Katrina; Magic: The Gathering style
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Katrina: The Gathering
This is the combined effort of Ubiq and Lum to use our mighty ubergeek powers to laugh in the face of that which cannot be explained. No offense is intended, unless offended is a Bureaucrat or Politician creature.
Scott Jennings is the man. LTM was one of the first rant sites I got hooked on.
I like how the owner of the guitar is making last minute adjustments on his life-sized poseable doll with realistic washable skin that talks and, apparently, sings!
What's cool about these is that they're still funny if you haven't played the game. (I tested them on a friend whose geekscore is lower than mine.)
Interesting. I wouldn't know since I *do* play the game (played, it's been a long time...). I did notice the card writer's successful effort to make the cards "playable" and fairly balanced. As to the breaking of the newer rules and conventions, I will refrain from dazzling you with my ignorance.
And even from someone who has a fairly high geekscore, they are damned funny.
All that for only 3 white and 3? What ever happend to game balance.... :-)
6 mana for a 5/5 creature isn't unusual. Plus, give white's inclination toward protection, the attack prevention special ability is right in character.
Oh yeah, ;)
True, it is white.
2 white and 3 for a 4/4 flyer is fair but...... the bitch don't tap.
This may be dating my magic the gathering days. In case anyone is interested, I have approx. 1000 rare and uncommons from 3rd/4th editions, ice age block and mirage block. including 40+ dual lands that I could proabably be talked into (see bought) parting with.
If anyone here still plays.....
I bow to those with the obviously higher geekscores ...
(I have a box somewhere with approximately four or five assembled decks of Magic cards, a whole lot of Over the Edge cards, and a big bunch of Illuminati cards, but I only ever played very casually, mostly to be beaten by a guy who played (poorly) in tournaments, but whipped ass on relative newbies. I was, however, smart enough never to allow him to offer a trade for any card I had. If he was interested, I knew it was good. He didn't wipe his ass without looking at the trade magazine with the price sheets in it)
Find your geek score:
www.innergeek.us
I scored 39.5% geek.
Extreme Geek, 56.01578%
I laughed out loud at some of the survey questions. They know sooo much. The follow-on questions were the best! An example:
whole/partial set of figurines
multi-sided dice
a gaming book
a few gaming books
a ton of gaming books
>1 Steve Jackson game
. . . and the expansion packs
...
gone to the movies alone
. . . regularly
...
gaming books
. . .cover to cover
My favorite: Do you know what THACO means?
46.35108% - Super Geek (as my old Chemistry teacher would say, "Diarrhea Decimals!")
I got extra for "named a pet after a mythological being" -- both my cats are named after gods (Luna and Malina). Bonus points to you if you know which god Malina was without googling it.
58.57988 extreme geek
yeah, but you get bonus points for being a chick.... :lol:
My favorite: Do you know what THACO means?
*ahem* THAC0. That's -0.1%
46.75-something. Super Geek, or squarely in the middle of their geek scale. Sigh.
Do I get extra points for knowing that, in the picture above, Dubya has his fingers in the proper formation for an open "G" chord...but that he has them one fret too far up the neck?
This is Bush in a nutshell...he knows just enough to look really, really stupid.
yeah, but you get bonus points for being a chick.... :lol:
Perhaps, but I also had points deducted for actually taking the test honestly, not inflating my geek knowledge or street cred.
*ahem* THAC0. That's -0.1%
Don't be a total geek. :headshake
39.64497 Major Geek.
No roleplaying...
What?
As if you're really a happy monkey, pounding away at some internet connected keyboard. sheesh.
HM, did you check the extra 5 boxes at the end for items not on the list, to represent your geometric tape creations?
I checked three of them...
My downfall was not knowing enough fellow geeks to participate in the geek group activities.
5.32544 - Poser, they say.
But that's not true, I've always denied being anything close to a geek. :headshake
40.23669% - Major Geek
Not much surprise really. I'm a network technician who is in college striving towards majors in sociology and criminal justice and a minor in philosophy.
don't feel bad bruce, i got a 4.73373% - poser. and what the hell is GUPRS? sounds like someone ate gummy bears, chased them with a beer (or grape nehi in this case) and burped. a bunch! :D
It's a set of easily adaptible roleplaying game rules.
dare i ask, but how'd it get the acronym?
Generic Universal Roleplaying System
That's why I scored almost 40% :lol:
I knew what it was, but not the acronym, so I didn't check the box.
Now that I look it up, here it is:
Generic Universal Role Playing System[Napoleon Dynamite] GOSH Freakin' Loser Web Sense![/Napoleon Dynamite] (our net nanny) i'll check out the link later.
I find it amusing that someone with a net nanny has the word "orgasm" in their sig line.
i guess it can't catch it all. it just filters game sites, life and leasure, sex (dammit!) and some others i can't remember just off hand......
Clod, maybe he doesn't know that's in his sig line. Somebody put it in there as a prank unknown to him, like taping a "kick me" sign on someone's back.
Now that I consider plthihijinx's posts, nah.
Generic Universal Roleplaying System
That's why I scored almost 40% :lol:
I scored what I did because not only do I have the First and Second Edition handbooks for GURPS, I also have at least two dozen of the manuals for different worlds ... Space, Fantasy, Old West, Illuminati, The Prisoner, etc.
My Gamemaster in college developed his own system which he called UUT ... Unified Universe Theory. Before that we were playing AD&D on some nights, Traveller on others.
And yes, I have the Players and GMs guides for all of those.
And Call of Cthulhu.
And Dr. Who.
And Star Wars
And Paranoia.
And Top Secret.
And Rolemaster.
And Spacemaster.
And Shadowrun.
And Xena.
There really should have been a way for me to get more points for these.
There there, wolf. We give you extra points for those. Don't we gang?
39.2% Major Geek.
And I won a GURPS tournament
At a Game Con.
The first weekend I ever played the game.
I won a hardcover copy of the GURPS rule book
And read it cover to cover
Multiple times.
That one weekend got me lotsa geek points.
And I got 5 extra boxes for being a girl. (woot!)
46.7% I took 2 checks for being a girl part time; it doesn't seemed to change it that much.
I have a CS PhD, endless consumer electronics and board gaming, but no role playing nor Star Trekness. Yesterday, for the first time, I sold a Magic Card on E-Bay, that should count for something.
Looks like Wolfie got most of her points in areas I got no points. You go girl!
Actually, at the time of this writing, my software is running at a site called MajorGeeks.com.