Speaking of paying attention, the complicit billionaire owned media (especially before and during his first infestation of the White House):

Throw magic the gathering and all that gambling shit in there too. I just lost a couple of partners to that brain rot.
What happened with mtg?
Removed by mod
Typical corporate greed things, probably…Dialing the product release schedule up to 11, gradually losing their brand identity in the pursuit of becoming the Fortnite of card games, sending the fucking Pinkertons after someone.
Hasbro bought it out and turned it into a mass marketing money machine
do they even make MTG centric lore anymore. last i heard its mostly other IPs.
the hype of final fantasy based mtg cards. at first it was LOTR, then one of the scifi genre, now FF, i think spiderman is next.
Sitting in a airport the other day. Three upper twenty-somethings nearby debating some bullshit about some YouTuber drama like it affected them personally. I’m biting my tongue thinking, “Bitch, the world is falling apart and this is what’s on your mind?” I knew in that moment that I was one of the all too few who were not being actively distracted. Never felt so helpless.



