Curtis

The name is Curtis and I'm just a dude from NC that likes to game both digitally and at the table. 🎮🃏

[FlexDaddy ʷⁱᵗʰ ᵍʳᵉʸ ᶠᵉˡᵗ ʰᵃᵗ @RealJohnWalter]

Doing what I can to escape the permanent underclass by turning $10 entry fee at locals into $50 store credit.

[PlumSoju | Jiayang @PlumSojuYang]

If you’re a content creator, especially in the TCG space, plz stop using generative AI in your content. The foundation of TCGs is built on artwork created by real artists. By relying on AI, you’re actively undermining and contradicting the very purpose you’re supposed to support.

[Curtis @Bolt_You]

If you see a price for a card on TCGPlayer and it says Direct, keep looking further into pricing. The pricing on Direct is, most times, much more expensive.

The actual price of this card is closer to $1000 instead of $1800. Still impressive, but easily mistaken.

[elie of crystal ٠࣪⭑ @widderlies]

i. have this card ??? omg

[The TOADSTACK @TheTOADSTACK]

Reminder that TOADFEST is happening June 20th at 10am at The Casual Nerd in New Bern, NC. Cube tournament, $10 entry, fabulous prizes, food trucks, and more. And WotC just spoiled some of the promos you could win:

[Curtis @Bolt_You]

@itskikidanger I apologize to those who read this and had an aneurysm. I was many drinks deep. My intent was clear, but man could I not type.

[Curtis @Bolt_You]

@itskikidanger "The want the old man to grt his Legos but he screwed up"

It really isn't that hard to watch some videos and figure out who is malicious in all of this. Ben does a great job outlining all of it. Jeremy would rather eat boot than look more into in anything at all.

[NodeChuck 🦀 @NodeChuck]

@nighth0ps

[Curtis @Bolt_You]

Playing against Eddie Gordo be like

[Curtis @Bolt_You]

Ugh what i would give to work with Sam

[Sam Reich @samreich]

box, everyone. everyone, box 📦

(with special thanks to justin hogan for teaching me this on-set ritual)

[Curtis @Bolt_You]

Another pointless chime-in from former line worker Curtis: line workers do not need to "appear busy". Either management needs to step in and delegate tasks or that line is stocked, prepped, and cleaned. DO NOT DO MORE THAN WHAT YOUR JOB ASKS FOR.

[aka @akafaceUS]

Professional at looking productive

[Curtis @Bolt_You]

@FanksEoT My pool was passed back to me sorted only by color. Lost 8 min of my build time because my build partner decided to only do half of what was asked probably because he was talking most of the time

[Curtis @Bolt_You]

The art of listening to instructions is truly lost in MTG

[Brennan Franks @FanksEoT]

Not too many game-related takeaways from DC this weekend. However, I did learn something while registering my sealed pool for the LCQ.

There’s a lot of you that just can’t shut the fuck up

[Curtis @Bolt_You]

@VoxyTwitch TCGPlayer should be fine for the most part. If you come across something really expensive, then I would cross-reference with ebay sold listings just to make sure you're getting an accurate price.

[Curtis @Bolt_You]

@tronisbad @PlayRiftatlas &&

[Curtis @Bolt_You]

Officially a riftbound gamer now! Diana is ordered!

[Curtis @Bolt_You]

The shop I work for goes to great lengths to secure our products and everytime we work a show, I take immediate notice of how careless other vendors are and lemme tell ya, it's way more than you think.

[BuBBliK @k1rallik]

🚨 do you understand what happened to a Pokemon card..

A masked man took a sledgehammer to the front door overnight, filled a bin with Pokemon packs, and was gone in under 2 minutes. $7,000 stolen. $10,000 in damage.

But here is what nobody is talking about:

> Pokemon shops are getting robbed faster than jewelry stores - LA, NYC, Burbank, Boston, Seattle, Anaheim all hit in 5 months

> 3 armed men held 40+ customers at gunpoint in a Manhattan card shop for $100,000 in cards in January

> A collector in LA was ambushed in a parking garage for a briefcase with $300,000 in Pokemon inside

> The rarest Pokemon card sold for $16.5 million in February - more than most people pay for a house

Pokemon stopped being a hobby. It is an asset class now - and nobody is securing it like one.

[Drew Buchanan 🔜 RQ Hartford @ChironTheMage]

As the first round of post-Phlage RCQs begin and your opponent is casting Living End in your upkeep, remember this:

WotC hired Fisher Phillips to bust the Magic Arena developer's union and unbanned Violent Outburst to distract you from that fact.

[ShiningEspeon @ShiningEspeon3]

I think it fucking sucks that that the r-slur is making a comeback, actually

[Carolyn Wang 凯伦 @caro_irl]

if you're new to mtg and want to get better btw, you absolutely NEED to be playing 1v1 magic

doesn't matter if it's a 60, 40, or even a 100 card (e.g. canadian highlander) format. you are extremely unlikely to get a good grasp of the fundamentals without a foundation in 1v1 mtg

[Curtis @Bolt_You]

Is this really a platform sponsored content theft device? We're really here now?

[Updates From YouTube @UpdatesFromYT]

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