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Wow! And I thought Greek & Hebrew were difficult.

My wife claims I register pretty high on the nerd-o-meter, but you guys are sending the needle off the chart.


I was thinking the same thing, Brad. ...next time the wife calls me a nerd, I'm going to show her this thread.

 
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Wow! And I thought Greek & Hebrew were difficult.

My wife claims I register pretty high on the nerd-o-meter, but you guys are sending the needle off the chart.


I used to be fluent in Gamer's Cant...a 'cant' being a sort of 'trade lingo'. In high school we played a lot of wargames that had thirty page+, small-type rule books. (Such as Squad Leader and D&D.) Only quite a few of my friends couldn't understand the rules by simply reading them, so they would loan me their games to learn and then teach them how to play. It's been over twenty-five years, though, so my Gamer's Cant is probably kind of rusty. (But I dunno...maybe reading Calvin and John Owen have kept the mind sharp enough!!)

I was wondering if this thread had drifted off topic. Then I went back and read the OP....and I'm not sure what the OP's topic was!
 
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LOL... I played MtG in high school. I had a bunch of nerd friends (I wasn't a nerd myself, of course ), one of which worked in and LIVED in a seafood restaurant (yes, literally). We used to go there after closing and have all-nighter tournaments with ten or twelve of us gathered around a big table in the dining area drinking sweet tea!

...and, btw, that restaurant was later closed down for sanitation reasons!
 
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I love seafood too much to work in a seafood restaurant.

I played MtG a little in middle school, but quickly came to the realization that CCGs are a bit too expensive a hobby. I was always more into the tabletop RPGs, like D&D, SWRPG, and Shadowrun.

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But I dunno...maybe reading Calvin and John Owen have kept the mind sharp enough!!

My folks always used to complain about my gamer's cant... now they complain about my theological jargon! I can't win.
 
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Neither was I...and I'm the one that wrote it. It has, however, been somewhat edifying and entertaining.
 
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Ahhhhh!!!! MtG is EVIL!

My wife and I are currently trying to catalog 14,000+ cards from 3rd to slightly past 5th edition. Once that is done they all go to Blackborders for sale. We had fun with it ( and a *slight* addiction ) but sanity and lack of funds asserted itself.

The sad thing is that I was around for the birth of the game. I was in a booth selling collectable art cards ( Frazetta, The Brothers Hildebrandt,...) when these nuts showed up trying to sell a game based on trading cards. They wanted $80-90.00 per box which was OBVIOUSLY insane.

I think I've forgiven myself for not buying a case. I think.
 
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LOL... yeah. That was about the time I was into it, too. I had friends that had boxes full of Alpha and Beta cards... don't know if they ever came off those gold mines or not. I sold out after a couple years of it and was hardly able to make back even a fraction of the money I had put into it.
 
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MtG was after my gaming day. I got into it a little bit when I went back to college in the early '90s, but my hey-day was in the early '80s. (It didn't take long to realize that MtG was gonna be a money pit, so I didn't really pursue it very long.) We played a lot of D&D in the early '80s, but our favorites were historical board wargames. I still have a few of the games...unfortunately, Squad Leader is not one of them.

For those who may have been wondering, here are a couple of examples of Gamers Cant. The first is from Third Reich, a strategic game of Europe in WW2. It is from the rules section 10, on Strategic Warfare (SW) Resolution:


That's one paragraph from a thirty-six page rule book. Games like these are usually so complex the rules include at least one page of Q&A, such as


This is from a tactical modern air combat game called Flight Leader:

Yes...we played these games for fun!!! (And I started in 7th grade.) For instance, a Flight Leader scenario pits two British Harriers against four Argentine A-4s in the Falklands War. Fun stuff!!
 
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