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    “Temporal Forces” Has Hardest Pull Rates of Scarlet & Violet Sets for Highest Rarities

    No. Paying for a replica isn't going to reward the people creating the cards. Followed to its logical end, there'd no longer be sufficient incentive for Creatures to design new cards, so only previous cards would be replicated, and eventually interest in that would wane. As well, only paying for...
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    Pokemon Japan Increasing Supply of Booster Boxes, Reprint of “Pokemon Card 151” Coming in May!

    That isn't sustainable and for lack of standardization would limit its appeal. This isn't the "counter" you think it is.
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    Pokemon Japan Increasing Supply of Booster Boxes, Reprint of “Pokemon Card 151” Coming in May!

    Why? All that will do is create a mechanism to allow people to attempt maintain inflated market prices for the prior prints. Whether it's deliberately meant as one or not, the current set-up is an effective anti-scalping measure that doesn't just resolve scalping problems with these sets, it...
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    The Easiest Broken Deck — Turbo Iron Hands ex

    The comparison to Netflix is irrelevant, this isn't a streaming service. For things like this, some of the people who subscribe to this service understand it's at least partly about 'subsidizing' the program – the writers could make more money for a single hour at a part time job, trading...
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    Galaxy Holofoils Confirmed for American “Temporal Forces” Store Promotions!

    Fans have often used those two names interchangably to refer to two different types of holofoil. I also generally prefer to call this holofoil cosmos, but there has never been a consistent approach to which one is cosmos and which one is galaxy so it is what it is and it's just understood from...
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    “Crimson Haze” Secret Rares Revealed!

    Not familiar with the flavor text of the tea ghost, but when it's a ghost, my first instinct is that yeah, it's the same child from the first card, but it's not decades later, it's minutes later. Like, did bro got his life force drained?
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    “Pokemon TCG Pocket” Gameplay Differences Analyzed, 40 “Genetic Apex” Cards Revealed So Far!

    I don't like it but it's a logical end point to what they were doing in 20th Anniversary/Evolutions and Champion Road. They have never been terrifically consistent about how faithful a card should be when reusing an older card's work.
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    “Pokemon TCG Pocket” Immersive Collecting App Coming in 2024!

    Since most of the artwork is reused there's probably limited reason to print it – and printing them as is, when they feel completely divorced from the original cards when they have nothing else in common save for the artwork, feels uninteresting to me. On the other hand, there is going to be...
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    “Pokemon TCG Pocket” Immersive Collecting App Coming in 2024!

    I can't respond because it's stupid. You do not know more than the US Federal Reserve, dude, you're not even one of the smarter people here.
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    “Pokemon TCG Pocket” Immersive Collecting App Coming in 2024!

    Yes, they can. You clearly do not know what you're talking about, and the rest of your post is equally clueless. You continue to make arguments in favor of NFTs here and think you're making arguments against. You aren't even being disingenuous like you usually are, this time you just have a...
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    “Pokemon TCG Pocket” Immersive Collecting App Coming in 2024!

    Sure, that's how most of this stuff works? This is confusing to even try and address, because it isn't a response to anything I just said. Even an audio file is, ultimately, a "simple string". Is buying an mp3 any less valid because, "um, actually, it does not store any data beyond a simple...
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    “Pokemon TCG Pocket” Immersive Collecting App Coming in 2024!

    Willfully misreading posts doesn't get you any points. The energy impact of the entire cryptocurrency system does not compare unfavorably to the energy impact of the entire existing banking system. People who claim NFTs are "bad for the environment" have no idea what they are talking about and...
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    “Pokemon TCG Pocket” Immersive Collecting App Coming in 2024!

    You don't know what you're talking about. (i.e. everything you said in this post is wrong.)
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    “Pokemon TCG Pocket” Immersive Collecting App Coming in 2024!

    What a ridiculous thing to say. Cryptocurrency is an incredibly promising technology that is indeed mostly populated by "ponzi schemes", but that's not really a fault of the technology itself. I tend to blame that more on the general public – NFTs damage the environment? Where and when, and was...
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