[Fedoras of Salvation] - White Knights ITT

[hamfactorial]

It speaks highly of us as a group that we have so many quality women willing to ride shotgun in our lives.

I'm between ladies at the moment, but some very interesting opportunities have presented themselves in the last week. I will immediately make some bragposts once I seal the various deals.

But until then, day 52!

[redthirst]

You're like a cyborg sent back in time to establish machine dominance through the venue of not yanking it.

[photodyer]

Ah man...I have no place in this conversation! I need to start looking into getting out into some social situations so that I can get back on the dating train. Waaayyyy out of practice...even when I was living with insanity, there was still a connection. Sheesh...I don't know if I'll know how to behave around someone sane...

Ah well. I just dropped a few pics in over in the gallery thread as well. Another thing this clan seems to have in common...a thing for fiery redheads.

[Valdarith]

Mine also doesn't think it's her business what I spend my money on - which seems like it'd be common sense, but is actually very rare.

Guns? Games? $200 Steampunk boots? The worst I get is rolled eyes and "whatever makes you happy, sweetie."

I may lament the fact that my girl doesn't want to learn M:tG or play paintball with me, or paint game figures, or dress up and go to conventions - but she's legitimately the best person I've ever known.

And also has the cutest face and sexiest little body I could want.

That's probably good enough.

Sounds a lot like my wife. She's not in to ANY of my hobbies (except football) and she ribs me for playing "that geeky card game" from time to time but she really
doesn't care.

My wife doesn't really have a solid hair color. It's predominantly blonde but with a natural brown/red tint. And naturally curly. I've always had a thing for women with curly hair.

[Dane]

I've put this one up before, but it's very applicable, I think...

[redthirst]

I know the feeling, photo. When my ex and I split up we'd been together for 8 years - and after 8 years your "game" has pretty much completely atrophied.

The only thing you can do is build it back up by putting yourself in just a shit-ton of situations where you interact with available women.

Don't be a pussy - put yourself out there.

[hamfactorial]

I love that picture. Topical and accurate.

My lady and I were together for 4 years but it seems my game is still strong. She was feisty, so she kept me on my toes the whole time. These weak blondes and brunettes just can't match the difficulty of living with a redhead.

[Link]

Dane our women might be sisters separated at birth

-Mine played Wow too, except she was in the guild that got world firsts in AQ40, Nax, and other things (C'thun or something server she says)
-Got into magic when I got back into it, playtests with me and actually has a nonmeta deck that can wipe the floor with me if she plays better than me
-Instead of her moving in with me, I got to move in with her quit my job and she supported me for a year while I went back to school.
-Helluva cook
-Dyes her hair red (before I met her and re-dyed lately)
-Dat ass >_>b

[windstrider]

It sounds like a lot of us have awesome ladies in our lives.

She puts up with all the crap in my life. I wonder sometimes how I got that lucky.

(and she's 10 years younger than me )

[photodyer]

I know the feeling, photo. When my ex and I split up we'd been together for 8 years - and after 8 years your "game" has pretty much completely atrophied.

The only thing you can do is build it back up by putting yourself in just a shit-ton of situations where you interact with available women.

Don't be a pussy - put yourself out there.

That's the thing...I need to track down said situations. My life for so long--and even now--revolves around my kids. I hang with a lot of adults, but I've not run into much in the way of single women. Other single dads, but the moms don't stay single if they don't want to and that's just a straight-up reality. The challenge is going to be finding opportunities for interaction with
new people after spending so much time in veritable isolation. Not making excuses, just acknowledging the challenges before me. I'm not scared to get out there, I just have to figure out where "there" is!

For the moment, fun will come where it will. I'll be heading over to hang with windstrider for his birthday in a few weeks and engaging in Nerf wars...fun will reign!

[Khaospawn]

Jerry, sometimes the best things in life come to us when we're not looking. At least, that's how it's been for me.

[Valdarith]

I forgot to post this story from last Friday.

Someone was teasing me about playing red and my retort was that red "was the thinking man's color." They snickered and explained that the best way to introduce someone to Magic is to let them play red because it's so easy. I had to explain that while it probably was easy to learn how to play red, it was much harder to be consistently successful with red. I referred to this as red having a high "skill cap" (anyone that's played WoW here will understand this reference). I went on to say that while control decks might have more decision trees than a red deck, control is often more forgiving due to the individual power of their cards, and even with a more succinct decision tree for red, there is really only one correct answer. If we choose the wrong branch, we could end up getting our opponent to two life only to have him stabilize, losing us the game.

They
didn't really have anything to say after that.

[photodyer]

Jerry, sometimes the best things in life come to us when we're not looking. At least, that's how it's been for me.

Very true, brother--thanks for reminding me!

[windstrider]

That's the thing...I need to track down said situations. My life for so long--and even now--revolves around my kids. I hang with a lot of adults, but I've not run into much in the way of single women. Other single dads, but the moms don't stay single if they don't want to and that's just a straight-up reality. The challenge is going to be finding opportunities for interaction with new people after spending so much time in veritable isolation. Not making excuses, just acknowledging the challenges before me. I'm not scared to get out there, I just have to figure out where "there" is!

For the moment, fun will come where it will. I'll be heading over to hang with windstrider for his birthday in a few weeks and engaging in Nerf wars...
fun will reign!

Focusing on your kids is the right choice, and you've done good by them. I think the real trick is not to force anything. Putting yourself into social situations and being yourself is a much better path. Be willing to try new things.

If we had a more welcoming SCA group around here, I'd suggest that. You meet a lot of interesting people there, but the KC group is not so open to new people. It's weird, and it's turned me off from SCA for the time being.

I think you'll fit right in with the group. We're already talking plans for a couple of day trips around MO.

[photodyer]

Sounds good, windstrider...you know I'm willing to play camera dude!

[redthirst]

Since you and windstrider are so close and he's been known to have fun "adult" weekends - that's probably a great place to start.

[windstrider]

Sounds good, windstrider...you know I'm willing to play camera dude!

You and my friend Jack will get along just fine. He's the one who took the Steampunk picture and held a photoshoot a few weeks ago.

I'm really hoping we get a good group together for the Nerf War. It's been a while since I've seen some people.

@redthirst — Oh, absolutely. We've been discussing that as well.

[photodyer]

Alright guys--heading to bed as the boy has a band concert tonight before I go to work. Catch back up tonight!

[Dodger]

I wonder if I would even want a gamer girl, or a girl to play MTG with me. I mean it sounds cool, but in a way playing MTG is man time. Some guys golf or whatever, some of us have MTG

[hamfactorial]

I like to share hobbies and interests with my girls, but I'd never want a clone. For me, having alone time is very important. If I have no activities that are just mine, I start to get a little stir crazy.

[Helios]

What started as a good day has quickly gone to shit.

The PHP class I've been writing for the past 2 days at work got deleted.

One of the RAM slots on my work machine went bad.

At the end of the day today, essentially 0 progress will have been made while I try to get back to where I was this morning.

*facepalm*

With respect to the MTG girl, one of my exs and I played on a regular basis. It didn't go well. MTG = bro time.

[redthirst]

@redthirst — Oh, absolutely. We've been discussing that as well.

No point in discussing it with photo - we all know what he needs.

Just find one of your attractive single friends who hasn't gotten any in a month or so and let her ride him like a rollercoaster.

[Helios]

Just find one of your attractive single friends who hasn't gotten any in a month or so and let her ride him like a rollercoaster.

Send one down here while you're at it.

[redthirst]

Just find one of your attractive single friends who hasn't gotten any in a month or so and let her ride him like a rollercoaster.

Send one down here while you're at it.

Just sign up for the Pay-it-Forward project after windstrider - Clan pimp.

[Helios]

Just sign up for the Pay-it-Forward project after windstrider - Clan pimp.

Speaking of, who's turn is it? I'm after SM.

Also, do we want to migrate that over to this board?

[redthirst]

Probably... someone want to do that so I don't have to do it on my phone?

[Dodger]

I'm going to have to learn about this pay it forward project.

Also I need to see about getting in on the Ham challenge. Weekends are what usually do me in, especially if I don't get to see the lady friend. I've been having um issues getting off lately when I have sex so maybe it will be good for me to stick to the Ham Challenge.

[windstrider]

One of my friends has her own dance troupe. She's also attracted to my wife. Life is good.

[Helios]

@red: I'm about to go to lunch, but I can move it when I get back.

@dodger: I find that to be the case.

One of my friends has her own dance troupe. She's also attracted to my wife. Life is good.

[windstrider]

I love you guys. These threads provide a great way to start the day.

[redthirst]

Dodger, did you ever consider that you might just be really really

really really really

really really

really gay?

Checkmate.

[Link]

I forgot to post this story from last Friday.

Someone was teasing me about playing red and my retort was that red "was the thinking man's color." They snickered and explained that the best way to introduce someone to Magic is to let them play red because it's so easy. I had to explain that while it probably was easy to learn how to play red, it was much harder to be consistently successful with red. I referred to this as red having a high "skill cap" (anyone that's played WoW here will understand this reference). I went on to say that while control decks might have more decision trees than a red deck, control is often more forgiving due to the individual power of their cards, and even with a more succinct decision tree for red, there
is really only one correct answer. If we choose the wrong branch, we could end up getting our opponent to two life only to have him stabilize, losing us the game.

They didn't really have anything to say after that.

Well played.

Yeah Control, BECAUSE they have so many decision trees there always multiple lines of play and ways to recover after misplays.

Red is 1 and done. We play on the fine line of life and death and that thrill is what makes red the best color there will ever be

[Valdarith]

Dodger, did you ever consider that you might just be really really

really really really

really really

really gay?

Checkmate.

...aaaaaand boom goes the dynamite.

[Link]

I wonder if I would even want a gamer girl, or a girl to play MTG with me. I mean it sounds cool, but in a way playing MTG is man time. Some guys golf or whatever, some of us have MTG

Yeah but, its still man time really. Magic is 1v1 most of the time, so unless you're playing her every match Tournaments and FNMs and different pods... still plenty of time to get your man on while she does her "own" thing.

[redthirst]

It's okay if you are, Dodger. Alex is super gay and no one has a problem with him.

[Dodger]

Fuckers. I've been sick and kind of stressed out at work the last couple weeks and it's affected my performance a little bit. But I'm feeling a lot better this week, so hopefully I won't have any problems tonight. If not, I'll just bend Alex over.

[Alex]

Fuckers. I've been sick and kind of stressed out at work the last couple weeks and it's affected my performance a little bit. But I'm feeling a lot better this week, so hopefully I won't have any problems tonight. If not, I'll just bend Alex over.

I'm the manliest one here. How many of you can say you've been in movies?

[Alex]

Also holy fuck, I just took a look at the R/x subforum on MTGS. WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK HAS HAPPENED?

If this is what it is like without us, I don't even want to think about how bad the general populace of Magic: The Gathering must be at this game. Reading some of this nonsense made me cringe the hardest of cringes.

I saw "[SCD] Crypt creeper" and was just like "Yep I'm fucking done."

[Khaospawn]

Just sign up for the Pay-it-Forward project after windstrider - Clan pimp.

Speaking of, who's turn is it? I'm after SM.

Also, do we want to migrate that over to this board?

I'm supposed to send some mead to lorddax, but I've been slacking. Actually just been too busy to head to a store and get all the shit together. Need to do that sometime this week, I suppose.

[Khaospawn]

Fuckers. I've been sick and kind of stressed out at work the last couple weeks and it's affected my performance a little bit. But I'm feeling a lot better this week, so hopefully I won't have any problems tonight. If not, I'll just bend Alex over.

I'm the manliest one here. How many of you can say you've been in movies?

Oh, I've been in some movies. Most of them have been shot in some motel rooms though...