u/meyerjaw

Hey r/daddit I tried to search for this but didn't see any recent posts. However my grandmother passed away this week and we have the funeral on Friday. I have 2 boys, 9 and 12 years old. We have been very fortunate with our families with great grandparents and great aunts/uncles being a big part of their lives but the past year has been pretty rough. Late last year my wife lost her grandfather, a couple months ago I lost my great aunt, a couple weeks ago she also lost her great aunt, and around the same time my parents dog died, (I'm not comparing pets to people but the youngest son grew up with this dog so it was a big hit for him.) and then Monday my grandmother passed.

All of these deaths and resulting services have pretty low key, cremation services or celebrations of life that tried to bring joy and life into a terrible time. However my grandmother's service is planned to be an old fashioned 2 hour visitation with an open casket followed by a burial at the cemetery.

I understand every child is different and maturity levels vary greatly, but looking to get the hive minds thoughts. Is 9 too young to bring to an funeral like this? I want my son to be able to say goodbye but don't want to traumatize him in the process.

TLDR: I know today sucked for some people but I got to hang out with some of the best people in my area and my son and I are hooked now.

First, I'm brand new to the game and community so hello, I'm a recent addict. There is a lot of posts about scalpers and frustration after today's pre-release but I wanted to share a positive experience from today.

I have been following Lorcana since it was announced but didn't want to get into a TCG as I have a lot of other nerdy/expensive hobbies. Last Saturday, I took my 8 year old into the LGS because his big bro was going to be gone for a week for summer camp. Figured I would get him a new game to play to kill time while his brother was gone. He saw the signs for AOTV Pre-Release Event this weekend and being a Disney dude, immediately latched on. I tried to push him another direction but he was hooked. Knowing my personality, I knew we would be jumping in deep so with the rare nod from my wife (she is also a Disney nerd) we picked up a 2 player starter kit and started playing.

All last week we went to every Target, hobby shop, and game store in the area looking for recent booster packs. We found a few and have been playing every night. Around last Wednesday I asked him if he wanted to sign up for the pre-release party and he was dumbfounded, he thought I was kidding, but yesterday we went back to the LGS and signed both of us up. We played until 11 last night because he wanted to prepare mulligans and strategies. I finally forced him to go to bed at 11:30 but he barely slept because he was so excited.

And then today, the event started at 12 and it was incredible. Nothing huge, I think we had 24 people show up, probably around 5 kids but mostly adults. And this group of people were incredible. They were helping coach and offering advice, chatting between games about all aspects of the game, just a great time. The event ran from 12-3 but we were there for 5 hours. I had to peel my 8 year old off the tables. Every single person at the event was amazing to both myself and my son. One incredible person named Ryan, gave me son any card he cracked open that he didn't need so we could work on building up our deck building capabilities, at least 200 cards maybe more, it was hard to keep track because he was just sliding stacks of cards to me throughout the afternoon. We ended up leaving with a sealed box from the store to open with mom and big bro.

Then when we got home, my oldest was home from camp today and my youngest son of course had to get him hooked on the game. So we cracked 24 packs as a family and then played for another 3 hours teaching him the ropes.

I know this is a wall of text at this point. However the reason for posting it was to say, I understand that today was frustrating for a lot of people. This game's popularity got blown up by dipshits with too much time of their hands and scalpers are trying to take advantage. So a lot of people didn't get the chance to buy cards they wanted to today. However, as a new comer, this community was awesome to my son and I, and I know for a fact he is going to remember today for a very long time because of the people that play this game. We had the best time today and it's because of the people here. So thank you. I hope everyone here gets at least one card they were hoping for.