Return to the Magic!

Magic The Gathering

So even before i finished Duels of The Planeswalers the new Duels came out. DotP 2012. It is improved or so they say....i played just for an hour so i cant really say exactly how much of the game got changed and upgraded. Still it felt great. I should probably finish the campaign of the first one and beat the challanges. I hate to leave things un-finished.

The thing is the game is very fun to play on PC. It keeps reminding me of my childhood days when i used to play with my friends the actual TCG! I get this alot . . . . man i wish i wasnt so weak. Every month ill see something get excited about it and spend some cash X_X
Thats how i dumped around  600$ on Warhammer minuatures that i didnt even finish painting. It seemed like a good idea at the time but in the end i played like 2 games and quit that. Honestly id like to play some WH40k. But i just cant afford the time. I dont consider buying bunch of books and manga as a $$$ dumping since i enjoy it and it has been a long standing hobby of mine. But decoration figures on the other hand are not really neccesery yet everynow and then ill see one cool figure and buy it. Squall Lionheart from FF Dissidian being the last one i got. Dont get me wrong the figure is awesome and is proudly chilling next to my Berserk volumes but still . . . . did i really need it ?_?

I do the same thing with Clothes and Shoes. . . . thats why i got a dozen shoes X_X i get bored and i go do some shopping . . . . sigh. Its partly because i can afford it and partly because im so busy and i just need a break from all the pressure from work. But still it pisses me off that i cant control my urges better. Shit i got a girlfriend now and even with all the sex i get i still feel like getting geeky things X_X 
I guess my friends were wrong. . . being in a relationship wont save me from my nerdy addictions.


The reason im talking about these stuff is . . . well . . . plating the planeswalker games suddenly i thought HEY! I SHOULD PLAY MAGIC AGAIN! Now around 1 year ago (maybe longer) i had the same brilliant idea (sarcasm) and got some boosters and some kind of intro deck or something made a lame deck. Got my ass kicked and then i gave up. Still put the cards in a nice folder so i can enjoy em wherever i feel like it but thats as far as i went. It costed me like 70$ or so.
This time i felt like going back into collecting the cards. See the current running block in MtG is storywise happening in Mirrodin. Which is the same world on which i played when i started the game. And that was back in 2005. So i dont know. i guess nostalgia hit me. Ive always liked collecting the cards. Great art pieces especially the dragons and the multiple color cards. 
So yeah i went to the wizards website. Did some scouting and research. 2 days later i went to the Good Games shop in the CDB and . . .
I fucking ordered ONE COPY OF EACH CARD FROM THE "SCARS OF MIRRODIN SET" X_X I must have been out of my mind! It costed me 400$ with the folder and some protectors.

Well yesterday i went to pick up my loot. I was semi-excited semi pissed the fuck off at myself for spending that money on the cards. So i got my stuff. It turned out that 3 of the rare cards were un-available and will take around a week for the shop to obtain them for me. I had a chat with the guy at the counter and i asked about how should i proccede about getting back into the game. And there were like a dozen or so players in the shop so he told me to go talk to 2 guys that were very casual players and they could give me a hand. So i go there say hi and one of the guys checks out my deck. Its "Standard" and he has nothing to fight me with (nothing that wont kill me in 1 turn) and then guy offers that i join him and his 2 friends in a something called Commander type of game where we play 4 FFA with 40 life at begining and he gave each of us a 100 card deck. I got a blue/red deck. Im not sure what kind of deck it was because i didnt see that many of the cards. but MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN that game was an amazing fun. First of all he had those decks duked with some crazy ass rare cards. Some of them from blocks so old i didnt even recognize their emblems. The game was insane and uber fun. At start was kinda slow then finally i got a funny creature that mind controls and then i got an enchantement that made copies of it and i started stealing creatures and spaming tokens. And that pretty much took out the fighting abilities of the Green/Red guy. But then the Mono Green player started dishing out some serious army while the black/blue deck was gearing up with alot of artefacts. Eventually i lost my copy powers and was left with like 1 creature. I had this 8 mana spell that takes control of all creatures and untaps them for 1 turn. So i was like omg i need one mana and i can kill the elf guy with the huge army . . . and kill him with his OWN army. So i draw a card i get the mana. I go like OOOO your so dead. And before i casted it i was like...oh wait...nah its ok...green doesnt have any couneter spells...So i cast it atk him with like 30 creatures from all of us and then he casts . . . . FOG! MAN that was so crazy! Everybody was laughing so hard. It was the ultimate screw up!
He was like...FOG OFF Mate hahaha i aint dying. I actually gave myself that finger since he said he was about to discard the card but when i said i can kill him he kept it just in case. X_X
After that he got called to play in a draft with bunch of other guys so we had to stop and i also had to rush out bacause i was late for a dinner appointement. But the game was just so so so much fun. I really think ill give it a shot this time and try to do some Magic everynow and then. I find that im enjoyed it too much. :)

UFC 131

UFC 131

Man last sunday morning was epic. UFC 130 was pretty dissapointing and i was a bit worried how this fight card will turn out. But my worries were quickly washed away. The very first fight between Beltran and Rosa proved to be an extreamly exiting fight. It was and let me quote Joe Rogan here: A pure rock-em-sock em robot fight! These guys were smacking each other HARD. Wild punches all the way. It was unbelievable we just dont see alot of fights like that. Most fighters are just so cautions that situations dont present them self for thing like that to happen. But here we got 2 crazy mother fuckers who just wanted to brawl it out.

I didnt watch the next 4 prelims so ill skip those as i cant really comment on them.

Stout (W)  vs (L) Edwards

Stout was behind in the fight until he delivered that amazing 1 punch knockout. Edwards was out cold i believe even before he hit the mat and remained there even as the winner was declared. It was just such an amazing punch. Great highlight reel addition for Stout.

Cerrone (W) vs (L) Rocha  
This was my personal favorite of all the fights.  Now often people speak about how kicks are underrated and that the fighters should really utilize them more. Well this fight was a master class in low-kicks. Cerrone landed some good low kicks to Rocha at the start of the fight and since Rocha didnt engage him in any punching exchanges Cerrone just remained calm and kept working his lead leg. After the 1st round was done Greg Jackson told Cerrone to stop playing with Rocha and finish him. Well he couldnt knock him out but what he did was in a way humiliate Rocha by devastating him with his low kicks. Even doing some kick takedowns. Rocha was completely out-classed and even tried to invite Cerrone for a fight on the mat but the Cowboy  just took a step back and called Rocha to stand up.
Its just awesome to see a different kind of fight and i hope others will see the true power behind low kicks and try to use them more. Also alot of the UFC fighters should train how to check those kicks as it can save them during a long fight where the opponent will try to punish those legs.
I know we have had recently some amazing kick knockouts by Anderson Silva and Machida but those are just standard random kicks gone lucky. Tactical kicks are much more rare and hopefully MMA will evolve and improve in that sphere.

Demian Maia (L) vs (W) Mark Munoz
Maia was in top shape for this fight. He started off great and really used his speed to shock and surprise Munoz. But his great performance didnt do him any good because the fight went the distance and to my big surprise the judges gave the fight to Mark. o.O
Honestly i thought Maia was winning so i was pretty confused as to what happened to make the judges make a uninanymos decision.

Jogn-Olav Einemo (L) vs (W) Dave Herman
This was my 2nd favorite fight. Great great fight....actually...maybe this was even better than the Cerrone/Rocha fight. What really got my eye at the start was that Herman was......well...smiling all the bloody time! It took until the 2nd round for Joe himself to make a note of that and he even asked him about it in the post fight interview. It was a great back and forth fight. Not that many wild exchanges as with Beltran and Rosa but still very good fight. The ending was amazing it looked like Herman was going to get knocked out and suddenly he made a great comeback. And all the while smiling like a 15 year old kid in the schoold yard that knows something that noone else does. xD Im looking forward to see more of Dave in the future.

CO-MAIN EVENT Kenny Florian (W) vs (L) Diego Nunes
Im not very familiar with these fighters even tho this was the co-main event of the night. Florian apperantly made a big cut down to featherweight and there were concerns if he would be able to perform to the best of his abilities. Well...he did. He dominated the fight and Diego Nunes was a bloody mess by the end of the fight. Props for the heart Nunes displayed.

MAIN EVENT: Junio Dos Santos (W) vs (L) Shane Carwin 
  The main event was a great battle. The reason it was not my favorite fight of the night is because it was totally dominated by Junior Dos Santos. Cigano really smashed Carwin at the end of the 1st round and his speed is just unbeliavable. Carwin was getting tagged by that left jab so much it was not even funny. I mean literraly Cigano was punching him between his guard finding that tiny hole in his defense and keeping Carwin no the defensive. Which costed him the fight because after that devastating finish at the end of round one Carwin just couldnt get back into the fight. He made  some attempts but the speed and amazing technique of Junior proved too much. Its crazy how a Heavyweight fighter can move so fast. Dos Santos was already the top contender for the HW title but because Cain Velasquez got that shoulder injury he had to fight Carwin instead. So yet again he proves why he is the top guy in line and his next fight now officially against Cain for the UFC HW Belt. And after the amazing performance he gave us i expect him to win yet again.
Did i mention Dos Santos has yet to be defeated in the Octagon? Yeah....dude is crazy!

Die2Nite
The meta my team was supposed to join forces with kinda screwed me over. After the final campers died they decided to make an imidiate jump after ARGH and since i was sleeping after a long night (look below) i was left my crew to they made the jump witheout us. So now we are in a random distant town with too many rookies and 8 citizens already dead. Sigh. . . . at least im racking up some hero days to unlock another power.
Im thinking maybe i should let Shinji and Vik rest for a bit and go join one of the big meta`s. I certainly have the Forum name for it and the Soul page stats. And ive always wanted to try and play in a town with Workshop.

P.P:
Had a ranchy night that Sunday. I`ve got this sex girlfriend of mine....but i think we might be making the full relationship transition if things keep going this way. Altho to be honest it was kind of always ment to go that way. We are almost dating just never really had any talk about it. Ugh....i hate relationship talks X_X