Comments | rumplebuttkins: LJ Idol, Week 12

rumplebuttkins

LJ Idol, Week 12

Jan 30, 2012 10:03

Comments 20

karmasoup January 31 2012, 21:58:53 UTC

It took me a moment to get the Some Assembly Required in this entry, and then I remembered building your game play deck. Homebuddy used to play in tournaments for rent money, just after Betas came out. He'd psych out his opponents by doing things like keeping score with pennies in binary (which was much less commonly known to your average nerd back in 93, than it is now), and whipping out a Mox Pearl that he'd actually DRAWN a SMILEY FACE on. There's nothing like watching the guy across the table practically gnawing his own fist off over freaking out at how you've completely devalued such a priceless collector's item. It caught them so off guard, it was well worth it every time. Some of the inventive moves he made at the time now have rules in place to prevent players since to be quite that ingenious. Sad, when you think about it, actually.

rumplebuttkins February 2 2012, 06:26:19 UTC

Ha, yeah, I think there's a lot of fun to be had the expense of the people who take the game far more seriously than others. Sure, proxies or modded cards aren't as welcome in some environments anymore, but just talking about them I'm sure would have a great effect.

alien_infinity January 31 2012, 21:59:23 UTC

Fantastic take on the prompt! ^_^

rumplebuttkins February 2 2012, 06:26:29 UTC

Thank you! :)

createdestiny February 1 2012, 02:38:36 UTC

Love that opening line.....no chance of getting away with a hook like that. :)

Took me a while to figure out where this was going. I used to play, but don't have the money or time for it anymore.

Well done!

rumplebuttkins February 2 2012, 06:27:18 UTC

Yeah, well who *does* have the time or money anymore for anything fun? I robbed a bank in order to play just that one night.

n3m3sis42 February 1 2012, 17:43:45 UTC

Nice use of the prompt. I never got into Magic, but this kind of makes me wish I had. :D

rumplebuttkins February 2 2012, 06:28:19 UTC

You can just as easily get the same experience by sitting in a room with unwashed laundry while drinking Mountain Dew at 2:00 in the morning. Try it!

n3m3sis42 February 3 2012, 00:38:17 UTC

HAHAHAHA. My husband and I have been in the gaming room at Dragon*Con, and we know of gamer funk. We laughed so hard at this response.