Did he love lasagna?

Yep. After Lincoln made it famous people began to see presidential assassination as rather passe. And he loses out on the shortest tenure record to Harrison, so nobody remembers poor Garfield for much other than his mathematical contributions. Or contribution, singular.

Netflix's Death by Lightning introduced me to history I probably should've learned as a kid but I never paid attention to. I watched the first episode and ended up spoiling the rest of the show for myself by going down a wikipedia rabbit hole.

Ah, so not Mesopotamia?

Cause that is where Magic is from.

Sounds British to me.

I quit and when I looked back at the mid 2010s the game was unrecognizable

I have to say, I've played on and off for a long while - from the mid-90s until a few years ago - and I agree. But that was sort of the appeal of the game. Always evolving. Constantly trying new mechanics and styles of play. It was a kind-of laboratory for game design and implementation that kept me coming back to see what was new.

The thing that has turned me off more now than ever before is the way the game has fully stagnated. Every new release is just a reskinned iteration that calcified at the end of COVID. The mechanics have gotten cookie-cutter and have really divorced themselves from the different styles and themes between sets. The gulf between Common and Rare/Mythic, plus the way Common cards are totally interchangeable across editions, has made Pauper a lot less fun.

And now that AI art is popping up in all the new sets, I can't even enjoy that much.

That's before you get into the shameless cash-grab that was the 30th aniversery set. $999 for a box with four packs in it which, apparently, did so badly that the excess cards were dumped in a landfill rather than going into discount. Really painfully shameless overmarketing and underdeveloping. Heartbreaking to see Hasbro rip the beating heart out of the company, because they saw a golden goose and couldn't be satisfied with just one golden egg a day.

i got my firs tpack in the 90s, 90s era magic and played until end of HS, right now its just UB releasing every few months ruining the game. its all very fast paced gaming now, counter this and that,,,etc. yugioh is similar.

He's actually an immortal and just trims his beard every few decades and pretends to be a descendant.

Typically one has eight great-grandparents.

And yes, thank you for asking.

Guessing from the hostile tone of your response that my own tone was badly conveyed. I was just making a general observation that we seem to automatically treat relatively distant ancestors with the same significance as grandparents. I do the same.