"Sister Kathaliynnry, you made a simple error, you only reset the Mirror of Many Pixels, not the Tower of Processing. My Millennial Master Father Steve taught me such, may the Omnissiah watch over his soul."

"I pray for the birth of the Star Millennial to usher in the new golden age of tech!"

Edit: I was kinda hoping the response to this post would more be people joking about my Warhammer reference, but instead y'all be posting serious analysis here. Real buzzkill.

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[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 16 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

This is less the fault of young people and more the fault of a hyperindividualist society that is too selfish and tired to ensure that knowledge is passed down.

Speaking of 40k, this has become a problem in the hobby space I've noticed since covid brought more people in. I learned a lot about how to paint and build stuff from the older people at the shop. All our terrain was scratch built from foam, balsawood, plaster, etc. Most people had scratch built models, often because there were no official kits or because kits didn't come with enough doohickies.

Flash forward to today. New people don't know understand any of the basics, like dry brushing or glazing. Scratch building and conversions make you look like some kind of sorcerer. I've had trouble teaching newcomers because there's a serious lack of institutional knowledge being passed down. They often don't know you're allowed to chop up and paint your models however you want. I suspect cuts to school art programs hasn't helped, either.

I've noticed similar things with Magic. I was in a top 4 match and one of my opponents had never heard of card advantage. She obviously wasn't a bad player, but like this is such a fundamental concept to playing the game. And this happens a lot.

Some of it has to do with older players moving on, a lot of it has to do with companies not nurturing these ideas because they want you to buy newest thing, and even more of it is the hyperindividualist bullshit that puts everyone on a deserted island where they're expected to save themselves.

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I've noticed similar things with Magic. I was in a top 4 match and one of my opponents had never heard of card advantage. She obviously wasn't a bad player, but like this is such a fundamental concept to playing the game. And this happens a lot.

did mtg article culture die? i remember reading Who's the Beatdown and shit in school instead of whatever we were supposed to be doing. everyone has phones now if anything theory should be more accessible.

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 2 points 15 hours ago

Pretty much, with the proliferation of EDH as the game's primary format. Mothership only has announcements, Maro's Making Magic, and then a bunch of ads for spoilers as their main articles. They don't even post MODO results like they used to. There's nothing about strategy at all. Other sites, like Starcity Games and MtG Goldfish, are light on strategy articles. Mostly, they talk about decklists. Their EDH content, where most people flock to, are just videos of 4-player games between staff.

Like the place still delving into Magic theory is TappedOut, with user-submitted stuff. They aren't getting the traffic, though. And if you're a new player or not familiar with the site, it's just randoms. How do you know it's worth the read or someone worse than you writing some rage essay?

The two formats new players should be introduced to are Standard and Limited. But Standard is a hot mess and has been for years. It's basically dead on paper in most areas. New articles written about Limited aren't in the most obvious places. If you don't know Channel Fireball is a site, how are you supposed to find their articles going over each set?

And then there's reddit, which of course is infested with people who are flat-out wrong but comment the most anyway. Assuming it's not completely astroturfed by WotC.