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Cecilily discusses the financialisation of Pokemon cards as an investment vehicle.

It's one thing that makes me pause in teaching my niece how to play, I don't want her to get caught up in the abstraction of the cards as anything other than pieces of cardboard with funny pictures of animals

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[–] Kefla@hexbear.net 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is true, but if you want to teach a kid to enjoy card games in a healthy way, then teaching them to bypass the predatory gacha bullshit because it sucks and is designed to devour all their money is the correct way to go.

[–] Tabitha@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

at that point, just buy deck building board games?

[–] Speaker@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

Correct take detected, close the thread.