Pokémon (Not-So) Griefing Thread - Scarlet and Violet Released with 10 Million Copies in First 3 Days in Buggy States

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Scalpers by definition exacerbate the problem of supply and demand, try harder.

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Supply and demand are not problems, they are facts
It's like saying that gravity is a problem

I mentioned three criteria that need to be there in order for scalping to be possible in the first place: Limited supply, a listed price, a listed price lower than the market-clearing price.
If the supply of pokemon cards is unlimited, and a high demand can be offset by making more of them, scalping can't happen.
If there is no listed price on the pokemon card packs and people are free to buy and sell them via negotiating, with no "reference" price, like stocks, then scalping can't happen.
If the listed price for pokemon card packs were super high, such as $1000 for a pack, which is presumably higher than the market clearing price, scalping can't happen.

In other words, an excess demand meets a limited supply. The problem is thus rationing.
How do you ration? Either you use monetary methods or nonmonetary methods, like first come first serve, or discrimination, or political favors, or nepotism, or similar things.

 

[anliteralidiot]

I LIKE LAPRAS BECAUSE IT LOOKS LIKE THE LOCH NESS MONSTER

 

[The Fatriarchy]

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Supply and demand are not problems, they are facts
It's like saying that gravity is a problem

I mentioned three criteria that need to be there in order for scalping to be possible in the first place: Limited supply, a listed price, a listed price lower than the market-clearing price.
If the supply of pokemon cards is unlimited, and a high demand can be offset by making more of them, scalping can't happen.
If there is no listed price on the pokemon card packs and people are free to buy and sell them via negotiating, with no "reference" price, like stocks, then scalping can't happen.
If the listed price for pokemon card packs were super high, such as $1000 for a pack, which is presumably higher than the market clearing price, scalping can't happen.

In other words, an excess demand meets a limited supply. The problem is thus rationing.
How do you ration? Either you use monetary methods or nonmonetary methods, like first come first serve, or discrimination, or political favors, or nepotism, or similar things.

You're right, there should just be infinite of everything so the scalpers can't spend tens of thousands of dollars buying out everything that was meant for normal humans to buy a few dollars at a time, or little cardboard things for children should cost an exorbitant amount of money for no reason other than retards intentionally buy everything out to make sure they're reasonably the only ones to ever have the somewhat rarer cards, thus ensuring nobody buys any at all.

You stupid fucking fantasy land retard.

 

[Punished Brent]

Who gives a shit about cards perceived value? Its probably less valuable than chris's autistic type pokemon card
All card games are going digital slowly and if a couple of neckbeards reselling your product can destroy it then it wasn't in a good place to begin with.
It's all turned to shit lately anyways

 

[Registration]

After months if really starting the game. I finally finished playing the hack Black Pearl Emerald. This game is basically the base emerald with improvements and a little bit of fan service. There is the option to use rare candies to not farm at all and that is nice and all but all fights are way harder and you can heal anywhere so the battles can get quite juicy and hard. All the fights were changed since it includes lots of pokemon from gen 1-9. All gym leaders and E4 were changed too and types too.

As you can see my team was extremely unbalanced. My only special attacker was Volcarona that saved my ass multiple times. My starter was the paldean wooper since I always wanted to use this fella. He saved my ass with quick claw quite a lot even when he wasn't strong at all.

After playing bits here and there, today I finished the 8 gym and decided to go to the victory road.

All trainers were basically the 6 full party and leveled rivals, boss members and known characters from other games, so the fights were quite hard and you have to use the auto heal after the battles. And since all of them are over leveled every fight was a trade of OHKO. Man I fucking hate this, and yeah, no battle items used, you cant use potions so speedy pokemon and priority moves are a godsend. At least you have way more held items than in normal game

The elite 4 were the devs themselves and were hard too. I defeated all the champion pokemon with 5 pokemon left, then he released this



A mega shiny Rayquaza that outpseed all my team. He defeated 4 of them until my Archeops got a chance to move only because he survived by focus sash.

One funny detail is that they changed the rival to be cynthia instead of ruby/sapphire and after beating them I went and fought against steven, but Volcarona is a god and could btfo him easily.

Not sure if if there is more to the postgame.

 

[Level99Manchild]

I LIKE LAPRAS BECAUSE IT LOOKS LIKE THE LOCH NESS MONSTER

I like Psyduck, Politoed, and Bidoof.

a youtuber named susu_jpg made a nifty video about Pokémon TCG scalpers

Not giving to give a commie e-thot who hid behind faggots/trannies for clout and fucked Hasan a minute of my time. Anything she says is null and void.

 

[Executive Petrel]

I like Psyduck, Politoed, and Bidoof.

Psyduck has been used for horrifying experiments during the Pokémon war because he is a tard and doesn't fit the aryan ideals.
He needs all the support he can get.

 

[negativlad]

Was playing a bit of the second GBC card game and thought “damn this seems really unfun and imbalanced to play in real life” and lo and behold there was a time where the PTCG was on the brink of total annihilation because games had devolved into one-turn hyper-aggro disruption fests that were literally determined by who went first. The gameboy game is still pretty fun though.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

I LIKE LAPRAS BECAUSE IT LOOKS LIKE THE LOCH NESS MONSTER

Oh cool, I thought I was the only one that thought this

Glad I'm not alone.

 

[Punished Brent]

poliwhirl the best pokemon

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

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It's like shitty updates, shitty events, and forcing content nobody likes to do will hurt your profits in the long run. Who knew?

Pandering to tranny faggots with the avatar update was such a bad idea.

Great news, I'm glad. That tranny update was horrific.

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poliwhirl the best pokemon

Haunter.

 

[Endless Torment]

Scalpers are a fucking plague and so are the investors who permanently remove large amounts of product out of circulation as they will gamble on boxes being valuable years/decades later. Pokemon TCG is unique as the amount of people that solely collect is such a magnitude higher than actual players. To actually play the game at the meta level is cheap due to collectors opening a large amount of product and selling everything that isn't a massive chase card. Pokemon TCG also avoids the trap of chase cards being meta defining cards because said chase cards are super extra rare alt arts and you can get the normal version from cheap. Pokemon doesn't need to short print or rely on scalpers which is why they are fine printing a fuckoton and the recent issue was definitively not planned.

Also I like Volcarona

 

[Friendly Primarina]

Not sure if this is fetishy or not, but I'm posting it anyway because I love this guy's animation so much

Bonus:

 

[Kerry]

Not sure if this is fetishy or not, but I'm posting it anyway because I love this guy's animation so much
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Bonus:
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There is a good chance he either a vore fetishist, or just a weird japanese person. Some of the furry vore art he made leaked some time ago, but its difficult to say if he made it because he is into it or it was just for a paycheck. Still, knowing this, it does make one wonder why he makes so many Tatsugiri getting eaten animations.

 

[Friendly Primarina]

Some of the furry vore art he made leaked some time ago,

What

 

[Kerry]

What

It wasn't very explicit, but clearly vore fetish art. I might still have the link saved somewhere, but you're gonna have to wait until i get home. It was an animation series of Floragato eating some furry OC if i remember correctly.

 

[Kerry]

What

This is the link that got shared either on his Youtube community posts or his Twitter posts. I don't remember which. I'm surprised the link is still up. Here's archive of the commissioned animations.
Now, my take on this is that i'm just gonna wait for more leaks to come out before i say anything. Since this is the first slightly NSFW content of his i've seen, there is a chance he isn't actually into this, but does it for a paycheck/thinks its funny.

 

[I_Lurk_Here]

Psyduck has been used for horrifying experiments during the Pokémon war because he is a tard and doesn't fit the aryan ideals.
He needs all the support he can get.

What

(Vores you)

 

[Archeops]

I'm still dealing with HOME's Sinnoh Pokédex, it's going smoothly (I've only done a small amount of Pokémon breeding for the Burmy and Shieldon lines) but I forgot that BDSP has the Milotic line in its Regional Dex with no way to get Milotic outside of cramming high-quality Beauty Poffins into a poor Feebas' throat while evolving it in SV requires trading it with a Prism Scale. Fucking hell.

I've seen 1 or 2 people bring plushies at meetups, but at least one of them dressed up as Ash to justify it (They weren't being weird about it at events). I'll be seeing that Gardevoir in June, that's for sure (I'll be at Go Fest, since I'm close to it).

I'll probably end up seeing a couple at this year's World Championships if I'm lucky enough to get a ticket, I might even book a stay at a nearby hotel for it.

Never buy those second hand.


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is already looking if they do shipping to Germany.

Thankfully they doesn't deliver to Germany. Japan's Pokémon Centers only ship to Japanese addresses and TPCi's Pokémon Center only ships to the US, Canada, and UK.

Ignoring that all of this is brought up in relation to pieces of cardboard aimed at teens that have no value other than as collector's items, your logic seems to be that scalping is good because someone offering a service to alleviate a problem they intentionally exacerbated can be construed, reductio ad absurdum, as part of the law of supply and demand.

That and it's a damn card game, we still have tournaments for it along with the two competitive Pokémon pillars (VGC and GO).

Scalpers are a fucking plague and so are the investors who permanently remove large amounts of product out of circulation as they will gamble on boxes being valuable years/decades later. Pokemon TCG is unique as the amount of people that solely collect is such a magnitude higher than actual players. To actually play the game at the meta level is cheap due to collectors opening a large amount of product and selling everything that isn't a massive chase card. Pokemon TCG also avoids the trap of chase cards being meta defining cards because said chase cards are super extra rare alt arts and you can get the normal version from cheap. Pokemon doesn't need to short print or rely on scalpers which is why they are fine printing a fuckoton and the recent issue was definitively not planned.

Also I like Volcarona
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Who gives a shit about cards perceived value? Its probably less valuable than chris's autistic type pokemon card
All card games are going digital slowly and if a couple of neckbeards reselling your product can destroy it then it wasn't in a good place to begin with.
It's all turned to shit lately anyways

The problem with the physical card game is that that it's a massive clusterfuck business-wise.

• TPCi can't keep up with the demand for physical cards even after buying out Millennium Print Group in 2022.
• TPCi has to print products in multiple languages, specifically in areas where they handle the organized play scene.
• TPCi altering the pull rates of certain cards mid-generation due to investors and value-based collectors complaining about how cheap said chase cards are in the secondary market.
• Distributors intentionally holding back product in order to sell them to retailers at a higher price.
• Retailers failing to adhere to any sort of product limit.
• Retailers not banning problem individuals (like the aforementioned scalpers and investors) from their stores.

Oh, and TPCi's digital version of the TCG is white-hot garbage due to it being developed in-house and on a shoestring budget.

EDIT: I accidentally left a response out.

There is a good chance he either a vore fetishist, or just a weird japanese person. Some of the furry vore art he made leaked some time ago, but its difficult to say if he made it because he is into it or it was just for a paycheck. Still, knowing this, it does make one wonder why he makes so many Tatsugiri getting eaten animations.

Tontaro's definitely a vore fetishist, he takes vore commissions on Twitter.

 

[Kerry]

Tontaro's definitely a vore fetishist, he takes vore commissions on Twitter.

What makes me think its just a weird japanese thing is the fact that he isn't really hiding it. There are multiple comments on his Twitter and Youtube accounts about it, but he never deletes those comments or asks people to not make them. I've seen him favorite a few on Youtube.