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these are the real shadow games. the marik strategy. you don't have to be good at the game you just have to be more resilient as you overwhelm your opponent physically and spiritually. except instead of pain-based torture it's odour-based
''i just gave up, i wanted out of there''', had me laughing my head off, but real story i've experienced this before, we all came together as a locals and talked to store owner about the odder, he ended up being told to leave as it was that bad
54:50 Magic player here regarding the “new mascot”: Yes we have concerns and it’s as you say, he was designed to fill the Pikachu mascot role to attract zoomers to a game whose average player is in their mid-30s. But the thing about Loot is that it’s indicative of a larger trend in Magic right now, you might call it the Marvelisation of Magic. The game was always known for its dark serious themes and some storylines from the past have even unsettled me deeply. We love those stories but in the last few years, the stories have become noticeably sanitised with no stakes and a complete lack of character consistency from set to set. I have examples but it will be too long if I explain them all. The TLDR is that it’s clear WotC and Hasbro have been busy transforming the games lore into potential plushie advertisements instead of getting their act together regarding the narrative quality. To Yugioh players it might seem strange because Yugioh is full of cute mascots that seem at odds with the giant robots and dragons in your game but Magic has always had a strong narrative component and we can feel the decline in quality in our hearts
Being unhygenic is rude. Just like talking loudly on the phone is rude. Just like taking unsolicited pictures or staring is rude. Just like touching someone without permission is rude. We have let this become a problem.
I remember i went to a new place to play and i dueled a guy who was so stinky that his cards even stank. I wanted to trade for his gold rare Mourner and the card smelled like old nickels and ass.
About the Cinna story: even though she herself doesn’t play Yugioh she used to stream and play games a lot with DotoDoya, Seereax and Rhymestyle who are Yugioh players themselves. So because she has that association that’s probably why they sent her that box. Which holy shit, if I got my hands on a box of Bandai Yugioh cards those things would be in like a vault or super sturdy safe
Realm of Light was my first structure deck, I was too young when the original classics came out so Minerva and Michael were the first monsters I saw that I bought with my own money
Yeah so my whole life I always thought the whole gamer guy = smelly was just a myth until I actually experienced it myself and it changed my life forever. 2016. Pokémon Day. Went to a Gamestop to get whatever it was they were giving out. I was in line that was going slowly and I was behind a big guy. (No hate, I'm big too) This guy.. man let me tell you.. This guy was covered in sweat! He was wearing a gray shirt, half his shirt was just sweat stain. He had a giant Five Guys soda cup that he was drinking and his neck was the worst part! Dude was latino, same as me, so think of slightly tan skin. The back of his neck was literally black, fucking onyx obsidian black, like he hadn't showered in god knows how long. I was behind this guy for like 10 minutes and my eyes and nose were crying. That experience pretty much traumatized me and like I said, I'm a big guy too so ever since then I make sure that I leave the house smelling like flowers. Lotion everywhere, yes EVERYWHERE. I even got so worried about how I would smell that I would ask my female coworkers that I was super cool with if I smelled at work and they were like "no, why are you so worried ? Lol" It sucks cause I love anime and would love to go to a con but I'm scared it might stink so bad that I can't handle it.
Tournaments and conventions can be PUTRID sometimes. I'd say things have gotten a little better in recent years since there's more of a stigma around showing up smelling bad, but there's still a lot of work to be done.
@@apsamplifier Only takes one particularly nasty individual to ruin an entire area. There was an entire family like that in the supermarket once, and you could smell them throughout the entire aisle even though they left the aisle a full minute prior.
@@apsamplifier I thought stores were able to kick people for smelling like that these days, i know my locals will. if you go to a public event, every effort should be made to make sure you are at the absolute least, not smelling like problems, because nobody should have to leave a venue for not withstanding your odor.
Developers nowadays are not making the games that they want to play. They're making the games they're being forced to make by shareholders. That's why we rarely see good games now, we just get milked like cows
Just a quick FYI, Jumpstart boosters are half a deck worth of an archetype you combine with another pack to make a single playable deck! No draft involved aside from deciding which halves to use
I'm lucky that my locals has not stinky yugioh players. Unfortunately our free play night is at the same time as a magic tournament which almost made me leave with how bad it smelled the first time I went
I haven't been to too many locals but usually none of them smell bad, there's been some loud people who I wished would shut up and others blatantly vaping near the shop though
People priorities always amaze me. How do you go outside without washing your ass. It honestly makes me mad when i know i stink literally ruins my whole day. I remember rushing for work a few times and completely forgetting to put deodorant on. And having to buy some on the fly.
Paper Mario thousand year door physically on GameCube is around 100 dollars physical in the secondary market. I think a lot of people that actually want to have a physical version of that game would spend 60 compared to 100+ on the secondary market
Regarding games requiring internet to install them even from a physical disk: I remember when this started being a thing with the PS4. You'd put the disk in to install a game and it'd try to download the whole game from the internet, instead of just the updates to it. If you knew to turn off the console's internet ahead of putting the disk in, it would install the base game from the disk, making the process much faster overall. Are they seriously gonna start having the game not be on the disk at all now??
Realm of light reprint is kind of cool, though I really wonder why there never was a new random Lightsworn monster every now and then, considering how popular the archetype was and still is
All I have to say. YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE. A lot of yugioh players have bad hygiene cause they spend money on cards and not self care. Konami wants to ban people for dumb stuff. BAN THE STINKY
Oh man I remember being 13 and not knowing about the smell in my pits. Almost 20 years ago, the kid next to me told me hey, you're armpits smell. This was just after gym, too. Other kids at the table told him not to embarrass me and ganged up on him. I was super embarrassed but next day thanked him.
Someone made a funny comment about the Neuron app news about how now people are force to get smart phones when you can get a cheap android phone that's way cheaper than the deck you're using now
Maybe a topic for next week, or perhaps a separate video entirely but they just revealed the Cyber Dragon decklist for the tactical trial deck in the OCG, and it's very playable out of the box. 1100 yen which is about 7 USD, and comes with multiples of staples like having 2x Ash Blossom and Maxx C, a main deck Droplet, Imperm, Triple Tac and Thrust. Smashing 2 of them together would basically make a competent, tournament ready Cyber Dragon deck and I am excited to see the other decklists. This is the kind of product I'd love to see in all card games, where you can get something viable out of the box for a very reasonable price.
I have a very old unused OTS sticker sign from the GX era. This wouldve been seen on card shop stores around 2007. Its Jaden with the "Yugioh GX cards sold Here!" Ad. Let me know if interested
I personally don’t like the mindset of judging a game on the price and the length of the game. I rather play a short really good game and pay full price than pay for a game that is overly long and boring gameplay/story for the full price.
@@JayceCH. usually walking sims are a lot more interesting to me compared to the repetition of most open world/grind fest games. It really depends on your style of games. I like more narrative drawn games compared to games like Fortnite where it’s just an online match making game.
I think the main problem with Loot is that it's an ongoing problem of Magic going from a competitive card game and the recent overflow of just MtG making products just to make money and Loot is just a confirmation of problems that already exist. If things weren't so heavy handed in their like, greed, Loot would be fine. But everything lately has just been so forced that it's getting.. We're just really wary of every new push they make in this direction.
yes, its a social gathering, but for some to most yugioh players, by the way I have experienced, the one locals day is the only day they mingle with people, outside of work and school. many players have an outcast ostracized syndrome of social awkwardness...they are rude, first of all, which wouldn't pass in the real world....and simply lack assessment of surrrounding social queues....I have multiple decks, but I purchase cards solely for my own pleasure....i stopped attending local events in general, I found most people playing this game very distasteful.
I'm planning on moving to Japan in around a year for college and this is upsetting they have nasty smelling players over there too. At one of the locals near me there is a guy literally nicknamed 'Stanky' by the whole cardshop populace so I'm sure it can't get much worse than that though; that dude smelled like 9,000 B.C. mummified fish.
I found my local card shop. I didn't want to play because everyone playing stunk. Like the closer you got to the tables the stronger the funk got. ican only imagine sitting down.
And here i am sitting and looking at my Upper deck entertainment ID... this isn't the first change and won't be the last lol. Wonder how long neuron will last
I think the stink situation boils down to the type of player card games attract in general. Theres nothing we can do about it unless strict rules are enforced.
Regarding getting big video games cheaply AND legally: I started borrowing them from libraries. You'd be surprised the selection that some library networks have. You don't own the game of course, but depending on the game it doesn't really matter that you have to bring it back (and you can always borrow it again at a later date, if you want)
What do you guys think about a new game mechanic that I think would be cool where you have an "extra main deck". Basically 3-5 cards face down in a new zone that are main deck cards that can only be used when added from deck to hand except drawing, special summoned from deck or set from the deck. It'd add so much to deck building, help decks that need a lot of bricks to play be usable and it's not a complicated concept to add to the game.
Magic doesn't have a truly recognizable mascot. Jace and Chandra are the most popular characters and they're used in marketing a lot, but Magic has always had recognizability problems, and it doesn't help that the story moves along and may change or kill characters. That said, the controversy around Loot is complete and utter nonsense (which is sadly half of Magic discourse). It's a new character in the story that happens to be a cute creature. There's no marketing push. Players just really hate some aspects of the game and/or Wizards (which is fine) but they like to rationalize it into really dumb stuff.
Something I will add to this is that Magic is EXTREMELY receptive of players' opinions. We don't get stuff pushed to us, we get stuff that we've indicated we like. Favorite characters and cards are referenced or get new versions everytime there's a revisit. Jace and Chandra weren't made to be popular; they were made, they became popular, and then we started seeing them a lot. Forgettable or disliked characters, worlds, mechanics, etc. are left out all the time. If the players decide they don't like Loot, he will fill his role in the story, and then they'll get rid of him and we'll never see him again.
Dear Paul, i absolutely love the shirt you wore in this episode of the Podcast. It looks so stunning. Where did you buy it? Thanks in advance. Michael (unfortunately not the Lightsworn one XD)
Hoping you both look into Tenpai as this deck is going to very easily be capable of turning the current Tier 0 situation into a 2 deck Tier 0 situation, like the Dragon Rulers/Spellbooks. The deck, as part of a basic one card combo, puts out 37,000 damage easily. It's a combo deck that play as many consistency cards that halve damage as it wants and still kill. I pray it doesn't turn out as bad as Snake-Eye did.
I think that if you put a hard limit on how many times you can special from extra deck then the game would slow down. Special from hand or deck as many times as you want but something like 3 extra deck cards per turn would stop huge combos. But then the counter is, would control decks just dominate as they don't need the extra deck much
The smelly thing is very correct....im a guy and when i went to locals it stinks...it smells like virgin hard times....they dont have a life besides playing a tcg so nothing else matters they will pay hundreds on packs but qont buy hygienic products
Loot is for sure made for the purpose of marketing cos there shouldnt already be merch of Loot when their only appearance so far involves two thoughtto be M.I.A. characters in Jace and Vraska.
It isn't strange to have accessories featuring the characters from the current set. Loot was probably going to be the face of BIG before it was cancelled as a standalone set.
Sad to hear about the 3DS online service (though Pokemon is probably the only big loss for me). That Xbox 360 is sunsetting the store and marketplace this summer hurts a lot more, and some of the game servers like Halo have been down for a couple of years now. That one is huge for me because the Xbox 360 defined my teenage years. Sad to see online features for some of these pioneering consoles going away. Truly an end of an era
100% agree with alecs take on Rebirth. Would rather have more of a 1 to 1. Love most of the story beat changes (not the ending), but traversing the world and the minigames annoyed the shit out of me.
On mtg we literally have THE cute set coming later this year so putting this in was a little on the nose I don't mind the design but the story was a bit odd.
But they serve the same function. Whether they're spending fewer resources to brush up an existing game or are spending more to completely build a lookalike from the ground up, they are still choosing to make a game that is a rerelease of a game they have already made instead of coming up with new ideas and adding to the medium.
@@sallas09 most of the time remakes add in a lot of quality of life features that remasters do not. Also remakes will usually change different aspects of gameplay, level design and story structure and are created from the ground up. Just look at The Last of Us Part 1, Demons Souls, RE2, RE3, RE4 and FFIV Remake/Rebirth. They make it a similar but still difference experience overall. Nostalgia is the key marketing strategy for both remasters and remakes but remasters are just ports but on current specs so now have a sharper resolution, no performance. The nice thing about remasters are they are likely games that are very expensive to buy in the secondary market so it allows people to be able to purchase a game at a reasonable price.
I don't think it looked as good, but 2ds is a tank conpared to the original DS (the screens may be exposed, but it doesn't suddenly break in half making the top screen useless either). I'm glad it can play original DS ganes as well. I only wish it could still play GBA like the original...
I want to do an experiment with those so call players who don't care for the lore or the card artwork for Yu-Gi-Oh and just want to win, if they'll have just as much fun with Yu-Gi-Oh as if I just took a note card, wrote the effect down, and have them use that for their deck instead.
@@apsamplifier I really hope that isn't the case, otherwise TCG isn't for them at all. If they have that kind of attitude they're better off playing a game that involves a 52 card deck instead
Neuron is fine but man it fucking kills your battery(using the life point counter atleast). On the topic of smelly players. I've been pretty lucky 13 years at the same locals and it's been a very rare issue. Thankfully.
Loot absolutely sticks out like a sore thumb and doesn't really fit into the world of magic. it's one thing to have a cute mascot like pikachu that fits into the them of the world but with the world of magic we have the borg and eugenics as parts of our main storylines. Loot is marketing first and lore second when it should be the reverse of that, that's the main issue. Also we already have Fblthp!
Given the build-up before we _saw_ the thing, it's not like marketability was crossing my mind. Odd as Loot was to see, such wasn't even a concern before I caught up with "the discourse". I'll agree with y'all when we see what else happens here and if it fails to measure up. I am expecting a monstrous glow-up at some point, tho.
@@christopherb501 really? i mean for one thing. stories are rushed through at insane rate compared to the old days and sets are getting pushed out faster and faster. ixalan came out in half the time we usually get between sets. and this thing just REEKS of marketable plushie. im just waiting to find out he was locked up for war crimes. that thing terrifies me. Also they called him LOOT. That could have only been worse of he hsd been named By-our Products!
I saw a video a while ago that the best deck if everything was at 3 would be Exodia. All those broken draw cards and and floodgates it'd be very easy to get Exodia in a few turns. Traditional, I'd say F/OTK. A shame Konami doesn't support Traditional.
Wish we'd been able to get the news before we recorded the pod! They're very promising, but I doubt Konami releases them in the TCG. We rarely get to have nice things!
@@anthonyw.8103 I like it for personal use, but if someone isn't paying the artists who the AI pulled the data from, then they should be fine with people not paying them for the results. If the game was free, with zero GATCHA, pure 100% free, then I think it would be fine.
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Happy Thursday! Hope you're all having a good one. Remember to join us this Saturday at 12pm CST for a big Whatnot sale! ▶ whatnot.com/invite/teamaps
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these are the real shadow games. the marik strategy. you don't have to be good at the game you just have to be more resilient as you overwhelm your opponent physically and spiritually. except instead of pain-based torture it's odour-based
''i just gave up, i wanted out of there''', had me laughing my head off, but real story i've experienced this before, we all came together as a locals and talked to store owner about the odder, he ended up being told to leave as it was that bad
Paul: Guys pls. Shower. Brush your teeth before events
Alec: Whew! Some of yall stink!
Trell: WASH YO ASS !!
😂😂
Paul line up looking sharp asf💪🏾🔥
His final fantasy fit as well.
54:50 Magic player here regarding the “new mascot”: Yes we have concerns and it’s as you say, he was designed to fill the Pikachu mascot role to attract zoomers to a game whose average player is in their mid-30s. But the thing about Loot is that it’s indicative of a larger trend in Magic right now, you might call it the Marvelisation of Magic. The game was always known for its dark serious themes and some storylines from the past have even unsettled me deeply. We love those stories but in the last few years, the stories have become noticeably sanitised with no stakes and a complete lack of character consistency from set to set. I have examples but it will be too long if I explain them all. The TLDR is that it’s clear WotC and Hasbro have been busy transforming the games lore into potential plushie advertisements instead of getting their act together regarding the narrative quality. To Yugioh players it might seem strange because Yugioh is full of cute mascots that seem at odds with the giant robots and dragons in your game but Magic has always had a strong narrative component and we can feel the decline in quality in our hearts
Solution : make both dark stories and cute story at the same time
Being unhygenic is rude.
Just like talking loudly on the phone is rude.
Just like taking unsolicited pictures or staring is rude.
Just like touching someone without permission is rude.
We have let this become a problem.
Still voting trump
@@Ps.y10-0 so funny dude. gonna laugh later
@@Ps.y10-0 heroic
@@Ps.y10-0What does that have to do with Yugioh and washing your ass?
People NEED to be outed for hygine. This isn't acceptable in other public places and shouldnt be in LGS's to be "nice"
Honestly, true
dang we're almost at 50 now, feels like yesterday when it started lol. fire shirt btw paul
I remember i went to a new place to play and i dueled a guy who was so stinky that his cards even stank. I wanted to trade for his gold rare Mourner and the card smelled like old nickels and ass.
The reverse Mai Valentine strategy.
About the Cinna story: even though she herself doesn’t play Yugioh she used to stream and play games a lot with DotoDoya, Seereax and Rhymestyle who are Yugioh players themselves. So because she has that association that’s probably why they sent her that box. Which holy shit, if I got my hands on a box of Bandai Yugioh cards those things would be in like a vault or super sturdy safe
Realm of Light was my first structure deck, I was too young when the original classics came out so Minerva and Michael were the first monsters I saw that I bought with my own money
Requiring a phone to enter tournaments now is bullshit
I didn't even know Paul played games other than Master Duel
Not many, but yes!
Yeah so my whole life I always thought the whole gamer guy = smelly was just a myth until I actually experienced it myself and it changed my life forever. 2016. Pokémon Day. Went to a Gamestop to get whatever it was they were giving out. I was in line that was going slowly and I was behind a big guy. (No hate, I'm big too) This guy.. man let me tell you.. This guy was covered in sweat! He was wearing a gray shirt, half his shirt was just sweat stain. He had a giant Five Guys soda cup that he was drinking and his neck was the worst part! Dude was latino, same as me, so think of slightly tan skin. The back of his neck was literally black, fucking onyx obsidian black, like he hadn't showered in god knows how long. I was behind this guy for like 10 minutes and my eyes and nose were crying. That experience pretty much traumatized me and like I said, I'm a big guy too so ever since then I make sure that I leave the house smelling like flowers. Lotion everywhere, yes EVERYWHERE. I even got so worried about how I would smell that I would ask my female coworkers that I was super cool with if I smelled at work and they were like "no, why are you so worried ? Lol" It sucks cause I love anime and would love to go to a con but I'm scared it might stink so bad that I can't handle it.
Tournaments and conventions can be PUTRID sometimes. I'd say things have gotten a little better in recent years since there's more of a stigma around showing up smelling bad, but there's still a lot of work to be done.
@@apsamplifier Only takes one particularly nasty individual to ruin an entire area. There was an entire family like that in the supermarket once, and you could smell them throughout the entire aisle even though they left the aisle a full minute prior.
@@apsamplifier I thought stores were able to kick people for smelling like that these days, i know my locals will. if you go to a public event, every effort should be made to make sure you are at the absolute least, not smelling like problems, because nobody should have to leave a venue for not withstanding your odor.
Developers nowadays are not making the games that they want to play. They're making the games they're being forced to make by shareholders. That's why we rarely see good games now, we just get milked like cows
This is why piracy is increasing...
It can't be that hard to shower for 15 minutes before you head to a card shop, man.
I'd add a 3 minute brushing teeth and maybe deodorant just to be sure. But a shower would be a great start...
Just a quick FYI, Jumpstart boosters are half a deck worth of an archetype you combine with another pack to make a single playable deck! No draft involved aside from deciding which halves to use
Always enjoy watching this as i get ready for work
Thnx APS looking forward to the following 1.5 to 2hrs
I'm lucky that my locals has not stinky yugioh players. Unfortunately our free play night is at the same time as a magic tournament which almost made me leave with how bad it smelled the first time I went
I haven't been to too many locals but usually none of them smell bad, there's been some loud people who I wished would shut up and others blatantly vaping near the shop though
@@Lucario1121 Vaping doesn't smell bad
@@Lucario1121 you say that like people Vaping outside is inconveniencing anyone.
People priorities always amaze me. How do you go outside without washing your ass. It honestly makes me mad when i know i stink literally ruins my whole day. I remember rushing for work a few times and completely forgetting to put deodorant on. And having to buy some on the fly.
As Zee Garcia of The Dice Tower board game channel once said, "You need to wash yourself"
Hollywood has been making remakes for decades. It’s not a new thing like people think it is. They have been doing it since the 40s and 50s
The best known Wizards of Oz movie is ITSELF a remake. OG Universal's Dracula was remade for the Spanish-speaking market, within a year, by Universal.
Paper Mario thousand year door physically on GameCube is around 100 dollars physical in the secondary market. I think a lot of people that actually want to have a physical version of that game would spend 60 compared to 100+ on the secondary market
Regarding games requiring internet to install them even from a physical disk:
I remember when this started being a thing with the PS4. You'd put the disk in to install a game and it'd try to download the whole game from the internet, instead of just the updates to it. If you knew to turn off the console's internet ahead of putting the disk in, it would install the base game from the disk, making the process much faster overall.
Are they seriously gonna start having the game not be on the disk at all now??
Realm of light reprint is kind of cool, though I really wonder why there never was a new random Lightsworn monster every now and then, considering how popular the archetype was and still is
All I have to say. YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE. A lot of yugioh players have bad hygiene cause they spend money on cards and not self care. Konami wants to ban people for dumb stuff. BAN THE STINKY
Oh man I remember being 13 and not knowing about the smell in my pits. Almost 20 years ago, the kid next to me told me hey, you're armpits smell. This was just after gym, too. Other kids at the table told him not to embarrass me and ganged up on him. I was super embarrassed but next day thanked him.
Someone made a funny comment about the Neuron app news about how now people are force to get smart phones when you can get a cheap android phone that's way cheaper than the deck you're using now
Maybe a topic for next week, or perhaps a separate video entirely but they just revealed the Cyber Dragon decklist for the tactical trial deck in the OCG, and it's very playable out of the box. 1100 yen which is about 7 USD, and comes with multiples of staples like having 2x Ash Blossom and Maxx C, a main deck Droplet, Imperm, Triple Tac and Thrust. Smashing 2 of them together would basically make a competent, tournament ready Cyber Dragon deck and I am excited to see the other decklists. This is the kind of product I'd love to see in all card games, where you can get something viable out of the box for a very reasonable price.
I have a very old unused OTS sticker sign from the GX era. This wouldve been seen on card shop stores around 2007. Its Jaden with the "Yugioh GX cards sold Here!" Ad. Let me know if interested
How much
Once sat across from an opponent who im sure had freshly crapped his pants. Literally, there is no other way to explain that specific stench.
Lol wth
hit you with that pre-game nibiru drop.
I personally don’t like the mindset of judging a game on the price and the length of the game. I rather play a short really good game and pay full price than pay for a game that is overly long and boring gameplay/story for the full price.
The best timeline is when you get both!
Thats how we ended up with walking sims and open worlds just full of travel.
@@JayceCH. usually walking sims are a lot more interesting to me compared to the repetition of most open world/grind fest games. It really depends on your style of games. I like more narrative drawn games compared to games like Fortnite where it’s just an online match making game.
It’s difficult to find that balance unfortunately
@@JayceCH. which in my opinion are usually more interesting to me than triple A, ftp games
I think the main problem with Loot is that it's an ongoing problem of Magic going from a competitive card game and the recent overflow of just MtG making products just to make money and Loot is just a confirmation of problems that already exist. If things weren't so heavy handed in their like, greed, Loot would be fine. But everything lately has just been so forced that it's getting.. We're just really wary of every new push they make in this direction.
Now you know what a thunder dragon smells like 😅😅
yes, its a social gathering, but for some to most yugioh players, by the way I have experienced, the one locals day is the only day they mingle with people, outside of work and school. many players have an outcast ostracized syndrome of social awkwardness...they are rude, first of all, which wouldn't pass in the real world....and simply lack assessment of surrrounding social queues....I have multiple decks, but I purchase cards solely for my own pleasure....i stopped attending local events in general, I found most people playing this game very distasteful.
They're mostly neurodivergent.
People who can't shower or just maintain basic upkeep should be outted. I don't need someone to bathe in cologne but at least be "presentable".
I’m with you on the aggressive deck plan chaos max dragon right now and that 10pie shit sounds perfect
As someone who can't stand not taking a shower at least every other day and before I go out. wtf is wrong with some people
I PRAY Cyber dragons get some help as the third light archetype
As if they haven't gotten enough
@@otterfire4712I’m just a cyber dragon fan so I’m biased. They probably don’t deserve it over others but I won’t complain if they do
Cyber dragons and Arcana!
I'm planning on moving to Japan in around a year for college and this is upsetting they have nasty smelling players over there too. At one of the locals near me there is a guy literally nicknamed 'Stanky' by the whole cardshop populace so I'm sure it can't get much worse than that though; that dude smelled like 9,000 B.C. mummified fish.
I found my local card shop. I didn't want to play because everyone playing stunk. Like the closer you got to the tables the stronger the funk got. ican only imagine sitting down.
You’ll boys fire with the topics .. point blank period keep at it fam !!
I remember the paper upper deck card and then when the Konami nearly bank card type thing and it was crazy
Yu-Gi-Oh players smelling bad stories are the small joys that make life good.
The players are actually nice and the girl, madokaygo didn't complain about them being rude, she just doesn't like the sweat.
34:52
The music is my favorite part of the app too!
And here i am sitting and looking at my Upper deck entertainment ID... this isn't the first change and won't be the last lol. Wonder how long neuron will last
Wow, when did you start playing?
Wow, you're a real OG!
the last time I went to a convention, there was one single room that had a DISTINCT scent of salt.
GUESS WHICH ROOM IT WAS!!!
yup, the MtG room!
🤢
@@apsamplifier lol ya, needless to say I did not try and get a game of commander.
I think the stink situation boils down to the type of player card games attract in general. Theres nothing we can do about it unless strict rules are enforced.
I used to carry body spray around just for this reason. Don't think I didn't spray someone down...
48:24 that A.I. artist getting paid $15,000k each month for card game company: 👍🏾🤑👍🏾
36:38 i disagree too, japan gets so much stuff, ( cheaper raritys, more fun products,exclusive cards, ETC) it would be nice to get a little stuff
if i played against someone who smelled that bad, i would call judge and try to argue they shouldnt be allowed to compete.
There's actually a new tournament policy for that now too
Regarding getting big video games cheaply AND legally:
I started borrowing them from libraries. You'd be surprised the selection that some library networks have. You don't own the game of course, but depending on the game it doesn't really matter that you have to bring it back (and you can always borrow it again at a later date, if you want)
Great Podcast
What do you guys think about a new game mechanic that I think would be cool where you have an "extra main deck". Basically 3-5 cards face down in a new zone that are main deck cards that can only be used when added from deck to hand except drawing, special summoned from deck or set from the deck. It'd add so much to deck building, help decks that need a lot of bricks to play be usable and it's not a complicated concept to add to the game.
Alec is VERY ADAMANT in the products he pushes for and I'm all for it LOLOL
For Star Wars Outlaws, you probably need internet connection because they couldn't fit all of the data onto one disc
Magic doesn't have a truly recognizable mascot. Jace and Chandra are the most popular characters and they're used in marketing a lot, but Magic has always had recognizability problems, and it doesn't help that the story moves along and may change or kill characters.
That said, the controversy around Loot is complete and utter nonsense (which is sadly half of Magic discourse). It's a new character in the story that happens to be a cute creature. There's no marketing push. Players just really hate some aspects of the game and/or Wizards (which is fine) but they like to rationalize it into really dumb stuff.
Something I will add to this is that Magic is EXTREMELY receptive of players' opinions. We don't get stuff pushed to us, we get stuff that we've indicated we like.
Favorite characters and cards are referenced or get new versions everytime there's a revisit. Jace and Chandra weren't made to be popular; they were made, they became popular, and then we started seeing them a lot. Forgettable or disliked characters, worlds, mechanics, etc. are left out all the time.
If the players decide they don't like Loot, he will fill his role in the story, and then they'll get rid of him and we'll never see him again.
I'll be honest when I first saw Loot, I thought to myself aw a mascot and an adoption in one. Let's see how this goes.
12:35 , honestly the lore makes me wanna play a snake eyes/ whitewoods/ etc deck lol
Dear Paul, i absolutely love the shirt you wore in this episode of the Podcast. It looks so stunning. Where did you buy it? Thanks in advance. Michael (unfortunately not the Lightsworn one XD)
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I want lots of HD remakes of all my childhood favorites. Sometimes it's hard going back to outdated graphics, or worse, outdated controls and UI.
I like to relax and sleep with this podcast!!!
Hoping you both look into Tenpai as this deck is going to very easily be capable of turning the current Tier 0 situation into a 2 deck Tier 0 situation, like the Dragon Rulers/Spellbooks. The deck, as part of a basic one card combo, puts out 37,000 damage easily. It's a combo deck that play as many consistency cards that halve damage as it wants and still kill. I pray it doesn't turn out as bad as Snake-Eye did.
I think that if you put a hard limit on how many times you can special from extra deck then the game would slow down. Special from hand or deck as many times as you want but something like 3 extra deck cards per turn would stop huge combos. But then the counter is, would control decks just dominate as they don't need the extra deck much
Cinna? My worlds are colliding.
People forget that Link to the Past was around 90 dollars when released on the SNES
Who would have thought the tactical advantage would work
Waiting for more Amazoness support 😅💯
Paper Mario Thousand Year Door needed the remake. It's 60+ for a used copy of the GameCube version.
The smelly thing is very correct....im a guy and when i went to locals it stinks...it smells like virgin hard times....they dont have a life besides playing a tcg so nothing else matters they will pay hundreds on packs but qont buy hygienic products
Loot is for sure made for the purpose of marketing cos there shouldnt already be merch of Loot when their only appearance so far involves two thoughtto be M.I.A. characters in Jace and Vraska.
It isn't strange to have accessories featuring the characters from the current set. Loot was probably going to be the face of BIG before it was cancelled as a standalone set.
Sad to hear about the 3DS online service (though Pokemon is probably the only big loss for me). That Xbox 360 is sunsetting the store and marketplace this summer hurts a lot more, and some of the game servers like Halo have been down for a couple of years now. That one is huge for me because the Xbox 360 defined my teenage years. Sad to see online features for some of these pioneering consoles going away. Truly an end of an era
I like your Final Fantasy shirt Paul
Tearlament (mostly) and Dragon link (as a tear counter) are the traditional format meta from what I’ve seen 😂
They're remaking Beyond Good & Evil? I loved that game! I still have my GameCube copy.
Caught the premiere at work lwts gooo!!
Konami didn’t make that rule years ago for no reason lol
Pendulums are amazing 🤩
100% agree with alecs take on Rebirth. Would rather have more of a 1 to 1. Love most of the story beat changes (not the ending), but traversing the world and the minigames annoyed the shit out of me.
Still can't believe the called Colorless "Clorless", like.... wtf
Wassup APS and Friends
On mtg we literally have THE cute set coming later this year so putting this in was a little on the nose I don't mind the design but the story was a bit odd.
should I audibly tell a player if they reek?
Shower realm
Stinkbugs on Yugioh tournaments? So what's new, everyone knows REAL Yugioh players never shower or touch grass!
Remakes and remastered are two different things
But they serve the same function. Whether they're spending fewer resources to brush up an existing game or are spending more to completely build a lookalike from the ground up, they are still choosing to make a game that is a rerelease of a game they have already made instead of coming up with new ideas and adding to the medium.
@@sallas09 most of the time remakes add in a lot of quality of life features that remasters do not. Also remakes will usually change different aspects of gameplay, level design and story structure and are created from the ground up. Just look at The Last of Us Part 1, Demons Souls, RE2, RE3, RE4 and FFIV Remake/Rebirth. They make it a similar but still difference experience overall. Nostalgia is the key marketing strategy for both remasters and remakes but remasters are just ports but on current specs so now have a sharper resolution, no performance. The nice thing about remasters are they are likely games that are very expensive to buy in the secondary market so it allows people to be able to purchase a game at a reasonable price.
Well it won't improve the rep of duelist
i am only onboard with remakes/remastered games like FF7 and Demon Souls
I just want Super Quantum Layer support
I don't think it looked as good, but 2ds is a tank conpared to the original DS (the screens may be exposed, but it doesn't suddenly break in half making the top screen useless either). I'm glad it can play original DS ganes as well. I only wish it could still play GBA like the original...
Hope i can get to meet you guys one day
Snake-Eyes Poplar Plushy when?
They really should! I hate playing against the card but it would make for great merch.
Tenpai has a poplar. They using the poki drago 😂
I want to do an experiment with those so call players who don't care for the lore or the card artwork for Yu-Gi-Oh and just want to win, if they'll have just as much fun with Yu-Gi-Oh as if I just took a note card, wrote the effect down, and have them use that for their deck instead.
Legitimately, I think some people wouldn't even mind that. Which is a bit of a shame.
@@apsamplifier I really hope that isn't the case, otherwise TCG isn't for them at all. If they have that kind of attitude they're better off playing a game that involves a 52 card deck instead
Neuron is fine but man it fucking kills your battery(using the life point counter atleast).
On the topic of smelly players. I've been pretty lucky 13 years at the same locals and it's been a very rare issue. Thankfully.
Loot absolutely sticks out like a sore thumb and doesn't really fit into the world of magic. it's one thing to have a cute mascot like pikachu that fits into the them of the world but with the world of magic we have the borg and eugenics as parts of our main storylines.
Loot is marketing first and lore second when it should be the reverse of that, that's the main issue.
Also we already have Fblthp!
Given the build-up before we _saw_ the thing, it's not like marketability was crossing my mind. Odd as Loot was to see, such wasn't even a concern before I caught up with "the discourse". I'll agree with y'all when we see what else happens here and if it fails to measure up.
I am expecting a monstrous glow-up at some point, tho.
@@christopherb501 really? i mean for one thing. stories are rushed through at insane rate compared to the old days and sets are getting pushed out faster and faster. ixalan came out in half the time we usually get between sets.
and this thing just REEKS of marketable plushie.
im just waiting to find out he was locked up for war crimes. that thing terrifies me.
Also they called him LOOT. That could have only been worse of he hsd been named By-our Products!
I saw a video a while ago that the best deck if everything was at 3 would be Exodia. All those broken draw cards and and floodgates it'd be very easy to get Exodia in a few turns. Traditional, I'd say F/OTK. A shame Konami doesn't support Traditional.
What did y'all think of that Cyber Dragon Tactical Try-Deck?
That they would never print that for the TCG.
@@NaNa_W4NT5_F3MNM5 Not only that they will probably reprint the Cyberdark Structure deck and call it a day.
Wish we'd been able to get the news before we recorded the pod! They're very promising, but I doubt Konami releases them in the TCG. We rarely get to have nice things!
A "pre-rolled" ad? Well, it is almost 420, get your pre-rolled ready!
Man i know you guys didnt just praise the pokemon gen 4 remakes 😂 youre both smarter than that thats the first remake to add literally nothing
I enjoyed those games because I enjoyed the originals, so it was fine to me.
Yugioh players at my lgs smell like weed, bo, and smoke.
I swear the game is so similar to raw gambling at a casino that people smell the same.
This made me lose my drink
@apsamplifier Hey its true. Yugioh is so focused around the first 5 cards that you draw that it's similar to slots when it comes to that dopamine hit.
I like that AI artwork has made some creative endeavers more accessible to the average person.
@@anthonyw.8103 I like it for personal use, but if someone isn't paying the artists who the AI pulled the data from, then they should be fine with people not paying them for the results.
If the game was free, with zero GATCHA, pure 100% free, then I think it would be fine.