This just confirms that crotchmons > 85% of the worlds countries.
Would love to see some sort of statement about this.
Get enough outrage and maybe it will be mentioned briefly it in the next Last Week with John Oliver
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Congrats on going viral. As one of the only active mods on the reddit sub these posts were shared on, youve doomed me to dealing with an absurd amount of vitriol and hate comments, misinformation, as well as every copycat trying to go viral posting collections and assuming there is something nefarious happening (seriously some people are posting about that Japanese collection pickup with all the shinings and claiming its because of factory theft).
Really awesome to see the interest from around the globe though, hopefully it can shine some light on parts of Pokemon that need to be better (like quality control).
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Welcome to Reddit 
I was gonna crack the 2 fusion arts boxes I haveā¦ maybe not. 
So, was I right to wait to add fusion arts FA to my illus. binders?
@lyleberr Thank you for your sacrifice.
Iād think you are mostly correct. Iām not an attorney, but Iām sure there are fraud laws involved, and they can absolutely consider damage to reputation, however, since itās an employee, the potential charges are largely limited. IDK, Iām not an attorney, but good thoughts to have.
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Sorry 
as a non - mod I am blessed with being able to just not read comments on a post when I get an overwhelming amount, I am sure people have said some stupid stuff
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The best ones are always the ones who attack the stickied post or message me for being a āshillā. Those conversations are always very well thought out and insightful. I also really liked the people in the first post about fusion strike who thought the best course of action was to direct people to submit complaints to the US Better Business Bureau against Nintendo for allowing this to happen.
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iām sure they know about it now becoming public knowledge. there are a few extremely active members of TPCI on twitter.
as for a response, Iād be surprised.
It took an incident reaching fox news as culture war bait for TPCI to make a vague statement about making future statements of transparency when there is a judge ruling that results in a DQ at a regional despite there being controversial incidents at every event (to the point of post-regional twitlongers being a meme). People have been asking for pokemon to make statements with investigations on these rulings, so that it doesnāt have to be just a he say she say situation that results in no finality. Theyāve known this happens and have chosen to remain silentā¦until it became a huge national story. Maybe this will reach CNN or FOX or something and they will feel pressured to make a statement, but I would put money down that it would be nothing more than a vague word salad of hollow promises.
From my observations, Iād guess they will refrain from publicly acknowledging it as long as they can until they start getting pressure from mainstream media.
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Good article from pokebeach with lots of new insight:
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So it would appear the stolen cards were indeed intended to be seeded in packs and werenāt actually extras or meant to be destroyed. Despite Pokebeach claiming this doesnāt affect pull rates - it does. Thereās thousands of cards on that table that were meant to be in packs.
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Now this post has come up. Is this another person who stole, or a video of the same guy that this person just happens to have?
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CrKVFkRrvxS/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
I donāt think you can say this for sure. Assuming secret rares have a pull rate of 1/50 packs (or whatever pull rate they are supposed to have), secret rares getting stolen would mean the printing company lacked enough secret rares to insert into the packs at some point. They could have reduced the pull rate to adress that, or printed some more to replace them. Other cards wouldnāt insert themselves into the packs automatically, though.
The sanctity of childrenās gambling is in shambles
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Rattle just put up a video on the whole ordeal. Sounds like he interviewed a bunch of people involved and confirmed it did not affect pull rates.
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Seems like the subreddit is in outrage mode now. Will be interesting to see how it plays out
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You know this is big when non Pokemon people ask whether you have heard about this. Hasnāt happened to me personally since Logan Paul.
I think there are twists and turns left in this, I bet they are still things that havenāt been made public.
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Those confiscated cards were definitely destroyed by the Pokemon company. Lesser supply now could cause prices of stolen cards to rise!
Just to play devilās advocate. Who would actually come out and admit this affected pull rates? Any PR team worth their salt would be in deny deny deny mode.
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