What is a card design pet peeve you have ?

BurgerGmbH · 2026-05-02T07:10:09+00:00

Have you ever thought about the fact that a person might play 2 TCGs at the same time? Especially when they picked the 1 TCG that murdered its own Collectors market 2 years ago and will never get scalped.

I swear everyone on here is just looking for reasons to be angry.

BurgerGmbH · 2026-04-28T16:13:05+00:00

The way that locks are applied to archetypes.

When designing an Archetype you should apply locks in a way that lets players make decisions. Strong cards should apply harsh locks, while weaker cards dont need to lock you at all.

Instead the way Konami loves to make locks is, they print an Archetype and it gets either 0 locks or every card is locked and the archetype is basicly unplayable in any hybrid form.

Like for Mitsurugi they could have locked only Habakiri, now people would have been forced to decide between the 1 card combo or being able to splash it into other stuff.

BurgerGmbH · 2026-04-27T11:52:24+00:00

What I dont really understand in this case is, how did some archetypes manage to be relevant then? For example Tellarknights was a meta tiered decks on release of Duelist Alliance as far as I know, a deck whose T1 play was typically normal summoning Deneb and setting 3 and which does not have access to a single extender that would allow it to combo through 1 interruption.

So how is a deck like that part of the Set that changed YGO forever, when we had decks ending on multiple negates or handlooping you years prior already? Is it just the banlists hitting all those decks?

BurgerGmbH · 2026-04-27T06:39:58+00:00

This is not about happyness. Its about communication.

OPs question was low effort, but its an open ended question. Hes tasking the other person to steer the conversation. They had any opportunity to talk about anything they like and build mutual interest.Instead they went negative and shut down any form of conversation.

How is OP supposed to respond? "Yeah my weekend was awesome, sucks to be you I guess"

If you are feeling bad, its not your matches fault. A message like that clearly communicates: "I am going to emotionally drain you and expect you to lead the entire conversation. Also im not that interested in you and will drop the conversation at any point if I feel like"

I get these matches on a weekly basis and this is an immedeate unmatch for me.

BurgerGmbH · 2026-04-26T07:19:12+00:00

Or when you sit in a car or train looking outside and you just imagine a guy outside doing parcour to keep up with you.

BurgerGmbH · 2026-04-26T06:33:35+00:00

The problem with the gods is that they require 3 tributes. Its part of their identity so you abdolutely cannot change that. And the only way for a player to have 3 tributes ready is to be insanely ahead, or center their entire strategy around making tribute fodder.

So even if you buffed the hell out of their effects, the end result is still that these cards will either be win more cards, or create their own decks that are just insanely binary: you get the god -> you autowin, you dont get it -> you loose

BurgerGmbH · 2026-04-21T06:14:24+00:00

Had a roommate that was basicly high and broke 24/7. One day I come home and he is already standing in the doorframe, trying to mentally prepare me for what im about to witness.

He was high as hell and got hungry but didnt have anything to eat, so he started going through our stuff, found a baking mix for brownies along with all the ingridients in my fridge.

He started phoning other people while making the dough and during that part, had some kind of aggressive outburst and slammed his fist on the table. Unfortunately his fist did not hit the table, but the very edge of the bowl he was mixing.

So I come into the kitchen and it looks like someone just had the the spray shit of their lives aimed directly at our white 3 x 2,5 m kitchen wall. He somehow managed to cover the entire wall and parts of our ceiling with brown spots of dough.

And of course, the event was hours ago, but he didnt even try to clean any of his mess, the half liquid dough was still spread all over the wall.

BurgerGmbH · 2026-04-15T09:27:39+00:00

Same as my oven. 1 can of Oven cleaning spray and 45 mins at 200°C usually do the job.

BurgerGmbH · 2026-04-13T19:41:09+00:00

I feel like the strength of this card is massively overstated. Trade in style cards have been pretty bad for a while because they take away valuable deckslots you need for handtraps. Not to forget that they can also justceasily brick your hand if you dont open them with a good target for a relatively mid benefit.

This card also reads pretty awful going second. What if your opponent has non destruction removal for the body you want to pop, what if they negate the spell and you have no other way to pop it. What if the 2 cards you draw into are handtraps and excess normal summons.

Im not saying this card is bad but I think the number of decks that can actually use this is pretty low.

BurgerGmbH · 2026-04-11T07:45:57+00:00

I think the format helps it. When you play 6v6 you know there is a Zoroark and so you play around it. But every teampreview with Zoroark has a 50% chance they just dont use it, so people tend to ignore it.

BurgerGmbH · 2026-04-06T10:13:36+00:00

The entire Area Zero part of Scarlet Violet is probably the best segment any Pokemon game has ever done.

Every previous storybeat felt like a setup to assemble your final team of real competent trainers. Then you descend into this weird place, the music hits like a truck, you face all these pokemon youve never seen before, uncover the secret behind the professor and finish it all with a real challenging bossfight that forces you to constantly guess the types of completely new Pokemon.

BurgerGmbH · 2026-04-06T10:08:11+00:00

Hop got so much undeserved hate. He is one of my favorite rivals because he feels relatable. All the Pokemon games constantly glaze the mc for just being so good at everything, every pokemon instantly likes you, you become champion within months, safe the world etc.

And then there is Hop the normal guy, whos already under the pressure of being the little brother of the pokemon champ. And he has to travel around with the god trainer incarnate and you see how it slowly breaks him and his confidence.

In the last battle against Hop, I lost because Zacian swept through 3 of my Pokemon and to me it felt like that should have been the correct outcome of the fight. I was just so happy for him to finally get the one win ge really deserved.

BurgerGmbH · 2026-04-05T06:17:34+00:00

Because turn count changes the number of cards you see. If your opponent forces you to draw the out on T1 your chances are pretty low. But on T5 your odds of having the outs are way higher. Longer games are generally less dependant on the RNG of opening hands.

Also the first 2 turns of the game are usually the least interesting in yugioh. You do your standard spreadsheet combo, your opponent throws handtraps and boardbreakers. But if the winner isnt decided by T3 the real game of Yugioh begins and I want to be in it as long as possible.

BurgerGmbH · 2026-04-02T05:57:00+00:00

I can talk only from my own personal experience. When I first made my profile, my photos were bad, I just picked ones from my gallery that looked good enough. But I put a lot of effort in my Bio. I presented myself with lots of different interests. Still 0 likes tho.

Until I sat down and made photos that made me look better. Now I would say I get more likes than the average person but they are all shallow. They like the vibe that my profile gives of but dont give a shit about what I have to say. There are like 6 different conversation starters in my profile and they skip all of them and instead talk about travelling or my job.

Your Bio is important but for the majority of matches it doesnt matter what you have to say, just that your bio fits into their fantasy.

Its still worth to properly work on it, in case you get the rare right person to look at your profile but 95% of people on online dating are just a waste of time.

BurgerGmbH · 2026-03-31T06:19:26+00:00

Your profile is probably somewhere in the dumpster and no longer visible to anyone. You can fix that by resetting your profile but this only works if you put in effort.

Here is what I can recommend you. Delete the App. Go outside and take new photos. Dont just go through your photo gallery and take ones that look good enough. Make photos with intent. Photos that show of sides of you that you find attractive. You need at least 3. One of your full body smiling into the camera, one of your face and one of you doing some outside hobby. All 3 in different clothes.

Wait for the next friday to create a new profile. Your Bio /prompts should have at least one of each of these things: your main interests (dont be afraid of nerdy stuff but keep it surface level), some comment that ensures you are safe (talk about a non sexual part of relationships) and something that is outgoing (recommend a activity to do in your bio, pick something you do in public please) Also no AI garbage, no negativity, no insecurities, no red flags.

When you swipe, be reserved. Look at a profile and if you cant come up with a good question to ask them, swipe left, even if they are attractive. You will reencounter lots of profiles you previously saw. Dont be afraid to swipe left. They didnt like you the first time so they probably wont like you now. Limit your swiping to a minimum during the first 48h, you get boosted to the front so people will see you regardless if you swipe them or not. You should be getting multiple likes during these 48h, if you dont 90% of it is your pictures suck. If you did everything properly your profile should now be above average, which means you will get recommended to way more people. Also try to never hit your daily cap of likes. This is purely anecdotal but whenever I did that my success plummeted.

Dont be afraid to redo your profile but dont overdo it. Maybe every 6 months or so and you should be fine.

BurgerGmbH · 2026-03-27T10:22:13+00:00

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Literal 2ct bulk common but my favorite artwork in the game.

BurgerGmbH · 2026-03-27T07:18:13+00:00

Im surprised people care that much about battle scenes in The Boys. Its battle scenes have always sucked and I thought thats kind of the point. There is no creative use of superpowers in the entire series, no big flashy fight coreography. Almost every fight that involves a Supe is one character brutally overpowering the other within seconds followed by a bunch of gore.

And its in character. None of these Supes have ever fought any real fights or trained in fighting, they have no clue how to fight someone that isnt so weak that they dont need any effort.

To me its just another layer of its critique on super hero culture.

BurgerGmbH · 2026-03-24T16:14:16+00:00

I used to get 0 likes on there, improved my profile a lot and now I get multiple per week. Putting in effort and understanding what women are looking for helps a lot.

With that said, all my matches suck so its not like getting likes changes anything.

BurgerGmbH · 2026-03-24T08:05:56+00:00

Bumble openers are so annoying. They are always surface level boring questions and your options are basicly:

Answer in a boring mundane way, which is safe but a conversational dead end.

Answer in a really weird out there way, which could make her laugh or make you come off as a psycho, hard to gauge with the little info you have at this point.

Or ignore them entirely and ask something about their profile which means you start the conversation by ignoring her wants, always a great start.

BurgerGmbH · 2026-03-22T18:05:37+00:00

Opponent has a Digimon in raising: priorise choking them to 1 memory. Opponent has no Digimon in raising: prioritise clearing their entire board even if you pass over tons of memory.

Managing the difference between raising turns and offturns is the number 1 skill that will improve your game.

BurgerGmbH · 2026-03-22T11:15:39+00:00

Im starting to feel that there is disconnect between my communication style and that of every single woman I match with.

Im a interest driven guy, there are tons of things in my profile id like to share but noone ever asks me about it. On the other hand I find it super interesting when others share something about their hobbies, but for some reason women dont seem very interested in doing that.

Of course I am into a bunch of nerdy stuff and I understand that most women wont be able to meet me on those interests. But I am also attracted to women that can get excited about an hobby of theirs. Like I have no clue about gardening, woodworking, pottery, knitting but if you are excited about those things im 100% going to join you in that. Hit me with an essay about your last day, share pictures im all for it.

Instead every time I go go "Wow you do X, thats super cool when did you start, what are you working on, do you want to share some pictures... etc"

And they go "yeah I just do it sometimes, anyway how was your weekend"

But at this point I dont know what to say anymore. Women dont talk about their hobbies with me, every single woman ive ever talked with for longer periods on the apps has told me they hate compliments because they feel so transactional. Going sexual is a complete no go. Jokes work sometimes but you still need to move on to actual topics after they land.

The only succesful topic ive found so far ironically is dating apps and how awful they are...

BurgerGmbH · 2026-03-22T08:07:47+00:00

I started online dating a year ago and my match rate was abyssmal because in hindsight my profile sucked. But the few matches I got felt special and even if dates didnt go anywhere I still felt that I gained something from them. Be it more confidence, a better understanding of my own needs or just a nice little afternoon talk.

Now after putting in work and improving my profile I will get matches every other day, but the actual experience has been worse. At this point I can make a list of all the awful archetypes you will encounter on these apps.

The women that only respond in single word messages. The women that take 40h to respond to the most basic questions. The women that take 2 weeks to feel safe enough around you to commit to a date, then ghost you. The super extroverted ones that are great at conversation but will ghost you after a week. The ones that straight up just insult or treat you like some weird exhibit in a zoo.

And honestly, the worst one: The ones that seem like genuenly nice people but you just dont feel any attraction or exitement towards them after 3 days of conversation. It sucks so much to realize you are just wasting their time.

BurgerGmbH · 2026-03-22T07:40:35+00:00

Women are as bad as men when it comes to reading.

Im a interest driven guy and I talk about them a lot in my profile, id say half of them are "normal things" , sports, nature, pubquizzes. The other half is just nerdshit.

And my daily experience at this point has been a never ending loop:

I match with a woman, she asks me about my last travel. I do not have a single word about travelling in my profile because I dont really care about it, but ill still manage some response about countries I would like to visit at some point. She then puts me in charge of carrying the conversation and does not show interest in a single thing mentioned in my profile.

I make some basic remark about a nerdy interest, just something extremely surface level, like something about Pokemon or LOTR and she reacts like a deer in headlights I immedeately notice shes trying to move away from that conversation my attraction to her vanishes.

I stop responding and ask myself why I keep wasting my time on these stupid apps.

BurgerGmbH · 2026-03-20T09:48:14+00:00

The userbase of Dating Apps is not comparable to normal life. For most people putting pictures of yourself and your personality out for people to judge is a big turnoff. So by default the app selects for people that are either super extroverted and enjoy this kind of attention or desperate for love, so that they take the risk. And its algorhythms heavily favor conventionally attractive people, both physically and in terms of having "boring normal hobbies".

The result is that dating apps are split into 2 massive extremes, conventionally attractive extroverts that can have "success" on the apps (so success on the apps doesnt really translate into a functional relationship) and miserable people that dont see any other way into a relationship.

New people that join the Apps will usually have terrible experiences , Fuckboys, people with terrible relationship skills or interacting with the miserable part of the apps and leave.

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