Owner’s Choice – Passing as a One Percenter
Oh, great. A game about buying and selling stock. How enchanting. Should I tuck the kids into bed now, so we can experience this magical world of trading off the margin? Or should we...
Author: jmgariepy
A 2013 Compatible Introduction to the Blog
Hi there. I’m John-Michael. How are you? Mmmhmm. You know, I can’t hear you. Do you mind if I do all the talking? Good. If you want, there’s some soda in the fridge. The...
The Ten Most Awesome Legendary Commanders, According to Gatherer – Part Two
My first name’s not ‘Baby’. It’s John-Michael. Mr. Gariepy if you’re nasty. And this is part two of the Ten Most Awesome Legendary Commanders! In part one we looked at the tenth through sixth most...
The Ten Most Awesome Legendary Commanders, According to Gatherer – Part One
Do you play Commander (aka Elder Dragon Highlander)? It’s a very popular Magic format where players make a one hundred card, singleton deck based on a Legendary Creature which they set aside and can...
DC Adventures Log 7: Forever Immortus
In DC Adventure Log 6, All Hail Riverdale, Team Lex traveled in time to 1953 to escape immediate eradication in 1977 from a ‘peace keeping’ force of U.N. soldiers with access to futuristic power-armor...
Two Books: Flatland and Catherine the Great, Portrait of a Woman
Flatland is a ‘Romance of Many Dimensions’ written by Edwin A. Abbot in 1884. It’s a tough book to categorize, but let’s say it’s a mathematician’s exploration of what life would mean if constrained to two-dimensional shapes....
The Cave – Getting Lost in a Good Game
Robert Frost was a sanctimonious idiot. When ‘two roads diverged in a yellow wood’, Frost took ‘The Road Less Travelled’, and claimed it made all the difference. I’m sure he felt he was an idealist and an...
