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No, the mentalist's job - his actual job - is to put on a really good show and to convince people they didn't buy $80 tickets for nothing. If he can convince you he's honestly, super honestly real? A real psychic? He's doing a great job! But it's by no means a requisite. Maybe what you're...

You know, I've also heard it as a metaphor for sexually transmitted diseases which were a problem at the time. Chuck Palahniuk talked about it at a lecture once.

You know what? I'm interested in lust here. I want to see lust portrayed. Mostly because I'm a very sexy man. But also, also because I'm interested in seeing it in as minimalistic of elements as possible. Bare-bones. I'm thinking of something that people can see, and they know right away it's...

Yeah, but more of the indie game community than D&D. We're still talking roleplaying, rolling dice and what have you, but things like Dogs in the Vineyard, and sometimes White Wolf's stuff. I've always loved Orks, especially GW's Orks. The customization alone seems endless, what with the...

A lone Ork Warboss. I bought primer and paints and glue and a codex and some flock and some spare bits and some brushes, and looked in my wallet and said, "**** this." To be fair, he came out looking awesome. Later on, I bought one of those battlebox Necron sets because I heard they...

He speaks the truth.

"I do not restrict myself to mindreading effects when I am performing in the real world. Enough magicians have asked me about the wisdom of combining magic and mindreading in performance. No lay participant in my effects has ever queried this ... I work to combine magic and mindreading with...

Does it really? I wasn't aware we were rating deaths based on how important we judged the people to be. I'll remember that next time some close family dies. Hell, they're not even "somewhat known," shouldn't matter at all to me, right? The age-range of this forum is really showing...

So what's he supposed to do, say it a thousand times a day, every day? Personally acknowledge all deaths ever? Is he not allowed to say something about it unless he mourns everyone? You're really, really going to say his, "It's terrible that someone died," is ridiculous and mean-spirited...

In saying "It's magic," you can also say it's different things. Like, it's a disgusting skill of the body, or it's NLP, or whatever. If you choose to commit to that road, you don't have to describe it as magic wands and sparkles. It just needs to be something extraordinary. If you want...

Cheap shot comparing Wayne to Criss, on any front. Currently, Criss has hammed it up so bad that no presentation in the world will save him. And, okay, you don't need, like, some storybook fable to accompany your magic. Get too heavy-handed with that, and it will bore the audience to tears...

Let me just make sure I have this right: you're saying the Loops, thumbtip, and Raven you bought were useless? We're talking standard utility items that many, many magicians use to create a number of routines? I don't know, it seems more like you bought a wealth of material and then kept...

I'm not saying Lemon's presentation was flawless, or even good (because I didn't see it), but I wish that whenever someone says, "This trick or this performance didn't work out," that everyone would stop immediately jumping to the conclusion that their presentation must have been horrible...

"because it's amazing and entertaining" isn't motivation for something. It's the stock answer given by people who can't put their tricks into context. Making a card rise to the top, or making something vanish, all that, they don't have context and meaning until you apply it. They're mechanics...

Lots of truth here, which is why I always approach the conversation so caustically, expecting this to be the other side. RD, if this isn't you, then I don't think we're on opposite sides of the playing field after all.

I see what you're saying. At the same time, though, I'm not agreeing. I can see lots of other objects and routines which have a lot of room for a variety of scripts, improvisation, and different presentational hooks (and we're talking about just the objects themselves, obviously, not the...

It seems like you're saying, with cards, it's easier to form a connection with the audience, and I'd like to know why that's so. Are you saying there's an innate connectability built in? That somehow people can see cards and immediately feel more at ease with you, or what? For all this talk...

Speedcubing, writing, role-playing (tabletop), Indian / Middle-eastern cooking, board games (Puerto Rico!), mostly.

Sure, but what about calling yourself supernatural not to put yourself on a pedestal, but to create a sense of immersion and wonder? Doing it responsibly, ethically, and with theater in mind?

For the same reason that Elijah Wood put on a tunic and some prosthetic feet, learned elvish, and went on a mystical journey to destroy an enchanted ring crafted by an evil warlord. None of that's real, and we know that. But boy is it entertaining! And to some people, it's even an example of...