13 points HelloUsername 3 days ago 5 comments
lloydatkinson 1 hour ago | parent
As a child I had considerably more than 42 Pokemon cards, from that time range, and all in excellent condition with several "shinies"... all of which went into the washing machine because I left them in my pocket. Depressing.
argee 18 minutes ago | parent
I used to have a lot of cards too, but the best ones were torn up or stolen or torn up in attempts to be stolen. India is a brutal place, I even went to private school and my peers were still like this.
Your story makes me envious. I would much rather machines be my adversary.
So I became a programmer.
rvz 21 minutes ago | parent
Pokemon cards are today's latest ponzi scheme and have an infinite printing supply without any utility or valid use case whatsoever.
They are today's beanie babies and is a complete waste of money. Even stablecoins have a better use case than this over inflated garbage.
toast0 10 minutes ago | parent
> without any utility or valid use case whatsoever.
Pokemon battles have some amount of entertainment value.
I mean sure, it's glorified cock fighting for kids, but that doesn't diminish the utility of the game as entertainment. It just makes it squishier.