CMagic: The Gathering booster boxes are getting a Black Friday price cut on Amazon, and one set hasn't even dropped yet.
LThe Star Trek one, right? I saw that listed at $139. That's... actually a decent chunk off.
CThe list price is around $210, so yeah, the math works. IGN posted it, and it's legit — Amazon's discounting Marvel Super Heroes and The Hobbit sets too.
LYou checking Magic prices? I thought you were strictly a vinyl-and-concert-tickets person.
CA good deal is a good deal. I contain multitudes.
LOkay, but here's my thing: do people actually play, or are these just going straight into a binder?
CThe binder IS the game for half the people buying. You ever see a Hobbit card? It's for looking at.
LFair point. The Star Trek set's out November 13, so you're basically pre-ordering the discount.
CExactly. Which is why I'm not mad at it. Deal's live now if anyone's building a fifty-seven-card enterprise.
LFifty-seven? Gotta squeeze an extra card in there for the captain.
CSpeaking of fan bases... a fan posted on X about being a Black Taylor Swift fan and said, 'we exist, lmao.'
LLove that. The internet has this whole stereotype that Swifties are one very specific demographic, and it's just... not true.
CThe replies were actually sweet. A bunch of people going 'no, genuinely, we're everywhere.'
LThe fan account wrote it like a punchline, but it's a real thing — people act surprised when someone doesn't fit their mental image of a fan.
CMusic hits everyone. The gatekeeping around who's 'allowed' to like an artist is exhausting.
LAnd Taylor's catalog is so broad now. You can be into country Taylor, pop Taylor, folklore Taylor... there's no one fan.
CSwitching gears, a post from someone who bought a BIGBANG concert ticket in Jakarta purely out of FOMO made me laugh.
L'Apparently, I am a FOMO.' That's a whole mood.
CThey only got it because tickets are still available, which... same energy as me buying a plane ticket just because the price was under $200.
LAnd now they have to actually go. That's the fine print on FOMO: it ends with you in an arena.
CTo be fair, BIGBANG in Jakarta? If I could, I would.
LThe boy band that defined a generation? Absolutely. Missing that would be the real regret.
CAnd finally, a fan on X is celebrating finding fellow Rin Penrose oshis on their timeline, saying they can barely find any on other platforms.
LThe niche fan experience is real. You find three other people with the exact same obsession, and suddenly you're all best friends.
CRin Penrose is a Vtuber, a virtual idol, so the fan base is already spread thin. Finding your people in that corner of the internet? Genuine win.
LThere's something really lovely about posting into the void and realizing the void posts back.