There's not enough bitching

[Arakawa]

Looking at that picture, it's a fairly good metaphor for a love triangle. 1 and 2 in a stable relationship, wind up colliding head-on with 3. Some messy stuff happens, and 1 runs off with the much more quirky and exciting 3, while 2 is left to plummet into the interstellar void.

Thankfully, the specific three-mind problem I'm facing is, in comparison, a silly and minor thing which should be much easier to deal with.

Physics is a good way to put your problems in perspective ^_^;;

[Anastasia]

Wow, I get like none of that in your first post. But hey, if it makes things better for you it's all good.

[Brian]

Arakawa, people tend to behave at least slightly differently in different company.  As you have your own bonds and connections with various people, don't they also have them with one-another?  I don't think that the parallel is that close....

You're being too hard on yourself again. :)

[Dracos]

Hum.  Somehow this is locked.

Unlocked.

[Brian]

Puzzling.  I'm usually the culprit, but the 'lock' function is nowhere near the reply or quote buttons.

[Jon]

I went 0-3 at the Dark Ascension prerelease event tonight. (Magic the Gathering event.) Bad cards, worse luck.

I also have a suspicion the first guy I was playing may have been cheating. He had two planeswalkers (powerful, ultra-rare cards). He had three packs that could have each had one of those cards, so it's possible he was just very very lucky in which cards his packs had. But for some strange reason he was storing those cards (and only those cards) in a bag identical to the bags the store packages your ordered cards in, when you order them individually. May well have been a coincidence, but it nags at me.

[Anastasia]

Hum.  Somehow this is locked.

Unlocked.

Wasn't me, either. Got no idea on this one.

[Anastasia]

I went 0-3 at the Dark Ascension prerelease event tonight. (Magic the Gathering event.) Bad cards, worse luck.

I also have a suspicion the first guy I was playing may have been cheating. He had two planeswalkers (powerful, ultra-rare cards). He had three packs that could have each had one of those cards, so it's possible he was just very very lucky in which cards his packs had. But for some strange reason he was storing those cards (and only those cards) in a bag identical to the bags the store packages your ordered cards in, when you order them individually. May well have been a coincidence, but it nags at me.

Eh. I played some Magic back in the day and I've had that happen. Random schmuck draws awesome boosters while you struggle to do anything. Wasn't grounds for anything by itself unless there was another reason to call bullshit. I remember one guy got two Yawgmonth's Will and a Serra Avatar in four boosters. What can ya do, you know?

[KLSymph]

I also have a suspicion the first guy I was playing may have been cheating. He had two planeswalkers (powerful, ultra-rare cards). He had three packs that could have each had one of those cards, so it's possible he was just very very lucky in which cards his packs had. But for some strange reason he was storing those cards (and only those cards) in a bag identical to the bags the store packages your ordered cards in, when you order them individually. May well have been a coincidence, but it nags at me.

I can't speak to whether the fellow was cheating or not, but getting double Planeswalkers in a draft isn't too impossible. The most improbable thing I've done was open two Akroma, Angel of Fury in row while cracking Planar Chaos boosters.

Even if it doesn't feel fair, try not to let it pull you down too much. After all, you got to go to a prerelease. As long as you had some fun.

[Brian]

I also have a suspicion the first guy I was playing may have been cheating. He had two planeswalkers (powerful, ultra-rare cards).

Vague hate for imbalanced-paying-field games in general.  CCGs with 'rarer' and 'more powerful cards' are either a genius marketing ploy, or a horrifyingly blatant marketing ploy.  Did you at least have fun?

[Jon]

Well, it was sealed limited, not draft. Still, it's possible, and I wouldn't have been suspicious had he not had them in a purchased-card bag. I really dislike non-draft limited, I guess. At this point I'm going to the prereleases mostly out of tradition. (And I was supposed to meet a friend there, but she didn't show.)

(Also I dislike most of the people who play Magic at shops. Please, take a shower before coming.)

[KLSymph]

Wait, your store has to do Sealed with only three packs? Booster packs? I haven't played Sealed since they stopped making tournament packs for Sealed so I don't know what the procedure is these days, but I'm pretty sure ~45 cards per player is not big enough a card pool to play 40-card Sealed.

[Jon]

nope, six packs. but it's the release of the second set in the block, so we got three packs of Innistrad and three of Dark Ascension. His planeswalkers were Garruk and Lilliana, so both Innistrad planeswalkers. He'd have to get two planeswalkers out of three packs.

(Silly me, trying to simplify my bitching for the benefit of non-players.)

[KLSymph]

Oh, whew. I was about to say....

[Brian]

Woke up with crippling migraine.