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Just got my denial letter. Oh well.
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Oh jesus.
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Hopefully we find out today.
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Just Monika
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Paranoia Agent -- Yume no Shima Shinen Kouen


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Because you're behaving uncomfortably Corrik-esque.
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Lasa, for the love of God, please just stop posting in this topic for a bit.
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I just looked it up and yeah, if both players play optimally, first player will always win Connect 4. That being said, you have to play optimally, and it's pretty complicated, so it's not like "every game is a draw" tic-tac-toe.
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Isn't it a solved game?
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I've seen it in Magic, too. People are at each other's throats and apoplectic more than I've ever seen before. It doesn't help that Wizards has screwed up a lot lately, but I can't help but feel that this is a larger cultural problem that tearing communities apart. People aren't just miserable; it's like they want to miserable. Like they're scared of not being miserable. I don't get it.
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Insert edgy answer about popular video game here
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I can only imagine the cutoff score is going to be crazy high.
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I'm of the same opinion. The "tough ones" were either rarity questions (I'm not great at those) or the ones where I was fighting the wording of the question/answers more than the content.
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DeathChicken posted...

"So in this game Yu beats a demon of pretty strong clip without any help." "Well that settles it, Yu sucks"

Mercs
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Okay, submitted my exam. Some of those questions were pretty rough. Still, I feel confident in about 80% of my answers, and I at least think I had an idea for the rest based on what I looked up.
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Curious as to why you arent a fan of Kanji. Naoto I can guess why (even though I strongly disagree) but Kanji is fantastic and seems up your alley.
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I mean, Arena is canon, as is Ultimax...
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Thanks, I snuck a peek at them just now. A lot of these are tougher than I expected.
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Of all the people to object, I didn't expect it to be ExTha.
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Waiting for 6 a.m.
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Betrayal at the House on the Hill
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transcience posted...

I think I went with David. I wanted to stay the hell away from Nathan.

This

Kates rooftop scene was my #3 moment in gaming when I did a countdown topic last year. It completely flips the script of the game by introducing real stakes because youre tapped out of your power. For the first time, you cant cheese your way out of it. Whatever happens to her happens for real.
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Just Monika
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Just got done with Persona 5. Man, what a game.

Uh... where would you guys put Joker? Dude feels an order of magnitude above Yu Narukami, but I always felt Yu didn't get much respect.
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I still dont understand how that ability works beyond some people can mess with you kinda.
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#IStillBowDown

Also, Ryu got a huge respect bump after SF5 story mode came out! I should know, I owned him.
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Doesnt a role like this completely go against his public persona?
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Its quite good which makes it even more amazing that it doesnt even hold a candle to the source material.
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I doubt it. Then you would have to focus on the awful writing even more.
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Im concerned that the answers to the last two GDSs are too dated now.
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KanzarisKelshen posted...

the only real knock against her is not a lot of people are willing to admit that they have played Senran Kagura.

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According to the overall rules, criteria to pick the 8 finalists are:

Trial 1 (Essays): 30%

Trial 2 (Test): 10%

Trial 3 (Design): 60%

Thats for the 100 who make it past the test, though. What are some good study materials?
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Episode two so bad

End of episode two so amazingly good
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Got mine too!
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I did bring that up in my essay, so I hope that scores points!
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Same, no ping please.
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No, that was a Theros-only thing as part of the "Hero's Path" promotion. I enjoyed giving out those trials to my customers though. If we go back to Theros, they might do something similar again.

Anyway, essay question summaries:

1. My main selling point beyond being a pretty good tournament grinder and judge is that I have experience running the Magic portion of an LGS, so I have experience with Magic as a business as well.

2. I'm going to break the mold here -- I chose Renown to become evergreen. It can fit into almost any color, it's easy to understand, and it ties into other fairly common set themes like +1/+1 counters-matter or power/toughness checks. My first response was also Bushido, but in my memory it made combat feel more awkward than it did dynamic; I feel like Renown did the opposite. Obviously we wouldn't want to go too nuts with Renown, but I think it'd be fine to have here and there.

3. I'd remove Hexproof from evergreen status. It isn't fun to play with/against, but my main angle is that, like Protection, it hurts red and green disproportionately compared to the other three colors -- the two colors whose removal is already limited in scope. I did note that I don't think it actually should be removed though, especially since it is useful for giving creatures Hexproof via spells.

4. Meh, you guys don't care about this one.

5. Magic's greatest strength is the color system, hands down. Unlike any other CCG, you can mix and match as many colors however you want in Magic (at your peril!) so the colors guide card design and balance without forcing players to make cookie-cutter decks. The philosophy behind each color also is a major boon. Lots of people identify as a player of a certain color as opposed to just "being a Magic player."

6. Magic's greatest weakness is the amount of non-games caused by poor land draws/mulligans. It just feels bad since the resources are part of the main deck, so if you can't find any, you aren't even playing. Unfortunately, the game is made such that guaranteeing the resources like Hearthstone would cause linear combo decks to fly off the rails, so the problem is tricky.

7. Bring back Ninjutsu! Everything about that ability was sweet, and I think there's a lot of space left to explore. Since it focuses on combat damage and avoiding opposing blockers, I think there's some space where Ninjutsu could branch into Red as well.

8. My favorite set (but not necessarily block!) was original Zendikar, but man, playing stuff on your opponent's turn (and blocking!) in Zendikar sucked. Landfall was just so powerful and difficult to react to since playing lands doesn't use the stack, so if they played a fetch, it was super awkward.

9. Ironically and to little surprise to all of you, BFZ was my least favorite set, but the flavor was spot-on. Even though the mechanics were questionable from a game standpoint, they captured the feeling of a desperate fight for survival against a consuming alien brood quite well.

10. I would stop Wizards from releasing so much ancillary product and focus their design resources back on Standard-legal sets. The amount of banned cards is just inexcusable, and while some ancillary product has been fantastic (Eternal Masters, Unstable), a lot has been mediocre or worse (Archenemy NB, Explorers of Ixalan, Conspiracy 2).
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Yeah, let's all post ours once we're sure we can do so!
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Essays are now complete. I hope WotC wanted honest answers, because that's what I gave them -- especially on the last question.
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Kickass! Let us know how it goes, man!
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Emeraldegg posted...

So what you're saying is Trdl has a shadowmoor version of himself that likes lorwyn

Im spooked
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The Mana Sword posted...

Lorwyn at #2

Like hell
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Definitely, but work is being work.
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Manhattans perspective is fascinating. I cant comprehend experiencing multiple points in your own timeline simultaneously. Makes causality very peculiar.
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Contests that actually run
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Nobody asked for this.
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When everything changes, nothing changes.
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I haven't even thought about touching Arena yet. Digital Magic blegh.

Due date isn't until Sunday? Thought it was Friday for some reason, but that would be cruel during release weekend.
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Mantis
Makoto
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Joker
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