Old Man Posted January 10, 2012 Report Share Posted January 10, 2012 Re: Destroy Your Geek Cred!! I've played & owned cards' date=' though not for many years. In a way, it's too bad. I actually like the mechanics and gameplay of a lot of customizable card games... I just don't like the continually-expanding play environment that you have to keep buying cards in order to keep up with. I wish someone would make a CCG -- even if it had a sizable buy-in price -- that sold a decent-sized set of cards to use and choose from in building your decks, but that wasn't "collectible"." (In other words, where everyone had the same collection of cards available, and the strategy lay entirely in how they built and played their decks... not in the imbalance created by having unequal resources available to them.)[/quote'] Shadowfist has done a pretty good job of expanding its card pool over the past 15 years without showing too much power creep. Decks that were competitive in '96 still are today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Mhoram Posted January 10, 2012 Report Share Posted January 10, 2012 Re: Destroy Your Geek Cred!! Oh yeah - I don't play board games. Regular Hasbro or Parker brothers types, or European ones like Ticket to Ride or Settlers. Just don't like games where the players play against each other. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vondy Posted January 10, 2012 Report Share Posted January 10, 2012 Re: Destroy Your Geek Cred!! Maybe you didn't like The Lord of the Rings... Its not such a secret. I've said on these very boards that, while I admire Tolkein's remarkable talent for world-building, I think Lord of the Rings was horribly paced, more than a little boring, and revolved around an annoying protagonist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vondy Posted January 10, 2012 Report Share Posted January 10, 2012 Re: Destroy Your Geek Cred!! Yeah I agree. X-Files was just another monster of the week kind of scifi' date=' wrapped in an Anti-Government wrapper.... Government. The X-Files was kind of boring.[/quote'] I think the X-Files couldn't make up its mind whether is was a monster-of-the-week or government conspiracy mega-plot show. It vacillated back and forth and drew the latter out for way too many seasons. At the same time, it did create some iconic characters, crystallized a genre later shows did better, and had some very good monster of the week episodes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vondy Posted January 10, 2012 Report Share Posted January 10, 2012 Re: Destroy Your Geek Cred!! I have never read any of the Harry Potter books' date=' nor seen any of the films from beginning to end. And I do not intend to start now[/quote'] Me, either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrosshairCollie Posted January 10, 2012 Report Share Posted January 10, 2012 Re: Destroy Your Geek Cred!! I really enjoyed M:TG' date=' but I basically gave up on it when phasing came in. I could deal with Flight, Trample, First Strike, but phasing was just...ridiculous, I guess. I think they've added more mechanisms by now, too.[/quote'] Oh, definitely. Nothing anywhere near as complicated as phasing, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vondy Posted January 10, 2012 Report Share Posted January 10, 2012 Re: Destroy Your Geek Cred!! I'm a journalist, and have therefore built a career out of having excellent communication skills. You, too, are a journalist? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vondy Posted January 10, 2012 Report Share Posted January 10, 2012 Re: Destroy Your Geek Cred!! Let's see, Its a rare thing for me to find a fantasy or science fiction novel I can stand. Dune must die. Interesting concepts... by the story was as dry as the planet it took place on. 2001 was pretentious, boring trash that typified its era. Star Wars was great before puberty (I was 11 when Jedi came out). As an adult I find it utterly banal. Star Trek is too preachy, inconsistent, and given to populist pseudo-ethics for me to enjoy. Its also a canon nightmare. I liked much of DS9, Wrath of Khan, the last season of Enterprise, and think the reboot was a great popcorn film, but other trek... please no. Tolkein was a great world builder and horrible story teller. Moorcock and Lieber and ERB are simply boring. I find Terry Pratchett's books sophomoric and George RR Martin gratuitious in terms of cynicism and grit. I do enjoy REH, but his western, southern horror, boxing, and sailor stories are better than his Conan stuff. My "fantasy" was born from being read classics and folklore from a very young age. I was read Beowulf, Homer, Chaucer, the Robin Hood Ballads, Mallory as a child - my mother made it interesting. These days I'm re-reading the above with great enjoyment, plus Shakespeare. When I do genre fiction its almost always crime / police procedural / historical stuff. No fantasy or science fiction. I love Bernard Knight and Patrick O'Brien. My guilty pleasures are Ed McBain and James Ellroy. I cannot stand paranomral romance and urban fantasy. I find both utterly banal. Do not date the monsters. Cosplay and Larping are right out. Renfair can be fun in small doses, but I don't dress up or speak faux shakespearean English. I don't play video games and don't want to. I don't do card or board games. One exception: INWO, but only once in a blue moon. I don't do manga or anime or superhero comics. I will read non-superhero comics if they are well done. Some French and German medieval comics are very impressive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Hiemforth Posted January 10, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2012 Re: Destroy Your Geek Cred!! Shadowfist has done a pretty good job of expanding its card pool over the past 15 years without showing too much power creep. Decks that were competitive in '96 still are today.But the card pool expansion bothers me as much as the power creep does. If player A has 200 unique cards to build decks from, and player B only has 100, then player A has a considerable advantage, even if all the cards individually are well-balanced against each other. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattingly Posted January 10, 2012 Report Share Posted January 10, 2012 Re: Destroy Your Geek Cred!! Oh yeah - I don't play board games. Regular Hasbro or Parker brothers types' date=' or European ones like Ticket to Ride or Settlers. Just don't like games where the players play against each other.[/quote'] You might like a cooperative game called Pandemic. The players work together to try to save the world from several viruses before the pandemic clock runs out. 2 to 4 players, 45 minutes to an hour. I enjoy it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted January 11, 2012 Report Share Posted January 11, 2012 Re: Destroy Your Geek Cred!! You might like a cooperative game called Pandemic. The players work together to try to save the world from several viruses before the pandemic clock runs out. 2 to 4 players' date=' 45 minutes to an hour. I enjoy it.[/quote'] Great recommendation! I just added it to my Amazon wish list. Alas, I must spread Rep yadda yadda yadda. A little help, someone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Hiemforth Posted January 11, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2012 Re: Destroy Your Geek Cred!! Got him. I've heard good things about Pandemic before, too. I have to check it out... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vulcan Posted January 11, 2012 Report Share Posted January 11, 2012 Re: Destroy Your Geek Cred!! Destroy my Geek Cred. Hunh. I though being married to a goddess like Aphrodite would have forever denied me any Geek Cred in the first place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dude Posted January 11, 2012 Report Share Posted January 11, 2012 Re: Destroy Your Geek Cred!! Destroy my Geek Cred. Hunh. I though being married to a goddess like Aphrodite would have forever denied me any Geek Cred in the first place. Possibly, but you have great Greek Cred. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Hiemforth Posted January 11, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2012 Re: Destroy Your Geek Cred!! I though being married to a goddess like Aphrodite would have forever denied me any Geek Cred in the first place. Possibly' date=' but you have great Greek Cred.[/quote'] His Roman cred, however, is shot to hell, since they're wondering what Vulcan is doing with Aphrodite instead of Venus... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dude Posted January 11, 2012 Report Share Posted January 11, 2012 Re: Destroy Your Geek Cred!! His Roman cred' date=' however, is shot to hell, since they're wondering what Vulcan is doing with Aphrodite instead of Venus... [/quote'] Hey man, it's all Greek to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Mackinder Posted January 11, 2012 Report Share Posted January 11, 2012 Re: Destroy Your Geek Cred!! Destroy my Geek Cred. Hunh. I though being married to a goddess like Aphrodite would have forever denied me any Geek Cred in the first place. ... And let's not get started about how most deities feel about that whole Pon Farr thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teh bunneh Posted January 11, 2012 Report Share Posted January 11, 2012 Re: Destroy Your Geek Cred!! I though being married to a goddess like Aphrodite would have forever denied me any Geek Cred in the first place. Pics or it never happened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casualplayer Posted January 11, 2012 Report Share Posted January 11, 2012 Re: Destroy Your Geek Cred!! Pics or it never happened. I think he's playing off his vulcanosity, hence the venus envy comments. Although who knows, maybe Mrs. Vulcan is one hot lava lover. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xavier Onassiss Posted January 11, 2012 Report Share Posted January 11, 2012 Re: Destroy Your Geek Cred!! This thread has officially jumped the snark. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted January 11, 2012 Report Share Posted January 11, 2012 Re: Destroy Your Geek Cred!! This thread has officially jumped the snark. Like this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vondy Posted January 11, 2012 Report Share Posted January 11, 2012 Re: Destroy Your Geek Cred!! http://youtu.be/MDthMGtZKa4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted January 11, 2012 Report Share Posted January 11, 2012 Re: Destroy Your Geek Cred!! This thread has officially jumped the snark. But not the boojum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattingly Posted January 12, 2012 Report Share Posted January 12, 2012 Re: Destroy Your Geek Cred!! http://youtu.be/MDthMGtZKa4 When Winkler came to a local convention, he was graciously autographing pictures of himself jumping the shark. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Escafarc Posted January 12, 2012 Report Share Posted January 12, 2012 Re: Destroy Your Geek Cred!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.