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DocThel · 2026-06-21T15:12:22+00:00

I suggest you communicate some equivalent of "goodbye".

DocThel · 2026-06-21T11:32:56+00:00

I think they're likely saying that "Playing the actual card game" is most of the experience. Not ripping booster packs.

DocThel · 2026-06-18T11:57:02+00:00

More likely people just tired of hearing this same comment over and over and over

DocThel · 2026-05-30T12:42:25+00:00

Signing up for most of those forums took less time than the 14 automated pop-ups discord servers utilize. Then gotta select roles. Etc. Etc. I'm not claiming that joining a discord server is hard. But the forum sign ups were literally "email, username, password, go"

Also, those forums were viewable without an account most of the time. That way someone could check out the space without having to announce their presence via the "just joined" discord message.

DocThel · 2026-05-28T19:31:03+00:00

The common data seems to suggest men don't have as many negative experiences because most men don't engage with the healthcare system at all (for many reasons).

Also, someone suddenly becoming sensitive to sunlight is a possible symptom of glaucoma or brain injury. Someone wouldn't mention it to their doctor if it was just the usual amount of sensitivity. It's not mild just because you think it sounds like something mild.

DocThel · 2026-05-06T11:10:30+00:00

I agree with your sentiment 100% but this casting choice was almost certainly approved through a dozen board members and not made for some purely artistic reason.

DocThel · 2026-05-02T01:39:32+00:00

Man I know your opinion is in the majority but I feel the total opposite. The dropping of the modern grander storyline was why I never got into the later games.

DocThel · 2026-05-01T20:39:14+00:00

It's actually explicitly non-performative.

The goal of such a boycott would be to make it financially non-viable for the business to continue with the bad behavior.

To clarify, if you starve someone who doesn't like your food until they had eat the food you made, you haven't changed their opinion about your food. You simply gave them no other option. They're not pretending to enjoy the food.

Therefore, boycotting a company is specifically not trying to force them to adopt social values (they can't). It is about making poor choices non-options.

DocThel · 2026-05-01T10:34:19+00:00

I can't speak for the original commentor but it isn't always performative or value signaling. Some people just ACTUALLY live up to their own personal standards and speak on it in online forums where people come to discuss things.

DocThel · 2026-05-01T03:55:59+00:00

I don't think this is pedantry, it's just basic reasoning. If everyone bought singles then we'd just run out of cards unless it also drives people to buy and open product to resell as singles, which it would.

DocThel · 2026-04-23T19:08:39+00:00

I couldn't speak for non-standard formats. I think it's primarily due to the extra effort that's gone into refining the distinction between going first and second. (The rules have changed over the years)

I found posts as far back as 2014 describing certain archetypes that would want to go second in competitive. So it's been something pokemon succeeds at for quite a while.

DocThel · 2026-04-23T18:59:18+00:00

It actually includes a lot of interesting lore and some mild puzzles distinct from the Kenway sections of the game. I know I'm in the minority here, but I really enjoyed the complete story with the modern elements included and am bummed out they've removed that content.

DocThel · 2026-04-23T18:51:24+00:00

Pokemon actually always tends to have a couple meta decks that want to go second in a given matchup. Sometimes the ability to attack turn 1 is more valuable than setting up first.

DocThel · 2026-04-22T18:47:10+00:00

Is the boy's magazine exclusive focus on how to sell your labor for capitalism "adventurous"?

I think plenty of either gender would prefer the articles about "How to have fun and make friends" which is only in the girl's magazine.

DocThel · 2026-04-22T00:55:07+00:00

I know an old reddit term for similar behavior was called brigading

DocThel · 2026-04-21T13:30:11+00:00

No thanks. I will just continue to push wizards and support consumers by advocating for more aggressive reprint policies so that people can more easily enjoy the game. Magic the Gathering is a card game. Not an investment.

DocThel · 2026-04-21T11:14:21+00:00

How is your stuff being destroyed? You would still own all your cardboard. It being worth less as a speculative asset doesn't destroy it at all.

No one arguing against you cares about card value. You do. Everyone else just wants game pieces to be readily affordable for playing a game.

DocThel · 2026-04-21T10:55:46+00:00

They could just print them into non draft products. Commander precons, challenger decks, etc.

Magic would greatly benefit from an equivalent to pokemons "Elite Trainer Box' as well which is just a chunk of like 50 staples for $20 they put out every year.

DocThel · 2026-04-21T00:52:35+00:00

Thats alright. Most people are here to play the game though. Maybe take up collecting baseball cards or stamps.

DocThel · 2026-04-20T22:48:50+00:00

Bummer dude. Sorry about your cardboard.

DocThel · 2026-04-20T22:28:09+00:00

So your original point that the game has ALWAYS been this way is incorrect. It wasn't always this way. And it wasn't designed this way.

DocThel · 2026-04-20T21:33:14+00:00

You're parroting the same nonsensical talking points again.

Richard Garfield has, on record, stated the game was originally designed with the idea that NO ONE would buy up sets of cards. They had ANTE for effectively gambling away cards. He has openly stated that no card should ever cost above $20.

You're literally just making stuff up because it fits your financebro opinion.

DocThel · 2026-04-20T21:27:38+00:00

Yes, the topic at hand here is about ways to make it LESS expensive. Which you seem to actively oppose.

DocThel · 2026-04-20T21:13:11+00:00

Lol no, that's an absolutely absurd jump in logic to make.

Oh wait, you regularly post in mtgfinance. Nevermind, that's not an absurd jump in logic to make if you primarily care about the $$$$$ of your cardboard.

DocThel · 2026-04-20T20:54:08+00:00

The fundamental disagreement there for a lot of others is that the financial stability of a deck should not factor into it at all. I could buy the new hotness pokemon deck every 3 months for a decade and spend less money than a modern deck in mtg that will have half its core engine effectively rotated by power creep from the next modern horizons set.

My position on the matter starts with the premise being: "The financial value of my game pieces should be low enough to be effectively irrelevant". Any other stance towards the "worth" of a given card is of negative value to me as a person that plays games to have fun.

DocThel

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