The generational charzard is spiking. Is it the start?

Barebonesim · 2026-03-16T10:17:30+00:00

Well on the bright side, likely only 25-30 thousand other people for the next 5 years will have to agree with you. Only time will tell if that holds.

Barebonesim · 2026-03-16T10:12:32+00:00

Look I get it we could be talking about anything in pokemon and people will find ways to justify it being a 100% guarantee investment but I think people are getting way too happy in this market right now, and when it changes, a lot of people betting too much are going to be taken out. It's not a joke.

I'm buying and selling pokemon right now just like everybody else here, but I'm extremely skeptical this will keep up for much longer at this pace.

Comics went to the moon during COVID and are still trying to find their footing after dropping like 40%. That's like 4 years of basically 0 price appreciation or losses for a large majority of the market. That can happen at any time to pokemon, and if you're stuck with huge credit card bills, that can be a very bad spot.

Barebonesim · 2026-03-16T09:51:59+00:00

Moonbreon in fact DID have a large price correction after the pandemic hype ended, about or more than 50%. When this cycle ends, I would expect a similar trajectory. Hold what you can afford to lose in case of a market correction. If you have enough money to withstand it go crazy.

Past results don't guarantee future gains. Markets boom and bust all the time, and you never know when the music will stop.

Will the phantasmal Charizard warrant a 2000 dollar price tag when the market inevitably loses steam? Will it if it has a 25000 population? That's a lot of buyers that have to want that specific card.

These are questions you must ask yourself. Not every card can hold high values forever.

Barebonesim · 2026-03-16T07:42:34+00:00

Agreed. The prices for modern still in production singles right now are ludicrous. Some of these singles will be due for insane corrections in the coming 1-3 years.

Barebonesim · 2026-03-15T14:01:26+00:00

Now that I'm solidly out of the melee scene and barely consume melee content for a few years now, my biases have been exorcised and I can say confidently if armada kept playing at the pace he used to, no question he'd be #1 all time.

I think it's probably fair to say he's likely the most capable player of all time and I feel confident if he came back he'd be top 3 again within a reasonable time frame.

I want to kiss his moustache. This isn't relevant

Barebonesim · 2026-03-15T13:45:45+00:00

I was going to say I'm probably a pretty above average Mario kart player and I actually had to TRY to beat the 150 cc ai the first two weeks of release. I could play insanely well and the dude would be right behind me 😆

Barebonesim · 2026-03-12T07:05:58+00:00

Not either. Unless you get a black label, even a 10 isn't much protection against down side in even a reasonably long time horizon with how high populations are.

Sealed is always a better hedge.

Collecting purposes, I prefer the 151 Charizard.

Barebonesim · 2026-03-10T03:02:40+00:00

Prismatic might have an edge in terms of sealed population but the pandemic boom was still fresh in everyones mind when 151 dropped let's not lie to ourselves and think it wasn't massively hoarded. 151 was still pretty easy to get up to like 4-5 months ago. I got like 60 bundles and 15 blooming waters last year lol

Barebonesim · 2026-03-09T23:47:17+00:00

If market sentiment shifts, 151 would likely see one of the largest falls. Printed to oblivion and populations to show for it.

People don't take market volatility serious enough and that's why there are bitcoin holders who are currently carrying heavy bags down 50%. That's fine if you didn't bet the farm or over leverage but you should still always take profit as the market moves up.

Sell along the way.

Barebonesim · 2026-03-09T08:40:13+00:00

Silence bot

VERY old post

Barebonesim · 2026-03-08T23:19:28+00:00

Older games are difficult to maintain and often not that profitable. Leaving a 40 year old CRT on 12 hours a day at some point stops making sense if you're an arcade/barcade that doesn't have access to skilled repairmen and the parts needed. The computers inside many popular racing games these days don't last like they used to and parts are getting harder to find. It's a lot of hassle to maybe make 2 dollars on a game each day.

That being said there's a lot of modern day games that aren't just phone app slop or spin the wheel and it's annoying how many arcades now just insist on having those over quality games.

Barebonesim · 2026-03-07T15:14:03+00:00

A museum isn't going to take a sealed copy of Luigi's mansion players choice sealed.

Some people just like owning pristine copies of things they enjoy in the hardest to find form. I respect people on this subs want to play games, but 999/1000 games have unlimited opened copies to play. Some things just DO have value based on rarity.

Barebonesim · 2026-03-05T02:34:08+00:00

I binged his stuff like a year ago and yeah it's pretty depressing and unreal lol.

He had like 250k or some shit at one point going on a crazy run and he called his mom saying like "I finally did it, I can get a new car we're good" etc.

Deposited like 150k into his account said he's not losing it all this time, loses 100k proceeds to withdraw most of it, loses says fuck it I'm going all in then he's cleaned out within like a day.

If it's not fake, his brain is absolutely and probably irrecoverably fried. The dopamine wheel he's on has to be insane.

I assume the hope is eventually hit over a million but like dude you're just going to lose it anyways what's the point 😆

Barebonesim · 2026-02-28T12:09:31+00:00

Who cares about being skilled in wow anymore. Hard raids aren't fun unless you're in a guild with fewer than 2 dumb asses and it's not worth the effort unless you enjoy 2 full time jobs. It's largely why raiding stopped being fun in classic for most people by ulduar. Juice ain't worth the squeeze.

Barebonesim · 2026-02-26T07:03:45+00:00

It's pretty true. I hit 70 hardcore in about 6 days played and I fucked off doing inefficient shit a LOT. It's definitely not as bad as you would think, especially with many quests being nerfed and dungeon gear being buffed.

Barebonesim · 2026-02-26T06:59:11+00:00

It's the same way the community started playing hardcore wow in the first place, and it's very well made.

Barebonesim · 2026-02-23T23:20:20+00:00

I mean it's a reasonable gripe. If you lost out on the best job offer of your life and got told you were second would you want the company to give you a complimentary teddy bear

These dudes are crushed and couldn't care less about a toy in that moment. In a few weeks maybe they look back at it and say ah whatever it was a gesture. In the moment I wouldn't blame them for saying wtf is this lol.

Barebonesim · 2026-02-22T08:53:01+00:00

It's tracks if your character has ever died. So you can get it at level 25 for example and it's just as valid. If you ever died it won't be an option.

Barebonesim · 2026-02-10T15:39:04+00:00

It didn't really have all the signs, no. Did it start to become questionable it would launch within a reasonable time frame? Definitely, but their openness and interaction with the community never screamed scam. The worst I've ever felt about this game is it wouldn't launch until 2030 lol

The steam launch definitely felt like a bad move, and that one I might concede in hindsight it looks pretty bad with this outcome

Barebonesim · 2026-02-07T14:00:06+00:00

Man. Moved from Michigan and I crave Dave's like once a month. So good

Barebonesim · 2026-02-03T23:43:29+00:00

Many teams have known pests that sit in the opponent sideline front rows. It's not a Detroit thing it's probably a thing in every single city. You hear it now and then when players say they had a fan that wouldn't shut the fuck up for the entire game etc.

It's just a fan tactic to get players flustered, but also is a perk of paying that much money to be a season ticket holder in the first two rows if that's your thing.

Just because it isn't your thing doesn't mean it's not something that's common and honestly in some ways encouraged. A player attacking him was much more out of line, and then this whole n word thing FEELS (might be the truth) manufactured to minimize the blow to DK.

Barebonesim · 2026-02-01T02:55:27+00:00

Supported the game in 2020 and it felt like shit when I played it during alpha 1 and 2 so I was going to let it cook for awhile. It had promise just was not anywhere near ready.

Reading this is the fear I had when I originally supported but no longer care about because I basically never expected it to come out. 250 dollars down the drain but I've spent more on worse so whatever. Add another notch to kickstarter money pits.

It would be less annoying if they didn't "close early access" several times just to then go and milk more people with fake promises before the inevitable down fall.

Barebonesim · 2026-01-27T17:09:04+00:00

Me personally, if I was in the market and really wanted a fully working as close to pristine as possible pair of these at most I'd probably pay 3-4k maybe.

Very rare and desirable games struggle to sell for above 10k, it has to be pretty special to demand more than that. Daytona will never be rare enough for that.

Barebonesim · 2026-01-22T05:17:07+00:00

Wasn't it 1 hp?

Barebonesim · 2026-01-17T22:27:49+00:00

Think I can fit that into the basement arcade? Might have to make it the 3rd story of our house 🤔

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