>>97700030
When I was 12 I stole yugioh and pokemon cards while on vacation
To this day I feel terrible regret, I can't help but think about that kid who was playing on the beach, around my age, finding out his red dragon archifiend was simply gone from his extra deck because some fucking asshole (me) had snatched it while he was playing with someone else.

I genuinely feel so fucking bad, I've never stolen anything past that phase and wouldn't again unless I was literally starving

>>97700030
I never stole cards.
Not because I ever thought myself above the act, but because my other friends were all under suspicion of thieving, and I felt I'd get caught.

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When the Pokemon card game first came out and I was in middle school, immediately after the last bell everyone would head to the front of the school and start trading cards until they were picked up. And I really mean just about everyone.

It was fast and frantic trading, and all I had to start with were a handful of garbage cards a friend had given me. I was a kid with no allowance, and even just a single booster pack was beyond me. It was a rich kid's game at the time, with only a few kids being able to have serious collections while the rest would often not even have enough cards to make a deck (very few actually played, most just collected/traded). But, I would pay attention to all the trading happening around me, learned what everyone was looking for, and traded the right cards to the right people. I was quite good at this, and rapidly got my hands on some pretty desirable cards, all with the ultimate goal of eventually trading my way up to a Charizard.

That wouldn't be easy. Everyone knew Charizard was the best card, and no one was trading it for anything less than four other desirable rares, if that. I always had my ear out for any Charizards up for trade, and there might be one every few days or so, and always with people throwing big offers at it.

One day, early in the morning when a few people would trade before the first bell, one kid showed off his pokemon card stickers. These were cheap fakes with obnoxious holograms, essentially worthless. I didn't know all that, but when I got my hands on four rares for a dirt cheap trade, I got a strong suggestion of their value.

At the last bell, all the kids dashed to the front of the school, and I was inclined to trade like normal, forgetting about the four stickers in my possession. That was up until a kid I very much didn't like put up his Mewtwo for trade right at the start of the trading session.

>>97700683
Now, I really didn't like this kid. Very few people did. He was a nasty, ill-tempered, little snot. You could even say we hated each other, as far as childhood emotions went. Now, that's not any real justification for what I was about to do to him, but looking back, if I was going to fleece a kid, I'm glad it was him.

A point working in my favor was I wasn't actually lying. I didn't know (for certain) that the stickers were actually worthless or what there true value was, so I went ahead and treated them like they were exceptionally rare and special. The other kids also helped me out quite a bit, because none of them had seen one and their immediate reactions were all "oohs" and "ahhs". I offered up two for the Mewtwo, hyped them up as best as I could (this one has so much HP! Look at that attack damage!), but he seemed incredibly nervous about the trade. With the reckless abandon of a child, I threw in the other two stickers, and he thought I had made a mistake and immediately snatched them all up.

With that trade done, I now had the 2nd most desirable card in the game, in exchange for 4 stickers I had traded a Pidgeotto for. I was picked up shortly after that, and looking at my handful of cards I felt like I had a real offer the next time a Charizard showed up.

The next morning, in the early trade session, a kid with a Charizard seemed interested. Maybe it was a bit of charity on his part, maybe my clear love for that card moved him, but he parted with it for my offer of the Mewtwo, a Raichu, and a Nidoking: all my rares. With the trade done, I had accomplished my one goal, and was beaming throughout my morning classes.

At lunch time, however, the kid I had traded the stickers to found me. And he was furious. By the end of yesterday's after-school trading session, the market had already been flooded by the stickers. You couldn't even trade ten stickers for a single real card, and he had traded his prized Mewtwo for just four.

>>97700703
He demanded I give his Mewtwo back. I told him whatever the middle-school equivalent of "Fuck off" was. When he refused, I told him that No Take Backs was agreed before the trade, and that I had already traded it away, so I couldn't return it even if I wanted to.

This hurt him. It wasn't until many years later that I learned that this kid wasn't nasty for no reason. His father had abandoned his family, and he grew up incredibly poor. Buying any pokemon cards at all was a real luxury for him. That Mewtwo was a big deal to him, and he probably couldn't believe his luck when a kid he hated was willing to trade 4 super-holographic rares for it, what he probably thought would be the start of a further series of lucky trades.

He definitely had some malice in him when he snatched up that trade, and even now, even though what I did was essentially stealing from a poor child from a broken home, I don't feel that bad because it was a trade where we both thought we were screwing the other person over.

He wouldn't let it go, but the court of childhood wasn't very far. The other kids, listening in, passed their judgement, and No Take Backs was an iron-clad rule that the very foundation of the trading system was built upon. I may not have been wholly innocent, but I honestly had no idea the stickers were that worthless, and the trade had been between willing parties at what we both thought were current market prices.

>>97700709
Or, they just didn't like the kid because he was a little snot. Either way, the crowd passed their judgment, and he went off to sulk about that incredibly bad trade on his end.

Later that same day, Pokemon card trading was banned. Our homeroom teachers announced it right before the last bell, and I couldn't help but immediately wonder if the kid had tried going to the teachers and ruined it for everyone. But, when I spoke to my teacher about it later she said a lot of parents had been complaining about it. Kids were going home crying about being pressured into bad trades and other horror stories, alongside some parents just not liking the look of children acting like cocaine-fueled day traders in front of the school every time they went to pick up their kids.

I still have that Charizard card somewhere. There is a bit of guilt when I think about how I didn't get it entirely fairly and honestly, but not enough for me to feel too bad about it. It might have been a steal, a con, and one done against a poor child, but he really was a dumb snot of a kid and got worse as he grew older. Maybe he simply forgot about that Mewtwo when the Pokemon card fad faded, or maybe he used that memory to fuel his continued resentment against me for years to come, but either way he wasn't just a jerk to me but to damn near everyone. My own moral failings aside, I'm glad the only card I ever stole from anyone was from him and by him being baited into such a bad trade.

>>97700030
I have never committed a crime and I love the government very much.

I stole a couple pokemon plushes from the official pokemon store stall at pax unplugged last year. I don't steal from indie companies though (unless it's pdf/supplemental material)

>>97700715
A trade is a trade. He should learn from that to be smarter and less greedy. But all he probably took away is that he was a victim. He no doubt goes through life blaming everyone slse for his problems. Probably claims to have ADHD or PTSD or some made up shit. Children like him come from filth and go to filth.

I never stole a card but someone sold me an ink eyes for far too much in high school. About double what it was worth. I ended up selling it myself when it briefly went up for a small profit, at a fair price. Something is only worth as much as another person is willing to pay.

>>97700030
no,
stealing is for niggers

>>97700030
I stole an unpainted miniature from my friend and returned it painted.

>>97703665
>Something is only worth as much as another person is willing to pay.
That's the kind of thinking that leads companies to form cabals and jack up the prices of insulin in certain markets because they know people will literally die unless they pay.
Sure, to those people, living is worth hundreds of dollars, but the stuff costs pennies to manufacture when done at scale.

>>97700174
>red dragon archifiend
Worth it. No, but seriously, if you really feel horrible guilt about this and it prevented you from ever even attempting to steal (or harming people in some other way) again, I guess it didn't turn out so bad. The kids grown up now and could probably laugh it off.
You learned what regret feels like and that might prevent you from doing more serious damage later in life.

I snagged a handful of Islands from a longbox at the back of the store. They probably would have let me take them if I had asked though, the lands and commons were piling up pretty bad and iirc they ended up throwing out boxes of them for lack of space or interest.

>>97700030
Not that I can recall. I did leaver my entire Warhammer Fantasy collection in the care of my best friends after a medical crisis and we kind of drifted entirely apart because back then I went most of a year without a phone and then life happened. I miss my best friend and his family was closer to me than most of my own. It saddens that I don't know if my friend or his parents are even alive anymore. I tried looking him up again, but I couldn't find a trace. It's not like with younger people that are online everywhere.

>>97703665
I can understand people selling or trading something for more than it's worth, but performing rug pulls or passing the bag or any number of trading tricks is just theft with extra steps.

>>97703863
We're talking about trading cards. You can get off your soapbox now.

>>97704794
I think when he sold it to me it was a bit of a trading trick. Trying to hype it up so he could make more money than it was worth. But I was happy with the card and it was in my cube for a long time. I sold it to my friend to put in his cube.

>>97700030
Some faggot stole some cards from a starter Yugioh set by telling me he wanted to borrow them so he could beat his brother. My stupid ass believed him because I thought we were friends and kept guilt tripping me about it. Later he claimed he was being chased so he had to throw his cards on the sidewalk. Later I started realizing he may be a kleptomaniac because I heard he brags about stealing from others, he didn't even want them, he wanted the thrill of stealing; nobody trusted him with their belongings or loan him any money and if you refuse, he calls you a cheap jew or call you poor unaware of the irony. Last I heard of him, he was arrested for vehicle theft.

>>97700030
I once was in a walmart and for some reason a bunch of yu gi oh cards were open and all over the floor
So I took some and put them in my card carrier that I had at the time

>>97700030
One time I was in the grocery store with my mom and I stole the promotional BEUD from an issue of Shonen Jump. I felt so guilty afterwards I ripped it up

>>97705331
I had a friend I played D&D with. Nice guy. He stopped coming and I later learned he was in juvenile detention. Apparently he was also hanging out with a bunch of kids who stole cars then set them on fire for fun…

fa/tg/uys are all white and employed so no

I had some 16-year old force me to steal a bunch of Yugioh cards from a grocery store when I was but a wee 8-year old.

Aside from that, I haven't stolen anything knowingly. God knows I probably grabbed a Goblin token from the Kreat-maining twink.

>>97704620
It varies by store obviously, but the one I played at had a massive pile of basic lands for drafts and didn't care if someone took a couple, or even took their whole draft deck worth of lands home if they were newbs. It was on an honour system of don't take more than you really need. And most drafters left 3 basics per draft anyways.

Years back when some bad stuff happened in my life I fell into a period of kleptomania and stole a few minis from my local gw, mostly from the painting table. The memory still haunt me to this day. I may have been young, life may have been rough, but it wasn't an excuse.

My friends gave me money for Yu-Gi-Oh! booster packs for them, I bought like two each for each of us. Then, when I got home, I opened all of the packs and switched the rares so I would get the rarest ones. Then I gave it to them and insisted that I just opened them out of curiosity but didn't switch anything. It was one of the shittiest things I've ever done and to this day, I regret it. It is, thankfully, a little bit softened by the fact that we learnt the cards were all fake, and they were dirt cheap. We all got real cards after that and actually got into the game, proper. I found myself trying to twist my one friend's little brother's arm to trade a rare to me that would've been a bad trade for him, but thankfully he didn't agree to it. I was really surprised by how strongly I was inclined to behave that way at the time, and it shook my trust in myself. I'd like to think I'm a better friend now than I was as a 12 year old, but I still catch myself being shitty or bitchy every now and then. It's a pretty weird feeling, and I ask my friends and gf to call me out on it if I do it, which helps a lot.

>>97700174
This is the sort guilt-lesson on whites enjoy. Be glad of it.

>>97706943
It's not a race thing. If anything, it's a class thing. Confusing one for the other just perpetuates racial tensions for no reason.

>>97706950
It is ENTIRELY a race thing, and you saying otherwise simply proves which side you're on the wrong one.

Minis or cards, no, but I stole a shitload of Dale Heresy and Rogue Trader books from Borders back in the day. It isn't immoral to steal from big box stores, fuck 'em

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>>97707743
Lol Dale Heresy

>>97707732
It's not, not really. You saying that just proves you don't understand the problem or have chosen to embrace the strawman.

>>97707939
You've picked your side. There's nothing else to say.

>>97708178
Your concept of sides is really twisted man.