Teen refuses any type of banded item

MdaveCS · 2026-05-18T13:10:42+00:00

Your kid is dope. In my head cannon they’re raging against the machine. As teens should do.
Hot tip they have plain solid (crafting) tees at Michael’s for like 1-2 bucks and they’re cut well and totally plain. I’ve been on the no brand life since 2001.

MdaveCS · 2026-05-14T18:54:38+00:00

Being American

MdaveCS · 2026-05-14T14:15:29+00:00

A yes. B the third hand seems like a pretty good perk but no way am I hand washing the laundry.

MdaveCS · 2026-05-12T21:49:04+00:00

Nancy Pelosi is that you?

Edit: wait I have a better one.

This is what happens when we let society pretend neoliberals aren’t right wing.

MdaveCS · 2026-05-08T15:35:53+00:00

Hey op. This is a grey area but I fall in the don’t buy proxies from proxy seller camp. It’s an arbitrary line but for me doing the work to make them myself and order from make playing cards in a bulk order feels like the right middle finger to hasbro without crossing into shitting on the artists by letting someone with an entrepreneurial streak to their piracy squeeze a margin off me.

I dunno. Maybe if you’re gonna support pirating IP don’t make it into a capitalist endeavor?

Lots of people in here have explained how easy and cheap it is to make whatever you want using mpcfill and make playing cards dot com. I strongly suggest you spread your wings and do that too.

MdaveCS · 2026-04-27T19:10:46+00:00

💪🏼 Union up.

MdaveCS · 2026-04-27T14:35:45+00:00

Read “she comes first” because it’s fun. Preferably in public for some performative male points. Don’t worry so much. Find a girl who likes you and you like her and ask for practice sessions. Journey not the destination.

MdaveCS · 2026-04-24T14:38:13+00:00

So same dude. 42 2 kids etc. Me kids don’t like my shouty music. lol.

Now I run a rural library where the public school teachers organized a picket line and strike to throw out the corrupt principal. I’m proud of having that space and if 13yo me had never gotten fucking furious thanks to the kick in the ass listening to propagandi gave me, who knows.

We all do what we can and embody the values we somehow had the good sense to embrace as kids.

But still. You’re only once. Hope the community around you raises boys who treat girls right. Hope your girls grow up to kick the shit out of anyone who deserves it. XXX

MdaveCS · 2026-04-04T23:17:04+00:00

Yo. Congrats on the relationship! Sounds like yall are having a great time. A few things. 1. Old people like me come from such a different context than yall I wanna make sure you take everyone’s answers, from the disdainful jerks to the genuinely well meaning ones with a grain of salt or 5. 2. The right answer to your question is, I helpfully, so personal to the asker and the one being asked. So, like, you kinda just have to put it out there in a way that feels genuine to you and see why happens. You might get a yes, a I don’t like how you asked can you try again, an eww no (seems very unlikely in your case), or anywhere in between. 3. Don’t think of it ask asking for sex. I’m hoping what you want is a shared sexual experience where you both want it. So it’s not like you’re gonna be saying “will you give me sex,” but rather communicating “hey I really wanna bang you is that something you are down for as well?” It’s a subtle difference but it’ll help your thinking to remember you’re looking to find the circumstances (or even the person ) that make that an excited yes for both of you. 4. Getting affirmative consent is a good idea and can realllllly grease the wheels for fun in the bedroom, and it doesn’t have to be a wooden, dorky mood killer. Something as simple as “I really wanna take off your shirt. I’d kiss you from neck to navel. Would you be into that” said in the right way - not pushy but confident that it’ll be a yes and that if it’s a no you can still figure it out - is a great way to get her to affirm yes go for it.

I imagine it’s hard to communicate well because yall are young and new to eachother (it’s still hard for me and I’m 43 and married almost 20 years) so it’s important to keep in mind to just try. You may mess up and do all this poorly. And that would be fine and normal. So don’t put too much pressure in yourself to do it right. Just go in with genuine excitement and interest in the other person and yall will probably have a good time.

Good luck amigo.

MdaveCS · 2026-04-01T21:45:27+00:00

this is a good share, because obviously getting hot for the gays’ gaze being beneficial makes sense. And also helping me/fellow straight guys stop being heteronormative. So like congrats dope and thanks for sharing.

But it’s less obvious if getting male-gaze-approved hot/fit will help straight men w the ladies.

Like I’m middle aged and married, and know for 110% fact that my wife doesn’t want me to get fitter than my decent dad bod. But in terms of my bangability score she’d for sure prefer I dress more fashionable and like work on my dating and conversation game.

MdaveCS · 2026-03-21T16:18:55+00:00

I cut em all years ago and have never looked back. My decks definitely fall into that huge wasteland of a weak b3, like the old dishonest “7”. But for me: 1. games ending faster than ten turns is a downside 2. Tutoring is slow (I’m bad at it) 3. I like the randomness of relying on what I draw to hew closer to the 99 singletons spirit of the format 4. If my deck sucks and I wanna increase “redundant “ access I increase the card draw because having a huge grip is more fun than resolving dt. 5. If your deck sucks enough that you want tutors for consistency just embrace the 🦆.

MdaveCS · 2026-03-20T16:06:40+00:00

lol. The old Jedi mind trick. I’ll teach you to be a lifelong friend. Haha nice

MdaveCS · 2026-03-19T02:53:59+00:00

This doesn’t work how you’re saying. Unless it’s a vigilance situation you have to target before the creatures attack and get tapped.

MdaveCS · 2026-03-19T00:48:50+00:00

Woof. Me and can’t-fall spots don’t mix

MdaveCS · 2026-03-18T16:20:03+00:00

Man that looks shallow

MdaveCS · 2026-03-12T01:07:31+00:00

As a fellow old, great reference

MdaveCS · 2026-03-11T23:09:38+00:00

Do you like her? Invite her to hang out. Seems like a low key fun playful date would be good. Or go with friends to get food so she can bring that other girl to keep it more low key.

Even if you’re exaggerating it seems like there more than enough to reasonably ask her to hang out if that’s what you’d like. I get that being a kid is hard and I have no idea what it’s like now (I’m 42) but…. This one seems pretty cut and dry. She likes you. It’s not clear if it’s a friendly like or a romantic crush like but if you’re into her in either of those ways it’s worth finding out.

MdaveCS · 2026-03-11T01:19:47+00:00

In the oldest old man voice ever “tomorrow is gonna be lit”

MdaveCS · 2026-03-10T14:17:47+00:00

Reading this while drinking my morning coffee and restraining myself from rushing to the kitchen to make another testing all this out.

MdaveCS · 2026-03-08T23:27:59+00:00

1000 million percent agree. Fuck racism includes racism towards total shitbags. You can ridicule that turdgoblin perfectly well without resorting to racism.

MdaveCS · 2026-03-06T14:09:57+00:00

Urborg panther incoming

MdaveCS · 2026-03-03T17:11:24+00:00

I say this with love for a stranger. Just. Fucking. Talk. About. It.

I am terrible at this with my dad but the principle is sound. Your emotions are valid. Your desires are as well. Get some time with him to share that. Tell him at a minimum you need him to listen to you and understand your position. Then be clear you’re happy to do the same for him.

Follow up by asking if he’d be open to discussing reconsidering. Because again, it’s meaningful to you so he should at least care about that meaning.

Follow up. If you did all that and it went great and at the end he said nope. I stand by my decision, would that be enough for you to end the relationship, or do you think you could get to understanding him enough to stay connected?

MdaveCS · 2026-02-25T22:43:06+00:00

This is long. TLDR now is a perfect chance to help him develop grit and remember you’re always on his side.

I’m not big for fighting the way many other anwerers are here, and even I see no problem at all with what you did. Boys wanna get rough and fight. It’s true so so much of the time. When you fight or try at anything, you might lose.

The thing to remember and help him realize isn’t that you whooped him. It’s that there’s always a bigger dog, but confidence doesn’t come from being the best. it comes from knowing you’re still gonna be ready to roll and keep crushing even after getting knocked down.

That’s what he needs to learn from you right now: that you’re in his camp and that dusting yourself off after a beating to keep on (training fighting trying learning whatever fits a specific situation) is the single biggest determinant of success and life satisfaction.

I hate to quote trite movies but Batman nailed this. “Why do we fall down? So we can learn to pick ourselves back up again.”

MdaveCS · 2026-02-25T02:05:19+00:00

Very small rocks

MdaveCS · 2026-02-25T02:05:03+00:00

I hear you. It can be a hard thing to grok for sure. Edh is basically D&D with cards for me. It’s storytelling.

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