Please Stop

Begged, stole and borrowed
Still it haunts
Forgive me please
For i can not forget

The Countdown to None

Inanity before insanity
the calm before the storm
the last stand before the fall
to resurrection
to realizations

Crossing Fate

Incinerated,

shocked
and burned out.
One option left
(No quitting yet)
Question everything!
Counter all!

"Kras" of Rhinos

Another day. Another Magic: The Gathering reference. (Plus am enjoying this too much really as the possibilities of a Magic-life Magic-love Magic-anything analogies are endless...)
(Quick little note: Did you know that the anagram of anything is ___-thing?)

Last time it was about the card name and card (dis)abilities. For this entry we go to another Magic card feature this time about their flavor text. Flavor texts are basically quotes written in some Magic cards just below the card abilities. They don't have an effect to the game-play, but they sure have an effect to the player and how they like the card. (Like even if the card has bad abilities and too much casting cost, they still will keep it because of the humorous or witty flavor text)

Crash of Rhinos, a green creature card has this one for its flavor text (Better yet, read the card):

"Love is like a rhino, short-sighted and hasty; if it cannot find a way, it will make a way."

No explanation needed really. Read between the lines. Or better yet, read between the flavor text.

Unstable Mutation

That in a gist is the definition of the state of being drunk. Three buckets of San Mig Light should do you in. Or a trio of Red Horse Beer jumbo should put you away. Or a bottle of tequila could bring you to the depths of hell and the bliss of heaven--- at the same time of course. Try it out, lose a grip and grab a bottle or two, and you will know what i mean.

In Magic: The Gathering terms (Unstable Mutation, the card on the left) is an Enchant Creature type of card. For the innocent Magic is a card game wherein you basically become the errrr... magician. With various card types, you can cast creatures, create spells etcetera etcetera. Now if you are really interested with the game might as well go to the official site: www.wizardsofthcoast.com. i want to explain further but it would be too complicated. Much more complicated than explaining Unstable Mutation, the state of being drunk.

To continue the analogy, after your personal limits of alcohol, you basically gain a bit of confidence. (Target creature gains +3/+3) Call it temporary reprieve from modesty and the unintentional omission of humility. This is where the fun begins. From personal experience the +3/+3 part was manifested in what i believe (even before alcohol sets in) what lacks in me. Suddenly, i feel i am 6 foot 2. Suddenly, i am the crazed action star who do his own stunts. Suddenly, i feel i can jump off rooftops. Suddenly, i just become a little more stupid than usual. The end result is never pretty: Not-so-baby gash inside your left arm plus one half-inch scar just at the top of your forehead to remind you of the battle with temporary insanity and full stupidity.

But it's not all negative you see. For stupidity has seen better days and stupidity might as well be the root of a real productive day. i can remember a few articles and pieces i have written were of quality in spite of the alcohol-infested brain. i know i am a better conversationalist after a Red Horse or two; i know i am a better at NBA Live Playstation after a single beer (There are limits, at three or four bottles i could be heaving half court shots already, by accident of course); i am not sure if i am a better person after a case or so, but heck i am pretty sure you'll be impressed and depressed by the genius and stupid in me, not respectively...

Going back to the analogy... After the drinking session, it's where the emotion ride begins. (Each round, put a -1/-1 counter on the creature during it's controller's upkeep) Where over-thinking overrules emotions and where over-feeling out-pace the overall thought process. At first you can handle it because you were off an emotional high (for the lack of better phrase)... You can even understand and accept the downgrade because well, you quite expected it... Then it hits you. Suddenly, you feel nothing (In Magic that's 0/0) and simply, dead. (In Magic, it's the same word)

That wasn't even the bad news because the next sentence says: These counters remain even if this enchantment is removed before the creature dies. Ouch. Drink moderately.

(Enough analogy for the day, i am starting to realize it's not even alcohol that has the closest comparison to the Unstable Mutation card)