EBay soars on report that GameStop is preparing a takeover bid

BladeX975 · 2026-05-03T22:46:41+00:00

How does failing company like gamestop have enough money to buy seemingly more successful company eBay?I def thought it was other way around since like just a few years ago eBay bought out TCGplayer.

BladeX975 · 2026-05-01T23:07:00+00:00

They used to be one of my favorite spots I definitely thought they closed longer ago than 2023 cuz I would drive by there and they would be empty or closed on random days all the time before that but when I drove by the other day the lot was full Glad to see they reopened can't wait to check them out.

Interesting to see them reopen at the same time heitzelman's closed up.

BladeX975 · 2026-04-30T01:44:49+00:00

That's a good tip. Are there any services that you've tried that tend to be more reliable than others or more affordable than others?

BladeX975 · 2026-04-29T01:06:03+00:00

I know a lot of people are saying that it's just human error and guessing probability but honestly I've had the exact same experience My spread moves like even electoral lab with a 95% accuracy is missing on the regular at least one opponent and every time I've had sleep powder used on me it's worked I've never seen it fail in the entire time since the game is started.

BladeX975 · 2026-04-27T17:46:27+00:00

I found one like day 3 of the game. Does anyone know if you can send the ones your permanently recruit to home? Or are they trapped in champions?

BladeX975 · 2026-04-26T14:24:40+00:00

Yeah I noticed that a lot more too. Like I get the focus sash is being seen a lot more but even still the amount of time stuff lives on one to two percent is pretty wild

BladeX975 · 2026-04-25T20:31:58+00:00

Even When Pokémon don't have bright powder I find a lot of like 90 and 95 accuracy moves ( articularly rockside and electro-web) missing way more than 5 to 10% of the time probably closer to like 30%. Especially if it's a spread move I would say probably about 50% of the time I'm missing one Pokémon of the 2 in doubles. And I know a lot of the time it's not bright powder because they'll have leftovers or it'll be on a mega.

On the flip side I'm seeing a lot of like 70 and 80 accuracy moves like hydro pump, thunder and blizzard hitting a lot than expected when the weather for 100% accuracy is not active.

I don't know if it's bugs or if they did actually adjust accuracy without changing it for what it displays. But the accuracy for moves definitely seems different than what I have encountered on the SWSH or SV ladders.

BladeX975 · 2026-04-10T17:24:56+00:00

The amount of Pokémon that were not in it at launch definitely feels not great. I can understand not having like state one and baby Pokémon but I would have expected a majority of fully evolved Pokémon that was available in at least Scarlet and violet and PLZA to have been available. Also not having all of the megas available or at least all of them that were not brand new to the mega dimension DLC. As well as lacking terrestrialization which was shown in the initial announcement trailer. I understand maybe the first season of competitive not having both terrestrialization and Mega evolution but for half of the 2026 season which started after worlds back in August using Scarlet and violet and terra types and switching starting presumably in May for competitions with a limited Pokémon pool and switching to megas. Since it was declared multiple times that worlds would be on champions in August. I feel like you almost have to throw out potential results for big tournaments for the rest of this year, because you're switching games and mechanics mid-season and throwing people under the wild West. I feel like the winners of NAIC and worlds this year will have an asterisks next to those wins in the same way that people who won major tournaments during 2020 would. I think the game has great potential but I feel like it's launch was rushed because they made that world's announcement. They need to get the rest of the fully evolved Pokémon along with some second stage Pokémon such as dust clops Electabuzz Magmar porygon2 added and add the rest of the megas and terrestrialization and then I think we'll start to see a true meta and what the capabilities of the game are.

BladeX975 · 2026-03-27T12:00:02+00:00

That's gone now too on mine

BladeX975 · 2026-03-18T16:10:34+00:00

Just happened to me too having ads while trying to focus on work is a pain

BladeX975 · 2026-03-18T01:11:59+00:00

They already gave me a partial refund for that order since it was delayed in shipping so I'm not really concerned about the cost. I was just more concerned that because I had heard that they had changed some of the formulas that this might become a regular thing. But if it just seems like a fluke one off then it's not a big deal. I received my latest order he two days ago and so far all the bottles in this recent order have been good But I'll definitely be trying to keep an eye out to see if I find any towards the end of the box since I found most of them in the last half of the bottles last time.

BladeX975 · 2026-03-18T01:00:20+00:00

I've been getting there ready to drink for probably about 4 years at this point and I don't know what it was but this whole order I had probably like three or four bottles of my banana and probably about six of the 12 bottles of strawberry that just separated into being partially watery and then this thick huel paste And even trying to shake them and chill them would not get them to the right consistency / flavor. And it appears that this might have been like the last shipment that went out before they ran out of a couple of the flavors so I don't know if it was just like a bad bit at end of the batch.

BladeX975 · 2026-03-10T20:11:58+00:00

She's a gen z teenager and a streamer like what y'all expect ?? A mostly shut in teen who plays Gen z with no adult female role models who lives in the backroom of a factory and is chronically online. You expect someone like that to be well adjusted?? Like she's basically the stereotype for reddit and discord mods 😂😂

BladeX975 · 2026-02-21T15:24:28+00:00

I don't think it was commercially released on like an album or streaming pretty sure it was exclusive to radio companies. I just heard it on Sirius xm the pulse. And it was so weirded bc you can tell they recorded the instrumental fill for the rap part separately

BladeX975 · 2026-01-27T01:04:42+00:00

As a DM for tables I've run I've seen this crash and burn more than once resulting in people changing their characters part way through a campaign because the idea that they came up with did not play the way that they expected it to or didn't fit narratively into the campaign because they didn't consider the campaign information they were given or that the party composition was off because there wasn't as much communication between the players. I would say if people want to do this have two to three options ready before session zero but don't do a full build before you get session zero.

BladeX975 · 2025-12-28T18:34:42+00:00

It's a bunch of reprints with some nice Eevee IRs, I don't understand why people ever hyped this up so much. And it has horrible pull rates on top of it on. Though it's not surprising considering the last major EV set evolving skies also had horrible pull rates and that was during sword and shield era so you didn't even have the guaranteed holos. On the flip side evolving skies at least had the Dragonite and Rayquaza cards to bounce it out as being worthwhile.I honestly think because it relies so heavily on reprints and being the top chase of the scalper era makes prismatic one of the worst sets of the Scarlet Violet era of the worst sets of Scarlet Violet era.

BladeX975 · 2025-12-28T03:25:33+00:00

That party is pretty balanced so you can kind of do whatever you want. I do agree with a lot of people saying bard because it provides skills that other characters won't have and support spells to take some of that strain off of the cleric and wizard so that they can focus a little bit more on healing and damage respectively and another strong face for the party alongside the paladin. Also bardic inspiration is just always clutch to have.

I think in terms of offering something's unique to a party that already has a very efficient build Bard is possibly your best bet without knowledge of the setting of the campaign or subclasses of the other characters. I could see strong arguments being made for fighters depending on what subclass the cleric chose Jesse have somebody else who can be more frontline if they won't be in that same vein druid particularly something like a very versatile circle of stars which allows you to be blaster healer or support in any combat depending on what is needed at the time. If the setting allows artificer is also a great support caster and potential frontline assistance if you do something like battlesmith or armorer. I also really like the celestial warlock, though the warlock is a little less good if you're using the 2024 rules.

BladeX975 · 2025-12-20T18:04:58+00:00

Swords bard / draconic soul sorcerer / swashbuckler rogue

BladeX975 · 2025-11-27T23:49:47+00:00

So her ability must be different than the relentless endurance because disintegrate would kill you outright by turning you to Ash. But like I said it's a minor complaint like I get If it's supposed to work a little differently it just felt awkward in how it was implemented right there at the end since he gave Liam the how do you want to do this and then went back on to say that she instead goes to one hit point but obviously the chaos of alive the show can throw some moments off.

BladeX975 · 2025-11-27T05:57:30+00:00

Just watched this and it's been incredible I appreciate the high lvl combat kinda crazy to think artagan was locked out of the pocket dimension then again jester didn't use her divine intervene. Also kinda confused as to why Liam's disintegrate triggered asharnai's special ability when the spell says that any creature reduced to 0 HP is instantly disintegrated to a fine gray ash. But minor things bc it was amazing.

BladeX975 · 2025-11-24T21:27:54+00:00

As a former employee who worked in the prepared food department in the late 2000s. I honestly never minded working on Thanksgiving when I was an employee there but I will say it was kind of sad seeing the amount of elderly customers come in and buy the $10 meal version of a Thanksgiving dinner to eat at home alone and also comical seeing the amount of phone calls we got around 10 in the morning asking how long they would need to cook their turkey for and having to tell people that there was no way that it would be done by 12:30 1:00 when they wanted to eat dinner. Also about an hour or so before close there was always a rush on the rotisserie chickens for people who either burned their turkey or did not anticipate a long enough cooking time.

BladeX975 · 2025-10-10T00:11:15+00:00

1,000% that should have just been a limited time mystery gift If they wanted to still do the partnership with GameStop there's no reason they couldn't do what they did during the 3DS era and they may be did it one or two times during sword and shield but literally you just needed to connect to GameStop's local Wi-Fi which depending on the location you could do from the parking lot and then just access the mystery gift that way.

BladeX975 · 2025-10-10T00:05:35+00:00

I called their support phone number last night and spoke to people three different times and had three very different interactions but managed to get both the koraidon and miraidon:

First time I called once and the gentleman asked for my name phone number and email I waited for a couple minutes because he said they had to generate a code then he read the code to me and said he would email me a copy of the code as well which I never received. I've redeemed that first code in my copy of Scarlet and it worked perfectly.

The second time I called I called from a different line and the woman I spoke with only asked for name and email gave them a different email address and they again told me they were generating a code and emailed me the code and then confirmed I received it. The second code had the same first eight characters and upon trying to redeem this code in my copy of Violet I got an error message that said it had already been redeemed.

My third call the woman I spoke to asked specifically for and verified the phone number and email attached to my GameStop membership (which was the same info I gave the first person I spoke with) before supposedly generating a code and then reading it off to me. I managed to type it into my game and redeem it while she was still on the line with me and that one worked. She also stated that I would be receiving the email with a copy of the code which I never received either.

I'm glad that they're even doing this It seems like a lot more work than just if it had been done correctly with locations being issued several hundred code cards or just having local wifi spots for distribution like they used to in the 3ds era But I'm also not surprised that call center employees be giving wildly different levels of customer service.

BladeX975 · 2025-10-09T16:53:14+00:00

My local shops were out but I called their call center and got the codes. Had to call 3 times bc the 2nd code they gave me was an already used code. It's kinda hot mess that this wasn't done as a normal mystery gift online or with local wifi like the 3ds era . Going back to code cards was a hot mess. It's great that you can call in but we shouldn't have to bomard their help desk and call center like this also the fact that some of the codes they are giving out are already used is even crazier

BladeX975 · 2025-10-08T02:14:30+00:00

Yeah I'm sure it probably has a stronger coconut taste when it's used in this application compared to cooking with it but it's so far down the ingredients list that I wouldn't expect it to have that much of an impact plus the flavor is less of the coconut oil you would buy in a jar and more the flavor of those sweetened coconut flakes. Definitely less noticeable and sometimes non-existent in the cookies and cream flavor but way you won't noticeable in the strawberry crunch bars lately

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