Louisiana Gamers and Magic players?

[Doom]

Hiyas!

This is Rick Moscatello...any Louisiana gamers out there?

Also, did you, or anyone you know play Magic in the New Orleans area in the 90s? Bleiweiss has been blogging the most amazing smack and rubbish about his alleged skillz and popularity around here during that era, and I reckon it's time to call him out. I can track down most of the shop owners and such, but the more the merrier, after all. ;)

Laterz,

Rick

[Michael Mikaelian]

Doom wrote:

Bleiweiss has been blogging the most amazing smack and rubbish about his alleged skillz and popularity around here during that era, and I reckon it's time to call him out.

I've seen Ben in action, and I can believe that he's capable of laying down a considerable amount of smack (and certainly provide accompanying smack talk). Whether his actual claims are true or not I can't attest to.

Ben did, however, build a Star Wars TCG deck that contributed to the neutering of Shot in the Dark (Effect card; "Lose 1 Force to draw card." Usuable ad nauseum) and opened my eyes to pure power of Imperial Supply (Used or Lost Interrupt; "USED: Lose 1 Force to activate 2 Force. LOST: Lose 1 Force to activate 4 Force."; destiny 4 too!).

Oh yeah, and he can be, um, loud.

[Doom]

Oh, I'm not saying he's a bad player or anything like that (although it seems like every time I saw him, he was wailing about being on one losing streak after another...I always presumed, much like the judges around here, he scored his wins somewhere else).

Thing is, he writes like he was a popular and loved guy, and I sure don't recall it that way.

He may well have been the most despised player in New Orleans (which is saying something, I assure you); I gamed with him for over a year before anyone referred to him by his first name, it was always "Bleiweiss", he was held in such disrespect--he certainly returned same, saying things that don't bear repeating. Folks started calling him 'Diarrhea' after an article he wrote, more or less boasting of his dubious prowess on the activity, and he left for greener pastures later.

But now he's calling folks, by name, cheaters and such in his blog...I know, he's hardly relevant enough to spend the time on tracking down other people to see if I've gone a bit senile on the subject, but it's darn annoying to have him say such things about my friends (he even slopped some vitriol on me, with an eense of truth to it, I concede).

Oh yeah, gotta go find cool things for you. :)

Take care,

Rick