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| Topic | How many "Daily" games do you keep up with? |
| MariaTaylor 05/30/24 5:05:54 PM #25 | as close to 0 as possible. I hate when games try to ration my playtime for me. I'd rather play at my own pace.
I have occasionally picked up a game that has some daily elements, but I usually don't stick with them for more than a few days or MAYBE a few weeks. --- nothing could make you happier, am i right? https://i.imgur.com/CGTIEmB.png |
| Topic | I discovered a local TCG Scammer, should I mind my own business? |
| MariaTaylor 05/30/24 5:02:26 PM #16 | Grand_Kirby posted...
I kinda doubt even the diner owners would care or understand. You could bring it up with them to find out more about why it was set up and confirm the specifics about it, and then explain why you think it's manipulative to children and see what their response is. this is basically how I feel about it, yeah. I doubt the store owners would really care if I tried to explain it to them, and it would take a lot of effort, so I don't really want to do it. Shattered posted... Trading card stores (and eBay) also buy up bulk to do this. It's not a one off scenario you have run into, these things are all over under many different forms I know this guy isn't creative or intelligent enough to come up with this scam on his own, but it's still sad that he's scamming random children. -hotdogturtle-- posted... The strangest part about this is that a random regular person is allowed to set up a dispenser like that. this is the part that seems illegal to me. it feels like it probably requires a permit, which I doubt he has. I'm not the kind of person who is going to go out of my way to tattle tale on someone reselling trading cards without some kind of sales permit, but, if you're scamming children that's a different matter. Uglyface2 posted... If it bothers you a lot, talk to the owners. eh, not really 'a lot.' just enough to bring it up here since I figured people on board 8 might find it interesting. --- nothing could make you happier, am i right? https://i.imgur.com/CGTIEmB.png |
| Topic | I discovered a local TCG Scammer, should I mind my own business? |
| MariaTaylor 05/30/24 3:42:46 PM #1 |
So, at a local diner in my small town, I discovered someone running a trading card scam. There is a device set up in the lobby similar to the ones where you put in a few quarters and get something like a sticker or other overpriced small toy. Only this one seems to be privately owned and was set up by someone who doesn't own the building. I'm guessing he asked them for permission to put it there and they allowed it. The machine has his contact information on it, including his youtube channel, which I went and looked up. So, first of all, the machine dispenses pokemon, dragonball, and weiss schwartz trading cards (Not going to bother trying to spell that last one correctly, feel free to make fun of me if I got it wrong) On his youtube channel he has a lot of videos of him opening up various card packs. Now, you might understand where I'm going with this... The people who own the diner likely don't understand enough about this to really know what he is doing. Any kid who puts their money into the machine, or parent who gives their kid money for it, probably doesn't understand the purpose of this. But to me, it was pretty immediately obvious what he is doing; He is buying and opening card packs on his youtube channel. Then, he takes any of the low value cards that are only worth a few pennies, and sticks them into this machine. Some unsuspecting kid will then buy it from him for a dollar each. There is no way that he could get a dollar per card reselling his trash filler cards, so this seems to be a way for him to make up more than the value he spends buying each pack. First of all, I doubt he even has permission to be selling these cards, from a legal standpoint. Not in the way he's doing it. Honestly, I'm not the kind of person who would really go out of my way to bother someone if all they were doing was reselling cards, but this is a bit different. Here's the problem, and why I consider this to be a scam; If that kid goes and buys a pack from the store, they have a chance of getting some filler cards, some rare cards, and maybe something super valuable. But in this machine, they will NEVER pull any rare card EVER. It's a massive scam where you're paying a huge price for a single card, and it's guaranteed to always be his trash filler cards that he puts into this machine. You can certainly give this guy the benefit of the doubt and assume he is doing this in good faith, but I would be incredibly surprised if he has ever put a single high value card into this machine. In my mind, this is pretty obviously a scam. I'm just not sure if I should really do anything about it, or what I would even do. I thought about mentioning it to the store owner, but I haven't decided yet. Anyway, I thought board 8 might find it interesting, since I'm sure there are people here into various TCG. --- nothing could make you happier, am i right? https://i.imgur.com/CGTIEmB.png |
| Topic | Princess Dillos Showcase: [!pkmn] ][dillos] |
| MariaTaylor 05/29/24 8:36:24 AM #287 | Grimlyn posted...
Eunie shoes nice ! --- nothing could make you happier, am i right? https://i.imgur.com/CGTIEmB.png |
| Topic | Princess Dillos Showcase: [!pkmn] ][dillos] |
| MariaTaylor 05/28/24 9:11:40 AM #283 | how accurate are the shoes
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| Topic | Anyone here have experience with language learning apps? |
| MariaTaylor 05/14/24 1:16:16 AM #22 | Omniscientless posted...
No app is going to make you fluent. Duolingo is great to introduce you to the basics (grammar structures, basic vocabulary, common phrases), but you won't learn anything substantial until you invest on it. The only way to actually speak the language is by practicing speaking. For reading, start with children's stories or other simple media - playing a translated version of a game you're familiar with, for example. I also agree with this heavily. you need to pick up and learn from a variety of resources and make sure you work on all of your four major skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) equally. if you like DuoLingo, it's fine to keep using it as one of your language learning tools, but you need to show initiative and make effort into learning outside of just spamming DuoLingo lessons if you want to see real results. If I can give any praise to DuoLingo it's that a lot of questions have a 'topic thread' attached to them which you can view after you answer the question. these user driven discussions usually give a LOT more detail and context which DuoLingo itself does not provide you.his can help a ton with learning. although essentially I'm just praising the people who comment in these threads more than I'm praising DuoLingo itself. knowing the rules for why something is a certain way, and the subtle differences between very similar vocabulary is super important and it's often glossed over by DuoLingo itself. t --- nothing could make you happier, am i right? https://i.imgur.com/CGTIEmB.png |
| Topic | Anyone here have experience with language learning apps? |
| MariaTaylor 05/14/24 1:12:26 AM #21 | BrohanBlanco posted...
In the half hour since i made this topic i downloaded Duolingo and did like 5 levels. i was assuming its so casual and easy because i just started out and theyd ramp up the difficulty and complexity. it pretty much keeps doing the same thing over and over again. you will very slowly and gradually be introduced to new vocab and stuff but A. the format never changes and B. the amount of time it spends going over the SAME vocab is way, way too long and they never speed up the pace of learning. if anything it feels like it slows down over time. for learning a language I'd say the best apps are the language specific ones, which make sense. whatever language you are trying to learn, it's best to pick an app that is SOLELY focused on the development and learning of language skills for THAT language. rather than a one-size-fits-all website like DuoLingo. that being said I have had good experience with Memrise in the past. namely because it contains a library of user created lessons which means that if a user created a good lesson set for your language, you'll have access to that lesson set. ultimately I still think the best option is to find an app that was specifically created for learning your language. think of it this way; if you wanted to learn baseball would you rather go to baseball camp or "sports" camp? --- nothing could make you happier, am i right? https://i.imgur.com/CGTIEmB.png |
| Topic | Princess Dillos Showcase: [!pkmn] ][dillos] |
| MariaTaylor 04/25/24 1:43:40 AM #100 | Grimlyn posted...
well after the judge has made its decision, the jumbotron declares the victory, and everyone's kind of in shock including Ash who's pretty devastated about this loss - HOLD IT calls out Kahuna Hala! As he points out............ Rowlet can still fight! yes this was in the group of pokemon episode "highlights" that I saw on youtube. it's definitely one of the most infamous results of all time and peak hilarity. --- nothing could make you happier, am i right? https://i.imgur.com/CGTIEmB.png |
| Topic | Princess Dillos Showcase: [!pkmn] ][dillos] |
| MariaTaylor 04/18/24 1:00:12 PM #44 | Maniac64 posted...
Honestly three legit wins (I'm not counting besting Team Rocket) was better than I remembered. giovani leaving the gym in charge of the least competent team rocket members and ash getting a badge for defeating them is absolutely criminal. league officials should investigate this guy and revoke all of his kanto league wins. --- nothing could make you happier, am i right? https://i.imgur.com/CGTIEmB.png |
| Topic | Princess Dillos Showcase: [!pkmn] ][dillos] |
| MariaTaylor 04/17/24 9:37:45 PM #38 | I'd be Poison/Normal probably...
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| Topic | Do any of you here also use Reddit? |
| MariaTaylor 04/04/24 4:18:05 PM #43 | subreddit has active communities for almost anything you can think of. but when you go there it's about an 80-90% chance that the place is filled with people complaining. at least on board 8 there are some people who sometimes have fun and encourage positivity.
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