Awesome Photos That Are Truly Fascinating
28 Intriguing pictures for your viewing pleasure.
Published 9 years ago in Ftw
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He had the same 45 minutes as everyone else to actually build his deck. This involved me reading out all the cards as I opened them and him letting me know whether he wanted to play them or not. A lot of the cards he’d memorised from the spoilers which sped this up a lot. He them had 2 hours to type up his sleeves, the last of which was while everyone else was deck building so that he was ready to start round one with everyone else. Richard with his printer, churning out sleeves
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The printer is surprisingly light and portable but is a completely mechanical machine that works in pretty much the same was as a traditional type writer but with fewer buttons which Richard often presses in collections in order to produce certain letters or words. Reading the sleeves to check what he’s already type
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On cards with little text he repeats the text so the whole sleeve is covered. This seres two purposes, firstly it means that his opponent can’t try and work out which cards are in his hame by the amount of text on them and secondly so that his deck is “balanced”, all the cards are the same thickness across the whole card so his deck doesn’t tilt and fall over. At a glance it’s just like any other game.
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Even with a brand new set he’d memorised most of the cards so he knew what he had in front of him with just a quick read of the card’s names. He also used dice with raised dots so that he can keep track of his own life total. The seating arrangement in the legendary McLaren F1 Supercar: One seat in the center and two to in fixed-positions on either side, so as not to disturb the weight balance. Thus the driver can experience an F1-car driving position while still carrying passengers.
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Disgusting Breyers Classic experiment – 43 hours on counter and still not melted Prior to 2006, Breyers Ice Cream was made in Wisconsin with no artificial ingredients. In 2006 corporate mega-giant Unilever bought the brand and moved its production to New Jersey and introduced artificial additives and fillers as a cost cutting measure. It’s not even called ice cream any more because they legally can’t. It’s called frozen dairy desert