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Yay! And thank you for the kind words :) The spam is indeed just amusing, and it'll be interesting to see where it goes.
For those who like the art on this card, you can see the larger version of it in a post by the artist, here.
Because this thread amused me, I made a blog post about it called Spambots, and the evolution of modern writing. It's mostly just me setting up, then reposting this thread on my blog, with some minor editing touches. Still, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention it.
Is there some way of casting Lure targeting this thread? It would be interesting to watch the evolution of spambots and their development of culture.
In order to bring some relevance back to this discussion, I love the artwork on this card.
Oh. Wow. Minimalism. I'm stunned. I took the opportunity to throw this through Google Translate and got this response in English:
drinking
absinthe
doll
waving
Which vaguely reminds me of the works of e.e.cummings. Seeing that "l(a" was printed in 1958, I'd say that we're right on target following the evolution of writing. This bot continues to surprise me, considering none of the other ones on Multiverse have been this strange.
Thank you for that fine example of what I was saying :)
курю
абсент
кукла
маша
Heh, so it should. At least that's easy to update in one place.
I seem to recall this being rather nasty when you used it with a suicide outlet that exploded it for damage anyway. But not unfairly so.
Deathtrap should probably read 'when this creature dies, ...' now.
The ones with URLs are getting automatically blocked. Only the probes are getting through. And getting increasingly strange.
I look forward to that. It's much better than the (rather unusual) Humanistic spam that has been plaguing Multiverse recently. I'm curious what the point of these are, since they possess no way of embedding themselves into our computers. They don't even post URLs. Unless... they're meme spam!
Wow. Now the spambots have evolved artistically to Postmodernism, shining a light on modern consumerism and exposing it for the flat culture that it encourages. I'm really hoping this leads to a "Pop Art" movement that revels in the mendacity of mass production. Maybe some direct quotes from a Brenda Star, Reporter comic strip? Bill Griffith's Zippy would be very pleased with the progress being made here.
Toys should be kept in the area where the family lives, not only in the child's room. An acceleration trigger powers up the motor to hurl discs from a 20-disc magazine. We also give you a brief description of the toys to be sure that you get a picture what they are all about.
I agree with "roaring" :)
The word "Roaring" seems like a good adjective. Helps explain why 1 power creatures can't block it... they're stunned.
Is "Junkbot" too lame? Maybe as the name of a particular one. You could call it a "Patchwork."
Something in the middle, perhaps: "Whenever a nontoken creature with flying you control dies, if ~ is untapped, you may pay
. If you do, put a 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying onto the battlefield."
That's sweet. "Indomitable Mecha"? (Or whatever the equivalent on this world is called.)
Bwahaha. Yes. For as long as it remains at this level, I guess it's not much of a hassle. If it gets more intense, I'll add more anti-spam measures.
(Hear that, spammers? Spam will not be tolerated; I will continue to add anti-spam measures for as long as you're targeting this site.)
Are the spammers becoming Dadaistic? It feels like the spambots have become disenchanted with their never-ending rants and have begun to fight against established board posts through anti-art cultural works.
privv boo kok 445
Schpammers are back...
privv boo kok 445
remove mana cost
An idea that occurred to me for the connectors is as follows. Most Magic cards' names are nouns: artifacts, creatures and lands most obviously, but enchantments and auras and equipment as well. Many sorceries and instants' names are verbs - things like Negate, Erase, Wrap in Vigor, Rise from the Grave and so on - although there are also a number of sorcs/insts with nouns for names too.
I was musing that one fun thing to do with connectors would be to give them names that are adjectives. So rather than a Cogniccelerator with an Autonomy Processor and an Oscillation Sharpener, you'd have an (((Autonomous))), (((Razor-Oscillatory))) Cogniccelerator. (The same trick could in principle be applied to Auras, but hasn't been so far.)
The counterindicatory fear is that this would end up sounding a bit too silly. What do people think?
(You could also argue I'm putting the cart before the horse here, of course. I probably need to make Connectors play well first, before I make them named in an interesting way. I think this idea presupposes that I somehow managed to achieve that, otherwise I'll have to just cut the idea entirely.)
I can't believe you used that name. ROFL :)
And yes, seems fair. Obviously you're right to be cautious of printing common artifact creatures which push the stats in even a really mild way, but also, this reasonable for any color. In Innistrad One-Eyed Scarecrow suggests it's pretty much on the mark.