https://goldkin.dreamwidth.org/ Goldkin's Journal: Musings of the Shiny Lizard - Dreamwidth Studios Sun, 15 Jul 2012 12:04:49 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios goldkin personal https://v2.dreamwidth.org/853637/480682 https://goldkin.dreamwidth.org/ 100 100 https://goldkin.dreamwidth.org/35844.html Sun, 15 Jul 2012 12:04:49 GMT https://goldkin.dreamwidth.org/35844.html Did you know that I've started to play Magic: The Gathering again after an 18-year hiatus? <a href="http://plus.google.com/117802717587572173130/posts/UYJjreE2mVp">It's true!</a>*<br /><br />Saving the long conversation for a short sound bite: it's amazing to me that a fantasy card game I played in grade school became a worldwide institution for adults. And now, as something of a self-taught computer scientist, the idea of a combinatorics-based strategy game with a legal computational model makes for fascinating study, which back then, my then-9-year-old self could only begin to fathom.<br /><br />I wish I'd had the opportunity to study Magic in the interim. It would have been just the clue I needed that, maybe, this whole computer science thing might be right for me.<br /><br /><br /><font size="1">* Some restrictions apply. Duals of the Planeswalkers doesn't <i>quite</i> count, especially when you play two games and shelve it again for a year.</font><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=goldkin&ditemid=35844" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://goldkin.dreamwidth.org/35844.html math nerd mtg sleepy public 0