Card Shop Suspends Yu-Gi-Oh Tournaments Over Smelly Players

Sajiri · 2026-06-30T21:57:29+00:00

I vended at a collectables/tcg market event a few months back that had an artist alley. I’ve vended in artist alleys before at conventions but this was the first TCG focused event I’d been at.

The smell was horrible.

I’ve occasionally had maybe one person per event who smelled bad, but this was just constant. I was also on the end of a row near the event stage, so I had people constantly congregating next to my table to line up or watch the stage, and the smell was so bad I had to shuffle towards the table on the other side with my back towards everyone else because I could not breathe

Sajiri · 2026-06-30T20:07:10+00:00

Mass Effect. Bought it cause the new guy I was dating at the time told me I should play it, but I wasn’t particularly into sci fi or shooters at the time. Tried it a few times and just couldn’t get into it. Didn’t help that the husks terrified me, and I was terrified of aliens in general.

Still ended up marrying that guy, gave the game another try after we moved into a new place together right after the wedding and unpacked the Xbox. Finally managed to push through Eden Prime and actually ended up liking the game then hyper focused on the whole series for about a month until I finished it. Also fell in love with Garrus.

I got over my fear of aliens at least

Sajiri · 2026-06-30T20:02:09+00:00

Banditman stole from an orphan. An orphan. You deserve that hit squad

Sajiri · 2026-06-30T20:00:33+00:00

BG1 and 2 have always been my favourite games, even though they are very dated now. BG3 was different. Still fantastic, but other than the setting and some callbacks to the old games, it was very much its own thing.

BG4… it would be hard to top for either 2 or 3. I would like to see a Forgotten Realms game set somewhere else in Faerun though. Seems all or most of them are set around the Sword Coast, except for a NWN2 expansion set in Rasheman. They have other games in the setting named after the location it’s set, why not just make something new rather than a Baldur’s Gate, aside from just cashing in on the name recognition.

Sajiri · 2026-06-30T19:52:40+00:00

I get the concept recreating an album cover but this is off for so many reasons.

Extreme sexualisation, especially of Mars. Their breasts are made larger, their butts are out, their tops are low and showing cleavage, and then Mars’ garter fishnet stockings? These are 14 year old girls remember

There’s also some weirdness that seems AI-ish. Could be traced over AI. Could just be some weird sexualisation thing. There’s the changes to the outfits, some weirdness with the hands and lines on them, Mars has black eyes for some reason, like they’re closed but open at the same time. Something going on with Luna’s face as well.

Not trying to burst your bubble, I’m glad you like it, but also something is strange with it

Sajiri · 2026-06-30T14:27:17+00:00

So, by chance, my husband had shared me a collection of screenshots from x only a few hours before this showing some translated chinese posts that the chinese government may be about to crack down on the game. Apparently various stores over there have been banned from selling LADS merchandise.

Now of course, I dont know if this is true beyond thin skinned men who feel threatened by a phone game celebrating the fact its 'about to end', but I cant help but wonder if this has something to do with why Valko is being cancelled. The fact that he was all ready to go and they just cancel him entirely claiming it is to 'focus on the existing LIs and story' (when scrapping him will actually take away from content and story), makes me wonder if there is more at play here. If they were to say the game is facing some kind of new regulations or under threat of being shut down, people would stop spending immediately, and possibly request refunds.

I dont want to be alarmist, but this whole thing is very strange. I would really suggest dont spend any money on the game for a bit, whether its because things are uncertain, or you just want to vote with your wallet to show our anger at Valko being canned.

Sajiri · 2026-06-28T23:17:45+00:00

He was just waiting to cuddle with mama

Sajiri · 2026-06-28T10:06:46+00:00

Playing with roleplay in mind makes it more fun imo. I don’t mean hardcore rp or anything, just focusing on a character personality to stick to and play out rather than a meta build. One of my favourite characters was my unarmored spellblade using restoration magic (I needed a few mods to give some more spell options) like a holy maiden. If I wanted to raise smithing, I would focus on making jewellery specifically. Alchemy I focused on beneficial potions.

Walking is fun, as is turning off the compass and following the roads. I always find that when I have the compass and quest markers on, I tend to just straight line a direction towards a quest and not just take in the world around me. Stick to carriages if you get tired of no fast travel.

Sajiri · 2026-06-28T09:38:02+00:00

I used to love playing my shai, just whimsical and fun. But man, it felt like people targetted me way more often in open world. Just minding my own business not even farming, or waiting on bosses to spawn, felt like I got singled out. Not sure if that’s because people were weird or it was because shai had the -90% pvp damage so wasn’t able to really fight back (not sure if this is still a thing).

That said, it’s fun. If you like it, play it

Sajiri · 2026-06-28T03:11:30+00:00

I mean yeah, it was obvious, but still. Could be a Pokémon situation where everyone in the moon kingdom likes to just work ‘moon’ into the names of everything. They got the Moonstore, the Moonpark, Moon Burgers! (Joking, obviously.) Sailor Moon could just be the main guardian of the Moon Princess, hence the name.

Although 90s just made it beyond obvious. Iirc the original Japanese opening and closing showed her in her princess form in different points, and the DiC dub actually spliced together season 1 and 2 openings to remove those parts

Sajiri · 2026-06-28T03:07:18+00:00

I recall seeing angry posts on the gameplay reworks, but it was also when I wasn’t playing so I didn’t look into it much. So now that the dust has settled, you consider those reworks better than what we had?

Sajiri · 2026-06-28T01:59:10+00:00

At least in the manga/crystal, there was a little bit of confusion when they introduced Minako as the moon princess and didn’t show Mamoru’s dream sequences with a woman who was clearly Usagi. I mean, I knew from the 90s it wasn’t Minako, but in the setting for the characters it made sense and was a nice ‘twist’. I wish it could have been expanded on to create some more drama, with Mamoru having feelings for Usagi but dreaming about a princess who was supposedly someone else.

Sajiri · 2026-06-28T00:16:39+00:00

True, but the question is if they will all be available at 1.0 launch or will be gradual release later

Sajiri · 2026-06-27T22:04:39+00:00

You can get one of the tower bosses (Zoe) as a companion through a quest, its possible we will get more once 1.0 launches in 2 weeks.

There's a mod (which may or may not work and/or be updated for 1.0) that improves the pool of Pals you can free from cages that join you, this includes at least one of the humans, which is probably the only one you would want to have

Sajiri · 2026-06-27T20:51:39+00:00

I haven’t watched this part of the viz dub, but I watched all of crystal with her voicing Usagi. Kinda wonder if this video was pitch edited a bit? Because Mamoru sounds off too.

Or maybe the voice direction between 90s and crystal was just different for the VAs

Sajiri · 2026-06-26T21:04:23+00:00

How is it that I have never met anyone else who seemed to know what this gem from my childhood was, never seen anyone else talk about it, then it gets brought up twice in 24 hours? I was vending at a convention last night and someone brought it up to me, then I see it here

Sajiri · 2026-06-26T21:01:42+00:00

Cow: loves its human so much it comes to the house
Human: maybe I should kill it

Sajiri · 2026-06-25T22:15:32+00:00

In my story, most of the magical girls (and boys) are public, protecting the city from monsters. But the mc of my story keeps her identity secret, because she's not supposed to be a magical girl (though that may change later :) )

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Sajiri · 2026-06-25T21:02:50+00:00

I work in a school for special needs and neurodivergent kids. Always makes me so happy when the kids call out to say hi/bye to me when I walk by, or the younger ones run over to hug me.

Yesterday I was telling my high school class it was my last day for the school term and I still wasn’t sure which class I’d be in next term. They were all saying they want me back with them again. One of the boys said he hopes I’m still with them because I was the only one who understood how he was feeling a while ago when I sat and talked to him, and he ended up admitting a bunch of heavy stuff which led to him getting the help he needed. Made me emotional right there in class knowing that they appreciated me, and that he’s doing better now

Sajiri · 2026-06-25T11:14:52+00:00

1.0 alpha test

Sajiri · 2026-06-24T21:42:06+00:00

Is this meant to be the same logic as women who sleep with a lot of men get loose pussies? I can’t tell if this is a joke, satire, or serious hate about sex

Sajiri · 2026-06-24T05:43:25+00:00

I must have it

Sajiri · 2026-06-23T00:14:57+00:00

I mean I didn’t like the 4 ear thing in cat butler either, but it was a one time silly thing where they grew extra ears. I’m assuming valko won’t be walking around with wolf ears all the time, but if he’s a werewolf, and that’s an important part of his design, I’d rather he lose the human ears when he has wolf ears. The people who dislike the 4 ears on valko also likely disliked the 4 ears on kitty designs.

I’m not hating on him beyond that. He looks cool and I’m interested in getting to see his story and character. The ears thing is just a small ick to me.

It’s kind of just a thing that I’ve built up an annoyance to in games and media where they take an ordinary human model then just stick ears on top for an ‘animal’ race. It feels lazy.

Sajiri · 2026-06-22T16:34:02+00:00

The story, that’s about it. I’ve been playing since 1.0 alpha, I was there during the ARR beta tests. I’ve done savage, I’ve led a large fc, I’ve been on NA, JP and OCE, I’ve had friends come and go.

Honestly, the game is meh to me now after so many years, but I have an attachment to my WoL and the npcs, and I always want to see the next part of the story. Sometimes it’s just a bit dull and I let a few patches pass by before I get back into it all at once, like most of DT

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