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[#HBC | ZoZo]

Do you even play Magic? If so, what format/deck?

 

[#HBC | Red Ryu]

Sometimes I do.

I play Legacy Pauper, edh, Legacy and Standard atm. Or just for fun with whatever I can brew up.

 

[Tom]

I started playing with Dragons Maze and have been hitting it pretty hard. I have a playgroup waiting for me to catch up to the competitive standard level so Im moving as fast as I can.

 

[#HBC | ZoZo]

Ohhh tell me about your EDH deck. :3

 

[#HBC | Red Ryu]

I have 2.

1 is a Voltron Rafiq. Where pretty much you play Rafiq and win by trying to either one shot them or get enough general damage to end it. It's silly because I try and enchant him as much as I can or play gimiky think like might of oaks which, lol makes Rafiq one shot people.

2nd is Mangara of Condor where you abuse the untap mechanics with his tap ability to RFG a bunch of cards while being a universal answer to anything in play. I made it because my friend made an EDH deck that wins off combo turn 5.

 

[#HBC | ZoZo]

Ive seen Mangara EDH before, gosh so annoying ;-;

Makes me want to get back into Magic though haha. Let's see if I still have some cards left from one of my old decks...

 

[Evil Eye]

that feel when I buy futurama season 7 and some books and movies on amazon, then send the order, then realize literally the one reason I went on amazon in the first place was to buy TDKR and I forgot completely

 

[ranmaru]

Dkr makes me think "diddy kong racing"

btw what's tdkr

 

[#HBC | ZoZo]

the dark knight rises

i know that feel ee

i need to order a lot of books and i have the feeling like i wont get off without some random crap i really dont need

 

[#HBC | Acrostic]

I cave in a lot and buy books I don't need. But I usually finish reading them within a couple of days and return them. Barnes and Nobles has never been a problem so far and in my mind if you aren't negligent with the books, the store can be used as a sort of alternative library for those who have out grown their library and are really book wormy.

 

[#HBC | ZoZo]

why would i trust a gambler like you though

 

[#HBC | Acrostic]

why would i trust a gambler like you though

Everyone is gambler.

 

[Xivii]

I cave in a lot and buy books I don't need. But I usually finish reading them within a couple of days and return them. Barnes and Nobles has never been a problem so far and in my mind if you aren't negligent with the books, the store can be used as a sort of alternative library for those who have out grown their library and are really book wormy.

You're so cool.

 

[Tom]

Dkr makes me think "diddy kong racing"

btw what's tdkr

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTiG8NXz7VY

 

[#HBC | Joker]

I cave in a lot and buy books I don't need. But I usually finish reading them within a couple of days and return them. Barnes and Nobles has never been a problem so far and in my mind if you aren't negligent with the books, the store can be used as a sort of alternative library for those who have out grown their library and are really book wormy.

That sounds like you're using the store for something that it's not supposed to be for, though. Like, that'd be like if I went to a restaurant, ate my food, left without paying, then justified it because I can go over my buddy's house and get a free meal every once in awhile.

I mean, yea, there are places you can go and do the thing you're doing for free, but the place you're doing it at isn't one of them. I guess it's the dumb store's fault for letting you do it, but still.

 

[#HBC | Red Ryu]

Gambling is fun when it is Blackjack or Texas Hold'em.

 

[Evil Eye]

Yeah I can't... respect the book thing at all. That's depriving rightly earned (by your decision to purchase and then read the book) income from an industry that really needs it. You're sounding like those people who watch a movie at the theatre and then ***** at some minimum wage clerk afterward until they get a manager to give them their money back, then go "free movie lol ******s"

Sure it's less overtly meanspirited in how you go about doing it but that just makes it more underhanded; it's just as bad financially, and the rest of it evens out since people can't really do that everytime they see a movie but apparently you do it many times, or all the time, or whatever when you read a book

/thumbsdown

 

[Xivii]

It depends on how much he does purchases books in my opinion. I don't know, as a person of the pirate generation I kind of feel this entitlement to read/listen/watch/etc as much as I want when I do actually pay on a regular basis for things I either want to support or permanently, tangibly own.

Believe me, I'd like to make a living off my ideas and art as much as the next guy, but I honestly don't think art was ever meant to be something that could be sold or traded. Ideas (education, etc) either.

 

[Xivii]

Yet I'd still feel guilty doing the B&N thing because of the dishonesty.

 

[Xivii]

Like my neighbors brand new car. It's a beauty and I should be able to take it whenever I want.

 

[#HBC | ZoZo]

Not being able to live off art is a joke. Then again, everyone has his own definition of art.

I personally don't see an idea with Acrostic's method, tbh, but whatever. I'm more concerned by the fact that he edited his post to sound like 70% cooler.

 

[#HBC | Dark Horse]

Not being able to live off art is a joke.

Are you serious

 

[#HBC | ZoZo]

It's very possible to live off of art.

 

[#HBC | Joker]

It depends entirely on how you define "art". If you're all strict with how you define "art", then yea, I guess it's impossible. If you really think that, though, you may want to rethink your definition of what "art" is. Musicians make a hell of a comfortable living off their art. Even the Penny Arcade guys make a pretty decent living. Michael Bay? Yea, I'm sorry to tell you that what he does for a living is art. Just because it's not good, doesn't make it "not art", and he makes a buttload of money.

 

[#HBC | Dark Horse]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLXpEt42W

This has been my jam recently

 

[#HBC | Dark Horse]

Also Xonar,I misinterpreted what you were saying. I thought you were saying that anyone can make a living out of art, regardless of their current art situation.

 

[#HBC | Joker]

I dunno man, like I said, Michael Bay. If that dude can do it, I think anyone can XD

 

[Evil Eye]

Everything about what you just said is so wrong

 

[Evil Eye]

like making a living off of artistic mediums is 95% networking skills/contacts/marketing and 5% everything else, inclusive of talent and the actual quality of your output. People who set out to become a painter or an actor or whatever are often mocked, and rightly so, because you might as well say "I wanna be an astronaut" or "I wanna be a member of the Presidential cabinet"

 

[#HBC | Joker]

To say that a person is "unable to live off of art" is inaccurate, nonetheless. The fact that it's difficult, and even unlikely, is irrelevant to whether or not it's possible. There are, in fact, people who live quite comfortably. They exist.

 

[#HBC | ѕoup]

Show me these people so I feel better about choosing art as a job career.

 

[Evil Eye]

Well, yeah. I never said you can't... I mean that would be like trying to argue that black holes don't have gravity or something. The mere fact that I bought a bunch of books and movies on Amazon is the proof

I was reacting to your point about Michael Bay etc etc etc. Some people manage it, sure, out of dumb ****in' luck, the right contacts, and maybe some hard work and talent. Or maybe not so much on the last one. But it's not a career path anymore than setting out to win the lottery is

 

[Evil Eye]

soup what is your thing? I didn't know you were an artshomo

 

[#HBC | Joker]

I thought it was pretty clear I was joking about the michael bay thing. Like, it was just a jab at michael bay being terrible.

 

[#HBC | Joker]

Show me these people so I feel better about choosing art as a job career.

I kinda thought I already did. Like, the Penny Arcade guys, and Michael Bay, are real people. I didn't make them up.

 

[#HBC | Nabe]

The point is that art seldom generates income based on its own merits. So yes, this explains corporate artists like Michael Bay and pop-shot artists like Stephanie Meyer, but it also explains why a lot of real art doesn't get noticed until the artist is dead, if at all. In the broadest sense, choosing to be an artist "for a living" means choosing to be relatively poor.











/software designer
/not really art

 

[#HBC | Nabe]

I cave in a lot and buy books I don't need. But I usually finish reading them within a couple of days and return them. Barnes and Nobles has never been a problem so far and in my mind if you aren't negligent with the books, the store can be used as a sort of alternative library for those who have out grown their library and are really book wormy.

This is me, except for the reading part, and the returning part. I have mountains of unread and unplayed and unwatched everything.

But really, if you're going to go to all that trouble and tying up of business resources just to facilitate book lending, take a sidestep over to e-books, landlubber. It's more honest, with yourself and with your intent, and you'll just delete the copy when you're done. And then, if you really liked a book, go buy it after the fact and lend it to a friend.

 

[#HBC | ѕoup]

soup what is your thing? I didn't know you were an artshomo

Graphics Design, working with Photoshop and Illustrator to create things like advertisements and logos. It can be broader than that and I've also designed Menus, CD Covers, etc.

 

[#HBC | ZoZo]

e-readers ewwwwwwwwwww

 

[ranmaru]

gonna be vla, going to hospital to check out my right jaw or w/e the **** it is that makes it hard for me to chew. Get sudden pains.