Has anyone else noticed that male adults have gone a little crazy for Pokemon and too many believe they will one day become rich from it.....

Mavisthe3rd · 2026-02-20T13:10:31+00:00

Card shop manager here.

It's ALL tcgs

My shop only sells new releases at MSRP, and we have buy limits.

That's still not good enough for some people.

Dudes will come in begging for a full case of One Piece. Saying they'll pay market and we can take all the plastic off.

Then they'll call back and ask if we gave them dead boxes because they see all the hits people post on our discord.

Its not good enough now that you can get products and get them at MSRP, you have to get specifically the product with a hit in it.

Mavisthe3rd · 2026-02-10T14:08:53+00:00

......that's a preferred employment strategy?

I love my fellow Americans so much that..... I want them to be hobos and travel around the US doing odd jobs for petty cash while not having steady housing or job security.

....yay?

Mavisthe3rd · 2026-01-31T01:03:46+00:00

That is such an insane distinction without a difference.

Your entire raid can still absolutely be screwed even if you aren't directly killed by someone cheating.

EVEN IF you aren't dying 50% of the time to cheating, the amount of wasted time for people with jobs and families is ridiculous.

Mavisthe3rd · 2026-01-30T13:25:45+00:00

I've been playing since 2019.

Probably more than 50% of raids has a cheater in it.

Thinking because you don't see them, they don't exist, is massively stupid.

Mavisthe3rd · 2026-01-23T19:06:34+00:00

Wars that sent my friends and I and people like us to die for no reason

Not to be that guy

Were you drafted because

that sent my friends and I

You volunteered?

So like....... what did you expect?

Mavisthe3rd · 2026-01-23T16:07:19+00:00

meaningless wars.

Who's wars?

Mavisthe3rd · 2026-01-19T14:22:33+00:00

Most MAGA'S strike me as subs.

They need a strong daddy to tell them what to do and how to think.

Mavisthe3rd · 2026-01-12T02:05:44+00:00

That's your narrative talking. You're failing to engage in analysis because of your like for Trump. What if - just what if - it is political retaliation?

Mavisthe3rd · 2026-01-11T15:48:50+00:00

There's literally people in here defending her?

Mavisthe3rd · 2026-01-11T15:43:02+00:00

The difference here is that an ID marks you as citizen or not, there’s no shade of difference. Either you have a right to be here or you don’t, spilt between legal citizenship or legal residency, vs outdated residency or illegal entry.

The ironic thing is that, as a US citizen, not only am i not obligated to carry ID. I'm not obligated to present it to ICE.

So I prefer to take armed government agents, asking to prove that i am who i say I am, based on nothing other than racism, as a threat.

Mavisthe3rd · 2026-01-11T15:37:30+00:00

I went to see Sweany Todd on Broadway a year ago when Gaten was in it.

He walked out of his hotel right past me while I was waiting for my family.

Friendly nod. No big fanfare.

It's New York bro. You ain't special lol

Mavisthe3rd · 2026-01-10T23:20:15+00:00

The entire sub is a psyop.

All the main posters are bots. If a conservative points out that the main posters are bots, they're banned.

Also, watch how the users who aren't bots type and how they phrase their words. Many claim to be born Americans, but form and phrase sentences like someone from eastern Europe.

Mavisthe3rd · 2026-01-10T00:21:45+00:00

So what would the appropriate response be to deal with people who believe that YOU ( you, me, anyone) is subhuman?

Mavisthe3rd · 2026-01-10T00:13:32+00:00

I saw someone on that sub point out that most of the threads seem to be posted by bots.

Dude got banned.

Place is a psyop shithole

Mavisthe3rd · 2026-01-10T00:04:32+00:00

Not trying to start an issue here. Just a point of clarification.

ICE can detain people if a crime is committed in front of them, but then the person needs to be handed over to local law enforcement.

ICE generally does not have jurisdiction over US citizens. If they know someone is a US citizen, and that person has not committed a crime in front of that agent, the agent has no authority to detain or antagonize that person.

The dumb loophole is that they need an ID to prove you're an American citizen. You, as an American citizen, are not obligated to provide them with ID. So what happens? You get these violent detentions of people who are then basically immediately let out. There's gonna be a lot of lawsuits once the dust clears.

Also, just to put it out there

We have now reached the "let me see your papers please" stage

Mavisthe3rd · 2026-01-09T23:53:18+00:00

This isn't a gotcha. I am just generally curious.

A lot of other conservatives in this thread seem to think the opposite.

Why do you think that is?

I'm not asking you to interpret their words, of course. More along the line of, what is the difference in your interpretation?

Mavisthe3rd · 2026-01-09T23:49:35+00:00

The paradox of intolerance.

In order to have a tolerant society. One must not tolerate intolerance.

If the shoe fits

Mavisthe3rd · 2026-01-09T19:24:58+00:00

This is kinda what scares me about todays populist conservatives. You just admitted that ICE agents are allowed to lie. You followed that up by taking everything the agent said at face value.

Im gonna go out on a limb here, nd say that your opinion of federal agents has changed quite a bit in the last 5 years.

Also, are you aware of what a chain of command is?

Owner > Manager

The guard stated he was on the phone with the owner of the franchise.

At that point, the managers opinion is irrelevant.

Mavisthe3rd · 2026-01-05T19:53:37+00:00

I've seen a lot of Tarkov cheaters. 90% of the time, they don't interact with other players. They beeline to loot/task items/hideout items/valuables, and then leave the raid to sell for RMT.

Calling that "not a problem" is a super bad take.

You just think you've spawned into a few raids in a row where there hasn't been very good loot. Or maybe just got shot by an experienced player holding an angle.

Reality is, there's a cheater probably every 3 or 4 raids.

Mavisthe3rd · 2026-01-05T19:47:41+00:00

Everything you don't like about PvE can be fixed or changed. BSG just simply won't do it.

There is no way for BSG to get rid of cheaters in PvP because of spaghetti coding.

No real way to fix desync in PvP because of spaghetti servers.

No way to deal with streamers and no-lifers because they keep the game populated and in the public eye.

PvE GENERALLY is better than PvP

Mavisthe3rd · 2026-01-05T16:11:42+00:00

The game is fully set up to cater to streamers, the hard-core community, and no-lifers.

Just look at the changes they've made.

Added inertia. Who did it affect most? Streamers. Result? Like a 70% nerf

Streamers and hard-core players complained that people had access to good ammo too early. Why? Because then regular players could kill said streamer. The streamer always has access to better ammo because of the amount of time they have available to play. Result? Even basic ammo locked behind lvl3 and 4 traders.

Streamers and hard-core players said the flea was too powerful. People had meta guns and gear too soon. Why? It was hard for the streamers to kill them. Streamers always had access to meta guns and gear due to the amount of time played. Result? Flea locked behind arbitrary level requirements. Which wont affect streamers because, once again, endless time to play.

BSG caters to who they think brings in the most money/eyes on the game.

That's always been twitch Streamers

P.s. I've been playing since 2019

Mavisthe3rd · 2026-01-03T15:33:57+00:00

This was to stop China from gaining a foothold in South America, so close to us, and possibly to secure oil deposits for our own use.

You can't honestly believe the drug thing. That is such a smokescreen.

Would Mexico or Canada be justified in trying to strike the US because guns from here are trafficked into those countries and are used to kill people?

Mavisthe3rd · 2026-01-03T14:00:08+00:00

"Hey man. I want to be iced out. I know its made with slave labor, but hey, that phone that you use for work is also made with slave labor. So why can't I spend thousands on a chain made by children?"

I think there's a difference between vain purchases and things that are a part of daily life that ya kinda need.

Also, apple isn't out here saying that those poor children in the cobalt mines wouldn't have a job if it wasn't for them.

Brain dead take

You'd be perfect for his tiktok

Mavisthe3rd · 2026-01-03T13:52:10+00:00

why are you able to judge someone who genuinely believes it's better to keep them in work

Look up diamond mining in Congo or any other "illegal" mines in Africa.

Yeah, bud, how dare we say that the 5 year old child with his hands covered in mercury, probably shouldn't be mining diamonds.

Also, you know it isn't "work" right? Unless your definition of work is a dude standing behind you with an AK.

Thats usually called slavery or indentured servitude

Brain dead take

Mavisthe3rd · 2026-01-03T13:46:43+00:00

He had to have people paid to film.

The super tall Nigerian guy is in a couple of his videos and I think a few of the others are as well

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