Your local hobby store is probably struggling due to the economy.
Warhammer 40k and it’s variants have a lot of new product out recently, including editions that are much more beginner friendly. You can easily buy a Kill Team and set of paints and brushes for $90.
Most game stores will have Friday Night Magic or Commander Saturdays. You can pick up a pre-constructed deck and make some changes to it and still be within a $90 budget.
You local Veteran’s association would appreciate a donation, even just dropping off some donuts.
Your local animal shelter would gladly accept a $90 donation.
Yep, I was a diehard MTG players from the mid 90s up through 2005. Sold my collection to Star City Games and tried coming back a couple times but just can’t stick with it.
Commander has largely taken over in popularity nowadays because it is a more group-oriented dynamic and you pretty much skip buying random packs and boxes in favor of getting cards to fit your deck theme.
Although the point of this thread was to encourage spending money locally instead of on a game company far away that has increasingly provided worse quality while simultaneously asking for more money, if I buy a game anytime soon it’s going to be Warhammer: Space Marine II.
There is a hobby shop, one that carries RC cars, planes, etc…, that I’ve been meaning to check out. Might be time to look into getting a few of my old RC cars running again.
Oh it goes beyond that. Do you really need a house as big as the one you are living in? Couldn’t you have bought a cheaper house and given the extra money to create housing for the poor?
Should anyone really have any disposable income at all? Should anyone ever have any fun at all as long as even one of the eight billion people on this planet is in need?
Heady stuff, it’s called a “Utopian ideal”. Now how are you going to implement it? Everyone who has tried has failed.
40k is infamousy bad for being overpriced plastic … but it’s still a better investment than the dino. Also, get the dropper-bottle paints rather than the atrocities that are Citadel paints.
I’d argue D&D, those minis are MUCH more affordable. You can probably get the basics/essentials for the actual game with the same price too.
Hell, Gundam models are probably more worth it, you can get one if the better/newer Master Grade kits for the dino price… or two older ones, actually. Or several high grades.
And I like how you bash blizzard about their cash grabs yet then go talk about Games Workshop.
Careful your hypocrisy is showing.
And besides I already made a threat and promise to a short little angry guy in another thread about getting it, so I have to not go spend money next and earn my golden boi.
I’ve played mostly legacy and standard and quit when they kept powercreeping the game, considering the current format I did well to get out as early as I did when nowadays some standard deck can compete with legacy decks.
