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New Post! Mar 19, 2008 @ 20:48:40#1
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My step son is getting into Pokemon. I gave in and played a game with him last night. It's actually quite good fun.

But it's a license to print money, I can tell you that. It's specifically engineered to ensure that you must buy thousands of cards in order to build a usable "deck". His dad's been doing it the hard way, and there was no way to build two proper decks out of what he had randomly collected.

I popped out to take a look, and found you can buy pre-built decks, so just bought us one each. Hopefully it'll keep him quiet for a while!




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New Post! Mar 19, 2008 @ 20:50:40#2
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i always wanted to collect pokemon cards:'( was never allowed




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New Post! Mar 19, 2008 @ 20:53:22#3
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i remember in school that was a massive craze

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New Post! Mar 19, 2008 @ 20:53:25#4
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I have hundreds of Pokémon cards

Well, had As far as I know they all got thrown out. I just kept the shiny ones. I'm not sad




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New Post! Mar 19, 2008 @ 20:54:44#5
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kullik101 said:
i always wanted to collect pokemon cards:'( was never allowed


Don't worry, you aren't missing much. And it's a more expensive habit than cocaine.

$4 for 10 cards.
You need 60 cards to make a deck
There are about 10 different types of energy that pokemon need to do things.
They each need different energy to attack/retreat.

You can see that this alone means that it's going to really expensive to build even a basic deck.

After that, it'll cost more and more to make your deck better, since the better cards are more rare so appear less often.

It's business genius, and I take my hat off to the inventor.



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New Post! Mar 19, 2008 @ 21:39:02#6
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I got a crap load in the attic cause they were awsome when i was little i probably got over 3k




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New Post! Mar 19, 2008 @ 21:42:38#7
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Wow pokemon's still going? Everyone used to go crazy for the shiny pokemon cards, if you had one of those at school you were royalty, how sad we all were




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New Post! Mar 19, 2008 @ 21:44:14#8
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now they got that yugiho cardgame




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New Post! Mar 19, 2008 @ 21:44:42#9
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Pokemon > Yugio




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New Post! Mar 19, 2008 @ 21:46:13#10
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yup its just a transitional phase for the new generation




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New Post! Mar 19, 2008 @ 21:47:23#11
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Is it sad that I still watch Pokemon sometimes




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New Post! Mar 19, 2008 @ 21:48:30#12
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Is yugioh not just animated top trumps




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New Post! Mar 19, 2008 @ 21:51:40#13
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i think there is some little animated system i dunno




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New Post! Mar 19, 2008 @ 21:51:44#14
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halloween said:
Is yugioh not just animated top trumps


Basically but then so is pokemon really.



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New Post! Mar 19, 2008 @ 21:52:56#15
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sorry i was a yu-gi-oh man myself
and i'm not ashamed....mostly




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