Controversial
Are scalpers the reason this hobby is alive?
Not metaphorically. Literally. If we look at the photos people post of Pokémon sitting on Target shelves in 2019. Stacks of it. Untouched. Nobody fighting over it. Nobody streaming it. Nobody refreshing a page at midnight for it.
Why were the shelves full? Is it because nobody wanted it?
Then the scalpers showed up and did the one thing the Pokémon Company never could: they made it feel scarce. They made it feel valuable. They turned a kids’ card game into something that felt like it mattered, and the second something feels like it might be worth chasing, everyone wants in.
But here’s the part nobody admits. It was never really about the resale.
It’s about the kid who now begs to go to Target every week. The wife who started pulling packs “just to see.” The girlfriend who has her own binder now. The group chat that lost its mind over a drop. Scalpers gave us something to look forward to together — and something to complain about together.
That’s not a market. That’s a community. And it didn’t exist when the shelves were full.
We hate them. And yet we’ve never had more fun.
Yeah it’s a pain in the you know what to hunt these days, but I can truly say that I’m having fun making memories with my family through Pokemon
as much as i did love the base came, to call this a massive improvement over it would be an understatement. I'm glad it feels like they took a lot of the criticism in good faith. that ending though, I knew something had to happen but that's worse than i ever could've expected
Keep the light close, little ones. The show resumes.
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I won't be as mean as to call everyone talking about the triforce symbol tourists. But you can tell that there is a mental black hole spanning from TP to BotW in which people genuinely don't realize how much has changed since the original OoT
The crazy thing is I think the Hyrule Historia has existed for 15+ years now and explains a lot about the lore and connections between the games, feels like this isn't the hill to die on.
It's hard to truly explain how much damage Skyward Sword did to Ocarina indirectly. However, yes The Hero of Time being another incarnation of The Hero makes him the chosen of the triforce of courage by default. Ganon touching The Triforce is functionally irrelevant
weird detail. Link shouldn't have the Triforce of Courage here. that happens after Ganondorf gets into the Sacred Realm and the Triforce splits so Link doesn't have it until he's Adult Link. changing the story i guess? or maybe just visualizing the Triforce already chose him?
Okay why his hand glowing with the triforce when he’s asleep fairyless in his lil tree house if Ganondorf hasn’t entered the sacred realm and split the triforce yet