Found out my childhood best friend is now a pokemon scalper
>>748126419You have a moral duty to kill them.
scalp all sons of bitchesand pokemon too
>>748126419Go kick his ass
>>748126419I'd do that if meant I didn't have to work a real job.
>Childhood friend killed himself 5 years ago
You have an obligation to beat them senseless.
I mean that's bad but not like discovering he's a discord mod BAD.
>only online friend i managed to meet in person trooned out and got into massive college loan debt
>>748126419Why would you blame him though, blame the manchildren that go psycho over these shitty things. They deserve to get fleeced
>>748126419Now you have to scalp him.
>>748126816I blame them both.
>>748126771i'd say scalper is worse depending on the type of discord it is
My condolences, OP.
>>748126419>>748126513This is the only way to spare him further dishonor. Remember the promise you made as brothers, years ago.
What's worse? Lego scalpers or pokemon scalpers?
>>748127092Transformers scalpers.Pieces of shit.
>>748127092the faggot streamers who popularized it
>>748126897Maybe you were the problem?
>>748126897I wonder if they asked themselves the same thing when they left you on read
Serious questionWhy do authorities whether it be the companies, corporations or governments continue to allow scalpers and scalping to exist?Surely there's some kind of solution to deal with them? Why hasn't it been done?...What's going on?
>>748126419If it makes you feel any better scalpers are getting fucked by the new cards flooding the market right now
>>748126897I was this person.It's because the person tried to sell me things on a pyramid scheme he got involved in.
I briefly worked at a card shop near me about a year ago, mainly just ringing up people and pricing cards in the back for the sales cases. I had to deal with the type of people who buy Pokemon cards daily. 90% of peoplel who came in fit the same bill.>either in their 30s-40s>talks like white trash/or a nigger>has never touched a single pokemon game >has never watched a single episode of the show>only "into" it as a "side hustle">anything after kanto confuses themIt's really fucking bizarre. I know that people who actually PLAY the card game are few and far between, I personally think it sucks, but I just hated dealing with people who literally didn't give a shit about the franchise.
>>748127450>niggerstopped reading
>>748127486okay pussy
>>748127291there is a solutionjust print new cardsits literally that easy
>>748127527racism does not fucking belong on 4chan.
>>748127450My wife worked at a barista in one of those grocery store coffee shops, and they installed a pokemon card machine next to it.You'd have those middle aged men sitting in front of it for literal hours waiting for a specific time because tiktok said it'd make the seed better, or try to unplug it to reset the RNG. When the machine was restocked there'd be a massive line of these fuckers. They eventually wouldn't allow people to sit for more than an hour at the tables near the shop and one guy had a total spastic meltdown.
>childhood friend blocked me on everything because I beat him at Command and Conquer 3
>>748127486>pretending you can readSilly.>>748126419Did you ask him why he doesn't want children to have nice things?
>>748127545If it's so easy why don't they do it then?
>>748126419I'm sorry you had to find out your childhood best friend became a monster.
>>748127612Is it actually profitable doing scalping like this when you spend hours and hours just getting the cards?There's like no way you make that good money right?
>>748127545Isn't the real solution just charging a set price for each card and getting rid of the gambling?
>>748127642he chimped as soon as he saw the word
>>748127753>Is it actually profitable doing scalping like this when you spend hours and hours just getting the cards?One guy claimed it was, but who knows if it was true at all?
>>748127450Scalpers are human excess who should've never been born. I make $49 an hour because I work an actual, real, meaningful job. The losers who scalp do it because they have no skills or worth in this world, they're a product of overpopulation. They're the excess, worse than parasites.>>748127753You don't realize, they "work" retail and at gas stations. They make dogshit money, $50 profit on something that took them hours of effort is "good hustle" to the subhumans. It's all they have.
>>748127642You don't get it. They're saving the children.
>>748127612>My wife worked at a barista in one of those grocery store coffee shops, and they installed a pokemon card machine next to it.My local grocery store has one in the entrance area. At any given point there will be faggots in groups of twos literally camping the machine. Just staring at it. All day.
>>748127753I doubt it if you account for time waiting and going to stores. I would assume the people who do it justify it as it being better than having no income.
>>748127706They are. Gamefreak has been scaling up their card printing year after year, by a lot. But the demand is REALLY high and scaling up that amount takes time. There's also sort of a risk for the company too though, because if they massively overscale production and then demand dies because there's no longer any scarcity, they could lose a bunch of money. And at the end of the day Gamefreak/TPC is a business and wants to make money.But it is happening, slowly. The new 30th anniversary set has a ton of supply and scalpers are crying that it's ruining them, they also have a new production facility set to open in a year or two.
>>748127753They probably aren't making that much money, no, but you have to understand these are the type of people who are adverse to an honest day's work.There is real money in scalping but the ones making it aren't the ones camping out at Costco, they are the ones setting up bots to scrape online stores the second they open.
>>748128127>The new 30th anniversary set has a ton of supplyI looked for it and saw only scalpers. Where?
>>748126593F>>748126419F>>748127612Wtf
>>748128334dunno but there is a lot of crying online about it
>childhood friend is now a speedrunner...
>>748127642>>748127527>>748127848Anyone who uses buzzwords in their story or argument isn't worth reading/listening to.
Pokemon has some of the worst looking chase cards out of the big TCGs
>>748128532It's literally just one fucking word you pansy. Talking like a nigger is a thing. Wiggers have existed since the 90s. Get with the program or shut the fuck up.
>>748128549whoever thought that the gold alts look good should be shot, give me some high quality stylized artwork.
>>748127291>companies, corporationsthey got paid why the fuck do they care what happens to their cardboard after they sold all of their inventory instantly>governmentsdon't give a shit unless its a threat to billionares
I ghosted my childhood friend and I feel only slightly bad about it
>>748128532>nigger is a buzzwordholy christ what npc are you smoking
>>748128549The gold cards are an eyesore.And the "best" cards of the 30th anniversary set are the worst cards I've ever seen.
>>748128532you're an actual nigger
>>748126419I'm too old to know what that is. Is it like Team Rocket?
>>748127450>few people playing the gameCan someone tell me who is buying cards off scalpers?
>>748128479>NOOOOOOOOOOOOO I CAN'T FUCKING SCALP AND SCAM 10 YEAR OLDS NOW FUCKING POKEMON COMPANYlmao
>>748128970>he thinks it's kids buying up scalped product lmao
>>748128926People who collect them just to look at them.
>>748126419>OP didn’t hang out with his friend enough to save him from this fate You could’ve saved him
>>748126537>"That's my official instructions."
>>748128532Based moral anon
>have childhood "girlfriend">dad chases money for job and we move to another state>never speak to her again because kids don't think to find some way to communicate>forget about her>mention her for the first time in years around my mom>Mom says she "butched out" on facebook>dad lost job years ago anyway>dad dies, so does my sister
>>748127706uh...(((reasons)))
>>748129603You could have saved her
>>748126419Oh no my card game is popular and my cards have value. I must gamble my money on sealed packs, and my children will cry if the pack is above MSRP. Buy singles? Play the game? no I am just a poke collector. Every retard that cries about scalpers are in the same boat and are purchasing cards for their monetary value.
>>748128532Anyone with thin skin who tries to police speech isn't worth the air they breath.
>>748128926There are a lot of scalpers in competition to scalp other scalpers. So they'll buy something from a scalper just to resell at an even higher price.It just keeps climbing into somebody (the weaker scalper) is caught holding the bag.
>>748127291>Why do authorities whether it be the companies, corporations or governments continue to allow scalpers and scalping to exist?Why the fuck would they care about people buying their products?It's guaranteed sales.Same reason why despite endless anticheat bullshit, games are all flooded by cheaters, despite 'report+ban' systems working just fine in the past.Cheaters are determined players who buy the game (sometimes multiple times!), so why wouldn't they want MORE cheaters?
>>748129858What a fucking stupid retarded system.Are we sure capitalism wasn't a mistake?
>>748129950Capitalism is fine, we just stopped punishing retards for being retarded.
>>748129765>popularWho are we kidding that the guys buying them up and then burning entire boxes out of anger because they couldn't flip a profit are the same people who actually play the game?
>>748126419>oh pokemon i remember playing that card game as a kid in school>forums are just people posting their 'pulls' from packs zero talk about gameplaysuddenly i understand the disgust people have for gachafags.
>>748129858In that same regard, I imagine websites have stopped banning bots, because they count as users. If anything, Twitch seems to be making it easier to viewbot.
>>748130110>i remember playing that card game as a kid in schoolNo kid actually played pokemon, they collected the cards just like today
>>748130145we used to "play" at my school, but we would make up our own set of rules cause no one liked playing with energy cards
>>748130000>just stopped punishing retards for being retarded.which is a feature of capitalism. profit for profit's sake will always result in this
Pokemon can end scalping by printing sets to the ground and making chase/hit cards more accessible by increasing the pull rates.
>>748126771Are there discords big enough to where they actually have mods on payroll? I assume if it they're just volunteering it can't consume a persons life to THAT bad of a degree
>>748130019The fact scalpers exist means the game is in a good state, plus Pokemon is the cheapest game to play competitively. No one is scalping Keyforged, Grand Archive, Force of Will. High rarity cards are just sparkles on cardboard, meant to persuade retards into the fully optional gambling mechanic that has no function on playing the game. People who cry about scalping just want a cheaper entry point into buying packs (The most retarded thing you can do) yet they also want to keep the high value, but don't understand the coloration.Also gamers like this>>748127291>>748128127are dumb as well because they don't seem to understand that if the company wanted to they could print any set into oblivion and then no card is valuable, and anyone could get any card. At the end of the day they don't want that (and the collectors don't want it either), the demand the price points is all engineered by the company on purpose.
>>748126419>meet really cool jewish guy while gaming>we hang out and have lots of fun being shitlords together screaming, being wild, doings drugs etc>go through a lot of hard times and lose touch>end up transitioning and hope to find him again>stay alive with the goal of being his wife some day>search for him in games that Id think he'd play>actually find him again years later now that we are late teens>its like old times>every day is magical and wonderful>meet him and his family and his extended family>work together in a successful company>covid happens and he has a complete mental breakdown>tells me everything we had together was fake after spending thousands of hours and years together>he runs off with some disgusting rich morbidly obese woman that has brain damage to be her sex slave>marries her within a few weeks>does this in the offchance she dies and he gets all her money>tfw the jew took the money over a genuine soulmate and proven decades of happiness>every year or so for a bit I looked him up and every post he made wass just miserable and him staring forward expressionless with dead eyes>mfw my entire life is 1's and 20's rolls>>748129603the answer is to just date more. replace those olds thoughts with new ones. Then the old thoughts lose value and have no meaning anymore in your life.
>>748130252Human beings exploit systems no matter what. What we’re discussing is a niche issue that is contained enough to only affect a very small number of people hyper focused on a certain luxury good. It’s not a criticism of capitalism so much as it is a criticism of human nature. Just be glad you aren’t one of the retards who gets roped into predatory schemes like this.
>>748130873>no meaning Just because their value diminishes doesn’t mean they become meaningless. Not unless you’re actively trying to block out aspects of your life, which is a very bad idea.
>>748130873>end up transitioningfailed the wisdom saving throw
>>748128334It's been gone everywhere here instantly, but like all pokemon sets as long as you don't want the giganigga Penis Rare cards you can buy them for like 15 cents each as all the scalpers scramble to get something back from their pack chaff. Especially with this set, since it's not even normal boosters. Only five fucking cards per pack, and the MSRP is three times more than normal because they're "special"(every card in the set is a foil). Something like 30 pikachu variants so you get a pikachu in every pack. Some new art, some reprints from old legacy sets. In short, I spent about $40 and got four of every pokemon I liked in the set plus a ton of extra shit.
>>748130975>Not unless you’re actively trying to block out aspects of your lifehe just told you he trooned out after being in le melancholic mood, blocking aspects of his life is part if his identity
>>748126593I know that feeling anon. Had one of my best friends from college kill themselves 2 years ago. Its tough knowing they're gone and everything just goes on
>>748126419Scalping in general just seems like such a hollow thing. I was in line at a con to see Giancarlo Esposito, I'm geeking out that I'm gonna get pictures with motherfuckin Gus Fring. The guy in front of me talks about card "flipping", and hands over the handler a giant pile of 100 dollar bills to get the maximum amount of trading cards signed. The guy was barely even enjoying the rare opportunity to ask stuff like "What was your favorite Breaking Bad scene to be in" or "Working on any new projects you can share?", he just watched the cards get signed and then slipped them in toploaders.
>>748131048Yikes lol yeah fair enough Didn’t read for further context.
>>748131057I’m sure scalpers think they’re the smartest people on earth, so to them it’s probably not very hollow. I’m sure you can appreciate the irony of this.
Some governments have stepped in to stop ticket scalping, haven't they?
>>748126816I'd blame them for the same reason I blame paparazzi or drug dealers. Just because they're making bank off of idiots who buy up their shit, it doesn't make them NOT disgusting soulless parasites.
And he's making thousands of dollars more than you daily.
>>748128970Its not kids buying the scalped shit, its adult collectors and re-sellers who want to try and sell it for a little bit more.
>waaaaaaaaaah why are you making money off my children's toys, baby want toy NOW NOW NOW
>>748130975Maybe meaning is the wrong word. Perhaps...emotional weight.For example, I can talk about it now when it used to make me sob uncontrollably. Now I can just tap into it as needed and cry on command if needed as a special skill.>>748131003>>748131048yeah yeah I get it youre in the sissification cult with the orange daddy that rapes children and puts their bodies in barrels dumping them in the sea and telling me about how youre morally superior because you made some strawman unrelated to me. I know you can't relate or discuss anything similar because lets be honest, you've never loved anyone or known love and are bitter about it being miserable to everyone because you want them to be like you and how dare they not be. see >>748131121daringtodayarentwesquidward.jpeg
>>748130110Yep, almost no one actually plays anymore. Even those who aren't in it for money usually just want to collect cards that they think look cool and/or are of the pokemon they like.
>>748131121I mean, it's smart in that it's pretty much the only low-effort self employed job left that's both incredibly difficult to tax and incredibly difficult to regulate.But it's hollow as hell in that it's the SAME THING every damn time>gotta go to X store when they open and buy Y slop>gotta sell Y slop on ebay for the big bucks>now time to go to Z store to get Y slop>now gotta sell Y slop on ebay for the big bucksI could understand enjoying the type of flipping that takes knowledge, like repairing trashed houses or cars. But just buying and selling all day, all at the whims of mass marketed plastic and paper. It feels fake, to a level even a lot of adult daycare office jobs don't have.
>>748131057It's just a business, and most things lose their appeal once it becomes a routine. The only exception to this rule being opiates. First time i opened a $2 rare and sold it for $2.50 was x1000 more exciting than now weekly flipping vintage cards online worths several Ks/p.I think i lost my soul in the process.
>>748131432Having a schizo meltdown at light banter is at least 20% of the reason nobody likes you.
>>748131432>yeah yeah I get it youre in the sissification cult with the orange daddy that rapes children and puts their bodies in barrels dumping them in the sea and telling me about how youre morally superior because you made some strawman unrelated to me.watall i dump in the ocean are freshly manufactured car batteries
I recently found out that one of my friends who I met IRL who has a 4 year old daughter associates with a low loli-artist who draws baby stuff
>>748131432holy fuck please continue posting, this post is so fucking funny
>>748126593F
>>748131432are you transitioning into a clown now?
>>748131559I hope the kid's gonna be okay, fucking hell
>>748126419>have childhood friend>we are pretty good friends all the way up to highschool we hang together ,go fishing play videogames etc.>in highschool childhood friend gets involved with the cool kids>they chose him for some reason but not me >he stops hanging out with me >some time passes find out he is involved with drugs>gets disowned by family>all his cool highschool friends keep dying to drugs>later find out that after an NDE drops drugs becomes a jesus freak>his family in the meantime dies off>even more time passes by he meets a girl>strugles between jesus freak drugs and normalcy>some years ago find out he married the girl he dated back then and moved away from our hometown>he now has a kid and tries to make ends meet as a courierAll this time and all i did was made a bunch of money so i have no immediate financial worries and remained the same in every aspect except i got fatter.It's a bizzare feeling knowing i somehow managed to be better off and worse off than he is at the same time without really trying much
>took judo for a while>quit even though I loved it>look up what instructor's been up to>school closed down even though the founder was a bodyguard for the president of South Korea>top result when looking up sensei's name is a video talking about how he got into an ATV accident, became a quadriplegic, and showcased his "road to recovery" as he learned to walk and talk againI wanted to cry
I just wanted my Palworld cards, but instead the junkies that scalp Pokemon cards see "cute monster" and think it's a gold mine rather than an IP that's going to be mid-tier at best once the dust settlesThe faggot with meth mouth that runs the LGS by me is selling packs for $20 apiece. He has melties on Google Reviews when people call him a scalper, shit's so funny>>748131315I'm old enough to remember when we saw this shit with Beanie Babies
My childhood “crush” that I’ve known all throughout when I was young killed herself. The only reason I’ve been living up until this point is to find her. I thought… Well I found her, and we had sex. She was actually a virgin, and she had explained to me that her mom was extremely overprotective. We decided that we were going to move out of the town that we were in, to fulfill an empty promise from when we were kids. We went to her mom’s house, and she explained that we were leaving. Her mom attacked us, and stabbed her a few times. I won’t explain what else happened, but we escaped her house. Anyways, we had drove far far away to a nearby city. We had been living on the streets off of the money that we’ve both had from our part time jobs. I think that she was as lonely as I was. She stabbed my eye. I began to hate her. She was something that I could project all of my anger onto. She ended up killing herself. She had hung herself. I tried to kill myself afterwards, but it didn’t work. I bled out until one of my “friends” somehow found me. I don’t know what I’m gonna do…
>>748129603Similar experience, my dad even died too, except I had a childhood gf I moved away from and never saw again for the same reasons and another childhood friend that I had a crush on that let me borrow her GBC and Pokemon Red/Silver to play them for the first time back in the day.She got fucked up doing drugs at EDM fests and turned into a lesbian poledancer.
>>748126419>Childhood friend is now a tranny
> Best friend moved to a different city and cut contactEhh sucks, but he was one of those betas who just has to be with his discord gf 24/7.
>>748126593some friend you are
>>748127956Don't these people who loiter get banned?
Who is buying this shit for massively inflated prices? Is it really man children and "investors"?
>>748126419>buy item at a price i am willing to pay>sell item to an individual at a price he is willing to pay>all this is done of everyone's free will>this is le bad for some reason
>childhood friend became a fentanyl addict camped out in a car in front of his fathers house so he can scream at him if he steps foot outsideI shouldn't have forced him to use the mad catz controller
>Pokémon does a collab with the Fossil museum in Chicago>Scalpers try to ruin the event like they did with the Van Gogh Museum>Museum requires you to buy $100 ticket JUST to get the card>All of a sudden, Scalpers don't come
>>748132801The issue here is you're buying up all the product to purposely sell it at an even higher price, forcing those who really want it to pay unreasonable prices.
>>748132952if you arent willing to expend as time or effort as i am, why do you deserve the product? besides, theyre just pieces of cardboard bro
Zoroark
>>748132895Based Chicago museum
>>748132801Emptying the marketplace so that literal children cannot have toys is scummy behaviour, yes.
>>748133179children dont play with actual toys in 2026 dude. they look at ipads and shit. the only kids with pokemon cards just stick them in binders no different than the pathetic "collectors". nobody ACTUALLY plays the TCG bro
>>748133071This isn't a "well I worked so I should be rewarded" its you just being a faggot. You are the problem you are charging to bypass.
>>748133262Then why'd my cousin's kid ask for pokemon cards for his birthday? Is he a fucking scalper too?
>>748133341exchanging money for a product isnt a rewardnobody HAS to buy "scalped" cardsbut they do, obviously, since sclapers still existand if youre dumb enough to pay big bucks for cardboard, you deserve to be scalped>>748133419kids are stupid lemmings who just want "current thing"
How is it the scalpers fault? Surely it's the paypigs who buy this shits faultOr the company who makes a mint out of artificially keeping their product scarce.
>>748126419>flipping children's cardboard for penniesWhat a sad and miserable life he ended up with.
>>748132895>At the Field Museum>Pass by the Egyptian altar that has two hands>Feel a tug, like I should leave some money or something as an offering>Niglet walks up and sits on the handsI got the fuck away from there, I don't need the residuals from some Egyptian curse getting placed on little Quantravious Biggs pressing his burnt hams to some ancient piece of divine worship
>>748133579>penniesNewer stuff is like 3x-4x msrp.
>>748133654So does it go towards meth, fent, or smack? The people need to know
desu i didnt give a shit about pokemon cards, i just played the games but scalpers made it actually fun to hunt these cards down at msrp. just pulled two IRs from the first three booster packs I ever bought
Eat the pennies
>>748132343Same. best friend moved to a different country and only told me like 3 weeks before he moved so we had very little time to actually hang out before he went, shame.
>>748126419I'm really glad I'm not into pokemon tcg anymore or have kids that want to get into it. The scalper situation has gotten just depressing to look out even as a n outsider. THough them getting burned on buying thousands of dollars of stock from the most recent set only to make zero profit on it is long overdue karma.
i realized i'm the childhood friend that dissapeared
>>748133654Who would pay 3x msrp for pokemon cards lmfao? Do you have any data to back that up?
>>748133943They'll just have to go back to pulling catalytic converters off of day care vans and stripping bandos for their copper
>childhood friend now hangs out with only child size people.
Here is a hug to all you frens who had a friend or family member troon out
>>748126419The only ethical kind of scalper. Based.
>Childhood friend hasn't changed much since we met and we still play to this day
>>748132125hey i know where this is from
>childhood friend A stops playing games after getting a job and having kids>childhood friend B is on games more than ever despite getting a job and having kids
i've literally never retained a friend for longer than 2-3 yearshow do you people do it
>>748126419>High school friend that was super into blue archive was arrested with 8 gbs of cp
>>748134021You're friends with Gandalf? Sick
>>748126419Why are so many manchildren upset about everyone getting into Pokemon cards? If you haven't realized, we are in a recession and unironically the Pokemon TCG has been outperforming real estate, crypto, and stocks including the S&P. Job market is also ass, you either can't get one or get can't a raise if you have one. It hasn't been easier getting a chase card, grading it for a 10, and cashing out for 5 and 6 figures. And in the case where you don't want to risk opening and missing getting a card you just resell the box. Don't be bitter, either be part of the people making money or bow out.TPC has lost me as a customer long ago and I just get high quality proxies for a fraction of the price for myself and my little brother since the cards are almost always sold out. The thought of buying to flip and get singles for us is out of question and the thought of helping fund his future college education with it is also out of bounds for us. I'm not bitter, I wish I was also able to get 2 boxes to flip lol
>>748131559how did this information reach you exactly?
Is there any hope that old consoles and game prices will go down at some point? For pokemon games in particular the prices are ridiculous.
Don't drop the soap
>>748134704Probably not, they're only going to get rarer and rarer. It's already been an option to emulate and/or buy them on e-shops for ages now and that obviously hasn't put a dent in their value, so I'm not really sure what else would at this point.
>grow up with some close friends I keep in touch with up until early 2020s when I lived in another country for a while>end up vaguely succeeding in life, managed to get out of the mire>all my friends have become massive degenerates and are stuck in increasingly retarded self destructive behavior Why are friends so awful? It's like they always inevitably end up doing the stupidest most self serving shit over and over again.
>Childhood bestfriend is just a redditlite that artfags and posts on jewbookCould be worst desu. I should hit him up.
I dont have any friends
>>748128479lmao at this bitchThe PTCG market is so fucked you barely even see packs anywhere. Children not only can't buy one, they can't even see packs.Even right now I have yet to see any availability on the 30th anniversary pokemon set.
I have no friends
>>748132110>The faggot with meth mouthScalping do be a very tweaker-type of hustle.
>>748126419>childhood friend B I bullied for liking anime (Inuyasha and Ouran gayshit highschool) works at NASA>childhood friend c who was an honor roll student with scholarships to university dropped out to become a PRO DOTA player and failed hard then got in debt from donating to Gura>childhood friend A died in a car crash on his way to a Metallica concert 10~ years agowe used to play Goldeneye and Mario Kart all the time... we would race up the stairs and fight in the character select screen to get our character first it reminds me of that Japanese Megaman song flash
>>748127612>>748127956Does the machine not just vend a package of cards? It doesn't know what is inside it does it? Or does it actually vend cards not in a pack and has knowledge of the stack?
Do people actually like the game and do they value the cards (gameplay wise)? Or is it just scalpers/collectors selling to other scalpers/collectors?>>748134251How many other people here had friends/acquaintances that ended up as pedos? Or maybe you ended up as one yourself.
I don't know what my childhood friends are doing
>>748131432Lmao trannymeltyJust admit ur a faget
>>748126419>childhood friend does dude weed lmao>other one just has a office job idk if he makes good money>other other one left the country
>>748131559Ask if he's commissioned any art lol
>>748126419>talking with a friend i hadnt seen in a year or so, i went on a tangent and said scalpers of any kind were bad, especially the faggots who go to thrift stores, block aisles to price check shit on ebay and resell it and that they should kill themselves because theyre parasitic losers>unknown to me, hes been doing that exact thing for a couple of months now and got upset that i wouldnt capitulate that he wasnt one of the bad onesim just fucking tired of it man. I dont care much for tcgs but people who resell crts without so much as dusting them off, limited runs of synth equipment, concert tickets, whatever the fuck need to have their heads caved in. whats worse is the retards who dont know any better and will hand over cash sight unseen for a 90s zenith that hasnt been turned on in 20 years to at least check if the geometry is serviceable. EVEN MORE SO, when scalpers go tits up and try to throw a pity party when their scam lands them with pallets worth of garbage that they cant unload. when it works they act like theyre smart hustlers that found a crack in the system and not the same as a meth head trying to unload a box full of catalytic converters to the scrap yard.
everyone itt who had a childhood friend is a fukken normalfag
I voted for Trump twice
>>748135107It has a giant touch pad display where you can scroll through and buy whatever is listed in stock. They are official Pokemon Company vending machines so the prices are MSRP. There is some software code meant to cause delays in allowing you to buy all the stock at once because scalpers like those posters describe would simply buy everything at once (yes even if it costs them thousands of dollars). Because of the wait period, they now have to wait it out and then buy everything out. Its so stupid. This isn't even getting into them getting violent sometimes.
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>>748135356Being a friendless loser is not the flex you think it is.
>>748132207Fuck him straight, anon
>>748135485neither is being a normalfag
>>748126593Mine got into QAnon, its worse.
>>748133262This anon is BROWN
>>748133607God imagine if that's why niggers have such shitty lives. They just keep accidentally walking into curses lmao.>Shieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet why my ancestors gotta fuck wit me like dis?
>>748128926TCG game players buy singles from secondhand stores that open packs and ETBs and such and sell them for pennies. You don't need rare alt cards to build a deck.Collectors are the -actual- baseline customers that has to deal with scalper and speculator bullshit. They're the ones that want the rare, pretty cards that have an awful pull rate and whose fun is interrupted by scalper parasitism.
>parents got divorced and i moved with mum to the countryside >meet new best friend in school>we go to high school together>reaching age 18 i get interested in girls>no one wants to date me>except bro's sister>haha what could go wrong>we date for a few months then break up>high school ends, never see bro again
>friend gets married>can't go 30 minutes on a game without being "asked" by his wife to get up and do menial household chores right now like he's eight years old>and this is after working his ass off all day at his blue-collar job
>>748135087>He didn't enjoy InuyashaThis nigga don't like highschool girls
>>748131836>>748132883The amount of rot in the world that just ends up ruining peoples lives and innocence always makes me really sad. I feel like high school is some kind of psy-op designed to put kids through prison-culture-lite and it seems like people just have all their whimsy and ambition crushed by it. Drugs, nig-culture, and weird gay shit are always the big three. It's always the most basic-bitch passions and social pressure that end up mindbreaking people that used to be good.A thing that always makes me depressed is thinking about all the good qualities friends had, or things they used to dream of, or ideals they used to believe in. Slowly realizing you're the only person who actually cared about the stuff you all used to talk about is an experience I've seen a lot of people go through.It ended up driving me to Orthodoxy because so much of the writing of the saints is about this kind of thing. >>748135619You're unironically describing Africa/African folk religion. There's this huge rabbithole when it comes to their shamans and how people there just end up attracting the most retarded demonic influence. The Liberian civil war is a great example.
i stopped going into my lgs because i saw him lowball the fuck out of someone for a handful of fairly sought after ps2 games and realized that hes just a scalper with a sign
>>748135087>we would race up the stairs and fight in the character select screen to get our character first it reminds me of that Japanese Megaman song flashFug. For me it was middleschool right when Brawl came out. Two of our friends had Wiis and the game so we'd pick one of their houses to play. Getting the wiimote and still beating their asses or trying to handicap myself so they can all have a good time as well...Deandre's FUCKING PARAKEET CHIRPING IN THE BACKGROUND WHY THE FUCK DID YOU HAVE A FUCKING BIRD D WHYYY
>>748135873Parakeets are awesome, fuck you
>>748127291>Why do authorities whether it be the companies, corporations or governments continue to allow scalpers and scalping to exist?Because putting any sort of limitation on it would cripple the economy. If you say something like "You're not allowed to buy and then resell shit", congrats, every single walmart, target, super market, electronics store, hobby shop, game store, etc, just now got shut down and went out of business because their entire model is to buy wholesale from the company and then mass ship it to every one of their outlets for a profit. Most companies making the product do not have the capability of reasonably shipping everywhere to meet orders AND manufacturer the shit, so your entire economy tanks, your people start starving, and then they start cannibalizing each other and their government, and then during all the chaos all the middle-eastern countries turn from quiet invasion to open war against you while you're weakened.If you try and tailor a law "Okay, so retail people can do it, but not your average person" to try and target scalpers, then either the scalpers will buy whatever license they need to classify as a "retailer" and continue to scalp, OR every single private citizen will lose ownership rights on anything and be unable to sell anything on the open market anymore, which is a slower but equally as shitty economic death.And you're risking ALL of that to solve the problem that...some people compulsively buy children's toys regardless of the price, and you're mad because YOU can't get your children's toy?Yeah, nobody who is serious about their own country is never going to let something like that pass. I hate scalpers too, but I'm not suicidal enough to let the government help.
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>>748135846>most retarded demonic influence.I can sympathize. Demonniggers are annoying schizoshits that love to fuck with you. You gotta be able to actively notice their influence.
>>748126593Same here, also five years ago. it hasn't gotten better since
>>748135912NOT WHEN THEY'RE CHIRPING 24/7 WHILE WE'RE TRYING TO PLAY SMASHAND THEN WE'D GO TO MANNY'S HOUSE INSTEAD BUT HE HAD A SHIT TON OF CATS AND I'M ALLERGIC TO CAT HAIR SO I'D JUST BE FEELING LIKE SHIT WHILE TRYING TO HANG OUT AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAND THEN THE FUCKING CUTE FUJO BITCH WHO I FORGOT THE NAME OF, WHY WAS SHE SO INTO MY BEST FRIEND AND NOT ME AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHFUCKSPAMFILTERRRHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
>>748133419He's hustling that shit out of his fanny pack during recess.
kill all modernslop faggots
>>748135959Shrek is love. Shrek is life.
>>748135846Voodoo and folk religion witch crap creeps me out. I wonder if that is why a lot of Africans that come to the states turn to Christianity because of the stuff they've experienced over there.>>748135854Sometimes I will go to card conventons and be completely disgusted with some booths listing 2x or 3x what cards go for. And then you go two booths down and its normal. Like come on, whats the strategy here? Hoping to trick people?
>>748127092Indian scalpers
>>748135543Mine turned into a tranny after he went to a different uni to study CS, that's way worse than QAnon. Then again, I'm not sure if I can blame it on him studying CS or if it was because he was really into modding.
Gambit believes in the heart of the cards.
>>748135975It's kind of terrifying when you realize just how little people are actually in control of their own thoughts whenever demoniggers offers them the pettiest thing possible.>>748136254It's a mix of that and something similar that happens in their home countries after a point. There was a Liberian warlord named "General Butt-naked" who used to eat childrens hearts alive and make active sacrifices to power himself up before battle. Eventually one day he had a really black form of a moral epiphany and claims Christ appeared to ask him what exactly he thought he was doing, He ended up becoming a minister and disbanding his army and there's videos of him talking to the families of people he ate. The interactions feel like a weird Oblivion mod because they have that weird African disconnect from reality.A lot of folk religion stuff is almost entirely some form of demon shit even when it's as petty as evil-eye near eastern and meditterannean mysticism. People in NA are used to say modern Wicca and Thelema-descended fake witchcraft and are usually unaware that witchcraft never ceased in the old-world. You go to Turkey or Greece and small towns all have "that" woman, you even hear murmurs of it in slavic central european countries.
I've never had a real connection with a human being. Every "friend" that I've had has been through superficial means. I don't think I've ever liked any of them, I was just friends with them during school for a higher social standing. Eventually, I began isolating myself, and now I'm where I am. I cant genuinely speak to another person anymore.
I wordlessly moved away at 18 to another state dropping everyone I ever knew and I have no social media or contacts of any kind aside from my mother to anyone I used to know. Is this bad? Am I a troublesome person? I sometimes think of reconnecting somehow but I'm nearing my mid 30s and on the opposite coast now.
>>748134250With a lot of effort. Having a common activity you do together every week is a really good way.Me and my friends used to play vidya together, but now we just have movie or anime night instead
>>748135846for me its the relentless narcissism and "i gots mines" attitude. out of all of the people ive met and come across there are very few personalities without going to the extreme that i find more spiritually ugly than someone who is completely and wholly self centered or is incapable/uncaring of another's feelings and wronging them is just the price of business.
>>748126419now scalp his bussy
>>748128231>There is real money in scalping but the ones making it aren't the ones camping out at Costco, they are the ones setting up bots to scrape online stores the second they open.This. I worked with a middle-eastern nigger who was heavily into the "shoe" scene, as in Nikes. Niggers genuinely pay fucking retarded amount of money for shoes with dem checkmarks on them (mind you, this was like a few years ago, before the tranny drama). He was telling me that other people into it have bots that actually try to brute force the unindexed pages set up in advanced BEFORE the shoes even go on sale, so these niggers literally scalp the entire stock before the shit is even available to sell, and they would turn around like at least $1,000 profit doing that for a single pair.And then suddenly, for no reason at all, the people all voted for hitler.
>>748136635I do the same. I just don't think I'm worth keeping in touch with and anyone who wants to find me will eventually find a way.
>>748136254>Hoping to trick people?I think either hoping to get impulse buys or they made a bad deal and are trying to recoup the cost.
I've never had a real connection with another human being. Every friendship I've ever maintained was an elaborate social-climbing operation conducted during school hours. Then, at 18, I wordlessly fled the state, severed all communications, established no social media presence, and vanished from everyone I'd ever known like a disgraced 19th-century aristocrat. Now I'm in my 30s, on the opposite side of the country, wondering if I should reconnect with somebody despite having spent half my life perfecting the interpersonal skills of a suspicious lighthouse keeper.I've never had a real connection with a human being. Every "friend" that I've had has been through superficial means. I don't think I've ever liked any of them, I was just friends with them during school for a higher social standing. Eventually, I began isolating myself, and now I'm where I am. I cant genuinely speak to another person anymore.
one of my friends from middle school ended up molesting amd raping his little sister so much she got pregnant at 12, didnt abort to my knowledge, he got jailed because he was acting like it was all a scare straight bluff, smirked his way into a 10 year sentence, got knifed down and died there months into his sentence. He also sucked at Pokemon Battles adn would rip the cable link off because he was a such a huge fag about the win loss records.
Honest question. How did this happen exactly? the state of the pokemon TCG as it is now? this entire scalping concept of "Hmm if we mass buy all the things so it's 0 in stock then I can price it 2-3x the price on ebay and people have no choice but to buy it" isn't exactly some revolutionary new concept, this is a fucking thing that could have existed since the start of the entire fucking TCG. 2 (3?) years ago I could walk into any target/best buy and they'd just have pokemon cards, not anything wild or special, the cards were just there on the shelf, I'd buy a booster pack of two if I felt like gambling. This shit is UNHEARD OF now and you either pay 2-3x the price or join the midnight unemployment line to scalp cards the next morning.How did this happen? pinpoint the exact details and reason of when and how this happened, I am BAFFLED by how the fuck the pokemon TCG is this stupidly scalped. It wasn't even like this back during red/blue era back in the 90s during "pokemania" (yes I'm unc I was around for this), even back then with pokemon being the second coming of the lord (to kids) you could STILL walk into a toys r us or whatever and just buy packs. This scalping shit has NEVER been a thing until recent years.
>>748126419don't worry, pokemon scalpers just got fucked in the ass by the latest release because of the pure volume of cards released
>>748127291>WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH DADDY GOVERNMENT! DO SOMETHING!!!!!!Scalping only exists because consumers must consoooooooooooooom. Control yourself for once and the scalping problem goes away.
>>748136056Things will probably get worse no matter what you do. But if there is anything that you can take away from it, it's to never kill yourself. Don't ever leave another person with the loneliness and despair that would happen if you killed yourself. The only thing that's as selfish as taking your life is giving birth. The two most selfish actions on this earth
>>748136786I guess I occasionally wonder if any of them are up to anything interesting. I know one was planning to go to college to become a mycologist, he might have lead an interesting life.
Honest question: HOW DID THE POKÉMON TCG GET LIKE THIS?Scalping isn't some revolutionary economic discovery. Nobody in 2024 suddenly climbed Mount Sinai and returned holding a stone tablet reading, “BUY ALL PRODUCT PRODUCT GONE SELL PRODUCT FOR THREE TIMES MSRP.” Human beings have understood artificial scarcity since approximately five minutes after somebody invented commerce.And yet two or three years ago I could walk into Target or Best Buy and Pokémon cards were just... THERE. Sitting on the shelf. Like a normal consumer product. I'd buy one or two booster packs whenever I felt like donating $10 to the statistical possibility of pulling something shiny and then continue with my day.NOW?You either pay some guy on eBay three times MSRP or join the Midnight Unemployment Brigade camped outside Target at 4:37 AM waiting for an employee to wheel out six boxes so everybody can reenact the Oklahoma Land Rush in the trading-card aisle.I WAS THERE FOR POKÉMANIA. I REMEMBER RED AND BLUE. I HAVE SEEN THE ANCIENT WORLD.Pokémon was basically the second coming of Christ to elementary-school children in the late '90s, and somehow you could STILL walk into Toys “R” Us and purchase Pokémon cards using the revolutionary retail strategy of taking the product off the shelf and paying for it.Nobody had to consult Discord to determine when the Charizard shipment was arriving.Nobody was following the vendor's truck through three counties.Nobody's mother was standing outside Walmart at sunrise communicating through a Bluetooth headset:
>>748135930you're retarded the limit can just be something like "The company set this as the universal COMMERCIAL resale price so if you list to resell on ebay, any market place that isn't a commercial chain store you cannot go above "X" price (which is the normal retail price))scalperfaggotlosers demolished overnightObviously it will no longer apply to shit that is like 30+ years old which is not even relevant to this discussion, but clearly in-print modern day packs of shitty cards and other goods can have this simple rule to keep it fair and balanced for everyone.
>>748136884Good riddance. This world is rotten
>have a childhood friend who'd always keep up with my humor and joke about women, niggers, trannies and jews for over a decade>ffwd one year ago I made a tranny joke and he called me a scumbag for saying the "T-word" right before blocking me on everything and cutting me off>found out that he was dating a trannyI'm still sad about it. I would do anything within my reach to prevent that. Over a decade of friendship ruined by a tranny.
In a rotten world where towers rule the universe
>>748126419>Pokeman cards, lotta money in this shit
>>748136907It was a combo of things>Logan Paul bragging about how expensive his Pokemon cards are>COVID increasing attention to TCGs>virtual Pokemon card pack opening game the Pokemon Company released gaining interest back into the TCG>sneaker scalpers not getting as much profit so they moved onto greener pastures>lots of publicity on selling graded cards for maximum profit>bad economy encouraging people into hobbies and not having a steady income
>>748136997>"The company set this as the universal COMMERCIAL resale price so if you list to resell on ebay, any market place that isn't a commercial chain store you cannot go above "X" price (which is the normal retail price))>scalperfaggotlosers demolished overnightYou're asking the government to be the final arbitor of the worth of products on the open market, and you've got the balls to call other people retarded? Literally just use your brain for half a second and a high school student should immediately be able to see why this is giganigger retarded.
>>748137171ATHF remains the best Adult Swim show.
>>748136663I find that sort of thing "bearable" in that such people are usually very obviously what they are, and generally lack redeeming qualities. You can filter them pretty easily. The biggest issue is when that kind of person ends up in a friend-group and no one listens to reason when they steal money/fuck people over/do insane shit. I semi know this guy by association and the people around him refuse to stop enabling him despite him being a crack addict mommies-boy that bit a dudes finger off after going on a rampage against two other members of that group.All you end up hearing is "but he's such a nice guy!" in these situations, and by 'nice guy" they just mean "we drank together a bunch and he sometimes bought vodka." Secular morality is such a joke that I've seen people act like this over rapists, people that stole thousands from them, etc.What's worse to me is when a person has genuinely good traits or some kernel of a non-selfcentered soul but flips on a dime when that doesn't align with whatever they're trying to achieve at that moment (it's always something incredibly petty like sex or highschool tier social group drama). A guy I knew was always talking about how he wanted this trad life, to really change himself, etc. He'd get drunk and cry over his regrets and beg for advice. But then he'd find some innocent chick to date and immediately ruin their life/cheat on them/etc. He never fucked me over, or most people we knew, but his inability to parse the difference between his ideals and how he would react to specific scenarios became depressing to watch.
He called him retarded!
Stop him. From calling me retarded
>>748137101I had kind of a similar situation, had a friend that always said nigger all the time. I never did but hung out with them again after years and said that I didnt want to listen to nigger music while in his car. He jokingly called me a racist, which was really weird for me but luckily he isnt a pussy bitch so it didnt destroy our friendship.
>>748136997>yes officer, this man is selling pokemon cards at 15 dollars over the mandated resale price, please fix tylaws are just words on paper until enacted with state enforced violence and what youre proposing is ludicrously unenforceable and insanely taxing for everyone involved whether it be ebay, facebook marketplace, whatever the fuck. not even to go into >>748137204 the governmental side of such a thing.
>>748126419He's doing God's work.
>>748126419My sister boyfriend does it too for extra cash. He asked my sister to go to target with him at 3am to wait in a line, my sister just made a face like "ew" and said no.
This whole pokemon cards trend is so surreal to me. No one even plays the game, just a straight up NFTulip tier bubble
>Childhood friend who introduced you to cool games like Devil May Cry and Tales of the Abyss turned into a mindless trophy hunter in adulthood.>Plays kids games just to get the trophies.>Gets a new house and invites you over.>Never see his wife anymore.>"Here's a random question, anon. Friend of mine is letting his wife sleep around with other men... what do you think about that?"Please no.
>>748127625How hard did you beat his ass to be this mad?
>>748126593>Jay comitted suicideI never thought that the lyrics of the kids aren't alright were supposed to be a warning when I was a kid
>>748137581You should fuck his wife
>>748137318Glad your friend just toned down rather than becoming a total libtard. I miss my friend.
>>748136907when the promise of a job isn't enough to make ends meet, people turn to get-rich-quick schemes, aka "side hustles"reselling/scalping is one of those
>>748136995Someone is probably going to list out every single complicated pinpoint in recent history, but genuinely it just simply boils down to a total and complete loss of the moral fabric of society from yesteryear. Culture has shifted to "get that bag" nigger culture. This is just one of the side effects of it.
>>748128532based
Terker der
>>748126593Ahhh fuck mine too but nearly 4 years ago now. I don't spiral out so easily anymore but it still feels like I'm missing a huge piece of myself.
>>748136475My Niggaboo died his hair as red as it would go .5 years into uni, turned into a tranny 1.5y into it, the got busted for CP start of year 3 and thrown into big girl prison for eight solid years.Only texted him occasionally through it but my aunt worked at the uni as a shrink so i had to deal with my mom only cottoning onto what was happening only months after the fact too, meaning two separate very awkward convos. Screwed me up good for a while, remember one specific convo with her being like>Oh poor black friend :c I hope they're okay>>Well I mean they're not going to be, no one's gonna want to be around them. You wouldn't want them living next to your kids, you know?>Oh my god how could you say that >:CC why wouldn't i?! (boomer lib guilt implying because black, because transexual)>>...Because they're convicted for CP and on the national sex offender registry?>...oh yeah. i guess I wouldn't...Fuckin tried to keep up the contacts while in prison since that plus covid has gotta just be pure mental anguish but I just couldn't while trying to put my own chud life together, every paid-for text through the gov portal bled a bit more of my soul out every time, watching the profile pic turned transer and transer. I didn't even know fullstrength boygirl juice was an option the US prison system offered while in the can, but I gotta figure Jesus offers a three-strike get out of hell free card for cutting ties with your only and best life-separated, transed and CP-hoarding-on-college-wifi high school buddy... still have good memories of playing through Silent Hill 2 and Ninja storming with you though...
>>748128532I never reply to anyone that uses the word unc. It's all ghetto slang nigger babble
>>748136932So much this. Just stop wanting things like your own house or the ability to eat meat. It's your own fault that everybody else wants them so badly.
>visit hometown for holidays>check to see what old childhood friends I fell out of contact with are up to>half of those who stuck around town are deadbeats, on fent, or both
>>748137101>>748137318>Had a friend in high school.>Guy said the shit "retard" and "faggot" as though they were the natural noises your lungs made when expelling air.>Decades after high school, meet up with him again.>Guy had a kid with down's syndrome.>While talking, slip into old persona with him and say "retard">Bro heaves a sigh like he just restrained himself from decking me and just politely reminded me not to use that word around him.Karma's a cruel bitch I guess.
>add an anon on steam>get along well, talk a good amount>last online: 2 months ago
>>748137809>I didn't even know fullstrength boygirl juice was an option the US prison system offered while in the canWhat the fuck. That can't be real.
>>748137943Why the fuck would you say that? You sound more retarded than his kid
>>748137876>equating essential possessions to cards in a card game no one plays
>>748138010>>While talking, slip into old persona with him and say "retard"
One friend got hit with the damnatio memoriae and I still dont know why
>childhood friend>i've always hugged him but there were two moments that always stood out>elementary school>he left for a year and when he returned i hugged him>go to the same middle school as him>we have some same classes>we form a small group and he starts dating a girl before we move to high school>high school comes and he's lovey dovey with her and i'm feeling a little alienated>still have the same classes>eventually fall behind on ap and get sent to regular classes>cope by avoiding him to mask my shame but we still have electives together so we talk during classes>end of senior year we start talking a little bit more since we're going our separate ways for college>rarely meet up even when he does come back from college>finally come to terms with the fact I was being a bad friend but never express it to him>have a major college event and invited him and some of the group if they're able to come>only he replied back, he couldn't>go through with the event and go out to do the meet and greet afterwards>as I enter the main hall I see him there and give him the biggest hug>turns out a flight was delayed so he was able to come>lost sight of all the other people there with me and had to be reminded to mingle>we meet again a year later did some catching up >that was more than 10 years ago>i initiate the texts but no real conversation so I stopI know friendships die but that friendship is the one I miss the most, and it was my own fault. Maybe it was because we met during formative years but it feels like I won't ever have a best friend like that again.
>>748138024pokemon tgc is essential doe
>>748138024They're not essential though, dumb consoomer. You don't need meat or an owned house to live. Why are you so entitled? Why can't you just control yourself?
>>748138010NTA, but as long as the anon didn't call his kid a retard and just use it in a general conversation, I don't see a problem.
>>748137259I disagree, sort of. Ill always find a way to forgive someone who was misguided so long as at some point theyve realized theyve done wrong, its not a continuous pattern of behavior, and its not something like rape or molestation. I think thats just fair and part of the human condition but at some point you do have to ask them what the fuck is the deal if it continues. I wouldnt leave a friend at a gas station in the middle of nowhere for pussy but i cant fully promise that i wouldnt do something retarded and got me away from what i believe either.The thing about the types i speak of that ive personally encountered is that they worm their way into places and become the bearers of certain avenues of progress or just end up in high positions. ive turned down very very good shows that my band could have played because the venue owner is a complete scumbag and i refuse to do business with him. I dont find them bearable in the slightest and think its better to cut it off at the head and simply avoid and dissuade others from interacting with them.
>>748137582I'll say I'm not the most knowledgeable at RTS game, Im a casual, I usually just play RTS games Human vs AI on like Medium or something and never once really did human vs human matches. He was more of a RTS player, generally 50% of his games were RTS. Think he got wound up about something forgot what, we were talking about Monster Hunter. Then he challenged me to a Command and Conquer 3 match calling me a pussy "You never play pvp right?" So I said sure, I picked just your standard group of units and he picked some units that had green guns?Anyways played the game, started producing a shit load of tanks, helicopters and units. I thought I'd just go over to his base and just test as Im sure he would be more advanced than me, Seems like I had enough units to fully wipe his base, there was generally little resistance even on the way to his base, I was unsure what he was doing, he had troops but they just melted same with the buildings. I caught him with his pants down I guess you'd say. He left the game, never said anything more and just completely blocked me on facebook, whatsapp etc.
>>748138075You literally didnt even think about the Pokemon TCG until 5 years ago at most. You have always lived in a house. This is the last (You) you get from me, you disingenuous nigger.
Scalping would be less of a problem if people didn't buy from them. Unless it's mostly scalpers scalping scalpers, then the situation is a little more complicated
>>748137890That's pretty depressing.I have a friend who always wanted to be a pilot since kindergarten. He would study hard and read up on anything he can to try and be a pilot.I eventually moved away and we lost contact, but when I went home last year for a funeral, I found out that he's now managing a gas station. It was so depressing I couldn't even work up the motivation to go talk to him again.
LOL
How did you guys even make friends when you were kids?
>>748138281Doesn't it just happen? I think me and my friends all liked Star Wars and then it grew from there.
>>748138281You play and become friends. Kids are that simple.
>>748138006I legitimately wish I was making it up, it still screws with my head every time I try to rationalize it. Like at what point does it go over the line where you can't be friends with a childhood friend anymore? Militantly Political? Transexual? Pedophile? A mix of all the above? Do you have to give them pity points for their life being totally ruined? Do I have to ask them if they were partvanned for jailbait or full-on pizza before making the judgement...?I kinda just alt-tab out of the train of thought whenever it circles back
>>748138281I didn't make friends.
>>748138206You used the exact same argument that own-nothing-eat-the-bugs zogs used. You are the worst kind of retard, the sort that think they're immune to being a tool because they're a contrarian. You gain nothing from defending nigger behavior like scaping, and only lose out. Literally born to be a goy.
>>748138391How about when you were a teenager?
>>748138445You try to hang around someone that looks cool and help them antagonize lame kids
>>748138445Sharing a class. Teachers usually have icebreaker activities so teens will be forced to talk to each other. When it's lunch time though and you don't have anyone on the same schedule? You can walk around and see different types of groups and maybe you see one of the people you talked to during class.
>>748137712In an odd way both sides of this thread (people discussing fucked up childhood friends, and people actually discussing scalping) are both talking about this, anon. In so many of these stories, both about scalpers and about peoples friends, it comes down to nigger-culture infecting everything. >>748138006Yeah the US prison system offers it in almost every state iirc, prisons across the west do. It's considered medical care so the gov sponsors it. Tax dollars at work!>>748138079I think I worded my post wrong; I mean something more similar to what you describe in regards to being able to cut off the complete narcs because at least you have the power over that situation to not get sucked into/manipulated by their downfall. As far as the other thing, forgiveness is good it's just awful to see a friend make the exact same mistakes over and over again. You do know they're capable of changing, they express a desire to, but they never do it. You would give the world to see them just take that step and kick their vices and their immorality, and forgive them in an instant, but it just doesn't happen no matter how much they beg you for answers that fall on deaf ears.It also at a point makes you kind of culpable for their downfall/ways they hurt others. Bros before hoes ends up applying so if they treat their woman like shit let's say you can't really do much, especially because direct intervention in scenarios like that just makes it worse for everyone. Friends that don't improve, no matter how much you love and would forgive them, are a ball and chain on your ankle in a flooded world. >>748138281There's a few different types of "guy who had friends as a kid" and those types range from normalfag social-flowers who just kind of knew everyone and continued to into adulthood, to people who simply made one or two very strong connections that didn't fade the same way others did. Some of it is luck, some of it is just not being sheltered.
>>748138392anon why is your exfriend cleveland and his wife
>>748127291Exploitable systems are unavoidable at this scale. Regulation would only cause other problems. The solution is to simply beat the shit out of exploitative assholes until they stop or die, but we're good boys so we give instigators a free pass while retaliators get the books thrown at them.Fruitless social shaming is the only option left if you want to keep your "freedom" so yeah scalping is not ending any time soon.
748138413You literally dont need Pokemon cards, as shown by you only caring about them in the recent year or two despite them being around for 30 years. You need a house, preferably own it, retarded consoomer nigger.
>>748138515>>748138579How about as an adult?
>>748138686You cant.
>>748126419My best friend came out gay and married some ugly guy who makes like $250,000 a year so he's a stay at home (wo)man that plays WoW all day long.........then got divorced and lives in Detroit. Probably has anal worms or AIDS. Haven't heard from him 6 years. I had sex with his moderately attractive sister a couple of times, in fact it was the only reason I became friends with him in the first place. That's a whole other story.
>>748126419Apparently my dad saw one of my childhood best friends while he was out walking down by the lake. He said that my friend "was dressed up and was wearing a fake tail" or something. My childhood friend ended up being a furry.
>>748138686Look for people who share the same hobby as you in your area online and join their group. It's hard to make new friends as an adult, but not impossible.
>>748138609Fucking hell. The founding fathers should’ve abolished slavery during their tenure.
>>748138686I guess but then that ends if you stop working there. I legitimately don't know how people make good friends outside of being forced into a scheduled space.
>>748138650>The solution is to simply beat the shit out of exploitative assholes until they stop or die, but we're good boys so we give instigators a free pass while retaliators get the books thrown at them.Therein lies the backwards irony doesn't it?
>>748138650You part of the “eat the rich” crowd, perchance?
>>748138740>>748138795>>748138820Grim. At least I have you guys.
>>748138845You will never be rich.
>>748126419>childhood friend just leaves me on read any time I try to make plans with him>run into him one day at FUCKING Gamestop while picking up the new Star Fox>say hi, catch up a little bit>as soon as he picks up some transformers shit he had pre-ordered, he immediately tells me he's got places to be and leaves>every other friend I had moved away as soon as high school ended and I haven't seen them since November 2016>don't really know how to make real friends anymore
>>748136856This is how I might have turned out if I'd never liked any of my friends. You should look around places for a good online friend at least, it may change your perspective on many things. Hard to break the habit of only using 4chan, but things like discords for esoteric hobbies, games, and fetishes are all fairly good for finding like-mined weirdos. Good luck un-hollowing yourself, you'll need it.
>>748138878Are you rich?
>>748138870No, you don't.
>>748138413Kind weird to be calling other people goys and zogbots while defending the government stepping into legislate scalping.
>>748138893>dickswordGo back.
>>748138281School and hanging out with the neighborhood kids after it, mostly. Mom helped with setting up playdates. I lost her in late August and have just been remembering everything she did for me.
>>748138938I know, right? Almost like it was satire or something.
>driving, pull up to a red light and check the flyer of when childhood friends band is playing on facebook>couple minutes down the road, check again at the next red light because i didnt actually memorize the time>fb wall is flooded with RIP posts within the ~5 minutes i checked last>died of asthma attack>lived as an alcoholic hermit for a few years because life genuinely feels significantly lesser without him and now i barely know how to interact with others>desperately want to contact my loved ones and see them as much as possible but get severely anxious at the thought of it and can barely physically send the text to say hi at the very least
>>748138686Depends if you want friends or "friends". The cut-off age in your life for making real, deep friendships is 21. After that point people are generally too established, business-minded, or fucked up to make proper deep and lasting friendships (assuming you're a man). If you're a woman, lower that to around 16. Every woman I've ever been with has had an insanely difficult time making friends and what friendships they do acquire always end up blowing up in their face because of hen-pecking and snark directed towards them. Tldr; you don't.>>748138609A quick addendum to this: They do change but only rarely for the better. The other problem is very few voices of reason exist in peoples lives anymore and once they commit to doing immoral/gay/base and crass behaviors there will always be another, bigger group of losers to keep egging them on. Groups of losers especially when they're stunted into highschool-esque behaviors end up congealing badly around 25 into this mass of parasitizing crabs in a bucket. They all "benefit" from continued encouragement and normalization of their failure-state and rejection of improvement so the screaming voices of whoresons will inevitably drown out people that really want to help.I think the failure of the online right wings momentum post-covid and the outing of so many of its figures as frauds did a lot of damage to young men growing up around that time too. They crashed hard when they briefly tried and it caused them to default to a "might makes right" mentality which ended up mentally connecting them to the nig-noosphere.>>748138893This advice is just going to turn that other anon into a troon. Do not follow this advice.
>>748138934This is why I love you
Am I the only one ITT who has all of their friends be successful people with girlfriends and im just that neet that they dont want to hang around with and be friends with anymore because im an autistic loser? They hate that I do nothing while they work their asses off
>>748138945You want me to tell him/you to talk to people IRL instead?>>748139096People like us are immune to getting memed into shit like trooning anyway. Yes you may now call me a tranny or whatever.
>>748126419>Find out my childhood best friend makes a killing exploiting dumbass nintendo "adults" who have no self-controlsounds pretty based to me
>>748139096I guess it's over.>>748139164>tfw you're the loser friend>>748139223I feel bad for the kids who just wanted to play a card game. It feels like the cards are just collectors/scalpers selling to other collectors/scalpers who are hoping to profit off of the previous collectors/scalpers.
>>748138894No.
>>748139223One of my friend is a furry artist and the fucker makes so much money that I'm kinda angry I didn't study drawing instead.
>>748139164I pretty much lost all my childhood friends around middle school when nigger culture became popular>dude just smoke weed, listen to rap, and assault women (they like it) or you won't be popular
>>748126419I was reading pokemon scalper salt mine today, on reddit of all places (kek). And they are all very stupid and entitled, not understand that pokemon scalping is a risky business and they can lose everything they invested on the very next expansion
>>748138886I am afraid I'll run into a high school friend one day in the wild. It isn't that I don't like them, it is more that I don't know how to handle socializing with them. In a way they would be about as familiar to me as a stranger is on the street since we aren't a part of our lives anymore. I don't know if that is cold or there is something socially wrong with me or what. I psychologically closed that chapter of my life as complete and am focusing on new goals and relationships I only wish for them the best in whatever path they took.
>>748138831I was exaggerating but yeah. Still, violent apes should stop pretending they're not violent apes. We are what we are because that shit gets the job done.
>>748139334It's soul-crushing work.>>748139368why don't you go back there AIjeet
>>748127291companies are blind to it initially because all they see is nukber going up. it is only later when scalpers cause number to go down that they try to do something about it. a successful version is what is happening to pokemon/magic scalpers now and a failed version is what Nike tried to do.
>>748139164Opposite problem for me, my 2 oldest friends are NEETs and they push me away more as time goes on. One of them flat out told me it bothers him when I talk about my work or what it enables me to do (like take vacations or buy a house) as it makes him feel like a failure.
>>748126419foul ball rulesif there's a kid nearby you give it to them
>>748139397pls sar let me stay here on 4chan, sar you are based sar, good izzat here sar
>>748139095I went through something similar to this though as a result of a really REALLY shitty BPDemon encounter and a fucked up job/family. The part no one talks about alcoholic-hermitage is it ends up giving you bad anxiety and reprograms you out of social skills.The best thing you can do for yourself now is to force yourself and try to learn some mental conditioning techniques to just autistically interact with the world the same way an extroverted child does. You've gotta find some kind of hobby, hang out spot, anything as long as it's IRL and outdoors. It's one step at a time until you can learn to bite the bullet and face what you've learned to fear again. (I.E, the family stuff). You're going to make it anon, treat the anxiety/stress/shame as fuel to change. >>748139221Autists saw the "You are immune to propaganda memes" and in the most ironic twist of fate possible consumed that propaganda like an Israeli boomer. Modern troon culture is literally a synthesis of tumblr/twitter shit with trolls-remorse anons that all fell for it bad during covid. In my experience anons are literally one of the groups that do a 180 and mindbreak into troons the hardest (and most dramatically).
I don't think driving around walmarts with these gas prices and getting into fist fights with other grown ass adults is enough to make a living.Why don't these "people" get a real job. You're not Logan Paul and you're gonna sell (money laundering) Pikachu card for 15 million dollars.
>>748139404>as it makes him feel like a failureit makes me feel like a failure too but I was always proud of my friends accomplishments and was at a higher point in life than them a decade ago and i accepted themnow they fucking hate how im a neet and it destroyed my friendship with them because they had to bring it up every single day and I had to finally tell them to fuck offyou're lucky you have neet friends. You can just always be with them and support them and theyll appreciate it. Wagies will forever remind you that you are a neet loser without a girlfriendtell your neet friends you love em
>>748139480the only ones that actually go to those walmart kiosks are the absolute mega losers. most scalpers just use bots.
>visit childhood friend's home>it's gone>a nice, pristine suburban home seemingly lifted off its foundation>no indication of a basement either>just grass and an unfinished driveway in the middle of a wealthy neighborhood>feel nauseous after stepping onto the driveway>peer into what could've been his backyard>there is a figure standing knee-deep inside a pond>can only make out a t-shirt and shorts>feel his eyes burn into my soul>turn around back to my car and uncomfortably hum the American Pokemon theme song>hear my friend's voice call my home after I open the driver seat door>turn to see the figure toward me>hop into the car>turn the key and hit the gas>get ticket for reckless speeding in a residential area>have to explain why I ran>everyone calls me crazy>never try to visit friend again after that
>>748139559Have you considered that maybe they saw potential in you and wanted you to get better? NEET isn't a racial classification, it's something you end up as and not a good thing to end up as (as fun/cool as neeting out can be). It sounds to me like they saw you not progressing in life and applied tough love or just brought it up in the hopes it'd help you.
fellas, we have to try to be something. i know the world doesn't care about us and would have us all killed if given the chance, but we just have to keep going. pray to Jesus to help you have the strength to overcome all of your faults and He will do it. He's been waiting this whole time for you to come back and have Him helpdon't kill yourselves
Honestly you never think the stories are as bad as they but until you see it in person holy FUCK.>mfw I had to watch actual grown men fight each other and crawl under a newly installed card machine in order to manipulate it???
>>748139368Which subreddit? I wanna read some posts.
>>748139479By "us" I meant people who are okay with living like a ghost for 10+ years. Not necessarily your average anon.
>>748139682Extremely true. Picrel from me almost a decade ago now. I'm still a friendless chud... but I'm still employed in the same field, making a livable amount, and living in a decent home I have 70% paid off.Life goes on, as long as you let it.
>>748139657when it starts being daily, they start treating you like you should never have an opinion because you are the loser of the group and that they remind you everyday to trash you and say you are worthless, it suddenly made things worse. When someone is saying how much better off they are than you and start trashing your life and everyone around you, its no longer about them caring. They enjoyed that i was the punching bag and that they had control over me and the rest of the friend group were basically butt buddies with the man who would trash me so they would never go against himfuck em. Its hard enough already in the states
>>748132125Weren't you looking into real estate? Also, punpun fucking sucks.
>>748139682Even if there is a god, surely he's evil. Why else would he put he put a species with consciousness in a world with so much pain and suffering? So few moments of fleeting joy? This is all an elaborate conspiracy, and there in so such thing as a god or savior. If there is a hell, we're probably already in it. Any brief moment of fulfillment or "happiness" is just to push you farther down your hole
>>748139926God created India.
>>748126419>scalpers are killing themselves>no one careshow is this allowed?
>>748127486>>748127590Just report racists. It's funny when their posts get deleted.
>>748139740I remember a couple years back asking a Target employee about Pokemon cards being frequently sold out. They said they were considering removing them from the store due to people starting fights. I chuckled and they had a serious expression like they weren't kidding. It turns out that happened around that time. I thought it was a one-off incident, but you see videos from Pokestreetz all the time of people losing their minds.
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>>748139926God didn't make the world like this. We did by listening to the serpent in the Garden all that time ago.
>>748139756I say reddit for shits and giggles, I don't know where these come from
>>748140095Eve could've prevented the creation of India.
>>748139479>trolls-remorseThis is such a strange phenomenon to me. I regret some of the things I did online and I'm sure I pushed two or three people into committing suicide through pure online bullying, but doing a 180 and becoming extremely leftwing while lashing out against everyone you know is such a bizarre thing to see - it's not like you can undo what you've done by doubling down on the opposite. I really don't get what they expect from changing who they are entirely.
>>748140063All pokemon tcg product are in vending machines and kiosks and wheeled into the backroom when everything is sold out, which usually within 5 minutes.
>>748139682Amen. It's a shame people throw this sort of thing away because of how retarded/useless american prot churches are. I think if a lot of anons just got to attend Orthodox Liturgy and understand its lessons/understanding of how sin works/understanding of how demonic influence works/etc it'd help them a lot.Best thing is to learn how to use the Jesus Prayer like a mantra; when it clicks you can power through a lot of things that used to lower you.>>748139785Honestly, good work anon. Your mentality and perseverance seems to have really paid off for you. >>748139926Mankind creates the suffering for himself when he lives outside of God and chooses cowardice over development. In turn, what is good would lose all of its meaning with nothing else. How would you know the true character of a conscious human had they not had the situations and darkness around them to test them? It's one thing to be raised and live in light, and another to cultivate greatness and persistence in inequity. Thinking like this also betrays ones own prideful nature, a nature which prevents understanding of the depth of existence/morality/etc. To call creation evil is to assume you know better than a timeless and ageless deity. To assume this stunts your mind, prevents you from ingesting new truths progressing. Atheists always call religion thought-terminating but time and time again will make use of literal thought-terminators like this; lazy and easy excuses to not study or improve. Then, in a society which encourages one to terminate their hope and their mind, a society which chooses laziness of thought and depth, they become shocked when things get worse and people get stupider. >>748140198Lonely secular guy sees himself aging and sees his life is pointless.Gets lovebombed online (it doesn't matter how immune to this you think you are).Troons they know slowly switch tactics and change drama until they turn him into a golem for their beliefs (an ally, if not a troon himself
>>748138281Proximity and familiarity. You don't even need shit in common, as long as you two are mashed together on a regular basis you have a far higher chance of becoming friends than otherwise. And that's true regardless of age as well. Wanna make new friends? It doesn't start instantly, you gotta inconvenience yourself to inconvenience someone else too. Often. Which means finding some activity you can and will do regularly as a substitute to what school afforded you. Be enthusiastic about it, be genuine about it, and talk about the shared activity will fade away into small talk about other shit, which fades into talk about your histories and other interests, which can lead to other connections, and at that point you both know each other, and have advanced from acquaintances to friends. It takes time. Months even. It doesn't happen overnight. Especially with how guarded people are nowadays and wary of others. But it DOES happen.
>>748137101His loss not yours.He will eventually come back when the troon kills itself or leave him.
>>748139926>>748139976>>748140095>>748139682>>748140416It truly feels like there is no god. If god truly cared for us, he would save us. If god truly existed, he would lose faith in his creations just by looking at the state of india. If god truly existed, he would have flooded this planet long ago and reset everything in itPerhaps god does exist but maybe he no longer cares. Maybe god truly realized we are flawed creations that will always lead to the most hideous and disastrous things imaginable that normal animals would never doWhy would god abandon us if he does exist? Does he no longer believe we deserve Salvation? Did the fallen angels take over the heavens and we do not have god and jesus to save us currently?We will never know. Just know, we live in scary times and the world truly is demonic and will continue getting more demonic when AI slowly corrupts and twists our world to the point where the younger ones only know a fake satanic god made by fallen angels and reality no longer exists for themgod help us all
>>748137648>>748137581This. At least you're making sure his wife is in good hands.
Everyone I know has become a scalperWhen we imported more browns we imported their low trust societies that have no compunctions about ripping off your fellow man with them
>>748138886He's not your friend, buddy.
You still have contact with your childhood friends?
>>748140528I disagree with you a lot but this is honestly a decent post and you seem to have thought about it more than most people do when they talk about this stuff.To each of these despairing questions is an inverse and hopeful answer of some kind. >If god truly existed, he would lose faith in his creations just by looking at the state of india."Lose faith in us" wouldn't be the correct term but you're not actually entirely "wrong". India is a cursed and anciently damned place. It is horrifically demonic in nature, as most of the world once was. But that is part of why we are not India: many of the horrors we see in places like that, Africa, etc are the results of thousands of years of sin and non-repentance. Sin itself, repentance itself, it's not just "god is angry because you JO'd" but rather massive amounts of self reflection and genuine attempts at spiritual cultivation. Part of why Christianity took off so hard in the west is because it merged with the already similar platonic thought early in its history. The west had already been trying to move past primitive religious and demonic belief for a long time and Christ turned out to be the promise they'd been seeking. The reason we need forgiveness is because God is very aware of our fallen nature and the horrific shit we do. This leads into this:>the world truly is demonic and will continue getting more demonic when AI slowly corrupts and twists our world to the point where the younger ones only know a fake satanic god made by fallen angels and reality no longer exists for themHe hasn't abandoned us, and the orthodox have had prophecies of this time for a long time. Even recent saints could see with almost pinpoint accuracy where we're going. But that's exactly it: Our salvation will come from improving ourselves, improving those around us, and banding together with others who resist. To follow the Living God, to be one with his church, is to reject these things without despair. It is His mercy.
>>748140957AI-coded post.
>forgot my childhood friends >never cared >forgot my college friends>they tried to contact me many times but I ignore them >find out from an acquaintance of an old family friend that most people think I’m dead
>>748138075food is fungible. Children's trading cards are not. Also making the argument that food isn't essential is hilarious
>>748126593Then you weren't close enough, be better
I don't think anything has changed whatsoever in either of my 2 friends lives in 10 years
>>748136907It's not just Pokemon. It's literally every single card game out there. Pokemon just has it worse because it's the go-to.
>be 30>still have my 10 childhood friends around>knew them from kindergarten >still see them at least once a month>still have fun together even if we got different political views>got to travel together abroad >everyone has a job>some got to buy a house>one got married>one ghosted us for 10 years but came back>one died because of a snowslideCan't complain when I read shit ITT
>>748140095>omnipotent>omniscient >create the garden>create the stupid humans>create the serpent that deceives>create the environment for deliberate failure>"wtf why did you do this i'm punishing you and your entire race"Lol?
>>748128231>but you have to understand these are the type of people who are adverse to an honest day's work.as well they should be. any man doing an "honest day's work" in 2026 is a SUCKER. all you are doing is funding foids and their niggerspawn.
>>748141012I said "meat", not "all food". What's it like having a sub-high-school comprehension level?
>>748141092At least it's not as bad as that side quest in Pokemon SM, right?
>>748141092Swap with me. NOW.
>>748140095>No you don't get it, you're suffering because god thinks you deserve to because of things your ancestors did that you have no control over, he's very kind and forgiving though!
>>748126773>Troon out & extremely indebtedYeah, he’s double dead. Sorry for your loss, champ.
>>748132207>Intern at my local arts centre for my degree>Cover some tech festival run by the local vocational school>Audience is teenage boys>Befriend one of them, he's obsessed with Jojo, typical 4chan autist stuff but he kinda reminds me of one of my other friends I hadn't seen for a while at that point>Years later>He trooned out
>>748139785Something that kinda helped me is realizing that consciousness, which drives our actions, isn't something we're born with. We don't have memories of when we were infants. At earliest, when we were like 3 or 4. That's when consciousness kicks in, memories start to form, and we slowly gain self-awareness. But did our consciousness develop, or did our bodies just develop enough to become receivers for it? Are the earliest memories you can remember the only ones you ever had?People say "you were fine not existing for 13.8 billion years before you were alive", but as a conscious being that's an unfathomably terrifying prospect. And after I'm dead I'll be unaware of my own existence again for another 13.8 billion years, at least. Provided there's no afterlife or reincarnation for where my consciousness goes to after death. Life is an interim of consciousness in the infinite vastness of death, which is the natural state of the universe. But will it truly be forever? Is there an afterlife? Does God exist? Do we reincarnate? Does everything just end after your own awareness ends? Are we semi-divine blips from an endless God experiencing the universe through a myriad of fragmented minds? Is everything a simulation, and we'll just wake up after death? Is dreaming a recollection of shared memories, or a connection to our quantum selves in other timelines/dimensions? When you dream you don't exactly get access to all your waking memories, so is your dreamself really you?I don't fucking know. None of us may know. So all I can do is mitigate the absolute terror of understanding this while taking shit one day at a time. And relish in spite. Because for as many people as I care about that I lose, I absolutely want to outlive the ones I hate too.
>>748141005This is what I've dreamed would happen to me for years but for some inexplicable reason I get shot down every couple years by some random person friending me on steam and finding out it was some person in highschool I knew who some fucking how got my steam account. I should have gotten a new one by now but that's another badge of honor I want to keep through the ages.
>>748141238>>you're suffering because god thinks you deserve to because of things your ancestors did that you have no control overYour white ancestors, allegedly, have done a slavery and you must reparations to your local random black person, NOW!
>>748140528I agree with you. The only purpose god would serve me would be being a scapegoat to all of the suffering that I've experienced. I don't think that there's any point in that, this far into my life. 23 years and I think that I'm already in a direction that is out of my control. Maybe it's causality that caused all of this, but even the idea of some kind of entity controlling each specific event of life makes me upset. The only thing that some kind of God would be able to do for me is give me something to blame everything on
>>748134835You think this place is any better?If the failed normalfag musical threads several times a year aren't enough of a hint this place is and always has been "reddit where you can say nigger"
>>748141238he is forgiving. he sent his self insert human oc to earth and martyred himself to save everyone.
>>748141182Qrd? Never played Sunshit>>748141220Greentext your situation anon
>>748141319keep on dodging dust wizard
>>748126593I have no childhood friends Don't know the feeling of having one
>>748139923>punpun fucking sucksIts the best manga of all time
>>748140994More of an "it's 3am and trying to explain anything like this in the word limit is a pain in the ass". Actually getting into the baseline of how fucked India truly is, for example, or how AI is the culmination of hermeticism/alchemy/etc designed to demoralize the world on its own would take like three posts before even getting to how this connects to Christianity/how God hasn't abandoned us but rather is still protecting us from how bad things are going to get (we haven't seen jack shit yet).>>748141238>>748141102 It's always incredible to me how fedora-tippers can completely and utterly misunderstand not only what original sin even is, but what the structure and the concept of the story even was. >>748141319If it's any consolation you might want to look into Tippler's physics of immortality among some other things. It becomes a bit easier to shoe away the doubts of an afterlife when you realize just how much weird "spiritual" shit not only exists but is constantly studied, replicated, and found utterly baffling by physicists. A lot of people in elite circles, scientific circles, etc aren't actually atheistic themselves but attempt to filter through this through secular language, similar to when you read the CIA docs on remote-viewing and astral projection. They're always steeped in a hilarious amount of professional-sounding jargon over what is ostensibly "yeah the spiritual is real'. This becomes funniest when the Stargate-documents just drop a tutorial on what to do if you encounter a demon without ever using that terminology.>>748141372What you're describing would essentially be Calvinist predestination which is kind of its own rabbit hole where God controls each specific event, which isn't actually true. Most Christian theology doesn't give you a scapegoat like that, even if it does allow you some comfort in knowing it can be fixed (to a degree).
>>748140957But the problem is that there is no improving. Everytime I've wished for things to get better, it gets worse. When I slowly wait and see if the world will understand that we are going to barely even exist in a hundred so years, people say you are a doomer and the world is better than everIn order to improve the world we would have to have everyone agree about the problems and fight with violence against our rulers and the elites in a bloodbath just for a better future. Not only is there not a single tiny chance of this happening, god wouldnt want us to devolve into a bloody world war against the satanic higherups that would lead to suffering around usso whats left? Nothing. Things are obviously going to crumble till we are ALL in an indian tier distopian hellhole. India exists more to remind us of whats to come. India already is a nation so demonic and filthy that its impossible for the world to clean up. Imagine the whole world like india and africa. The world would be forever in a state of satanic filth. You cannot clean up a world that has become indiaGod knows this and yet he is letting this planet with such beautiful life to rot and why? Because he believes in us? Just flood everything away and let us start again. Use the scholars who are aware of what happened to sale the flood and fix this new world into a paradise
My childhood friends dropped me in highschool and we had falling outs. I ended up not going to college and got a tecv job right around covid which I've ridden since then, so I am doing well now. I long to hear the news that they are doing poorly in life or can't find jobs, it would amuse me greatly
>>748126419>Found out my childhood best friend is now an unc
>childhood best friend from 5-15 is a multimillionaire through inheritanceI'm in my mid 30s and haven't talked to him in ~20 years because he was a narcissistic control FUCCBOIfunny to think about though because i am as poor as can fucking be and grew up dirt poor
>>748141703controlling*forgive my minor typo, I am drunk-ish
>be 28 with no career>all friends have no career>they argue and yell about stupid small minutiae instead of talking normally and seeing the bigger picture and moving onWriting it out it sounds like /v/ but irl. No wonder Im so miserable.
>>748141521You run errand for a dude who made a promise with his friends, each with their own eevees. Some end up for the worse but that's just life
>>748141638For all we know, something like another flood could be in the cards. For all we know, many other things could be. The answer is one a lot local, smaller, than hope for this whole world. Things can get better for us ourselves in small, competent cells of survivors escaping what's occurring and doing their best. This is already happening, most Orthodox people for example who actually practice are creating tighter and tighter networks of mutual cooperation and socialization simply by the nature of the times.We are still small people in a huge and terrifying world, much like our ancestors were at one time. And much as well like the early church, with all that they went through. Hope is to sink or swim, to do what you can for yourself and those you love. The very likely truth is we're in the beginning stages of the apocalypse. It's likely that these are the end-times, as long predicted. Rather than an abandonment or a flood, a renewal and a new light may come. Don't let yourself suffer because of the abuses and evil of the elites/jeets, anon.
>>748141521Forgot>>748141874
>>748128792Those are awesome
>>748127590Kys boco. You dumb wetback beaner nigger.
>>748141348I get people who unfriended me years ago who readd. Aside from recognizing the name I have no recollection of any of our conversations or have any idea why they would actively try to find and add me again. I neither accept or decline the requests and let them pend forever
>one childhood friend rambled about NFTs and since he knew I could draw, I should get on this gig. Slapped him silly for suggesting it>another told me AI would dominate everything. Instinctually gave him a mute button>another invited me to watch Brand New Day with him. Not gonna join for anotherYou guys sure have good friends
>>748130873The goyim have gone insane
My best friend moved to another country for a job offer. He found a queer gf there and started hanging out in queer social circles. They broke up and now he's on his way to becoming a transbian. Already on HRT and harping on about the unfair bigoted society. It almost feels like losing someone
>had a 4chan bro for ~8 years>met and hung out for a weekend>cool dude for the most part but I can never fundamentally relate since he grew up with wealthy parents and I grew up in crippling poverty>spend lots of covid 2020/2021 in shitty poor living conditions or homeless in my car not eating for days>sometimes text friend, one of like 3 'friends' I had online (usually Steam on the phone)>you're hungry? sucks btw check out this BBQ i ordered for me and my roommates>homeless? bummer btw you should buy the cryptocoin i like>sleeping in your car tonight? that sucks btw i just withdrew $20k in stock dividendseventually i had enough of this trend and deleted him. this is little to no empathy to be found among the upper middle class and above
>>748141917Yeah sorry anon I'm not swapping. Your situation could still improve tho
>>748141629>fedora-tippersIm not a theologian and all my thomas aquinus knowledge has fallen out. I simply...>this is literal. This ones figurative. The slaves? ... tattoos?... the mistranslations amd misunderstanding between boy and man that were intended to mean "dont be a molester" turned into "dont be gay"? The our morals change and thats okay because the bible isnt actually written by god like the rabble believe. We know its a collection of stories which is why some early scholars didnt include books into the first few editions of the bible because its was aural tradition which why there are inconsistencies between books. Why do some people take it literally well thats because...dont care. i never see religous people as mad with me as they are with other abrahamic religious variants like mormons. I will say since ive typed this much, let me know what the garden story is about then if its not about promethean knowledge (learned from theology courses) or not a story about following your authority (learned in sunday church)
>>748126419i got back into pokemon tcg and spent like 5$ on each fucking card and you need like 60 cards
>>748127706Stop with the antisemitism snoy
>>748126419pokeretards deserved to be scammed by scumfuck scalpers tee bee h
>>748141629>fedora tippersWhat does you being new to 4chan have to do with video games? It fucking sucks how much of recent /x/ has been destroyed thanks to specific Christian evangelism.
>>748126593Damn, rip, hope you're doing alright
>>748126593>childhood friend died of leukemia shortly after i started high schoolrip cameron ;_;
>Be me 28>Have no friends since i stopped college years ago.>Decide to do my masters because job is getting boring>Sit in class with all these <25 year olds >Feels strange sitting with young people >Suddenly see my buddy from my college years >Both of us have the biggest smile seeing each other and start talking >He says he also got bored from his work and life and said he wanted something new >Both of us started doing the same lectures just so we can hang out like old times>30+ year old joins us because he knows nobody there>He‘s pretty funny and is also gaming>Every night after the gym we game together Yeah life is good right now for 2 years at least
>>748126419>when scaling cardboard is better than slinging dope and trafficking meat slavesGrim state of affairs we find ourselves in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7r-R61W1DQ
All of you people are lucky, I live in a fuckhuge town.Since leaving school over a decade ago, I've seen an old friend ONCE in the wild, and that was just like a year after I graduated
>>748141629You're an enemy of video games and an invader.
>childhood friend became a racist policeman and lost his badge when he kneed some fentanyl addict who died from drugs
>>748126593my little brother killed himself a while ago, shit messes with your head, especially seeing how nobody really cares.
>>748130632>discord modding>paid laborFuck no not in this life. They're on the same level as jannies and reddit mods to some extent. Glorified tardwranglers for glownigs and penny pinching companies that already have their inhouse HR foids running gossip errands.
>>748142847i've met a handful of people from high school since i graduated, most of them are fine except one person who looks like they got hooked on drugs, sad to see
>>748142892Nobody cares about male suicide. But also nobody cares about how the youth's suicide rates are the highest they have been since 1994.It's not a good time to be alive. :\
>>748126419Why is it that EVERY video of those fucking shitty scalpers they're always either:>black>mexican>chinese
>>748126593At least he's not a scalper.
My childhood friends seem mostly successful/fine. Half of my childhood bullies died of OD's/car crashes tho.
Friends?
>>748142939>Nobody cares about male suicideIt could've been prevented if my parents or anyone gave a shit, I could only do so much being out of the country working full time. and he just had a string of bad luck. boomer parents egged him on, couldnt get any job since indians took over, his friends didnt really care even though I heard he tried to reach out several times, it's fucked. I think about him everyday
>>748141675Always an unc, never a dad
>>748142969>childhood bullies died of OD's/car crashes tho.based
Huge nintenboy and never bothered to pick up a single Pokémon game since it became a thing. I did watch the anime closely till Misty left.
You may have friends but do you have nakama?
>>748127625>>748138086What a weird game to get so ass-blasted about. I mean, I fucking love C&C3 but I wouldn't cut off a friendship over something like this. It would make more sense if it was some esports that had a lot of money, but I don't think C&C3 ever had a scene with xboxhueg prize money.
>>748130000>Capitalism is fine, we just stopped punishing retards for being retarded.quads of truth, charity is unironically a vice
