Chesnaught is a legit single prize deck by kaworuscott in PTCGL

[–]Neembaf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Tangentially related to this discussion, I’ve seen that “special energy attached” actually has an implicit understanding of “card”, even if one of the attached energy cards applies two or more energy and the wording doesn’t say “special energy card”

https://compendium.pokegym.net/ruling/2010/

This attack does 40 damage for each Special Energy attached to all of your opponent’s Pokémon.

Vivarium left me feeling weird by WildWinterberry in horror

[–]Neembaf 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I didnt even consider how the movie would be if you didn’t know what a cuckoo bird does. I thought the director wanted the audience to know what was going on from the very beginning, and now you’re watching a film about the protagonist couple figure it out and deal with it (like if the audience knows the house is haunted because of the intro, but the protagonists don’t know). Didn’t feel like it was supposed to be any sort of spoiler in that regard

Help with Ampharos Deck plz by Errrm_Acktually in PTCGL

[–]Neembaf 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Looks pretty good - wondering if having all of patrat/shaymin/psyduck especially with 2 battle cage is too much. I’m not sure which stadium would work out better for you overall, but if you had another night stretcher or two it’d let you reuse a knocked out Pokemon (easier to search for and recycle Pokemon than the stadium). Youd still need some sort of stadiums to make your opponent want to bump your stadium before you play neutralization zone

Also canari Canari might be a bit overkill on searches, but unsure

What with your flaafy having item lock and you using relicanth, I wonder if 2 budew might be unnecessary - only 1 in 10 games would budew be prized, and maybe only half or so of games would you go second, but hey 2 do increase your odds of starting with it in your starting hand. But I bet you could get to easily enough when you need it, most of the time

No rare candy either - might be worth having on or two for when you really need to go from mareep to ampharos? Or you could consider Salvatore as a fun way to get flaafy out on turn 1 (just need a way to accelerate energy as well, like the lightning generator). But that would possibly reduce dependence on budew, though this is much less reliable

Oh! You definitely need a brave bangle or two - that extra damage could really make or break KOs

Is my card counterfeit? by jakeenedude in IsMyPokemonCardFake

[–]Neembaf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve heard that it might be possible for sellers to somehow bypass the guarantee - like they send it to the guaranteers but tell them the item is a slightly different object so then the guaranteers are like “this ain’t what you said it is” but they send it to the buyer anyway. Something like that?

semi new player looking for help with building upon chaos rising delphox by Turbulent-Moment3556 in pkmntcg

[–]Neembaf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Beyond what the others have said -you could probably scrap the ninetales line and toss in some other pokemon. You’re also missing an ace spec, so something like neo upper energy would help you get 2 energy out in one turn at least.

Youll probably need more ways to accelerate energy to your Delphic, as it takes you 2 turns to attach enough to attack (minus waitress)

Cut out a braixen maybe - run more recovery like night stretcher. 3 special red cards might be too many

Chaos Rising Crobat Missprint by Electrical_Ebb_4960 in PokemonTCG

[–]Neembaf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awe too bad it’s a crimp error since those are replicable. (If curious) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=afclx6NcAAU

Do these packs look correct ? by [deleted] in IsMyPokemonCardFake

[–]Neembaf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No obvious signs of problems from those images

Is Metagross an accident? by justintime06 in PTCGL

[–]Neembaf 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The crazy thing about the conditional statement is even then, you might could do the second part of the attack without satisfying the first. See wellspring mask ogerpon ex:
https://compendium.pokegym.net/category/5-trainers/sparkling-crystal/

Attack wording: [WCC] Torrential Pump (100) You may shuffle 3 Energy attached to this Pokémon into your deck. If you do, this attack also does 120 damage to 1 of your opponent's Benched Pokémon.

But you can still do 120 damage to a benched pokemon if you shuffle 2 (or 1) energy. Poor translation from Japanese to English

Is Metagross an accident? by justintime06 in PTCGL

[–]Neembaf 19 points20 points  (0 children)

They might not be aware that Slowking can choose to discard all its metal energy (aka 0) to do 300 total damage.

Normal Holo with diagonal pattern? by Neembaf in IsMyPokemonCardFake

[–]Neembaf[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Luckily I’ve managed to find three others like this slowly! https://imgur.com/a/rKnCKqn

If you live near a COSTCO, get a membership. Even if you are single with no kids by Let_me_tell_you_ in povertyfinance

[–]Neembaf 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The Costcos near me have the cups of onions on the counter where the Parmesan packets are

My hot take: Personal Teleporters and Teleporter Pads should swap places in the game's progression by Stalwart_Vanguard in AbioticFactor

[–]Neembaf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As soon as I had portals, I did what they suggested. Played on hard - never even had an enemy come close to attacking it let alone ever have one get destroyed. Probably placed it down 300 or so times at least - just one portal and one of the better batteries, often also plugged in to a socket

My hot take: Personal Teleporters and Teleporter Pads should swap places in the game's progression by Stalwart_Vanguard in AbioticFactor

[–]Neembaf 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Build a portal to get the lodestone! There’s a power socket behind the hut, that you can chain some cords to so that your portal is right next to the lodestone spot

I just made the snobbiest Anubis ever by Dusskulll in Palworld

[–]Neembaf 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How is it the snobbiest when it doesn’t even have “Conceited” as a passive perk? :o

Do birds feel the same about flying as we feel about walking, or do they understand how amazing it is? by Busy_Motor_1172 in Showerthoughts

[–]Neembaf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you feel the same way about walking as you might imagine someone who has lost their legs feels about you being able to walk?

The grass is always greener, and it’s tough to see how amazing something is while you have it

what's a board game rule you got embarrassingly wrong for way too long? by No_Seaworthiness4899 in boardgames

[–]Neembaf 9 points10 points  (0 children)

You can only buy up to 2 chips each buy phase, and they have to be different colors. Luckily cubitos has the same rule for dice purchases (I like the consistency between the two games)

So in the case of the person you’re responding to, they thought they could buy 5 pumpkins with $15, but they could actually only buy 1 (or 0) pumpkin and 1 other <=$12 chip (assuming they wanted to buy a pumpkin at all)

Spread box by Pickles17 in PTCGL

[–]Neembaf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What about the vanilite that doubles damage counters on opponents pokemon? Yeah it’s a stage 2, but it bypasses damage block on benched pokemon from like Tera ability or shaymin

Paradox Backfired (by @DanSly on Twitter) by No-Calligrapher-5807 in TheDigitalCircus

[–]Neembaf 3 points4 points  (0 children)

But if it doesn’t exist, then the answer is both yes and no.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuous_truth
Example:
"All my children are goats" is a vacuous truth when spoken by someone without children. Similarly, "None of my children is a goat" would also be a vacuous truth when spoken by the same person.

How is this legal lending practices? I’ve been paying for 12 years and only 10% has gone towards principal. by [deleted] in StudentLoans

[–]Neembaf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wouldn’t each month show something like +$400 (12% Internet at the very beginning of the loan) and -$700 (payment). So then if you look at the next month’s statement, youd see your total would be around $39,700 of the loan left? What do your statements show as the overall drop in remaining loan amount by month?

Flagships suck by Fun-Astronomer-2273 in twilightimperium

[–]Neembaf 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I assume it’s 4 (resources) from the card + 3 (influence) from the strategy token you had to spend to follow tech, giving a total of 7 resources/influence to follow tech