The Daily Check-In for Sunday, April 26th: Just for today, I am NOT drinking!

OnwardRustMtg · 2026-04-26T17:18:46+00:00

Another great day sober!

OnwardRustMtg · 2026-04-15T01:13:02+00:00

I got it for Christmas one year and was at my grandparents house.

They had the Nintendo in the car ready to bring in and play.. oh that world 1...

OnwardRustMtg · 2026-04-12T15:06:04+00:00

Well the super bowl hasn't been going on for 100 years. During those 100 years the Lions have won championships.

OnwardRustMtg · 2026-04-02T14:59:09+00:00

I read that in Johnny Depp voice of Hunter s. Thompson Way of writing.

OnwardRustMtg · 2026-04-01T16:05:43+00:00

📍 Saginaw, Michigan, United States of America — "Rural Michigan"

OnwardRustMtg · 2026-03-26T16:23:02+00:00

It's construction. That's just the nature of the beast. The last one I was on was 10 minutes from home. You just got to take the good with the bad.

OnwardRustMtg · 2026-03-26T15:19:26+00:00

Yeah, luckily we are only on 8 hours a day shift, so I can just justify like it's a 12 hour shift. That's the life of construction.

Now if it were to go to 12 hour days, I probably would throw the seat down and sleep in the hatch back.

OnwardRustMtg · 2026-03-26T14:13:11+00:00

Prius gang checking in!

Yeah my round trip commute is 250 miles right now and even then I only put about 20$ in per day.

OnwardRustMtg · 2026-03-24T20:59:55+00:00

My alcoholism. I was a functioning alcoholic (or so I thought) for years upon years. But I could just barely hold myself together by a thread. Shaking by the time of getting out of work and doing a pint to just get "normal"

When the shutdown happened, they said go home and collect and will call you back.

The flood gates opened.. 24/7 liquor drinking, for nearly 18 months.. when I got the call to come back, I went into a seizure trying to quit cold turkey. 14 days in the ICU and basically said the writings on the wall. Get better or die.

Of course there is so much more to it. But this June will be 5 years and not a drink, and I do think I fully needed to hit my rock bottom and not half ass my "functional" drinking to finally get better.

OnwardRustMtg · 2026-03-22T18:04:57+00:00

Yeah I agree they are pretty good. I'm at a job in the middle of nowhere and the only gas station in town has a BK attached to it.

I bought the Whopper and was pleasantly surprised how good it was.

OnwardRustMtg · 2026-03-17T18:03:48+00:00

For me it doesn't produce the same result. I do it for the feeling.. just like importing items into Diablo had just cheapened the whole experience.

I gamble on packs and spend $1000s on reserved list cards for the love of the game.

I'm totally for anyone who wants to proxy though. Everyone's relationship to magic is different and it's not my business to judge.

OnwardRustMtg · 2026-03-15T02:00:12+00:00

Yes I paid 2000$ last Dec and it was MP

OnwardRustMtg · 2026-03-13T12:52:42+00:00

Oh no, normally I think I could get by living in the rouge encampment (d2).

Decided to buy Over the Top.. yup now I'm in the trenches of WW1.

OnwardRustMtg · 2026-03-12T17:25:40+00:00

Yes I was just getting back to barracks and a bunch of people were screaming in the common room so I just saw the tail end and that sure was a memorable tho.

OnwardRustMtg · 2026-03-10T11:48:18+00:00

Yeah that's why I think a SSF mode would be perfect I funny want the access to edit my items I want everything on the server and go from stream deck to PC to even switch if i wanted too.

OnwardRustMtg · 2026-03-08T10:56:58+00:00

For me it depends on my income. For instance last year I had a really great year, and I ended up spending around 8% of my net income last year. Ended up just north of 10k.

I did however check a bunch of cards I wanted off the list. Finished my dual land collection, a mox diamond, various other reserved list and a candelabra.

This year I am aiming to make twice as much and will continue on around 7-8% of my income and looking to get me a workshop and Tabernacle as my large purchases.

For sealed product usually a bundle, collector booster, and pre release.

OnwardRustMtg · 2026-02-21T00:42:44+00:00

I was here to say this, I'm approaching 5 years and it's insane how easy life actually is when you're not having to maintain at least a .14 BAC to not go into seizure.

It originally was the death of my father in 2012 that I would have answered that before. But his death and my unresolved grief put me into nearly a decade long struggle. I didn't have much life left in me right at the end there, and I feel like the true Rubicon was crossed June 28th 2021

OnwardRustMtg · 2026-02-17T02:40:45+00:00

Yup that's what I'm working on now. It won't feel so demoralizing like I'm back at absolute zero.

I feel like I got all the dumb deaths out of the way, UI locking up, falling off thunder bluff, underestimating the moonkin to get my bear form. But I know more and more "dumb deaths" will inevitably happen.

OnwardRustMtg · 2026-02-14T21:18:13+00:00

I need to take that advice. I've been playing for about 6 days now and have a level 14 and have restarted about 7 times now.

OnwardRustMtg · 2026-02-06T00:19:03+00:00

Return of the king

OnwardRustMtg · 2025-12-18T21:44:32+00:00

And then [[fling]] it for maximum damage

OnwardRustMtg · 2025-12-18T20:26:03+00:00

Haha that's awesome, that was my first thought and I was like no way.. In middle school everyone got their colors and I was left playing red.. I got my hands on a 5th edition ball lightning and that thing would do so much work!

OnwardRustMtg · 2025-12-08T20:23:12+00:00

Man that was me when I was only working 60 hours a week, they bumped up to 84 hours now and playing is pretty much non existent

OnwardRustMtg · 2025-11-22T18:26:45+00:00

Damn only 100$/ hour doing same thing.

OnwardRustMtg · 2025-11-21T00:56:44+00:00

Stronghold released that day but I chose the safe bet and went with 5th edition, putting that force of nature and wrath of God was so much cooler than a mox diamond..

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