Hiredzombie's Blog

My woke take, as someone who has worked in both a public library and a school library, is that we desperately need both more books that are at a higher reading level but a less mature subject matter, and more books that are at a lower reading level but a more mature subject matter, because 8 year olds who are advanced readers are still 8 year olds and don't want to read about graphic violence and torture, and teens and adults who have learning difficulties or who are just later readers for whatever reason are still teens and adults and don't want to read about Billy the Bunny going to school or whatever the hell.

like dont get me wrong i love pauper i think pauper is awesome. but i think one of the reasons commander is such a big hook for new palyers is the commanders themselves. as someone with no or little pre-existing magic knowledge it is very easy to look at something like kaalia, or gishath, or niv mizzet, and say "oh, that looks cool and exciting, i want to play with that!" and it is a lot harder until you are really deeply invested in magic's rules and systems to see the excitement in a deck based around lembas and glint hawk

there's a lot of things that work against commander as an introductory format: complicated board states, extremely deep card pool, normalized color pie breaks. but you just cannot underestimate the "stickiness" and raw appeal the game for new players gains simply from Having A Guy who's Your Guy

before you murder everyone in the room because you had a bad day. haveyou done your sudoku yet

psychiatrist at arkham asylum talking to the riddler

for context this person claimed that Mitski bought them as a child sex slave and had them chained up in her dorm at college. and everyone just believed them for a few days

I pawned your chastity key for drug money sorry

my "suicidal hermit" lifestyle has been largely detrimental to my emotional wellbeing