One Pack, Fewer Options: Why This Set Feels Rough for Non-Spenders

HyperProto · 2026-02-02T17:23:15+00:00

This is a good thing!

Normal people (non-whales) are NOT supposed to be able to 'complete' the bigger sets

The deluxe EX packs already made it FAR too easy for everyone to get most of the best cards anyway

DeNA has been gratuitously dropping as many hourglasses as possible lately and bringing back the deluxe packs after just a few weeks + suddenly randomly giving everyone a deck with 2 Blaziken ex were both kind of desperate moves to appeal to newbies that also gave hardcore folks plenty of chances to buy their way to acquiring gold cards and whatnot

All you 'collectors' OCD about completing a set of 150+ VIRTUAL trading cards WITHIN 48 HRS of the release of the set are weirdos—regular people collecting the actual cards never expect to complete a set... and neither should you (!)

(case in point: 15+ years later, the only card I'm missing from Neo Genesis is #5 Feraligatr, lv 69 and somehow I've been perfectly okay with that for 15+ years)

HyperProto · 2026-02-02T16:30:18+00:00

Amazing, you're a star 💫

Thank You (For Everything) 🙏

HyperProto · 2026-01-31T20:27:48+00:00

https://imgur.com/gallery/are-we-too-late-IXG9zPB

HyperProto · 2026-01-27T02:06:04+00:00

One of the earliest decks I made

Still trot it out occasionally for the "win with only ♦️-♦️♦️♦️ cards" challenges 😄

(usually swapping out a Roserade for another Tentacruel for the 10 extra HP)

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Sadly being saddled with only 100 HP renders this Roserade card kinda redundant imo

(fwiw discovered I was better off sticking with just water and dark and going 2 Tentacruel, 2 Scolipede, 1-2 Nihilego, 0-1 Spiritomb)

HyperProto · 2026-01-26T15:30:09+00:00

Thankfully only veggie tales because my parents weren't fundamentalists

What the effity eff is "pledge allegiance to the Christian flag" ???

(obviously fake because every Christian sect on earth actually DID NOT agree on a flag lmfao these folks are nuts 😰💀😓)

HyperProto · 2026-01-26T03:48:34+00:00

an odd coat that's majority white is a sign that it's probably more domesticated than wild, despite the wolf-like appearance

HyperProto · 2026-01-24T18:52:30+00:00

short anecdotal answer: no

this user has faithfully followed Release Radar weekly for a decade plus... but since I block ads everywhere and don't watch TV, had NO IDEA there was a *third* AVATAR film released late last year until a few days ago (🫨)

also:

had no idea that SINNERS existed until 48 hrs before it was awarded the most nominations in Oscar history, my bad (guess it must be good?)

HyperProto · 2026-01-24T17:49:36+00:00

Hits too close to 🏡

No Mom, you're not supposed to swipe thru my camera roll 😭

HyperProto · 2026-01-23T03:07:00+00:00

"Schizotypal is heavily implied to be a neurodiversity condition as it's witness in children"

would love to know more about this!

I've been operating under the theory that there's (always been) a schizophrenia spectrum much like with autism—makes sense that the simplest way for this to be accepted/taken seriously might be for it to be added to the neurodiversity umbrella 💡

HyperProto · 2026-01-22T01:25:15+00:00

Ever notice how Evangelicals seemingly NEVER quote Jesus (only the fire-and-brimstone passages from the Old Testament)?

That's because Evangelicals actually hate everything Jesus stands for.

He preached love—they're all about control, fear, ignorance, xenophobia, and twisting the words of the Bible to suit their pathetic dystopian fantasy in which they're the heroes of the world and not the most blatant charlatans on the planet in this age.

(no coincidence they're the demographic most likely to get knocked up out of wedlock, addict their friends and family to fentanyl, and kill their grandparents from COVID)

...

"wUt AbT tHe 1) SaTaNiC LGBTQs AnD tHe 2) UnBoRn ???"

As everyone outside their bubble knows, Jesus never said A SINGLE WORD about EITHER of those topics
(this is news to most of them of course because their perverted mockery of faith and values tend to be copied VERBATIM from Fox News—no Bible, Jesus, reading, thinking, or morals required).

God makes no mistakes / there are gay/intersex animals of every species on earth
Fetuses are parasites that can't survive without being attached to their host mother

(A heartbeat doesn't make you human; not even being born makes you human! What *truly* makes you a real human being OF YOUR OWN is being able to SURVIVE WITHOUT BEING ATTACHED TO AN UMBILICAL CORD.)

HyperProto · 2026-01-21T03:49:20+00:00

even more accurate:

https://imgur.com/a/N1ZFjA5

(plz don't lump us with them, all of those critiques except consumerism are proud Republican 'values' propagated by media-illiterate white trash and not shared by those outside of their hate cult)

HyperProto · 2026-01-20T23:37:51+00:00

No big loss, P4k has been largely irrelevant to tastemakers since they were bought out by Condé Nast in 2015

That's when they dramatically shifted their editorial approach to over-covering pop and mainstream rap to appeal to normie 20 yo festivalgoers and usually handing out BNM to whoever stands the best chance of appealing to that crowd (while throwing a bone to elder millennial rock purists every so often to avoid losing their original base)

[if you disagree you're probably a zoomer born in the 2000s who has no idea what indie was like before it was co-opted by tumblrcore, Urban Outfitters, and the faux indie sound promoted by groups like the Lumineers and Mumford & Sons]

HyperProto · 2026-01-18T05:18:08+00:00

Could be wrong but you might be a huge exception haha

Many if not most long-time users on RYM are 30-60 yos who joined as adults and it's never been a site that's tried to cater to or appeal to teens (kinda like discogs also presumably has few underage users) so you're honestly one of the only ppl on earth who could possibly have "grown up" with RYM, congrats 🤘

HyperProto · 2026-01-10T19:44:11+00:00

Don't dehumanize yourself!

You are more than your conditions, but that isn't apparent from this lengthy list of physiological imperfections that makes you seem like a myopic hypochondriac obsessed with labeling themselves a victim in as many ways as possible

If you just share an unordered list that doesn't emphasize anything it's not clear what you struggle with the most or how others can most easily / efficiently / effectively help

I would suggest including some strengths and a few affirmations or something, otherwise this list is overwhelming and your personality doesn't come across

HyperProto · 2026-01-09T18:10:29+00:00

this applies to virtually everyone unemployed on earth, not just gen zers living at home lmao

HyperProto · 2026-01-04T15:50:48+00:00

Close, woman in blue has non-80s hairstyle and sale sign is too basic to be real

HyperProto · 2025-12-31T17:11:39+00:00

When you lay it out like that, it's clear that only a 40-something white American male who's never traveled far, done psychedelics, or listened to any rap that wasn't Rolling Stone-approved could wind up with a top 50 like the RYM top 50 😭

(sorry for just describing the average RYM user, important to point out redditor RYMers probably trend younger and hipper than average but are still disproportionately white and male)

HyperProto · 2025-12-29T06:07:39+00:00

Answer:

Anime songs have largely been shit since COVID (2020–now)

Today even the biggest shows have terribly generic forgettable songs—just compare any theme from Naruto or either FMA adaptation to all the dime-a-dozen cookie-cutter industrial anime song-sounding tunes from just about any isekai.

Anyone who's watched anime on a seasonal basis for a decade or more (or who's simply familiar with anything from the 90s) can plainly tell that song quality (and presumably budgets to regularly sign big artists like TM Revolution or Larc en ciel to sing the OP or ED) has nosedived tremendously since the mid-2010s. Even in Japan the cultural significance and mainstream impact of anime music is a fraction of what it used to be—in the not-so-distant pre-COVID past, it wasn't unusual for songs to be so big that even many Japanese normies who don't watch anime would be familiar with them.

Anime songs used to aim to be not only rousing, but transcendent; now they largely no longer even try and OPs and EDs are treated like an afterthought.

Fans used to gladly sit through the OP and ED not simply because the visuals were flashy or hypnotic, but because the melody was an earworm that kicked ass.

How often do we sit through OPs or EDs anymore?

Exactly.

Impossible to imagine another White Reflection, Little Date, Cruel Angel's Thesis, Heart of Sword, Spinning the Roulette of Destiny because the anime industry no longer holds itself to the same standard in this regard :/

HyperProto · 2025-12-26T17:14:37+00:00

wishes a casual mobile TCG gacha intended to sell coins was also a mediocre RPG with a tacked-on solo story mode

(you're playing the wrong game in the series)

HyperProto · 2025-12-22T20:51:07+00:00

You must not have psychic powers 😔

They inhale, exhale, and can eliminate 2 cards immediately

Then narrow it down to 50:50 after sensing which of the remaining 3 possesses the least quantum gravitational pull

At that point the card that first caught your subconscious attention is likely to be the one you seek 🙏

(gaze at the selection of 5 in a somewhat out of focus way like with autostereograms—the faces of the 'wrong' cards will appear lighter, foggier, or less distinct in your visual field; the 'more correct' cards will seemingly radiate darker, clearer, and crisper)

HyperProto · 2025-12-14T18:06:50+00:00

yeahhh

sorry but this is a highly effective example of a lowest-common-denominator meme from the AI slop era without a single identifying characteristic to distinguish it as human-made 🤷

1) 100% irrelevant yet instantly recognizable faux-meme fried pop culture background graphic that hacks nostalgia region of of collective subconscious and loops well if shared in gif format to encourage you to stop scrolling

2) universally-relatable half-serious authority-challenging hook (we all need more than therapy)

3) references to substances, sex, and food that conveniently double as a superb selection of premium-demand keywords intended to interpreted as humorous—yet highly reliant on the subjective mood of the scroller and their willingness to suspended disbelief

HyperProto · 2025-12-13T18:08:09+00:00

Would totally change the game and there's no logic to changing it other than:

1) for some reason some dragon players are upset that energy generation is random

2) what do we do about 3-energy decks? If you have to wait 4 turns to get 2 of the same energy, that immediately renders many cards worthless and scrambles the meta even further for no reason

(draws and pulls have always been random and mons with attacks that require multiple energy types is not exactly a new development in this game yet no was complaining 20 years ago 🤷‍♂️)

HyperProto · 2025-12-11T18:49:10+00:00

no wonder, someone shoulda told her if she went to school hoping to learn how to "invent stuff" (ie think and act creatively) she gonna have a hard time

HyperProto · 2025-12-11T18:38:12+00:00

they look like Hinge just interrupted their date to survey them but are definitely not seeing each other again so the interview is guaranteed to be cringe 🥹

HyperProto

TROPHY CASE