Magic: the Gathering really captured my heart from a young age. There’s something really compelling about building a deck and doing fights with it.
I kinda drifted away from it, though. It’s an expensive hobby, and the “C” part of CCG never really appealed to me: I derive little joy from collecting.
I worry that I date myself terribly by still loving a bunch of the stuff I loved as a kid and young adult - Final Fantasy 6, Cowboy Bebop, IRC, Our Lady Peace, The Simpsons, Command & Conquer, WinAmp…. all wild retro shit by today’s standards.
But then I think about some of the stuff that my parents and grandparents loved - Star Wars, Singin’ in the Rain, Looney Toons, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass - and how much reverence and fondness I, as an adult, treat it with, because they introduced it to me with such obvious fondness, and I think “nah, ’s good to like stuff”
time mostly washes away most of the really embarrassing and terrible retro stuff, like Police Academy 5, Police Quest III, and Limp Bizkit and we can just look back and chuckle at them now
every time I see two people hugging in a picture my mind immediately moves to the next frame where one of them is delivering a devastating suplex
try it: you, too, can enjoy this brain disease
the suplex is objectively funny
like, imagine this scenario:
a realtor is taking a man through a nice building. they say “well, if this fourplex isn’t the right size for you, perhaps I can interest you in a duplex?”
prospective buyer: “no, I still think that’s going to be too small.”
realtor: “okay, well, I’m showing off a beautiful suplex right now.”
prospective buyer: “a… suplex?”
realtor:
note: this joke also works with a round house for similar reasons , although it’s 18% less hilarious
