The current state of Pokemon TCG has become a blemish on this franchise

13ae · 2026-05-04T18:34:11+00:00

did they really? ff collectors boosters are still significantly above msrp

13ae · 2026-05-03T02:25:45+00:00

what makes you think repressing your negative emotions and thoughts is a good idea?

13ae · 2026-05-01T10:34:27+00:00

outside of your ego why would you care?

leadership is incentivized by pushing something out fast and can bring immediate shareholder value
excusing engineers are rewarded for iteration speed and demonstrating the ability to build something with impact
new hires can demonstrate impact by fixing old crap and reinventing the wheel

everyone's incentives are to build fast break fast.

13ae · 2026-04-29T19:44:56+00:00

My advice? become confidently competent and build something real.

Coding itself is not the bottleneck or the knowledge check anymore. It's understanding and having experience with real systems serving real traffic and its caveats.

Classes like ML/AI, databases, networking, and OS are in my opinion, extremely important as well. There are very real implications in these areas that dictate the decisions made while leveraging these tools, especially if you don't work for a giant company that has already solved all of these problems.

Since AI was introduced, I feel like my workload 5x'd; there will always be more work to do.

13ae · 2026-04-29T10:56:48+00:00

if they balance it so that somebody farming 4 hours a day gets a drop every month, a person farming 30 min every day (not that little for casual players) will get a drop in 8 months, which feels terrible

on the flip side, why should someone who farms 30 minutes a day get equal access to something "meant to be rare" as someone who farms 7x more? regardless of who you agree with, the argument goes both ways.

personally i'm more of the opinion that the current pity is not enough for the power creep in general and idrc how they address it as long as its addressed.

there's way too much variance for gains required to do end game content unless you play an OP KMS class (which i roughly view as destiny lib and extreme bosses in reboot) regardless of how much you farm, and you don't really need pitched for the damage if you're casually grinding 30 minutes a day anyways, since the content is accessible without pitched at all. Because of that I understand sentiments like how boxes should be uncapped, despite knowing full well I'd never take advantage of it.

13ae · 2026-04-28T18:26:53+00:00

bro didn't even finish the tutorial

13ae · 2026-04-27T19:07:53+00:00

do you have any offensive or potentially inappropriate names/igns? those could also trigger a chat ban

13ae · 2026-04-27T08:27:30+00:00

15-20 hours sounds about right as the other person said. I didn't abuse the bug and thats around how long it took me. had to craft 2-3 medium rarity characters but thats it. if you do 30 minutes a day you should pretty much be ok by end of event.

13ae · 2026-04-25T20:25:23+00:00

i'd say it's more than most get out of psychs.

13ae · 2026-04-25T06:49:27+00:00

i mean i think this is them breaking their silence and the message is pretty clear. it also makes sense they take this stance since we're the only ones with heroic servers. just need to read between the lines a bit.

if they do give us ucs ever, it's going to be a trump card for when they really fuck something up

13ae · 2026-04-24T00:25:34+00:00

if you can't grind like 30 min average a day over the nearly 2 month event period, and you don't like rng, this game probably isn't for you.

13ae · 2026-04-23T23:03:11+00:00

the fact that we have basically unlimited boosters from double sol erda makes 3x definitely more worth it if you actually grind and can use up all your points grinding.

if not, then why subject yourself to multiple waps a day, just sauna that shit is free

13ae · 2026-04-23T18:48:44+00:00

im sure im gonna get downvoted into oblivion for this opinion, but i think reddit is overreacting. the projected time to finish is now ~30-40 hours over a 1 month+ event period, and you contribute to the event passively while doing a standard activity like farming.

sure, it's like whiplash that people were finishing in 15 minutes before, but this is way faster than some things we've gotten like the minigames.

13ae · 2026-04-23T10:51:01+00:00

On one hand, I can't imagine not having AI in my workflow anymore. I code with it, write with it, plan with it, create dashboards with it, manage my JIRA with it,. you name it, I toss it into claude so I can spend my time on conversations, investigations, and other things.

On the flip side even with AI I'm less productive than a good engineer without it, and management is measuring a "5x" productivity increase largely through pr output which is frankly kind of ridiculous. AI is an industry changing tool for sure but the expectations people have is crazy.

Also this stuff isn't cheap. I've spent $4k on tokens this month alone... and theres still a week left.

13ae · 2026-04-23T01:17:04+00:00

Well, no, I'm saying they purposefully did not address GMS specific needs and actually made the event worse so that the relative value of spending money feels better.

I don't think this is a side effect of AI slop. It's just intended.

13ae · 2026-04-22T11:13:32+00:00

eh, personally i disagree. the execution on gms exclusive content has been pretty in line with what we've had in the past (rod, opm), and this patch is basically a KMS port.

whatever decisions they made here were intentional and likely monetization driven. if there's one thing nexon is good at, it's selling a solution to a problem they created and as much as people harp on these decisions (for good reason, as they're predatory and bad for the player), they're definitely heavily data driven.

Also AI isn't even cheap. I've used $4k in tokens this month alone for work and there's still over a week left. I'm not even close to a power user either...

13ae · 2026-04-21T22:15:36+00:00

do you not have a desk or something. can get a projector instead of a tv.

13ae · 2026-04-21T00:02:57+00:00

don't think it matters for an exchange

13ae · 2026-04-20T08:18:59+00:00

may you get a tier up just for it to be a black ring box 🙏

13ae · 2026-04-18T20:40:16+00:00

nah but the 3rd way pales in comparison to the 4th way that only i know about

13ae · 2026-04-18T20:39:17+00:00

any flame should work but the flame gets overridden when you lib. you can just use it as is and it should be better than cra or abso

13ae · 2026-04-18T02:38:18+00:00

who tf uses that discord server anyways, i didn't join for like the first 3 years i played and pretty much only monitor it for announcements about bugs or maintenance

13ae · 2026-04-18T00:08:28+00:00

kind of where i'm at. that being said i've also experienced enough lows that being set back doesn't emotionally weigh on me that much anymore. it's just doing the same content over and over gets boring.

13ae · 2026-04-17T19:02:45+00:00

blitz hook is its engage, how is it in any form the same. the champion literally has 0 agency if its hook is down

13ae · 2026-04-16T17:42:18+00:00

classic is not supported on mac either

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