This Week in Pangoria Week of May 11th, 2015

This week was pretty quiet, though I did finally pick up WoW time cards again towards the end. I have some really friendly people that play Magic at my local LGS, and I have to say that interacting with new people over the weeks has really helped my depression/funk that I was in. Had a marathon EDH game overnight on Friday, and I'm really enjoying the format. Overall, I think that the Magic community is one of the friendliest out there.

I was a bit lackluster on projects this week, and I think I've targeted the issue to not liking how I'm starting my story. So I'm thinking of resetting it, or writing out the parts I'm having issues with in less details. We'll see how things go.

I've been debating going to see Mad Max: Fury Road, on one hand EVERYONE I know is saying it's good, on the other, I've fallen asleep on previous Mad Max movies, and I'm afraid I will on this one as well. So I'll skip it and instead I was thinking of looking at some rentals of movies I missed in theaters that are coming out soon.

This Week in Pangoria Week of May 4th, 2015

Pretty uneventful week. I came to a few realizations on my Magic deck this past FNM, and over the weekend after Friday, that I was able to understand the key weaknesses of the deck. Interestingly enough, the weakness is what made the deck fun. The key here is that it was a combo deck with an aggro goal. Which is where it suffered, because unlike normal aggro it wasn't cheap enough, and unlike a combo deck, it didn't just "go off". This means that it was easy for the top tier decks to disrupt.

Where my deck was finally in a good position for, was that it could stymie aggro decks into a game of attrition, and it had enough fuel to get past control decks... controlling. The issue is that i didn't have enough of an answer to Den Protector/Raptor resilience.

Moving on, I put a few more words to digital paper on my novel. Not as much as before, and it is something I'm redoubling my efforts on. Finally, I have been doodling out some character concepts for a new game. Pretty simple idea which I think I can execute rather well. I'm thinking of looking into animation software for it, something like Spriter.

This Week In Pangoria Week of April 27th, 2015

So looks like I'm keeping up with my blogging schedule, which is nice. Big news, is that I got 8th place out of 23 players at FNM (Friday Night Magic) at my LGS (local game store). This is pretty big for me as it means I qualified for prizes.

I managed to write a couple hundred more words for my story. Still not sure what size story I'm writing, but any progress is good. Just have to stay motivated.

I got to see the Avengers 2, and I'm going to be writing up a quick review this week, so I'm looking forward to that as well.

This Week In Pangoria Week of April 20th, 2015

So this week I've managed to write a couple of hundred words towards a story, placed 6th place in at FNM (out of 10), and played some Heroes of the Storm. Remember to not worry so much about failing, but understand that you did and go ahead and try again. This is the kind of thing that can hurt. You think, "I meant to write more this week." Well, here is sometime and you just thought about it, so go write!

I did get one quick review out this week as well, Which occurred exactly because I remembered, hey, you should write a review of something!

This week I'm looking forward to Avengers 2! I won't make it on the day before/day of release, but I'm planning to make it by the weekend's end! There's Gotham and Flash and iZombie on tv this week, 3 shows I'm having a lot of fun with (I watch them on hulu.com and CWtv.com).

I'm planning to write more reviews and more of my story. I'm also looking into getting a modern deck going. Right now the most interesting one to me is Collect Call Elves. Honestly, such a cheap Modern deck, that looks like so much fun!

Anyways, have fun this week guys and gals!

Reminder to Self: When Youtube stops working on Chrome

If youtube.com has stopped working on chrome go to:

chrome:plug-ins

one of the top plugins... perhaps hidden away, is the flash plug-in. It may be disabled. If it is, enable it, and youtube should start working again.