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Zelenal The Cat Knows Where It's At from Purrgatory Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
The Cat Knows Where It's At
#26401: Apr 16th 2017 at 5:45:04 PM

Do you guys remember when we used to talk about Dragon Ball Z Abridged? Those were the times.

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Enlong Court Dragon from The Underground Facility Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
Court Dragon
#26402: Apr 16th 2017 at 5:51:11 PM

A work of fiction can, whether intentionally or unintentionally, parallel real world things with fictional creatures, places, or issues. For example, the later novels in the Discworld series effectively use Dwarven society as a parallel to gender issues in the real world, using what was originally a joke (the old Lord of the Rings "nobody can tell Dwarf women apart from Dwarf men" thing) as a starting point for the comparison.

I do very much doubt that any serious parallel was intended by WOTC with that card, but it is still important for writers to think about how their work can be read.


[up] sorry. Will try to get back on topic.

The dragon balls are a copy o Black Lotus.

edited 16th Apr '17 5:52:22 PM by Enlong

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unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#26403: Apr 16th 2017 at 5:53:22 PM

Even when you may not be trying to make a statement, you're still uncritically regurgitating the beliefs and attitudes you take for granted as the default.

[up][up] I think that was a few dozen pages ago.

I could have sworn this was the Yugioh TCG thread now.

edited 16th Apr '17 5:54:00 PM by unnoun

Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#26404: Apr 16th 2017 at 5:59:05 PM

Sometimes you want to talk about Yu Gi Oh without getting too deep and falling down the rabbit hole again

[up][up] Don't be silly, the Dragon Balls have limitations.

VeryMelon Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#26405: Apr 16th 2017 at 6:15:04 PM

This Yugioh derail was the most fun derail ever.

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#26406: Apr 16th 2017 at 6:37:42 PM

You were turning DBZ into Yu-Gi-Oh!

Makes sense, but I didn't get it.

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LordVatek Not really a lord of anything Since: Sep, 2014
Not really a lord of anything
#26407: Apr 16th 2017 at 6:40:02 PM

Halfway through I got confused and legitimately thought we were discussing the DBZ card game.

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Zeromaeus Since: May, 2010
#26408: Apr 16th 2017 at 6:49:58 PM

What were we talking about? Oh yeah, the Myr. Man, Mirrodin is such a cool place. Was such a cool place...

OK, I'm done now.

wanderlustwarrior Role Model from Where Gods Belong Since: Jun, 2009 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
Role Model
#26409: Apr 16th 2017 at 8:05:33 PM

I want to ask if anyone has ever played the DBZ card game or any weeaboo-type card game that isn't Yu Gi Oh (Magic isn't weeaboo), but technically that's still a derail.

So instead I'll leave it at this poor attempt at incepting the question.

Arha Since: Jan, 2010
#26410: Apr 16th 2017 at 8:08:49 PM

I played one or two matches of the pokemon card game when I was younger, except since we were little kids we didn't play it right. Mostly I just liked collecting the cards. No idea what happened to that binder.

Zeromaeus Since: May, 2010
#26411: Apr 16th 2017 at 8:24:25 PM

I have a box somewhere filled to the brim with cards no one wanted. No Dragonball cards, that never caught on in my circles, but tons of Pokemon, YGO and Magic cards.

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#26412: Apr 16th 2017 at 8:44:22 PM

Actually, now that I think about it, so many things have a card game. There was even a short-lived one for Namco fighting games.

VeryMelon Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#26413: Apr 16th 2017 at 8:51:53 PM

Only other card games I've played were Pokemon and Duel Masters.

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#26414: Apr 16th 2017 at 10:11:01 PM

I never really got into any card games aside from Yu-gi-oh.

Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#26415: Apr 17th 2017 at 5:13:58 AM

Pokemon was my first TCG, my sister and I played ignoring energy and energy costs which was broken, but I got heavily into the Pokemon TCG video game later in life. My sister really just liked collecting the cards rather than playing, so we didn't play much. A couple of years back, my friend had two of the starter decks from when he was a kid (one was his brother's) and we played them properly. Despite being paired decks, the Gardevoir deck just walked all over the Blaziken deck. We played on an online simulator for a bit, but it was really frustrated because it only had the first four sets and the meta was entirely one deck - a super boring stall deck using Snorlax/Chansey/Gengar/Mr Mime to soak up damage counters and move them on to Chansey who would just heal it off.

I collected lots of Dragon Ball Z cards when it was popular at school, but everyone just collected instead of playing. I remember the gameplay being pretty weird for that one anyway.

Then it was Yu Gi Oh when it was HUEG, I tried Duel Masters and really prefer the mana system but it never caught on - again, had one of the video games for that.

After university I tried out Magic. Took it pretty seriously for a while due to friday night magic, won a game day, but fell out after the rotation came because I couldn't keep up with the cost. Now I still play casual Commander games with two of my friends, which has been pretty fun. We all have the exact same number of wins right now! That makes it more fun.

BlackYakuzu94 CHADhan Player. from Easy Coast/NY Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
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#26416: Apr 17th 2017 at 6:31:49 AM

Who had the holographic Charizard?

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Enlong Court Dragon from The Underground Facility Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
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#26417: Apr 17th 2017 at 6:51:27 AM

Who else had the unplayable ancient Mew card from the second movie?

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TyeDyeWildebeest Unreasonably Quirky from Big Rock Candy Mountain Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: How does it feel to treat me like you do?
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#26418: Apr 17th 2017 at 7:33:37 AM

Oh, damn, this is taking me back. I remember when Charizard was, like, the card to get back when the TCG first started out. There was even a whole FoxTrot story arc that had Jason agree to be Eileen's field trip partner if she gave him a Charizard.

edited 17th Apr '17 7:34:04 AM by TyeDyeWildebeest

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KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#26419: Apr 17th 2017 at 10:33:25 AM

I continued to play the Pokemon TCG GB game until the cartridge literally failed on me over a decade later. Then I bought it on 3DS Virtual Console. evil grin

I remember really wanting to get into the DBZ card game when I was a kid, but being unable to get past the odd rules.

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#26420: Apr 17th 2017 at 7:10:18 PM

...I might actually get something on the virtual console

Pity the sequel never got a localisation. Even more of a pity that they didn't continue making sequels.

I never got a holo Charizard, but I remember all the playground rumours of what packs had higher chances of one etc

BlackYakuzu94 CHADhan Player. from Easy Coast/NY Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
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#26421: Apr 17th 2017 at 7:56:15 PM

I think me and my brother pulled one....then he was a dumbass and lost it.

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#26422: Apr 17th 2017 at 10:01:50 PM

I have/had a Shining Charizard. Completely unpractical in game, but it looked real cool.

Arha Since: Jan, 2010
#26423: Apr 17th 2017 at 10:39:55 PM

Were holos a special version of the card? I don't really remember for sure, but somehow I managed to get a lot of the cards like Charizard and Alakazam that at least had shiny backgrounds. I think I mostly traded for them because I was a little kid who wouldn't have had much pocket money.

Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#26424: Apr 18th 2017 at 1:42:02 AM

Kinda yeah. Of the three rarities (common, uncommon, rare) individual cards might still be more rare than others of their rarity. In the base set, most of the rares were holofoil rares and appeared less frequently than non-holofoil rares. You were guaranteed one rare in every pack, and with most rares being holofoil-only that meant most boosters contained the same few non-holofail Pokemon in their rare slot. With the amount of boosters in circulation, most people I know had a number of holofoil rares.

That's similar to Yu Gi Oh, where a given card in a set (say, Dark Magician) will be of one set rarity and that depends on whether it is holofoil, has gold name text, etc. Yugioh has a fucking ridiculous number of rarities.

Later sets have changed things somewhat, there are both holofoil and non-holofoil versions of most rares in a set and even common/uncommon cards can be foils, though it's a different type. They recently re-released the base set with updated stats on the cards, and as an example one booster pack I opened had a holofoil rare Magenton and a holofoil common Nidoran. Which is closer to Magic, where any given card in a booster might be a foil, regardless of the rarity.

BlackYakuzu94 CHADhan Player. from Easy Coast/NY Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
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#26425: Apr 18th 2017 at 4:05:13 AM

Yugioh has a lot of rarities, but the ones I mostly remember were: Secret Rare, normal Rare, Gold Rare, Ultra Rare, Ultimate Rare, and Ghost Rare. Depending on the card, those shits went for fucking crack money. I remember dropping $60-$120 a box just to get one, and then sell it.

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