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Do you have a copy of the questions of the survey (from comment 107160)? I cannot read it because it is closed, but I am interested to know what the questions are (and can try to answer it if I know the answer of these questions, too).
Also (I don't know where else to write), I would like to see if someone is interested in my "Ziveruskex and Strixan" set (mirrored as cardset 3249 here), and/or in Magic: the Puzzling, to join my NNTP to discuss these things.
Ugh. Now I just want to go to your parents house for dinner. ;)
When you're a little Irish, you're Irish. So even though the family is mostly French, most of my Mom's cooking leans towards Irish cooking. But boiled dinners and soda bread aren't particularly tasty. Just... don't tell any Irish I said that.
(I love French Pea Soup, it tastes amazing.)
I've got unorthodox ancestry, my mom's side of the family is French-Canadian, while my dad's is Moroccan. That means I win the genetic lottery, because I have access to authentic recipes for:
I'll still spend the rest of my life eating TV Dinners and tapwater, though... damn finances.
Yeah, alternate opinion says it might be German, closer to Alsace. It's mostly just a really old French name that is clearly not French in origin, and people like to argue about it.
The Gariepy line in our family can trace back to the 1600s in Newfoundland, well before the British drove them out in the expulsion of the Acadians. Most Gariepys ended up inland in Quebec. Some, instead, went further south into Brit territory and ended up in Massachusetts. Couldn't take the sea out of those folks. Some signs in New Hampshire are still written in both English and French.
Whenever my parents went to Canada, they used to take pictures of the phone books, back when phone books was a thing. Pages and pages of Gariepys. If I meet a Gariepy around here, however, I just presume they're related twice or thrice removed.
Parents still make split pea soup. And I went to a French Catholic school with old-school French nuns and learned rudimentary French. But that's about all the French there is left in this family; WWI did a number on Franco-American nationalism. We still have a Lafayette Square in our city with a big statue, but it's no longer the French cultural center of town it once was 100 years ago.
As I said, it's ultimately a Basque name as evovled through French.
I wouldn't have guessed that to be a name with a French origin. The phonemes don't look quite right.
@jmgariepy What always struck me about your username is how it is so markedly French-Canadian. At least if you're familiar with French Canadian family names, as there are plenty of far more marked names out there XD (my own included).
I mean, technically it's Basque (Garibay) by way of France, but nowadays "Gariépy" is far more common in North America than in Europe.
The one downside to this nickname is that when I was pretty involved with playing Ingress, I'd often to go irl meet-ups. Trying to get a specific person's attention by just calling out "Dude!" was quite difficult XD
I agree this thread is awesome :) (is a series of card comments a thread?)
@Circeus: I can definitely relate. I swap interests almost as often as I swap clothes (hyperbole). I've had many collections of weird toys/things from when I was little, that I ended up agreeing on selling, since I'd lost interest. My mom's wallet eternally cries.
@dude1818 That's an awesome nickname :) Lucky numbers can be great, too!
@jmgariepy I do remember your name from somewhere... I think it's how you introduced yourself on the first (or one of the first) NTCs... I didn't know you were a writer! Prepare to be Google'd!
Also, agree. That sounds like a trip (maybe even one and a half).
It's lovely reading all these origin stories :)
I used to use a regular online handle which had a whole explanation, but then about the time I started using multiverse it seemed to be increasingly common to have real names online and I just used "Jack V". I think the optimum might be a combination, a real first name so it's easier to get to know people in real life, but a handle instead of a surname so you don't have to go by wallet name everywhere.
@jmg fwiw I love all your writing :)
That's... um... that's my name. John-Michael Gariepy. At one point I decided that if I was going to be writer, I was going to be on the Internet, and I wasn't going to use a pen name, that I should start using my real name as a handle so people could follow me and find my work.
It's an admittedly scary thought. It is made less scary, however, when you can't seem to find your audience anyways. But even in a very minor capacity, I still come across people who've read a few things by me then seek me out. Only came across one person who tried getting romantic that way. That was a trip.
It can be odd meeting people who you don't know a damn thing about, but it turns out you've been having a one-way conversation with them for months and they got a grasp of your personality. I wouldn't recommend this for an introvert. As an introvert/extrovert switch, however, I think it's opened doors enough times that it's been worth the occasional social discomfort.
In actuality, my parents' nickname for me growing up was Dude, and 18 is a lucky number in Judaism. I've been using this username since I first joined the internet, when I was like 10 or something
@Froggychum: I was also into YGO (both the anime and card game, predating my interest into Magic) Latin, and IUCN nomenclature. ADHD+Asperger leads to a weird tendency to swap interests. I didn't come to actual card design and languages (both major interests that have been more lasting) until significantly later.
LOL :)
How have you survived for 1818 years, though? Or am I missing some significance to that number?
Am dude. Am 1818. Are you jokester?
@Circeus: Woah! Now that's an interesting story! Ancient Greek mythology and botany :), what a combination of interests!
I also like Sorrow's very simple approach to picking an username :P
Hm... I guess i never noticed, but a lot of people on this site have super original usernames. It's not surprising any of them are sometimes already taken up by someone.
I've never actually had my username taken up before, except one time my computer glitched out mid-registration so I had to add some 9s to the end, IIRC. Actually, I think this was when I downloaded minecraft 7 years ago, and it ending up glitching out twice (my mom still only paid once, luckily), and I went with something totally different.
When I first got on an internet forum waaaay back in secondary school in the late 90s (IIRC, it was the Science & Vie online forum, which was setup in a fashion not unlike what we'd now call a chan), I was very into greek Myth and botany.
I was mildly obsessed with a plant genus by the name of Circaea and picked up the username "Circée", after the Greek enchantress, which was in retrospect pretty frickin' stupid seeing as I am male. I'd later masculize it to Circéus, which has been (with or without an accent) my default online username ever since, though it is oftentimes already used up.
I'm an edgelord and choose edgelord usernames.
That's wholesome :)
When I can get it, I use this same name everywhere. It's pretty rare that it's still available, though. It's my Overwatch battle tag and my name on MTG Salvation, from when I used to post there.
The Legend of Zelda holds a special place in my heart.
I'm very interested.
I've been using this username for most my life, funnily enough. It was originally the name of a Webkinz character (forgive me, I was approx. 7 yrs old).
Hm... I think you're right, actually.
I guess it's possible to do so, but there's no real benefit to the game for doing it, either.
I don't know much about yugioh (except that I had a really big collection when I was a wee one) but it's not very appealing, to me personally. I do have some fondness for a few cards (even though I don't know what they do), just because I used to watch them on the TV.
I do not beleive invoking the name-based archetypes of Yu-Gi-Oh would be good for Magic. Inspired designs based on creature types, sure, even choosing to diversify and create new creature types to do so. I personally don't like the name-based archetype of Yu-Gi-Oh. Perhaps it's my general disdain for the game, but it seems the archetypes of YGO exist to differentiate the decks, since there's no resource system like Magic. Also, the archetypes seem to get emphasis for a few sets, then disappear, only getting a new card or two if they're popular every few years to spice them up. Since Magic (currently) is constantly changing planes, a name-based archetype seems to make little sense to me.
@Link
I agree with everything you said. None of those things bother anymore now that I understand their purpose, and I don't really remember to what extent they used to bother me, probably not a lot (considering I stayed), but surprisingly, some old responses to criticism I left are borderline rude, which I strongly regret and apologize for.
(Admins feel free to remove any information on the user from this post if you don't want it here): The user who left the site was called James Goat (maybe was their real name). IIRC, he was pretty new to Multiverse. He made fairly decent cards and had good ideas, generally. He did have a few edgy/gross or dysfunctional cards, but seemed pretty nice in comments. I commented on a lot of his cards, because I was happy to see a new and prominent user join the site. I think dude1818's right about his response to criticism, but I also think he might have had some anxiety issues, from reading some of his comments (I have anxiety but I'm not a psychologist, so I just told him to take care, which is good advice for anyone).
In my comment above I was going to suggest downloading MSE instead of making his cardsets private, but I decided against saying that, as I didn't want him to leave the site, and I definitely didn't want him to feel pressured to quit by another user, in any way. But, I agree that if he didn't want critique, he was probably in the wrong place. Private cardsets on this site offer less features than MSE, while public cardsets still have fewer features but allow for more-rapid interaction and critiquing, which is their big plus. (Alex is awesome for coding/running this, I'm not putting down his work at all)
I love this site and plan on using it as long as it's running. It's very free of hostility, which is great for a creative environment. I think that user was slowly becoming hostile, so I'm grateful he decided to leave (though he could have as easily just taken a break) rather than drag anyone else down with him.
A bit of a shame, but there's not much that could have gone differently, let alone better. (besides him taking a deep breath, metaphorically).
Ironically, his idea about only using proper nouns for words mattering wasn't half bad, and I would have said so, too.
Yeah. It seems like they took any critical response as a personal attack. A forum build around critiquing things is the absolute wrong place for them to be
@Froggy
I think feeling like you only get negative comments is a result of human nature. People are most likely to comment if 1) a design has glaring mistakes that they know how to "correct," or 2) a design is interesting, but has a slight issue they have advice about, or 3) a design is very cool and eye-catching. Cards that are fine, but not interesting, don't tend to draw comments.
Then there's the fact that we tend to remember negative things more prominently than positive, so all of the negative comments we receive tend to stand out more in our minds, in addition to being easier for commentators to make.
I say "negative comments," but I don't think most comments on this site are negative. In fact, such comments are very rare, though there's a few posters that come across that way for me. I think most people think of their criticism as positive, constructive, and informative. When I say something, at least, that's the intent.
Did I ever interact with this person? Who the heck are they?
Sounds like the site is better off without them.
Nah fuck that. I'm just gonna give up. Easier than trying to drill an original thought into these peoples heads. Goodbye.
I don't think you're stupid. I understand that feeling though, when I started making cards what felt like all of them either got no comments, or someone saying I made a mistake.
I took the advice and kept going, because I wanted to learn more about design and to make high quality cards. If you feel that way too, then it's important that you recognize criticism on this site is very rarely ever against a card's creator, it's almost always about the card design.
If your goal isn't to learn more about Magic design, and you just want to make cards you enjoy (which is okay, too), then you could consider making your cardsets private (it's in the cardsets option page). Of course, only administrators would be able to see them, but it does give you a place to make cards 'in peace'.
Now, perhaps your comment was more about how you feel in real life, in which case, I can't offer any advice to you. I'm a 17 year old mess who knows nothing about anything (except Magic the Gathering and a few other games), but from what I've heard, talking to people is a good start.
Best wishes :)