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Topic Started: Oct 20 2009, 11:23 PM (6,864 Views)
Empathaur
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My name is Hunter, and I'm new here. I live in Alberta (Canada), and have been playing Vs. since OR, although the game was never very big in my little burg. Interest, at its peak, was probably around 12 players total in my city, and about 60% of those would show up every week. Our group pretty gave up until just a few weeks ago, while drunk, we tore our houses apart looking for our card boxes.

Before I knew it, I had 8 booster boxes on order, and cards all over my damn house again. I've been crash coursing through every set released after MoS, and still losing against my friend's golden Bats/Doom deck. Hah hah. Anyway, I was disheartened when I'd heard the game got the axe, but am pleasantly surprised to see a community at all, much less a pretty active one. Online, anyway. I think there are perhaps one or two other players outside of my two room mates and I that play in this town.

I am, however, teaching my girlfriend.
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This is Mikaela I need no other justification for her
You're citing a picture of a porn star who can't act as the reason why making up characters for one Hasbro fanchise is okay but not another?
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Empathaur
Oct 29 2009, 04:18 AM
My name is Hunter, and I'm new here. I live in Alberta (Canada), and have been playing Vs. since OR, although the game was never very big in my little burg. Interest, at its peak, was probably around 12 players total in my city, and about 60% of those would show up every week. Our group pretty gave up until just a few weeks ago, while drunk, we tore our houses apart looking for our card boxes.

Before I knew it, I had 8 booster boxes on order, and cards all over my damn house again. I've been crash coursing through every set released after MoS, and still losing against my friend's golden Bats/Doom deck. Hah hah. Anyway, I was disheartened when I'd heard the game got the axe, but am pleasantly surprised to see a community at all, much less a pretty active one. Online, anyway. I think there are perhaps one or two other players outside of my two room mates and I that play in this town.

I am, however, teaching my girlfriend.
You should look up Obsidian3D if you're not already familiar with him. He's got a hobby league in Calgary, I think. Don't know if that's near where you are, because you could be in Fort McMurray for all I know.. haha.

Anyway, welcome! More of us Canucks around here the better.
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I have to head home in a minute, so I'll respond later with a bio of my own.

I have to so, though, that having read up to the fourth page so far I'm ...

A) Amazed by how many Christians are in this community. I'm not an unreligious person myself, although I'm very moderate (I have a thing about believing that no one has a monopoly on the truth and, while believing what you believe is correct is a requirement of faith, the fact is we're all probably at least a little wrong on some aspects of our spiritual beliefs) and I'm not currently attending a church.

B) I'm amazed that so much discussion of religion has been done so cordially. Have you seen the kinds of fights we get into about stuff that is of almost no importance?!?!? Surely this is a miracle.

'Grats to all on B).
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My name is Ryan. I am from Maryland and born in Tx. I am 21, and attending University of Maryland. I play Vs system with 5-7 guys on Sundays and I get on this site to trade cards to make more awesome decks and help people who are looking for cards. I enjoy this game more then i think i should. I think this is great that i still have a place to do this. [grin]

I wanted to post on this thread because i was looking to see if anyone had come up with any new viable deck ideas and i was surprised to find what seemed like a nice idea turned out to be wasting a lot of my time reading about peoples religious views. I understand it is what you believe in and live your life by but this is a site about Vs system. I feel we should all try and stop posting about Religion and start posting things about VS SYSTEM. I'm not saying either side is right or wrong i just feel this is not the place for RELIGIOUS VIEWS THREAD. . it took a lot out of me to read all about this stuff that i was not here for. This is a VS SYSTEM SITE. Lets try and keep it fun and simple. [coolguy]

Btw The transformers stuff was kinda killing me too. That stuff is a whole other topic. Please take it to a different Thread. [fro]
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Considering this thread is in the "life and stuff" section of the website, i find it hard to believe that your going to get much discussion in this thred about vs system. If you'd like more vs related content check out the general discussion or decks and strategy links in the Vs section. I'm not trying to be mean just informative about the different sections of the website.
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Guglio
Oct 29 2009, 04:41 AM
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This is Mikaela I need no other justification for her
You're citing a picture of a porn star who can't act as the reason why making up characters for one Hasbro fanchise is okay but not another?
I would have to say Yes and I agree [grin] ....Megan Fox, yum [bounce] .
hehe,
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Sadly, there are 3 discussions going on here. The original (which was quite interesting and a good thread); the religion discussion (things somehow got derailed onto that, and while a good discussion and kept VERY poilte should have been in another thread), and discussion about bad movies (which is an OK discussion and should also have been a different thread).

As to VS, well the player community is great and I love looking at Fantasy sets... but I have no local game and have "played out" the decks I like online. Hope to get a few games in with the new sets, but for the most part I sadly theorize way more about VS and the new sets than play these days. I miss VS, I loved it, and am glad the community is still hanging around, but it's not the part of my life it once was.
Edited by EvilDave, Oct 29 2009, 02:21 PM.
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Oct 29 2009, 04:44 AM
Empathaur
Oct 29 2009, 04:18 AM
My name is Hunter, and I'm new here. I live in Alberta (Canada), and have been playing Vs. since OR, although the game was never very big in my little burg. Interest, at its peak, was probably around 12 players total in my city, and about 60% of those would show up every week. Our group pretty gave up until just a few weeks ago, while drunk, we tore our houses apart looking for our card boxes.

Before I knew it, I had 8 booster boxes on order, and cards all over my damn house again. I've been crash coursing through every set released after MoS, and still losing against my friend's golden Bats/Doom deck. Hah hah. Anyway, I was disheartened when I'd heard the game got the axe, but am pleasantly surprised to see a community at all, much less a pretty active one. Online, anyway. I think there are perhaps one or two other players outside of my two room mates and I that play in this town.

I am, however, teaching my girlfriend.
You should look up Obsidian3D if you're not already familiar with him. He's got a hobby league in Calgary, I think. Don't know if that's near where you are, because you could be in Fort McMurray for all I know.. haha.

Anyway, welcome! More of us Canucks around here the better.

More Canadiens.. Awesome! lol I know you guys must be hockey fans? [grin]
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Hi, my name is Michael Pittman.

Up until last week I was convinced that I was 31, but someone pointed out that being born in January 1977 meant I was, in fact, 32. You know you're getting on when you start forgetting how old you actually are.

Another possible reason for the memory failure, though, might be that my wife and I have a six month old son (our first). I'll get back to this in a minute.

I was born in Hanford, California, but moved to Australia when I was nine. My Dad was Australian and I came over here to meet him for the first time in 1986. It was going to be a six month visit, but I ended up staying and my Mum came over and joined us a few months later.

Australia is an awesome country and I love living here. I've only been back to the States once, but I'd like to go back some time with my family. I'd also love to go to a big comic book convention.

I'm a journalist by profession and have worked on smaller, community-based newspapers as a reporter and a managing editor. Now I work as the Media Manager for a lobby group that represents pharmacy owners. It's more interesting then it sounds, but mostly it's just a decent salary for a not too stressful job that allows me to focus most of my energies into the people I love.

I've been married for five years and my wife, Erin, and I are big animal lovers. We currently have two dogs (Labradors) and three cats (including two Maine Coons). Fearful that if the cats and dogs should ever set their differences aside and form an alliance (and therefore be able to out vote us five against two), Erin and I have embarked on bolstering the number of humans in the family. Rory is our first child and is easily the most awesome thing that has ever happened to me. He was sick with a lung problem when he was first born, which was a terrifying experience, but now he's a big, strong, healthy lad. Rory lights up my life and I count the minutes at work until the time when I can get home and be with Erin and Rory again.

As for interests, I was introduced to comics relatively late by a friend when I was 17. I read his Batman and Superman comics and enjoyed them. When I left for university the next year, I found that I missed reading comics ... so I started buying my own. I started with X-Men comics because I used to like the cartoon. I started reading just in time for the Age of Apocalypse, which was fun as hell. I grew out of X-Men eventually and now read a variety of books, including a number of Vertigo titles. I had actually started to drift away from superhero comics a little until Vs reignited my interest.

Rewinding a bit, I started playing the Star Trek TNG CCG with a friend at university. This led me to Magic, which I played for close to 10 years. I enjoyed it a lot, but when Vs arrived, Magic was completed swept away. I'd found a game that married my love of comics with my attraction to card games and it was AWESOME. I started playing Vs right from the beginning with Marvel Origins. I worked hard to help establish our local community and ended up becoming the local PTO. The TO gig, along with my writing on Vs Paradise, led to me also being asked to do Metagame coverage for Australian events. This later led to a regular column on Metagame and later Vssystem.com.

Knowing Ben "TBS" Seck from my Magic days, I had the gret fortune of having him invite me to do some freelance work on the DC sets he worked on (DLS, DWF and DCL). I researched characters and stories to feature on cards - developing card names, versions, artwork descriptions (I'd have my descriptions illustrated by some of my favourite artists, including Chris Bachalo, Brian Bolland, Tim Sale, Jonboy Meyers, Ryan Sook, Sam Keith, Ivan Reis and Ariel Olivetti, to name a few) and flavour text.

In terms of my dreams and aspirations, I'm writing a fantasy advernture novel - slowly - but mostly I just want to be a good Dad and enjoy my beautiful family.
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Oct 29 2009, 09:15 PM
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Oct 29 2009, 04:44 AM
Empathaur
Oct 29 2009, 04:18 AM
My name is Hunter, and I'm new here. I live in Alberta (Canada), and have been playing Vs. since OR, although the game was never very big in my little burg. Interest, at its peak, was probably around 12 players total in my city, and about 60% of those would show up every week. Our group pretty gave up until just a few weeks ago, while drunk, we tore our houses apart looking for our card boxes.

Before I knew it, I had 8 booster boxes on order, and cards all over my damn house again. I've been crash coursing through every set released after MoS, and still losing against my friend's golden Bats/Doom deck. Hah hah. Anyway, I was disheartened when I'd heard the game got the axe, but am pleasantly surprised to see a community at all, much less a pretty active one. Online, anyway. I think there are perhaps one or two other players outside of my two room mates and I that play in this town.

I am, however, teaching my girlfriend.
You should look up Obsidian3D if you're not already familiar with him. He's got a hobby league in Calgary, I think. Don't know if that's near where you are, because you could be in Fort McMurray for all I know.. haha.

Anyway, welcome! More of us Canucks around here the better.

More Canadiens.. Awesome! lol I know you guys must be hockey fans? [grin]
Of course I am. As for Obsidian3D, I did actually see that, but I don't live in Calgary, and rarely get down that way, so a weekly hobby league is pretty much out of the question. Our tiny playgroup is doing our best to infect non-playing friends of ours, and I'm trying to beat down our local card shop owner on his prices, so a new player might have an easy and cheap intro to the origins set at least. The guy still sells Web boxes for 100 dollars.

I can imagine a lot of people are burned out with the game, it being dead for so long now, but our group still has 6 sets or so to get bored of.

By the way, I love the 100 Ideas list. I am going to sell this format on my group in the next few weeks.
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So, just for fun since this sort of started as a "job"-based thread, I figured I'd update on my original status of "unemployed".

As of Friday, I have been offered a seasonal job at my local J.C. Penney's. I'm not entirely certain of the position's exact title, but I will basically be working independently to make sure that my department is fully stocked, that displays are looking proper, etc., etc. What is my department?

Women's and Lingerie [laugh]

Everyone I know has gotten a good laugh out of that. And, for me, this is that "first job" that will give me that little "tick" next to my name that says "Yes, this guy *does* know how to work", so I'm happy as a bee... or a clam... or whatever :P

Plus 20% off everything in the store just in time for holiday shopping? Can you say "Win"?
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Congrats man! Glad to hear it; I've had a lot of friends that were on the unemployed slump just coming out.

Just as long as the job title in the lingere department doesn't involve the word "Model", you should be all set :).
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Empathaur
Oct 30 2009, 12:14 AM
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Oct 29 2009, 09:15 PM
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Oct 29 2009, 04:44 AM
Empathaur
Oct 29 2009, 04:18 AM
My name is Hunter, and I'm new here. I live in Alberta (Canada), and have been playing Vs. since OR, although the game was never very big in my little burg. Interest, at its peak, was probably around 12 players total in my city, and about 60% of those would show up every week. Our group pretty gave up until just a few weeks ago, while drunk, we tore our houses apart looking for our card boxes.

Before I knew it, I had 8 booster boxes on order, and cards all over my damn house again. I've been crash coursing through every set released after MoS, and still losing against my friend's golden Bats/Doom deck. Hah hah. Anyway, I was disheartened when I'd heard the game got the axe, but am pleasantly surprised to see a community at all, much less a pretty active one. Online, anyway. I think there are perhaps one or two other players outside of my two room mates and I that play in this town.

I am, however, teaching my girlfriend.
You should look up Obsidian3D if you're not already familiar with him. He's got a hobby league in Calgary, I think. Don't know if that's near where you are, because you could be in Fort McMurray for all I know.. haha.

Anyway, welcome! More of us Canucks around here the better.

More Canadiens.. Awesome! lol I know you guys must be hockey fans? [grin]
Of course I am. As for Obsidian3D, I did actually see that, but I don't live in Calgary, and rarely get down that way, so a weekly hobby league is pretty much out of the question. Our tiny playgroup is doing our best to infect non-playing friends of ours, and I'm trying to beat down our local card shop owner on his prices, so a new player might have an easy and cheap intro to the origins set at least. The guy still sells Web boxes for 100 dollars.

I can imagine a lot of people are burned out with the game, it being dead for so long now, but our group still has 6 sets or so to get bored of.

By the way, I love the 100 Ideas list. I am going to sell this format on my group in the next few weeks.
I know that we need to support local owners and all that, but if he's not willing to meet you price-wise then don't bother shopping there.

www.wholesalegaming.com and
www.dacardworld.com are both great places to get boxes.

Go in with your group on a few boxes at once - that will lessen the shipping charge. Buy an extra box of something for players you don't have yet. Maybe Team-Up or something like that, because it's cheap, powerful and has Spider-Man.

If you really want to help that store owner, show him what you'd pay online with shipping for a box of Web and see if he can't meet you halfway. You can get boxes of Web for $9 online, so no matter how Pro-LGS you are... you can't work around that.

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Hello, my name is Keith McGee Jr, and I, too, am new here.

I am 17, senior in high school currently planning on attending the U of R for Mathematics Education in hopes of becoming a teacher in NYS.

I have lived here in Rochester, NY for as long as I can remember, though I am told by my mother that we lived in Michigan at one point during my infancy.

As for how I got into Super-Heroes and what not, I was kind of brought up with them - My dad is a big Marvel fan. He actually dressed up in a full-body Iron Man suit this past Halloween at work (he ordered it online). He owns every Marvel Movie that has been released I think, even the old 1960's TV movies of Captain America and whatnot. I'm not into them nearly as much as he is, but I do enjoy Super Heroes and things of that nature. The X-Men have always been a favorite of mine since my childhood when then X-Men Cartoon was on.

As for card games, I was introduced into Magic: The Gathering in 1999 with the Starter 1999 set, oddly enough. I played casually until the Ravnica expansion, at which point I started playing in weekly tournaments at Millenium Games and Hobbies, the only card shop that is within a reasonable distance from my location. Around 10th Edition, I lost funding for my weekly tournament ventures and have only recently picked MTG up again.

When VS System first came out, it was something I played with my dad for a few months. We got the Starter Sets and had fun with those. We then began picking up the cheap "3 for 2.50" Booster Pack sets at Wal-Mart, which they no longer carry. My collection largely consists of Marvel Origins and Spiderman, at which point I stopped playing card games in general and have recently picked up VS again as a casual thing to play with my 3 little brothers, my best friend and my girlfriend [my best friends sister. :) ]

And that's about all I can think of.

Oh wait, wasn't there something about religious views on this thread? For the record, I don't believe in anything "up above", not out of hate or spite of a church or anything like that, but mostly because I've been raised to question everything and everything (Thank you George Carlin, RIP) - I don't want to "believe" just because my mom and great-grandmother do. If I am to believe something, it will be for my own reasons, not just because I was "raised Christian". At this point in my life, I have had no reason to believe in a "God", but I don't refute the fact that one exists, or could exist, I just have no reason to believe such a thing.

EDIT: After reading some posts, I thought of more.

I am a Philadelphia Eagles Fan, and a huge fan of Donovan. I have no opinion on Vick, if they want to give him a second chance, that's all find and well. I'm just glad he's not taking anything away from Donovan this year.

I have played the Viola since the 4th grade, and am hoping to double major in Music Composition sometime in College. Music has always been a big part of my life. My great-grandmother (who is worse for wear, and living with us right now) played Piano most of her life, I play the Viola (And the Guitar, mostly Metal stuff), my little brothers play the Clarinet, Trumpet and Violin, and my little sister plays the Violin.

Aside from which, I am probably one of the biggest Iron Maiden fans in the world. My mom flew me and her down to Fort Lauderdale, Florida (From Rochester, NY, mind you) to see the last concert of their "Somewhere Back in Time" Tour this past April. I had never been to a concert before this, and I don't think I'll ever be to a better one [Unless it's Maiden, of course ;) ].
Edited by mrmaul558, Nov 20 2009, 02:26 PM.
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