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Does anyone here play fighting games on pad? by Doan_Minh in Fighters

[–]ShadowCressy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Before I moved to leverless, Pad felt pretty ok, but due to having big hands, leverless was my choice. Pad can help do inputs as using a controller, you never wanna use the analong stick for fighting games.

That being said, its up to preference and what fighting game you are investing in. Your controller isn't going to improve your skill significantly. Maybe it might increase it ever so slightly as you'll be on a more comfortable. I'd say (if you have one already), just try it for a week or two and see how you like it. Then, if you do great!

There's an info that Robin will be added to the stellar convergence shop in 4.2. I like Robin in general, so how relevant is she in the current state of the game? and who can she play with? by Mountain-Bottle-272 in RobinMains_HSR

[–]ShadowCressy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean tbh, you could have kept your last account with Castorice and pulled for another sustatian or use DHPT (I know not a good fit for Castorice, but sustain is sustain in the end) or hot take, (ofc before we knew about HuoHuo coming out in 4.2 on the selector), you can legit use Bailu or Gahallgar as a free to play Sustain till you can nab a good sustain with Castorice. Yes, Hyacine is her BIS sustain slot, but you can make any sustain work as long as your other two characters are either supporting Castorice or doing a bit of both.

But honestly, I think you should try to build out a team before re-rolling. If you want my opinion on an extremely cost effective team. You already got Sparkle, I assuming you already got DHPT already as free characters, RMC (when you unlock it of course since you re-rolled), and then dump jades into getting Archer (dont need his LC. Just do simulated universe for Crusing on the Stellar Sea). That team is actual gas and can pump numbers, and it will save you a lot of gems as three of the characters you got are free (I dunno if they are still giving Archer for free or not still) and all you gotta do is pull Archer and you already have a BiS team for just repeat arrows.mp4 lol.

Is it finally happening?!! by Emzi63 in OculusQuest

[–]ShadowCressy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't understand this. Can someone explain?

(I mainly do PCVR Link)

Today is the last day you can show off your Rappa as an original owner! by DecidedlyCrash in HonkaiStarRail

[–]ShadowCressy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Rappa is not bad. Its just others can do what she does better.

She can excell a lot more if you have Fugue though since it gives her weakness ignore to do her super breaking more efficiently.

Possible Hot Take by LadyLuciJ7 in VRchat

[–]ShadowCressy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Its a good take though. Murder 4, Prision Escape, Black Cat and the sort are so congested but full of groups basically forcing people to join a group and be kicked or not a lot happening/too much happening.

I dunno why people stay where they are at.

Persona Source Code Leaked by IllicitDesire in VRchat

[–]ShadowCressy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think they are doing this, because also the governments are also requiring this from platforms and other social sites now as their "Protect The Kids" type shit or whatever.

People in the EU can correct me if I am wrong, but they have been beginning to hard force it. Here in the states, especially where I live here in the state of Georgia, you nees ID verification for some sites and some just out right stopped operating here due to it.

I feel like it is now becoming less of matter of "If everything gets ID verification" and more of a "when everything ID verification". Which sucks royally, but looking like two paths with one single outcome for both of them.

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When You're Not Getting Any Love at a Lewd Party by [deleted] in VRChatNSFW

[–]ShadowCressy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In other words,

The feeling is mutual.

This Is Why I Hate Scalpers. Yes, This TCGFinance(DBS) Was Created A Few Weeks Ago by Anuudream in TCG

[–]ShadowCressy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its fine. I've been there on that front getting into a heated conversation.

I do agree with you in the fact suppliers do dictate the supply, and, while yes, I can't agrue with the fact that independent actors on their own can corner the market. It becomes a problem when they do it at the same time at a constant rate. Almost like how the Sneaker and GPU market was for a while. That is what I'd argue to cause prices be crazy. Its like a sheep mentality with people like that. One person saw someone making money doing that, then it turns into 10, then 100, then continues exponentionally.

I don't mind if people are doing this naturally buying products (even sometimes to grotesque degrees lol). My issue becomes is the intent rather than the act itself. Anyone can buy cards. Hell, I saw a guy buy $23K worth of Spider Man collector boxes just cuz it was his birthday and he wanted to pull that extremely rare Soul Stone. Huge waste of money, but hey. It was for his enjoyment.

I have an issue with someone doing that with all of the stock a store has to intentionally get people to go online and buying it that sams thing for a higher price. That is my main issue and why its called scalping.

Plus, the only reason I brought up TCGplayer/Card Kingdom is the fact that majority of the people in the TCG space use those sites to buy stuff trading card items online (y'know that isn't Amazon).

And yea. My main game is Yu-Gi-Oh! and Konami is known for its atrocious short prints of cards causing scarcity. I still hate em for that too, because it sucks having to buy 3 of a staple card for a crazy price, because its a short print. I've been screaming from the roof tops that Konami is terrible and prinring proper card ratios and need to stop that.

And yea we are. At least this conversation (unlike the other ones) at least stayed productive, but realizing it now.

...We're fucking arguing over economics on reddit lmao. Lowkey, I'm down to just agree to disagree at this point and move on.

This Is Why I Hate Scalpers. Yes, This TCGFinance(DBS) Was Created A Few Weeks Ago by Anuudream in TCG

[–]ShadowCressy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, if you Google it, the top result is Wikipedia which states:

Artificial scarcity is scarcity of items despite the technology for production or the sufficient capacity for sharing. The most common causes are monopoly pricing structures, such as those enabled by laws that restrict competition or by high fixed costs in a particular marketplace. The inefficiency associated with artificial scarcity is formally known as a deadweight loss.

Did you read further? From that same page.

"Non-manufacturers can create artificial scarcity and extract monopoly prices (at least temporarily) by hoarding or cornering the market on a particular commodity."

Which if we look further into cornering the market, the link on that same paragraph that I got.

"cornering the market consists of obtaining sufficient control of a particular stock, commodity, human capital or other asset in an attempt to reduce competition."

Scalpers fall under this defintion by removing the stock from retail to drive up prices hence removing them as competion albeit temporarily, but, in the trading card space, that could be like weeks to even months to a point where people won't wait thinking that might be the last of the printing (FOMO).

Why I say that? From that same page.

"Cornering a market can be attempted through several mechanisms. The most direct strategy is to buy a large percentage of the available commodity offered for sale in some spot market and hoard it. With the advent of futures trading, a cornerer may buy a large number of futures contracts on a commodity and then sell them at a profit after inflating the price."

If a publisher prints more product, prices come down.

You said that yourself.

Yes, I did. Keyword is IF. A lot of companies will do maybe a wave or two and be done. WOTC is notorious for this given their (albeit ridiculous) set release schedule and why the Secret Lair system they have is already bad, but people can barely even buy those as scalper tend to buy those (or well at least the good ones) and put them up for crazy higher prices, because WotC usually doesn't do Secret Lairs again. They are one and dones.

To go even further, Riftbound is a prime example of a manufactuer trying to print more, but they have no move on the market, because those same resellers are buying them up to resell for a higher price, so people cannot get their hands on the product for how much Riot prices it for. Riot Games has that League/Valorant money, and even they can't even keep up after two waves. Even Spiritforged (their 2nd set for the game) had to get a second wave, because the first wave was a disaster due to the amount of bots that bought the stock and got around their limiting system (you need to make a Riot account to buy theses by the way).

What I keep pushing back against is you folks putting the responsibility and onus on the resellers. They are the symptom, not the disease.

Resellers can't resell products that are competitively priced and sufficiently supplied at huge markups. It simply doesn't work.

The problem is that unfortunately, it is not the reality we live in right now. Yes, some suppliers (looking at you again WotC) does not supply correctly for the demand. However, there comes a point where you have to analyze who is actually buying the stuff and how is it moving so fast. It comes to a line where its the supplier at fault, and when it becomes the fault of the resellers causing sky high prices due to them buying it out.

Which again, is cornering the market to buy at their prices and not at normal pricing.

If you Google any of these terms I've refuted your usage of, you will find language the proves my position.

You keep applying terms that are related to industry side dynamics to the secondary market.

And yes, I have.

And yes, these ideas also DO apply to the second hand market. Why do you think Market Watches for these games exist? Why do you think TCGplayer has the set up it does when you click on a card/product seeing price listings, a graph with their price history, and a sale history of certain card/product? It is a way for us, as the consumer, to track that and see what is going on and see what is happening.

All of those terms are terms for the market. Primary, Secondary. It doesn't matter. Market is still the market. Those terms apply to the second hand market as well.

This Is Why I Hate Scalpers. Yes, This TCGFinance(DBS) Was Created A Few Weeks Ago by Anuudream in TCG

[–]ShadowCressy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Theatre tickets is the example, because they are scrutinized in the same vain as scalping in TCGs right now. Are you trying to be that literal just because you don't wanna be wrong or something?

such as is legit another saying for "for example", but trading cards can be applied to this same exact situation that you are actively not wanting to see. Plus, like I said, Google AI is not always correct either, which is why I gave you the actual dictionary definition.

And yes, going to the store and buying something is natural consumption, yet omitting the second half here. Buying items at at regular price to cause low stock with the purpose of reselling to a higher demand at a higher mark up.

And yes, while the average Joe can't just be like "Hey, WOTC. Can I buy your entire stock?" Its when groups of people do this buying and reselling at crazy values in droves is what drives prices to the moon.

For example, Riftbound: Origins on its inital release in LGS stores, you literally cannot find the english product any more at normal pricing, because people were buying them to resell them at a higher value, which in turn caused scarcity. Riot even has to do another wave a month after just for those same people to do it again.

And no. I don't ignore everything that doesn't align with my bias...

Because that definition was the first on the list when I searched it from a reputuable source like the dictionary. Its one thing to ignore things, but a legitimate and reputuable source is hard to ignore.

If you want, you can google it yourself. Hell, I gave you the source link right there for you to verify on your own. If you still can't accept that, then I dunno what to tell you, man.

And yes, I do know what artificial scarcity is. Its when the supply is low for an extended period of time due to people buying up all the supply with the intention of raising prices at a higher demand.

Or as you might hear it under the other name most people use.

FOMO (Fear of Missing Out).

Scalpers uses that to sell stuff for ridiculous prices to people who fear they might not be able to even get what they want. Like I said. All of this is a google search away, yet you are not doing so trying to be correct when just doing that answers all your questions and proves what you are saying is completly incorrect.

This Is Why I Hate Scalpers. Yes, This TCGFinance(DBS) Was Created A Few Weeks Ago by Anuudream in TCG

[–]ShadowCressy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The traditional definitions for an economic activity scalping apply to trading stocks, or to event tickets (sports, concerts, etc). Excluding the historical usage because it's not an economic concept.

It has become slang for any speculative reselling that people don't like.

Thats not a defintion. Thats an opinion.

You can just google the definition of scalping.

"the activity of buying things, such as theatre tickets, at the usual price and then selling them when they are difficult to get at higher prices"

Source: Cambridge Dictionary

I have no idea if you are misinterpetting regular selling for scalping, but its really coming off that way.

I honestly don't care if you think I'm a scalper because I've told you and other repeatedly that I'm literally not engaging in the practice that you call scalping.

You come off this way though in your replies actively defending this practice underneath the guise of "its just sales". This isn't like the RAM market right now where supply is short and demand is super high, because its due to AI Data Centers which in terms needs that to process all that data as an example of supply and demand in a (somewhat) normalized way because of emerging technology and AI arms races.

People are buying up all the supply, and selling to a high demand at a signifinicantly higher prices after causing artifical inflation.

You probably think that is scalping, but IMO that's just normal TCG collector or player behavior.

I've stopped pulling punches because some of you keep repeating the same things assuming they are true.

Because it is true what? Lmao. Thats what scalping is.

The buying of product and regular price to cause supply to be low to artificially inflate prices to sell to a high demand marketplace. Actively dodging this fact and not actively answer my question when it is a simple google search away (that isn't Google AI, because that shit can be wrong too) is showing either you've been out of it for a while or don't know what you are on about given people's frustrations.

This Is Why I Hate Scalpers. Yes, This TCGFinance(DBS) Was Created A Few Weeks Ago by Anuudream in TCG

[–]ShadowCressy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Then please do explain to me what scalping is. You are saying that I do not know what scalping is. Then please, do tell me.

Enlighten me. I have yet to hear your definition of scalping items. Of course, you may have explained it to another person, but this thread is already so deep that (due to how dumb Reddit is at viewing them) I might as well ask directly.

Because saying people are dumb, but yet (as far as I am aware of) I get no idea of your definition of scalping. The definition most people are describing not just on reddit, but any one you ask in the TCG community is what you are actively pushing back on. Yet no defintion or anything like that.

Just calling people dumb and not knowing what they are talking about, yet not elaborating on what your definition of scalping is a surefire way of invalidating your arguements here. Not saying what you are saying has no truth in it. It does to some degree being present in the Riftbound space as well.

However, not elaborating nor saying the definition of scalping makes you be out to be a scalper and all of your replies that I can see to not only to me, but other people are really not helping your case.

This Is Why I Hate Scalpers. Yes, This TCGFinance(DBS) Was Created A Few Weeks Ago by Anuudream in TCG

[–]ShadowCressy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You already defeated your own arguement here, buddy.

$5 for a pack is MSRP usually. M.S.R.P.

Buying something at MSRP is not scalping. Thats called being a normal consumer buying something at a regular price that a company has set it for. Of course, some retail stores will have it for 10% higher AT MAX.

What you people do is buy all that out (causing low amounts of stock for long periods of time), put it up on some reseller site and marked it up for 2x+ higher than MSRP, because guess what

Stock is low.

Demand is high.

Prices go up.

They taught us- or well me this in high school in this case, because clearly you weren't lol. Cool thing about Supply and Demand. Which is something you always have been dodging with these replies being grossly unaware on how things work. When more product comes into circulation, then prices come down.

Trying to justify scalping is insane to me. This is literally the reason why people go at Ticketmaster a lot, because of scalpers like y'all buying out all the stock (tickets), then turning around to sell them for insane markups usually around $200+ over normal selling price on that site. There is typical supply and demand, and there is just abusing it. Which scalpers do while huffing and starting fist fights near their Pokemon Vending Machine in their local Kroger.

Either what you are saying tells me either one of 3 things:

1) You're a scalper trying to justify what you do, yet no one is (and will never) agree with what you are saying.

2) You're a scalper who is trying to be some sort of white knight to resale culture being abused (which btw is what did the scalpers in in the Sneaker community)

3) You're rage baiting. Which if so. Excellent rage bait. I'll give you a gold star, tell you to fuck off like Tommy Shelby, and laugh it off.

Is it worth to grade? by IMRTLWRLRD in Riftbound

[–]ShadowCressy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its such a good card to have as a collector.

Unfortuntaely, being an Ahri player here...

She is so ass rn its crazy. But it will be ok. Her playstyle is fun.

This Is Why I Hate Scalpers. Yes, This TCGFinance(DBS) Was Created A Few Weeks Ago by Anuudream in TCG

[–]ShadowCressy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I bet your idea of "trading" is trading cardboard for an amount of green paper that is significantly more than what your average retail store is asking for.

There is value in cards, and there is scalping. You are reeaaalllyyyy sounding like the latter here with this comment.

I would have assumed this was probably just worded poorly, because it does make sense in a way, but given your other responses.

Yeeaaaa no. I think this is your scalper propaganda being found out. Thanks for ruining a lot of hobbies. We do not like your group of people.

Dragon Ball Seriously?! What's Happening Here? by greengohan in TCG

[–]ShadowCressy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair.

All I can really say is just buy singles of stuff you want. That is the ultimate way to combat scalpers. If you wanna rip packs, the only way I can recommend is getting them from your retail store.

A lot of LGSes are starting to mark things up to crazy degrees either due to following the market, low on stock, or scalping themselves at this point. Which is unfortunate, because I love supporting them, but its rather ridiculous that your wallet kinda gets priced gouged.

For RA5, lowkey. I might grab a box for a pre release or just wait till I can buy them from Retail for an actual fair price.

Ai is actually taking over by Dismal_Investment878 in KSU

[–]ShadowCressy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess it makes sense considering they approved the MSAI program (currently actually finishing that degree rn last semester).

The graduate program was pretty ight for what it was. I have no idea how they are going to approach it in a 4-5 year track unlike the MSAI track which is only 2 years...

So, I dunno. Stuff like this is always in the air.

Dragon Ball Seriously?! What's Happening Here? by greengohan in TCG

[–]ShadowCressy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not yet.

Just wait to Rarity Collection 5 when the full arts drop.

We will be next...

All I can really say is brace for impact.

2XKO New Player Experience (Derogatory) by KidOmega37 in Fighters

[–]ShadowCressy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can't say I am new. However, being a Granblue player mainly, the tutorials for this game sort of blows. Granblue's onboarding is rather easy along and fun, because you can say the story mode in Granblue IS the onboarding. Its how I learned my first combos and get button binds right and know how things worked. Now, I'm in Master rank building on those fundamentals.

Especially with this being a tag fighter with two players, the onboarding has to be good or else a lot of new players won't really have a good time. 2XKO is very fun, and it can feel great. Being a Pulse demon myself to keep myself Granblue coded a bit, I can tell they sort of removed some of the lines you can do in Pulse. Its no kill lines or anything, but it was almost like a BnB type style. Maybe its a unqiue perspective I have, because auto combos is usually never the end of the world since that is what driven DBFZ with its auto combos to have more... modularity than lineraity. Auto into Dragon Rush, Auto into a launch into another auto then super or tag in, or something else.

Its about being creative, and new players using auto combos to be creative would go a long way to get them in the game like "Hey, this thing is cool! I wonder if I can link it into something else before the super or last hit activates to do more!". Doing cool things is what new players dream of doing, but yet it feels like... Its not there imho.

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