That's not true. I made that remark because he (unintentionally) quoted the militia gun-nut interviewed in Bowling for Columbine. I was hoping someone would reckognize it...Originally Posted by Sims
If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it's probably delicious.
Team ADHD-To resist is to piss in the wind. Anyone who does will end up smelling.
but we europeans seem to forget that kiddies in Italy or in France, or in East europe would need a knife with themselves hundreds times more often than in usa..just to make police rendez-vous a bit more fair....just sayin.
ok, i stop it.
btw, Pros in Mtg are like major football teams in europe....they can stretch rulings till one second before the breaking point, and who judges simply close his eyes if nobody tell him that maybe something is wrong....c'mon, 5 minutes to side 3 cards? who are you? Deep Blue challenging Kasparov?
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Speaking of Judge Dredd. They're remaking it with Karl Urban as Dredd. Doesn't seem too bad for an action movie, considering that's all the roles he has done.
Dead or Alive, you're coming with me.
-Robocop-
Not that this is the forum for it but you have a very misconstrued idea of what objectivism is. "Do not confuse altruism with kindness, good will or respect for the rights of others. These are not primaries, but consequences, which, in fact, altruism makes impossible. The irreducible primary of altruism, the basic absolute, is self-sacrifice--which means; self-immolation, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-destruction--which means: the self as a standard of evil, the selfless as a standard of the good."
Quoted for truth. Trial by fire is the best way to learn anything.
Also, I would've told Saito to slap himself and get a move on. Then called a judge if he kept it up.
You have to call a judge in any situation that you think is wrong.
I've called a judge twice now on the game next to me. Resolving mulligans at the start of a game and I notice they are holding 8 cards and keeping their hand? Yeah, I'll call a judge and that happened twice to me now so I'm pretty sure there are more people doing this.
I've had a vigilance creature in GP Paris in 2009 and tapped it for attack several times as I didn't know yet. I lost the game due to that and next game I read it has vigilance. I laughed at it and told my opponent, he said he knew and a few minutes later I called myself a victor and he learned that it's cheating.
Basicly the rules are that you can take a set amount of time for any decision, no matter the complexity. Being in a really complex situation shouldn't change the time you take for making a decision. I guess it also works the other way around? But just call a judge and ask if he watches. Your opponent will spead up his game anyway due to the presence of the judge.
Also, it's not because a judge is standing at your table that he's actually watching your game. He could be asked to check for slowplay on the table next to you and to not notify the slowplayer stand a bit aside.
MOGGI!!!!!!
Anyways, he should have called the Judge. If he tought that the opponent was stalling he should have done it. Who cares if you're playing against a pro or you arent? Rules should be the same for everyone...
I really hate playing against slow players, a friend of mine is really slow at playing and I hate it.. In a tournament call a judge.
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He told you a foil from Time Spiral was Summer?
This man must be a Jedi.
The judge should have been called.
I wonder why the people, who were apparently there and are now tweeting about how much of a cheater Saito is, did nothing.
Part of it is some of them being starstruck, part is just people who didn't see a damn thing and are now talking in hindsight. Hindsight is always perfect.
Because they are retards and/or do not have the needed understanding of the tournament rules. It's a very fundamental thing in tournament Magic to call a judge if in doubt. Nowadays you can even do that as an outsider. Simply put, there is no good reason not to do that.
Some of my friends sell records,
some of my friends sell drugs.
Yeah, becuase there aren't threads on the internet where a multitude of people bash players for calling a judge. Craig Wescoe hasn't been publically raked over the coals for calling a Judge for what he heard Drew Levin say. Matt Nass hasn't had a bunch of people insulting him or anything for calling a judge when his opponent had 4 foil hell's thunders as the only foils in their deck. There's definitly blowback from calling a judge. There shouldn't be, but there is.
Never seen it, or any of his movies actually. I do apologize for the misunderstanding, but i have noticed on many forums and public outlets much of Europe seems to have a very interesting view on American firearm laws. I have been called a Cowboy many times just because I own firearms... and I don't even carry.
But again, I apologize for not picking up on the reference.
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You cannot know the sweetness of Victory, without first dwelling in the agony of Defeat.
Why would anyone pick up on that reference? No one watched that movie for good reasons.
Are you trying to start a flamewar or something? Everyone I know in nor-cal has watched Bowling for Columbine.
Anyways, I think the problem here is that Saito is one of the pros that Bill Starkington likes so much. Thus, he plays as a pro by bending or breaking the rules as far as he can. That is the difference between a pro and a good but not pro magic player.
Regardless of Threshold variant though, CB =,
, and
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Those were really dick technicalities. There was no evidence that Levin actually bet on the match, and most of the time players aren't called on having one foil card in their deck (If that were the case, pimped decks with duals would be a whole lot less common)
That still doesn't justify his actions. No matter how much you think you can bend the rules, if a judge sees that what you're doing is undermining the floor rules that have been set in place or attempting to bend the rules and take advantage of their "leeway" by allowing specific actions to breach a certain extent, then yes: A judge can issue a warning for those kinds of actions if they see fit.
It doesn't matter what skill of play you bring to the table; everyone follows the rules and adheres to the Head Judge's standards (as well as D.C.I. standards; effectively one in the same).
To be fair, I don't really see the win that Ness got as a dick technicality. There were 4 foils in the kids deck, the kid drew all 4 of them in 1 game, they were all the same card. Knowing the way foils warp and bend, it stands to reason they were distinguishable from the rest of the deck, otherwise the judge wouldn't have deemed them to be marked cards. I would have made this same judge call.
Team Albany: What's Legacy?
You cannot know the sweetness of Victory, without first dwelling in the agony of Defeat.
I guess I didn't state myself properly. I'm complaining that pros are no better than good non-pros, except that they cheat (sort of).
Regardless of Threshold variant though, CB =
At Pro-Tour level events, foil cards can at times be considered marked cards since they can bend and be obvious (especially if it's the top card of your library). The judges can, and have, enforced rules to make people swap them out with the regular versions of the card (or given infractions). From what I've heard from most Pros, you either play a deck that has no foils or is all foils.
Is it possible to ask for proxies if you show that you only own foil versions of the card?
Also, who remembers the Vendilion Clique Caper with Martin Juza? I mean, some rulings are plain dumb. How is it cheating if your opponent flashes their hand to you? If anything, they're revealing information that they shouldn't be (which is like a warning or something).
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