Joe Merrick

@JoeMerrick Your hobby is pop tarts?

I want resellers out of my hobby please. You people are horrendous.

@Foolish_Banana What phone/browser are you using?

@JoeMerrick I guess something might be wrong with my phone or it's an internet problem on my end.

This April just gone was the biggest April ever on Serebii, and the 7th biggest month ever. This is all down to Pokémon Pokopia, but with a nice bump from Champions for a short time Thanks so much for your trust with Pokopia. I am so proud of that section

@PedoPanderer So if it's targeted for children, why is it ok for adults to buy out all products and sell it at massive markup rather than allow children to buy it? Also Pokémon is for everyone.

@JoeMerrick Your Hobby? There were no Adults in "Your" hobby 25 years ago Maybe you should get out of a hobby specifically targeted for children.

@Shelltoekicks @JoJoFurrygamers Good for you. You go do that

@JoeMerrick @JoJoFurrygamers Can’t doubt a persons hope sport, makes me want to scalp myself to watch you people cry over paper LMAO

@BestBoievar Yes which is why pop tarts are on sale and why people adding 10x cost is bad

@JoeMerrick People gotta eat

@BestBoievar Talking about Pokémon. These resellers cleared all the new line which released on Saturday.

@JoeMerrick Your hobby is eating pop tarts 🤨

@KyroTrexx @kantomillennial @RoseLapin428 Yeah I fully support stores breaking the seals right now

Agreed it’s so frustrating as a fan. My nephews and nieces are disappointed as they can never seem to get any packs/boxes they are lucky if they can find any single packs about One of my local shops have started doing a 1 box/etb per customer and even removing the seals from the boxes. I know it’s not great if you are a sealed collector however it has seemed to deter some scalpers in my area Managed to pickup an ETB of Phantasmal flames so split the packs between them. First ETB I’ve been snake to get since an unbroken bond booster box whenever that was defo a few years at least

@Shelltoekicks @JoJoFurrygamers I doubt that

@JoeMerrick @JoJoFurrygamers Enjoy resellers as a matter of fact I hope you caused more with your post

@Vyrnuhrd Unfortunately not

@JoeMerrick Do they have data as to the total matches played and/or matches played by each player? It can make an interesting data how much of the players just played to get Venusaur (3 games), soft casuals (about 10 games?) and the grinders (all games).

So the Global Challenge ended up with 411,137 players. Quite down on the 719k from the Warm-Up Challenge. That's 57% of the players This was at 300k at 9pm UTC and did grow by 100k in the last 5 hours as people scrambled to get their battles in to get the Venusaur reward though

@JoJoFurrygamers Nope. I still have my NES games. Nice try trying to justify this with a bad attempt.

@JoeMerrick i bet you sold video games to gamestop or on ebay before...

@kantomillennial @RoseLapin428 They have heavily increased their TCG production. 13% of all cards ever produced in the history of Pokémon were produced in FY2024-25 Problem is the resellers still buy it all up before general public can

@JoeMerrick @RoseLapin428 Until the Pokémon company doubles or triples, it’s merchandise and card production, I’m just gonna stick with playing the games. I’m done being a fanboy.

@RoseLapin428 Alss they're doing the same with the entire new clothing/pin/merch range at Target too and they don't have cards It's not about cards with these people anymore

@JoeMerrick I swear this was a fake post, the damn thing doesn't even have a special card or anything on the food itself, it's JUST the damn box. No one is gonna pay for that so they're just gonna be stuck with dozens of pastries that they aren't gonna move. Damn idiots...

@midwestern_emo It's bad but not this bad. Natural History Museum still has a lot of stock, for example Only TCG products get hit really over here

@JoeMerrick is it this bad outside of the U.S. also?

@paxunova They're still tallying. This can take a day or two

@JoeMerrick Anyway to check one’s final placement? I opened Champions an hour or so ago and didn’t see anything.

@pordyslam Yes

@JoeMerrick So the tournament meta should have been to play only in the last 5 hours to sweep all the newbies?

This is still on the high end compared to prior online competitions. Still higher than all of SVs (but they took 6 months after launch to start) and on par with ones in SWSH which distributed Pokémon

@pokeanimebattle @Foolish_Banana If the page hasn't fully loaded it may not do it straight away due to order of operations

@JoeMerrick @Foolish_Banana I also have this problem, but i just keep pressing it until ut drops down, maybe an iPhone vs android thing?

@GokusCharizard It's solid and wholesome I lack the creative spark to go back to it and do crazy things, however Events and updates will bring me back though

@JoeMerrick So what are your thought on the game? After all this.