Depending on how you look at the numbers, Wade was either perfectly fine while with the Heat, or amazingly selfless. He either: still made $10 million per year or more, or took around a 30% pay cut. If you VOLUNTEERED for a 30% pay cut, you’d want a crazy payday later.

I appreciate when the GPS goofs up, sends you across the town, and then you suddenly get a Drowzee. Gotta get the ghosts and psychics for the two gyms near my house at the two cemeteries that someone has somehow already set up shop in. Grr.

It’s really unfortunate that the game isn’t out yet, plus I didn’t get to trade in my phone for one with a better battery life. So since I didn’t get that trade-in gift card, I have not been past Go, and I did not collect my $200. In jail confirmed.

It could be possible, but it’d be crazy hard to balance. What I expect would happen is something like Shards of Alara Standard in Magic, where there was one Best Deck (Jund), and two other decks (Vampires and Control) that created a Triangle of Mutual Destruction, not unlike Rock Paper Scissors. Jund beats Vampires…

Yeah, the cost of living for tutoring has kinda doubled.

You’d think so, but ever since Demonic Tutor was determined to be really, really, way too good, searching for cards has generally become too expensive. Combo decks will utilize search because they need it, and they also tend to combo out with lots of temporary mana, negating the cost disadvantage. Control decks will…

Whoa, hold on there, buster. Sounds like you need to look up Dredge, aka Playing Magic Correctly Is For Losers.

I counter that it has a perfect place in a tourney deck. It’s a silver bullet, a Get Out of Jail Free card. Take a 30-card deck that’s already viable with a fair number of spells, take one card out, and put in Yogg. Don’t play it unless you’re getting rekt. In a tourney, you’d never play it if you’re winning, and…

Combo decks are built that way, yes, but aggro or mid-range decks (Hearthstone: Zoolock, Evolve Shaman, etc. MtG: Red Deck Wins, Death and Taxes, etc.) rely instead on appropriate mana curves and all around good cards, so that the randomness of their own deck does not affect their play as much. Sligh is the first…

That’s probably why RNG effects on cards are lessened in MtG. Mana systems have not really been 100% solved. Hearthstone’s system is more consistent than Magic’s, but it’s not perfect. Also, screw Energy.

All CCGs suffer from an amount of luck. No matter how skilled the players are, if you draw like ass, you can’t play better than ass. Yogg-Saron increases the luck factor, but without him, there’s still a decent degree of randomness inherent in the system.

I’m more concerned about “Bam stumps for Hil”. I understand that we have to shorten the line to fit onto the page, but that sounds like someone is exploding tree stumps on a hill.

Battery pack: the true micro-transaction.

Soldier Dad is best dad.

C’mon, you can’t scam Devolver. They put out amazing games and flip E3 the bird. You have to scam the studios that don’t give a shit.

But who has the twisty rockets?

I’m still holding out for Dan Hibiki in SF5. Maximum styling, minimum fighting ability.

But what does this mean for Tim Tebow? Bayless still demands to know!

Zelda flavors?

That’s how you go out with style. Star Wars Galaxies, another SOE game, had a massive faction vs faction battle during the last days of the servers.