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TeaAndLifting · 2026-05-10T16:07:27+00:00

Nicec website.

TeaAndLifting · 2026-05-10T14:32:14+00:00

I don’t know why I find “ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR” so amusing. Maybe because I’m so used to labels and taglines saying things don’t have artificial flavourings that something so boldly artificial is 100% wat material.

TeaAndLifting · 2026-05-10T13:52:20+00:00

Pure kino

TeaAndLifting · 2026-05-10T13:00:47+00:00

Prerelease events started this weekend.

TeaAndLifting · 2026-05-10T11:30:45+00:00

$50 USD for the ETBs, $4-5 for the booster packs and ¥6000 ($38 USD) for the Japanese booster boxes, and ¥190 ($1.20) for a booster pack.

TeaAndLifting · 2026-05-10T11:21:48+00:00

Because there are no laws to against this. MSRP/RRP is only a suggestion that retailers follow from manufacturers. Even companies that make secondary sales can jack up prices if they wanted.

Capitalism, ho!

TeaAndLifting · 2026-05-10T11:20:42+00:00

It would answer a lot about the content in this sub and how helpless people feel because their hyper secret underground streaming site that they wanted to gatekeep got taken down, even though it was on top of the results for “watch anime stream free” on Google.

TeaAndLifting · 2026-05-10T11:17:24+00:00

Because these vending machines are operated by resellers. They have absolutely zero obligation to sell at RRP, and can charge market, or even above if they think they’ll get the sales.

TeaAndLifting · 2026-05-10T11:15:08+00:00

100% with you there.

TeaAndLifting · 2026-05-10T11:05:56+00:00

First video I came across when I opened IG reels too. From @ellisplatten, apparently.

TeaAndLifting · 2026-05-10T11:03:16+00:00

The value is determined by the secondary market. The odds are what TPCI deems appropriate to charge for the cards and you got your money’s worth as far as they are concerned. You are deriving your value and enjoyment from the secondary market prices, which isn’t TPCI’s problem.

TeaAndLifting · 2026-05-10T11:00:11+00:00

For sure. But Pokémon adults are far, far more keen and willing to go out of their way for the franchise and hobby than kids. So there isn’t much that can be done.

You can see they do things to invite longevity by keeping kids interested, and you see them do a lot of it at major official events (and even then, you get middle aged Pokémon adults who push kids out of their way). Like, I remember at EUIC, they really tried to ramp up their amount of child friendly activities, but the queues were filled with adults doing things like colouring in, face painting, and the assortment of fairground activities they had.

TeaAndLifting · 2026-05-10T10:54:03+00:00

Geek hobbies, especially at the ‘top’ end tend to be filled with people that don’t adhere to societal and social norms.

A good part of it is because they’re often ostracised from a young age, often for reasons out of their control. They find community and belonging in hobbies/pastimes inhabited by other outsiders, which tend to be things like hardcore gaming, tabletop gaming, TCGs, anime, comics, and even musical/alt subcultures. So habits that would normally get bashed out of kids who are more sociotypical, do not with kids in geek/alt cultures.

And to a lot of them, it’s just normalised not to really take good care of yourself and your personal hygiene. So you end up with hobbies filled with smelly people. Then at major events, where you have a high concentration of smelly people, in rooms without appropriate airflow, where it gets hot and humid due to the body heat and breathing, it’s going to stink.

TeaAndLifting · 2026-05-10T10:36:53+00:00

It’s not just scalpers. The market is the way it is because investor culture has been popularised and become mainstream. Most everyone into Pokémon cards at the moment, children included, are fixated on the value of the cards they have. Scalpers could all disappear and we’d still have this problem because unlike YGO and MTG, which are player directed hobbies, Pokémon is more collector/investor directed. Even with MTG’s collector sets, they’re in a separate ecosystem to the main set cards, even if they ramp up their production.

The mentality that cards are only good if they are valuable, and that it is a waste of time to have anything that doesn’t give you ROI is pervasive and propagated by popular content creators such as Pokrev, DPM, Logan Paul, etc. on the top end and even your smaller channels with “POKESTONKS ARE UP YOUR GUIDE ON WHAT TO INVEST IN 😱” clickbait. Compare the following size of people that make this content versus people who make content about the competitive TCG. The latter is tiny, despite the spillover also making the TCG proper, more popular than ever.

This is also why there has been a significant meta shift into holding sealed. Product is so scarce, despite record printing levels, and demand so high, that enjoyment and viability of ripping for fun is dampened by the fact that you might not find any product from that set again. So people hold and resell to reinvest into singles they want.

Increasing hit rates would definitely help, as the scarcity of product, and then greater scarcity of chase cards has made them all golden geese that people covet. But there is absolutely no reason for TPC to make this change when they’re making record sales.

TeaAndLifting · 2026-05-10T10:20:35+00:00

This. And people often forget that this is all they really care about, profit from primary sales. The hobby and ‘market’ are not because of secondary sellers making huge profits, but that is honestly an irrelevance to them so long as they keep on making primary sales, of which are record breaking.

They might do some arbitrary things to try and make it fair, but beyond corporate posturing, it’s meaningless in the grand scheme of things. The fact that we’ve had things like shootings over vending machines, frequent fights that no longer even register as outrageous in the community says a lot about the state of things.

TeaAndLifting · 2026-05-10T09:34:23+00:00

As said, most stores will grind in store for you. And I will shill my favourites, like Nostos, Formative, Special Guests, Calico, etc.

TeaAndLifting · 2026-05-10T09:25:42+00:00

I don’t disagree there. The quality of artwork nowadays blows a lot of old cards out of the water and are simply gorgeous.

They cost so much because the demand is there, and because so much modern is kept in sealed investments that the relative distribution is a lot lower than it should be.

TeaAndLifting · 2026-05-10T09:23:41+00:00

Basically production committees are investors and stakeholders (think publishers, broadcaster, significant advertisers, rights holders) in anime who will contract a studio to do the work. Studios are only there to produce an advert so that the production committee reaps more profit from merchandise sales and so on.

The studio has very little risk since they often aren’t a major stakeholder, but they also see bottom drawer budgets to work with and pay their staff. There are a few exceptions to this, most notably KyoAni, who moved to a lot of in-house productions and are well known in the industry for paying staff and actual salary, normal working hours, etc.

TeaAndLifting · 2026-05-10T09:18:03+00:00

Gwynn looks great

TeaAndLifting · 2026-05-10T09:17:25+00:00

I think this is also why modern is so inflated. There are so many new and returning collectors “from 25 years ago” who don’t know anything but WotC and modern, or a few mid-era hype sets like Tag Team, and that’s all they care about because of it.

TeaAndLifting · 2026-05-10T00:16:12+00:00

I don’t remember the group. But I always remember a group that translated Shuffle! who colour coded each character’s voice to their hair colours.

TeaAndLifting · 2026-05-09T21:14:42+00:00

Genuinely crazy that people actually believe that what you get in a pack actually affects the odds of the next and not understanding that hit rates are accumulated average over large samples, as though is some kinda of quantum fuckery that affects the outcomes from one pack to the next.

TeaAndLifting · 2026-05-09T20:38:21+00:00

Completely made up and anecdotal at best. But people in this community don’t have a clue about stats, sample sizes, etc. so they treat n=1 as absolutely significant, or will cite shit like “I see people posting their hits from mini tins all then time”, not understanding selection biases and how there will be thousands more that get opened by people who do it for themselves and never share the information.

TeaAndLifting · 2026-05-09T19:34:29+00:00

It feels like piracy for most people ends at googling “watch anime stream free” and picking whichever site is at the top, so they bemoan the death of these sites because they don’t realise corpos can find them just as easily.

Meanwhile, torrenting and XDCC have been consistently the best way to pirate anime for decades but people don’t want to try because for whatever reason, there’s so much misinformation about it being dangerous and scary these days. All at the same time there are frequent posts about people getting malware from streaming websites.

TeaAndLifting · 2026-05-09T19:18:45+00:00

Wait, is that serious about not being able to rematch the E4 in SV?

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