The Bore does what NeoGAF doesn't.

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the tcg shit he says was definitely true. some definitely stole from booster packs for rare cards.

meanwhile I was one of those people that swiped OPM demo discs and put them in my pocket at supermarkets.

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http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=196935686&postcount=20

I wasn't socially awkward, but me and two of my other friends used to run a Pokemon racket. We ran it from 98-01. We'd go to local stores everyday and steal a pack of two. Then we would open them and take the rares and sell them above price to dumb kids at school. The only cards we would keep was Charizards. We would take the money we made off cards and buy more boosters, while also still stealing them on the reg.

I also started selling porn to kids at my school too. As one of the only kids in school with good internet and a decent computer I would download pics, put them on floppy discs and sell them for $5. This eventually evolved into me burning CDs and selling them. This allowed me to buy even more boosters. We eventually ended up with a few binders full of only rares, including quite a few first edition Charizards.

Eventually these binders ended up just sitting in my closet as me and my two friends stopped caring as much about Pokemon. They really wanted to sell them and split the money, but I moved away and took them all like a real bastard. I still have them in my garage somewhere. Are old rares still worth anything?

I also stole a Pokemon Pikachu tomagatchi thing from Toys R' Us over the course of three days. Man, we were fucked up kids.

There were definitely kids who did this. Kids selling stolen tomagatchi's and shit above market price. One time I bought a tomagatchi from a kid when I was supposed to buy high school football tickets in 6th grade. I didn't give a fuck. Got in trouble for that. That black market life

[Great Rumbler]

I don't really remember Pokemon being that big of a deal when I was in school. Instead, everybody was into Pogs, until they finally got banned because the older kids kept winning all the Pogs from the younger kids.

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Over here Pokemon was huge with the game. But with my age group, it was mostly about the game. Few people collected TCG and due to our age, we fell out of the Pokemon fad by the time 2000 rolled around. Very few people I know gave a shit when G/S dropped. The Pokemon fever that was at that time was definitely a fad. Of course, it never left and it still remained popular, but never really reached those highs of interest ever again.

Maybe it was our age group? That OP said he was in elementary, and most of us got out of Pokemon before HS. No one would want to be caught dead interested in Pokemon in HS. So it makes sense given their age they'd be wayyy more into it, kind of like some of us were with SF or MK when they first came out.

[VomKriege]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=196928864&postcount=1

this thread is crazy as someone who got into pokemon in middle school. i mean, everyone played it of course, but the rabid frenzy this guy described wasn't my experience. (...) It wasn't that serious.

Wasn't that serious ?
Did you ever heard of the Pokémon Yellow Star version ? No ? My point exactly. 

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Pokemon was serious in the sense that we were addicted to getting every mother fucking pokemon and finding any mother fucker to trade to get a complete 'dex.

Pokemon was serious in that we'd spend hours fishing up missingno's and duping rare candy and min/maxing the post-game content to glorious splendor.

But Pokemon wasn't serious in the sense that we'd form cliques of Red vs Blue or hold off on trading with others or people with large dexes being literally the top of the social order.

[VomKriege]

Maybe it was our age group? That OP said he was in elementary, and most of us got out of Pokemon before HS. No one would want to be caught dead interested in Pokemon in HS. So it makes sense given their age they'd be wayyy more into it, kind of like some of us were with SF or MK when they first came out.

It just sounds like the common warped kid perspective filtered through adult filters. In reality, it just looked dumb as shit to surrounding adults. Reading the OP, unsure if it is an interesting take or moronic self aggrandizing of his own childhood.

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I like your avatar, Vom.

 Joining the anime avatars that aren't awful or sexual gang I see

[curly]

PoliGAF is basically a bunch of gay dudes jacking off at this point. Needs more benji thread shitting.

yyyyyasssssssss mmmaaaiii queeeeennnn

imagine how it's going to be in the general

Imagine the outrage when Trump starts saying nasty things about her

Luckily they've already got experience dealing with white supremacists

[Purrp Skirrp]

3rd grade on the cusp of Y2K, I cleared $20 in quarters running something similar. My best friend and I led it, recruiting other friends as goons. Sold stolen cards at insane markups and convinced kids that Japanese circle cards were worth paying top dollar for. Was a scumbag and personally sifted through cubbies if a backpack stash was found out. Pokemon was banned later that year, the GameBoy games and cards.

For some context this was WWF Attitude era; I wore Stone Cold tshirts and had a pair of orange cargo convertible zip off pants. When middle school began, in a post 9/11 world, liking Pokemon meant you were a taco.

[El Babua]

The Pokemon card crash in middle school was something to behold.

Being able to get a mint Charizard for $10 after it was like $50

[thisismyusername]

When middle school began, in a post 9/11 world, liking Pokemon meant you were a taco.

I continued to play the digital card game Gameboy version post-9/11.

Fuck it, all the signs were there like Andy. Just not so much with Nintendo. :'(

[thisismyusername]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=196992101&postcount=15



(Not really a troll, but still that image applies)

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1191506

"Playstation Vita TV is dead. Rip in discontinuation."

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3rd grade on the cusp of Y2K, I cleared $20 in quarters running something similar. My best friend and I led it, recruiting other friends as goons. Sold stolen cards at insane markups and convinced kids that Japanese circle cards were worth paying top dollar for. Was a scumbag and personally sifted through cubbies if a backpack stash was found out. Pokemon was banned later that year, the GameBoy games and cards.

For some context this was WWF Attitude era; I wore Stone Cold tshirts and had a pair of orange cargo convertible zip off pants. When middle school began, in a post 9/11 world, liking Pokemon meant you were a taco.

I was in 7th grade when Pokemon took off and got the game and watched the cartoon right when they launched. By the time HS rolled around (mid 2000) Pokemon was completely dead in my circle. No one wanted to be caught dead playing it. Then when Ruby and that other one came out some of the kids were playing it during lunch and breakfast and I'm sorry but teen me couldn't NOT judge them for playing Pokemon in post 9/11 world.

Fast forward to me picking up Pokemon x and it being one of the few recent single player games I like with all of that teenage angst gone. I'm not ashamed to say I love Pokemon as an adult. It's interesting how my relationship with changed over time and it truly shows Pokemon never changed but we definitely change as people to maybe get to a point where we can appreciate it again.

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When middle school began, in a post 9/11 world, liking Pokemon meant you were a taco.

I continued to play the digital card game Gameboy version post-9/11.

Fuck it, all the signs were there like Andy. Just not so much with Nintendo. :'(

You knew how to PLAY the card game? No one I knew really did.

[zomgee]

Did All Pokemon have an expiration date of 9/11?

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To be honest as an adult the only things worth getting Pokemon-wise are the games.

[thisismyusername]

When middle school began, in a post 9/11 world, liking Pokemon meant you were a taco.

I continued to play the digital card game Gameboy version post-9/11.

Fuck it, all the signs were there like Andy. Just not so much with Nintendo. :'(

You knew how to PLAY the card game? No one I knew really did.

The card game is actually how I got into Pokemon in middle-school. Someone gave me a Charmander card randomly and I'm like "that's kinda neat" and then someone sold me their Gameboy with Pokemon Red and a few other titles like Star Wars and I mostly dumped hours into Pokemon Red. That Gameboy got stolen (like everyone elses at the time during that craze) and I got a new one from my parents with Yellow and they bought me Silver (which got stolen with Red) and Crystal.

But yeah, during that time I got into the card game. Wizard's era. I didn't buy too many cards, but knew how to play it. Still probably do but the power creep/changes in the post-Wizards/Nintendo taking over probably would confuse me a little. Pokemon: TCG is actually what got me into Magic because some kids were stealing boosters from the old Top Deck at the bookstore that hosted Pokemon events and I did the same a little ( ) and learned Magic. Then Magic got me into other card games as well.

I  bought an old Gameboy Advance (the "sidetalking" ones) and never got around to getting R/S/E until like the DS launched so like shortly after high-school. Picked up Emerald, did Diamond, got Black Version 1 and 2 and haven't bought another Pokemon title. Though Sun/Moon being able to get Gen 1/Virtual Console Pokemon transfers is making me consider finishing Black 2, get Y, blow through Y, transfer Black 2->Y->Moon version and rebuy R/Y to Mew glitch to Moon. :'(

(Edit: Which reminds me. I was pissed TCG2 for Gameboy never came state-side. The Team Rocket expansion was pretty rad at the time)

[Mr. Nobody]

Can't say I like the games anymore. Even tried replaying the classics on my phone and meh. Not my thing anymore and hasn't been in a while. Not that I hate, just one of the few things a man hold like me grew out of.

They're too damn easy. I tried to play X and quit when I realize I could plow through an entire gym with a single pokemon.

[thisismyusername]

Can't say I like the games anymore. Even tried replaying the classics on my phone and meh. Not my thing anymore and hasn't been in a while. Not that I hate, just one of the few things a man hold like me grew out of.

They're too damn easy. I tried to play X and quit when I realize I could plow through an entire gym with a single pokemon.

That's mostly because the STAB (IT'S SUPER EFFECTIVE!) and EV/IV systems kinda ruined the game but mostly STAB. Single Type Attack Bonus on the same type of Pokemon and grinding solo levels with them meant you could boost 1.5x attacks, take more damage, and not have to worry about type effectiveness (IT'S SUPER EFFECTIVE!) in single-player.

Though I think Diamond is the first one to stop me cold with the last gym against a Fire Starter.

And B/W 1/2 had an Easy/Hard mode you could trade between the two. But only once you completed the game which kinda is a fucked up Gamefreak thing to do. Apparently Hard Mode was worthwhile, but I wouldn't ever know. Gamefreak dropped that for X/Y and I don't think it's coming back for Sun/Moon.

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Can't say I like the games anymore. Even tried replaying the classics on my phone and meh. Not my thing anymore and hasn't been in a while. Not that I hate, just one of the few things a man hold like me grew out of.

They're too damn easy. I tried to play X and quit when I realize I could plow through an entire gym with a single pokemon.

Depends on the gym and the party. Honestly, I just run with my party as is instead of working around strengths/weaknesses. Makes the game more fun that way. Bringing grass pokemon to a fire gym? don't give a fuck, let's do this. trust me when i say this makes the game fun increase ten fold.

also, a large part of the appeal is capturing monsters and I'm not going to say all of the game is a cakewalk. Had to retreat from a gym to heal at the center more than a few times with my play style, and not giving a fuck about types puts me in a bad position depending on the dungeon.

If you concentrate more on the capturing and training element more than on innate difficulty, things are more fun. limiting yourself to create your own type of trainer adventure makes it fun too. I only roll with ghost and dark types, emolga aside. Have a theme and have fun with it. I guarantee it'll be harder.

[zepblackstar]

Daddy issues on Gaf

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1191518

[zepblackstar]

Pokemon was serious in the sense that we were addicted to getting every mother fucking pokemon and finding any mother fucker to trade to get a complete 'dex.

Pokemon was serious in that we'd spend hours fishing up missingno's and duping rare candy and min/maxing the post-game content to glorious splendor.

But Pokemon wasn't serious in the sense that we'd form cliques of Red vs Blue or hold off on trading with others or people with large dexes being literally the top of the social order.

I know younger relatives would tell me stories of fights over pokemon cards in school but never a gang war that sounds made up.

Now Magic cards... That some serious shit.

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Pokemon was serious in the sense that we were addicted to getting every mother fucking pokemon and finding any mother fucker to trade to get a complete 'dex.

Pokemon was serious in that we'd spend hours fishing up missingno's and duping rare candy and min/maxing the post-game content to glorious splendor.

But Pokemon wasn't serious in the sense that we'd form cliques of Red vs Blue or hold off on trading with others or people with large dexes being literally the top of the social order.

I know younger relatives would tell me stories of fights over pokemon cards in school but never a gang war that sounds made up.

Now Magic cards... That some serious shit.

the pokemon card shit i believe.

but forming cliques around the game?

never got into magic 

[thisismyusername]

never got into magic 

You should. It's actually really good. But it's gotten to Marvel vs Capcom 2 levels of stupid with infinite combos and the like.

[zomgee]

Daddy issues on Gaf

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1191518

It just opens the floodgates to "Oh you think YOU had it bad?"

[archie4208]

Sun > Moon

[meeb]

never got into magic 

You should. It's actually really good. But it's gotten to Marvel vs Capcom 2 levels of stupid with infinite combos and the like.

I find Magic to be really slow and boring.

[brawndolicious]

Pokemon was serious in the sense that we were addicted to getting every mother fucking pokemon and finding any mother fucker to trade to get a complete 'dex.

Pokemon was serious in that we'd spend hours fishing up missingno's and duping rare candy and min/maxing the post-game content to glorious splendor.

But Pokemon wasn't serious in the sense that we'd form cliques of Red vs Blue or hold off on trading with others or people with large dexes being literally the top of the social order.

The card game opened up some bullshit since they had resale value so that opened up some bs with kids stealing cards. It's not like anyone ever actually built a deck with a decent number of energy cards or anything, it was just collecting for trophy reasons.

But the pokemon video games were like the Minecraft of our time. Good, clean, social fun for everyone. Probably will be some internet people 20 years from now getting upset over how "serious" Minecraft cliques were.

[Phoenix Dark]

In other news:

With the end of black history month coming up, someone should make a thread about this over on GAF...

http://instinctmagazine.com/post/gay-bisexual-black-and-hispanic-people-will-continue-bear-brunt-hiv-epidemic

I'd love to see how the BCT and Gay thread would slam into each other. Especially if someone brought up how a few GAF members have done risky sex in the past.

refuse to wear condoms because it "feels better" brehs

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Sun > Moon

Moon > sun

[Phoenix Dark]

Sun > Moon

Moon > sun

Mars>Moon

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My anime representation

[Jansen]

Daddy issues on Gaf

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1191518

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=197002858&postcount=113

Group therapy taught me that basically everyone's dad is either an emotionally remote weirdo or flat-out abusive. Dads can fuck off.

lol i'm not sure if i have ever seen a post from this user that isn't a troll

[Jansen]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=197003645&postcount=118

My father used to never tell me that
He's been doing it more these days since he's getting older but it annoys me
I don't want to hear "i love you" from my parents and certainly not from my father, I wish he would stop. Words mean next to nothing compared to actions, and telling something like "I love you" to anyone but your partner sounds weak to me. Like admitting that one's actions weren't enough to show it. It's on the same level as saying sorry as if it was enough to undo mistakes.

However my own behavior toward these things worries me regarding how I might act like if I raise a child...

I see, didn't see it that way
That's still not how I feel about it though
I mean, I do love my parents, but verbalization sounds like either a way to try to compensate for fucking up actions, or a way to verbalize one's feelings when even actions aren't powerful enough to convey them - but that's absolutely not how I feel about my parents and I can't see why they should feel that way either
They are just family, they're going to die before I do anyway and what I do doesn't make their quality of life better, so what's the point?

 

[octopushover]

tabris is a canadian who doesn't understand how canadian politics work and he's going off about american politics as if he has a clue

how is he not banned

[benjipwns]

None of the mods can climb up all the stairs in his thousand story high-rise to do it.

[octopushover]

oh my god where is neogafshitposts when you need him

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=197034395&postcount=382

why doesn't he just jerk off into his own mouth already

[FStop7]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1191644

burn the witch

[mormapope]

While Gaffers will overreact, the OP made a dumb decision to buy Bloodborne blind. If you have a neogaf account and posted long enough to get tagged, you should know from osmosis what the Souls games are. PSN and XBL should have a refund system like Steam's in place for scenarios like this.

[mormapope]

oh my god where is neogafshitposts when you need him

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=197034395&postcount=382

why doesn't he just jerk off into his own mouth already

 

You're getting trolled hard, and its not like he's saying something controversial.

[meeb]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=197003645&postcount=118

My father used to never tell me that
He's been doing it more these days since he's getting older but it annoys me
I don't want to hear "i love you" from my parents and certainly not from my father, I wish he would stop. Words mean next to nothing compared to actions, and telling something like "I love you" to anyone but your partner sounds weak to me. Like admitting that one's actions weren't enough to show it. It's on the same level as saying sorry as if it was enough to undo mistakes.

However my own behavior toward these things worries me regarding how I might act like if I raise a child...

I see, didn't see it that way
That's still not how I feel about it though
I mean, I do love my parents, but verbalization sounds like either a way to try to compensate for fucking up actions, or a way to verbalize one's feelings when even actions aren't powerful enough to convey them - but that's absolutely not how I feel about my parents and I can't see why they should feel that way either
They are just family, they're going to die before I do anyway and what I do doesn't make their quality of life better, so what's the point?

 

I simply couldn't handle that. I wouldn't wish an autistic child on anyone.

[archie4208]

Sun > Moon

Moon > sun

Mars>Moon

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Mercury was the best sailor scout. 

[thisismyusername]

I find Magic to be really slow and boring.

It's not, especially now a days where someone can win by turn 3 if they have the proper cards/draws.

oh my god where is neogafshitposts when you need him

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=197034395&postcount=382

why doesn't he just jerk off into his own mouth already

He's not necessarily wrong, though. Corporate Lobbies have fucked over democracy along with a few older systems.

[FStop7]

He's not wrong but his insufferable 80s power tie shtick makes everything he writes the visual equivalent of fingernails on a chalkboard.

[toku]

Sun > Moon

Moon > sun

Mars>Moon

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Mercury was the best sailor scout. 

This is the safe alt answer. The true answer, is Sailor Neptune.

[benjipwns]

Personally, I enjoy him in the same way I enjoy Foffy and HUELEN.

And zuhzuhzombie before Kara had to go and leave nothing to even identify the body with.

[meeb]

Personally, I enjoy him in the same way I enjoy Foffy and HUELEN.

And zuhzuhzombie before Kara had to go and leave nothing to even identify the body with.

Foffy's not a troll though. He's genuine.

[Am_I_Anonymous]

The Pokemon card crash in middle school was something to behold.

Being able to get a mint Charizard for $10 after it was like $50

[FStop7]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=197100757&postcount=92

[octopushover]

expected shaun king's article about chris rock's oscar speech to be trending on gaf this morning

[thisismyusername]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=196992101&postcount=15

(Image removed from quote.)

(Not really a troll, but still that image applies)

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1191506

"Playstation Vita TV is dead. Rip in discontinuation."

UPDATE:

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1191919

"PSTV/VitaTV to be discontinued worldwide"





Over/Under the Handheld soon following?

[king of the internet]

I doubt they still make Vitas. What would be the point? 

[Jansen]

it still sells well enough in japan but in the west i can see sony dropping it soon.

[Jansen]

  CENSORSHIP!!1!

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1191976

[Trent Dole]

People should just expect anything Nintendo published to have some 'alterations' at this point and act accordingly. I understand why they do some of these tweaks but still think it kind of sucks. Outfit changes are meh, the major story/character alterations are where everyone should be fuming but the goobergrape kids have been so goddamn insufferable that most people don't want to be seen as remotely siding with them on anything so this other stuff ultimately gets a pass. Honestly I figured out folks who are old enough to buy their own games aren't Nintendo's audience during the Wii days, this fact dawning on others just makes it seem as though they are a special breed of slowpoke.

[Jansen]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=197139208&postcount=180

I refuse to buy a game that has even a tinge of unnecessary censorship or content stripping. Support it when its done a small scale, and it will only get worse as time progresses.

   
       
       
       
   

[zomgee]

[Jansen]

   

That seems odd. SE doesn't have a recent history of """localization""" like Nintendo does.

I feel like the worst thing about this is I legitimately think these quest ending changes are bad and it really sucks being ideologically close to people who make posts like this.

"People who make posts like this" have been warning about publishers taking liberties like these for ages while people like you were applauding them altering products in asinine ways when it fit their opinions and it was still easy to dismiss people because "lol slippery slope." Enjoy your """""localisation."""""

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=197137921#post197137921
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=197138495&postcount=161
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=197139484&postcount=193

i appreciate seeing anyone giving alberto shit

[meeb]

How come I never see these people bitching about how Anne Frank's diary was censored so that we could never read about her fingering herself.