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The Finance Bro Takeover of Pokémon TCG is Dangerous (www.youtube.com)

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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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[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Mark Rosewater talked in his Drive To Work series about keywords and complexity - how a game has a sort of ceiling for how complex it can be, before it becomes incomprehensible

Oh that sounds like some fun game theory I'll check that podcast out

1208 episodes

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

So I couldn't find the episode, but this is an article where he touches on the same subject, from around the time that episode would have been out I think. https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/making-magic/lenticular-design-2014-03-31
12 years ago... Christ.

[–] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago

I haven't listened for years and don't think I could get back into it. If I were to I would go some years back - to when he didn't have to defend dogshit game design and then I'd pick an episode with a title that interested me. He used to be a pretty good yapper that would say interesting stuff.