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@@christiana5453 Meta are the most hyper competitive aspects of any game like fighters but in this case Yugioh. It means their decks are the most optimal pairing of cards for the highest win rates against almost most match ups.
Pretty sure KC isnt focused on cards as their main source of income, its just their side stuff that they do probably for advertising like red bull's street fighter invitational Correct if im wrong its been ages since i watched the show Edit: ok guys, KC is exclusively about yugioh stuff, y'all don't need to correct me any further
@@rizzwan-42069 Basically, unlike the simple original Yu Gi Oh with just monsters spells and traps, nothing that special to differentiate each monster type other than fusion monsters. But the current meta has all these weird as special monsters, such a synchro monsters and similar stuff.
@@rizzwan-42069 Meta is an abbreviation for "Most Effective Tactic Available" and it just means they play the strongest decks that exist at the moment.
@@Thintech1 You forgot the option to trade. For example, my friend and I had little argument so he decided to give away all his property to my other friend so I could lose as I was about to win.
They were just really good at addition & subtraction, measurement & geometric stuff for say building pyramids using a life size grid on the ground & using shadows to make sure it lined up 😳 LOL
I like the implication that most people in the Duel Monsters world don't play meta decks, to the point where Yugi believes he could casually win Tournaments for the rest of his life, and even him and Kaiba don't play meta decks. Like running a meta deck is so looked down on that the only people who run them are people who literally have to.
I mean yugioh is built upon the concept that your deck is your entire personality, so it makes sense that anyone running meta would be looked at as something like a sell out or mindless sheep
Target 1 face-up monster on the field; equip this card to that target. It gains 300 ATK/DEF. If it attacks, it gains ATK equal to half the ATK of the attack target, during damage calculation only. From Yugioh wiki? That's what Kaiba did...kinda :P
I love the irony of Kaiba, the man who never got over duel monsters to the point of opening MULTIPLE schools around the world dedicated solely to the game and blowing millions of dollars blasting cards designed by a child into space, telling Yugi he can't make the game his entire life and he should focus on his education.
tbf to Kaiba, Kaiba still goes to school, and he runs the company that makes the holographic projectors for the monsters. So Kaiba managed to turn his obsession with dual monsters into a legitimate business and still make time for his education.
my man probably managed to become valedictorian in a matter of days so no one would ever bother him again and could go back to focussing on getting back his albino waifu something I respect
i think the difference is, he only intended for 1, maybe 3 schools. He eventually passed away and now the world is ruled by duel monsters. Meanwhile they were born outside the duel matrix so they had more opportunities. And yugi alledgedly isn't taking them.
"Yugi, you can't live off of card games." Kaiba, you literally re-structured your entire family business around selling trading cards and holographic monster projectors. Your entire life has been one long quest to make everyone in the world just as obsessed with trading cards as you are, so in a way, this is your fault.
The Joker, holding 10 years of tax returns and receipts while texting his ex(Harley) if he can claim Bud and Lou(their hyenas) as dependents as he got them for more then the partial custody he was allocated for them during the last tax year: "First time?"
I love the "police run meta" joke not because they play so scummily, but because it implied the Yu-Gi-Oh world is like a Pokemon world where literally every conflict is settled with card battles.
It makes more sense in pokemon, since we can assume that they're integrated as partners and tools at every level, and have real measurable effects. Your Lucario could absolutely swat bullets out of the air, and Protect might take some hits. Healing moves might let you ignore bullets and other weapons, so the only option is to have a stronger Pokémon. But what are you gonna do in Yu Gi Oh if someone pull out the blicky? Can Yugi challenge the bullet to a shadow game? Later on we see physical effects from duel spirits and such, but the original series is just a few jackasses with magic items running around, and none of them grant immunity to Samuel Colt.
@@Illegiblescream You say that but characters in Yu-Gi-Oh run across guys with guns somewhat regularly and they do pretty well for themselves. Bandit Keith tried mugging Pegasus and he just made Keith shoot himself in the head. Yugi was held at gunpoint and killed the man by challenging him to a penalty game. Bakura materialized a duel monster that proceeded to eat the armed guards chasing him. Marik not only has dozens of men with their own guns following his orders but can effortlessly control the mind of anyone who points a gun at him. Even Kaiba defeats opponents with guns by throwing chairs and fucking playing cards at them.
The funny thing about Kaiba saying the police run meta decks is especially funny when you remember that the police in 5D's specifically have decks meant to stop potential criminals from escaping from Turbo Duels, down to using Gate Blocker so they can't gain any more Speed Counters.
Back in highschool a guy I knew was getting out of M:tG, just gave me boxes and boxes of his old cards. He had shit from Ice Age and Arabian Nights in those boxes, hyper rare first runs that never got reprinted. If those cards weren't later ruined in a hurricane I could have flipped them and never worked another day again.
Ysee now Im just imagining off screen is Jaden and co taking all the important classes like science and history recontexualized as card games because Kaiba knows thats the only way kids are going to actually pay attention to it anymore
@@GrimmBones so? Riot games is solely revolving around lol and even turned into a franchise with lor and the upcoming fighting game. I am pretty sure at this point kaiba corp already swallowed pegasus' company and the official distributor for a world wide popular game. Don't forget kids, if you have something good going on always branch out and franchise it!
@@kasaix_yt I feel like you're missing the point here. I never acted like there was something negative about the fact that Kaiba's whole corporation was based solely around a card game. The entire point was just the joke I made. He tells Yugi that he can't just live off of card games, when that's exactly what Kaiba does. Like, none of that was even supposed to be taken seriously, what the fuck. It's just a dumb joke I made late at night.
@@weebjeez I get the feeling Yugi's humoring him. Normal Yugi aims to become a game designer (and is shown to be in school still around DSOD, I believe) and Yami Yugi (Atem) is an ancient pharaoh who's going to pass on soon (meaning he's rich and won't need to worry about the law as *he is the law)*
@@LordTyph except that's different. Designing a game is fundamentally different from making a living by *playing* a game. And having been rich, back when you were alive? Doesn't help in the current world, where your body has no claim to your fortune. Like what?
@@weebjeez I'm saying he's humoring him by playing along with this whole thing. Yugi already has his life in order and Kaiba will go on to obsess over the card game because he wants a salty runback.
@@LordTyph and I'm saying that what you said was incredibly unclear, and even at that point, he's not talking to Yugi here, only Atem. And Atem is the King of Games. Atem is the one who wants to just play games for a living. Because as a royal, he doesn't know anything different. It was literally how he spent his life. And this fact is the entire premise of the video: that Atem never once considered that his lifestyle was not sustainable.
"The police run meta!" "No way!" This makes complete sense in this world. Literally everything is solved with card games. If you want a bank loan and are denied you can probably challenge the banker to a duel.
To be fair to Yugi, going to an unmarked island to save your grandpa's soul from a lunatic millionaire really should excuse a week of absence. Its not like crazy rich people are going to alter their schedules to be convenient for students, or that you can just let them get away with your relative's souls.
"You can't live off card games"? This is coming from the guy literally transforming the world into a card-game based society and gotten rich beyond our wildest dreams from it.
But Kaiba was Rich before he changed the whole economy to center around his hobby. He got MORE rich because of that, but he never exactly "lived off of card games", not hi, not Seto Kaiba.
I think we all know Kaiba saying all of this just to distract Yugi from the fact that Metalmorph second ability to add half of your opponent attack point only happened when you attack with it not when you get attacked
“And what if the banks get involved?” “I’ll challenge them to a duel!” “And what if the police get involved?” “I’ll challenge THEM to a duel!” Considering this LITERALLY happens in 5ds, that’s a legit strategy
@@DallySkyeAnims I'd imagine it's a budgetary thing, they can't afford to have every officer run the expensive meta cards. Gotta watch out for the Sheriffs that probably would though 😂
Also not how the card actually works, lol. “Target 1 face-up monster on the field; equip this card to that target. It gains 300 ATK/DEF. *If it attacks*, it gains ATK equal to half the ATK of the attack target, during damage calculation only.”
The idea that the police "runs meta" is hilarious... And kinda nostalgic in some mental gymanstic way, the cards and effects mentioned as well as their attitude, essentialy tell us its the same Yugi and Kaiba playing their OG decks that are outdated yet they challenge each other with them instead of seeking newer more powerful cards and newer rules. Added to that Kaibas concern for yugi, its just two friends playing their old decks having fun like the old days, but the world is still moving on, in the end yugi is still a cheating bastard and I think Kaiba will apreciate that, with yugi steping down from dueling until he gets hes life together Kaiba is left wanting a rematch, ensuring that he will still want to play with yugi in the future and that they wont both lose interest as their life moves on
Kaiba saying the Police runs meta sounds like a fat lie when you saw them run garbage like Iron Chains and Ally of Justice lol. Maybe they've gotten too lax and roleplay-ey by the time of 5D's?
The fact that the insane part of the Pharaoh's plan is not challenging the police to a duel period, but rather that he thinks he can win when he does, is hilarious.
Every single one of your videos the voice acting is perfect. It’s not 100% spot on with the characters voice but you capture the “essence” of everyone you voice and it really makes me happy
Huh yeah in 5ds you challenge the police in a duel and if you win their bikes go offline i mean it fair since they force those people too get those yellow lines on their face
Funny enough, challenging the Police to a duel to earn your freedom is exactly how the future of Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's works. This long dead Egyptian pharaoh was- _and still is-_ *many millennias* ahead of his time!
Other than laughing my ass off, that sentimental version of the usually loud and energetic yu-gi-oh! bgm just brought back lots of memories ..from 2005-06... 🥺
This raises a sureal view of what the world of Yu-Gi-Oh could be like. If you are good enough (or rich enough to pay to win) you could duel your way out of a court room or even out of custody. But then if the cops run meta does that mean harden criminals run all the banned cards to get an edge?
Yugi runs Pot of Greed. It's pretty clear there's no enforceable banlist in this world. Though that does make me wonder if crimes committed via dueling (are there any other kind) would have amplified sentences if certain 'illegal' cards were used. That rabbit hole goes even deeper, though - what about bootleg/counterfeit cards? Since nobody seems at all familiar with what cards actually do at any point without being told or being the one using them, how hard would it be to get modified 'rare' cards printed with implausibly amazing stats or effects? What would the holographic system do when trying to read some crappy fleamarket-quality knockoff played by a kid that doesn't know any better?
@@xuklysc Remember when he chained joey to a literal serial killer called chop man? Good times. Kaiba is still insane post mind crush but pre mind crush he's comically evil
@@thegoodoldays911 there was also that time on pegasus island where kaiba threatened to commit suicide if yugi doesn't forfeit the duel. He stood on the edge of the castle and stated that if yugi attacks him the shockwave from the "holographic" projection would push him off the castle.
1:14 best joke ever! It's funny because they don't pay anything to the winner. They just give him some packs. Yes even in nationals and world's (there may be a mat and a trophy too, but that is it)
Yugi: kaiba your company has made this card game literally part of everyday life, just yesterday a guy got out of being arrested for murder... by winning a duel
@@cannedcan9788 All I can think of is a confused boomer in a wig watching some weirdo kid with a toy duel disk slamming cards down on it while screaming like an anime character.
_"Well, what happens if the banks get involved?"_ "I'll challenge them to a duel" _"And if they bring the police?"_ "I'll challenge the POLICE TO A DUEL TOO" I don't watch this show so I'm just gonna have to assume this is what happens
In yugioh 5Ds theres an oppressive police state which confines thousands of people into living in poverty so that the ruling class can divert incoming magical disasters into the ghetto. They keep people there by defeating them in a card game, on a motorcycle.
Honestly I find the little laugh yugi does at the idea of going back to school too funny absolutely perfect - these videos are amazing I can’t stop watching them
@@catsndogs98 as in the Yu-Gi-Oh! Story in both the anime and manga. They actually have an economy based around the card game that surprisingly works for them.
Considering Kaiba's canonically known highest education level is middle school, this is even funnier. In theory if he went off to do Kaiba Corp business full time after Duelist Kingdom We'd have a president who never finished 10th grade.
Love how Kaiba of all people even encouraged Yugi to be a better man and even accepted that friends matter and winning isn't everything. . . . Till Yugi just shut it down.
The bizarre combination of the soundtrack from the japanese version, but still using impressions of the 4Kids dub for Kaiba and Yami Yugi was actually pretty charming!
"The police run meta" this is incorrect, the police would be running some kind of stall deck so they can wait around 40 minutes before taking any real action
Kaiba saying “Yugi you can’t only live off card games.” After him saying the infamous… “If there is any intelligent life out there! Then let’s teach them how to duel!” On the dualities of kaiba
Atem can charge Kaiba for every duel he loses against him. Kaiba’s pride would make sure he’d pay the price and be a repeat customer. Then he’d be set for life.
@@someone_else2876 5ds reference. The cops played card games to keep the impoverished people in the slums while favoring the rich. It's really good, my favorite Yu-Gi-Oh series. Check it out if you have Hulu and time
I remember summoning my Shining Flare Wingman against my little brother and then I told him he could use the spiderweb field spell to switch it to def. Aaaahhhh, good times
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The police running meta is so stupidly funny
Right ! I was dying when he said that.
It explains how they get anything done in a world built around card games
I didnt really catch that could you explain what that means?
@@christiana5453 Meta are the most hyper competitive aspects of any game like fighters but in this case Yugioh. It means their decks are the most optimal pairing of cards for the highest win rates against almost most match ups.
Imagine if there was like 1 dude in the entire history of police who ran the least optimized deck but never lost a battle
Kaiba: "Yugi, you just can't live off of Card Games!"
The sheer irony of this statement from Kaiba of all people.
Pretty sure KC isnt focused on cards as their main source of income, its just their side stuff that they do probably for advertising like red bull's street fighter invitational
Correct if im wrong its been ages since i watched the show
Edit: ok guys, KC is exclusively about yugioh stuff, y'all don't need to correct me any further
KC is a toy manufacturer and Kaiba invests into stocks
Kaiba made sure you CAN live off card games in the future.
Doesn't Kaiba control all the tech for the game? Like sure Pegasus made the game but Kaiba invented all the peripherals and holograms...
@@where_is_sauce He is, hes the one who is selling hologram field for duels.
I like how going to an unmarked island to save your grandpa's soul from a lunatic millionaire is actually a valid excuse for 3 days of absence.
You mean billionaire?
I mean it is basic family death time off.
Now I can't help but imagine just how common that must be at this school.
@@iam-retarded-but you were the kid that reminded the teacher of homework weren't you
They just thought someone forced him to do drugs.
I love how Kaiba isn’t like “No man they’ll just shoot ya.” Or “they don’t care about stupid kids games” just the fact they run meta is enough
what does run meta mean i have searched on google but i can't find anything
@@rizzwan-42069 Basically, unlike the simple original Yu Gi Oh with just monsters spells and traps, nothing that special to differentiate each monster type other than fusion monsters. But the current meta has all these weird as special monsters, such a synchro monsters and similar stuff.
@@rizzwan-42069 pay to win decks
@@xernobell7845 That's not even close to what it means.
@@rizzwan-42069 Meta is an abbreviation for "Most Effective Tactic Available" and it just means they play the strongest decks that exist at the moment.
“I’d rather die a broke bitch than lose to you, Kaiba”
Best fucking phrase I’ve ever heard. I shall apply it to my friends on Monopoly.
You can't win in Monopoly by going broke though.
@@Thintech1 you'd be surprised
@Matthew Dwyer No, you lose all of your property if you become broke.
The only real way to win is to call out the revolution and flip the game board.
@@Thintech1 You forgot the option to trade. For example, my friend and I had little argument so he decided to give away all his property to my other friend so I could lose as I was about to win.
Yami is the average Yu-Gi-Oh player:
Running DM
Doesn't know how to math
Doesn't read card effects
Tries tricking his opponents into forfeiting
Bricks because he uses legacy decks
I don’t think he can do modern day math. Considering he’s from ancient Egypt.
@@kraevorn7483 yeah they couldn't really multiply and divide iirc
Didn't know Yami was the guy from my local.
They were just really good at addition & subtraction, measurement & geometric stuff for say building pyramids using a life size grid on the ground & using shadows to make sure it lined up 😳 LOL
I like the implication that most people in the Duel Monsters world don't play meta decks, to the point where Yugi believes he could casually win Tournaments for the rest of his life, and even him and Kaiba don't play meta decks.
Like running a meta deck is so looked down on that the only people who run them are people who literally have to.
Very good worldbuilding imo.
I mean yugioh is built upon the concept that your deck is your entire personality, so it makes sense that anyone running meta would be looked at as something like a sell out or mindless sheep
Yea id imagine the police only run meta while on the clock so they can resolve the situation as fast as possible
I know right, isn't that great? Now time for some master duel while playing my red-eyes deck!
What are meta decks?
I love that jj did the research about meta to learn what hand traps and link monsters are, but not how metalmorph actually works.
You have too much faith in Kaiba's ability to follow the rules
Screw the rules he has money
Target 1 face-up monster on the field; equip this card to that target. It gains 300 ATK/DEF. If it attacks, it gains ATK equal to half the ATK of the attack target, during damage calculation only.
From Yugioh wiki? That's what Kaiba did...kinda :P
@@TheMS991 It only gives the half attack boost if your monster is attacking, kaibas monster was the one being attacked :)
@@SilverHyozanryu Yeah, so he "Kinda got it" :P Silly Kaiba.
“Yugi, you idiot. The police run meta!”
“Oh no!”
THAT. IS. GOLD. Solid JJ you win.
At that point I had to unlike the video so I could like it again.
Did you rally just said "JJ" instead of "GG"
Nah he said the full channel name
@@uiopikytnie7336 rally
@@uiopikytnie7336 solid jj is the channel name
They call it Yugi-Oh because Yugi always says "Oh" when he learns what math is
help
yugi- Oh.
My guy can you stop being in every damn comment section of every video i watch?
50% of replies are bots? Let's fix that
@@henkgaming1232 :)
"I'd rather die a broke bitch than lose to you Kaiba." I fucking love that sentence
I love the irony of Kaiba, the man who never got over duel monsters to the point of opening MULTIPLE schools around the world dedicated solely to the game and blowing millions of dollars blasting cards designed by a child into space, telling Yugi he can't make the game his entire life and he should focus on his education.
He probably had an education
tbf to Kaiba, Kaiba still goes to school, and he runs the company that makes the holographic projectors for the monsters. So Kaiba managed to turn his obsession with dual monsters into a legitimate business and still make time for his education.
my man probably managed to become valedictorian in a matter of days so no one would ever bother him again and could go back to focussing on getting back his albino waifu
something I respect
i think the difference is, he only intended for 1, maybe 3 schools. He eventually passed away and now the world is ruled by duel monsters. Meanwhile they were born outside the duel matrix so they had more opportunities. And yugi alledgedly isn't taking them.
It gets even better when you remember his backstory and that he has absolutely NO IDEA how the stock market works.
"Yugi, you can't live off of card games."
Kaiba, you literally re-structured your entire family business around selling trading cards and holographic monster projectors. Your entire life has been one long quest to make everyone in the world just as obsessed with trading cards as you are, so in a way, this is your fault.
he suceeded too. the entire economy of the future is a children's card game
he literally mounted a whole space program just to seek out intelligent life out there and teach them to duel
I mean he also develops technologies and a bit of robotics on the side right?
@@xuklysc Not to mention invading the afterlife just to duel.
Remember when kaiba broke into the afterlife to get his salty runback?
Yami: “I play Dark Magician in attack mod and set 3 cards”
IRS: *Normal summons Aleister*
Yami: “F*ck this just take me in already”
@Speak Good ???
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@@sponks1337 Its a bot
That one moment when I expected a funny reply but only got people mentioning the bot
The Joker, holding 10 years of tax returns and receipts while texting his ex(Harley) if he can claim Bud and Lou(their hyenas) as dependents as he got them for more then the partial custody he was allocated for them during the last tax year: "First time?"
I love the "police run meta" joke not because they play so scummily, but because it implied the Yu-Gi-Oh world is like a Pokemon world where literally every conflict is settled with card battles.
It makes more sense in pokemon, since we can assume that they're integrated as partners and tools at every level, and have real measurable effects.
Your Lucario could absolutely swat bullets out of the air, and Protect might take some hits. Healing moves might let you ignore bullets and other weapons, so the only option is to have a stronger Pokémon.
But what are you gonna do in Yu Gi Oh if someone pull out the blicky? Can Yugi challenge the bullet to a shadow game? Later on we see physical effects from duel spirits and such, but the original series is just a few jackasses with magic items running around, and none of them grant immunity to Samuel Colt.
ARC-V would like to introduce itself.
Fucking challenge the bullet to a shadow game! XD The bullet runs Morphtronic.
@@Illegiblescream kaiba beat armed guards with his cards, like, literally throwing them, but that's because he's like the batman of yugioh
@@Illegiblescream You say that but characters in Yu-Gi-Oh run across guys with guns somewhat regularly and they do pretty well for themselves. Bandit Keith tried mugging Pegasus and he just made Keith shoot himself in the head. Yugi was held at gunpoint and killed the man by challenging him to a penalty game. Bakura materialized a duel monster that proceeded to eat the armed guards chasing him. Marik not only has dozens of men with their own guns following his orders but can effortlessly control the mind of anyone who points a gun at him. Even Kaiba defeats opponents with guns by throwing chairs and fucking playing cards at them.
The funny thing about Kaiba saying the police run meta decks is especially funny when you remember that the police in 5D's specifically have decks meant to stop potential criminals from escaping from Turbo Duels, down to using Gate Blocker so they can't gain any more Speed Counters.
"You can't live off of card games!"
That one guy who got a 5 pack of Charizard cards: Are you sure about that?
Or like a super old like 1800 60hp Pokemon that's worth 4000 dollars cuz it's still in good condition. eCoNoMy
Back in highschool a guy I knew was getting out of M:tG, just gave me boxes and boxes of his old cards. He had shit from Ice Age and Arabian Nights in those boxes, hyper rare first runs that never got reprinted. If those cards weren't later ruined in a hurricane I could have flipped them and never worked another day again.
I think you forget the planet they live on!
Pegasus literaly offered how much as a prize to a tournament?
@@chesterstevens8870 strange things happen when you go around the twist :3
@@chesterstevens8870 man…I REALLY feel sorry for you unironically. Hate that useless card board couldn’t be converted into shekels
This duel was the reason why we have a Duel Academy.
I forgot that thing existed lmao
Ysee now Im just imagining off screen is Jaden and co taking all the important classes like science and history recontexualized as card games because Kaiba knows thats the only way kids are going to actually pay attention to it anymore
@@colmecolwag I think Chemistry was literallly Bastion's deck
Kaiba: "Yugi, you can't just live off of card games."
Yugi: "And you are doing...what, exactly?"
Kaiba: "I own an entire industry of card games."
ackually, Kaiba owns a corporation on top of being a first rank duelist lol
@@ian9050 I know, that was my point.
His whole corporation is solely revolving around a card game.
@@GrimmBones so? Riot games is solely revolving around lol and even turned into a franchise with lor and the upcoming fighting game. I am pretty sure at this point kaiba corp already swallowed pegasus' company and the official distributor for a world wide popular game. Don't forget kids, if you have something good going on always branch out and franchise it!
@@kasaix_yt I feel like you're missing the point here. I never acted like there was something negative about the fact that Kaiba's whole corporation was based solely around a card game.
The entire point was just the joke I made.
He tells Yugi that he can't just live off of card games, when that's exactly what Kaiba does.
Like, none of that was even supposed to be taken seriously, what the fuck. It's just a dumb joke I made late at night.
I physically can't stop myself from cracking up at the delivery of "this is it".
I also love the delivery of "got back"
"Yugi, you can't live off of card games."
Kaiba Corp and Industrial Illusions would like a word.
In fairness, that is card game accessories and card game manufacturing, respectively.
Yugi's trying to make money off winning the card games.
@@weebjeez I get the feeling Yugi's humoring him. Normal Yugi aims to become a game designer (and is shown to be in school still around DSOD, I believe) and Yami Yugi (Atem) is an ancient pharaoh who's going to pass on soon (meaning he's rich and won't need to worry about the law as *he is the law)*
@@LordTyph except that's different. Designing a game is fundamentally different from making a living by *playing* a game.
And having been rich, back when you were alive? Doesn't help in the current world, where your body has no claim to your fortune.
Like what?
@@weebjeez I'm saying he's humoring him by playing along with this whole thing. Yugi already has his life in order and Kaiba will go on to obsess over the card game because he wants a salty runback.
@@LordTyph and I'm saying that what you said was incredibly unclear, and even at that point, he's not talking to Yugi here, only Atem. And Atem is the King of Games. Atem is the one who wants to just play games for a living. Because as a royal, he doesn't know anything different. It was literally how he spent his life.
And this fact is the entire premise of the video: that Atem never once considered that his lifestyle was not sustainable.
"The police run meta!" "No way!"
This makes complete sense in this world. Literally everything is solved with card games. If you want a bank loan and are denied you can probably challenge the banker to a duel.
You would have to challenge the banker to even apply for the loan.
Yeah you think you beat the IRS in a duel after getting your board ready and then they just Nibiru you.
Well the police in 5ds certainly weren’t running meta.
In 5ds, one of the security system's is hacked by completing a duel puzzle.
So you can probably duel to get a better deal at the market.
@@librariviera4581 They did run Goyo Guardian, who WAS one of the best early Synchros tho
To be fair to Yugi, going to an unmarked island to save your grandpa's soul from a lunatic millionaire really should excuse a week of absence. Its not like crazy rich people are going to alter their schedules to be convenient for students, or that you can just let them get away with your relative's souls.
Plus it was, like, an actual competition. I get the feeling it lets you slide there.
@@LordTyph yeah try telling your principal you were gone from school for a month to play card games see how that goes
@evanbates3062 how about a permission slip from a high ranking company?
@@LordTyph You mean a fortune 500 company? I don't think that that would impact the decision of most school administrators.
@Sewblon that's cute.
1:36 is literally the plot of Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds
"You can't live off card games"? This is coming from the guy literally transforming the world into a card-game based society and gotten rich beyond our wildest dreams from it.
for real
Crazy thing is he's just partnering with the guy who actually MADE the game.
Well, Kaiba only said Yugi cant do it, doesnt mean he cant
nice
But Kaiba was Rich before he changed the whole economy to center around his hobby. He got MORE rich because of that, but he never exactly "lived off of card games", not hi, not Seto Kaiba.
"What about your taxes Yugi?"
"Is that some sort of trap card i should negate?"
Yes. Yes it is
"I play welsey snipes in attack position!"
"Yugi they'll get you for tax fraud."
"Wait is that a card with that Goblin guy on it?"
Kaiba: Tax evasion is a crime, Yugi!
Yugi: it's an OBLIGATION
"You gotta pay your damn taxes"
"Will that improve my stats?"
"I may be good at math, but man, the risk I took was uncalculated" - Seto Kaiba, probably
It’s nice to go back and watch well done parodies like this after what happened. Rip Kazuki Takahashi
Wait, what happened?
@@SeeJade didn't he die trying to save a kid from drowning or something like that.
R.I.P.
@Seth Shaffer it was a kid his thier mother and a soldier. He succeeded
I think we all know Kaiba saying all of this just to distract Yugi from the fact that Metalmorph second ability to add half of your opponent attack point only happened when you attack with it not when you get attacked
Thank God, it's been a while since I've played so I thought I was going crazy for a sec. Kaiba you sneaky SOB 😂
Yugi even notes this when dueling against Johnny Steps! No wonder he dropped out of school!
Exactly
Accepted game state
This was my first thought. Kaiba's cheating. Everyone cheats in the original series.
“And what if the banks get involved?”
“I’ll challenge them to a duel!”
“And what if the police get involved?”
“I’ll challenge THEM to a duel!”
Considering this LITERALLY happens in 5ds, that’s a legit strategy
Though I question Kaiba on the police playing meta, when they played garbage like Iron Chains and Ally of Justice LOL.
@@DallySkyeAnims oh come on they did decent enough with those decks against Yusei who runs the junk archetype
@@DallySkyeAnims Trudge played Gojo gardian ,which was meta , its just that the rest of his deck suck
@Speak Good Garbage.
@@DallySkyeAnims I'd imagine it's a budgetary thing, they can't afford to have every officer run the expensive meta cards. Gotta watch out for the Sheriffs that probably would though 😂
Hahahhahahahah "link monsters & hand traps, all kinds of goofy shit."
- Kaiba
I love how kaibas argument isn’t that the police use guns, or that they have tazers, but that they run meta decks.
"My Gains half of the attack of any attacking mister"
What a strange sentence, jj.
Also not how the card actually works, lol.
“Target 1 face-up monster on the field; equip this card to that target. It gains 300 ATK/DEF. *If it attacks*, it gains ATK equal to half the ATK of the attack target, during damage calculation only.”
@@EvilFuzzy9 for all his math prowess, he's still a Yugioh player
I was wondering if anyone else noticed
@@Fred-su4bq Yup, it was on my mind the whole time. Yugi can't math, but Kaiba can't read lol
@@EvilFuzzy9 What's funny is an actual duelist made the same mistake, poor Johnny Steps.
The idea that the police "runs meta" is hilarious... And kinda nostalgic in some mental gymanstic way, the cards and effects mentioned as well as their attitude, essentialy tell us its the same Yugi and Kaiba playing their OG decks that are outdated yet they challenge each other with them instead of seeking newer more powerful cards and newer rules.
Added to that Kaibas concern for yugi, its just two friends playing their old decks having fun like the old days, but the world is still moving on, in the end yugi is still a cheating bastard and I think Kaiba will apreciate that, with yugi steping down from dueling until he gets hes life together Kaiba is left wanting a rematch, ensuring that he will still want to play with yugi in the future and that they wont both lose interest as their life moves on
This, all of this.
Kaiba saying the Police runs meta sounds like a fat lie when you saw them run garbage like Iron Chains and Ally of Justice lol. Maybe they've gotten too lax and roleplay-ey by the time of 5D's?
I don't think it's that deep dude
@@DallySkyeAnims the cards got too expensive, and they could not afford for every cop to have a meta deck
@@DallySkyeAnims To be fair gate blocker in the context of turbo duels is an insane card.
The fact that the insane part of the Pharaoh's plan is not challenging the police to a duel period, but rather that he thinks he can win when he does, is hilarious.
Every single one of your videos the voice acting is perfect. It’s not 100% spot on with the characters voice but you capture the “essence” of everyone you voice and it really makes me happy
"The police run meta." A truly terrifying sentence.
They're also inept at it, one guy beat them with Skull Servants.
In a world where a city was converted to an open dueling arena, I'm sure Yugi's plan is plausible.
"Sir, we can't arrest him. He won the duel fair and square. That means he has a legal right to a free crime."
@@HaganeNoGijutsushi "no he didn't, he summoned summon skull without tributing! Get him!"
Huh yeah in 5ds you challenge the police in a duel and if you win their bikes go offline i mean it fair since they force those people too get those yellow lines on their face
@@themonsterunderyourbed.7620 " but hes the main character so we cant do anything rules are rules"
"The police run meta" and Yugi's reactions is still one of my favourite moments in your videos. 😂
Funny enough, challenging the Police to a duel to earn your freedom is exactly how the future of Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's works. This long dead Egyptian pharaoh was- _and still is-_ *many millennias* ahead of his time!
Seto “Build an elevator to Space” Kaiba telling Yugi to get his life together is surreal asf.
He built a private jet shaped like a blue eyes so
Yeah but building an elevator to space is cool as fuck tho
He built an elevator/portal to the after life and kinda killed himself for a salty runback, and he told Yugi to get his life together lmao
2:00 He played the sad theme from the original JP OST.
😭😭😭
Other than laughing my ass off, that sentimental version of the usually loud and energetic yu-gi-oh! bgm just brought back lots of memories ..from 2005-06... 🥺
The fact that Kaiba didn’t deny that Yami could duel the police was hilarious to me.
Kaiba is always just right outside of pocket.
Because in that world you can, and apparently the victor can just walk away xD
"The police run meta!"
Suddenly, this is a 5DS meme instead.
Also dang, Kaiba did not pay attention that Yami did not technically surrender yet.
This raises a sureal view of what the world of Yu-Gi-Oh could be like. If you are good enough (or rich enough to pay to win) you could duel your way out of a court room or even out of custody.
But then if the cops run meta does that mean harden criminals run all the banned cards to get an edge?
Yugi runs Pot of Greed. It's pretty clear there's no enforceable banlist in this world. Though that does make me wonder if crimes committed via dueling (are there any other kind) would have amplified sentences if certain 'illegal' cards were used.
That rabbit hole goes even deeper, though - what about bootleg/counterfeit cards? Since nobody seems at all familiar with what cards actually do at any point without being told or being the one using them, how hard would it be to get modified 'rare' cards printed with implausibly amazing stats or effects? What would the holographic system do when trying to read some crappy fleamarket-quality knockoff played by a kid that doesn't know any better?
I cannot understate how loudly I EXPLODED when Kaiba explained that the police run Meta.
I knew it was a trap the whole time, I was just waiting for it...
Omg.... it's been years since I've watched a protomario video
And for you, the most specialist of cookies
Mint coco
Guess what ?... you weren't the only one
"You can't live off of card games"
I'm pretty sure your entire world revolves around card games
Didn't you want to teach aliens how to duel?
That's future kaiba after he lost his mind.
@@Lunarice98 bold of you to assume that the man who almost killed an old man for a card was sane from the start
@@xuklysc Remember when he chained joey to a literal serial killer called chop man? Good times. Kaiba is still insane post mind crush but pre mind crush he's comically evil
@@thegoodoldays911 there was also that time on pegasus island where kaiba threatened to commit suicide if yugi doesn't forfeit the duel. He stood on the edge of the castle and stated that if yugi attacks him the shockwave from the "holographic" projection would push him off the castle.
@@69Kazeshini Yeah I think the direct quote in the original japanese is something like "slit my throat with your cards yugi"
"You will RUE the day you fooled me" has such raw delivery, underappreciated
1:14 best joke ever! It's funny because they don't pay anything to the winner. They just give him some packs. Yes even in nationals and world's (there may be a mat and a trophy too, but that is it)
That's only for Konami-sponsored tournaments. Duelist Kingdom explicitly had enough prize money for Joey to pay for Serenity's surgery.
Yugi: kaiba your company has made this card game literally part of everyday life, just yesterday a guy got out of being arrested for murder... by winning a duel
Me omw to KFC after being acquitted of my 305 charges of war crimes by beating the judge in a duel
@@cannedcan9788 All I can think of is a confused boomer in a wig watching some weirdo kid with a toy duel disk slamming cards down on it while screaming like an anime character.
I freaking lost it at:
“Yugi, you idiot. The police run meta!”
“Oh no!”
Ofc the police would run meta...makes 100% sense xD!
So... they're meta slaves then.
Making htem anti-meta bait.
It's canon in 5ds
Kaiba lied, Officer Trudge never ran meta in yugioh 5ds 😂
@@nerminpeskovic3439 Too many people countering the meta decks.
They’re the fun police
I’m pretty sure metalmorph’s second effect only comes into play when “YOU” are the one attacking. Not when something attacks it.
Kaiba - Screw the rules, I have money!
Yeah it only works when the equipped monster does the attacking, not the one being attacked.
Bro these are frickin awesome, keep on making such masterpieces !!
_"Well, what happens if the banks get involved?"_
"I'll challenge them to a duel"
_"And if they bring the police?"_
"I'll challenge the POLICE TO A DUEL TOO"
I don't watch this show so I'm just gonna have to assume this is what happens
It does in 5DS kinda
This is unironically the plot of 5Ds
funnily enough, in the 5Ds series, the cops do indeed duel to catch criminals
5d
In yugioh 5Ds theres an oppressive police state which confines thousands of people into living in poverty so that the ruling class can divert incoming magical disasters into the ghetto. They keep people there by defeating them in a card game, on a motorcycle.
"I rather die a broke bitch then lose to you." I'm deceased lmfao
The whole exchange with Yami being bad at math was hilarious.
Honestly I find the little laugh yugi does at the idea of going back to school too funny absolutely perfect - these videos are amazing I can’t stop watching them
So fun thing about the world of Yu-Gi-Oh! There’s like an actual economy based on the card game. I’m not joking and to me it’s actually confusing.
When you have tech that can render and animate all these cards and spells in real time and respond as fluidly, I can see why there would be.
Pretty sure it is established in just the first series of Yu-Gi-Oh that rare cards are searched for and paid too get them
What do you mean in the world of yugioh.
@@catsndogs98 as in the Yu-Gi-Oh! Story in both the anime and manga. They actually have an economy based around the card game that surprisingly works for them.
Considering Kaiba's canonically known highest education level is middle school, this is even funnier.
In theory if he went off to do Kaiba Corp business full time after Duelist Kingdom We'd have a president who never finished 10th grade.
its likely that he got home tutor and just go to school for fun
@@LongNguyen-oj2ji I like to picture him having never graduated middle school
Love how Kaiba of all people even encouraged Yugi to be a better man and even accepted that friends matter and winning isn't everything. . . . Till Yugi just shut it down.
Sorry, I have to do this *MIND CRUSH*
Kaiba: WHYYYYYYYY YUGI????
yami cough atem
I'm tearing.
This was too good, thank you.
1:42 The best line for each yugiboomer.
Remember when Yugi-oh was a psychological horror manga instead of about card games? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
It could've been both but Konami wanted that sweet sweet tcg money
Run that by me again, Pepperidge? Psychological horror?
Care to elaborate? I have never been interested in Yu Gi Oh but this has caught my attention
Season Zero was fun
@@NuclearPoppi read the first 60 chapters of the Manga. Yami Yugi quite literally burns multiple people alive
"Yugi, you gotta focus on your education!"
The 'education' in this world: Welcome to Duel Academy!
they had several standard courses like history and math though, duel academy was just high school but with card games
This almost made me cry, well done.
I love how Yugi was okay with everything until “The cops run Meta”
Clearly, Yugi hasn't heard of Skill Drain
@@four-en-tee and clearly THEY run feather duster
@@four-en-tee skill drain doesn't even work on dm. it's a vanilla lmao
@@theblan1k0ne No, Yugi would be the one running it, not the cops. The cops run Scythe.
@@four-en-tee should’ve clarified that 💀💀💀
2:37 that got me good. I wasn't expecting that
Dude, you could definetley use the voice you tried out for Kaiba as a real charachter voice. Its actually good
"Got back" always get me so hard. Your tone nailed it
The bizarre combination of the soundtrack from the japanese version, but still using impressions of the 4Kids dub for Kaiba and Yami Yugi was actually pretty charming!
Well, there was the uncut dub of Yu-Gi-Oh that did the same, short-lived as it was.
@@TheAzulmagia Its a massive shame the uncut dub didnt quite manage to take off.
@@TheAzulmagia did they use the original Japanese name and script?
@@bruhford3954 sorta like for example thy call Joey Joey katsuya
I can't get over how "police runs meta" is the ultimate argument that convinces the pharaoh and is the funniest joke in this video.
I love your channel keep up the great stuff!!
My favourite channel x my favourite childhood game. I knew this had to be great.
"The police run meta" this is incorrect, the police would be running some kind of stall deck so they can wait around 40 minutes before taking any real action
All cops play Mine?
topical
You joke but they do run floodgates like gate blocker.
The best way to beat the police is playing clown control.
OOOOOH... OOOOOOH THAT BURNS.... GAWD DAYUMN.
I don't think the heart of the cards will help you escape the law
Yugi would easily beat the supreme court in a duel, 5 on 1!
Yusei actually has, multiple times.
Tell that to the Enforcers, which are basically just outlaws who escape the law.....by a goddamn card game
simply just summon exodia
@@aben1466 That's why Weevil got rid of Exodia first!
Kaiba saying
“Yugi you can’t only live off card games.”
After him saying the infamous…
“If there is any intelligent life out there! Then let’s teach them how to duel!”
On the dualities of kaiba
I saw that.
Man this gave me "it isn't always about the money spider man" vibes then completely shifted to no one can stop me I'm all the way up
"The police run meta" lol
Do the police in that world even play by the card game rules? Or just work like ordinary cops?
@@HPMCCPooTis
Honestly I wouldn’t be surprised. Even Pokémon the police use Pokémon, so it’s not too far to assume that they do.
@@HPMCCPooTis The police operate with Verte still unbanned.
@@HPMCCPooTis normal cops even if they still carry decks around for some reasons
"The police run meta"
Now I'm imagining a police officer with a holstered ash blossom.
Not to mention a swat team with Red Reboot Shields and Nibiru bullets for their guns
They just yeet ash and pray that the opponent isn't into feet.
Yo this was straight 🔥! I laughed so hard! TY!
oh my god id kill for any abridged series from solid jj
2:27 It's not always about winning... It's about the Mets baby! Love the Mets! Alright baby let's go get a home run! Love the Mets, let's go Mets!
COME ON BABY GET A HOME RUN BABY, COME ON METS!!!
Atem can charge Kaiba for every duel he loses against him. Kaiba’s pride would make sure he’d pay the price and be a repeat customer. Then he’d be set for life.
“I’d rather die a broke b*tch than lose to you, Kaiba” F*cking died there.
It felt so wholesome till I was abt to cry. Then I heard “ID RATHER DIE A BROKE BITCH THEN LOSE TO YOU KAIBA”
Perfect is the only word to describe this
"The police run meta"
That's a world I wouldn't mind living in.
Kaiba: YOU CANT LIVE OFF CARD GAMES!
yugi:.....you do...
Kaiba:........
The ending had me dying. I saw it coming, but it still caught me off guard.😂😂
Those are the best kind of jokes, sometimes
@@18skeltor right.
"I'd rather die a broke bitch than loose to you Kaiba"
Yugi has his standards right
This video was this close having a wholesome ending, damn you Solid JJ
The final twist really got me good.
R.I.P. Kazuki Takahashi, the creator of Yu-Gi-Oh.
Thanks for the memories.
Your videos remind me of those old youtube vids back in 2007 good times :)
2:46 just love how this ended
"I'll challenge the police to a duel!"
*GOING FAST, MAKES ME FEEL ALIVE, MY HEART BEATS, IN HYPERDRIVE-*
Love that show
*DO YOU THINK YOU CAN WIN*
*ONLY IF I LOSE*
*JUST LET DESTINY CHOOSE*
Oh my god it makes so much sense now
...What?
@@someone_else2876 5ds reference. The cops played card games to keep the impoverished people in the slums while favoring the rich. It's really good, my favorite Yu-Gi-Oh series. Check it out if you have Hulu and time
I literally imagine him trying to do these voiceovers with a straight face and not laughing loudly in-between takes haha
Solid jj.
Your voice acting gets better and better.
Who here collected cards in their younger years because they were cool but never knew how to play?
⬅️
I collected Pokémon, Magic, Digimon, Dragonball Z and Yugioh cards. DragonBall Z and Yugioh were the only one I could play
I remember summoning my Shining Flare Wingman against my little brother and then I told him he could use the spiderweb field spell to switch it to def. Aaaahhhh, good times