Online Gaming and Preperations

So, I have a few things I want to touch on before I go into much detail about my most recent gaming efforts.  First of all, support your local game store is still a cause I think we should all be behind.  Buy your materials there so they stay open.  Otherwise, don't complain when they close and there's no place for you to go play.  Secondly, I'd like to apologize to the community as a whole.  I played Magic against a guy in my home town last weekend and because I was having bad luck, and he was on a deck that I thought was a scrub, I complained, talked down to him, and basically threw a fit.  That's not appropriate behavior for any game environment.  Were some of the things I said true?  Absolutely.  I was there to play test against other competitive decks, and his Dimir mill deck was most certainly not that.  Does that mean the whole thing was a waste of my time?  No.  I should have told him up front that I wanted serious playtesting and that his deck wasn't what I needed to play against.  That's bad form on my part, and I wish I could remember the guy's name, because I'd apologize directly.

Moving on...

Guild Wars 2... Holy crap, give me my money back and stop holding my life hostage!  I love this game.  It's the best MMO I've played to date.  The dailies are relevant, built into what you're already doing, and easy to get done every day.  The crafting skill give you access to actually useful gear at every step of the way instead of being able to craft some kinda cool stuff at max level only.  The story line is ever evolving and it is interesting to play through.  I love that every character you make can have an individual story line to play along the way as well.  I wish I could go into some detail about the instances, but since I'm only leveling, I haven't had the opportunity to do any yet.  But I'm very much invested in the game at this point.  Also, having it buy to play, with micro-transactions covering the rest of the monetary costs means that this game only costs you as much as you want it to instead of having to pay a monthly fee like others.

In other news, there's a TCGPlayer Diamond open event in Indy on the 6th of April.  I'm planning to attend (finances available) and I plan to play a very similar Esper Tokens build to what I've been playing.  I've made a few tweaks, and in the games that I've played so far, I love it.  It seems very solid.  There are a few other directions I can take the deck that have been suggested, but I haven't made up my mind on those yet.  All in all, this is probably the deck I'll be playing until rotation this fall.

So happy gaming.  Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women.  There is no sweeter sound.

SD13