Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series

Is Yu-Gi-Oh! GX: The Abridged Series on-topic for this thread?

Edited by MarqFJA on Oct 11th 2018 at 4:32:48 PM

Might as well talk about them here. Not like any of them would ever have an active thread otherwise.

Well, I've started watching the Ask Alexis Q&A series... and Episode 2 made me wonder if she's not as dumb as she seems, if only because she made a startingly good point when answering the "How many sides does a triangle have?" with (and I paraphrase) "Most people would say 'three', but it actually has two more sides: the top and the bottom" (which is actually true... for triangles projected in 3-dimensional space as flat objects).

Also, I laughed when Alexis admitted that Syrus' main appeal to her as a boyfriend is him having a huge penis. Now Abridged!Krillin has a kindred spirit.

EDIT: Episode 9. One of the questions: "Hey Alexis, Spill it! You are smarter then you let on! How do you explain yourself!?" (sic)

Alexis' response? "KUMQUAT!" It appears that she is indeed Obfuscating Stupidity.

Edited by MarqFJA on Oct 11th 2018 at 5:04:04 PM

Ok I have being out for a long time so I have two question.

do they finally got into the dartz battle? and does little kuriboth finally saw the kaibaman episode?

Becuase let be honest, that episode finally reveal that abridged kaiba IS canon kaiba.

The latest episode was the battle against Dartz. It was really good!

Dartz episode was one of the best IMO and he's yet to see Kaibaman, but I am looking forward to it.

I love his reviews of YGX.

His GX reviews are great. I love how his genuine enjoyment shines through while he's ribbing on it.

I still think it's amazing how, when he did the Ebonics version of the first episode, and Yugi answers Kaiba's phone call with "Yo! Game shop!", Martin just breaks down laughing and exclaims "He just becomes Jaden!"

Anyone remember what episode had the exchange "Dartz, why isn't your hair constantly changing colors anymore" "oh I just washed the hair dye out of it mayyn". I can't find it.

It'the berserker soul train épisode.

Thanks!

Plot twist, that only happened because Martin got tired of animating his hair.

Edited by Ghilz on Oct 19th 2018 at 3:52:14 PM

Someone please tell me the plot makes more sense in Japanese? That this isn't about a bin of mysterious non-marked mystery sandwich and Jayden and his friends going on a stake out to find the wildman who steals the sole good sandwich of supposedly magical origin to hone his top decking "skills"?

Exact same plot in Japan.

Is it bad this is like the most nonsensical thing I feel I've seen in Yu Gi Oh. Like, sure, egyptian gods and shit. Magic is real. The world hinges on card games both socially and cosmically. But like... this episode some feels like the least believable thing I've seen?

I feel like the weirdest part of that is that they act like it's impossible to always know what card comes next, even without magic or something. Like, just memorize the order you put the cards in and keep track of how many you've drawn.

Seeing how this game is everything in their world you'd think everyone who was serious would be doing that. Or at least the super serious types.

Edited by LSBK on Oct 19th 2018 at 7:19:46 AM

The farther you get into the animes, the more outlandish their settings are. This helps with suspension of disbelief. GX is set in something that looks like our normal world, so Taira Taizan/Damon in the Dub doing his Tarzan routine can still take you out of the experience.

Maybe I’m wrong, but I feel like know what order your cards are in is kind of cheating? I mean, you shuffle your deck for a reason.

It's cheating yeah. You can get kicked out of casinos for counting cards, for example.

I mean, I wouldn't necessarily agree that counting cards should be considered cheating either.

But if that's a part of the rules, I guess it's apart of the rules.

Edited by LSBK on Oct 19th 2018 at 7:48:12 AM

Honestly it's not even the Tarzan thing (Not alone). Its how... disjointed and farfetched everything is.

Like on its own, I'd go "Sure, there's a dueling Tarzan guy, makes sense. I mean, Mako Tsunami is a Creepy Fish version of that.

But like, the sandwhich thing along is such a convoluted set up. "Okay, so the school has this day where this lady just wheels in a cart of sandwhiches that are unlabelled and in identical packaging. And all of them are shit except one" That already feels like it's the most contrived shit ever and raises SO MANY QUESTIONS (Like, WHY?!!!???!!!). But no. It keeps going. "And the one good sandwhich is made from a magical golden egg". None this actually ever matters when you get down to it.

And then "But there's a guy who is stealing the one good sandwhich!" Which is already just... like... weird coz it could just be any student taking a sandwhich and just not opening it in front of the old lady. But no. Clearly someone's stealing them

And then "The thief is a Tarzan! But actually he's a former student that's gone AWOL and apparently no one has cared about that in a school". Like, it couldn't just be another student. No.

And then the guy's paper thing, nonsensical contrived backstory that's trying to link all of this togheter and I'm like going "God... remember what this was about ancient egyptian magic and pharaoh's spirits and down to earth shit like that multimillionaire's feud with a kid possessed by a 5000 year old dead man?

It feels like the kind of script a RNG would generate by patching random one word story blurbs togheter.

Edited by Ghilz on Oct 19th 2018 at 8:53:04 AM

Shuffling is obviously an important part of Yugioh, but for any competitive TCG players should memorize their decklist and know the odds of drawing a given cards based on the number of cards left and the number of copies of that card available.

So like, getting better at drawing is definitely a thing. It's just called deckbuilding, which Yugioh doesnt touch because it's not as dramatic.

Well yeah, I know that - hell, I've done it, if only for fun. Obviously, you should know and plan what cards are in your deck. But I was more talking about how actually knowing what order your cards are in is...well, cheating.

Yeah, Duel Links has taught me to make ratios of Monster to Spell to Trap cards in my deck. I normally go by sixes; 18 monster cards, six spells, six traps.