The problem with LJ is...

[matgb]

Meme time. Well, not really.

All over my friends page, people are doing that "the problem with LJ is we don't know each other really" meme. For some reason, and I suspect it's completely irrational, they always piss me off. This specific one is more because, for the most part, everyone reading this knows me or a friend, with I think 2 exceptions. I've sat in a bar, played a game, thrown things at and in a few cases slept with you or someone you know. If you want to know something about me, well, asking shouldn't require a meme, right? It's not like I hide my email addresses (and hindsite says desiging a friends website and putting my email address as a contact instead of a link was a stoopid idea, especially when his domain host is Geocities...) or other contact details.

So, instead, open thread. What do you want to talk about? Anything at all. Even baboons or monkey sex. I'm f-locking the post just so you can say what you like.

OK, I'm ill, and I'm a cynical old bastard. But you all know that anyway.

Comments

[tiredstars.livejournal.com]

That one particularly annoyed me. But I put it in anyway...

Question: have you ever slept with a monk... oh wait, you say no monkey sex.

[matgb]

No, I stikethrough'd it because my last post was about monkey sex and some people dislike it.

And no, I've never slept with a monk or a monkey. You?

[tiredstars.livejournal.com]

No, they all turned me down.

[freddiefraggles.livejournal.com]

What are we going to do for Mark's birthday party in April? (yes I have it in the back of my mind already)

[matgb]

Apart from figuring out a method for reminding me to get there and/or me not being ill?

No idea. buying him an iBus is probably a little expensive, April is too early for water pistol fights.

Road trip to the moors or something? Enough of us have cars these days.

[freddiefraggles.livejournal.com]

Road trip would be quite fun. It's in the first week of the Summer term, so no one will be into the swing of things with work (except you possibly).

By then, he may have a bus anyway. Possibly.

[silentgreeneyes.livejournal.com]

One word

CAKE

you and mr Mat understand this :D

[freddiefraggles.livejournal.com]

Yeah ok, Cake. But something else too, not just Cake.

[silentgreeneyes.livejournal.com]

Cake at the impy along with other food and almost deffinately alcohol aswell?

Or perhaps the road trip Mark mentioned, finishing at the Impy?

[freddiefraggles.livejournal.com]

I thought "Road Trip to random beautiful spot on moors, Cake, find nearest pub"

Because, whatever happens, someone's going to have to drive home and we might as well find a nice place we've not been to before instead of the Impy! (much as I love the place)

[silentgreeneyes.livejournal.com]

Hmm... good point...

[matgb]

That looks like a plan to me. Remind me to bring chocolate cake...

[freddiefraggles.livejournal.com]

I think we'll have to remind you about it full stop, never mind about chocolate cake.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I can ask you ANY QUESTION I LIKE?

Okay. Judge Henry Warwick says "Warwick must be in the posse". Does that mean he has to STILL be in the posse when the job resolves in order to ace the Dude, unlike, say, Rachel Sumner X2, who similarly starts a job but whose effect rests solely on job success, with no mention of her being in the posse?

Or is this just a leftover from the fact that Warwick is such an old card, and he can be hit with Ignore 'Em, Pistol Whip, Quick Getaway, or anything else I want, and still have the target be aced if the job succeeds?

[matgb]

Bastard. I'll need to look the card text up. Can't be arsed when I'm off work ill, the cold cures are doing nothing, naturally.

I think he has to be there, but I'll check.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

By the way, you might like this:
http://www.ccgworkshop.com/

There's a client you can download and play CCGs online, for free (a limited number of games a month - like 8 or so) or by paying $5 (unlimited games a month).

Doomtown is in there, with a decent-sized group of players. It's not exactly crowded, but you can find opponents.

[matgb]

Yeah, Steve Wales keeps harassing me to join up, but I try to avoid online games (of any sort), I have a tendency to get addicted, better to avoid the temptation...

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

It's hard to get addicted to that one, since it's rare to be able to play more than one game in a row.

(But, hey, I've got a *killer* Law Dogs deck on there. It's a lot of fun - Old School Law Dogs, starts the Hangin' Judge, and you can't get rid of him.)

[nadriel.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but I did that particular meme because I have a lot of people reading my journal who don't know me all that well, and it's interesting to see what they ask.

Anyway, random question:

What would you take froma burning building?

[matgb]

Yeah, there are exceptions. But I saw a lot of people posting it whose only friends are actual RL friends. Besides, the point remains, ask a damn question whenver you like, people can always not answer...

OK, burning building. Depends on the building. If, for example, it's the British Library, as many books as I can from the Reading Room. If it's my flat, probably the figure case.

If somewhere with lots of kids, well, kids. Open questions get silly answers. The most obvious is What would you take froma burning building?
Well, me, obviously. ;-)

[lmnicole.livejournal.com]

Ok so I have a question...although it really is random.

Is it odd I have almost as much cash in Euros in my wallet as in USD?


;-)

[matgb]

In the wallet? Yes, as given you're in the US, you can't use them except to post (which is a bad idea). I keep my Euros (and USD, not that I'll be using them anytime soon) on a shelf, and try to remember to grab them when I travel.

I've forgotten them once, which was silly, but it beats carrying them constantly.

Alternately, you're as skint as me, and have a few Euros and bugger all USD as well, in which case, well, cash them in?

I love the idea of the Euro, it'll make travel so much easier. Then, I love the idea of a global computer based currency, I lived out of ATMs in the States, Vince found it amusing.

[lmnicole.livejournal.com]

Seriously I have them because I forgot all about them. Bummer too because there was this scarf I wanted at the DUS airport and I didn't buy it because I thought I was out of cash.


I think I'll just save them, we want to go somewhere different for our anniversary trip, and Italy may be in the cards.


Ok so how about a real question for you - how did you get into CCGs? (as this is something I don't know about you). :-)

[matgb]

Actually, I recall you saying you had none left Sunday night. Silly girl ;-)

OK, CCGs and me...

I read a review of Magic on my first college course (which I dropped out from), and then a colleague at Games Workshop taught me to play one evening. At first, it was casual, then, well, I went to a tournament and, um, took top 4. The guy that knocked me out was regional champion; Ihurt a lot of players ratings (and egos) that day.

That pretty much got me hooked; I moved town and was looking for a new game, I'd seent eh famous no banned no broken L5R ad, tried it, then, well, DT was released and soon after I discovered the internet and the ability to badger the games designer directly. DT became my main obsession, I stopped playing Magic (financial reasons, I'd gone back to college, competetive collection was prohibitive).

When DT dies off, Gerry and I chatted about Warlord at a big requiem for DT event, and I gave it a go. I'm even better at Warlord than I was at DT and Magic, although I don't have the time to devote to it these days.

You?

[lmnicole.livejournal.com]

Ok. Magic was big when I was a freshman in high school (Fall '95) and my big group of friends used to sit in the hall before class talking - except for David and my best friend (or boyfriend depending on the month) Jordan playing Magic. I thought they were geeks - they tried to teach me but it was incredibly boring.

Fast forward 4 years later and David (now my boyfriend) keeps probing into why I hate Magic. When I respond it's boring and I don't have any connection to the cards - he suggests learning L5R (he had some decks from the first expansion) - as it has a storyline and all. So we play, just the two of us for a while, and buy a lot of cards. I went on ebay and even bought IE and swords - lol. Then we started playing with my friend Anthony - but no one had a car, so no tournaments for us. We even try LBS (which I also liked) but at this point it's already no longer being produced

About this time WotC is selling back to AEG and I get sick of no new cards (the wait felt really really long). Find Warlord in a magazine and start playing. First tournament is the MegaTour (which stopped in Atlanta) and I get my first experience with guys not playing well with gals. (Yes Rathe *CAN* move backwards with his ability) :-p

And I've played Warlord ever since. I do still play L5R occasionally and I've picked up other games for fun over time.


Nice job on top 4 in your first tournament - that's rather cool!

[matgb]

No connection to the cards is pretty much my objection to Magic, the best 2 early sets for involvment were Fallen Empires and Homelands, but because they were crappy in terms of card power, they dumped all association with them, Fallen Empires actually had a very cool story to it, but that didn't interest the competetive players.

Heh; I won my first Warlord tournament, Gerry organised it in Aldershot, so I drove half the country (with Paul) to play.

I liked reading about all the reports of the megatour, I like the way they kept it going with Invasion and now Conquest.