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Trading and N00bs
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ChaosKnuckles
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The Caption's ways are very jerkish. Espescially the first one. I always try to make my trades as fair as possible, but always a little on my side
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.The Captain
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Just a follower of social darwinism. I mean feel free to judge me all you want, but in the end i'll have all the cards. And thats what makes me happy so i don't loose any sleep over ripping off little kids. Heck in fact it makes me sleep better knowing that i can build any deck i want without spending money. And PokeMom looking at my post you know that i wouldn't risk big rips in a store like yours with people who acctually care around. If i do see your nOObs anywhere else however i won't hesitate to bleed them dry.
If i had kids and they got ripped i would certainly be angry. But the fact of the matter is that i don't so IDC one bit.
I may be "jerkish" online but if you met me in real life you would never know my intentions, i follow my own rules.
There are lots of people i know how don't hesitate to rip even on this site they just don't want to b e lables as a ripper don't think i'm the only one
Honestly the best approach if you have time.
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Right now I'm wondering how long of a ban I will recieve if I told you what I really thought. And right now it almost seems worth it.
For me personally I usually give them a little more than what it is worth. I know they will have never have the cards to do a Gardevoir deck so I will see what kind of deck they have, oh so you have a grass deck about your Gardevoir for my 2 Tangrowth and some more grass rares. I'm ahead if you look at playability but there ahead in price value I'm really helping them improve there deck and strengthen there lines I will usually even help them work it into their deck.
And Kristen this really isn't an insult to you but what did you expect like you said all you had were holo's and you knew the Eevee was 2 cents all you did was let the kid look at your book knowing you would tell him no on anything he wanted.
We all have to remember its these little kids "noobs" that support this game I bet you on average little kids buy more pack than most of us. Just my 2 cents
-Jay
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The Captain
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PM then, tell me what you think. I'll say what i think of you. nOObs do support the game they get cards for good players this is their purpose for me. They buy cards i take them they buy more cards everyone wins. . .
ApachePrime
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Part of me agrees with the captain. Kids NEED to learn that their cards are worth something. I don't think what 'mom is doing is entirely appropriate, as these kids should learn this lesson. However, this game is all about fun. I don't find it fun to be ripped off. Pokemon is not a place to be learning life lessons the hard way.
The Captain's methods listed make me ill. Ripping off children is neither funny, nor is it in the spirit of the game. Spirit of the Game applies at all times when playing Pokemon. If a kid has a good card you want, be fair and treat them like a human being.
'mom, I don't think your method is entirely necessary either, but I can definitely see it being better than the alternative with the captain here.
The Captain's methods listed make me ill. Ripping off children is neither funny, nor is it in the spirit of the game. Spirit of the Game applies at all times when playing Pokemon. If a kid has a good card you want, be fair and treat them like a human being.
'mom, I don't think your method is entirely necessary either, but I can definitely see it being better than the alternative with the captain here.
Every response the Captain makes.......is making my blood boil more and more.
It makes me glad to see that you aren't a professor at this point. I think I can speak for most of us when we say we wouldn't want someone like you in our ranks.
I agree that kids should know that they have cards that are worth something. But what about the ones that just started? They haven't been into the game long enough to learn values of cards. And ripping them like you are.....is far from the Spirit of the Game that we are supposed to follow. If I did what you do to every new kid that came to our league....the whole league would be bled dry. But no. Instead, we help them get decks built with the cards they have, and we often toss in some of our own. We look out for the players at our league, and we help each other out when we can.
By doing this, we get the cards we need. Because some kid will remember that we helped him build a deck when he first showed up, and he realizes that we're one card shy of building the deck we want to run. That's what's fair, and that's what makes people come back to our league. Because of how they are treated.
At tournaments, it's the same way. If I'm judging and I do a deck check and a kid has cards they can't use, I'll pull them and off to the side and help them build a deck. Even if it means giving them some of my cards. I don't mind it at all. Parents appreciate what I do for the game. I didn't realize it at all, but I have a few kids that go to tournaments that get really excited when they find out I'm judging their division. That's what makes it worthwhile. It's not worth tearing things apart over cardboard.
It makes me glad to see that you aren't a professor at this point. I think I can speak for most of us when we say we wouldn't want someone like you in our ranks.
I agree that kids should know that they have cards that are worth something. But what about the ones that just started? They haven't been into the game long enough to learn values of cards. And ripping them like you are.....is far from the Spirit of the Game that we are supposed to follow. If I did what you do to every new kid that came to our league....the whole league would be bled dry. But no. Instead, we help them get decks built with the cards they have, and we often toss in some of our own. We look out for the players at our league, and we help each other out when we can.
By doing this, we get the cards we need. Because some kid will remember that we helped him build a deck when he first showed up, and he realizes that we're one card shy of building the deck we want to run. That's what's fair, and that's what makes people come back to our league. Because of how they are treated.
At tournaments, it's the same way. If I'm judging and I do a deck check and a kid has cards they can't use, I'll pull them and off to the side and help them build a deck. Even if it means giving them some of my cards. I don't mind it at all. Parents appreciate what I do for the game. I didn't realize it at all, but I have a few kids that go to tournaments that get really excited when they find out I'm judging their division. That's what makes it worthwhile. It's not worth tearing things apart over cardboard.
DarthPika
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I simply ask what they would want for the card I want. Found most ppl will through in a Gardevoir or such card. I do try to make the trade fair though and not compleatly rip someone. (i do like it thought if its somewhat in my favor though lol)
The best trade is at nats when someone NEEDS a card for their deck (lets say a ralts, cuz almost no one brings their comons for trade) and you can get somthing like a 2t 2 rare. lol ( i wouldnt do this to a junior or senior, just a despret master. )
The best trade is at nats when someone NEEDS a card for their deck (lets say a ralts, cuz almost no one brings their comons for trade) and you can get somthing like a 2t 2 rare. lol ( i wouldnt do this to a junior or senior, just a despret master. )
meganium45
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I am thankful for...
The Captain being in Minnesota
I have friends in Minnesota, so I know that the Captain is not indicative of all of the players in the area.
The league leader should take this guy and well...
I like my professorship, but a trader like this, if reported, would not last long and any of MY leagues.
I was tempted to lock this thread, but is it better to expose the Captain for who he is, than have us not know about him.
Reading this, how many people want to trade with him in the trading forums?
Vince
The Captain being in Minnesota
I have friends in Minnesota, so I know that the Captain is not indicative of all of the players in the area.
The league leader should take this guy and well...
I like my professorship, but a trader like this, if reported, would not last long and any of MY leagues.
I was tempted to lock this thread, but is it better to expose the Captain for who he is, than have us not know about him.
Reading this, how many people want to trade with him in the trading forums?
Vince
shouldn't that be, steals rare candies from babies?
'mom
Well, the Captain's way is certainly not the way we run things in Ohio or at least not if I or the other LLs/Profs see it. We don't go quite as far as 'Mom and require trades to go through us but our eyes and ears are open especially around little ones and we make sure that things are fair or balanced in the kid's favor. We often just give cards away to young players - yeah, they are usually commons and uncommons but still getting a card that you wanted for free is awesome. And I've sometimes traded something (fairly) even when I didn't really need a trade because a little one is soooo excited about finding a card to be cherished. Even outside of league, I try to give parents and new players the general guideline of a rare for a rare, an uncommon for an uncommon, etc. and show them the symbols. As stated, part of our responsibility as professors is to make the game fun and fair. And beyond that part of our responsibility as civilized human beings is to treat others as we would like to be treated. I know that is an ideal world but I'm willing to do my little part for that.
kristi
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lol. Good one. :lol:
The Captain
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Exposing me? How foolish i'm clearly the one exposing my self don't think that your doing anything. And all of you who say that their aren't people like me your dead wrong you just don't know that they are doing it. And no one can do anything to me. Thats why i'm keeping this going now. Hopefully some people take my advice. But to all those who don't i relish in the fact that it "makes your blood boil" because people like you are the ones that tend to ruin it for people like me. So let your blood boil untill it reaches its breaking point, knowing that i'll keep doing this and just know that theres nothing you can do about it. so smile and know that this saturday some noob will get ripped by me. And know that i'll go on to win my local tourny and all those same kids will look up to me.
So what should my legue leader showld do what with me: beat me senseless, steal my cards, ban me from one of the many stores in my area. Yea what would that do to me
And 'pop' feel free too give my that title i'd actually want it.
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You really are proud of yourself aren't you? God, if I see you at nats.......you don't want to know.
The Captain
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No i want to know. I'll be at nats for sure my whole rippin' crew will be. I dare you. I'll send you a picture of us if you want. If you want i'll send you a pic of the kids i rip and my collection as it is too so your have something to get you going. Just name the time and place. Lol i hope you have kids so i can rip them too. Like i said i'm untouchable. And even if i'm not there will always be another ripper like me, but maybe not as skilled as me.
Heck if you want to play for cards i'll rip you apart anyday.
woodchippu
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*ahem* Your sentence structure needs work. You cannot start a sentence with the word 'and'. Also, the word 'too' is meant to be used in the form of 'to' in the context you use it in. There should be one singular comma after the word 'title', to pause one thought and start another mid-sentence. The pronoun contraction of 'I would', is not properly capitalized, and should be read, 'I'd'.
Also, here is a reference to your thought process from the pen of one of it's (Social Darwinism) most fervent Philosopher's (philosopher meaning- as Webster's new edition dictates, "a person who offers views or theories on profound questions in ethics, metaphysics, logic, and other related fields"). The man who I am about to quote, went by the name of Friedrich Nietzsche, and he wrote on Darwin's theories:
"Wherever progress is to ensue, deviating natures are of greatest importance. Every progress of the whole must be preceded by a partial weakening. The strongest natures retain the type, the weaker ones help to advance it.
Something similar also happens in the individual. There is rarely a degeneration, a truncation, or even a vice or any physical or moral loss without an advantage somewhere else. In a warlike and restless clan, for example, the sicklier man may have occasion to be alone, and may therefore become quieter and wiser; the one-eyed man will have one eye the stronger; the blind man will see deeper inwardly, and certainly hear better. To this extent, the famous theory of the survival of the fittest does not seem to me to be the only viewpoint from which to explain the progress of strengthening of a man or of a race."
The question in your own mind may be, "Does he think I'm wrong or not?", and my answer is a simple, 'No'. I do not find you anymore worthy of conviction than anyone else who has lived in and reveled in their own sins ('sins' being what the general populous deems as wrong or immoral). After all, Hitler, Stalin, Caligula- they all thought that they were doing what was best for themselves and their countryman. Though, each of them suffered from highly self influential mentally dehabilitating diseases.
-Brandon
Frankly, you aren't worth my time. I'd prefer to associate myself with people a little higher up than you. One day, karma will get back at you. And then you'll realize just how "untouchable" you really are.
Oh yeah....one other thing.
Become an adult first, and then we'll talk. I'd rather not deal with kids like you.
Oh yeah....one other thing.
Become an adult first, and then we'll talk. I'd rather not deal with kids like you.
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The Captain
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you want to know why your correcting my sentence structure because you have nothing else on me. You may say i'm like hitler and in a way i guess your right but. But they were some of the most powerful people to ever live their names will forever be engraved in this world so thanks for your comparison. As long as i'm happy it doesn't even matter whaT YOU ALL SAY.
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