Techokami

yeah they pretty much ruined it

there are 348 alt arts of every single card now so game stores have no idea how to stock anything

Obligatory ‘you can do like us over here in Netrunner land where we just took the game over with volunteers doing anticapitalist game design and then put queers in charge of story’ remark here.

proxy bans are really funny because if the community wanted to, they could tell them to fuck off. but the reality is many of these communities desperately want the financial & non-financial support of the manufacturer for their tournaments and events

proxies are a thing for tabletop minis too apparently

You just described Balatro

yeah I don't get it either. it's fun to play like casually with friends where you're just using whatever deck someone had around and splitting it randomly

but the competitive level is pay-to-win (or, at least, pay to stand a chance of winning) except people still talk about it like it's chess

FWIW holding on to pieces of paper because you expect them to have value to other people is the value proposition of money.

I don’t mention this to give card collecting any undue esteem. I mention it because sometimes it’s worth remembering that money is fake, and I think people who use money for speculation (i.e. instead of using it to buy things or pay their bills) are weird too.

I have a friend who doesn't like it and refers to it as "Tragic: the Saddening".

good idea. except having to sleeve 108 cards to play rummy, but they are getting worn out and an eight of clubs is missing.

i could just print my own then and sleeve it.

but won’t that make the deck stupidly thick?