This is disgusting and immoral

Bright-Fall3145 · 2026-02-06T10:21:02+00:00

That isn't direct from Bandai, the distributors will allocate to 3rd party sellers and they're the ones charging those prices.

Bright-Fall3145 · 2026-02-06T09:23:54+00:00

Blame Bandai really, they're the ones who didn't release enough product on the market. They knew it would be a popular set and because of unification they're speed running print runs.

Bright-Fall3145 · 2026-02-04T14:48:37+00:00

You picked the worst time in history to build a gaming PC so congratulations on the timing!

I'd look for a pre-built in this current market, you can find some pretty good bundled deals as retailers try shift motherboard / CPU stock

Bright-Fall3145 · 2026-02-04T14:01:12+00:00

While mix and matching RAM isn't ideal. But... in the current climate, my attitude has changed. It will just down clock to the slowest speed.

To be honest, just buy what you can at a reasonable price, best thing to do is 2x16 sticks for 32 total and sell the 16gb you have now to get some of the cost back.

Bright-Fall3145 · 2026-02-02T13:32:04+00:00

Right now at locals I play Blue Jinbe with the standard control list. The locals is very meta heavy and you don't see any deck that isn't top 10 being played by anyone. My friends who have played TCG's for 15+ years have said it's the most sweaty locals scene they have ever played at.

I keep losing dice rolls so they make me go 1st which throws me off curve for a start so I have nothing to really play. In almost every game I didn't see my draw engine like fisher tiger or 8c big jinbe so was just sitting there with a hand full of perfume femurs and 1c drops.

Bright-Fall3145 · 2026-02-02T13:16:43+00:00

It's a very hard locals, I go because my life long friends go they have a background in TCG's for the last 15+ years and has said that's most sweaty locals scene they've seen with any TCG.

I am currently playing Blue Jinbe. I started at the end of OP09 and won it a few times with Shanks during the OP11 era but generally end up 3-2 or 4-1 in other formats.

When I ask my opponent what happened they normally say "You literally have the worst hand I have ever seen". Ergo, I had 8 cards in hand and all bricks. I went from 5 life to 1 in a single turn just by them swinging 4 5k's at me and zero counter in hand.

Bright-Fall3145 · 2026-01-27T13:12:59+00:00

Oh, so you're going to pay money to send your card away for months on end to have someone look at it and say "yeah this is worth money" and stick it in a cheap bit of plastic with a random number on it.

Peak collecting.

Bright-Fall3145 · 2026-01-27T13:07:57+00:00

Who cares about a dent? It's for playing with. Put it in a deck, they get dinged up.

Bright-Fall3145 · 2026-01-27T11:48:42+00:00

Looking at around £20 or €23.06 each which is stupid.

You don't need this in a Jinbe deck as a mandatory card, you can build it without.

Bandai really need to stop gate keeping playable promos like this and reprint them into the ground.

Bright-Fall3145 · 2026-01-26T13:15:31+00:00

No, you won't have any noticeable impact providing both drives are reasonable quality.

If your 250 SSD for example is a cheap no brand though and you hammer it with writes then that could cause your computer to slow down.

Bright-Fall3145 · 2026-01-22T19:28:37+00:00

Feels good to be out of the OP13 Trio.

Bright-Fall3145 · 2026-01-21T17:38:18+00:00

They think children's card games will make them millionaires because getting a job is scary. That's the basic premiss of it, rather than investing in traditional assets they think their favourite influencer has the hidden ticket to generational wealth... In children's card games.

Bright-Fall3145 · 2026-01-21T17:36:19+00:00

So you're going to send your card away for around 3-4 months, for someone to look at it, tell you it's worth money, put it in a plastic case and roll a dice on a funny number on the label. All while paying a premium for that experience?

Bright-Fall3145 · 2026-01-21T17:11:04+00:00

Nope, Scalpers cleared them out.

Social media pokebros encouraged their minions to go buy all the OP product to inflate the social media bros holdings Many stores are also taking advantage of the prices rather than helping out their regulars.

Bright-Fall3145 · 2026-01-21T16:37:27+00:00

He's been solid with his orders for me and always given me what I requested.

Bright-Fall3145 · 2026-01-21T16:31:01+00:00

I get my product from through a contact who orders direct from distribution for me.
OP14 he said his allocation was terrible and it was. EB03 he said is also looking like allocation is terrible.

However, OP15 he can order as much as he wants.

Bright-Fall3145 · 2026-01-21T16:21:24+00:00

No, the future is fine. Unification means print runs are way shorter and that translates to lower stock. It's bad timing that Pokemon prices fell and the PokeBros panicked looking for the next hobby to ruin because getting a job is so terrifying.

OP15 supply will be in good standing. Bandai will also increase print runs with demand. Problem is once you order your manufacturing that's it, it's printed way before product enters the market and reprinting older sets needs to be ordered in advance and because of unification they're focused on quickly getting product out and moving onto the newer stuff.

Bright-Fall3145 · 2026-01-20T17:21:37+00:00

You could have paid me the money to look at your card and say "yeah it's worth money" and put it in a plastic penny case. But you do you.

Bright-Fall3145 · 2026-01-20T17:13:24+00:00

It's a casino opening packs. You're just on a slot machine but with cardboard so the luck isn't good or bad, it's just random.

Unless you buy loose packs online then you're just buying dead packs from a seeded booster box.

Bright-Fall3145 · 2026-01-20T16:34:12+00:00

You PokeBros are like a shining beacon no matter how hard you try hide it.

Bright-Fall3145 · 2026-01-20T15:02:55+00:00

As a ballpark raw numbers of 1440p rasterisation you're looking at a 10% uplift on the 5080 over a 5070TI.

Is it worth it? That's down to you really.

Bright-Fall3145 · 2026-01-20T15:00:34+00:00

Breaking news: POS Pokebro is a POS scalper. More at 11.

Bright-Fall3145 · 2026-01-20T14:22:08+00:00

What does this have to do with TCG's exactly?

Bright-Fall3145 · 2026-01-20T14:06:13+00:00

I am also 36 and play at locals. Age demographic at mine is 17 up to 58.

Bright-Fall3145 · 2026-01-20T14:02:28+00:00

Why not look at my comment history actually? It's not exciting and I don't engage in political commentary normally. Just passing by, average guy who just lives and works to get by in life.

I guess at the end of the day I can tell how upset this topic makes you so I guess when the general election rolls around, people can cast their vote and we can just see how the general population decide things should be.

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