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Originally posted by dfitzg88:
losing to a girl i'm not attracted to is like losing to a guy. it's not as soul-piercing as losing to a cute girl.

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I can't comprehend how ridiculous you're being.

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Originally posted by MasterWolf:
The whole "I am not responsible" clause has gotten way out of hand on this website.

LOL, $6 purchase requires $2.5 in shipping, but if I don't pay I'm "too cheap" and don't deserve protection. People hate responsibility on this site.

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Originally posted by JoshSherman:

I can't comprehend how ridiculous you're being.

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Do not want.

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Originally posted by caquaa:
Well someone has the be responsible. You're the one opting out of paying for the DC, so I'd ask for you to be responsible as well. I don't believe I've ever had a problem sending a package, but I certainly wouldn't want to start. After you've seen a BTA where someone knows he declined to pay for registered shipping but he also ssays that he didn't state he would take responsibility so he wants a refund, you start requesting the "I'm not responsible" statement from everyone. I don't care how big the deal, how small the deal, or how many times we've dealt, if you deal with me and don't pay for some form of tracking I'll be asking you to absolve me from responsibility on the package.

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Originally posted by MasterWolf:
And I'll probably ask you to eat the Paypal fees so I can be protected. Or is that out of line too because the seller's rights are important but not the buyer's?

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Sure, and I guess sellers could just start pricing their stuff with that extra 4% in mind and creating a rule that "you can take 4% off your purchase if you pay by gift paypal instead of goods."

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Originally posted by MasterWolf:
And I'll probably ask you to eat the Paypal fees so I can be protected. Or is that out of line too because the seller's rights are important but not the buyer's?

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You're more than welcome to, but I guarantee that if you file a PayPal claim after agreeing that they aren't responsible, you're going to be on the wrong side of a BTA case and are likely to be banned. That isn't protecting yourself, it's fraud.

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Originally posted by JoshSherman:
What a ****ing tool this posts makes you out to be

Newsflash: your chances were always zero.

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Disagree, I am sure being bullied isn't fun, but I am a big advocate of standing up for yourself because other people rarely will (especiallying in highschool). So as long as things don't get physical, then people really should be able to defend themselves verbally. I had a guy bully me freshmen year but that ended really quick when I lost it one day and ripped him a new one in the middle of the cafeteria. (no homo)

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Originally posted by dfitzg88:
in honesty, i'd rather lose to a fat unattractive girl than a cute skinny girl.

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And if you think that having hot girls as opponents doesn't increase your chances of getting some...then you have been doing something wrong

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Originally posted by fluffycow:
And if you think that having hot girls as opponents doesn't increase your chances of getting some...then you have been doing something wrong

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My point was it's not them, it's you.

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Originally posted by JoshSherman:
My point was it's not them, it's you.

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Originally posted by yakusoku:
The Worlds Championship for Magic is coming very soon. It's going to be held in San Francisco, which is a very short drive from where I live. My friends and I haven't made any hard plans, but I imagine that we'll be trying to go as many days as we can afford.

Anyone else planning on going?

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Just bought my plane ticket. I'll be flying in thursday morning at ~8 and flying out sunday night at ~9. Maximizing my magic time. I used to live 3 hours south of there, but now I live about 8 hours north so flying makes a little more sense. Just gotta get a hotel set and everything.

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Originally posted by MasterWolf:
And I'll probably ask you to eat the Paypal fees so I can be protected. Or is that out of line too because the seller's rights are important but not the buyer's?

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this has nothing to do with rights, just cost. Assuming we ignore the points the nder pointed out, you're asking me to pay for your protection once again. Either you'd pay for it, or accept responsibility for the package.

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Originally posted by -Lunch_Box-:
I just started a magic online account and opened a Lilana of the Veil in my first draft pack! Does anyone know of a tutorial/video that can tell me how to use the market place?

Edit: Also how do find the best prices?

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Trade for many tix draft more.

best option!

Like this for instance, http://www.ebay.com/itm/MTG-Magic-Instant-Collection-4000-cards-lot-over-100-rares-all-sets-/310352040343?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item48426c5197#ht_500wt_1127

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Originally posted by tragicmagic:
I'm looking to buy a collection to get me jumpstarted back a bit. Do you think collections on eBay are worth buying? Most of them sell as portions.

Like this for instance, http://www.eb ay.com/itm/MTG-Magic-Instant-Collection-4000-cards-lot-over-100-rares-all-sets-/310352040343?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item48426c5197#ht_500wt_1127

I'm looking to spend maybe $150-$200 to help me get back into it. Or would I be better of buying a couple booster boxes?

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Originally posted by tragicmagic:
I'm looking to buy a collection to get me jumpstarted back a bit.

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Originally posted by yakusoku:
So...

The Worlds Championship for Magic is coming very soon. It's going to be held in San Francisco, which is a very short drive from where I live. My friends and I haven't made any hard plans, but I imagine that we'll be trying to go as many days as we can afford.

Anyone else planning on going?

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Originally posted by Timmyhill:
After a trade and refs are exchanged is there any need to keep the trade information?

If so how long would it be good to hold onto it for?

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Originally posted by MasterWolf:
This is not supposed to be about you specifically. I mean, I hate taking responsibility too right. I mean, I'm not paying for a service to protect myself, thereby shirking responsibility. The problem is that people on this site have become so jaded by bad deals that the trust that was here in 2004 and before is gone. It feels like everyone wants to "medina" you in a trade or take "maximum" value or protection for themselves. It used to be if something got lost in the mail I knew for a fact it ACTUALLY got lost and I chalked it up to bad luck. Anyway, I rarely sell cards so its possible I just don't "understand". I just miss the "good old days". Now excuse me I need to take my meds and take a nap.

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Meh, when I deal, I still deal like the old days.
had a member I did a small deal with who had 11 refs. I have 200+. Back in the day, I was the guy with 11+ refs, and they simul-sended. I do the same with small deals as well. The quicker the better.
TL;DR - I try to stay consistent to the old days.

As for AG's comment, I can see how it could be construed as associated with his bitter losing rant but also as a response to the "Girls always win" thing. It was just very bad timing, as we as humans will associate it with his previous post. Suffice to say, AG, I've always liked your input and what not, but what you said, even if it was in a different context, wasn't OK. Even if it was in reference to "Girls always win thing," and your response, AGO, I think of the following quote: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZH4h4etigo . Just saying - there's more to life than just body type and habitus.
Being in the medical field has shed some new light on the topic of obesity. I understand their is nature and nurture to everything, including obesity, but personally, when I talk to patients who are morbidly obese, I just don't understand how they let themselves get to that point. It can be really frustrating, because parking further in the grocery mart parking lot, buying slightly healthier foods, etc. CAN GO A LONG WAY FOR THESE PEOPLE. And they are the people in the motorized carts at the grocery - vicious cycle I tell you.

As for the ridicule, I'm surprised to see that out of Magic gamers. In my experience, magic players as a whole usually get ridiculed, so it's weird seeing one player do it to another. I've heard of a few instances of this occurring, and it baffles me - power trip type thing? Almost like a displacement/projective identification type defense. Either way, I was in a similar situation in grade school and HS. In grade school I was incessantly called homosexual slurs - and at that age, it does really get to you. In HS, I sat with the magic crowd, and beleive me, I heard about it EVERY SINGLE DAY at football practice later. You name it, they called me it.
You know what I learned? That the only way for me fix it was to do something about it.
I'm not talking about physical violence as a response, I'm talking about SUCCESS.
SUCCESS is the best revenge. When I made the bball team in 8th grade, and when I started and was MVP in football on JV in 10th grade, trust me, it stopped.

(Another aside: bullying has been making headlines lately, and parents are always trying to blame the schools yadda yadda. A lot of the time it falls on the parents. I never told my parents as a kid about what i was being called, but they did instill an attitude of "if you are going to get anywhere in life, you need to take it into your own hands and not depend on other people to solve your problems" and "hard work." Parents need to take a more active role in their parenting (on both sides of the bullying equation], and quit blaming the schools. Not saying the schools are devoid of blame, but it all starts at home and values instilled at a young age.
So my advice for these players that keep giving you ****: Get better. Beat them. On a consistent basis. If that doesn't "earn" their respect, if they give you ****, just say, don't stoop to their level and start calling them out and saying they are this or that, just say something like "So who won the last couple matches?" It stings just enough and gets the point across.
(As an aside on personal hygeine, however, there is a guy at the LGS that smells so bad I had to go out to my car and put some cologne under my nose so I didn't puke - I have NO IDEA how nobody else was responding like I was - I mean, I have a strong sense of small but Christ). {For the record, how do you go about addressing that sort of thing? Talk to the owner? Scared to do that, because I'm fairly new, but also afraid I may be overreacting due to my sense of smell...}

As for DGfitz comments, if you are looking for woman at an FNM, then you are looking at the wrong place, in my opinion. Sure, you may find one girl here or there, but magic is a male dominated game, and on top of that, most of the girls I've seen are girls that are dating one of the guys already playing at my LGS. Granted, I've never been looking that hard, since I've had a GF for roughly 9 years, but yeah, not a good place to start (And for the record, since I love telling my life story, it was a year or two into our relationship before I told her I played magic [yeah, I was embarrassed by what she would think, given both our athletic backgrounds; sure, she always called me a nerd, but never 'associated' me with a game like 'magic, risk, etc.' - I use to play on Fridays with friends, I said I was playing cards - she assumed poker haha (as an aside, when I was in college, I played college football, and when my teammates figured out I played magic, wow, that wasn't fun. I hate how there is a Stigma with such cards games, it's really unfortunate because a fourth of the guys on the football team probably played it in grade school). Granted, I'm an exception to the above 'rule/stereotype,' but it's still BS. Then again I was an exception to the rule in football too (3.7 GPA, 2 Time Academic All American, Medical School) so that doesn't work either.

As for the whole getting chicks while playing magic thing, I'm not one that is necessarily into Goth-type woman or anything, but there's one at the LGS who I thought was cute.
Just flashed my life counter AGO made for me http://zombitography.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=24#/d386wjc CHICKS dig it. Guys dig it too, but not into that sort of thing HAHA.

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Originally posted by dfitzg88:
whats wrong with me

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EVERYTHING!

Not really. While my initial response was directed at you, and I still think the whole thing is ridiculous, the "it's not them, it's you" comment was intended to be a more general response, to all the people who think like that. Sorry I didn't make that clear. But seriously, why not just win so you don't have to worry about who you lose to?