I have seen idiots rushing out stores with whole boxes of the this shit cards and trannys waiting for hours next to this machines.I click on the machine just to fuck with it and it's always sold out.How the fuck did the Jews created such demand for fucking 1990s tier cartoon trading cards?
>>541670518pokefags and tendies are literal subhuman goycattle
>>541670518It's a fun game to play with your autistic friends. You should give it a try.
basically their lives are boring and too easy so they seek thrill and stimuli by gambling
>>541670518That bag looked like the mutt meme looking at the machine in the thumbnail.
>>541670518modern version of beanie babies, or stanley cup for kids and pedos
>>541670671Kids aren't paying the inflated prices for the cards. It's mostly rich gay men.
>>541670755and how do you get a kid into your basement as a rich gay man? you offer them to check your collection and sell for discount
>>541670518American life is a brutal grind to stay alive and not end up a crackhead turning tricks on the street corner. They are flipping the cards for money.
>>541670518i imagine some lil kid trying to use this but some greasy 35 year old neckbeard scalper not letting him90% of pokemon fans are onions neckbeard manchildrengoy truly are cattle
Zoroark
>>541670518pokemon fans are some of the most mentally stunted losers there are. the series has been insanely low effort for actual decades now and they still buy multiple copies of every game day one. as for these cards, the art is shit and the game balance is nonexistent and yet some of these turds are worth hundreds or thousands.
>>541670518People are desperate for anything from the older times now because everything is so terrible
>>541670999Yeah it’s been slop since 2005
None of the posts in this thread are rightIt's money, it's a small scale lottery for normies and kids, it has become bigger since covid because money has become harder for most normies since then, every pack could potentially get you 1000s in return, it triggers nostalgia, gambling, and social acceptance parts of the brain all at once
>>541670937Why do they always do onions face?
>>541670518the cards arent really "sold out." its instead only giving out a box every 30minutes. scalpers stand infront of these and buy them then resell them for inflated prices. generally older males trying to profit but at the same time screwing over genuine fans/kids of the game. it works because pokemon cant print cards fast enough to keep up with demand, the most insane are the unopened boxes. some card stores have started to cut the seals before they sell them just so they cant be resold.its a dead hobby, just like tf2 and cs2 turned into hat and skin simulators.if you want to piss these retards off just cut the line, press the screen, and buy whatever pack is available, it'll reset the timer and then theyre waiting there another 30minutes
Pokemon outperforming the S&P 500 almost 8 to 1. Thanks to a bunch of manchilds dumping their retirement into pikachus instead of gold/silver.
>>541670999if I can steal from zionist megacorpos while scalping faggot leftist tranny zoomers, I will. my teutonic blood calls me to do so
>>541670518Pokémon is the gayest shit ever besides marvel. If I see a "man" my age into it even remotely , I write them off as a serious person. Shockingly, ive met many dorks who scalp these things and openly brag about it.
>>541670937Why shouldn't I invest $150 on a card that will appreciate in price faster than precious metals? It will last longer than me if I keep it in mint condition.
>>541671202>my teutonic blood calls me to do sothat's your jewish or anglo blood talking
>>541670518pokefags are mentally illnintendo is a cult
>>541671298because you arent "investing" you're speculating. you cant print more gold. pokemon can always just print more cards or do something thats a market disruption similar to the times valve has manipulated the skins markets in their games by changing the rules or drop %s. yall really are goy cattle.
Pokemon is the ultimate goy cattle fandom. Simple as.
Are these cards the same MTG kinda game that were popular in the early 00s? Or are they just for collecting
>>541671663Nintendo can't go back in time and print old editions. You can't compare digital collector's items to a physical copy because it can outlast the lifespan of an entire franchise. Valve will pull the plug and delete of their items one day.
Gambit should use Pokemon cards
>>541670518I saw one of these in Vegas. My brother-in-law got a single Charizard just for fun.
everyone with money is playing pokemon right now this whole thread is fucking cope lol
>>541670518That's not a "psyop". That's just capitalism, where the value of things is a phoney fiction and not based in reality. So you get people who starve on the the streets because they don't have $5 for food and other people spent $1000 a month on printed cardboard.
>How the fuck did the Jews created such demand for fucking 1990s tier cartoon trading cards?Youtubers telling people that it can be used as an investment, or that they can scalp cards for a living to people who want to use it as an investment. >>541671776There is a card game you can actually play, but it's less commonly enjoyed for the game compared to MTG.
How much in pokecoin do I have if I have my binder of cards from the 90s untouched? I'm guessing only the holographics have any value.
>could have retired as a billionaire>instead 11 year old me gave all my 1st gen Pokemon cards away to a friend
It's literally hoarded by people that don't want to work an actual job, go talk to the average TCG shop owner and ask for a $5 discount on a box of cards they marked up 200% and you'll pay cash, they will still tell you no.These people are real losers.
>>541673549the hilarious shit about this to me, as someone who works in finance, is how economically illiterate these collectible tards are. My brother is 10 years older than me, in his late 30s, and is obsessed with flipping this shit. I tried to explain, the time he puts into it would make him more working and the money he parks in it would earn more in a basic index fund.>>541672105case in point. the modern world is full of retards that cant do 2 seconds of research beyond watching reels
>>541670518Scalpers. And yes you can make real money from that. But it's kind of humiliating and time consuming . I have a friend who does it.
>>541673341it's easy to look up, all sorts of price trackers and shit
>>541670518I've never played pokemon. I only play Halo CE l, the original one. My 360 runs it well. I play when I feel the big sad coming, but don't I have much time anymore.
>>541670606Lol, I've always been too much of a loser to have friends to play loser card games with.
>>541670518https://youtu.be/jknWhbk6Q5E
>>541673821>work 4 hours a day for 2 days a week doing nothing and playing with the cards you like>make honest money buying and selling physical objects>this is bad>slave 8 days a week for a fakejob meant to drain your soul and rape scam money from people >good job mr. Robot slave, you are doing well
>>541670518I am with 8 people that track and follow Pokemon machine loaders We take turns raiding the machinesGet fucked
>>541674110Why not just skip one step and raid the machine loader van?Should be easy, it's not secured like a cash transport...yet.
>>541673944>I've never played pokemon.try it anon
>>541674094>scalping playing cards for kids>honestlol, no
>>541673945It's not hard. Build a deck and learn to pay on the virtual game then build a real life deck and bring it to a local tournament.
>>541673821>I tried to explain, the time he puts into it would make him more working and the money he parks in it would earn more in a basic index fund.You just don't get being a hustler, got to stack that paper like an entrepreneur I made a whole 5 dollars on my 2 boxes and all I had to do was wait in the cold for 14 hours piss in a bottle to stay in line and fist fight an 8 year old after the doors open.
>>541670999Nintendo & Pokemon has attained the branding level of Apple. At least Apple products are functional & productiveNintendo could dip into smartphone market, released a tendie kiddie shit quality smartphone and it'll sell better than most android, rivaling iPhone.>>541671179Nintendo, especially Pokemon, while being condemned as the worst from consumer side, are considered the perfect exemplary companies according to capitalist corporates, MBA students, investors; particularly from profit to effort ratio (reap maximum profit as big as possible with minimum production/service effort as low as possible). There is a limit on how much companies can shrinkflation, enshittification, cut corners as much before consumers fed up and refuse to buy it. Not the case with Pokemon>you'll buy it anywaythere is a pic of zuckerberg giving a presentation with caption brands as religion. No companies in the world could attain such level of corporate kikery better than Nintendo & Pokemon. No companies could even get the most lobotomized, subservient, fanatical consumers like these two. Hardcore Copyright companies like Disney, Hasbro really wish they could have the fraction of mind domination over their consumers like Pokemon has. If brand worship is a religion, then Pokemon is the world's most resilient religion to exist.
>>541675540>bring it to a local tournament.Why would I go to a "local tournament" if I don't know anyone?
>>541676893You join the league at the game shop to meet people who also play the game.
>>541670518Hows mtg doing? Havent played it since 2012+-
>>541670518>I click on the machine just to fuck with it and it's always sold out.That's what I want to know most of all, the kid always bugs me to get something from it when we're at the supermarket and he always ends up disappointed.Secretly I'm kind of glad that I don't need to be the one to say no, but we're there on average twice a week and it's sold out every fucking time, so what even is the point of this thing taking up the floor space?
>>541673945This.
>>541670518Pokemon is degenerate which is why Japan shills it in the west. It's obvious. It's called "pocket monsters" so everyone is clamoring to get their own pocket monster. Monsters are degenerate, it's a fake concept they don't exist IRL. But pokemon lets people pretend they can own their very own pet monster.
Current era tulips
>>541671776It's mostly just for collecting. I've never seen anyone play Pokémon the card game.
>>541679626No it's for gambling. Pokemon cards are selling for thousands of dollars on the internet. This is the same shit that happened in the 90s with sportcards. I remember it well.
>>541679693Same difference
>>541679040>Monsters are degenerate, it's a fake concept they don't exist IRLbut they do!
mouse utopia shows itself in strange ways
>>541670518The store I work got a few boxes of those to sell randomly a few months ago. Not really the kind of place you would expect to find toys or japslop. They sold out within two days tho. Mostly grown men bought them.
>>541676485>Nitendo (...) perfect exemplary companies according to capitalist corporates, MBA students, investorsthey are not investors dislike the Nintendo way of handling things they want Nintendo to fleece the consumer more and sell its shit everywhere. Nintendo instead insists on doing its long term planning. Same reason why they don't do layoffs.
>>541670518>ask young person 30 years ago what pokemon is all about>young person explains>explanation makes absolutely no sensePokemon must be the weirdest, most nonsensical, most meaningless, least connected to reality fad I ever heard of.
It's Pikachu
>>541670518It's pretty sad pokemon has become a 30 year old goyslave betting market. I think this is the last generation that will care about pokemon. It's gaining a reputation as an obsession for greasy manchildren like Marvel and Star Wars.
>>541670518>>541670560pokefags and children cant even buy cards because of picrel
>>541676485Fucking mentally ill tranny KYS.
>>541672105
>>541682463Actually, I can build a whole deck off of ebay without having to touch a single booster pack. It's rather convenient.
>>541670518You can thank the dumb niggers who treated baseball cards like investment stock options.
>>541670518scalpers inflated sales high enough that nintendo thought, "hey, we can make a lot of money by installing these kiosks"Grown men peddling trading cards, believing themselves to be savvy Warren Buffet tier investors. Absolutely repulsive.
>>541682761Very cool, thanks scalper man. What a great service you provide to the world.
>>541682908er no I don't scalp. That's grunt work.
>>541671663So you’re saying scarcity is why gold is valuable but for some reason scarcity can’t apply to anything else on the planet? Curious. Anyways as other anon said, as long as these cartoon animals are outpacing the S&P by 5x or more, it is what it is.
Why are grown ass middle aged men playing a card game for children? Do you guys watch teletubbies too?
>>541683080I like watching people win and lose.
I scored a shitload of these in 2023 now they're worth tens of thousands lmao
>>541682263Star wars was bottom of the barrel nerd shit until disney bought them, I won't be surprised if pokemon becomes even bigger
It was cringe even when i was kid to collect. Just looser kids were collecting it
>>541670606Nobody is buying the cards to play the game.
>>541683375That isn't true.
>>541683416
>>541670937>i imagine some lil kid trying to use this but some greasy 35 year old neckbeard scalper not letting himwhy should little kids today give a shit about cringe millennial shit?
I had pokemon cards when i was a kid, but i was wayyyy more into yu gi oh, wonder why there hasnt been a yugioh revival cause that card game is more fun to play
>fucking 1990s tier cartoon trading cards?The problem here is that a Japanese toy company made a currency substitute that actually competes with fake fiat USD. The toy trading card is now a high performing investment thanks to low quality government management of fake government currencyMaybe the Japanese toy company should replace the federal reserve and we can price big macs in squirtles
>>541670518Third worlder detected.
>>541670518Because in this hustle economy everyone wants to buy some garbage to sell it for more They don't care about cards or PokémonThey just want to make money
>>541671149"Pokemon can't print"Ok you fucking nigger kike. Riight
>>541683596All money and trading cards are fake. And artificially scarce.What this tells us is that people's trust in corporations and brands increases as their trust in governments and democracy decreases.
>>541670518The internet has ruined society. I just paid $250 for parking at an acdc concert that somebody bought for $50. And somehow, the tickets I paid $180 for now cost $80. The internet has ruined thrift stores and garage sales. Either by people being able to look up every single item or the stores themselves looking up their items and putting the best ones on ebay before a customer even sees it. It's ruined human interaction with social media and group chats. It's ruined attention span and intelligence. Honestly, the internet is the single worst thing to happen to humanity in our entire existence and it's only getting worse.
>>541670937>i imagine some lil kid trying to use this but some greasy 35 year old neckbeard scalper not letting himWhy pay for using it? These subhuman gamblers throw away the cards they don't like, kids can just pick cards up from the nearest trash bin.
>>541670606>>541683375They have higher level pre-made decks now with multiple copies of strong cards built around more advanced strategies than the theme decks. For kitchen table pokemon against your kids there is nothing better, especially because the alternative is playing the booster game with spics and neckbeards.
>>541683812Somehow there's fucking niggers, even itt, that think Pokémon cant print cards fast enoughFucking subhumans
>>541683416right, it's only 99.9% true
>>541682996Gold is inherently valuable, pokemon cards aren't. Get a life, loser.
>>541683596The problem is jews taking what was a children's toy in the 90s and corrupting it.
Real men play Magic: The Gathering.
>>541684364
>>541670518>>541670937>>541682463>men in 2026:
>>541676485>Pokemon is the world's most resilient religion to exist.it happened because Amerikikes killed all the original saturday morning cartoons to just dub over existing Japanese IP purchased for cheap.When you closely examine trends in retrospect, the Enshittification has been going on for at least half a century now.
>>541683428Only Pokemon (and anime in general) is able to make niggers likable.
>>541684068Are you maybe retarded? They keep the cards artificially scarce so they don't lose their fake "value", much like money. Why print more cards when people see that they sell like hot cakes, inflating their "value" further?
>>541684364Mtg is shit. The community has always been a bunch of bastards. Their smell is the least offensive thing about them and let me tell you, it was bad. Playing in any kind of event is like being in a room full of comic book guys from the simpsons. Even in limited formats they act like total bitches. Now it panders to commander, which is the gayest format of all. Wizards loves edh because you're only allowed 1 copy of every card so you have to buy more. Every card is basically a novel to read and even commons have 3 abilities each. It was already shitty 10 years ago when I stopped playing but somehow is even worse now.
>>541670518Just goyim things, anon. Do not concern yourself with the affairs of beasts.
>>541684507American cartoons went to shit long before 4kids, retard. You're talking absolute bottom of the barrel garbage like Johnny Test.
>>541684885the sad part is that bottom of the barrel Johnny Test is better than the current tranny shit.
>>541684885johnny test was not even that bad. the worst american cartoon would have to be wow wow wubzy or cocomelon hands down period
>>541684681That why you play mtg (commander now) with your FRIENDS and not with store randoms. Do you have friends, gringo (or nigga/mulatto)? I come to the LGS with my homies, we seat and play while the tourney retards kill ach other for $10 in store credit in their "cEDH tournaments."Sometimes some rando approaches us wantinf to partake in our chilling and we often test him by ganging up on him and raping his deck to pieces. If he can take it like a champ, he is allowed to join us. And I mean he because we explicitly do not allow women or fags at our table. Stop crying and be the change you want to see, anon.
>>541685107Cocomelon was created by a korean and is owned by the british.
>>541685282then wow wow wubbzy it is
>>541685264Commander is gay and so are you.
>it's my wifi humdinger ratio 3000
>>541685107The discussion is about saturday morning cartoons, which are generally for children, not toddlers. Worthless chatbot.
>>541671149Kids don't play pokemon, scalpers sell to basedlenials and adult zoomers, both of whom are not spending money on kids of their own (they don't have any), but instead on toys and consumption.
>>541670518sounds like you're jealous of other people's happiness
>>541670518youtubers brought back the hype with shorts about sales of rare cards. scalpers are trying to get a piece of the pie. kids who just want to collect cards and play a game suffer.if I ever see an adult camping one of these machine's I'm going to drag him outside and kick his ass. Fair warning, fags.
>>541685539i am not a chatbot i am a human being
This whole thing hinges on people being okay paying scalper prices. Why would anyone cuck their own wallets by enabling parasites?>nah bro i simply must have this cardboard!Cattlebrains are hard to comprehend.
>>541670518jewtendo. Japs lost the war. They’re jew slaves
>>541670518Scalpers be Scalping.
>>541670518Seeing people somewhat regularly line up at 6am to get into target when it opens at 7am so that they can buy new Pokémon cards was very depressing when I was working there. Demographically it was a lot of obese middle aged men and their families
>>541670518It's the best franchise
>>541673341I just sold my childhood collection for a grand on eBay. I sold the holos individually and then the regulars as a bulk deal. Easy money that was sitting in the attic. Probably a good time to get rid of them. The folks (like me) who played with them in 99 are adults with real money now and it's the 30th anniversary for what that matters. Once the millenials and zoomers are gone or finally 'grow up' they will lose all their value.
>>541670518>Pokémon>da JoooosYou idiots are completely mind broken. kekCould've had the Bright Future, but no.
>this is a pokemon
I don't think it's a psy op. A lot of fat millenials are just manchildren
>>541674189You really looking forward to GTA 6 I bet
>>541689110Exactly.Real men collect cars not cards.
>>541684470>handles the cards like an ape>finds the rarest card>it's fucked because of apelike handling
>>541684470These people are embarrassing and mentally ill.Even if you want to speculate on Pokémon cards, just act like a normal fucking human being please. Buy a box, go home and open it.
>>541689775real men drive cars and collect toolsthe car collection is just a pretext
>>541670518why is it always "Jews" with this shit. it started off with some pagan dudes trading shit in places like berkeley, madison or some other liberal college townnot to mention cards being traded in the 40s and 50s with baseball fans.
>>541670518Believe it or notHornus Wagner was German but not Jewish>>1880s–1900s First baseball cards; the T206 Honus Wagner card becomes the most valuable ever printed
>>541670606its stupid easy. terrible game.
>>541670656This
