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

submitted 2 days ago by KuroXppi@hexbear.net to c/games@hexbear.net

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

For real. Back when you would read one line of text on a card and it would turn into the entire floor covered in cards because you had an idea for a deck.

Back when "you got that deck off the internet! " was an accusation, not an assumption

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

Back when you would read one line of text on a card and it would turn into the entire floor covered in cards because you had an idea for a deck.

Original Innistraad block sicko-wistful
And now it's all just content. Feel like shit, just want him back - "Him" is the collective reaction to Garruk's Companion - A 3/2 for 2???

[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago

It's just a better bear has power creep gone too far