Linklight 💚

this pic exists because i make silly videos & you keep watching them. thank you 💚

@ttgobrr @WordOfMeowthTCG While I agree with your statement about modern volume, I think it’s important to understand just how much wealth is entering the hobby. These crypto bros are another breed and they have seen market manipulation on a scale I don’t think any other market has

@Linklightt @WordOfMeowthTCG only for rare vintage. Modern volume is huge and not easy to manipulate.

Somewhere out there a vendor is telling someone trying to sell one of these “yeah man I know, but that $8 k comp REALLY hurts you”

@TeeLopes Congrats. Much much deserved. Love your work :)

I have plaque

this past year i've been focusing on using social media way less and i have to say, it's been quite freeing. you never meet delusional people in the real world, it's genuinely an online exclusive feature

@csfloatcom This is why you guys are the best. Have you ever explored the idea of offering TF2 items for trading? I think you could really change that entire market because all the sites still use bots to trade and that poses a massive risk

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@TAHK0 They’re too scared to make Sonic Adventure 3. I don’t blame them either, they would mess it up lol. Idk what Sonic needs but I think firing everyone and starting from scratch would be a good starting point

at a certain point not everything can be dismissed with nostalgia this dude was just so cool

@AustinTani I’ve been trying to tell everyone that modern Pokemon is literally worthless, guess everyone will have to learn that hard way 😔

This card is emblematic for the pokémon “crash” of 2027. When the flippers are gone, and people realize their collections won’t infinitely go up and to the right, the whispers of panic will start. Group chats will hear of liquidations and to avoid holding “the bag” cards will start to flood the market with no liquidity. TCG or any auction based market i.e. ebay will always need buyers to price support. If no one bids on the auctions there will be constant downward pressure on values. That downward pressure sets new lows, sets new panic, and sets new sale demand. This creates a cycle of falling single prices. Don’t believe me? Ask the basketball and football fans who purchased hot rookies in 2018-2020. Once the buyers at auctions dried up their rookie PSA 10s fell off and then spiraled off a cliff. Even sealed wasn’t safe. Look at the graph I posted of the 2019 prizm box. Sealed out of print will hold steady with natural supply constraints but modern cards with PSA 10 pops of 30,000+ will not hold. The prices you see of phantasmal, ascended, destined rivals, third or fourth chase level and below will fall into irrelevance as new money / flippers / scalpers chase the new 2026, 2027, 2028 product. That new money will chase new product and won’t get diverted to the third or forth best card in the set years later. Think Tyler Herro of 2019 nba rookies. The Pokémon market won’t go away but if you think your $1,000 psa 10 ultra modern pokémon cards will be worth $10,000 in 2 years I would reconsider. This is not financial advice and to save yourself stress you should think of cards as cool rankings rather than flipping your wait to prosperity. Thank you coming to my Ted Talk.

@bizzaburaddo000 @Lewchube @Rhymestyle Still looks like trash. Fk BDSP and anyone who defends that garbage lol

@Lewchube @Rhymestyle Cherrypicking King as always. What if Goldenrod City looked like this.

NAH BUT THINK ABOUT IT, LEMME RUN AROUND JOHTO IN FULL 3D

@dafthias Best of luck sir 😌

my pokemon tcg vending journey begins

@softestsoft The SoCal card scene is so cooked. I actually know this guy 😭😭

bro told kim k they usually keep the guards.. helppp 🤣🤣🤣💀💀💀

@lillybyt3 @clouduhh @sh3ego Maybe in shitty ghetto areas. I’ve lived in California my whole life and have never heard of this lol

@clouduhh @sh3ego I’ve been told it’s a fight word by many so maybe people just have different meanings depending on where u live in Cali

When I call him “weird” but he’s from Cali so now I’m boutta catch a fade

@gabricait I don’t miss playing Valorant. I’m sorry you had to deal with this

i can’t believe you guys watch streamers like this 😭

@TeamAkaneia No way…

@Sheepsidian Yeah the most interesting part is you can literally feel the hard cut off in quality after Gen 5 is which specifically after Junichi Masuda stepped down from his Director role.

Again?? Okay. Pokémon fell off. They got so comfortable being at the top that they stopped trying. What's even worse is that people are okay with this. -Gens 1 and 2's plot involved a crime syndicate kidnapping Pokémon and selling them on the black market. -Gen 3 involved two eco-terrorists beefing with each other for territory and risking ecological upheaval. -Gen 4 had a man striving to create a "perfect universe" by destroying the current one. -Gen 5 had a man aiming to lay claim to a region using, dare I say, fascistic tactics to install a totalitarian regime. Also in Gen 5, Colress worked with Ghetsis while rejecting his ideology. Colress wanted to draw out the full potential of Pokémon even if it causes casualties. Can you tell which Gen is my favorite? This is when it starts to fall off. -Gen 6 had a man who wanted to rid the world of what he deems ugly by activating a weapon of mass destruction. -Gen 7 had delinquents led by a guy who was upset for losing to the [best] professor. You also had a woman who sought to preserve things she "loved" against their will. -Gen 8 had a VERY preventable plot where Fake Tony Stark wanted to immediately solve a problem that wouldn't happen for another 1000 years. -Gen 9 was about helping a guy find his parents, who were already dead after a freak accident involving time travel. Sounds pretty interesting, but you have to play through the other 88% of the game that doesn't talk about this first. A pointless school plot and a pointless plot involving kids who are misunderstood. Can you tell which Gen is my most disliked? All of this to say the storytelling got bland, and the interesting parts were muddled with blandness. The gimmicks began to replace creativity as the roster additions became smaller. They began to offer less content and replace it with visuals. Powering through processing problems doesn't cut it anymore. Pokémon Violet crashed on me four separate times, more than any game I've played since Fallout 3 on PS3 back in 2010. The worst part? Pokémon's audience. This isn't an attack on the fans, mind you. This is a critique of how the corpos get away with peddling "new thing" and raking in the money. They know they can metaphorically offer low-effort microwaved burger patties as long as it has the "essence" of Pokémon on it and the fans happily will lap it up at retail price. And now we have Pokémon, but it's DQB/AC/Minecraft and doesn't commit to just Pokémon since you're a Ditto cosplaying as a human. It's extremely difficult being a fan of Pokémon. My standards for a good Pokémon game aren't high at all, but they continually fall below that bar. I'm tired, man.

@vampahri I love him

what’s his problem

Damn even Japanese people think Pokemon is lazy and garbage nowadays 😭 they better clutch up for Gen 10 lol

@mimesical This was my favorite track in the game when I was a kid along with Pleasure Castle. Now I really appreciate Windy and Ripply on Emerald Coast & Crazy Robo from E-101’s fight. I could talk about the soundtrack for this game for ages. I find myself appreciating it more I replay

also something about the game's soundtrack is really comforting and nostalgic for me and I didn't even grow up with the game

@SherwoodSou @RetroCheevos Sexy

I forgot to post this but on @RetroCheevos I have officially mastered all of Generation 1-3 including Professor Oak Challenges :)

@SLOplays Pokemon needs a unique art style. IMO it still looks like a generic anime game. I think they were headed in the right direction with the 3DS games. If they’re going to do 3D, they need to have the black outlines. However, I do prefer the animated sprites of Gen 5 over 3D.

Is it a hot take to say Pokémon was truly the best when it had animated sprites like this?

@AuralSonic I have no idea what I am looking at but it looks sick af

I am so fucking funny.