 / Video Games / Videos
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I picked up Magic: The Gath­er­ing — Duel of the Planeswalk­ers (quite a mouth­ful!) recently when it was on sale on Steam. I’m pretty dis­ap­pointed that the game only lets you use pre-​made decks instead of mak­ing your own. You can’t even mix-​and-​match cards in exist­ing decks to make new ones. But I’m even more dis­ap­pointed that Dong Ha’s house­mates all seem to think I’m play­ing Yu-​Gi-​Oh or Pokemon.

Al the same, I’ve been play­ing it a lit­tle every night, try­ing to unlock all the cards. I’m almost there, and con­sid­er­ing pick­ing up the expan­sions. Any word on if the new decks/​cards are any good?

Any­way, I’ll close with a song:

(I had no idea that was Rivers Cuomo until I looked up the song for this post.)

Oh, and of course, if you fancy a match, hit me up on Steam! My user­name is Din­hter­net. (I’m look­ing at you, Elyson S!)

Against Advice Of Counsel

January 18, 2011 Dinhternet
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There’s a lot of advice out there that chang­ing themes is a bad idea. It costs you read­ers because every theme has unique sub­tle quirks, so things will look or behave dif­fer­ently when you switch. My own advice from last week also applies — chang­ing the look is just a weak deflec­tion from deeper trou­bles like bore­dom and lack of content.

Despite all that, I felt this place could use a lit­tle spruc­ing up, so I decided to change up the theme I was using here on Din­hter­net. While I’m at it, I’m also going to remove the Google Adsense. There’s not nearly enough traf­fic on this site to make that annoy­ance worth it anyway.

So, if you see any weird­ness, please let me know.

Schooled

January 9, 2011 Friends / Post-A-Day 2011 / Video Games
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No good news to report yet. :/​I am back to get my posts up to date, though.

Today, I played Star­Craft 2 for the first time. (Well, online any­way. I did a cou­ple of single-​player mis­sions on a guest account of Eddie C’s before.) I bit the bul­let and got myself a copy of Star­Craft 2, since all my friends were play­ing it.

It was actu­ally a hard deci­sion. You see, back when the orig­i­nal Star­Craft came out, I was a huge pro­po­nent of Total Anni­hi­la­tion, another RTS that came out at the same time. The scope, the flow, the con­stant updates, the myr­iad tac­tics the units offered… I loved it. My friends at the time were pretty split, so I had both, but I always pre­ferred TA over SC.

Then Supreme Com­man­der 1 and 2 came out, and none of my friends played those. The RTS genre shrank dras­ti­cally, and now I feel like I’m choos­ing between SC2 or no RTS gam­ing with my friends.

So here I am, suck­ing it up. In both senses of the phrase. (My based got wiped out by zealot rush in the first five min­utes, if you were curi­ous.) If you are inter­ested in play­ing with me, my Bat​tle​.net user­name is din­hter­net. You should also be able to find me through Face­book/​Real Friends or what­ever it’s called.

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