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爸爸 | Design Engineer | Magic The Gathering x Video Games | Indigenous Mizo Here to talk about games, movies, and Magic the Gathering! Navigating the human connection we make through the games we love to play and talk about! ❤️

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Indulge a sad cat-dad as I remember my buddy Oscar with a lengthy post... Oscar was a part of this family. His paw prints & belly fuzz are all over the house and our lives. His patience for the kids grew as their chubby baby hands started to rain kitty treats towards him.

My 6 year old grabbed the new Marvel UB card: Stark Industries Executive and drew her version. Look at that IronMan armor!!! I could cry from being so proud 🥹

My wife was reading to the girls tonight, & Sawmi my 6 yo started crying, then I read the epilogue & we just wept. This was such a beautiful & fun graphic novel, but that ending just had us missing our kitty, Oscar.

Even the idea of fake sci-fi fascists has worn itself thin over 13 years with these sleeves. Because the real world keeps echoing the same playbook—and I’m tired. New sleeves. Same deck. Same joy. Clearer head.

Goodbye for now buddy. Find a warm spot to nap, a neighborhood to roam, a little girl to nuzzle, a nice lady to sit next to, another cat to bug, & a papa to pet you. On this side of the life’s curtain, you always found a way back to us, but soon we’ll find our way back to you. 🐈❤️

Indulge a sad cat-dad as I remember my buddy Oscar with a lengthy post... Oscar was a part of this family. His paw prints & belly fuzz are all over the house and our lives. His patience for the kids grew as their chubby baby hands started to rain kitty treats towards him.

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He hopped onto bed whenever he sensed we were sad, crying or breakfast was running late. He was never just a cat, he was a part of the Zaidarhzauva’s.

An abandoned furball that found its way to the Dean Farm & into Lora's life & eventually into mine. Though we are heartbroken because he was a very very very good buddy, we are even more grateful today because a cat named Oscar loved us all so very much. #cat #tribute

Indulge a sad cat-dad as I remember my buddy Oscar with a lengthy post... Oscar was a part of this family. His paw prints & belly fuzz are all over the house and our lives. His patience for the kids grew as their chubby baby hands started to rain kitty treats towards him.

Oscar crawled on top of us when we sat down for our late night tv or video games. He waddled into the presence of our guests and wore his orange fur like a royal cape. He sat by me for 8 years as I started working from home, demanding cameos on Zoom & Google Meet.

We said goodbye to our sweet buddy Oscar. He was 14, loving, gentle, goofy and hungry boi. I wept because for the past 12 years, he was my little buddy who sat next to me as I worked, played video games & went through my cards. I miss him & hope I’ll see him again one day. #cats

My favorite scene in Muppet Christmas Carol sitting down all lonely near a big fire, his own house, robe and a giant plate of cheese and Bread. Peak burnt-out-Holidays-vibe

Back in July 2023… I had just finished Lord of the Rings and then the set dropped. I’d never spent more than $50 on Magic, and I’d basically been out of the game for almost 10 years… and somehow I still ended up buying two Collector Booster boxes.

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This is more a note to myself: if you want people to care, help them connect. Bring them from their world into yours. Give them something familiar to hold while they learn the weird, beautiful complexity you’re obsessed with.

“It’s not that deep bro”… but it is to me. I love this game. And I love that I’m still learning it—every day—through new universes and old planes I get to revisit with fresh eyes.

Back in July 2023… I had just finished Lord of the Rings and then the set dropped. I’d never spent more than $50 on Magic, and I’d basically been out of the game for almost 10 years… and somehow I still ended up buying two Collector Booster boxes.

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It’s not that returning players or new players don’t respect original MTG worlds. We do. But when the game feels so intensely complicated, seeing something you already know and love becomes a bridge. It turns this massive rulebook of a hobby into something you can grab onto.

Back in July 2023… I had just finished Lord of the Rings and then the set dropped. I’d never spent more than $50 on Magic, and I’d basically been out of the game for almost 10 years… and somehow I still ended up buying two Collector Booster boxes.

First pack in, I was cooked. Hooked. It was the lore. Not just “oh cool, I recognize that,” but I actually knew what the cards were referencing—and then seeing that story translate into gameplay? That clicked a part of my brain Magic hadn’t touched before.

I don’t roll joints but I roll up to joints with rolls of rolled mats… I know my role… I know the rules… just roll with it… This post was not screened by my brain.

New recipe I’m trying! Chocobo & Waffles!🧇 But seriously I don’t think anyone in the FF multi-verse eats Chocobo… would you? #everythingismagic

Beyond stoked!!! Chocobo Bundles! Like everyone I’ve just loved Final Fantasy set so much! Even playing FFX for the first time this Holiday season!

We get a new ornament every year since 2014…and it usually takes us a while at the store to decide. This year we took one glance at this and said “yup.”

My daughter: I’m sorry I broke your ornament… maybe I’ll buy you a Magic Card… Me: *laughs* baby how you gonna afford Secret Lair’s Godzilla Lands? This didn’t happen, but i did think it when she said that 🤣

Intros should look like: 1. "Hi my name is..." 2. "I love playing <InsertGame>" Optional 3 if its MTG: "I got back into it through <Insert UB>" 😜 Should we adopt introductions like this... but isn't what we do on our free time give a better picture of who we are? Or is that too revealing?

Feeling inspired by @strixhavendropout.bsky.social article: "The Top 4 Times Magic Learned To Be Inclusive" A peak into the inclusive decisions that WOTC had implemented... into THEIR PRODUCTs. The history and articles by @shivambhatt.bsky.social stirred me. Great read. 😭 tinyurl.com/49hvn3rj

edhrec.comThe Top 4 Times Magic Learned To Be Inclusive | EDHRECCas Hinds digs into Magic character depiction and shows us how impactful true diversity, inclusion, and representation can be.

What if in MTG, we had a tradition of challenging each other to a duel, and whoever wins gets the loser’s playmat… lol. Playmat the Gathering!

Collector Booster Box or Nintendo Switch2? What would you pick?

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I think it's important that I have a pile of cards that they can play with it, draw on & be around. Just being exposed to Papa’s hobby & not seen as a nuisance is how I want my kids to feel around my office. #mtg #dadlife

After 11 years of marriage, the darkly comedic fights fueled by sparks of miscommunications & petty selfishness, submerged in an ocean of love, mixed in with raising two humans… makes The Roses the most relatable, fun & dark romantic comedy I’ve enjoyed in years. Cumberbatch x Colman *chef’s 😘