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[Shroob]

Poor little Timmy, all he wanted was the Shiny Charizard card for his birthday, but unfortunately Crusty Roland, the ogre looking manbaby, beat him to the punch by purchasing all 500 card packs at the local target.

Didn't Target and Wal Mart ban selling cards due to "bad behavior"?

 

[TheMightyP]

Didn't Target and Wal Mart ban selling cards due to "bad behavior"?

Target did, not sure about Walmart

 

[Pokelego999]

Didn't Target and Wal Mart ban selling cards due to "bad behavior"?

Yeah. Like now how the **** am I ever going to be able to buy cards?

 

[Shroob]

Yeah. Like now how the **** am I ever going to be able to buy cards?

Tcgplayer.com

 

[Roguewolf]

This is why children should travel in packs.

Reminds me about a month ago while I was at Taco Bell I saw a group of four kids no older than like 7-8 getting food from there on their own

Mmh yes I too rabidly endorse child gangs

they would be unstoppable

 

[Hadokeyblade]

Mmh yes I too rabidly endorse child gangs

they would be unstoppable

Just gave me the mental image of those old timey street gangs on snap their fingers in unison.

 

[SnakeFighter64]

Yeah. Like now how the **** am I ever going to be able to buy cards?

Thats' something I'm currently frustrated with. I really want those Looney Tunes LEGO Minifigures but I have to actually go to the store and feel inside the blind bags to make sure I don't get duplicated. Thank god for the unique head sculpts.

 

[TheMightyP]

This is why children should travel in packs.

Reminds me about a month ago while I was at Taco Bell I saw a group of four kids no older than like 7-8 getting food from there on their own

I think a better solution is to simply have an adult accompany them.

Like, they can give kids privacy, but keep an eye on them from afar in case something goes wrong.

 

[Shroob]

Thats' something I'm currently frustrated with. I really want those Looney Tunes LEGO Minifigures but I have to actually go to the store and feel inside the blind bags to make sure I don't get duplicated. Thank god for the unique head sculpts.

Blind bags

Another form of gacha

 

[Roguewolf]

Just gave me the mental image of those old timey street gangs on snap their fingers in unison.

I always get the image of them circling unknowing passers by like dolphins trapping them in a circle of tiny brutal fists
Then taking all their valubles and running into the night looking for their next victim

it’s a phobia of mine for sure

 

[Noipoi]

That’s why my kids will be raised without technology.

They’ll grow up in the woods, working the land and fighting off predators. Pooping in holes and having no idea what electricity is.

I’ll keep my tech of course. And when they ask about I’ll just say it’s witchcraft.

 

[Wademan94]

Mmh yes I too rabidly endorse child gangs

they would be unstoppable

Surprised you didn’t mention anything about Wolf packs considering your username

 

[Shroob]

That’s why my kids will be raised without technology.

They’ll grow up one the woods, working the land and fighting off predators. Pooping in holes and having no idea what electricity is.

I’ll keep my tech of course. And when they ask about I’ll just say it’s witchcraft.

Been spendin' most our lives

Livin' in an Amish paradise

 

[duxx]

Mmh yes I too rabidly endorse child gangs

they would be unstoppable

imagine getting shivved by a group of ****ing four year olds. that has to be the most embarrassing way to die

 

[Roguewolf]

That’s why my kids will be raised without technology.

They’ll grow up one the woods, working the land and fighting off predators. Pooping in holes and having no idea what electricity is.

I’ll keep my tech of course. And when they ask about I’ll just say it’s witchcraft.

Your just playing smash bros and your kids are like daddy whats that that looks fun

“no kids let daddy handle the Satan screen you go back and cut some more trees for charachter”

 

[Wademan94]

Thats' something I'm currently frustrated with. I really want those Looney Tunes LEGO Minifigures but I have to actually go to the store and feel inside the blind bags to make sure I don't get duplicated. Thank god for the unique head sculpts.

Wait, this is news to me.

EDIT: HOLY **** they look so good!!!

 

[duxx]

Satan screen

parents when pokemon shows on the tv

 

[Wademan94]

Oh my ****ing god, Daffy has a Rabbit Season sign, I had that exactly in mind for my LEGO Dimensions ideas for him!

 

[TheMightyP]

When my girl gives birth, I'm throwing the kid out of the hospital. They're gonna have to live on their own from there on out, learning a valuable lesson of survival of the fittest from birth do the day they die. No help at all, it either do or die form them.

 

[Noipoi]

Kids these days are spoiled. Don’t even have to fight their siblings to the death for scraps of food.

In the womb.

 

[Roguewolf]

When my girl gives birth, I'm throwing the kid out of the hospital. They're gonna have to live on their own from there on out, learning a valuable lesson of survival of the fittest from birth do the day they die. No help at all, it either do or die form them.

Just make sure you know what floor of the hospital your on when you throw them out

 

[Wademan94]

Kids these days are spoiled. Don’t even have to fight their siblings to the death for scraps of food.

In the womb.

That’s sharks, Noi.

 

[duxx]

Just make sure you know what floor of the hospital their on when you throw them out

the higher the better

 

[Noipoi]

That’s sharks, Noi.

Gawr Gura canonically wripped her brothers and sisters to shreds in her mother’s womb.

 

[TheMightyP]

Kid these days don't know how to live. They're ruined by technology, their whole lives are technology.

Back in my day, whenever I wasn't playing video games with friends, all I did was play my Nintendo Wii until it was bed time.

 

[Wademan94]

the higher the better

I hope to every god in the known universe that you don’t have kids

 

[Roguewolf]

That’s sharks, Noi.

Nois a shark confirmed repeat noi is a god dammed shark confirmed

 

[TheMightyP]

I hope to every god in the known universe that you don’t have kids

If they die then they clearly weren't fit for this world

 

[Shroob]

Kid these days don't know how to live. They're ruined by technology, their whole lives are technology.

Back in my day, whenever I wasn't playing video games with friends, all I did was play my Nintendo Wii until it was bed time.

Silence
Zoomer

 

[Schnee117]

Who told the guys making Radical Red that Galarian Ponyta was Psychic/Fire?

I haven't even played SS and I know that thing ain't part fire.

Radical Red alters some Pokemon types among several other things.
Meganium also has a fairy typing and Luxray gains a Dark type for example.

 

[Shroob]

Gee, sometimes I wonder what started this whole lootbox stuff



Oh wait

Yes I know it was like Runescape or something, hush

 

[TheMightyP]

Silence
Zoomer

Don't you have another industry to kill, Millenial?

 

[Noipoi]

I hope to every god in the known universe that you don’t have kids

If you yeet em from high enough they’ll learn to fly. That’s science.

 

[SnakeFighter64]

Wait, this is news to me.

EDIT: HOLY **** they look so good!!!

YUP! I love these even though I don't own them. Undoubtedly a holdover from Dimension's unproduced year 3. Really want to buy them. I'd buy digitally if I weren't undoubtedly gonna waste my money on duplicates.

 

[Wademan94]

Right i forgot how many maniacs populate this thread

 

[Noipoi]

Right i forgot how many maniacs populate this thread

I’m only a maniac for show

 

[Wademan94]

YUP! I love these even though I don't own them. Undoubtedly a holdover from Dimension's unproduced year 3. Really want to buy them. I'd buy digitally if I weren't undoubtedly gonna waste my money on duplicates.

Goddammit these are so good. I wish we could’ve seen this in Dimensions. I’mma need to pull up my ideas again.

 

[TheMightyP]

I’m only a maniac for show

I'm wanted in 5 states for vehicular homicide.

 

[Noipoi]

I'm wanted in 5 states for vehicular homicide.

We do a little trolling.

 

[MooMew64]

It's called advertising. Manupilative marketing. Shiny things. The same things that get people addicted to gambling at casinos, which is why I use the metaphor. Like yeah, they aren't holding a gun to your head or anything but these games are designed to get vulnerable people hooked and pumping all their cash into a large corporation's pockets. They know these kinds of people exist and are actively targeting them. And you're gonna say it's their fault that they were manipulated into throwing away all their cash by friggin King? And it's not like the games industry was stagnant before micro transactions were invented. Heck, DLC is still a perfectly fine way to monetize extra content.

Bottom line is, if you fall victim to a company actively targeting people who have problems with impulsivity and gambling addiction prone behaviors (things people see therapy for because they are legitimate mental conditions and not people being irresponsible or stupid. I TAKE MEDICATION FOR IT!), and loose all of your money to them it is their fault for doing the targeting. Just because some people aren't effected by it doesn't mean we shouldn't protect those that do. And here's the thing. If the majority of people were able to control themselves and their money then IT WOULDN'T BE PROFITABLE AND THEY WOULD STOP DOING IT!

God, I can't believe I'm actually here arguing that micro transactions are bad. What's next, am I gonna have to prove the nazi's were bad too? Oh wait....

Not at all what I said, and hyperbolic comparison to nazis is waaaay over the top, but alrighty then.

Last thing I'm sayin' on this topic (because I can already see where this is headed) is this: I'm not defending those who abuse this system. What I am saying, is not every usage of it is some evil plot. MTs aren't some inherent evil.

Games that encourage pay to win mechanics or substantial content through a blind box system (especially if said games has a PVP community) is inherently not a good practice IMO. HOWEVER, is selling some cosmetics, or selling content through regular seasonal passes bad? No. Not at all, in my opinion: In fact, it's a system I wish was adopted more, because when done right, it has more inherent value compared to traditional MTs and helps lengthen a game's life. Cosmetics should be the only kinds of things locked behind a MT system, while important things like gameplay changes should, at most, be behind a DLC expansion.

Either way, one thing that's different between the games of yesteryear and today: Is that they last a heck of a lot longer with their content. Games can't survive on one and done purchases anymore: They're expensive to make, servers are expensive to keep up, and constant maintenance and future development add on top of that.

If you want more of a thing, you gotta spend money on the thing.

As for those who companies prey upon? No, I'm not victim blaming: That's an entirely different set of circumstances, that yes, should have something done about. However, I'm not qualified to say what that resolution is. I think there's a much, much better one than tying government restrictions onto it, because as soon as you let that happen, hoooooo boy, it ain't gonna stop there.