Hello! Thank you for taking the time to check out a little more about me. I'm Rich the owner and operator of Gear Five Games and I'm going to be King of the Card Stores. I know that's a big claim from a glorified blog post no one will ever read (except you!), but I really mean it. I started Gear Five Games to build the greatest card store in the world! Whew! It gets me fired up just saying it erm- typing it ...you get what I mean. Now, you might be asking yourself "How does an online store help you make the greatest card store ever built?" or "What the heck is a Sisyphus?" and that is a great question, in fact its TWO great questions. I will start with the first one as its very simple to answer. To build a great card store you need 3 things, well actually many things but there are 3 really important ones. 1. Passion 2.Community 3. Money. So why did I start and online store? Simple! I have the passion, what I need is the community and the money. So what better way to acquire both than selling some cards online. So in a nut shell, I want to do something really cool but I can't do it without money.

So what's with all this Sisyphus gibberish?

I'm glad you asked! (technically I asked but you read it so, I'm holding you accountable) Sisyphus is an ancient Greek myth about a king that angered Zeus by trying to cheat death. For his trickery Zeus curses him to spend the afterlife rolling a large boulder up a hill only for that boulder to slip from his grasp and roll back down to the bottom. I would not blame you for thinking that this punishment renders his efforts eternally useless. But what if it isn't? What if there IS a purpose to rolling a boulder up a hill even if you know that it will always end up back at the bottom? Enter Albert Camus (thunderous applause) a French philosopher who in 1941 wrote an essay about the myth of Sisyphus aptly named The Myth of Sisyphus.. groundbreaking. Now to summarize it and do it no justice at all Camus in that essay uses Sisyphus as a metaphor for the human condition. He waxes poetic about the reality that Man is born with an innate wanting of meaning in a world that offers none. But fear NOT! For the conclusion is one that is best said by the man himself so I will quote him. "The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy."


So here I stand at the base of the mountain, a massive boulder in front of me. Though it may slip from my grasp, I'm ready to start pushing.

-Rich, Gear Five Games