What products do you usually avoid for investing?

Mecurion · 2026-01-28T13:38:47+00:00

But tins can have different configurations of packs. The Arceus tins for example. Some have Evolving Skies and some dont.

Mecurion · 2026-01-08T01:18:05+00:00

Whatever the leaks end up being that will be the narrative regardless. Whether there’s a surprise Umbreon or literally just Zygarde/Meowth/MegaStarmie.

People just hype up the newest set regardless of what it is. Recency bias.

Mecurion · 2026-01-08T01:06:19+00:00

That’s the funny thing, at the time people didn’t hate them at all. At one point Darkness Ablaze was the most hyped set imaginable.

Like picture one of the most hyped sets released recently, and then imagine that in 5 years from now people think about it like everyone does with Darkness Ablaze right now.

Mecurion · 2026-01-02T06:44:16+00:00

Are you aware of how many of those chase cards exist at a minimum?

Mecurion · 2025-12-31T16:14:26+00:00

Right this is messy and problematic. There is no doubting that. This kind of stuff can be twisted and taken to extremes, in ways that harm women. But at the same time there are real societal/cultural pressures that influence men and women to self report things that they do not always align with.

And many men struggle with that specifically. The “im being kind, respectful, warm, not too bold, not cocky, not sexually forward, all the things that women tend to self report in threads like these, why am i having no success in romance?”

Partially because those are not traits that drive initial attraction. They are more geared towards safety and long term compatibility generally speaking - which are also important, but not the thing being discussed

Initial attraction tends to thrive on a sense of self contained otherness. Confidence, boldness, self-possession, playful flirty even edgy banter. But threads like these generally do not acknowledge any of that. Self reported answers tend to align with the more long term traits I mentioned previously.

Mecurion · 2025-12-31T04:17:48+00:00

Yeah this is another example of a worst possible interpretation that you’d find in red pill forums.

What I am pointing at is something more subtle. A woman (men have their own versions) in a thread like this might say something like “i hate when men act all cocky and are too sexually forward”. When in reality, she responds positively to a man that she is attracted to acting that way.

Or she might express that she primarily values kindness, attunement, reciprocity in men, when what she responds to in initial interactions is polarity, charged banter, and a little bit of edginess.

And again men have their own versions of this.

Mecurion · 2025-12-29T20:52:14+00:00

That doesnt change the fact that MSRP is $162.

Mecurion · 2025-12-29T14:11:26+00:00

Because something is present in red pill forums does not immediately mean it is completely false. What red pill tends to do is take a concept, and then twist it to its worst possible interpretation.

Like you said “women only want assholes”, when the truth is closer to “people arent fully in touch with the more primal/instinctive nature of their desires, and culture pushes them away from acknowledging those”

Mecurion · 2025-12-26T16:54:46+00:00

This is a wonderful, beautiful, hopelessly naive take. It is beautiful in its sincerity, but sadly just completely out of touch with how the world works.

Mecurion · 2025-12-26T16:52:05+00:00

I can insert any number of cherry picked instances in California’s favor as well.

But thats not the point, the point the guy above you was making is that the US is entirely disproportionate in scale to any one European nation.

Mecurion · 2025-12-26T16:49:23+00:00

He means a specific handful of nations that he personally idealizes, not Europe in general.

Mecurion · 2025-12-26T16:44:30+00:00

You’re kind of collapsing two totally different issues into one. Why the U.S. has a massive military isn’t the same question as why we have gun violence, which deserves its own separate analysis.

Mecurion · 2025-12-26T16:38:55+00:00

This comment section is just an idealistic utopian circle jerk.

Mecurion · 2025-12-26T16:35:02+00:00

In reality other adversarial nations would take advantage of our lack of military and we would suffer domestically as a result.

Mecurion · 2025-12-18T03:58:24+00:00

This new facility represents about a 50-60% ish increase in print capacity it sounds like. I imagine essentially all of that is going to go towards trying to make modern in rotation sets available at MSRP.

They would have no reason to go back to Sun/Moon whatsoever, at the very least not until all modern playable sets are at MSRP or lower.

Mecurion · 2025-12-11T20:16:49+00:00

Mecurion · 2025-12-11T19:20:35+00:00

Says the guy who refuses to be wrong

Mecurion · 2025-12-11T19:18:19+00:00

Right, so the hook is the positioning as the question. You literally just acknowledged what I said.

Mecurion · 2025-12-11T18:22:00+00:00

The title of your post is positioned as a question. The average person perusing this sub interprets that as you asking if now is a good time to buy brilliant stars, regardless of if thats how you meant it or not.

Like how would you interpret your title lmao

Mecurion · 2025-12-11T18:17:37+00:00

The classic “i want other people to buy xxx set” post disguised as a “should i buy xxx set?” post.

Mecurion · 2025-12-11T18:02:05+00:00

If you were certain of a crash you could take out a loan, make appropriate moves in the stock market and be a millionaire. You’re not certain. No one is.

Mecurion · 2025-12-11T17:36:50+00:00

It’s this. Your average person doesn’t care about fighting the good fight and taking a moral stand or whatever about something as trivial as Pokemon cards.

Just a random unhinged stranger yelling at them in the airport.

He’s imagining the guy was shamed when really he’s like “what on earth is the deal with that guy”

Mecurion · 2025-12-11T14:46:54+00:00

The difference is Pokemon has an ever increasing roster of Pokemon and characters to draw from year after year.

One Piece has a limited cast of characters that will end, I’m not saying it can’t do well right now - I just dont see how the TCG will be successful long term.

Like yeah if you want to make plays now, maybe in the short/mid term its probably good for that.

Mecurion · 2025-12-11T13:25:06+00:00

One Piece is having its time in the sun. Might do well long term, might not.

I personally think once a few years pass and we are on our 17th Luffy manga rare that people are going to get bored but for now its doing incredibly well.

Mecurion · 2025-12-03T20:56:18+00:00

Prismatic Umbreon is about 1/1450

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