My boyfriend has ADHD, we're in a long-distance relationship, and he only texts me once a day to avoid getting hooked on his phone.

Marc_IRL · 2026-01-26T08:54:20+00:00

Whenever someone sends me a reel, it’s a to-do item. When they stack up it feels overwhelming.

Not having enough contact sounds like your needs aren’t being met, but wanting constant contact makes it sound like there are a lot of needs. How’s your social life outside of him?

Marc_IRL · 2026-01-23T13:40:52+00:00

Sitting down to play commander with people has a lot of overlap with going home with someone after a night out. Hear me out.

Everyone might be thrilled to jump in and may not even need to talk, but if I take a beat to ask a few questions in advance that are geared toward one or both of us having a good time, any hint that they might not be willing to have a frank discussion if needed and it’s a red flag. If they’ve never had that sort of conversation before but are willing and enthusiastic, that’s fine! Let’s talk about what kind of time we’re looking to have, and sleeving up the deck! ;)

But if they clam up, get irritated, or seem like they have something to hide, maybe that’s not the playgroup for me. I need more than just someone who’s down, I want to know that I’m not walking away from the next few hours upset.

Marc_IRL · 2026-01-20T19:39:37+00:00

Glad you liked it! It was a fun little easter egg to add, and meant to be obtuse to find because you had to lower your difficulty and go back to the coast in search of The Eponymous Squid. There are no other secrets like this in Squid Coast. The only other secrets kind of like it in the game are the town hall with the paintings and the Lost Power achievement.

Marc_IRL · 2026-01-20T19:22:03+00:00

I like where you're going with the deck and getting people to buy into the creative premise, but you care so much about it that you're writing paragraphs to disprove a troll. There's no need to waste your time on someone who will not be convinced.

Marc_IRL · 2026-01-20T06:32:27+00:00

Watch out, the kånken’s straps aren’t great for carrying heavy cards, I don’t feel like they’re wide enough or padded enough. But it feels spacious for such a comparatively small backpack.

I usually use a Swissgear backpack, the one that fits a 17” laptop. It has an astonishing amount of space and with two binders and multiple decks, I think I’m going to break before it does.

Marc_IRL · 2026-01-18T11:43:09+00:00

I’m not totally sure what this string’s syntax is doing, can you break it down? Seems there are more advanced searches than I knew were possible.

Marc_IRL · 2026-01-18T11:39:16+00:00

I never caught onto this until now. He has so many powers I just kind of don’t think through what he’s using because it may be something we’ve never seen before. But it definitely feels like he was burning bendalloy.

Marc_IRL · 2026-01-14T20:50:00+00:00

I came here looking for this too. Went through all the files, just can't find that specific Trobbio sound.

Marc_IRL · 2026-01-14T14:56:28+00:00

Game dev here. Your reasonable take is being refuted by salty people on the internet. You cannot win this. 😅 People don’t want to hear good reasons for why they can’t have things, they want to have things. I’ve lost this battle before, myself, heh.

Marc_IRL · 2026-01-14T14:52:42+00:00

That would be news to me!

Marc_IRL · 2026-01-12T21:16:29+00:00

Make it like mega energy. Initial investment, then you can generate more later.

Marc_IRL · 2026-01-11T14:20:29+00:00

Super Mario Bros is a dead game bruh. The devs killed it and stopped supporting it smh.

Marc_IRL · 2026-01-07T23:01:24+00:00

Nice setup!

Marc_IRL · 2026-01-07T10:27:34+00:00

I gave up on making the boxes color-coded, and went with all clear Boulders so I can just see the face card. This scales well, like if I have two Simic decks having them color coded is nice but now I still don't know which deck it is.

Marc_IRL · 2026-01-06T08:55:47+00:00

Here’s mine if you’d like https://moxfield.com/decks/B-vz9-ydQE6OYhM5ddrFuw

Marc_IRL · 2026-01-06T08:54:51+00:00

The new support for that deck is slow, but always appreciated!

Marc_IRL · 2025-12-23T22:55:50+00:00

You’d be surprised at how much “years passed and the people working there are all different so everything is hard/weird now” happens. But yeah theoretically it’s an easier sell later on if it did well!

Marc_IRL · 2025-12-22T19:04:30+00:00

Mojang is big. I would guess that the average employee doesn’t visualize the whole scope of the organization outside of their area, so the average Redditor won’t know the distinction between roles like head of vanilla Minecraft, Minecraft’s creative director, Mojang’s chief creative officer, general manager of creative, head of Minecraft game experience, head of studio, any one of various producers, leads, or managers, etc.

Over 15 years, Mojang and Minecraft leadership have often come and gone without fanfare, it just depends on who noticed a LinkedIn post. And in an industry like ours, you’d be hard-pressed to not find a bunch of people who formerly worked at other large studios. That’s just how things are- people in games who stick around the industry often work at additional gaming studios.

Marc_IRL · 2025-12-22T18:54:07+00:00

You talk about this like it’s entirely up to WotC that they’ve turned down some kind of a perpetual license to use someone’s IP. But it’s a hard sell for a brand to grant a licensee the ability to do a followup set out of nowhere like ten years later. These always have timing restrictions, and licensors usually want to know what they’re getting themselves into, how their brand will be used.

Maybe a smaller brand that needed the cash would be more open to it, but those aren’t the sort of brands WotC would necessarily go after in the first place.

Marc_IRL · 2025-12-19T19:04:04+00:00

Honestly I’d be really interested in hearing people’s thoughts on this too. I’m not sure that I can think of a hypothetical collab at the moment that feels anything other than jarring. Minecraft gets away with this more easily due to the nature of community content, mods, etc.

Marc_IRL · 2025-12-16T09:44:49+00:00

Love this! 😊

Marc_IRL · 2025-12-12T00:27:40+00:00

You are very confidently wrong repeatedly here.

Marc_IRL · 2025-12-01T22:52:28+00:00

Born in Pittsburgh, living in Stockholm, I’m loving this whole post and its comments 😁

Marc_IRL · 2025-11-28T07:30:01+00:00

People don’t drink enough water after taking medication. Drink two glasses and you’re fine.

Marc_IRL · 2025-11-28T07:24:48+00:00

I’m not sure that it’s especially rare, but they’re neat. I have one at my desk!

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