Tomas Elliot

Happy to hear that. Well, progresses are proceeding steadily, planning for first chapter is done and we are now working on, you know, making it happen. We are closer than we thought we would be by this time, so we are rather satisfied. We even got to work on the cries of the Pokemon, expect to have some announced in the next few days!

But but but... I just wanted to practice free love in a rainbow-colored Volkswagen mini-van ;-; You don't? I am pretty sure that was the whole point... Also hey multiquote works now, I wonder what happened earlier...

Now that Doj's generalization has turned me into a commie, I need to ask him for some direction, given that I am not used to the role: 1) Am I allowed to cook russian kids, or is it mandatory to eat them raw? 2) Is there a quota of churces I need to set on fire per week? 3) Is it mandatory to share all of my belongings with striking workers? And do they have to wear greasy white singlets, orange pants and carry a wrench everywhere in order to qualify as workers? 4) Do I have to start smoking weed and carrying a peace flag everywhere I go? 5) Do I have to buy one of those old Volkswagen mini-vans? And do I have to paint it in rainbow colors? 6) Is it mandatory to practice free love? Because I definitely hope it is. Oh and one last thing before I forget: if respect and equality are the ideology of the left, what's the ideology of the right?

Fluffal/Frightfur is actually a fun deck to play. Tell me you don't find it hilarious to beat people down with a pelouche

Nope, soccer generally bores girls. According to the cliché, they don't get the offside rule. Yes it is a very stupid cliché, yet in Italy it is so popular they actually had a tv show about it once, in which the wife of a soccer player tried to explain the offside rule to a bunch of uninitiated showgirls. And this extraordinary waste of national tv airtime was on the public television, meaning that we tax payers paid for it... That's Italy for you.Also wow Eternal Edge o.o EDIT: watch as Doj remedies to the lack of flaming...

Well yeah I agree with Hilda that gender roles are nothing but stereotypes. As I meantioned earlier, each person is different from any other, meaning everyone likes different things... So there might very well be a girl who likes soccer (introduce her to me please) and a guy who likes shopping. As a guy who was bullied for 19 years for liking "unmanly" things, I know one thing or two about this. Geez, what a boring discussion tho: we all agree with one another and no flame war has erupted. It almost doesn't feel like the internet Inb4 I get flamed for this joke...

Yeah I posted from my phone (and I still am posting from it) so I messed up my previous post... But I think you get what I meant to say ;-; And thanks for explaining Ryan. And yes, I was familiar with that quote

I would just to let our technival stuff know, since Kurotsune is here, that the multiquote function seems to be glitchy when connected from and Android phone. I tried to quote Hukuna and Kurotsune but the resulting screen was a mess Anyway: @Hukuna lol think about all the times we got emotional during arguments in Se7en. We are not a bunch of manly guys are we? But jokes aside, I think you nailed: relationship between sexes are poisoned by a lot of prejudices and clichés. It is about time we learn to shed them. @Kurotsune well I know for a fact that, in this past year I spent as a single, my life was overall much worse than it was in the 3 years prior when I still was with my gf. I mean sure, you might be right in saying relationships should be a plus and not a must (and in fact a year later I am still single, I didn't rush to find another one) but... That's a big plus, I tell you. Although here I might be making a common mistake, so while I am at it I'll warn Ryan about it: I might be making the mistake known as "being in love with love". Basically, I don't miss Miriam because I still love her, but rather because I still love her, but because I miss being with someone, I miss feeling loved, I miss that plus Kurotsune was talking about. And this is a mistake, so beware: when you fall for a girl, make sure you love HER, and not the idea of being with someone. Also will somebody please explain to me what adhd is? As mentioned, I am not familiar with english medical terms...

The truth is that there aren't two people who are the same. A girl is different from me, but another guy is just as different. There are 7 billions people in this world and they are all different. Don't assume girls are different: assume EVERYONE is different, respect everyone equally, and you are good to go. Also, I don't understand english medical terms: what's adhd?

You made some glaring mistakes, but you got your act together by the end, and your team IS good

I... Sorry, but I don't have a lot of consideration for Raging Flame Sprite. I mean, the game today has developed to a point where keeping offensive decks from attacking, even decks that are not of the big four (like the Red-Eyes deck object of this topic) for the entire duration of the duel is just impossible. Once upon a time, you could lockdown your opponent with Swords of Revealing Light, Marshmallon and the likes, relying on burn damage or direct attacks to win, but nowadays such a strategy is not viable anymore. not even in casual play. Unless you rely on Chain Burn you are not going to win with indirect damage, even Simochi struggles nowadays: you just cannot hope to win by using cards that remain face-up on the field. Not with all the destruction and removal that exists nowadays. Even the weakest decks have lots of ways to destroy or otherwise remove problematic cards nowadays, so in general it is better to rely on cards that can be chained (which is why I prefer T-roar over Mirror Force for battle protection).

That's it. Lexi absolutely nailed it right here. There are many things you can do in order to keep a relationship, it takes effort, patience and dedication. But to find a relationship to begin with? Completely different story. Relationships happen, it's not something you can engineer, it's not something you can control. They just happen. And this is not true JUST for love, but for all kinds of relationships as well: do you have any good friends? If so, an you tell us the strategy you adopted to make them become your friends? No you can't, that's the point I am trying to make. You meet people, you are natural around them, and eventually something that is impossible to explain with words happens, and then you are friends. Love is the same thing. If you approach a girl with a plan in your mind, if you do not what comes natural, but rather a series of actions you had schemed beforehand specifically in the hope of making her fall for you, you have already lost. It will never work, simply because there aren't two people in this world who are the same, so the actions you have schemed, specifically to attract the attention of girls, might be exactly what that particular girl hates. You need to be natural. You need to be yourself and yes, I am aware that it sounds very stereotypical and cliché, but that's how it is. If a girl does not like your true self, then a relationship with her is impossible. Trying to pretend to be someone else won't work for two reasons: there is no guarantee the girl will like the person you are pretending to be either, and even if she does, the truth will emerge eventually. Of course you might argue "I have been myself with lots of girls and non of them liked me" but well, I am afraid that is something that cannot be cured. I mean, if a girl just does not like you, there is nothing to be done about it. The whole "insistence will win her heart" thing shown in movies is not only unrealistic, it is actually a crime (called "stalking") in real life. So if you are turned down, just don't give up and move on. It might feel disheartening on the long run, but you need to keep at it: you WILL find the one right for you eventually. Judging from your profile, you are 18. You are still so young. Not finding love is not a tragedy at that age, and finding it only for it to end after a while is not a tragedy either: you still have a long way to go, try and enjoy what you get, instead of struggling in vain to get what is out of your reach. Go out in the vast world without thinking about anything, just be yourself, and you WILL find someone eventually.

Oh so you ARE the same Lits. I never sent you a PM to ask because I was afraid of sounding like a stalker o.O Well what can you do, some decks are simply blessed with more consistency than others. Incidentally, my reason for tunnin T-Roar over Silver's Cry (which is not that needed because you already have Spirit and REDMD to revive people) was precisely to stop OTKs. Assuming that by "bear cartoonick monsters" you mean Fluffal/Frightfur (Fluffal Bear is one of their key cards, and well, that's the only archetype I can think of that features a bear and looks "cartoonick"), they can OTK because they have access to a combo of Frightfur Tiger and Frightfur Wofl, the former being capable of destroying multiple cards upon being summoned and the latter being able to attack multiple times. T-roar works wonders against such strategies: you see, you can chain T-roar to the effect that targets it to destroy it, meaning that, no matter what your opponent does, they will NOT be allowed to attack you this turn, meaning that their OTK attempt is thwarted (something you cannot accomplish with, say, Mirror Force, which has a specific timing of activation and therefore cannot be chained). And well, the aforementioned Frightfur monsters dn't have stellar attack, so if you can thwart their OTK attempt, you will then be able to come back, considering that your monsters should have higher Atk. This being said, power creep in this game has reached a point where there is a handful of decks (the ones mentioned by myself and Lits earlier) that are on a completely different level, compared to everything else. Outside of weird gimmicks or specific counter-cards to be used as Side Deck options, decks that are considered tier 2 and below just cannot beat the big four nowadays. Therefore, I think that in a topic like this we should discuss fun decks for casual play and leave the competitive aspect out because... Well, talking about the competitive side means talking about the same four decks over and over and over again.

Oooooh we had a similar rumor in Italy. Another rumor we had (in early GSC era) was that Japan had a special version named "Diamond"... Which is hilarious when you think that Pokemon Diamond did see the light years later. Anyway the idea is cool: wouldn't Hitmontop count as a Mist evo for Hitmonlee/chan (the former more than the latter)? And Heracross for Pinsir?

You know, I think there is a fatal flaw in this topic: namely the fact that there aren't two people in this world who are the same. Stress is a bitch and stress relief is a complicated matter: what works for me might not work for you and vice-versa. Writing, listening to music, playing retro videogames and going to the shooting range are all things I usually do to relax, but your situation appears to be so serious that these trivial activities will probably not be enough... Maybe talking with your collegues and coming up with a plan might help? Or if you have a partner, some intimate activities will do wonders for you. And by this I don't merely mean "sex", I mean being intimate: doing stuff together, walking down the street holding hands, watching a movie together, discussing the last book you read, talking about completely trivial matters in relaxed fashion, or just holding him/her tight for a while. In this past year, during which I have been single, I have been much more irritable and stressed out, compared to the 3 years before that when I still had a girlfriend... Love is good for your health!

One cannot leave you guys alone for two seconds

IKR, Konami is giving support to all of the old archetypes, but Amazoness are still unloved and forgotten ;-;

Stop being salty Az

Well there is a lot of work to make here. You are suffering from what I call the "too many options syndrome". Basically, you are running lots of cards that have a use in specific situations (Divine Dragon and Junk being the most glaring examples) but that, outside of that, are terrible for consistency. Darkness Dragon is an atrocious card. Also, this is clearly a beatdown build, so you don't need so much Ritual support: Paladin is the one who has to support the rest of the deck, not the other way around. Here is what I suggest: A much more fluid build, that focuses on being good at one thing, rather than on trying to do different things. You want your beaters to hit the field fast, and you want REDMD there to direct traffic: with this build, you aim to do just that. Paladin brings REDMD from the deck and Spirit revives it from the grave, after Shrine sent it there. Manju and Preparations are all you need to set up ritual summons, and you can tribute Manju himself to summon Paladin. Since you focus so much on toolboxing around normal monsters, Dragon's mirror is included to give you access to Firstof the Dragons, a very powerful monster you don't want to miss out on. And since I was running Dragon's mirror, I also teched in one single copy on the new Gemini archfiend (which is also a Red-Eyes, so you can toolbox it around with Black Stone) so that, once it hits the grave, you also have the opportunity to bring out Archfiend Black Skull Dragon, which is immensely powerful. However, this is not a Fusion build, so teching in solution to bring the big fusion boss might not be that optimal for consistency: if you REALLY want to be consistent, and win games in less spectacular fashion, but more often, you should run Dark Armed Dragon over the Archfiend guy, and Allure of Darkness over Foolish Burial. This deck has great control of the graveyard and nice draw power, so DAD should prove an excellent weapon. In the Extra I only put the monsters you absolutely NEED (of course, remove Black Skull Dragon if you go the DAD route). Feel free to fill the remaining spaces with whatever strikes your fancy. EDIT: some screens: http://i.imgur.com/y9ZGhI5.jpg http://i.imgur.com/SsRcbzR.jpg http://i.imgur.com/9w9pryj.jpg EDIT EDIT: updated DAD version with improved conistency http://i.imgur.com/To6nepW.png

Black Dragon Sword is ridiculously easy to Summon in all Red-Eyes builds. All you need to do is to tech in a couple of the corresponding Legendary Dragon spell card (was it Critias or Hermos? Can't remember...). Giving such a massove Atk bonus to bosses with powerful effwcts like Lord of Red or Flare Metal Dragon is always nice...