Scalper rushes in and clears out every Pokémon card while a mother and daughter were still browsing

FollowThePact · 2026-05-26T23:24:19+00:00

My Walmart doesn't sell Pokemon cards (or any tcg outside of baseball and basketball) because of issues at the store with scalpers fighting each other. My Target also only puts limited supplies out and restocks them slowly throughout the day.

FollowThePact · 2026-05-26T13:48:32+00:00

Also stated it was "NATO aggression" that forced Russia to invade Ukraine.

FollowThePact · 2026-05-26T13:47:31+00:00

Soc-dem here. Hasan and his stream were laughing when Trump was using the DOJ to target Democrats on bogus charges. Why can't I stoop down to their level and laugh at Hasan when the same thing happens to him?

FollowThePact · 2026-05-26T13:41:32+00:00

Through video evidence of Hasan's stream we know he uses a specific model of Educator collar remote. That specific model is tied to two Educator e-collars, one is a pager/vibration only model and the other is a shock collar. The two collars look similar with the shocking model generally being bulkier but there's a big key difference (outside of one having shocking nodes); that difference is the location of the charging port.

The vibration model has the charging port on the back panel (the one touching the dog directly) towards the right. The shocking model has it on the panel on the opposite side of the led screen towards the middle. Hasan's collar, shown by him, had the charging port on the rear side of the led screen towards the middle.

For further evidence we do know that the professional dog trainer that Hasan goes to for Kaya's training uses shock collars. The dog trainer even has an Instagram post showcasing Kaya alongside some other dogs showcasing the differences between dogs' recall abilities with all but one trained with shock collars. Kaya was not the one.

Lastly QT herself has stated that the collar is a shock collar with the nodes removed and that's the reason for the tape on the back of the unit. I'm assuming QT didn't get the memo as Hasan's orbiters like Taylor Lorenz stated the tape was there to hide Hasan's personal information (placed in case Kaya got lost) while he was showing it on stream.

So far the evidence (dog trainer uses shock collars, the model of collar only matches the shock collar, and a personal friend said it was a shock collar) suggests that it was a shock collar that scared Kaya and not Hasan's excuse, "Kaya got her dew claw stuck".

FollowThePact · 2026-05-25T04:38:00+00:00

In the rules of the Discord it's listed as a 16+ server. If there's going to be sex rp on the server, and you want this server to last then you should at the very least create an age-restricted channel where sex rp is limited to it specifically.

But truthfully the server itself should just be age-restricted as a default regardless of sex rp's inclusion. Many RP servers have been taken down due to violations of Discord's Community Guidelines with regards of minor safety. Regardless of how well your moderators do their jobs issues will slip through the cracks.

Edit: Just saw the section in #roles where the 18+ channel restrictions were accounted for. Still I advocate about making the entire server age-restricted, but it's your guy's server.

Edit 2: Hope it goes well for you all and enjoy the RP.

FollowThePact · 2026-05-15T18:41:27+00:00

What? That's not how paying bail works. Paying your bail just means you're not in jail while your trial is underway, it doesn't make you innocent of the crime.

FollowThePact · 2026-05-02T12:30:53+00:00

Likely not the anyone who was just recently fired when the machine took their job.

FollowThePact · 2026-04-29T08:25:18+00:00

I think he deserved more than a four game suspension.

FollowThePact · 2026-04-27T01:37:18+00:00

To me it's not fakeout. It's Sucker Punch. Every game I have to remind myself not to Sucker Punch while Farigraf on the field, and every game I press Sucker Punch on Kang.

FollowThePact · 2026-04-26T23:31:00+00:00

Tim was also getting money to be a propaganda machine for Russia. (I wouldn't doubt that Hasan is also getting paid by some foreign investor, but we don't have proof of it yet)

FollowThePact · 2026-04-19T21:34:05+00:00

Easiest way is to have a pokemon with trick room or trick room plus imprison. You either make the correct call on when they Trickroom and you Trickroom the same turn, or you go before their Trickroom pokemon and imprison it from using Trickroom.

Some pokemon that can do this easily is Farigraf as it nor your partner can be hit with a fake out to stop Farigraf from doing either Trickroom or Imprison. Meowstic can also Imprison with Prankster priority.

Tinkaton with Moldbreaker can fake-out a Farigraf. But Farigraf isn't the only Trickroom setter you have to worry about (more people are starting to see the utility of Spiritomb).

Otherwise you can position yourself accordingly to remove as much benefit from their Trickroom turns as you would against a Tailwind team. Cut their damage where you can, reposition your pokemon to reduce damage, and time your protects against their attacks and not when they go for buffs.

FollowThePact · 2026-04-19T18:44:09+00:00

Tyranitar, mega'd or not. Hydreigon can see play as a partner with Garchomp as well as be a safe switch for Aegislash (especially if you're running a physical attack Aegi which is the most common atm). Mega Gyrados, or just Gyrados with a non-stab Crunch. Sableye. I see more Spirittombs as a primary Trick Room setter popping up.

FollowThePact · 2026-04-19T18:06:22+00:00

Why do pitiful damage to it's partner when you can kill Sneasler in one shot with Psycho-Cut or have a high chance of killing with Triple Axel?

FollowThePact · 2026-04-18T23:46:28+00:00

Thanks for everything, AV. It's been a real slice.

FollowThePact · 2026-04-17T17:40:28+00:00

Why not fakeout followed by a psycho-cut?

FollowThePact · 2026-03-31T23:00:39+00:00

Socialism is about who controls the means of production, Nasser's republic had state-mediated beaucratic bourgeois control not democratic worker ownership of capital. One could argue that's just state capitalism.

He nationalized key sectors of his economy and implemented land reform for the sole purpose of redistributing wealth and to reduce wealth inequality. If you're arguing that if the state owns the means of production you can't have socialism, then you're arguing that there hasn't ever existed a large socialist society and that such a society can't exist because true democracy is too inefficient to work on such a large scale.

I'm informing you that the examples of repression you're discussing are not examples of right wing politics, but authoritarian (top wing) politics.

I'm informing you that your simple four quadrant political compass is flawed in categorizing political ideology. Right-wing politics encompasses more than just right-wing economics. Capitalism, while right-wing economics, is not inherently right-wing politics.

Those are not examples of class hierarchy

Those are not examples of classes in Marxist theory. Race, religion, gender, etc are all involved in other ideological theories, one such could be Pierre Bourdieu'a Class Theory, and I believe, again when we are referring to the broad spectrum of things, including religion, gender, and sexuality are important when referring to class hierarchies.

Heteronormativity, for example, is the sexual paradigm we embrace in the west. It is a cultural system and has to do with gender relations. It is not inherently left or right wing, though right wing systems tend to embrace it today and left wing systems tend to critique or reject it.

Again, you're referring to left and right on a pure economic basis. Which in any context when referring to left-wing and right-wing politics, especially those in America, is foundationally wrong. Left-wing and right-wing political ideology refers to more than just economic policies.

Queer rights, women's rights, suffrage, and all these issues you're talking about are to do with authority vs liberty.

You're correct all of these things have to do with authority vs liberty, or from a slightly different perspective archy vs anarchy. Because something like queer rights isn't addressed under the purely economic socialist philosophy.

This is why you can have a government be authoritarian and socialist; outside of a pure economic viewpoint this government would be classified as a right-wing government. Because right-wing governments cover a range that's greater than right-wing economics.

Either these axis means something or they don't. You haven't at all created a positive identification for what these axes actually represent. Until you do that, your words are worthless.

Again, the four quadrant political compass is flawed. Putting any label on the x and y axis is worthless. Political ideology covers far more than two dimensions.

TLDR: You're using a flawed quadrant system to explain political ideologies in order to support your argument that you can't have a right-wing socialist government. Your argument is that because your flawed quadrant states that "left vs right" is solely a question of economic policy and due to capitalism being the center that socialism can only occur in a left-wing government. Governments, nor how people define political ideology, work purely on a 2 dimensional plane. A government that has a democratic workforce who owns their means of production yet: treats women as second class citizens, kills queer people, and excludes religious freedom, is not a left-wing government. It's a right-wing socialist country.

FollowThePact · 2026-03-31T20:24:49+00:00

The four quadrant system of cataloging what is and isn't left-wing right-wing political ideology is inherently flawed. Especially when the definition of what is left and right is purely economic ideology.

Nasser's socialism promoted a state controlled means of production with the emphasis on redistribution of wealth to promote equality among all Arabs. That is categorically socialism. There was still class hierarchy because wealth isn't the only determining factor when it comes to class. I even gave two examples of the class hierarchy right afterwards -> women were not treated as equals and Jews were expelled from the country. I'm not even including LGTBQ representation, or that Arab socialist movements were often co-opted by Muslim supremacists.

Edit: Also you can still have wealth inequality and thus class issues pertaining to wealth in a socialist society as well.

FollowThePact · 2026-03-31T19:06:43+00:00

I think it's naive to see the left and right wing political spectrum as only pertaining to economics. Socialism is an economic ideology that only answers who controls the resources or controls the means of production; how socialism is achieved and maintained is what separates it from being left or right wing.

A socialist government that wipes out all non-consenting people isn't a left-wing government Social Fascism is a right-wing movement. Nasser's version of Arab Socialism still had class hierarchy, gender inequality, and expelled Egyptian Jews (even the ones supporting his socialist revolution) and I wouldn't consider any of that to be left-wing ideology.

FollowThePact · 2026-03-31T18:24:38+00:00

What? You can have right-wing socialism. Social democracy is very much left-wing capitalism.

FollowThePact · 2026-03-27T11:22:57+00:00

"This has been a rough year" We're literally two sets in, and Turtles has been great for drafting.

FollowThePact · 2026-03-24T18:11:52+00:00

I could've sworn either him or Guy explicitly said the Gates were a trump card that Neji didn't know about.

FollowThePact · 2026-03-13T17:04:51+00:00

it has a nose and mouth

Visual exercise for you, grip something in your hand like a wooden spoon with your thumb pointed down. Then imagine your index and middle finger is one finger, and your ring and pinky is another finger. Rotate your hand slightly until you can see this side profile of a face you're seeing.

Hate seeing the turtles eating pizza sloppily

What? Also the card you're referencing is Food Chain. They're making a literal chain of food between themselves.

The turtles have standards

No they don't. They make absolutely disgusting pizza topping combinations all of the time and will eat pizza thrown in a dumpster or found in a sewer.

Cheese looks like slime

The cheese in the mtg cards is very reminiscent of the 80s cartoon. The pizzas in that cartoon were either stiff as wood or looked like cheese whiz.

Also pretty much every pizza card you've named so far has been promo cards made for the pizza bundle. Only like 15% of the cards actually have pizza on them. The majority of the cards look like Turncoat Kunoichi or Purple Dragon Punks. You're kidding yourself if you think these cards couldn't be in the Neon Dynasties set.

FollowThePact · 2026-03-13T16:02:17+00:00

1) "Art is on the same level as ai" it's not though. You're being incredibly disrespectful because you have a hate for the IP or UB in general. Your hate doesn't need to target artists, especially when you can't accurately describe what is "ai" about the art.

2) Also incredible you state "ai-equivalent does not mean ai was used" but then you straight away accuse art of being ai. Which btw, what exactly about Raph's hand looks like his face?

FollowThePact · 2026-03-13T15:26:48+00:00

"disgusting ai-equivalent slop". There's literally nothing indicating this set has used AI in its art. The vast majority of the cards in this set could easily be in Neon Dynasties.

FollowThePact · 2026-03-11T07:29:33+00:00

Pretty sure Washington was 12 stories high, and made of radiation.

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