Why are people going insane for pokemon cards all of a sudden?
>>712142480Why are white people like this?
new gacha just dropped>spend $900 on pokemon cards>open packs hoping you pull some ultra rares 5 star waifu pokemon>grade and sell
Same reason people are going crazy for crypto and bitcoin
>>712142624black culture has taken over their social media
Social media clout.It's just gambling for zoomers and balding white men.The same could be said for asians and gacha games.
>>712142480People see Pokemon cards as an investment. It's funny because hardly anyone even plays the TCG. Scalpers are a fucking plague.
>>712142646Unironically, if you want to make some money like the guy that made the Breaking Bad game, just make that one card shop simulator game but with theft and assault mechanics.
>want to speak toLmao you just know this is British
easy money
>>712142480twitch and youtube ''influencers'' too tame for outright casino gambling latched onto pokemon card gambling instead, causing their fans to jump on and destroy the market
do they actually make money from this? I really don't get the craze for it unless it's extremely lucrative
>>712142624I have no idea Samir.. such disgusting creatures whites are.
>>712142480>Kids love it and parents pay>Scalpers love it and collectors payIt will never end. Gotta onions out over a full art slowpoke.
>>712142895I think the pound gives it away.
>>712142480cryptoniggers, nftjeets and investment"bros" have now moved on to scalping children's trading cards
>>712143184Youtube channels who are unboxing pokemon cards have a crazy amount of views.
>>712143184there is japanese guy did rich doing this
>>712142480Shit like this makes me regret not taking care of those cards I got as a kid.
>scalper faggots don't care about your tcg feels good fellas
>>712142480Because people are dumb enough to collect Pokémon cards. No one actually plays the TCG which is shocking considering how fast these things fly off the shelves. Watch any pack opening video watch these people literally throw the “commons” in the trash.
>>712142751Das rite
police suddenly want to enforce laws when it’s not a black
>>712142624Neither one of them is white.
>>712142480Funny how you can look at someone and instantly tell they're a pikey.
>>712143207Holy shit can we ship our trannies to India?Seems like they love them
>>712143376imagine getting killed by some subhuman nog over a wifi password
>>712143035Twitch allowed virtual online casinos and one of the most popular streamers was a gigakike dumping millions into virtual slot machines and make millions more from subscriptions and sponsorships.The Jewery was so obvious that Twitch had to ban it.
>>712142872>>712143184I actually play the TCG and it barely effects us because we don't need the rarer full art cards the collectors want because they are just alt versions of other cards.Most of these people aren't even opening them and hoping to make a profit by pulling rare cards. what they do is they either sell them at an upcharge online immediately which is the surefire way to make a profit.Or they hold onto them hoping that the value will increase slightly or that some card from the series will become like 1st edition charizard and be worth well over 10 grand and hoping that people in the future will buy their packs hoping to get it which is retarded and unlikely.
>>712142701how will these dumbass resell them without getting caught?
>>712143354i had 4 of the original pokemon booster boxes, like the ones from the late 90s / early 2000s. I opened all the packs but I had several binders that I stored all my pokemon cards and baseball / football cards in. I also had MTG cards. My dad lost his job in late 2000s and we had to move across the country. Somehow I must have lost the binders of my cards, I mean by that time I didn't give a shit about pokemon or magic or my baseball / football cards anymore as I was playing video games then and they were probably inside some cabinet collecting dust for years by then. I have no idea what happened to them. It still kind of haunts me to this day. A similar story is that when I was a teenager I gave all my old N64, Gamecube, PS1 and gameboy / GBA games to my sister who lived in another state. She had a garage sale in the early 2010s and she sold all of the games I gave her for a few dollars each, most of those games are worth like $80+ each now, and I had 3 copies of pokemon emerald including the boxes which she sold for a few bucks each. Why the fuck did I give her my games? Well I didn't play them anymore and I didn't really care, and she still played the N64 and gamecube from time to time so I just gave them to her and when I visited the house I would get to play some of the games too like mario party which we did all the time when we were kids. God I made so many stupid mistakes. I also sold my entire Lego collection including tons of really expensive sets almost a decade ago now, and most of the sets I sold are now worth 3-4x as much money now. I hate myself.
and there is upcoming gumdan tcg it will be worse
>people weigh packs now and know the weight needed for valuable cards>people scan packs with wire detectors to scan for holo cards i don't know why anyone would ever get into this hobby. it's dead
>>712142480trading card theft has been a big thing for awhile, since they're so easy to pocket, and the ultra rare cards can be easily resold
>>712142646>grade and sellLike this?
>>712143376network: panerabreadirvinepassword: n0n1gg3rs
>>712142480Pull rates for recent sets have been fucking disgusting along with their lack of availability.
>>712144016Is Gundam even popular enough to get as bad as Pokémon cards? Will we see scalpers hoarding Gunpla in the future?
>>712142480
>all of a suddenthis has been going on since covid, my guy.
>>712142480Trading cards are a more stable currency than US Dollars. The value goes up, rather than down, over time.
Same reason people are crazy for crypto.As long as one sucker knows another sucker will pay good money for something then it has value.
>>712142480Both have the classic Chud phenotype. Many such cases
>>712143338oh so it's more of a youtube revenue thing? and if they get a card it's just some extra cash? makes sense
I wish people came out like this for yugioh. The superior game. You need a very high IQ to play it.
>>712144329Any particular reason these people feel zero shame?
>>712142480>all of a suddenit's been a thing since covid.
Speculative markets should be illegal under penalty of death
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>>712144564Zangs are called bug people for a reason.
>people freaking out about Pokemon>meanwhile in MTG the FF boxes that aren't even out yet are going almost 1k with the demand still buying at that priceCardboard bros...
>>712144530I only like 5ds and earlier yugioh, even 5ds is pushing it.
>>712142480For money
>>712144564You and by extension 99% of humanity are literally selling out their time and sacrificing their health for worthless papers, wagie. Do not dare talk about dignity.
>>712144564You overestimate normal people.
>>712144329why are these niggers suffered to live?
>>712144715if you keep up with MTG you deserve all of it
>>712143359>>712144530I just got back into YGO recently and I'm happy it's most unaffected
>>712144090>nowweighting packs has been a thing since the 2000's at least in yugioh, particularly back when ultimate rares were in the main sets circa 2005 because an ultimate rare weights almost double the weight of a common card.
>>712144564Do you just not live in reality anymore? Shame no longer exists, it hasn't in well over a decade. There is no societal pressure anymore to even feel shame for your actions. People don't have principles or morals anymore.
>>712144779what should we be doing
>>712144090>>people weigh packs now and know the weight needed for valuable cardsPeople were doing that in the early 2000s. It was easy to tell that a heavy pack had a foil card in it.They've made it more difficult in the last 10 years with the new holo foil methods having less weight variation, and by packing in online promo ad cards that are thicker cardboard with variable cut dimensions which makes the average weight of packs more random.
>>712144205>panerabreadirvinewat
>>712144564Gotta "get that bag" or something like that
>>712143962hindsight is 20 20, none of us knew all this stuff would blow up in value 10-20 years down the line. I sold my fair share of carts/consoles back then and now I regrent it. oh well.I have some magic cards I bought like 7 years ago and never really touched them. none of them are valueable right now but who knows what they'll be worth in 10 more years so I'm keeping them.
>tfw I had an entire book of gen 1 Pokémon cards that I gave away to one of my cousins years ago>probably in the trash nowwhy the FUCK did this shit start getting popular now, FUCK
>>712144329how much money these niggas be making selling that shit
My little brother sold his childhood pokemon card collection from around 2005 for a couple thousand last year.Nintendo fags are mental.
>>712144530>I wish people came out like this for yugiohI don't. I'm happy where we're at. Singles are easy to get and sealed product is plentiful. Some of the meta Singles could be cheaper but that doesn't really matter unless you're in the like top 1% of players
>>712144564One of those box can buy your parents house and your car with a bit of luck.
>>712144530I was thinking about coming back to YGO then I saw $300 Bonfires and $400 Original Sinful Spoils then walked away.
>>712143962I still have my binders but nothing is worth shit. Highest value items are aome Jungle holos worth a few bucks. It's a meme.
>>712142480Oh, this brings back memories>drunkard dad steals about a hundred or so booster backs in order to get back to good graces>mfw Suicune (Star)
>>712142480jake paul. Or logan i forget which of em
>>712145063These are $35 retail. They're being scalped for $125Leafbux so make the burger conversion
>>712144779Give me another way to be able to afford my home and vidya without wageslaving for "them"
>>712142480people kept baseding out about getting shiny cards because monkey brain so zoomers followed along and thus scalpers saw money
>>712144943I think the joke is black people don’t eat at Panera because it’s even more expensive than Starbucks.
>>712145161just don't play meta decks. Bonfire is like $5 now and Original is banned anyways
>>712142895What would seppos say?
>>712145063If they're scalping and reselling, usually not a whole lot.If they're opening the boxes and grading cards then it's just gambling. Not a lot of those fags do that though.They scalp and resell.
>>712145047>cousin was an early adopter of bitcoin, like 2010 era>had a few thousand bitcoin in a wallet on a hard drive, but it was basically worthless at the time>when the bitcoin boom started he couldn't find the drive anymore, realized he either threw it away or wiped it at some pointWhenever I regret a missed opportunity from my past I just think about this story and it makes me feel better.
you know, selling them for profit is understandable, but who in the ever loving fuck would buy these for thousands of dollars? is it really just some stupid rich fuck that buys them or what?
>>712142480Isn't that just two pictures of the same guy?
>>712142646>newhasnt this shit been going on for ages at this point or did it finally reach critical mass?
Laughs in magic.
>>712145161Stuff like that only matters for meta players. I just built a really strong Galaxy-Eyes Photon deck that has been a menace at locals for under $100
>Pokemon got a literal card opening simulator>Make fuckllions despite cards having zero value.
>>712145482I still remember reading about bitcoin when it was all new and stuff in my wagie breaks and thinking how interesting it was. I also remember when I got into it and went into these sites which give you 0.001 btc for free or whatever. wish I kept my wallet
>>712145509Bri'ish don't have object permanence so they're two different people.
>>712145582Normalfags literally beating each other up for pokemon cards is a covid thing.Before there weren't that many scaplers
>>712145490 is it really just some stupid rich fuck that buys them or what?I mean yeah sometimes but usually these fags trade among themselves because they see it as an investment like stocks or gold.
how much are these people making scalping this stuff? I know nothing about pokemon cards. I mean it can't be worth the amount of time and effort you have to put into listing / selling / shipping them right? Unless they're clearing like 10x+ the value of what they're paying for the boxes they're buying, and even then there's no way they're making like tens of thousands of dollars off this shit.
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>>712145490the same people who collect FunkoPopsthe same people who collect those weird Korean beanie babies
>>712145779https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK6TXMsvgQg
>>712143764>it barely effects us because we don't need the rarer full art cards the collectors want because they are just alt versions of other cards.I wish more tcgs did that. Yugioh in particular is extremely bad with that. Forbidden Droplet used to cost like £160.a friend of mine bought like 3 before it was reprinted.
A lot of guys with nostalgia for Pokémon are 30-40 years old now and if they don't have a girlfriend or children then they have a lot of money to spendThe """"investing""""" and scalping happens because people hate normal jobs more than ever. Guys would rather spend 12 hours a day hunting and flipping Pokémon cards rather than work a normal job, despite the fact that the latter is easier and pays more
>>712145582Well the issue now is thats become apparent that, at least in America, you aint getting rich unless you fucking gamble on something. Stocks, bitcoin, whatever it is(in this case Pokemon cards) are your only means of making it big as the gatekeepers of industry are effectively closing the gates and all the 6 figure jobs are reserved for either the brightest in the world or people who are in the know with someone. Its an act of desperation.
>>712145582Covid basically fucked the collectors market across the board that's why older games are so expensive too.
>>712145314so thats $35 AmeriaMuttBucks to $91 with the scalper tax. To explain that further to my fellow Americans thats going from about 6.8 large fries at mcdonalds to 17.84 large fries.
>>712144925>>712145320
the yakuza is on it too
>>712146074Okay, now can we get an answer from someone who isn't a seething third world retard?
>>712146074*$25. fuck
>>712146105Big jump from stealing watermelons
Stop deleting Yu-Gi-Oh threads faggot jannies
>>712143376zesty looking nigga
my proud little goys living the american dream
>>712146196Jesus calm down, it's just a little banter.
>>712145779retarded nog finding out he aint in the hood anymore
>>712146196b-b-but I convert it into fries :(
This feels like it would make a great south park episode. Their original pokemon parody was good
Gunpla is gonna be the next hit. I’m telling you guys, start investing Charcoin
Pokemon cards are shit. Love the new ff mtg cards, but fuck paying out the ass for a collector booster to get the art that makes them worth it. Over $80 canadian in my city for one at authorized distributors wtf.
>>712146105I see why the Like A Dragon team is going back in time or their next game, playing the pokemon card side quest would just be depressing
>>712146407gundam is getting a tcg next month it wiil the next hit
I'm glad I'm more into plamo than I am tcgsI also only collect waifu cards in pokemon and hero cards in yugioh Don't have to deal with scalpers very often.
>yfw Pokemon cards become the new currency to replace the USD
>>712146428>Love the new mtg cardsisn't mtg literal unironic tranny shit now? i remember they released several cards with literal unironic trannies in them and also some barafaggots in an outside bath or some shit
>>712146407nah, warhams is clearly the next in lineonce it finally becomes even more prohibitively expensive than it is right now the public gaze will shift to gunpla
>>712142480https://youtu.be/4tkkXx7aPcs
>>712143548I support this
>>712142701This. It's not scalpers, it's investorfags. Pokemon cards are just stocks to them, they buy and hold to increase their value. Flooding the market with cards won't stop them, they'll just buy more.Cryptobros are the TRUE cancer.
>>712146557the ff card are so boring its just offiacial ff artwork copypasted
>>712146407Gonna be a billionaire on charcoin.
>>712142480>walk over to Target for Switch launch>in line 10 kinutes before opening>employee comes out with tickets for the line to keep track of everyone>all smiles, everyone's being polite>a few spots behind me I hear some guy ask the employee when she's putting the Pokemon cards out>employee immediately drops her smile, looks straight at him and says "I'm not getting ANY of that out for you right now, come back after lunch">everyone within earshot could hear the disdain and annoyance in her voice>the guy in line grumbles and buys a Switch because so he can resell itIt really is baffling that they can't even act appropriately enough for employees to barely tolerate them, fucking everyone hates these cretins.
>>712146003this is so sad and true. We are in the endgame of capitalism
>>712142480>Pokeman cards, Tone
>>712146407>bought this model>my first gunpla>excited to start assembling it>break one of the first pieces>try for days to fix it, from glue to cement to fucking buying a hand drill and pinning>can't>put it away and cry myself to sleepAnd that's my gunpla experience
>>712145973damn that's rough the two most expensive meta cards in the current pokemon TCG format are Fezandipiti ex (which can be slotted into any deck since its main use is it allows you to draw 3 cards once during your next turn whenever your opponent defeated one of your pokemon in the previous turn) and secret box which is used by a few decks and both of those cost around $15.
>>712146691What part was it? You might be able to jury-rig something with the runner.Unless it's a polycap then you're probably fucked.
>>712146691ayo look at mr gorilla hands here and laugh that he broke and couldnt fix a kiddie toy
what do you reckon is the next pokemon cards? I wanna get in early
>>712144090>game is p2w>people act surprised when the meta keeps evolving and getting worse
>>712143207They voted for this.
I'm so sick of every "nerd" convention being mostly Pokemon cards, 3D printed junk, and Funko pops, bros. I want vidya and comic conventions back.
>>712142480Its the newest faggot streamer grift.
>>712143359Unfortunately a meta yugioh deck is still 5x as expensive as a pokemon one so you get fucked anyways.
>>712146824grotto beasts
>>712146407i have this one and i still haven't finished it after 4 years lol
>>712146824Next one down is magic because of those collab cards. Pretty sure the FF set is scalped to high heaven.
>>712146904>playing meta
>>712146870As another anon said, social mobility has ossified and people are getting desperately poor as the “American Dream” has become a bad joke than wishful thinking. Video game conventions are what people in the 2000s could afford.
>>712142889actually a good idea, call it klepto simulator and you can rob a variety of stores, gradually increasing in value/risk. just do petty crimes and avoid security / police. If I knew game dev I would do it
>>712146925looks very low quality
>>712146932Bro, BRO!It's a HG, you can do it in 30 minutes! What are you doing?
>>712146824NFTS, Enron stocks, hawk tuah coin.
>>712146557You say that as if everything isn't tranny shit these days.Thankfully that seems to not apply to the ff mtg cards. And the art of some of the new ff cards(the collector boosters that cost an arm and a leg and you arent even guaranteed it) is done by japanese ff artists and looks really good.
>>712147084I'm not buying your bags, anon
>>712146824Silver. It's been dirt cheap for a while, and recently shot up to $35 an ounce. That's still really cheap considering how in-demand it is.Alternatively, home media box sets (DVDs, blu-rays, UHD)
>>712147071ok i'll finish it now
>>712146824that one jap tcg that is just pictures of real ojisans
I thought the trend would already die by now. Is bubble right?
>>712146795The red thing. This is after I've been fucking with it for a while which is why it looks so scuffed
>>712147102there isn't any in yugioh or pokemon though. Yugioh has a lot of yuri but japanese yuri has nothing to do with amerimutt lgbtdhjhadfs politics.
>>712143548>Get rid of the plague in our country>Trannies and Indians get all STD-riddled sex they crave while putting an, albeit small, dent in India's breeding problemIt's a match made in shit and I'm on board with it!
>>712147301>is bubble rightno
>>712143962Same, man.Had a collection of Pokemon cards from Base/Jungle/Fossil - Team Rocket/Trainers. Also had a collection of Yu-Gi-Oh, Digimon, Dragon Ball Z and Yu Yu Hakusho cards in a giant binder. After we moved half way across the country, I could never find the binder again when unpacking. Figured the packers stole it. My copies of Pokemon Red and Jurassic Park Operation Genesis for Xbox were missing as well.
>>712144329we need more bullies
>>712145320>afford my homeWhat if you just picked a spot of unused land and built a house?OH WAIT THAT'S ILLEGAL HAHAHAHAYOUR EXISTENCE AND MEANS OF SURVIVAL IS LITERALLY ILLEGAL OUTSIDE WORKING GOVERNMENT APPROVED JOBS FOR [currency] HAHAHAHA
>>712142480>nobody gives a shit about trading cards for 2 decades after pokemania ends>Logan Paul comes around "hey did you know pokeman cards are worth money and I got this ultra expensive (fake) charizard?">suddenly every npc on the planet now likes pokemon again
>>712146824WWE cards.
>>712142701Unfortunately, it’s this. People like Logan Paul convinced an entire sphere of cryptofaggots, Jewtubers and wannabe invoosters that Pokemon cards are a failsafe market they can abuse to recover their crippling NFT debt, all the while lacking any self awareness of the fact that they’re going apeshit for Cardboard with Hitmonlee on it, in public mind you, instead of getting a job.
>>712142480It is the new Tulipmania more or less. "Speculating" because the kids who wanted Charizard back during Pokemania and never got it are having their midlife crisises and there are only so many surviving cards to go around.
>>712144564When was the last time people actually trusted on shame to do anything? I think it was stamping out white men with the whole “mansplaining” and “man spreading” and “white make tears” thing. There’s no point in shame anymore, no point in dignity either. We are what society makes us, look.
>>712142480>all of a sudden?That's been going on for 5 or so years by now.
>>712144564You can make thousands selling these cards. Compare that to making $40 bucks an hour. People do this for a reason.
