Tried a new Game Store today, they were having a big re-branding event thing. I had actually been to this place around a year ago but it was super garbage (Basically empty and the staff just wouldn't help me??) but it was much better this around. It helps that it's near a mall I used to live near so I could get my favorite chinese food of all time, and I knew other food options nearby too if I wanted something else!
A person I used to work with was there and we had talked a little bit over discord before then so that was nice to at least have one person I knew before I had even shown up. I ended up playing exclusively commander which is always disappointing (If you only play commander I'm begging you to at least try peoples cubes if they have one, or maybe just make a pauper deck, just explore other aspects of the game I beg you), and the first pod I played in seemed fine at first but then one of the players got really uncomfortably angry at the concept of Aetherflux Reservoir and started yelling and saying he doesn't like playing with people who have cards that, "Don't make sense and aren't worded right" in their decks (No one had even played a Reservoir and the card is worded fine????).
I legit was thinking of just leaving after that (It legit made me so sad cause this place is about 50 minutes away, I almost left without getting chinese food I was so bummed) but then I found another group to play with and their vibes were much better. The games in the 2nd group were alright, we had a couple 5 person commander games which are always a slog but at least people weren't being rude or spiteful.
All around about a 6.8 out of 10, it could have been worse but some people seemed interested in playing cube, and maybe if I get people to play not commander it will help open more people up to the idea. I'll at the very least give this shop a few more tries!
I was bad and did get a few stickers from the person I knew cause I like cacti (I did not know the funny tall cactus with the boxing gloves was a digimon but I love them)(The one with all the cacti in pots is for my partner ❤️.
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