Day 2 
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This is properly niche and weird of me, but I reaaaally hate the terminology used by Whatnot/tiktok breakers in regards to vintage boxes.
‘I paid $20k to open this vintage box!’
‘This booster box cost me $15k!’
No it didn’t, you sourced it and then sold the packs for a profit. The box cost you -1k to open. You made money.
Semantics I know, and I know that ‘My customers are paying me 20% more per pack than I paid for this booster box!’ isnt a great title, so I get why they word it that way, of course I do. Still, it just irks me to see people acting as if they’re taking a hit paying for these things themselves.
Bring back videos of people opening boxes because they wanted to open those boxes.
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Some people just want to taste the cookie before making their decision, Scott.
Please consider sending people like this the card in question so that they can get a real good look at it before buying anything.
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Whenever I google the name of a Pokemon based on an organic life form plus a noun like “art” or “painting” and half the results are AI garbage or bikini pics from fur affinity.
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When people post ‘nm’ raw cards and you have to scroll through 15 pictures of the front at different angles before you get to a back pic and its chewed up
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When people call it ‘the pikachu illustrator’
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When someone insults me for having a collection because it’s a “kids game” and I need to “grow up” (mostly coming from teenagers)
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Give it a few years. This stuff magically becomes “cool” again in college.
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I was in my LGS looking at vintage PkMn, and a warhammer guy said, “Adults still buy that?”
The guy at the counter looked at him like, “You play with plastic models dude.” And we all laughed. “Touche”
Things change with new perspectives. We just have to be confident enough in what we value.
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I introduced myself as a Pokemon collector a lot especially during middle school and because of that a lot of people made fun of me for it, the best advice I can give is to ignore other people and just try to be social, find people who are nice and align with your morals you’d be surprised how many people out there are nice you just have to find the right people
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Yep. In early middle school, one of my classmates sold me all of his games after going into a “Pokémon is gay” phase. In our senior year he told me he regretted selling them. I take pride in unashamedly enjoying the franchise at any age and not giving a shit what others thought of what I enjoyed. Most of (or in my case, all) the people you go to school with don’t matter once you graduate lol
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I’m actually kind of surprised to hear it’s not mainstream enough at this point for anyone under mid 30’s or so to not know about it, or for it to be a little more “socially acceptable” or however you want to say it.
With my job I’m usually quite a bit younger than the guys I work with so I get the “that’s still a thing? My kids used to do that” a lot.
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People who constantly post recent, favorable sales for a card in their collection.
I understand we all like to see cards we own doing well but it’s annoying when someone “soft brags” or “soft pushes” their card this way.
The reverse is also true when a card someone owns isn’t performing well and they clearly have cold feet, asking others if they’ve “made a good investment” or if their card will “still do well long-term”.
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People who consider themselves experts on EVERYTHING Pokemon related and won’t admit that they don’t know everything some of these things include: market, modern, vintage, artwork, grading, foreign languages, VG (competitive), VG (fun), anime, promos, history, identifying fakes, playing the tcg, things pokemon related not done by TPC
It really annoys me when people pretend like they know everything and won’t admit that they don’t
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When I tell them how much my collection is worth (they asked) and their first response is “sell it”
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Strangers addressing you as ‘man’ or ‘bro’ in ebay messages.
It reminds me of travel vlog I saw of two youngish guys staying at a hotel, and they kept addressing the old Asian receptionist ‘man’.
I could delve deeper into what I think the psychology behind it is but I’ve said enough lol
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Out of all the effeminate internet slang I’ve learnt on E4 that I wish I could erase from my mind, “living rent free in someones head” is one I really can’t stand.
It just reminds me of the little Ornitholestes from the second episode of Walking with Dinosaurs that keeps shouting at the 5-ton juvenile Diplodocus because he wants to be perceived as a threat.
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???
Wait, you’re not dyl.
Let’s go with the second, less implicit dictionary definition this time.
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