{"id":8720,"date":"2016-01-11T01:19:40","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T09:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/?p=8720"},"modified":"2017-12-02T19:46:15","modified_gmt":"2017-12-03T03:46:15","slug":"eviler-than-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unwisdom.org\/chadspace\/?p=8720","title":{"rendered":"Eviler than Before"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been learning how to play Magic the Gathering<\/a> \"icon-external-link-12x12\" \"icon-search-12x12\" for quite a while now, but sometimes I get distracted by the horrible names on the cards and then have a hard time keeping track of what’s going on in the game. Usually they are just silly—Fleshbag Marauder<\/a> \"icon-external-link-12x12\" \"icon-search-12x12\", Infectious Bloodlust<\/a> \"icon-external-link-12x12\" \"icon-search-12x12\", Macabre Waltz<\/a> \"icon-external-link-12x12\" \"icon-search-12x12\" and the like—but every once in a while a card enters your hand that is trying way<\/em> too hard and doing everything wrong, like the Cruel Sadist<\/em> card:<\/p>\n

\"Eviler<\/a><\/p>\n

This is very entertaining to me because they use “sadist” as if it’s a neutral word that requires further categorization; like if you’re a pronounced sadist you could still be invited to join a Christian book club, run your own care center for the elderly, or succeed in adopting a child. Imagine how personal introductions might read if this were true: “Hi, my name is Chad! I am six feet tall, I enjoy listening to music, I play guitar, I like to program computers, and I am a sadist. Would you care to go to a Hawaiian barbecue with me?”<\/p>\n

The name also implies that there are different flavors of sadists: “good sadists” and “bad sadists”—or I guess in this case, “kind sadists”. A kind sadist must be a person who brings the victim flowers before running over his dog and smashing his fingers in a car door seventeen times.<\/p>\n

Maybe it’s just me, but it seems like Wizards of the Coast<\/a> \"icon-external-link-12x12\" \"icon-search-12x12\" are reaching a bit. It wouldn’t surprise me if one of these days they start releasing cards with names like Psychotic Psycho<\/em>, Badgering Badger<\/em>, or Mad Madman<\/em>. Actually, it wouldn’t surprise me if these cards already exist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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