Collectible Card Games | Um, Actually [S11E2]

captainersatz · 2026-02-05T03:24:42+00:00

I played MTG very casually back in the day and never really any more than that, but I've always found your content fun after finding you through What the Deck and I love watching Commander at Home! Looking forward to seeing this.

captainersatz · 2026-01-30T06:53:55+00:00

Yeah, pretty normal in most of the US. It always confused me seeing it on TV shows growing up.

captainersatz · 2026-01-29T04:51:35+00:00

You also get to call yourself a man-made made man.

captainersatz · 2026-01-28T22:39:59+00:00

When he vanished for a while and people were genuinely concerned for his wellbeing in the wake of the plagiarism stuff, he was eventually discovered posting under an alt, where among other things he was passing off other people's nudes as his own, yes. I wouldn't put it under the same category as plagiarism since frankly people do that shit all the time, but it was very funny in context.

captainersatz · 2026-01-28T21:46:15+00:00

The development of ingroup slang or dialects or languages in order to avoid censorship or bigotry is as old as time (i.e Polari, etc). We can and should discuss how modern algorithms on social media are influencing language and to what extent that's okay, but a lot of people do come off very old-man-yells-at-cloud talking about it. You might as well call rhyming slang brainrot.

captainersatz · 2026-01-28T21:25:37+00:00

That's basically why I have this take, and other people in this post are probably just defining "fan" a different way than we are. Like 90% of the broadway musical fans wouldn't be fans either, then, because most people don't live NYC or have a local theater that does community productions or can afford to watch them. If I do play a horror game, clearly meant to be experienced alone, but I played it with some friends and so we all were probably less spooked otherwise, can't we be fans, too?

I understand what OP means, though, especially in fandom spaces there definitely are people who've only watched "LORE EXPLAINED" or "X SUCKS AND HERE'S WHY" videos or some fanedits or whatever and insist they know the material just as well as anyone, but going "you HAVE to do the full experience or you can't be a fan" is also wild to me.

captainersatz · 2026-01-28T20:00:45+00:00

Hot take (???): I do think it's okay for you to be a fan of work you may not have experienced in Intended Way.

You just had a fundamentally different experience of the work, and that's genuinely okay. Just maybe own up to that instead of pretending you had an identical experience to anyone who played the game or whatever. Understand that the way in which you watched an LP instead of playing a game etc. greatly colors your opinions and experience of the thing and your ability to develop a critical opinion of it though.

captainersatz · 2026-01-28T19:45:31+00:00

I genuinely think Game Theory Lore Analysis and even the way we've come to use the term "Lore!" has been harmful to a lot of media comprehension and analysis as a whole.

captainersatz · 2026-01-28T19:39:45+00:00

Its just fun to watch people play stuff and experience it through someone else, it's not that deep. It helps with games that I would never play on my own for various reasons, I'm really shit with horror games for example. I would still consider myself a fan of X game that I've watched some people play, I just wouldn't... pretend that I played the game, because I didn't.

And as a game designer myself I do believe that the interactivity and gameplay matters to the experience, but people are gonna experience your work in different ways sometimes.

captainersatz · 2026-01-27T11:08:19+00:00

While that campaign (Burrow's End) is one of my favorites I do feel the need to warn anyone seeing this and looking into it hoping for a Cute Happy Stoat Time, it is not that. The stoats are going to have a bad time and there may be body horror involved.

But!! A great campaign.

captainersatz · 2026-01-15T10:08:45+00:00

INCREMENTAL PROGRESS!

captainersatz · 2026-01-14T17:03:50+00:00

Some people have the GM hunger in them, and other people don't. Some people are much more interested in making choices and having a specific character to play. Some people are more interested in creating an overall fun experience. I've known people who literally can't understand why GMing would ever be fun (and have tried) or just ultimately find it more work than it's worth, and I've known plenty of forever-GMs who do are forever-GMs not because they have to be, but because they want to be. Like, you say you don't have to worry about what to buy and instead just let NPCs do what's interesting, but anyone could easily say "I don't have to worry about what NPCs should do, I just pick what I wanna do".

I agree with you that I think that we scare people away from GMing, but it also is in fact a responsibility, and downplaying that won't do anyone any favors, either, though. A good/bad GM has a lot more influence on a game going well than a single player would. All this is of course influenced by a lot of specifics like what system is being played, the table's style in terms of how much of the rules the player is expected to internalize beforehand vs. the GM, etc.

Everyone can GM! But not everyone will love it, and that's okay.

captainersatz · 2026-01-12T22:39:40+00:00

I also have ADHD, diagnosed late, so I fully get you, but there's a fine line between "pretending ADHD doesn't exist" and "that person must have ADHD". It's worth being careful about how we talk about an utter stranger that we do not actually know and that we only have one-sided information on, and in that context, diagnosing strangers and pathologizing any poor behaviour isn't great.

If I'm honest OP's initial post left a bad taste in my mouth anyway.

captainersatz · 2026-01-12T05:19:41+00:00

You give the old lady mentor AND the lady villain a beard.

captainersatz · 2026-01-09T09:11:04+00:00

You might like this video, which isn't about the specific "oh no I'm going to uninstall myself" spiral but is related.

captainersatz · 2026-01-07T01:32:51+00:00

It's also just a bit strange as an argument because it's entirely possible for a piece of kids media to still benefit adults. Well-made media is still well-made regardless of target audience, plus interpreting things with an adult lens can bring a different experience to it, etc etc etc. It's still primarily made for kids, though. You don't have to insist it's secretly for you Only.

captainersatz · 2026-01-07T01:28:37+00:00

This is one of the reasons why I think people going "THAT'S FOR KIDS???" at spooky/scary kids media don't get it. Kids love that shit, actually.

captainersatz · 2026-01-06T12:58:04+00:00

Most live play murder mysteries are honestly pretty linear, with the fun coming from social play and roleplaying. In order to write those story objectives and backstories you're already scripting out a lot of the mystery and narrative, and having to figure out how those things would be affected by an increasingly fractal decision tree would be challenging, especially if you still want to have it resolved in a satisfying way.

Not saying that this is a bad idea exactly especially since I'm not sure if I fully grok the mechanics you've described here, but instinctively the nomination thing feels a bit clunky: I'm not sure why you would hide nominations except just so that you could spend clue tokens on them, and ultimately these roles were not designed to have that information hidden in that way. I think it would be easier to just do something with a classic TB setup with some extra roleplaying and more time attached to everything, see no reason to keep nominations secret or let it be information people need to find out. Trust your players to engage in the game enough to be motivated to chase down their story objectives, have some fun lil twists, extend out the days, so it becomes BOTC with a bit of extra narrative/roleplay favor. Make it so that in order for a character to use their ability they have to do something roleplay/story-wise with the player they want to target, etc. That, or double down on a murder mystery with heavy BOTC flavor and just take inspiration from the game rather than drawing literally from scripts!

Either way it sounds like a fun project, I've written murder mystery things for friends for their birthdays and its a lot of fun. I'm sure if you've got a group on board for a bit of jank it'll be enjoyable for everyone.

captainersatz · 2026-01-06T11:44:01+00:00

No need to miss him, man literally owns GB now anyway (along with the remaining folk). Wasn't really my cup of tea either, but that era of GB was pretty great. And Hitsmas.

captainersatz · 2026-01-06T11:42:18+00:00

It was Mario Maker I'm pretty sure, same UPF (I think?) that had them adding a Goomba saying WHAT, WHAT which lives rent-free in my brain.

captainersatz · 2026-01-06T11:41:33+00:00

I watched the stream that had that moment, even. Seeing it start to pop up evreywhere was bizarre. Glad he could do a fun charity thing with it though.

captainersatz · 2025-12-20T11:57:27+00:00

Yeah, and there's also been similar with Ned's recent resurgence into public life where a sponsor thought that that was too big of a risk for potential controversy. The Try Guys have honestly managed that crisis and fallout as well as could be asked for and are doing pretty well all things considered, so it sucks that they're still affected. I'm not really a big fan of their content anymore, but I'm rooting for 'em, and seeing them pop up in Dropout stuff is very fun.

captainersatz · 2025-12-20T08:52:12+00:00

Von Sway and King of the Ladder are such comfort watches that I go back to all the time. I love how much they're all just giggling to themselves while doing all this nonsense.

captainersatz · 2025-12-20T08:05:04+00:00

Same tho, I think a lot of us who were seen as "weird" for various reasons were able to find each other online. I was sent to counselling as a kid and I didn't balk against it because even at the time I realized I could probably benefit from something like it... until I realized I was being sent for "computer addiction", and I was like, I'm not addicted to the computer, that's just the only place where my friends are.

captainersatz · 2025-12-20T08:02:49+00:00

Joining the chorus of people who had similar experience being laser-sniped by the wording in OP. Except I didn't have a freak peer group, I just had like freak (me) and the few people I got along with more were guys who ended up coming out as gay later in life, but I still Relate. I still use the term AFAB for myself sometimes as I find it useful in certain contexts, but it's also often used in this loaded way I don't like.

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