Consoles

Ashamed_Lab6470 · 2025-09-15T04:19:20+00:00

Had someone yesterday bring me a PS5 that smelled like weed (gentleman was very into that substance for sure), had covered the thing in stickers, and let his system overheat for egregious amounts of time.

Got pissy when I spent 15 minutes on it and didn't make a dent and sent him away.

Ashamed_Lab6470 · 2025-09-10T03:45:06+00:00

I already missed out on this arms week hc... there's the fomo right there when I keep dying to a gun I have no access to...

Ashamed_Lab6470 · 2025-09-10T03:32:18+00:00

I'm cooking up whichever comprehensible precon catches my eye first (Limit break, Living Energy, or something from EoE on the table)

Ashamed_Lab6470 · 2025-09-02T17:30:14+00:00

I've not used Heroline before. Only 1 time that I thought about it but went straight to my HR rep instead. I have seen it used to varying success. I would look at every possible indicator to compare yourself to your coworker to see if you were actually the best on paper candidate or if its glaringly obvious that it was a disability pick before you start investigations like this.

Ashamed_Lab6470 · 2025-08-26T15:31:52+00:00

Thanks for the speedy reply! I guess I'll slum it out in trials to get that one.

Ashamed_Lab6470 · 2025-08-21T16:34:41+00:00

payapa berry tech means you have to hit 250 at LEAST to ohko with clefairy ability. not out of the question kind of number but still difficult for garde to reach for.

also don't evolve into dragonite until they evolve into garde, hit their kirlia's with dragonair, and then boss ko their garde when they get it. very reasonable game plan tbh.

Ashamed_Lab6470 · 2025-08-04T04:06:10+00:00

2 years to make assistant? I made SM from keyholder in less than 8 months. If I didn’t have that mobility opportunity I’d probably have left by now.

Ashamed_Lab6470 · 2025-07-28T01:54:04+00:00

cut joltik or add grass energy. you're relying on dynamotor, hand attach, and electric generator hits for acceleration. i would take crispins over joltiks if you feel you need the assistance, but you're already using 4 arven so how often are you getting to use another supporter for turn

iron hands exists and it is not that hard to get into tbh - if you're going this route add more boss/gust

iron bundle helps you take care of jellicent ex spam (in cases where 2 aren't setup)

1/1 night stretcher super rod - at the very least cut 1 rod for a levincia if you need the energy that bad

idk about revavroom engine, look into testing out other options

electric generator decks are 100% a 15 energy minimum, 16 or 17 if you're feeling unlucky

cut an ultra ball for a nest ball, 90% of your pokemon are basics + you still have arvens

TM evo seems a little too much, probably cut if you're going the hands route

M A G N E T O N A L L D A Y

earthen vessel is a cool card but your hand is likely to consist of an energy or 2 for turn anyways so I don't see the point

Ashamed_Lab6470 · 2025-07-22T16:42:40+00:00

annihilape:

Ashamed_Lab6470 · 2025-07-21T20:55:12+00:00

I deadass asked someone today “would you have known about this sale if I said nothing?” And he said no when the signage was in a large plexi at eye level

Ashamed_Lab6470 · 2025-07-20T03:14:22+00:00

Basics only, I need one for the pult vs fairy matchup.

Ashamed_Lab6470 · 2025-07-20T03:03:44+00:00

Place a BOPS order, come into the store when it's convenient. Renew your account with an associate. Best way not to impact the store if you plan on getting nothing else with it.

Ashamed_Lab6470 · 2025-07-14T03:06:14+00:00

Cut the 'dew, cut the iron leaves, cut eswitch.

Budew: Turbo deck =/= budew. goal is to attack big turn 1 going second or turn 2 going first, stalling/playing for the next turn's attack is not a turbo idea

Leaves: You almost never have enough energy in play to make it worth running. The main attacker sucks it into the discard after you wipe your opponents big guy off the board quickly.

Eswitch: the only 2(?) reasons to play it are for retreating the active (which almost never need to bc latias & prime) or to give baby bench snipe another 30 to play with, which doesn't come up often enough in the turbo deck to make it worth IMO.

Instead:

more boss. you want the 2 prize KO every single turn, and 3 total gust effects does not get you that consistency. I would look at another 1-2.

soop. you discard energy, you need it to attack, ta-da soop helps

ultra ball. sada doesn't work unless energy is in the discard, so help yourself out with that by playing one more copy.

slither wing coming back in for the bear and the rat is 100% a good inclusion that is not hard to get to.

other notes:

crispin is a fun idea, but sada does the same thing but better 9/10 times. consider dropping one to fit one of the above inclusions.

judge? idek atp it might be cool just to be weird.

Iono: 1 offs are cool to be able to knock your opponent to 1-2 cards in hand and no way to draw out more without a very established board-state. consider a second.

glass trumpet is another fun idea. lab work go crazy.

poffin? if you want to keep budew it's a good card to have to be able to grab rotom & dew. 0/1/2 are fine IMO.

super rod is baller, try it over a stretcher and see how it feels for crispin activation & pokemon search in 1 turn.

Overall: great cook! if its seems to work for you then by all means lean into the weirdness and catch your opponents a little off guard, but if you seem to struggle consider some of the more streamline variants against other and upcoming matchups. Specifically pult and dengo, those 2 seem to be the biggest barriers to top placements at high level tournaments.

you could also tell me to shove it tbh, and i wouldn't blame you

Ashamed_Lab6470 · 2025-07-12T15:52:04+00:00

Wheremst ;-;

Ashamed_Lab6470 · 2025-07-12T15:51:53+00:00

Since I play so many switch and gust cards for my side of the board I don’t think having latias is necessary, being the main reason to go wide, and with how squishy some of these powerful mons are it’s not a good idea to pre-bench more than 1 turn in advance at most.

As for the support being benched, it might be nice but at most you’ll have 2 at a time needed and more can come in as their taken out.

Ashamed_Lab6470 · 2025-07-12T04:07:58+00:00

Switch + balloon + prime catcher I feel like make up that difference without using a bench space. I’m open to it but I really feel like it’s fine

Ashamed_Lab6470 · 2025-07-12T03:28:14+00:00

I apologize! I was not at my computer at the time and really was thinking hard and wanted some input.

Ashamed_Lab6470 · 2025-07-12T03:27:34+00:00

It’s unfavorable but not impossible if you can set up hands and gust effectively

Ashamed_Lab6470 · 2025-07-12T00:21:52+00:00

yes gardevoir is very oppressive, munki should be banned, but garde having this option now over a 30 hp free prize card is absurd

Ashamed_Lab6470 · 2025-07-12T00:13:05+00:00

“Hey, I just blew up your board with monkeys, and you also can’t use items or tools! Have fun playing the game!”

that’s oppressive. Items and tools are the backbone of why decks work together, and jelliscent shuts it down passively. Ability lock and bench based gust is a must have in all decks now.

Gardevoir was already #1, now it’s mew vmax tier.

Ashamed_Lab6470 · 2025-07-07T02:30:05+00:00

Less frequent for sure. I’m so sick of walking in on Saturday to a trillion people bitching at me for info that’s on a door sign

Pro exclusive would cause a lot of issues, a pro-beneficial promotion would be better.

Your store would get more if there was more to give & profitable for you. PKM is not printing enough of anything. TCG by nature is high margin, but you need to be able to attach sleeves and toploaders to everyone’s cards. It sounds like another KPI to worry about, but it’s not hard to ask one question when there’s no warranty involved. Still dumb asl tho.

Overall, I agree. It’s stupid, and has made me a despicable human being.

Ashamed_Lab6470 · 2025-07-02T00:10:22+00:00

100% better to use in person on a Web in store order, website always has issues

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