Tons of copy pasta until exams are over.
[B]Chess[/B]
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Chess is a recreational and competitive game played between two players. The current form of the game emerged in Southern Europe during the second half of the 15th century after evolving from similar, much older games of Indian and Persian origin. Today, chess is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.
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[B]Magic: The Gathering[/B]
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/aa/Magic_the_gathering-card_back.jpg[/img]
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f6/MagicCards.jpg[/img]
My personal favorite game ever. It got an award from Mensa in 1994.
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Magic: The Gathering (colloquially "Magic", "MTG", or "Magic Cards") is a collectible card game created by mathematics professor Richard Garfield and introduced in 1993 by Wizards of the Coast. Magic is the first example of the modern collectible card game genre and still thrives today, with an estimated six million players in over seventy countries.[3] Magic can be played by two or more players each using a deck of printed cards or a deck of virtual cards through the Internet-based Magic: The Gathering Online or third-party programs.
Each game represents a battle between powerful wizards, known as "planeswalkers", who use the magical spells, items, and fantastic creatures depicted on individual Magic cards to defeat their opponents. Although the original concept of the game drew heavily from the motifs of traditional fantasy role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons, the gameplay of Magic bears little resemblance to pencil-and-paper adventure games, while having substantially more cards and more complex rules than many other card games.
An organized tournament system and a community of professional Magic players has developed, as has a secondary market for Magic cards. Magic cards can be valuable due to not only their scarcity, but also their utility in game play and the aesthetic qualities of their artwork.
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[B]Portal[/B]
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Portal is a single-player first-person action/puzzle video game developed by Valve Corporation. The game was released in a bundle package called The Orange Box for Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 on October 9, 2007, [1] [2] and for the PlayStation 3 on December 11, 2007. [5] The Windows version of the game is also available for download separately through Valve's content delivery system, Steam [7] and was released as a standalone retail product on April 9, 2008. [6] A stand-alone version was released on the Xbox 360 Live Arcade system on October 22, 2008; this version includes an additional fourteen bonus puzzles.
The game consists primarily of a series of puzzles that must be solved by teleporting the player's character and other simple objects using the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device (dubbed the "Portal Gun" or "ASHPD"), a unit that can create an inter-spatial portal between flat planes. The player character is challenged by an AI named "GLaDOS" to complete each puzzle in the "Aperture Science Computer-Aided Enrichment Center" using the Portal Gun with the promise of receiving cake when all the puzzles are completed. The unusual physics allowed by the portal gun are the emphasis of this game, and are an extension of a similar portal concept in Narbacular Drop; many of the team members from the DigiPen Institute of Technology that worked on Narbacular Drop were hired by Valve for the creation of Portal.
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I wouldn't really say Portal is for smart people, but this Magic seems pretty cool.
I love magic.
Been playing it for 8 years.
Hmm, sounds good.
[QUOTE=nos217;15108205]I wouldn't really say Portal is for smart people, but this Magic seems pretty cool.[/QUOTE]
Valve had to dumb down their puzzles.
People have made pretty good maps, and the concept has a lot of potential for real mind fuckers.
Magic is not for smart people.
Card games don't entertain a very, very large portion of the population.
Also, I know a couple of really stupid people that play it.
geeks
Legos :q:
Space Empires, Dwarf Fortress, Europa Universalis, Hearts of Iron.
Card games like pokemon and magic are retarded.
I have heard about people trading THEIR TV AND COMPUTERS for ONE very PITY SHITTY CARD.
I wouldnt give a cent for that stupid piece of cardboard.
[QUOTE=Faren;15108327]Magic is not for smart people.
Card games don't entertain a very, very large portion of the population.
Also, I know a couple of really stupid people that play it.[/QUOTE]
Those people are called dweebs. I saw a venn diagram about it.
venn diagrams ftw
Here is my non-copy-pasta review of Orbiter 2006
Orbiter 2006 is the most realistic space-craft simulator.
Unlike many "space simulators" (Wich arent very sim like) this one isnt a space-shooter. Its plain space travel fun with physics down to the bare bone. Great for space-travel veterans wanting to get out in space or teen-agers like me wanting to have a big, fun and realistic adventure out in space. Clearly the best of those simulators ever made. And the fact that its free-ware is a infinite great bonus. You can make make addons for it too.
Here is copy pasta:
ORBITER is a free flight simulator that goes beyond the confines of Earth's atmosphere. Launch the Space Shuttle from Kennedy Space Center to deploy a satellite, rendezvous with the International Space Station or take the futuristic Delta-glider for a tour through the solar system - the choice is yours.
But make no mistake - ORBITER is not a space shooter. The emphasis is firmly on realism, and the learning curve can be steep. Be prepared to invest some time and effort to brush up on your orbital mechanics background. Good starting points are JPL's Basics of Space Flight, and R. Braeunig's Rocket & Space Technology.
For discussion with other Orbiter users, have a look at one of the Orbiter forums. More information and resources for users and developers can be found under the Orbiter Wikipedia entry and the OrbiterWiki site, both maintained by the Orbiter community.
[QUOTE=Onfifty;15108537]Card games like pokemon and magic are retarded.
I have heard about people trading THEIR TV AND COMPUTERS for ONE very PITY SHITTY CARD.
I wouldnt give a cent for that stupid piece of cardboard.[/QUOTE]
It's addictive and expensive.
But it's good.
I mean the game really does reward outsmarting and strategy while still being accessible.
Also Risk ftw. Madgascar, yo.
Risk hell yeah
Halo.
Durr hurr hurr.
In all seriousness, the Civilization series.
Woo magic!
I just finished my twinsanity mill deck. For those of you who don't know what that is, twinsanity is a combo where i use a spell called sanity grinding (makes the opponent put lots of cards from the top of his library to his graveyard), then twincast it (effectively casting the spell again). Then when the opponent can't draw any more cards he loses (per the rules of music).
IWBTG - I wanna be the guy: The movie: The game
Pokemon sapphire.
I once saw a $235 Magic card.
/discussion
These games have nothing to do with being smart.
The second i saw Magic i facepalmed so hard that my head exploded
[QUOTE=Faren;15109589]I once saw a $235 Magic card.
/discussion[/QUOTE]
The expensive magic cards are cards that are insane in extended tournaments (you can play with old cards, new cards, etc).
The reason they are so expensive is because they are broken (their effect is so good it effectively "breaks" the game).
The people who play extended tournaments have jobs (a situation where an individual works for money) that pay alot, usually because they don't have to pay for a domicile or food as they live with their mother.
They can afford cards like black lotus (card that adds 3 mana to your mana pool of any color; >1000$)
Normal people like me who simply play as a small hobby play in standard (only cards from the most recent sets can be used).
Cards in standard almost never cost more than 20 or 30 dollars each, and usually can be traded for.
In addition, once cards get rotated out of standard and into extended, they increase in value (cryptic commands, for example, will be worth much more than what they are worth now).
It is not very hard to build a good deck in standard for less than 100 dollars. The people who complain are the ones that want the most expensive decks out there, not the most effective ones. I won second place in a tournament against decks that cost upwards of 200-300 bucks with a deck that cost me about 90. Maybe the people complaining that magic cards are too expensive are simply kids too young to have a job, in which case they shouldn't be playing anyway.
I love MTG so much. However, once I moved about 5 years ago I also moved away from the only place I have ever played in Tournaments. It was actually a video rental store, but he decided if he can get enough people into it he might as well sell MTG and host tournaments each weekend. At first I sucked ass, but you never really lose. You put in like 5 to 10 bucks into the pool, and you get enough booster packs to make a deck. But how it works is, each person gets one booster, opens it and picks a card. They then pass the booster to their left or right and pick again until all the boosters are gone. Sometimes this means you lose out on a really good card, and most smart people only choose cards that would be useful in their real life decks rather than the deck they are making then and there. Some of them even decided they'd rather go for the holos or rares first just so they had a valuable card worth trading later after the tournament. But there were still prizes to be won. I think the first place was some money from the pool and a couple more boosters. But either way, you go, you get new cards, have fun, trade, and go on with your life.
MTG is by far the best trading card game out there. However, the newer sets that have been coming out have been ruining the gameplay I think. Adding too much to manage and effectively making older decks inferior because of the new rules each set brings with it. And most of the time you can't just simple take an old deck and update it to compete, sometimes you have to completely rebuild it from scratch.
Alteil is a much better and funnier card game than Magic.
I'd also say that Alteil requires smarter people than Magic.
[url]http://www.alteil.com/[/url]
[QUOTE=CheezyCheeze;15109881]Alteil is a much better and funnier card game than Magic.
I'd also say that Alteil requires smarter people than Magic.
[url]http://www.alteil.com/[/url][/QUOTE]
I highly doubt that. MTG requires a lot of strategy and thought. You can't just jump in and expect to be good. And this Alteil thing looks like it's just someones excuse for playing with manga girls.
It's not even a true card game, it's an internet card game.
[QUOTE=Faren;15108327]Magic is not for smart people.
Card games don't entertain a very, very large portion of the population.
Also, I know a couple of really stupid people that play it.[/QUOTE]
Do they win often? If they do then they just act stupid in real life while they use their smarts for strategic crap.
[QUOTE=Onfifty;15108593]Here is my non-copy-pasta review of Orbiter 2006
Orbiter 2006 is the most realistic space-craft simulator.
Unlike many "space simulators" (Wich arent very sim like) this one isnt a space-shooter. Its plain space travel fun with physics down to the bare bone. Great for space-travel veterans wanting to get out in space or teen-agers like me wanting to have a big, fun and realistic adventure out in space. Clearly the best of those simulators ever made. And the fact that its free-ware is a infinite great bonus. You can make make addons for it too.
Here is copy pasta:
ORBITER is a free flight simulator that goes beyond the confines of Earth's atmosphere. Launch the Space Shuttle from Kennedy Space Center to deploy a satellite, rendezvous with the International Space Station or take the futuristic Delta-glider for a tour through the solar system - the choice is yours.
But make no mistake - ORBITER is not a space shooter. The emphasis is firmly on realism, and the learning curve can be steep. Be prepared to invest some time and effort to brush up on your orbital mechanics background. Good starting points are JPL's Basics of Space Flight, and R. Braeunig's Rocket & Space Technology.
For discussion with other Orbiter users, have a look at one of the Orbiter forums. More information and resources for users and developers can be found under the Orbiter Wikipedia entry and the OrbiterWiki site, both maintained by the Orbiter community.[/QUOTE]
Can you fly without joystick.
At it's peek this thread had 24 viewers, then they all left :v:
Probably not what they were expecting.
[QUOTE=Arkanj3l;15110228]At it's peek this thread had 24 viewers, then they all left :v:
Probably not what they were expecting.[/QUOTE]
Yea it turned into a battle of the card games. Plus we all know Chess is the smartest game in existence.
[QUOTE=IceWarrior98;15110278]Yea it turned into a battle of the card games. Plus we all know Chess is the smartest game in existence.[/QUOTE]
Honestly, no. Sure, you can get skilled at it but all kinds of people play chess at my school.
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