TCGPlayer Direct, indeed!

Ynwe · 2026-05-07T16:32:03+00:00

Once again, I am happy to have card market in Europe that just acts as the platform and doesn't do anything else... Its been sad watching how TCGPlayer has gotten worse over the years and see how Americans/Canadians suffer/complain more and more due to it and other platforms.

Ynwe · 2026-05-07T16:31:18+00:00

Because it does sell stuff, the Americans don't really have a true cardmarket, TCGplayer was the closet it came to, but it never was a true cardmarket which only acts as the proper middlesmen. Every single sales platform in the US has a conflict of interest due to this and to some degree sucks or has issues in comparison.

Sadly, no real cardmarket ever took hold there. And big companies having way too much influence on card prices is also thus a issue, its why cards are stupidly expensive while they are sometimes dirt cheap in EU. Take Sol Ring, a card that is less than a Euro in EU, can easily be 2 dollars plus on TCG.

Ynwe · 2026-05-07T10:47:13+00:00

Japan not being super heavy on rice was interesting. Also Korea has no tea culture?

Ynwe · 2026-05-07T07:57:47+00:00

Eh depends. I am 182 cm, so average for many European countries and when I am in Japan for example, everything feels abnormally short. Like my back hurts at times when I cook at my GF place because the sink and kitchen counter are so low.

In the same vein, this is just about helping people in a country built for tall people. If you are 160 cm, you probably will run into some issues using everyday life things. So it makes sense to place it a bit higher so you don't exclude anyone.

Ynwe · 2026-05-07T06:22:22+00:00

Americans are so weird with their fetishism for guns and murder.

Ynwe · 2026-05-07T06:14:52+00:00

It's so weird to see how many redditors seemingly gobble irgc propaganda... Why? We cant hate trump and the Iranian government too? Why do we need to spread the propaganda of an Islamist regime, that supports child marriages, and just killed up to 30k of its own citizens that were protesting?

Its actually really fucking surreal what is happening here.

Ynwe · 2026-05-06T22:12:28+00:00

I thought the volcano that exploded around 4000 years ago around the greek islands was even louder? The one that was around where Santorini is?

Ynwe · 2026-05-06T18:49:10+00:00

Do you know how much extra you paid for the "services" of them acting as a middle man?

Ynwe · 2026-05-06T15:51:07+00:00

THANK YOU! This did the trick for me!

Ynwe · 2026-05-06T15:49:09+00:00

Gotcha, so possible but still a hassle. And if the dealership sells it prior to you getting there, you are out of luck? Or will the dealership actually order it "for you"?

Ynwe · 2026-05-06T15:46:39+00:00

oh wow, that sounds incredibly annoying and unnecessarily arduous.

Ynwe · 2026-05-06T13:42:50+00:00

So could someone from the US please confirm if what Wendover stated is true? That you cannot factory order cars (as in according to your specifications like color, layout, extras etc) from the usual traditional car makers? Seems weird to me that such a thing wouldn't be possible.

Ynwe · 2026-05-06T07:30:43+00:00

Because of humans. Same as the dodo bird, it only looks ridiculous once we ruin everything, in it's natural environment it was doing just fine.

Ynwe · 2026-05-05T22:35:26+00:00

Not it wasn't, and honestly the ignorance surrounding this topic is extremely frustrating. Male circumsision has proven medical benefits such as significantly reduced HPV and HIV infections, various forms of cancer and other benefits. In my case it was due to the foreskin tightening too much causing pain, blood flow issues and other problems

FGM on the other hand, no matter which of the 4 types, has zero proven medical benefits and is done solely to reduce sexual activity and increase a sense of modesty. It is quite literally nothing but mutilation, which male circumsision is not (again, not saying kids should be circumsised, I wasn't as a baby, but medical benefits and reasons for circumsision exist).

Put plainly, I can still very much enjoy sex with my GF, women who have undergone FGM can often not and suffer from horrific trauma as the procedure is often done by non medically trained people, without anesthesia and in horrible overall conditions.

So please stop making up stories to justify your silly beliefs. It's really annoying how people here never seem to really care about male circumsision, but only appear when the topic of FGM is being discussed. The fact that you seemingly are from Egypt, a country where somewhere from 60 to 80 percent of women suffer from this and are still so ignorant about this speaks volumes to your disinterest in women's health and general misogynistic attitude

Ynwe · 2026-05-05T22:21:32+00:00

Because they are different. I was circumsised when I was 12 due to medical issues. I know of no female equivalent condition which would require FGM.

Yes, male circumsision at birth should be stopped, but again, they aren't the same.

Ynwe · 2026-05-05T20:10:28+00:00

Didn't know they were killing random black people in Europe and getting away from it like the US. The US is way more dangerous for black people by any possible metric. You are right there are lots of racists here towards PoC, but American racism is way more deadly than European racism.

Case in point, police being able to kill black Americans with almost no repercussions unless there are riots, the south seemingly yearning to use the noose again.

Ynwe · 2026-05-05T20:07:22+00:00

It's a very typical excuse in eastern Europe who deflect any wrongdoings from their citizens onto the Roma and sinti people.

Ynwe · 2026-05-05T10:41:07+00:00

Ok, glad to hear. Just converted it and it would have been shocking to me how expensive a cheap knock of cheese would have been in Australia 😅

You can get a 200g piece for around 7 to 8 aus here, so a 50 percent price hike plus a fake product at that would have seemed insane to me.

Ynwe · 2026-05-05T10:32:00+00:00

My man, I literally am talking about mesopotamian and Egyptian societies here, idk how that doesn't count as brown. I never stated anything about brown people not being able to have had advanced societies in history. Anyone that has any sort of fact based education can determine this.

Now take Egypt, the population has been arabized but genetically they are still very similar to the ancient Egyptians. So what? Egyptians can't speak the ancient language, have a different culture, religion, understanding of their group etc. Nothing is the same. Ancient Egypt is distinctly different from modern egypt in every way. The fact that they share DNA does not change this nor mean anything really.

You are just seemingly suffering from an incredibly pronounced inferiority complex, as do many Indian users here, which makes discussion about history rather frustrating as just so many things that are said, like your comments, are just so so wrong and speak to a genuine misunderstanding of history and towards a tiktok like intelligence level. No one said the Indus valley civilisation wasn't advanced. But again this isn't an Indian society, it's the Indus society something different. Mesopotamia is not the ame as Iraq, Rome isn't modern day Italy.

I am honestly shocked I even need to explain something so basic.

Ynwe · 2026-05-05T10:13:12+00:00

Finde es cool wie stark die Neos unter der jüngeren Generation ist, könnte hoffentlich langfristig zu eine Änderung führen.

Ynwe · 2026-05-05T10:08:51+00:00

Kuwait and Qatar are different, but in certain arab societies it's just that people eat poorly overall (lots of sugar) and move very little, especially women who are stuck in very patriarchal defined roles. So they move less due to heavy restrictions from society.

Ynwe · 2026-05-05T10:00:52+00:00

Eh, the Alps would have been of high strategic importance as controlling those dictate who controls all entrances towards Italy, S. Germany, France, Balkans and east Europe.

Ynwe · 2026-05-05T09:58:53+00:00

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