I don’t know about this man. Being a nerd is pretty socially acceptable these days. Trading cards, playing video games… that was stuff you kept to yourself when I was a kid. Now it’s very mainstream and accepted.
Both breweries I’m a regular at host weekly Magic/D&D/Game nights.
That reminds me, it’s insane to me when I go to anime conventions these days, there are so many jacked dudes and beautiful women in full cosplay who you just know 10 years ago would have mocked people for watching anime. The days of the fat middle aged man in Sailor Moon cosplay are over 
Nonsense! Just last month attending I met Daddy Anya. 
Here is one. A lot of people are afraid to sell a certain card because there is a belief that you may never be able to buy it again.
I think outside trophies or cards in that realm. There is always a chance to get that card back. Maybe in a different grade or by a different grading company
I’m gonna say this goes beyond unpopular opinion to just factually incorrect lol.
I’ve been back playing on and off since 2016, collecting graded cards since 2020, been to many events on both sides of the hobby and have not heard this phrase once in my entire life.
Who is that? (I’m kind of afraid to ask😨)
Not my picture, but I still see it all the time. Id say confidence is stronger these days from every generation, but not my thing when attending. I usually do ones that I like that are similar to me.
I’m gonna push back on this a bit as someone that used to be neck deep in the cosplay scene. Thirst trap cosplays have blown up and died down a bit in the past 10 years, but all the same, most of those concentially attractive shirtless men or women are actually huge nerds and genuinely passionate about what they are cosplaying. Sure, there are people just chasing what’s hot and what sells exclusively, but I’d say that’s the minority. I don’t want people to fall into the trap of assuming people are fake fans just because they happen to be conventionally attractive and don’t look like the stereotypical nerd.
And plenty of those like Sailor Bubba are still around. Don’t you worry.
Honestly it sounds like you’re consuming way too much awful social media. Never heard that term in my life.
I’m empathetic to this situation but I also think that if you have rule exceptions, people will exploit the loophole in bad faith.
Under the new law, if you’re older and using speaker is clearly a means of necessity, it likely won’t be enforced (at officer jenny’s discretion 
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Not really. It’s AlphaInvestments, NostalgiaNomics, and Redbeard + their fans who refer to players as “game piece Timmys”. All of those are fairly popular.
Can’t agree more. The only reverse pattern that interests me in the slightest is japanese reverse masterball. Maybe they can at least add a new tier of rarity like that so there’s something to chase that looks cool. I find modern reverses to be impossible to read.
I think you’re misunderstanding. Rudy doesn’t call the players the game piece army or Timmys. Also the game piece army and Timmys aren’t even the same thing. He loves playing magic himself.
Timmys are people looking to get rich quick and are fickle, ready to jump on new hype and ditch it as soon as it gets difficult. They are more interested in gambling.
The game piece army refers to people that clamor for cheap cards and tout mistaken and oversimplified solutions with no understanding of how markets work or how successful businesses are be run. They misunderstand that these cards are also collectibles and how that works.
Also bonus: the MSRP gang are those who say anyone selling above msrp is scalping and claim MSRP is the true price. But back when market price was below MSRP, they were nowhere to be found.
Thank you for the education, I did not know about these terms. Feels like this also belongs here
Cheers!
Ok THAT makes more sense, thank you. I’ve been collecting since the beginning but only recently started watching these influencers. I think I got the wrong idea abiut Rudy because of NostalgiaNomics and Redbeard who try to be him, and they use the term “Timmy” as a placeholder for “brokie” in order to ragebait people into FOMOing. Although I understand why they do that; their business models rely on the “buy high, sell low” degens.
Kind of ironic then that the people that buy into NN’s and Redbeard’s grifts are the same types of people who Rudy would call “Timmies”.
Again, you’re talking about individual cards, as you say, while I’m talking about pallets and boxes, as I said. These are not the same thing. I’m talking about a specific situation (Which, I’ll admit, may not apply now). But, I’m not wrong because of that.
I don’t consume much TCG social media- is there no one talking about how the Iran war will affect the hobby? I get that most social media is now (or perhaps always) sanitized but it’s surely a relevant topic.
I’m using this thread since IDK if it’s even popular to speak about it on the forum.
The hobby is filled with plastic. With Japan’s reliance on oil from the Middle East, surely it affects their packaging etc which leads to the prices of cards (already going up even pre-war with Abyss Eye).
But I also can’t see how the destabilization of countries due to the shortage of oil and plastic won’t hurt the whole market. This boom market seems poised to end no? It’s not like covid with less things to spend on and thus more money. Everything is going to get more expensive and it will cascade down. Cards are a luxury good. Are we headed for a crash?
I suppose if the war ended soon-ish, the market as a whole could ride it out even if the overall economic headwinds will persist for months/years after, but if it doesn’t, I feel like all the cardboard stored in closets, the plastic slabs and singles will all come out and find a tougher market than most have ever experienced.
Unironically I don’t think it will with geopolitics. The Pokémon market thrives on constant turbulence and further disruptions toward resources & distribution will have people doubling down on what they already believe are proven assets
This would only affect one aspect of the market. People who are transacting raw cards or slabs that were encapsulated previously likely wouldn’t see any effect from new packaging costs. If you’re buying brand new items I could see there being small cost shifts, but we have already seen MSRP rise on most sealed items the past few years and demand has done nothing but grow.
Being looked down upon by people who interact with any the people you listed is a net good.
