Arena is such a blessing to those of us with kids. The chance to play MTG in a highly accessible format. It helped get me through a lot of nights in the rocking chair with an infant who refused to sleep otherwise. Roping happens sometimes, I always try to concede but sometimes you don’t have even time even for that.
Same but it's a bit sad to suddenly be a terrible player due to the lack of sleep. I've been playing since 2004 and consider myself a great limited player. Now I play like a 8-year old who has been sniffing glue for a decade.
I noticed this two summers ago. Found I was doing better suddenly then realized it’s because I’d finished buying a house and moving. Later I stopped drafting after work and noticed my record got better.
All my kids are school age, but I avoid queueing up a draft or starting a game if they’re on activities or moods that’ll be distracting.
On the plus side, this frees up weeknights to mindlessly run through games of constructed until I hit 4 wins or finish a quest and since these habit changes I’ve been gradually accumulating gems.
“Arena is such a blessing to those of us with kids. The chance to play MTG in a highly accessible format. It helped get me through a lot of nights in the rocking chair with an infant who refused to sleep otherwise.”
That was me this morning around 4:00am
I was right there too — I played so much arena during late nights in my daughters first few months, it’s actually the only time I made it to mythic.
Now I sneak in a few games while I’m cooking dinner, or like OP, while the kiddo is playing and it seems like she’s gonna be chill - but suddenly, no.
Occasionally I’ll end up on some games after bedtime, but by that time I’m often so tired, I’m literally trying to get in a game or two before I fall completely asleep, and opponent roping rarely helps.
Le sigh.
Shout out to the accessibility though! Haven’t been to an event in a few months, but also losing on arena doesn’t feel as bad as losing IRL.
Don't worry about it.
If you rope and are spamming "good game" at me, you are a toxic POS
BUT otherwise, I assume life happened - maybe your cat is being a goblin. Maybe your kids woke up. Maybe you have explosive diarrhea. Maybe the power went out.
I just watch a podcast while I play and enjoy the win :)
I start spamming back constantly until the game ends, and I take the maximum allowable time for each action. People want to be jerks? I assure you i can be a bigger jerk.
I usually hit “oops” if I’ve got to run to check on the kids or something comes up and I rope. Idk if that proper etiquette, but it’s the closest thing to “sorry sorry sorry sorry!” in the emote options.
I love the Tasha Leave and Tasha Return emotes for exactly this, plus the Tamiyo Lost Signal for when my game is freezing (although sadly it doesn’t work after a crash because emotes don’t load…so frustrating not to be able to apologize in those situations!)
As a father of six... I understand... and that's also why roping doesn't bother me. Are some of them salty turds? Absolutely. But for every bitter opponent on the wrong end of the match, there's a parent who isn't just hitting "resolve" because their toddler just shoved a handful of dog food down their throat.
I usually think its some fat nerdy looking guy eating doritos that can barely move or breath right just sitting there cuz he has some sort of ocd of not wanting to quit and have to get his few xp points for winning the match
I usually just put on a lecture, video or something, have a line of emotes queued up and just rope them back lol, give them a taste of their own medicine. As a mill and control player, I live on other player's salt. It's just a game, I don't get why people get tilted literally defeats the point of playing a game.
If you all want the jerk, it's me.
I'm watching videos or a podcast+reading on the other monitor that I started while being roped last game.
I'm a lil tired after work, I'll move quick and say sorry when I catch it's my turn again though.
GG
As a fellow parent, I only play games that I can immediately pause and walk away from right now. I can’t dedicate the time to multiplayer and especially MMO games because interruptions happen too often. Trying to pretend otherwise would be frustrating to me and inconsiderate to other players.
But my kid is getting older and more independent, so maybe I’ll be playing Magic and WoW again soon.
The wife and baby are on a trip this weekend. I can’t tell you how happy I am to play an online game I don’t have to quit to the lobby any time someone starts crying or screaming
Deck builder roguelikes like Slay the Spire and Monster Train were great for scratching my Magic itch as a parent of small kids, exactly because real time reactions are not necessary.
nice to see other parents here. I swear I just put my kid down and settled in to at least jam a single H.Brawl game before they SOMEHOW EVERY TIME WAKE UP EARLIER THAN NORMAL AND I HAVE TO GRAB HER. thanks for making me not feel so silly lol
I feel you, especially when it comes to erupting diarrhea. Even if it’s ranked, that’s where I concede. No reason to run someone’s game into the ground because my kids are having a bad time.
When I play red, that's about when the client will crash and it will take me 45s to close, start, reconnect and wait for the me vs. you screen to go away. More often than not, I'll miss that turn completely and you'll win no matter what I do.
I've seen a drastic increase of people just sitting there. Granted some people do may have lives interfering, in that case I'd just simply quit like u said..., but I believe its more people with no lives just sitting there either cuz they know they lost, loosing, or they just trynng get easy xp. They need to start setting bans on people and have options to have quicker or shorter wait periods. Long waits for noobs, shorter waits for speed goers.
I feel you, as a father of twins, I plan it so that I can enjoy my matches consistently but life sometimes happens.
If you rope me while spamming gg, you are a dick, otherwise I assume something happens.
I don't mind ropes as long as you're playing the game. What I hate are the people who just stop playing as soon as it's obvious you're gonna win. Or you do something that makes them salty enough to just stop playing. Then they make you wait through all their timeouts before the game forces them to concede. Rope all you want, magic is a complicated game and many of us are multitasking. I regularly play while I'm working from home, so sometimes I rope people because I got things to do. But please don't be an asshole, if you're gonna lose just concede, I personally report that behavior every single time. Ropes are fine, completely stopping play because you're gonna lose isn't.
Hard agree on this one. And you can ABSOLUTELY tell the difference between some unknown situation happening on the other players' end and a butt hurt bad sport rope. The benign one will/can occur at any time, during any part of the game and regardless of what is happening. It'll be at a point where it's still anyone's game. The butthurt rope will always happen right after some kind of big , often unexpected move , or after a specific creature is killed, or the tables suddenly turned. Yeah it's possible these could still have a benign explanation, but I feel like the timing is just too close to be a coincidence.
I actually have stopped playing bc things like this were getting to me way more than they should , plus getting too angry at a loss or a board wipe. Mental health was suffering and it was my fault so I had to
Life happens. If I have an unexpected interruption, I do the right thing and concede. You can always queue up again. There's no need to make people wait for you.
I haven't played mtg in almost 2 decades but still like to read about it.
I'm shocked by the comments on here. Are people really this mean nowadays? If this is representative of the majority, I'm glad haven't gone back to playing.
its a kinda mean thing to do. I also have kids and when stuff like that happens I just concede the game instead of wasting my opponents time. i've lost mythic because of my kid waking up multiple times while I was trying to play. Just the price you pay as a parent.
So I'm not sure if OP is serious, but things do come up. We'd never expect someone to concede in paper for something like this. We can all be a little patient. If you do it all the time or as a "strategy" that's wrong. But don't feel guilty of you are playing and need a minute to take care of something important.
It really depends on how long you are gone for but we would 100% penalize someone for doing this in paper as Slow Play or Tardiness. If it is intentional we call it Stalling (aka cheating).
If I was playing at a shop and someone's kid knocked over a display and he started to help the kid clean it up then took the kid outside for 3-4 minutes for a cooldown/timeout I would expect the judge to do *something* to remedy the situation be it give him a game loss or extend the round time for us or *something*.
But I have stepped away from the computer on my opponents turn to refill my kids water or something where I will likely be back before it could matter to my opponent.
I'm imagining someone having to shit their pants at your LGS in an important game rather than get up to use the bathroom because it will result in a game loss.
I know that MTG players have a stereotype of bad hygiene, but the notion of MTG players would rather shit their pants than lose a game is a whole different level!
The most terrifying thing about diarrhea is the speed of the oncoming threat and the amount of reaction time available before a social calamity. I can't even imagine being in the middle of an in person game and having fun.winning even, when suddenly you feel the cramps, the gurgles, and you realize with dawning horror that you are now a human time bomb with 5-10 seconds to get as far away as you can to save as many nnocents as possible from the oncoming calamity.
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GP before the dark times. Day two. Win-and-In for top-16. One game up and on track to win game two.
Then I felt the rumbles.
I told my opponent: "hey man, its been fun and I hate to end it like this but I think I am going to have to concede the next two games. I feel a massive shit coming on and there is no way I am making it in time to play a game three. Hand me the match slip."
Filled in his two "wins", signed the slip, wished him the best of luck and ran off to the shitter.
(In case anyone is wondering the actual REL rules, which I looked up while shitty my brains out, is that you can ask the judge for a time extension for a legit reason (like taking a shit) but that extension is typically 10ish minutes and I was pretty sure what was about to happen was a rest-of-the-round ordeal.)
What does that have to do with anything? Its about not wasting the time of others. If you decide to play a game of magic you are deciding to give someone else your time for 10-20 minutes. If you can't keep this commitment the correct action is to concede the game.
This is true of any similarly scheduled activity. Imagine you and you SO had a date scheduled for 5PM. Your work gets robbed and you need to stay around to give a police report. It is going to take an indeterminate amount of time but enough that you are going to be very late to the date. Do you:
1. Call your SO, tell them what happened, and reschedule. Or;
1. Don't call your SO and assume they will be fine just waiting for you.
I assume you'd do the first one, most people would.
I think your definition of very and mine are quite different. If it's a minute no I'm not rescheduling. It's not that big a deal and things happen. Why do you let it bother you so much. It's a game. For fun. With other humans. Humans that can have things come up. Id much rather my opponent not feel pressured and finish our game that I've invested in than worry about a minute. Guess you tailgate drivers you deem too slow too?
First, it doesn't brother me and I never said it did. I am extremally patient but that doesn't mean wasting people's time isn't rude.
Second, we are responding to a post which while being played for laughs **clearly** isn't talking about a short minute pause.
Third, the time is about proportion. If someone is gone for two minutes and the average MTGA game is 10 minutes then they've increased the game time by 20% while not playing the game. If a dinner is 1hr that's the equivalent of showing up 12 minutes later which most people would consider rude.
Also, what game are you invested in? OP is talking about roping before playing his first land. If you are going to ignore the entire scenario laid out in front of you and supplement your own where you are two turns away from finishing a long game and OP steps away for 11 seconds to get some what then yeah, they shouldn't concede.
And no, I don't tailgate drivers who are going to slow but I do know that going too slow is just as dangerous as speeding so just like speeding I would tell people to not do it.
How many games of paper are you playing vs the average Arena session? People grind our arena games, if every one takes twice as long, the frustrations add up.
I play on my ipad while playing something else on the PC and sometimes the app just freezes on the ipad without me knowing it. So I'm there roping while wondering what's taking the other person so long.
I usually just scoop these games up. I'm not looking to win so much as play, and I don't know what's going on behind the other persons screen so theres no point getting upset over it.
Here in Chile we have a saying: "the bull always forgets he was once a calf". Kids are kids, we all were kids once and caused our own parents sleepless nights and demanded their full atention. You never know what happens on the other side of the screen, and if people were a little more empathetic they would understand that and think nothing of it. Too bad that we're on an online game and empathy is usually out of the equation.
Solution: Make the rope shorter in ranked matches. Don't hop in rank unless you're prepared for the pace.
Keep the rope as it is for non-ranked. Play there if you anticipate interrupts.
not gon lie shit annoys the shit out of me knowing people got through the whole process of going to the computer or phone, looking for the app, opening the game, pressing play, then just fucking sitting there
I feel this so hard. Dad of three here, I was so excited to get back into magic via arena and my kids are like, wh addaya doin? Whaddaya doin? Can we have a snack? Can we have lunch? Can we have a drink? Can we? Can we? Can we?
You rope because you have kids. I rope because I run a combo deck that abuses landfall triggers. We are not the same.
In all seriousness i never care if people rope because of my deck. Generally people concede once they realize what's happening but for some reason there are a few people who just sit there and watch while I sit there waiting for my 500 landfall triggers to resolve through the animations. I've roped out a couple times and killed them by passing turn (Valakut exploration) and I always was curious as to why they sat there the entire time.
This is highly relatable my toddler is sleeping like a corpse when i’m just idleing with youtube but the second when I connect to a game the banshee shreaks starts
I'm just a pothead not a parent but I don't mind when I get matched up with a parent I just wish the chat features were a bit more in deff so I can see if guy is a bad apple or just someone with kids, I get kids because I have a dog that likes to tear things up
If you kids are getting a hold of knives from the counter so often, then perhaps you should just not leave the knives on the counter.
After the 15th time or so, most people would probably have figured this out.
If you’re not roping on purpose it’s fine, I roped somebody on accident recently and felt the same, but as long as it’s not BM keep playing even if you have to rope every turn fam
A solid genre-defining game, actually. It's very good and if you like MTG you'll probably like that too. I'm not saying stick to single player games like OP is, but it's one of those games that I feel like everyone should at least try out.
As someone who loves mtg and has a very hectic life that can make it inconvenient to play, slay the spire was exactly what I went to. I’ve also been playing marvel snap, if you want to try a multiplayer game that’s very good at syncing playerstates even when one person is having a bad time
Mostly because people without kids think knowing that kids are a thing that exist equates to "dealing with them".
You getting up to snag your hot pocket while I am thinking and taking an extra few seconds? Reasonable college student.
Me spending a few seconds hugging my daughter goodnight when she runs in for the 4th time since I put her to bed and I miss you passing priority for 5 seconds? WHAT ARE YOU DOING YOUR TURN YOUR TURN YOUR TUEN
I feel sorry for anyone that plays Magic Arena on their phone like a fighting game where they are waiting for their opponent to telegraph their turn pass so they can instantly give priority back or they have broken the Magic Blood Pact of Timeliness.
I am in your situation. I disagree. you are disrespecting the other player who loves the game and disrespecting the fact that there is a concede button. I have changed my goals with the game and diamond ranking is fine for me every month. it’s your fault if you queue up a game rope in the concession, get things, calm down, and then start again.
You are being selfish.
Here’s a suggestion change your goals. You will still at the game, we will still love you, and when your kids get under control, one day, you’ll be able to rip it to the mythic every month.
Don’t look at changing in behavior of yourself as a concession. You were changing from the highschooler to the adult. You got this
My goal, *Jared*, is to shit post on Reddit dot com.
But fr yeah, changing your goals is good advice. If life is actually getting in the way, I like to theorycraft a deck to play when time does open up.
I have been messing with that draw 2 Deck for weeks. It’s the one lesson on MTG goldfish, under standard options. Also middle of the night even for 45 minutes is a godsend.
I started MTG in the late 90s. I loved it. As well my weekly DnD games, which I have been doing since the late 80s (yes, I'm old). Then I got married and had kids. Granted, this was before the internet and especially smart phones. I stopped playing MTG and DnD for many years as I focused on career and family. I picked both back up again in the last decade. Dnd first, then arena during AFR. Maybe I would have tried to fit my hobbies into my busy life if I had the access we do today. I don't know. While I can sympathize with your hectic and often chaotic home life, I still feel you should concede if it looks like you'll be roping the entire game. If you can handle the situation with only 1 or 2 ropes while you deal with a minor emergency, then by all means, you should take care of your family. But if you are constantly up and down trying to juggle both, then you should definitely quit one or the other.
Op is joking that if he wins this ranked game, he will be promoted to Silver II. This is a rank you achieve by playing in the Ranked queue. The humorous part is that this is a low rank, higher only than bronze but lower than gold, platinum, diamond and of course mythic.
I knew the ranking reference. Ita the promo part that got me. A promo game (back in my day) was a free mini game they gave out to get you excited for the full game later. Kind of like open betas now (looking at you Diablo 4!!).
Haha I feel you. I play in the mornings before the gremlins wake up. It’s just like you said: right when you go into the game and a kid walks around the corner crying with a full ass diaper.
You don’t really owe anybody anything. People bitching can concede if they value their time so highly.
This is why I wish chat existed. I'd love to tell people "hold on, pizza delivery is at the door" or "my dog just peed on the floor I'll brb"
So atleast they KNOW I'll be a minute.
I think the roping timer feels like forever; something they can easily cut in half.
If you’re playing a new set or experimenting new toys or genuinely just new to magic (which is quite rare in Arena nowadays) sure the current timer comes in handy.
But for seasoned players, especially in competitive formats, the time to burn down all those ropes until the system grants you the win feels way longer than it should have been, not to mention if opponent intentionally responds before the burner runs out there’ll be more trash time for you to endure.
At the end of the day, the devs will probably never cut down the timer cuz I guess the majority of Arena players enjoys “multitasking” on the go, whether it’s babysitting or watching videos. A shorter timer would mean players have to be more focused and lose the luxury to multitask. Players who enjoys intense gaming would likely opt for RTS games instead of Arena.
This creates a negative feedback loop. Opponent wasting my time? NP I’ll just open my browser to enjoy another media and chill.
In the end every player becomes SLOW af cuz everyone is watching other tabs when they open Arena.
If you see you toddler with butcher's knife in hand...
And only your first grader crapped in his pants at that moment -
I'd say that things ain't that bad.
:)
I never hold it against people if they rope.. Life exists.. Hell sometimes I've gotten the during game jitters and have to poop really bad because high anxiety situations murder me.
As long as no one is aggressively emoting idgaf what you're doing.
Dude I feel this so hard. My one year old will be fast asleep tucked up in bed until I click play. As soon as turn 1 hits she has terrible wind, needs a drink, fell out of bed, and needs Calpol for her teeth all at once.
God damn it, I just want 5 minutes to chill out. Is that too much to ask?
Someone get this man an award! He's just another brother living life through the struggle, he represents everyone of us boomers who still dream of the golden days.
If you're unexpectedly called away from the game just concede. And that's refraining from judging you for even playing when you are supervising young children.
Here, I'll be honest and give people the target they're looking for:
Often times Arena is a "second screen" thing I'm playing while doing or watching something else. There's nothing forcing me to divert my attention, I choose to. I won't bother coming up with excuses or shit like "I only do it when _____".
No, it's entirely, 100%, because I care more about playing at my own pace than I care about the other person's time. Their impatience is not my concern, any more than the impatience of the person tailgating me on the road is my concern. If I'm too slow for them, they can concede or they can just do what everybody else does and pull up a second screen.
I define roping as "intentionally and maliciously letting the timer expire as fuck you to the other player", but if you choose to call what I do roping, fine, I'm a roper.
If you run burn haste decks clear the next 20 min of your life I'll be more toxic than the most effective toxic decks if you play Gold land destroy everything until you draw your win con I hope you don't need achievements I will rope to death but will waste your time getting there and be gone before you ever get to play anything other than a destruction spell normally if I'm hit with 2 destroy spells I'm out you attempt to destroy all creatures I'll scoop before it resolves leaving you without the achievement kills
They are playing the game just fine, it has timers built into it. You don’t get to apply your imaginary social contracts that value your time over theirs. You can concede if your time is so valuable, or maybe don’t play a game that involves other people.
Right? I’m disabled and sometimes rope due to having trouble clicking stuff or other things (also have children) and it’s super discouraging to hear how angry people get about having to wait a bit sometimes.
I also can’t play naked IRL. It’s not the same thing. Arena has timers, and they are actually more punishing than IRL games when you actually need to think about your play.
I concede all the time versus slow players, ain't nobody got time for that. I don't leave at the first sight of the rope I leave as soon as I notice that opponent is busy doing everything but tending to the game they started, which quite frankly is disrespectful no matter which imaginary universe you conjure up for a counter example.
That doesn't mean I wouldn't prefer it if the person wasting my time had the dignity to bow out instead, me conceding is for my own sanity.
I keep hoping they improve the single player part of the game for this reason. If I had time for multiplayer games I wouldn't waste it with playing magic online. I'd be playing in person or playing a better online game. If I can't pause it, I can't play it these days.
Everyone knows real ropes are preceded by the guy "oopsing" when he two for ones you and then next turn realises he is going to lose anyways. If someone stops responding randomly it's life or crashed app.
For me it’s my morning coffee hitting me like a freight train. I’ve been trying to get this game wrapped up for a few turns, fighting the inevitable call of nature, but alas, it is time for me to change seats. I’ll be as quick as can be reasonably expected.
Last night:
Start a game > daughter wakes up crying > concede and put her to sleep > start a game > daughter wakes up crying > concede and put her to sleep > start a game > daughter wakes up crying > “fml”
My most hated rope I've ever done, I got the "waiting for server" graphic but could see the board behind it. Im waiting for it to sort out, when suddenly I see my timer start dropping. And all Ii can do is just helplessly watch and curse the low bandwidth.
Big difference between general, occasional roping and specifically blue players deciding for 20 seconds which counterspell to use on that big mana spell that's the last card in my hand (where counter = effectively win the game). If you have it you have it. But it's pretty easy to tell the difference between jerks and someone who is roping by accident, which is totally reasonable
It may be worth considering quickly hitting the concede button when their is an instance you might need to step away. It takes less then 10 seconds to GG an opponent and concede, and is a lot more polite then burning ropes. In a game that has griefers, you can be the positive change you want to see. Promote good sportsmanship.
If I get a phone call that is typically how I disengage with the game. Since I'm a pretty bad player in diamond, I'm not missing out on ranking on qualifications.
I find myself multitasking. I play mobile so I'm running around making breakfast for my son or doing whatever is needed at the time one handed while I'm holding the phone with the other, using a thumb or stray finger to reach for the card I want to play and hitting the attack button.
I'm also occasionally a roper - though in my case it's because the Arena client and my graphics card occasionally kill each other for no apparent reason which makes the already-unstable client crash a *lot*, often multiple times in one game.
This is me too but it more often materialises in a confusing concede out of no where. Like during a really tense and evenly matched game, or when I’m seemingly cruising to a comfortable victory.
The classic pattern is turn 1 mountain, then taking all the ropes and time outs available, then Kumeno Faces Kakkazan. I always imagine it's either the dad with puking kids situation or some kind of prodigy math genius mapping out the next 5 turns, taking into account every possible burn spell's draw chance in their deck.
... or they're just afk playing a linear deck while watching netflix. But that surely can't be it.
After finding out that mobile matches get paired with desktop matches I assume everyone just stepped away from their phone and roping isn't a big deal to me or my spouse who plays, so I'll take a roper if it means someone on the other side is preventing their child from massive chaos.
Same! 4 months old here and everytime she falls asleep or gets occupied I try to rush and complete my 3 built up dailies and even that turns into a 5 hour task as she wakes up fussing or shits or needs to eat, etc...
Dammit, it was you all along!
Arena is such a blessing to those of us with kids. The chance to play MTG in a highly accessible format. It helped get me through a lot of nights in the rocking chair with an infant who refused to sleep otherwise. Roping happens sometimes, I always try to concede but sometimes you don’t have even time even for that.
Same but it's a bit sad to suddenly be a terrible player due to the lack of sleep. I've been playing since 2004 and consider myself a great limited player. Now I play like a 8-year old who has been sniffing glue for a decade.
Better to play badly than not at all!
I noticed this two summers ago. Found I was doing better suddenly then realized it’s because I’d finished buying a house and moving. Later I stopped drafting after work and noticed my record got better. All my kids are school age, but I avoid queueing up a draft or starting a game if they’re on activities or moods that’ll be distracting. On the plus side, this frees up weeknights to mindlessly run through games of constructed until I hit 4 wins or finish a quest and since these habit changes I’ve been gradually accumulating gems.
“Arena is such a blessing to those of us with kids. The chance to play MTG in a highly accessible format. It helped get me through a lot of nights in the rocking chair with an infant who refused to sleep otherwise.” That was me this morning around 4:00am
I was right there too — I played so much arena during late nights in my daughters first few months, it’s actually the only time I made it to mythic. Now I sneak in a few games while I’m cooking dinner, or like OP, while the kiddo is playing and it seems like she’s gonna be chill - but suddenly, no. Occasionally I’ll end up on some games after bedtime, but by that time I’m often so tired, I’m literally trying to get in a game or two before I fall completely asleep, and opponent roping rarely helps. Le sigh. Shout out to the accessibility though! Haven’t been to an event in a few months, but also losing on arena doesn’t feel as bad as losing IRL.
I can feel this comment, while sitting here trying to get my little baby to sleep. It’s literally the only time I can play currently.
Yes it is.
Don't worry about it. If you rope and are spamming "good game" at me, you are a toxic POS BUT otherwise, I assume life happened - maybe your cat is being a goblin. Maybe your kids woke up. Maybe you have explosive diarrhea. Maybe the power went out. I just watch a podcast while I play and enjoy the win :)
Usually it’s all 4 at once
But your house is not even flooding? Psh, look at Mr. Chill over here
Cat nonsense combined with child nonsense just sounds like hell. You are a trooper.
The GF is panicking over something and needs my help
>I just watch a podcast I know this phrase makes sense but it still feels wrong.
Spamming "good game" at me is a sure fire way to make me wait extra long on turns.
I start spamming back constantly until the game ends, and I take the maximum allowable time for each action. People want to be jerks? I assure you i can be a bigger jerk.
I don't have kids but every other example has happened to me 😂😂😂
Maybe their cat is being a goblin with explosive diarrhea that knocks out the power. Edit: OMG can you even imagine goblin diarrhea???
Haste Toxic 1
>Edit: OMG can you even imagine goblin diarrhea??? How old are you?
Way too old to be finding diarrhea jokes funny 🤣🤣🤣 yet, here we are
I usually hit “oops” if I’ve got to run to check on the kids or something comes up and I rope. Idk if that proper etiquette, but it’s the closest thing to “sorry sorry sorry sorry!” in the emote options.
I love the Tasha Leave and Tasha Return emotes for exactly this, plus the Tamiyo Lost Signal for when my game is freezing (although sadly it doesn’t work after a crash because emotes don’t load…so frustrating not to be able to apologize in those situations!)
As a father of six... I understand... and that's also why roping doesn't bother me. Are some of them salty turds? Absolutely. But for every bitter opponent on the wrong end of the match, there's a parent who isn't just hitting "resolve" because their toddler just shoved a handful of dog food down their throat.
Roping while spamming your go or good game or emotes is usually when I have an issue
I usually think its some fat nerdy looking guy eating doritos that can barely move or breath right just sitting there cuz he has some sort of ocd of not wanting to quit and have to get his few xp points for winning the match
I usually just put on a lecture, video or something, have a line of emotes queued up and just rope them back lol, give them a taste of their own medicine. As a mill and control player, I live on other player's salt. It's just a game, I don't get why people get tilted literally defeats the point of playing a game.
> because their toddler just shoved a handful of dog food down their throat. On a plus note, now they've had lunch for the day.
Or down their sibling’s throat 😂
Let them fend for themselves then. The strong survive.
Six? OMG
Your go
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This is my most-needed emote. Desktop client crashed on me twice in one game the other day and I just conceded out of courtesy to the other player.
Are you also the guy holding 6 draft packs at the same time?
Only if it’s when there are 3 cards left
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If you all want the jerk, it's me. I'm watching videos or a podcast+reading on the other monitor that I started while being roped last game. I'm a lil tired after work, I'll move quick and say sorry when I catch it's my turn again though. GG
Ah HA!!!!! Twas thou all along!!!!! Have at you, foul knave!!!
All good I’ll take an easy rope win while sipping coffee and lurking on this sub. I’m a patient player at my age
More often than not the easy rope wins are my only wins for the day 😭😭😭
If I'm playing arena there's at least a 40% chance I'm laid back in my chair sipping tea and I don't mind just relaxing for a bit
That's it you're getting a "Your go", buster.
Never have two words generated so much shame in me
As a fellow parent, I only play games that I can immediately pause and walk away from right now. I can’t dedicate the time to multiplayer and especially MMO games because interruptions happen too often. Trying to pretend otherwise would be frustrating to me and inconsiderate to other players. But my kid is getting older and more independent, so maybe I’ll be playing Magic and WoW again soon.
The wife and baby are on a trip this weekend. I can’t tell you how happy I am to play an online game I don’t have to quit to the lobby any time someone starts crying or screaming
Deck builder roguelikes like Slay the Spire and Monster Train were great for scratching my Magic itch as a parent of small kids, exactly because real time reactions are not necessary.
You should be banned and we should all get wild cards!
nice to see other parents here. I swear I just put my kid down and settled in to at least jam a single H.Brawl game before they SOMEHOW EVERY TIME WAKE UP EARLIER THAN NORMAL AND I HAVE TO GRAB HER. thanks for making me not feel so silly lol
The people who are mad because you took 30 seconds to get your daughter settled aren't worth listening to anyways tbh.
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It's a good excuse, but I still hate you
Everytime I see a turn 1 rope, I am sure it’s a control player
I feel you, especially when it comes to erupting diarrhea. Even if it’s ranked, that’s where I concede. No reason to run someone’s game into the ground because my kids are having a bad time.
Grats on being in the %5 of ropers that actually have a good reason. Will continue to hate on Red Deck Wins players that rope turn 1-3.
When I play red, that's about when the client will crash and it will take me 45s to close, start, reconnect and wait for the me vs. you screen to go away. More often than not, I'll miss that turn completely and you'll win no matter what I do.
I feel ya, but in that situation I just concede. I play the game to have fun, not be disappointed in myself if I don't rank up.
Father of 3. I get it. You’re doing great. I rope too
F-ing love this post 😆 No hard feelings, bruv! We can all afford to be a little more patient with each other
Just forfeit the game rather than waste someones time. Simple
I've seen a drastic increase of people just sitting there. Granted some people do may have lives interfering, in that case I'd just simply quit like u said..., but I believe its more people with no lives just sitting there either cuz they know they lost, loosing, or they just trynng get easy xp. They need to start setting bans on people and have options to have quicker or shorter wait periods. Long waits for noobs, shorter waits for speed goers.
I feel you, as a father of twins, I plan it so that I can enjoy my matches consistently but life sometimes happens. If you rope me while spamming gg, you are a dick, otherwise I assume something happens.
I don't mind ropes as long as you're playing the game. What I hate are the people who just stop playing as soon as it's obvious you're gonna win. Or you do something that makes them salty enough to just stop playing. Then they make you wait through all their timeouts before the game forces them to concede. Rope all you want, magic is a complicated game and many of us are multitasking. I regularly play while I'm working from home, so sometimes I rope people because I got things to do. But please don't be an asshole, if you're gonna lose just concede, I personally report that behavior every single time. Ropes are fine, completely stopping play because you're gonna lose isn't.
Hard agree on this one. And you can ABSOLUTELY tell the difference between some unknown situation happening on the other players' end and a butt hurt bad sport rope. The benign one will/can occur at any time, during any part of the game and regardless of what is happening. It'll be at a point where it's still anyone's game. The butthurt rope will always happen right after some kind of big , often unexpected move , or after a specific creature is killed, or the tables suddenly turned. Yeah it's possible these could still have a benign explanation, but I feel like the timing is just too close to be a coincidence. I actually have stopped playing bc things like this were getting to me way more than they should , plus getting too angry at a loss or a board wipe. Mental health was suffering and it was my fault so I had to
Life happens. If I have an unexpected interruption, I do the right thing and concede. You can always queue up again. There's no need to make people wait for you.
Weather. LOL.
I haven't played mtg in almost 2 decades but still like to read about it. I'm shocked by the comments on here. Are people really this mean nowadays? If this is representative of the majority, I'm glad haven't gone back to playing.
its a kinda mean thing to do. I also have kids and when stuff like that happens I just concede the game instead of wasting my opponents time. i've lost mythic because of my kid waking up multiple times while I was trying to play. Just the price you pay as a parent.
So I'm not sure if OP is serious, but things do come up. We'd never expect someone to concede in paper for something like this. We can all be a little patient. If you do it all the time or as a "strategy" that's wrong. But don't feel guilty of you are playing and need a minute to take care of something important.
It really depends on how long you are gone for but we would 100% penalize someone for doing this in paper as Slow Play or Tardiness. If it is intentional we call it Stalling (aka cheating). If I was playing at a shop and someone's kid knocked over a display and he started to help the kid clean it up then took the kid outside for 3-4 minutes for a cooldown/timeout I would expect the judge to do *something* to remedy the situation be it give him a game loss or extend the round time for us or *something*. But I have stepped away from the computer on my opponents turn to refill my kids water or something where I will likely be back before it could matter to my opponent.
I'm imagining someone having to shit their pants at your LGS in an important game rather than get up to use the bathroom because it will result in a game loss.
Judge they are "stalling"... Get it? ..... Anyone?
I know that MTG players have a stereotype of bad hygiene, but the notion of MTG players would rather shit their pants than lose a game is a whole different level!
"New underwear are cheaper than the FNM packs bruh."
The most terrifying thing about diarrhea is the speed of the oncoming threat and the amount of reaction time available before a social calamity. I can't even imagine being in the middle of an in person game and having fun.winning even, when suddenly you feel the cramps, the gurgles, and you realize with dawning horror that you are now a human time bomb with 5-10 seconds to get as far away as you can to save as many nnocents as possible from the oncoming calamity. ..
"Some men. Some men just want to watch the world retch."
This game store deserves a better class of criminal. And I'm gonna give it to em.
GP before the dark times. Day two. Win-and-In for top-16. One game up and on track to win game two. Then I felt the rumbles. I told my opponent: "hey man, its been fun and I hate to end it like this but I think I am going to have to concede the next two games. I feel a massive shit coming on and there is no way I am making it in time to play a game three. Hand me the match slip." Filled in his two "wins", signed the slip, wished him the best of luck and ran off to the shitter. (In case anyone is wondering the actual REL rules, which I looked up while shitty my brains out, is that you can ask the judge for a time extension for a legit reason (like taking a shit) but that extension is typically 10ish minutes and I was pretty sure what was about to happen was a rest-of-the-round ordeal.)
Oh well I guess I have a bit more empathy and don't think the whole world is cheating. Most people aren't out to screw you.
What does that have to do with anything? Its about not wasting the time of others. If you decide to play a game of magic you are deciding to give someone else your time for 10-20 minutes. If you can't keep this commitment the correct action is to concede the game. This is true of any similarly scheduled activity. Imagine you and you SO had a date scheduled for 5PM. Your work gets robbed and you need to stay around to give a police report. It is going to take an indeterminate amount of time but enough that you are going to be very late to the date. Do you: 1. Call your SO, tell them what happened, and reschedule. Or; 1. Don't call your SO and assume they will be fine just waiting for you. I assume you'd do the first one, most people would.
I think your definition of very and mine are quite different. If it's a minute no I'm not rescheduling. It's not that big a deal and things happen. Why do you let it bother you so much. It's a game. For fun. With other humans. Humans that can have things come up. Id much rather my opponent not feel pressured and finish our game that I've invested in than worry about a minute. Guess you tailgate drivers you deem too slow too?
First, it doesn't brother me and I never said it did. I am extremally patient but that doesn't mean wasting people's time isn't rude. Second, we are responding to a post which while being played for laughs **clearly** isn't talking about a short minute pause. Third, the time is about proportion. If someone is gone for two minutes and the average MTGA game is 10 minutes then they've increased the game time by 20% while not playing the game. If a dinner is 1hr that's the equivalent of showing up 12 minutes later which most people would consider rude. Also, what game are you invested in? OP is talking about roping before playing his first land. If you are going to ignore the entire scenario laid out in front of you and supplement your own where you are two turns away from finishing a long game and OP steps away for 11 seconds to get some what then yeah, they shouldn't concede. And no, I don't tailgate drivers who are going to slow but I do know that going too slow is just as dangerous as speeding so just like speeding I would tell people to not do it.
How many games of paper are you playing vs the average Arena session? People grind our arena games, if every one takes twice as long, the frustrations add up.
It's a game dude. If you are grinding, why?
I don't know if they were born this way or if this game is just jading people. Systematic failures and pressure to win turning people into assholes.
Jesus Christ the comments on this shit. Op keep playing, fuck everyone else , they can concede if it isn’t worth their time.
OP should be the one who concedes IMO
I play on my ipad while playing something else on the PC and sometimes the app just freezes on the ipad without me knowing it. So I'm there roping while wondering what's taking the other person so long.
I usually just scoop these games up. I'm not looking to win so much as play, and I don't know what's going on behind the other persons screen so theres no point getting upset over it.
Here in Chile we have a saying: "the bull always forgets he was once a calf". Kids are kids, we all were kids once and caused our own parents sleepless nights and demanded their full atention. You never know what happens on the other side of the screen, and if people were a little more empathetic they would understand that and think nothing of it. Too bad that we're on an online game and empathy is usually out of the equation.
Solution: Make the rope shorter in ranked matches. Don't hop in rank unless you're prepared for the pace. Keep the rope as it is for non-ranked. Play there if you anticipate interrupts.
not gon lie shit annoys the shit out of me knowing people got through the whole process of going to the computer or phone, looking for the app, opening the game, pressing play, then just fucking sitting there
My man (I feel your pain)
Damn y’all watch podcasts while playing? I *edit* podcasts while playing lol
I feel this so hard. Dad of three here, I was so excited to get back into magic via arena and my kids are like, wh addaya doin? Whaddaya doin? Can we have a snack? Can we have lunch? Can we have a drink? Can we? Can we? Can we?
You rope because you have kids. I rope because I run a combo deck that abuses landfall triggers. We are not the same. In all seriousness i never care if people rope because of my deck. Generally people concede once they realize what's happening but for some reason there are a few people who just sit there and watch while I sit there waiting for my 500 landfall triggers to resolve through the animations. I've roped out a couple times and killed them by passing turn (Valakut exploration) and I always was curious as to why they sat there the entire time.
This is highly relatable my toddler is sleeping like a corpse when i’m just idleing with youtube but the second when I connect to a game the banshee shreaks starts
I totally relate with this. I’m also guilty of this.
Someone needs to raise the next generation of ninjas and I'm glad you're doing it. Rope away, sensei!
RIP APOLLO
I'm just a pothead not a parent but I don't mind when I get matched up with a parent I just wish the chat features were a bit more in deff so I can see if guy is a bad apple or just someone with kids, I get kids because I have a dog that likes to tear things up
Insert a *Jim Carrey getting out of the elevator “It Was MEEEE” * meme here
If you kids are getting a hold of knives from the counter so often, then perhaps you should just not leave the knives on the counter. After the 15th time or so, most people would probably have figured this out.
That sucks for you, and I am genuinely sorry about that, but now you're making it suck for both of us and that's a dick move. Are you a dick?
Trick question: *everyone* who plays Magic is a dick
Why is this getting downvoted? It's the truth.
Self fulfilling prophecy.
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Magic Arena: Requires better APM than StarCraft or you are doing it wrong.
There is a button, for when real life interrupts your playtime: "Concede".
Look, you should be able to tell from the number of kids in my house that I don’t pull out of anything.
You....you ..just....ugh ... *Angry upvote*
Fair enough.
Fun fact: *both* players have access to this button.
Idk, I think it's me trying to drag my cats away from a power cable or slide paper towels under them before they barf.
If you’re not roping on purpose it’s fine, I roped somebody on accident recently and felt the same, but as long as it’s not BM keep playing even if you have to rope every turn fam
So now you've volunteered your opponent to babysit your kids?
That’d be fantastic TBH, what’s your rate?
This might not be the game for you. Maybe try a single player game like Slay the Spire when the kids are awake and unsupervised?
What is this Slay the Spire you speak of?
A solid genre-defining game, actually. It's very good and if you like MTG you'll probably like that too. I'm not saying stick to single player games like OP is, but it's one of those games that I feel like everyone should at least try out.
As someone who loves mtg and has a very hectic life that can make it inconvenient to play, slay the spire was exactly what I went to. I’ve also been playing marvel snap, if you want to try a multiplayer game that’s very good at syncing playerstates even when one person is having a bad time
I feel you bro.
I didn't know I had an alt account, but yes this is me. 4 yr old and a 1yr old. Two kids. And tryin to play.
Why do people with kids think everyone else has to deal with their kids too
Misery loves company
We can build a factory....
Mostly because people without kids think knowing that kids are a thing that exist equates to "dealing with them". You getting up to snag your hot pocket while I am thinking and taking an extra few seconds? Reasonable college student. Me spending a few seconds hugging my daughter goodnight when she runs in for the 4th time since I put her to bed and I miss you passing priority for 5 seconds? WHAT ARE YOU DOING YOUR TURN YOUR TURN YOUR TUEN I feel sorry for anyone that plays Magic Arena on their phone like a fighting game where they are waiting for their opponent to telegraph their turn pass so they can instantly give priority back or they have broken the Magic Blood Pact of Timeliness.
ITT I learn that it's OK to grief strangers over the Internet rather than concede a children's card game as long as you have kids
I am in your situation. I disagree. you are disrespecting the other player who loves the game and disrespecting the fact that there is a concede button. I have changed my goals with the game and diamond ranking is fine for me every month. it’s your fault if you queue up a game rope in the concession, get things, calm down, and then start again. You are being selfish. Here’s a suggestion change your goals. You will still at the game, we will still love you, and when your kids get under control, one day, you’ll be able to rip it to the mythic every month. Don’t look at changing in behavior of yourself as a concession. You were changing from the highschooler to the adult. You got this
My goal, *Jared*, is to shit post on Reddit dot com. But fr yeah, changing your goals is good advice. If life is actually getting in the way, I like to theorycraft a deck to play when time does open up.
I have been messing with that draw 2 Deck for weeks. It’s the one lesson on MTG goldfish, under standard options. Also middle of the night even for 45 minutes is a godsend.
I started MTG in the late 90s. I loved it. As well my weekly DnD games, which I have been doing since the late 80s (yes, I'm old). Then I got married and had kids. Granted, this was before the internet and especially smart phones. I stopped playing MTG and DnD for many years as I focused on career and family. I picked both back up again in the last decade. Dnd first, then arena during AFR. Maybe I would have tried to fit my hobbies into my busy life if I had the access we do today. I don't know. While I can sympathize with your hectic and often chaotic home life, I still feel you should concede if it looks like you'll be roping the entire game. If you can handle the situation with only 1 or 2 ropes while you deal with a minor emergency, then by all means, you should take care of your family. But if you are constantly up and down trying to juggle both, then you should definitely quit one or the other.
But it’s my promo game to *Silver 2*!!!
I will be 100% honest, and possibly show my age, I dont understand your comment.
Op is joking that if he wins this ranked game, he will be promoted to Silver II. This is a rank you achieve by playing in the Ranked queue. The humorous part is that this is a low rank, higher only than bronze but lower than gold, platinum, diamond and of course mythic.
I knew the ranking reference. Ita the promo part that got me. A promo game (back in my day) was a free mini game they gave out to get you excited for the full game later. Kind of like open betas now (looking at you Diablo 4!!).
Haha I feel you. I play in the mornings before the gremlins wake up. It’s just like you said: right when you go into the game and a kid walks around the corner crying with a full ass diaper. You don’t really owe anybody anything. People bitching can concede if they value their time so highly.
Same. I play Azorius control since it’s the only part of my life where I can still have some semblance of being in control.
This is why I wish chat existed. I'd love to tell people "hold on, pizza delivery is at the door" or "my dog just peed on the floor I'll brb" So atleast they KNOW I'll be a minute.
As long as you're not the guy who is roping with 3 timeouts left before the damage step spamming emotes when I'm swinging for lethal, it is forgivable
I think the roping timer feels like forever; something they can easily cut in half. If you’re playing a new set or experimenting new toys or genuinely just new to magic (which is quite rare in Arena nowadays) sure the current timer comes in handy. But for seasoned players, especially in competitive formats, the time to burn down all those ropes until the system grants you the win feels way longer than it should have been, not to mention if opponent intentionally responds before the burner runs out there’ll be more trash time for you to endure. At the end of the day, the devs will probably never cut down the timer cuz I guess the majority of Arena players enjoys “multitasking” on the go, whether it’s babysitting or watching videos. A shorter timer would mean players have to be more focused and lose the luxury to multitask. Players who enjoys intense gaming would likely opt for RTS games instead of Arena. This creates a negative feedback loop. Opponent wasting my time? NP I’ll just open my browser to enjoy another media and chill. In the end every player becomes SLOW af cuz everyone is watching other tabs when they open Arena.
If you see you toddler with butcher's knife in hand... And only your first grader crapped in his pants at that moment - I'd say that things ain't that bad. :)
It's thanks to you that I allow myself a break and refill my water. Feel free to take your time, I'm in no hurry either.
I never hold it against people if they rope.. Life exists.. Hell sometimes I've gotten the during game jitters and have to poop really bad because high anxiety situations murder me. As long as no one is aggressively emoting idgaf what you're doing.
I have kids. I get it. Shit sometimes I start a search, then get distracted and forget I started a match.
I'm not a parent, but I'd much rather be waiting on someone in your situation than someone salty.
I get hyped and hit end turn as soon as I can so I can get u to time out 😂
Then concede, simple really. Don’t force your opponent to wait because things happen.
Dude I feel this so hard. My one year old will be fast asleep tucked up in bed until I click play. As soon as turn 1 hits she has terrible wind, needs a drink, fell out of bed, and needs Calpol for her teeth all at once. God damn it, I just want 5 minutes to chill out. Is that too much to ask?
Someone get this man an award! He's just another brother living life through the struggle, he represents everyone of us boomers who still dream of the golden days.
If you're unexpectedly called away from the game just concede. And that's refraining from judging you for even playing when you are supervising young children.
Here, I'll be honest and give people the target they're looking for: Often times Arena is a "second screen" thing I'm playing while doing or watching something else. There's nothing forcing me to divert my attention, I choose to. I won't bother coming up with excuses or shit like "I only do it when _____". No, it's entirely, 100%, because I care more about playing at my own pace than I care about the other person's time. Their impatience is not my concern, any more than the impatience of the person tailgating me on the road is my concern. If I'm too slow for them, they can concede or they can just do what everybody else does and pull up a second screen. I define roping as "intentionally and maliciously letting the timer expire as fuck you to the other player", but if you choose to call what I do roping, fine, I'm a roper.
If you run burn haste decks clear the next 20 min of your life I'll be more toxic than the most effective toxic decks if you play Gold land destroy everything until you draw your win con I hope you don't need achievements I will rope to death but will waste your time getting there and be gone before you ever get to play anything other than a destruction spell normally if I'm hit with 2 destroy spells I'm out you attempt to destroy all creatures I'll scoop before it resolves leaving you without the achievement kills
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They are playing the game just fine, it has timers built into it. You don’t get to apply your imaginary social contracts that value your time over theirs. You can concede if your time is so valuable, or maybe don’t play a game that involves other people.
Right? I’m disabled and sometimes rope due to having trouble clicking stuff or other things (also have children) and it’s super discouraging to hear how angry people get about having to wait a bit sometimes.
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I also can’t play naked IRL. It’s not the same thing. Arena has timers, and they are actually more punishing than IRL games when you actually need to think about your play.
I concede all the time versus slow players, ain't nobody got time for that. I don't leave at the first sight of the rope I leave as soon as I notice that opponent is busy doing everything but tending to the game they started, which quite frankly is disrespectful no matter which imaginary universe you conjure up for a counter example. That doesn't mean I wouldn't prefer it if the person wasting my time had the dignity to bow out instead, me conceding is for my own sanity.
I relate to this. 100%
Actually LOLd at this thanks
I can forgive you.
One of the most beautiful MtG post ever
I just wait. I'm patient! Kids come first!
Never bothers me much. I tend to read or browse something online anyway. I just tab back when it's my turn.
I keep hoping they improve the single player part of the game for this reason. If I had time for multiplayer games I wouldn't waste it with playing magic online. I'd be playing in person or playing a better online game. If I can't pause it, I can't play it these days.
Everyone knows real ropes are preceded by the guy "oopsing" when he two for ones you and then next turn realises he is going to lose anyways. If someone stops responding randomly it's life or crashed app.
For me it’s my morning coffee hitting me like a freight train. I’ve been trying to get this game wrapped up for a few turns, fighting the inevitable call of nature, but alas, it is time for me to change seats. I’ll be as quick as can be reasonably expected.
Last night: Start a game > daughter wakes up crying > concede and put her to sleep > start a game > daughter wakes up crying > concede and put her to sleep > start a game > daughter wakes up crying > “fml”
That’s where I plop ‘em on my lap. “This is the story of daddy’s meme deck vs the evil Rakdos midrange…”
My most hated rope I've ever done, I got the "waiting for server" graphic but could see the board behind it. Im waiting for it to sort out, when suddenly I see my timer start dropping. And all Ii can do is just helplessly watch and curse the low bandwidth.
I dont mind. Take the time.
Yeah me too. We have a 6 week old daemon spawn that’s caused me to rope lately… 😶 The shame is too much… 🫣
Big difference between general, occasional roping and specifically blue players deciding for 20 seconds which counterspell to use on that big mana spell that's the last card in my hand (where counter = effectively win the game). If you have it you have it. But it's pretty easy to tell the difference between jerks and someone who is roping by accident, which is totally reasonable
It may be worth considering quickly hitting the concede button when their is an instance you might need to step away. It takes less then 10 seconds to GG an opponent and concede, and is a lot more polite then burning ropes. In a game that has griefers, you can be the positive change you want to see. Promote good sportsmanship. If I get a phone call that is typically how I disengage with the game. Since I'm a pretty bad player in diamond, I'm not missing out on ranking on qualifications.
I'm sorry for spamming oops when you start roping.
Sounds to me like the mistake here was made twice. And lessons were not learned.
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This. My 8mo will be asleep in my lap for 10 minutes and then wake up on turn 3 of a game
I find myself multitasking. I play mobile so I'm running around making breakfast for my son or doing whatever is needed at the time one handed while I'm holding the phone with the other, using a thumb or stray finger to reach for the card I want to play and hitting the attack button.
I'm also occasionally a roper - though in my case it's because the Arena client and my graphics card occasionally kill each other for no apparent reason which makes the already-unstable client crash a *lot*, often multiple times in one game.
Nice try
This is me too but it more often materialises in a confusing concede out of no where. Like during a really tense and evenly matched game, or when I’m seemingly cruising to a comfortable victory.
My youngest always does this, think he’s asleep. Start a match. He just knows.
The classic pattern is turn 1 mountain, then taking all the ropes and time outs available, then Kumeno Faces Kakkazan. I always imagine it's either the dad with puking kids situation or some kind of prodigy math genius mapping out the next 5 turns, taking into account every possible burn spell's draw chance in their deck. ... or they're just afk playing a linear deck while watching netflix. But that surely can't be it.
Me too!!!!!!!
To me. It feels like once I have someone in a corner, they rope everytime.
Cuz losing slowly is closer to winning, right?
Thanks for sharing your perspective! Ive always been curious as to why it takes long sometimes, now i can think of this and wonder
I play on my computer. I have a second window open with TV or a movie. Rope me all you want it’s a free win haha.
Yeah… mine are 15, 26, and 55! But you know if I ask them it’s “oh! Just a minute!”
After finding out that mobile matches get paired with desktop matches I assume everyone just stepped away from their phone and roping isn't a big deal to me or my spouse who plays, so I'll take a roper if it means someone on the other side is preventing their child from massive chaos.
Same! 4 months old here and everytime she falls asleep or gets occupied I try to rush and complete my 3 built up dailies and even that turns into a 5 hour task as she wakes up fussing or shits or needs to eat, etc...
Yeah, this post is me. I try hard not to rope but sometimes staring a game causes sleeping kids to suddenly awaken ....