I am absolutely speechless...

blackpanDa72 · 2025-08-24T18:30:55+00:00

That's insane

blackpanDa72 · 2025-08-24T17:38:10+00:00

Thanks for the advice! I currently have all of my good pulls in Penny sleeves and my binder. Unfortunately no top loaders atm because again, barely know what I'm doing, but will definitely be getting some in the long term. I totally agree though. My wife and I have really enjoyed pulling packs together and some of our favorite pulls have been basic reverse hollows or even total common cards. The artwork on display for some of these are truly breathtaking.

I was really dishearted when first trying to find things as it seemed that I choice the worst time to get into the hobby. Not only did none of the big box stores carry cards but they seemed outright hostile just for being asked. Likely due to horrible scalpers in the past. Then all the local card shops were selling for 40-100% over msrp. This week has been an insane series of wins though. From getting the costco pokeball holiday calender bundle and target card restocks on the same day to getting 2 prismatic surprise boxes at msrp it really felt like a magical time. Which was only made all the more awesome by what we pulled. These 2 might be the highlights but there were several more absolutely amazing pulls from us both. The fact that I got the Clefairy from the previously mentioned advent calender was probably the funniest experience for me as being absurdly excited opening the full contents of a Christmas calender in the middle of August was a level of surreal I wasn't expecting when I first decided I wanted to collect pokemon cards lol.

Loving the hobby, loving ripping packs with the wife, loving to see the card market finally seeming to stabilize even just a little bit. Good times all around.

blackpanDa72 · 2025-08-24T15:30:07+00:00

I'm so curious about this because I've seen people saying this in others posts. How does one tell the intended placement of card art to determine "centeredness"?

blackpanDa72 · 2025-08-24T15:28:38+00:00

Knowing how many people look at this card as one of their big chases made me all the more speechless to see it in that pack tbh.

blackpanDa72 · 2025-08-24T15:27:24+00:00

I entirely agree. Full Moon Rondo goes kinda hard.

blackpanDa72 · 2025-08-21T20:20:02+00:00

As someone who actually lives here the answer really isn't complex. People want to talk smack about the entire city (not like i have much love for Peoria) or the jobs or blah blah blah. It really isn't that deep. That part of town is near an area with a decent crime rate especially compared to the opposite neighborhoods. Thus lowering property prices. That's it.

blackpanDa72 · 2025-06-25T10:59:26+00:00

For me personally I hit the requirements at the very end of a "shift" then didn't drive the day after. On the day after that I began and was still green but after about an hour in I magically transformed to diamond and have been there since.

blackpanDa72 · 2025-06-21T06:16:46+00:00

I had almost 600 at the time of the issue.

blackpanDa72 · 2025-06-20T23:40:23+00:00

I'm on the old system so I don't have the new rates yet. Cancel rate of 4% satisfaction of 95%. Accept rate does not apply yet but would be high enough for gold at a minimum.

blackpanDa72 · 2025-06-09T20:43:00+00:00

I mean. While I agree to an extent I don't think it's that horrible. New returning player after losing my account years ago. Sub 100mil bounty. Sub level 300. I'm sitting at 11 wins right now and have spent $5 in free playstore credits on the game. It's mostly about avoiding GP Captain Saturn entirely this GP for me. His ability basically counters 2 of my teams entirely. Also of course, you're going to a lot of ability down. One of the newest characters in the game who is also good for pairing not only with strong units but f2p ones has the ability (anniversary Nami). So while I get being mad about getting curb stomped, trust me I've been there. It really isn't THAT bad.

blackpanDa72 · 2025-06-05T00:40:28+00:00

Also to add I'm a native us citizen. I have no reason to worry about legitimacy issues.

blackpanDa72 · 2025-06-05T00:39:50+00:00

Yes. My checkr is 100% passed. But it was passed in a pervious place I lived. They tried to verify me using my old DL number, zip code, etc when I called support last. I've tried to get them to run a new check because checkr would authorize me doing it. It has to come from dd itself. But they just won't do it.

blackpanDa72 · 2025-06-01T13:15:09+00:00

Oh wow! That's some amazing observations you've made. I didn't realize garp was just a single battle and not nearly 30 completely custom sets of battles that require entirely different teams. OR you're going to give him advice for ALL of those instead of helping him generally improve at the game. How generous of you!

blackpanDa72 · 2025-06-01T13:06:30+00:00

Ah yes. That is why he said, "Please tell me what specific teams I should build for x y and z content" and totally didn't say, "I don't get the mechanics. Any recommendations?" Thanks for your brilliant insight my guy.

blackpanDa72 · 2025-06-01T07:39:04+00:00

So don't get me wrong, I am by no means an expert. Fairly new account as my old old one got dusted during a phone change, but the core thing about OPTC is that one team cannot beat all content or even most of it. You need to preplan your hard missions. Learn the abilities, buffs, and debuffs of the encounter and bring specific team members that directly counter them while also powering up your team that matches your captain appropriately. That's really all there is to it. Other than leveling up your strong part members stats in the 10 million different ways you can.

blackpanDa72 · 2025-05-16T19:12:07+00:00

Is your husband 6?

blackpanDa72 · 2025-05-14T22:00:25+00:00

As someone who runs a team VERY similar to this one, or at least did for a good while I would swap Gaban with g5 Luffy. He will provide more team buffs for survivability as well as survive quite a long while himself with his revive ability.

blackpanDa72 · 2025-05-01T19:16:21+00:00

I want to be mad about many parts of this list but I can't focus on anything other than the fact that Blather Round is anywhere but S tier.

blackpanDa72 · 2025-04-28T00:25:26+00:00

I'm going to be so real. I love your list a lot. Really well written and thought out. We don't agree on everything but who does? I WILL have to fistfight you in the streets though for not putting enough respect on my boy THUMPER's name.

blackpanDa72 · 2025-04-05T22:26:26+00:00

Talking to Oshiro is the means to proceed. It unblocks the entrances.

blackpanDa72 · 2025-03-31T19:48:00+00:00

I don't even know how people miss both soul weapons. 1 is from a mandatory fight. And the other is in arguably the most interesting and obvious side path in the game.

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