For a minute I was scratching my head wondering how I missed all the Magic the Gathering coverage when I barely saw any 🤣
Reminds me of the time I spent in 2020 wondering why all the right wingers were so mad at the Bureau of Land Management.
They are mad at the Bureau of Land Management.
Basically, they’re mad at everything.
It sure would be nice if any MTG mention is promptly spammed by Magic the Gathering content and buried. I don’t even play MTG and I’d prefer to have my feed taken over by it! Fuck yeah, nerds–get your game on!
(Disclosure: I am indeed a nerd, too.)
20 years ago, I might have agreed (even if naively). Today, MTG has just turned into a cashgrab. The original game bought and bought again through acquisitions, and rare/mythic rare cards becoming the staple for competitive play driving constructed deck costs into the hundreds (sometimes thousands) of dollars. Between this and the attempted reversal of their sibling D&D’s licensing structure (particularly for content creators), I just have no more interest in participating in collecting or playing MTG. I’m nostalgic for the days we used to have big multiway matches (even predating EDH/commander) in between rounds of chess tournaments, or at the school lunch tables, but those days are never coming back. Everything about their design structure now is about extracting maximum profit from their playerbase. Arena offers one of the best CCG game clients one could ask for, but again, the design takes all the P2W gimmicks perfected over the last 2 decades: the gacha, the battle pass, the daily rewards the demand you return to play imbalanced matches again and again and again, essentially becoming the content, the dopamine hit for someone else that paid to win.
They did find the One Ring card from their new LOTR set recently. Some shop is paying $2 million euros for it. I desperately hope someone throws it into a volcano a la Mount Doom.
I noticed a BUNCH of news and politics lemmy subs were created recently, and spamming depressing shit here like they did on reddit. Like, fuck off I don’t want to see that shit!
Politics is hard to balance. Hearing about it is depressing, but not keeping up with it feels wildly irresponsible and a big reason why things are so bad.
It’s important to keep in mind your circles of control, influence, and concern in mind when reading political news. By all means keep yourself informed, but you have to pick and choose which stories you become personally invested in. Otherwise you’ll burn yourself out emotionally in no time.
