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The Asperger's Kids' Club [Trading Card Games]

Speed RacerSpeed Racer Scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratchscritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratchRegistered User regular
edited May 2010 in Social Entropy++
You know like for instance

POKEMON!
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Everyone likes Pokemon! Except for soulless sons of bitches that don't.

If you want to head down the bottomless pit of madness that is competitive Pokemon, then here are some links to get you started. If you're willing to sacrifice playing against people that aren't assholes in exchange for not sinking hours upon hours into breeding and training, then try out Shoddy Battle.

But that's not the only game we can talk about! There is also

Yu-Gi-Oh!
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Unlike Pokemon, Yugioh is a much more mature and complex game, whic--

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YVD Is a program that'll let you play online. If you don't know the rules, here's the rulebook. This is a good site for looking up cards and official rulings. Unless you're a little bitch, you play Advanced Format, which means that you play with the ban list enforced, which can be found here, as well as when you first open up YVD.

Feel free to also talk about any other hobby that's symptomatic of Asperger's Syndrome.

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  • Phil316Phil316 Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    ojama green looks like slimers gay cousin

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  • Bloods EndBloods End Blade of Tyshalle Punch dimensionRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    No one plays Yu-Gi-Oh

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  • IpseDixitIpseDixit Treat me like a pirate And give me that bootyRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    More like You Gay Oh

    Seriously though Yu-Gi-Oh is terrible

    Pokemon kicks all sorts of ass, and is the main reason why I am sad I don't have a Gameboy

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  • Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    I never really liked any of those games

    I guess I'm just older than you in manchild years

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  • jgeisjgeis Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Yu-Gi-Oh is a terribly unbalanced card game. I've played a ton of card games at a competitive level, Magic, Pokemon, Duel Masters, and Yu-Gi-Oh, just to name the ones I've put most of my effort/cash into, and Yu-Gi-Oh was by far the least balanced.

    Duel Masters is a great game, no lie. Easily my favorite card game. I made it all the way to Nationals one year, too. I wish Wizards of the Coast wouldn't have discontinued it.

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  • 2 Marcus 2 Ravens2 Marcus 2 Ravens CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Pod racing. Why do I still like pod racing?

    Oh yeah, because of this.

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  • jgeisjgeis Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Pod Racer was the best racing sim ever.

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  • thorgotthorgot there is special providence in the fall of a sparrowRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    jgeis wrote: »
    Pod Racer was the best racing sim ever.

    absolutely

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  • MarthMarth Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    thorgot wrote: »
    jgeis wrote: »
    Pod Racer was the best racing sim ever.

    absolutely

    fuck yeah

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  • Speed RacerSpeed Racer Scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratchRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    jgeis wrote: »
    Yu-Gi-Oh is a terribly unbalanced card game. I've played a ton of card games at a competitive level, Magic, Pokemon, Duel Masters, and Yu-Gi-Oh, just to name the ones I've put most of my effort/cash into, and Yu-Gi-Oh was by far the least balanced.

    Duel Masters is a great game, no lie. Easily my favorite card game. I made it all the way to Nationals one year, too. I wish Wizards of the Coast wouldn't have discontinued it.

    Explain how it is unbalanced.

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  • 2 Marcus 2 Ravens2 Marcus 2 Ravens CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    I can't help but imagine how incredible a new Pod Racing game could be. Oh man. It would be beautiful.

    I never did play the one for PS2. I think I'm going to have to hit up Amazon right now.

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  • MarthMarth Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    I can't help but imagine how incredible a new Pod Racing game could be. Oh man. It would be beautiful.

    I never did play the one for PS2. I think I'm going to have to hit up Amazon right now.

    I played it a year or two ago and it was missing a certain something. It's a little short, but it's serviceable.

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  • FoodFood Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    ebe endicott 4 life

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  • NerdgasmicNerdgasmic __BANNED USERS regular
    edited January 2010
    Was Pod Racer the one where the fastest pod was the one with 4 engines belonging to a joke character in the Phantom Menace?

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  • SzechuanosaurusSzechuanosaurus Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited January 2010
    jgeis wrote: »
    Yu-Gi-Oh is a terribly unbalanced card game. I've played a ton of card games at a competitive level, Magic, Pokemon, Duel Masters, and Yu-Gi-Oh, just to name the ones I've put most of my effort/cash into, and Yu-Gi-Oh was by far the least balanced.

    Duel Masters is a great game, no lie. Easily my favorite card game. I made it all the way to Nationals one year, too. I wish Wizards of the Coast wouldn't have discontinued it.

    Explain how it is unbalanced.

    It's the foil stamps. Makes the cards heavier on one end.

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  • lostwordslostwords Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Hmm wasn't there a new yugioh game out for the psp? Anybody played it? Worth a purchase?

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    jgeis wrote: »
    Yu-Gi-Oh is a terribly unbalanced card game. I've played a ton of card games at a competitive level, Magic, Pokemon, Duel Masters, and Yu-Gi-Oh, just to name the ones I've put most of my effort/cash into, and Yu-Gi-Oh was by far the least balanced.

    Duel Masters is a great game, no lie. Easily my favorite card game. I made it all the way to Nationals one year, too. I wish Wizards of the Coast wouldn't have discontinued it.

    Explain how it is unbalanced.

    because the vast majority of cards are designed around going YOU ACTIVATED MY TRAP THAT KILLS EVERYTHING YOU HAVE AND MAKES ME WIN

    oh yeah, infinite combos

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  • VALVEjunkieVALVEjunkie Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Marth wrote: »
    thorgot wrote: »
    jgeis wrote: »
    Pod Racer was the best racing sim ever.

    absolutely

    fuck yeah

    never had it but my cousin did

    n64 version is superior version

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  • Cold Salmon and HatredCold Salmon and Hatred __BANNED USERS regular
    edited January 2010
    there are people over the age of 13 who play yugioh?

    jesus christ

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  • NerdgasmicNerdgasmic __BANNED USERS regular
    edited January 2010
    Speed, you still play Pokemon, right?


    We should battle later.

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  • Lord DaveLord Dave Grief Causer Bitch Free ZoneRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Games A Responsible Adult Should Have Made Sure We Never Started Playing When We Were 8

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  • jgeisjgeis Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    jgeis wrote: »
    Yu-Gi-Oh is a terribly unbalanced card game. I've played a ton of card games at a competitive level, Magic, Pokemon, Duel Masters, and Yu-Gi-Oh, just to name the ones I've put most of my effort/cash into, and Yu-Gi-Oh was by far the least balanced.

    Duel Masters is a great game, no lie. Easily my favorite card game. I made it all the way to Nationals one year, too. I wish Wizards of the Coast wouldn't have discontinued it.

    Explain how it is unbalanced.

    Never have I seen a game where one type of deck can single-handedly control the competitive environment. From Yata-Lock to DAD to Gladiators to even earlier stuff like Jinzo-lock, there's always a deck which controls the metagame and is the "best deck". Sure, there are other decks which can be competitive, I had a lot of success with a Plant deck, but usually there is one deck to beat. In most other games there are a multitude of decks which have nearly equal power. Not saying that there haven't been unbalanced environments in games like Magic and Duel Masters (Affinity and Bombazar decks, respectively, for example), but on the whole they are naturally more balanced. Yu-Gi-Oh fixes a lot of it's problems with card banning, something other games have avoided in their standard play environments.

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  • Speed RacerSpeed Racer Scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratchRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    jgeis wrote: »
    Yu-Gi-Oh is a terribly unbalanced card game. I've played a ton of card games at a competitive level, Magic, Pokemon, Duel Masters, and Yu-Gi-Oh, just to name the ones I've put most of my effort/cash into, and Yu-Gi-Oh was by far the least balanced.

    Duel Masters is a great game, no lie. Easily my favorite card game. I made it all the way to Nationals one year, too. I wish Wizards of the Coast wouldn't have discontinued it.

    Explain how it is unbalanced.

    because the vast majority of cards are designed around going YOU ACTIVATED MY TRAP THAT KILLS EVERYTHING YOU HAVE AND MAKES ME WIN

    oh yeah, infinite combos
    That's not really true.

    And infinite combos are either

    A. Impractically difficult to set up
    B. Banned shortly after they're discovered.

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  • OwenashiOwenashi Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    lostwords wrote: »
    Hmm wasn't there a new yugioh game out for the psp? Anybody played it? Worth a purchase?

    YGO Tag Force 4, right? The first one of the series based on the current 5D's storyline. I'd like to know myself how it's like, seeing as I haven't played any of the TF games. A reminder BTW that the next World Championship game for the DS comes out in February.

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  • redheadredhead Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    there are people over the age of 13 who play yugioh?

    jesus christ

    there are always people over the age of ____ who _____

    usually because they don't like ____ for the same reasons you did when you were 13

    (sometimes it turns out ____ is actually a good game when you get past all the surface shit, but i dunno if that's the case here)

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  • UbikUbik oh pete, that's later. maybe we'll be dead by then Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    POGS

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    redhead wrote: »
    there are people over the age of 13 who play yugioh?

    jesus christ

    there are always people over the age of ____ who _____

    usually because they don't like ____ for the same reasons you did when you were 13

    (sometimes it turns out ____ is actually a good game when you get past all the surface shit, but i dunno if that's the case here)

    with yugioh it is not

    m:tg is a pretty solid game, but god going to a tournament is an abuse on all the senses

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  • Dee KaeDee Kae Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    jgeis wrote: »
    jgeis wrote: »
    Yu-Gi-Oh is a terribly unbalanced card game. I've played a ton of card games at a competitive level, Magic, Pokemon, Duel Masters, and Yu-Gi-Oh, just to name the ones I've put most of my effort/cash into, and Yu-Gi-Oh was by far the least balanced.

    Duel Masters is a great game, no lie. Easily my favorite card game. I made it all the way to Nationals one year, too. I wish Wizards of the Coast wouldn't have discontinued it.

    Explain how it is unbalanced.

    Never have I seen a game where one type of deck can single-handedly control the competitive environment. From Yata-Lock to DAD to Gladiators to even earlier stuff like Jinzo-lock, there's always a deck which controls the metagame and is the "best deck". Sure, there are other decks which can be competitive, I had a lot of success with a Plant deck, but usually there is one deck to beat. In most other games there are a multitude of decks which have nearly equal power. Not saying that there haven't been unbalanced environments in games like Magic and Duel Masters (Affinity and Bombazar decks, respectively, for example), but on the whole they are naturally more balanced. Yu-Gi-Oh fixes a lot of it's problems with card banning, something other games have avoided in their standard play environments.

    Oh, so it's completely fine then, considering how other TCG's do the same thing?

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  • Lord DaveLord Dave Grief Causer Bitch Free ZoneRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    I hear M:tG is a good game again now
    An old friend came over the other day and borrowed a load of my stuff from like 10 years ago and is using it to win PTQs or whatever

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  • VanityPantsVanityPants Gokai Red! Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    I had so many pogs.

    I have no idea how you even played it. I remember a flipper. I think you just .. hit pogs with the flipper and if they landed upside down you got to keep them? Is that right?

    Also: CROSSFIRE! You'll get caught up in the ... CROSSFIRE!

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  • Speed RacerSpeed Racer Scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratchRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    jgeis wrote: »
    jgeis wrote: »
    Yu-Gi-Oh is a terribly unbalanced card game. I've played a ton of card games at a competitive level, Magic, Pokemon, Duel Masters, and Yu-Gi-Oh, just to name the ones I've put most of my effort/cash into, and Yu-Gi-Oh was by far the least balanced.

    Duel Masters is a great game, no lie. Easily my favorite card game. I made it all the way to Nationals one year, too. I wish Wizards of the Coast wouldn't have discontinued it.

    Explain how it is unbalanced.

    Never have I seen a game where one type of deck can single-handedly control the competitive environment. From Yata-Lock to DAD to Gladiators to even earlier stuff like Jinzo-lock, there's always a deck which controls the metagame and is the "best deck". Sure, there are other decks which can be competitive, I had a lot of success with a Plant deck, but usually there is one deck to beat. In most other games there are a multitude of decks which have nearly equal power. Not saying that there haven't been unbalanced environments in games like Magic and Duel Masters (Affinity and Bombazar decks, respectively, for example), but on the whole they are naturally more balanced. Yu-Gi-Oh fixes a lot of it's problems with card banning, something other games have avoided in their standard play environments.
    Since I haven't played in the last three years I can't talk about the metagame, so I'll have to take your word on that.

    Also, I dunno about other card games, but Magic only doesn't have to maintain a banlist because every few months they ban everything. In Legacy play or whatever they call it where all sets are legal, they have a very extensive banlist.

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  • MaceraMacera UGH GODDAMMIT STOP ENJOYING THINGSRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    I had so many pogs.

    I have no idea how you even played it. I remember a flipper. I think you just .. hit pogs with the flipper and if they landed upside down you got to keep them? Is that right?

    Also: CROSSFIRE! You'll get caught up in the ... CROSSFIRE!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCwn1NTK-50

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  • Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Kiss-chasey in the school playground.

    That shit is fine when your age is in the single digits, but if you're still there 15 years later trying to catch and kiss the girls, you got problems son.

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Lord Dave wrote: »
    I hear M:tG is a good game again now
    An old friend came over the other day and borrowed a load of my stuff from like 10 years ago and is using it to win PTQs or whatever

    ever since time spiral and 10th, magic has been getting constantly better and more awesome

    also they tend to do a pretty good job at balance, although faeries did dominate for a little while

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  • Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    Ugh, the gay agenda.

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  • KusuguttaiKusuguttai __BANNED USERS regular
    edited January 2010
    yu gi oh is really fun when you don't play with dumb faggots

    sorry you all hate fun

    it's actually pretty balanced. there is ALWAYS a way to disrupt a combo. there are hardly any instant wins, and what little there are, you have to build an entire deck around and even then it is pretty easy to disrupt


    the game is nothing at all like the show

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    jgeis wrote: »
    jgeis wrote: »
    Yu-Gi-Oh is a terribly unbalanced card game. I've played a ton of card games at a competitive level, Magic, Pokemon, Duel Masters, and Yu-Gi-Oh, just to name the ones I've put most of my effort/cash into, and Yu-Gi-Oh was by far the least balanced.

    Duel Masters is a great game, no lie. Easily my favorite card game. I made it all the way to Nationals one year, too. I wish Wizards of the Coast wouldn't have discontinued it.

    Explain how it is unbalanced.

    Never have I seen a game where one type of deck can single-handedly control the competitive environment. From Yata-Lock to DAD to Gladiators to even earlier stuff like Jinzo-lock, there's always a deck which controls the metagame and is the "best deck". Sure, there are other decks which can be competitive, I had a lot of success with a Plant deck, but usually there is one deck to beat. In most other games there are a multitude of decks which have nearly equal power. Not saying that there haven't been unbalanced environments in games like Magic and Duel Masters (Affinity and Bombazar decks, respectively, for example), but on the whole they are naturally more balanced. Yu-Gi-Oh fixes a lot of it's problems with card banning, something other games have avoided in their standard play environments.
    Since I haven't played in the last three years I can't talk about the metagame, so I'll have to take your word on that.

    Also, I dunno about other card games, but Magic only doesn't have to maintain a banlist because every few months they ban everything. In Legacy play or whatever they call it where all sets are legal, they have a very extensive banlist.

    type 2 has has the 4 most recent sets at any given time(generally) they have actually been changing up the way sets work recently

    and banlists most definitely exist for type 2

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  • VanityPantsVanityPants Gokai Red! Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
  • Lord DaveLord Dave Grief Causer Bitch Free ZoneRegistered User regular
    edited January 2010
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    Lord Dave wrote: »
    I hear M:tG is a good game again now
    An old friend came over the other day and borrowed a load of my stuff from like 10 years ago and is using it to win PTQs or whatever

    ever since time spiral and 10th, magic has been getting constantly better and more awesome

    also they tend to do a pretty good job at balance, although faeries did dominate for a little while

    I bought a pack of Time Spiral after having been out of the game for almost a decade, got a foil Whatever Lotus, said "fuck yeah", and quit again.
    But I get the itch all the time.

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  • ZephyrZephyr Registered User regular
    edited January 2010
    i played yugioh in grade school and watched the show religiously

    no one really understood how the pokemon tcg worked

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