Stability is cool but have you ever played card games with your rent on the line?

My current job let's me play cards games *professionally* and yeah it's not only a dream job but my first time ever having a stable job in that field.
I spent like 4/5 years competing/playing for a living and this is probably better...
But like I miss that feeling.
I wanna compete again 😖

The greens it would appear in fact it seems even the green in this article.
Her overall point was that they should be publicly owned rather than opportunistic attempts to use public funding to capitalise on soaring energy costs.
Absurdly misleading headline.

It's funny too cause I walk and cycle so much now that like I feel healthier and I do more exercise so I'll probably lose it again but I'm not worried either way.

I put on a bit of weight cause I took a couple weeks off and just kinda let myself eat till my stomach hurt.
And you know what I'm genuinely not upset about being a bit fat again. Don't know what I did but the switch in my head that made me hate that flipped off.
Actually kinda vibing with it.

American Catholics love to be protestant

I owe so much to this game it's crazy.
My life actually totally changed cause of a game nobody knows about 🥲

The feeling of joy opening a booster box when the cards have no monetary value and I already have access to every card I could want or need is amazing.
Feels like being a kid you just get to appreciate the shiny cardboard.

I think maybe the thing I miss most about my old routine is bumming about an LGS all Sunday barely even playing card games but just kinda bouncing between related hobby conversations.

Weirdly none come to mind.
Theres a lot of snake oil salesmen and private discord/Facebook "investment" advice guys but I cant think of a single person taking a more academic approach to it
I feel like a lot of my experience prior to being in the industry was every LGS having a guy thats in the know

Cure is simple, play magic the gathering.
Will kill that enthusiasm pretty quickly.

My partner comes over for a week tomorrow and just finished crunch.
Of course with all that good news I am now super ill.

Thanks for all the crunch you did, to make up for it please enjoy SUPER CRUNCH.

This is a big part of why I stopped competing and streaming fighting games speaking out about this shit just lead to harassment and it wasn't something I wanted in my life anymore.

It's especially bad in Tekken where a bunch of community figureheads will ignore inconvenient truths.

Really sad I had to skip last Evo Japan now.
On the bright side maybe this can be the era of new grassroots majors being propped up.

Tbh who am I kidding the fgc has no spine and will continue to treat Evo the same.

So you know when you hear about crunch in the games industry and are like, oh that sounds shit.
It's really shit what the fuck I thought I had a fake job.

This website would need private posts for me to make my next point 🫢

I've fallen out of love with magic super hard so it's easier for me and I understand that people draw lines at different points.
But I do think it's worth being realistic.

Do wotc care, probably? At least I hope.
Does Hasbro, fuck no.
Are they even distinct? Not really.

So like this kinda doesn't work for me.
The if already happened right?
Hasbro's only real profit engine has been magic for years, they used those magic profits to line Rowlings pockets.
I have the RC that I'm already in for them I think I'm out.

There's enough games out there these days.

Was asked to rate the subjective "fun value" of some cards today.
I joked I would have to create an objective system to do that...
Anyway guess what I did today

I'm on a fucking tear at work you have no idea how powerful I have become with this many spreadsheets

Long distance relationships are hard but Minecraft date night is pretty cute

😡

It was tho...

Also can you believe that some days at the card game factory where we play cardgames all day are actually pretty hard.
No?
Okay that's fair...

German supermarkets are so ass man.
Except edeka I fuck with edeka.

Can't wait to finish my job card game to play my recreational card game

Didn't embarrass myself but definitely sounded clunky af

My love for the romance genre is a real double edged sword right now

One of the only lame parts of my job is that I can't really talk about the gundam card game at all.