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Discard 2 of the other cards from your hand in order to search your deck for any card and put it into your hand. Shuffle your deck afterward.
illus. Keiji Kinebuchi
Formats: Other: 1999–2001
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Mantidactyle
Did Pokemon Card Laboratory playtested this game before printing broken Trainers like this one ?
WilliamH.
Yeah no kidding!
Ordering a set now. ^_^
TheDewottClan
I want to know how they got a card this broken in legally.
TheDewottClan
I think this might be the next sneasel EX. In that it gets banned.
Curtis
Sneasel ex wasn’t banned. Sneasel from Neo Genesis was.
Curtis
Aslo, Base era Pokemon were much weaker back then, so broken trainers get a pass.
dado dada
DAM.
Mantidactyle
Hopefully they limited it at 1 per deck in Cold Flare
RJ Kucia
They did, it’s an Ace Spec card.
Mantidactyle
Ok, I think I misunderstood the meaning of “hopefully” in English, I wanted to say something along the lines of “heureusement” in French :P
I know they did, what I meant is “fortunately”.
Curtis
A reprint? YAY!
Wait? What? The reprint is an Ace Spec? So…. You mean I can only run 1 copy? NOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Seriosly, its almost as bad as Supporter Bill.
feyblade
This opens the door to all sorts of other cards getting reprinted and ace spec’d,too. Scoop up, energy removal, perhaps even Erika (what with the Pokemon World Tournament thing that occurs ingame in b2w2.) These next few sets could have a large impact on the available trainers in unlimited
Curtis
I know, and I don’t like it. Especially because Bill is officially retconned as a Supporter to people playing older formats for fun. Now that Computer Search is limited to 1, they’re one Professor Oak reprint away from making the Base – Fossil/Team Rocket/Gym Challenge/Whatever format completely unplayable under offficial rules.
Mantidactyle
Imo, if you play old formats, you should use the old rules
Curtis
I agree. But technically, you’re not supposed to.
coolestman22
I would have to disagree. Computer Search will still see play in non-Kyurem EX decks and non-tank decks, even as an Ace Spec.
Curtis
Its definately worth playing, that’s for sure. Just calling it the same thing but nerfing it ruins the original. That’s what I was referring to with my Bill comparison.
HEZ
Ugh, I know what you mean. I’m sick of the designers (especially in B+W series) ruining old cards for no good reason. A slightly different name would have done the trick… I doubt the English one will have a different name though seeing as they’ve already errata’d Great Ball, Pokemon Center and Super Rod recently.
Will be discussing this with the 150 guys and seeing if we’re going to do a Bill on it : P
coolestman22
In 150 you can only play one Computer Search anyway though, right?
HEZ
Yes, but then it’d be using up your ACE SPEC. slot for the deck. Not too bad at the moment, but it may begin to feel limiting as more ACE SPECs are released. I’d say no action for the time being, but perhaps in the future (especially if they ACE a bunch of other old Trainers) we could consider ACE SPECs and normal versions of a card 2 different cards similar to the Trainer Bill and Supporter Bill ruling in 150.
coolestman22
You should consider not having any specific limitations for Ace Specs. I think it’s a legit idea since they’re hard enough to pull out as 1 card in 100 card decks. They aren’t that broken.
Mantidactyle
Computer Search will be played in every single deck of the metagame, period.
coolestman22
Some decks would rather have Gold Potion (And maybe there will be a few Crystal Wall/Edge running around, but it’s unlikely)
Mantidactyle
I’m 99.9% sure no deck will ever play Gold Potion because having a Computer Search in the deck is just so much better
Healing 90HP from the active is not that great, really, I’d even say it’s relatively weak in this metagame.
coolestman22
Well, Flygon BW6 likes to heal. It might see play in Flygon “Hejustsitsthere” type decks.
Mantidactyle
Believe me, 90HP isn’t going to make it last longer…
coolestman22
Darkrai does 90. Garchomp does 100.
What was that again?
Mantidactyle
Garchomp OHKO Flygon.
Darkrai will often do more than 90 with Dark Claw / Plus Power, and will continue to snipe the bench.
A single 90HP healing that you might sometimes top-deck but prevents you from playing Computer Search isn’t a good card.
Ziggmiceter
Darkrai will often do 90. Period.
coolestman22
Oh, I forgot about Dragon Weakness, but Dark Claw and PlusPower lose Junk Arm and possibly some playability, and Tool Scrappr says hi to Dark Claw.
TheDewottClan
Gold potion is good but computer search is just better it lets you get any card and benefits zekeels with discards. Gold potion may see play in decks that have a darkrai problem but Computer Search is just better.
Quarter-Turn
I agree completely. I don’t think Gold Potion will see too much play, primarily because Computer Search, even as a one-of, is so strong. But we’ll have to wait and see what happens.
coolestman22
Wait, so if Computer Search is an Ace Spec, are we allowed to use old Computer Search as new Computer Search in Modified?
Curtis
We were allowed to use the old Trainer Bill as Supporter Bill, so I don’t see why not. I’m not sure if a reference will be needed or not, though.
coolestman22
Awesome. Glad I got Computer Searches from Troll and toad, those are going to be rares at the least.
reshikrom64
I love how you can mindlessly press <- when rating this.
Tokiwa City Smuggle
The prototype for this card would have been even more broken, the prototype allows you to use it without discarding a single card from your hand! That flavor of the text should’ve been the Ace Spec version!!
Twylis
It’s fascinating how people from a decade ago were saying how broken this is, when Gust of Wind and Energy Removal were far, *far* more destructive to the meta — respectively making most evolutions and multi-attachment attackers nearly unplayable, respectively. All Computer Search ever did was make decks a bit more consistent, which while that does eventually allow obnoxious turn-1 combos to become viable, those combos didn’t really exist back then. Out of all the absurd Trainers hailing from Gen 1, this is actually one of the *least* broken, especially since there weren’t even any good Ball cards back then.
Ambassador
THAT’S MAGNEMITE
pokespiracy
yeah, deltaseeker pointed that out in a video! the ace spec version is more obvious too
Ambassador
..a video? Like, Youtube? I knew someone was eventually gonna mine this stuff for content, lol. I tried to do it but my heart wasn’t in it. When you have so many extant resources, like this site, for cataloging information, it felt aimless. >_<
Nos
I feel like you’d enjoy DeltaSeeker’s stuff. It’s all very esoteric and fun, like what you do in the comments here :p
Ambassador
Someone recently linked me to their most recent video and I’m pretty sure the reason the content is similar is because they’re ripping the bulk of it from the comments here. I don’t care – we’re in an age where everyone wants credit and clout for every last thing, and this deliberately is not my “main” username – but it’d really be nice to see more explicit credit/acknowledgement so that other people can join the conversation.
SIMBA
DeltaSeeker does literally have this site listed as a source under his videos iirc – never liked his stuff though personally! Love what channels like rubyretro & celio do, but never subbed to deltaseeker…
To his credit though his cameo video that includes this card was uploaded well before this comment went up
Ambassador
Yeah, you’re correct, they are doing some research themselves, and this would be an example of it. I won’t get into the ins and outs and every last thing but it’s also possible some of the stuff they include in their videos could be coincidental – e.g. they might independently look into the same things we’ve done here without having checked the comments here, the same way I’ve often ended up redoing the same things already documented on Jason Klaczynski’s website, Japanese blogs like Daydream Holic Night, and so forth.
What tips it for me is when some of the more speculative posts made on here, never documented anywhere else, gets stated as fact in this individual’s videos. I won’t name every last example or cause a scene in the comments section here, because I get it. As a social experiment I recently got into a hobby I didn’t know too much about, didn’t have a large YouTube penetration, and made videos where I went out of my way to credit sources, encourage people to do their own research, contribute to the hobby ..most YouTube viewers don’t. But some do, and the videos are a stepping stone to their involvement and contribution in hobbies – so long as the videos themselves include sufficient credit and attributions.
I’d also say this – anyone interested in making videos about this stuff, get involved and contribute as well. If you’re going to browse sites like this to find trivias, lurk in Discord servers to ask people to provide you free research, or just generally lurk on the internet and hoover up 90% of content for your videos – give that 10% of independent research you do back to the community. Jason Klaczynski didn’t make me watch a 20 minute video to get to the information I wanted to see, Daydream Holic Night didn’t make me watch a 20 minute video to get to the information I wanted to see, etc. and so on. If you want to augment your contributions to a community-driven site with your own videos, hey, that’s awesome – because you’ll reach that mostly passive audience that never gets involved anyways, and make some coin for yourself too – but I’m not impressed when video channels act like this black hole and terminus point for any and all information.
ambassador_tcg[at]proton[dot]me
So that Delta Seeker fellow has deleted a comment I left on his most recent video asking for more collaborative contribution to the hobby and/or clearer credits. Make of this what you will, but I’m obviously not impressed. I’m batting around ideas of what to do with the kind of posts here to ensure they end up publicly available while also not being grabbed by others who pass it off as their own research. If anyone has any thoughts on the best way to go about this, please let me know – speaking only for myself, changing nothing in my approach and letting it happen again doesn’t strike me as a sensible thing to do.
Pidgeotto
This seems very misguided. I don’t know what you commented on that channel, but in all of the videos I have seen, they seem harmless as a way to present info gathered from various sources in a way that in more easily digestible in the current internet culture than reading a bunch of comments on various cards. The idea of going around this site (which is ostensibly a card database with a comment section) and trying to prevent others from gathering these publically available comments in order to, I dunno, make people do the work themselves?, seems rather unproductive. You claim the channel is trying to “pass it off as their own research” when they link the website in the description? What more would you have them do?
Nos
I’m not even sure what DeltaSeeker has talked about that is exclusively the opinions of people who comment on this site. It’s okay if multiple people like to talk about esoteric Pokémon trivia, and if everyone’s doing their research correctly it’s going to lead to the same sources. I can imagine ignoring comments that are accusatory in nature (though deletion might be a bit much) but I can see molehills in the process of being turned into mountains here.
Ambassador
The tl;dr is that Delta Seeker stopped posting videos on his channel in 2021, and I started regular posting here in 2022. In early 2023, Delta Seeker resumed posting on his channel, and one of his 2023 videos has observations that has significant overlap with posts I and others on this site made in 2022 going into 2023.
Delta Seeker has admitted that he does “no original research” and simply scours extant websites for information – which to me is already sufficient to disregard him – but he’s said that while he’s aware of this site and uses it for images, he didn’t know the site has a comment section. Considering when you open this site, comments are immediately apparent, that just doesn’t sound right.
Another unusual tell is that he has begun to link to pcg-search.com in his videos as a source. He was already regularly using pokumon as a resource, both by his own admission, and already known since he linked to it in the videos. pcg-search.com is, technically, not providing anything that pokumon isn’t (neither cards, nor scans, nor data), and the reasons I’ve personally become partial to it as a resource is idiosyncratic. For most of the English fanbase, pcg-search won’t *really* offer anything pokumon isn’t.
In Delta Seeker’s own words; “None of my research was original, so I tried to take a lot of previously-documented information and create some kind of story and comparison out of it, which I don’t think has been done like that before. Even though some of my favorite creators like Cybershell make videos just re-telling information from fan websites, I tried to avoid that here and be as transformative as possible. ”
If you’re not familiar with Cybershell, I consider him the gold standard in how to approach sharing/re-telling the information from fan sites – extended periods of time showing message board screenshots, sharing usernames, etc. and it’s completely out of touch to use that as an example of …what he didn’t want to do? He just reads like he doesn’t want to source things because he doesn’t want to source things, and just linking a website in a video description is hardly sufficient. As someone who has a Youtube channel and deliberately buries my most interesting content in video descriptions to see if anyone reads them – nobody reads, something already known to anyone who has spent any period of time on the site. Not crediting anyone in the video itself is as good as not giving credit, whether it’s you, me, or anyone else commenting on here. The argument might pivot to “well, he didn’t get it from here” and I’d say sure, fine, then, since we know he’s said he doesn’t do any of his own research, show where you DID get it from. Was it Elite Four? Was it Pokegym? I’d be interested myself, given the apparent high overlap of topics, because I’d like to join the conversation there too!
This isn’t what some Youtubers tend to do, though. They deliberately imply – I’d go so far as to suggest they’re lying by omission, but I’ll stop short to keep the conversation civil – that this is research they’ve done themselves. When someone replies “Wow, the research you’ve done is amazing!” you do NOT see the channel reply “thanks, but it was actually done by …. – you should check them out!” and so the implication continues.
There are some good Pokémon Youtube managers out there – though I’ve never watched a single one of his videos, I recognize the name Lewtwo/Lewchube when it pops up on my front page as someone who’s putting a fair amount of time into trying to clean up the media section of Bulbapedia. None immediately come to mind, but there ARE examples of people with Youtube channels who DO collaborate with the community, and contribute to it – be it an established community fansite like Bulbapedia, Elite Four, or pkmncards(!), their own fansite (WPM of Pokébeach and Justin Basil who works on his own site AND Pokébeach)… you see people give back.
I don’t recognize “Delta Seeker”. I don’t see any contributions under that username here or any other fansite, and when I challenged him on this, he didn’t offer any. Anything people like this do is a one way relationship – they will take things to include in their own video, but on the off-chance they do do any unique research, it remains exclusive to their video – where it usually cannot be brute force text searched, and the burden to manually text enter it onto a site like Bulbapedia (as an example) is shifted onto the audience, who invariably end up citing that video as a source. Free advertising for them, how convenient.
Speaking only for myself, my comments on here are meant to enter the fandom’s collective consciousness. I’m very conscientiously aware that the admins of the site could decide to abandon the site tomorrow, decide they don’t like me and delete all the comments, etc etc and so you might wonder what the underlying motive is, here? It’s been a fun – almost therapeutic! – pastime and the infrastructure to share the data is very convenient here. Negotiating with Bulbapedia admins can be exhausting and the moderation staff has, so far, been more passive here.
When you post something online and share it with the fandom’s collective consciousness, there is an element of post-authorship. It’s not your information anymore, it’s everyone’s. But that doesn’t mean a third party can show up and do whatever. The social norms and mores of the internet are still in place as unwritten rules – if you know where you got your information from, say so.
Again, to go back to the argument “actually, I didn’t get it from you” – because I didn’t keep receipts of when I made what entries when, and this site’s timestamp system is a bit borked – I won’t be able to prove it, and honestly even if I could I wouldn’t care to do it. So let’s go ahead and assume he’s right, because I’ve failed to meet the burden of proof. Well, then, where DID he get it from? Don’t use Cybershell as an example of what not to do, because Cybershell is doing what I did, he did, and a lot of other people who contributed to fan wikis, fansites, etc. have done online for a very long time, and still continue to do*. DO what Cybershell does, do what everyone else did – you’re not allowed to do so because you’re special, you’re just not doing so because you don’t think you have to.
For not doing so, Delta Seeker has created his own situation where he has failed to meet a burden of proof – basic citation! Just listing off websites in a description nobody reads isn’t citation, and anyone who’s gone through a high school English class knows it’s disingenuous to suggest otherwise. Honestly, an entire generation of people want to play “you might think it’s just a hobby, but it’s a SERIOUS topic and I can make a video essay that makes it seem borderline academic!” but can’t be bothered to emulate the basic building blocks of academic – and internet legacy – which is to acknowledge where your information comes from.
* “Ok, but some peole didn’t.” Yes, and they were called out for it.
SIMBA
Well whatever you make of this whole fiasco, I hope to keep seeing your tidbits and trivia around here! They are very fun to read and finding a deep dive you’ve done on a card I happen to be looking at is always a plus
Twylis
Not knowing the specific examples, I can agree that it sucks — this site is a database for the cards themselves, and the research and conjecture of the commenters aren’t something that should just be cited with a cursory reference to “pkmncards.com”. It’s within the terms of the site — first line of the content license is “You still own your content. You retain ownership of all content you post on PkmnCards.” For most stuff, it’s just whatever, but for comments that involve a ton of research, navigating translation services, cross-referencing other databases (often using those translation services), or even actual statistical analysis with the retreat cost thing, having one’s role in that erased so some poketuber can present it as if it’s the product of their own research (while potentially profiting off it!) is kinda actively gross.
At the same time though, it’s still just Pokemon at the end of the day, and I feel like I give a multibillion dollar children’s franchise more emotional energy than it actually warrants as is.
Perhaps there’s merit to just calling yourself a “Professional Pokemon Researcher”, setting up a Patreon, and having a centralized place where your research ends up where it can all be attributed to you as a “content creator” in addition to still posting it here. Doesn’t guarantee an audience, but at least that way you have a directly citable online presence with full timestamps :U
Ambassador
That could work fine as a proof of concept. I recently worked on a project where I uploaded content to a Youtube channel at the exact same time as I shared the exact information onto a community organized information, and basically presented it as
(1) These videos are basically redundant to the website and. You can get through the information quicker by reading the site than watching these videos. The videos don’t need to exist.
(2) Making these videos is time-consuming. You may contribute to my Patreon as a show of thanks if you enjoy them [since, ironically, my channel was demonetized for “reusing content”. There’s something to be said about someone at Youtube assuming I’m reusing content when I’m basically citing myself, but channels that don’t cite sources are assumed to be original content, and left monetized.]
And I did receive a non-trivial amount of financial support. It could be done.
I’ve discussed the premise of “listen, going after this one Youtuber in particular isn’t going to work anyway, because if it wasn’t him, it’d be someone else” with a few people – folks who post here, folks who lurk here, folks on TCGOne, other fansites, and the response so far, from folks on the same wavelength is, “the answer is to start a Youtube channel and do it the right way so these shmucks stop doing it the wrong way.” which I agree with, but the answer, in my own mind is “I don’t WANT to start a Youtube channel, I want to keep doing this hobby without worrying about someone grifting off me or anyone else who posts” and the solution to that is, simply, good old fashioned gatekeeping. But that has to be done collectively, as a community – and if I don’t see buy-in on that, then I’m personally bouncing. I’m not saying this person has to be chased out and thrown into the fires, but the idea that “I don’t see what they’ve done wrong, they’re fine not to follow the same format of citation that everyone else is following because” some reason – and any reason, whatsoever, is insufficient – then I’m out.
My own trajectory insofar as how I got here is a very very long time ago, after Nick15 of Pokémon Aaah! shared some early images of cards from EX Sandstorm, I posted a comment in his forums saying something along the lines of “several of these cards don’t seem to have been released in Japan before [are they US exclusive, or US debuts]?” and the next post to his site was pointing this out, and crediting me for the observation! The citation wasn’t a link to Pokémon Aaah, it was to *Ambassador* (or whatever username it was I was using at the time). And, years later, loitering about the internet, I remembered Pokémon Aaah existed, and saw he shared an article about Ike Lawliet doing a ton of research in WOTC’s Jamboree, how WOTC lost the TCG license, etc. Nick did NOT do a writeup himself and then just link to the frontpage of Lawliet’s site, he said “here’s what this guy has done, here’s the link to his article, it’s awesome, you should read it.” After seeing all other elements of this franchise’s fanbase decay to an absolutely disgusting state, the old norms and traditions of the sane internet seemed present in the TCG community. Bless my heart, I can find something to enjoy about this franchise I have some weird fixation with, without being stressed out after all.
I’m shocked this is trivial to people, but the TCG audience seems to mostly skew older, and I know every real-world interaction I’ve ever had with a fellow collector, at a league, has been so polite as to occasionally be a problem. Online, sure, mixed bag. Scalping has become a thing in the community, there were obvious problems on here last year with someone trying to inject politics into the post and/or username of every comment they made ..but honestly? These kinds of people don’t really enjoy the cards for themselves. They want to collect only the high value ones, they want to get the “first”! post in on the chase cards, etc. and that makes it so easy to carve out a niche for yourself by finding the joys in the cards you love that you know they’re overlooking.
Like I said, I’m talking to people who agree with me, but I also know the majority don’t. Delta Seeker isn’t what’s making me feel I need to find some other hobby to unwind with, it’s the collective lack of recognizing what’s going on here. These are the exact same early warning signs of what made Pokémon VG discourse unbearable, etc. and it wasn’t any individual content grifter/contrarian Youtuber/etc. that doomed the whole thing – it was the extant community’s collective shrug. One person cannot do the *collective* job of gatekeeping, and I’m just going to look like a jerk if I were to try and do that anyways? If, genuinely, you see nothing wrong with what that channel did and don’t see so much as a need to say “hey, listen, Ambassador went over the top but he DOES have a point” then, well, the writing is on the wall. Delta Seeker is receiving revenue for putting a fraction of the time into things you and I and so many hundreds of contributors have put in and never received so much as a cent for, and the community has decided “yes, this is fine” – you decide what to make it for yourself, but I’m reading that as a sign of “cheers, Ambassador, but we’ve had enough of you and we’d like someone else to take over now.”
djcashtag
Ambassador, I know I speak for many people on this site when I say we deeply appreciate the consistent quality & thoroughness of your research, while we may be too busy or shy to post we greatly enjoy coming here to see what new & exciting discoveries, connections, & insights you have unearthed in the wonderful world of the Pokémon TCG! We thank you for all your amazing efforts & always look forward to what you will uncover in the future!
That being said, this site is a very small & niche community dwarfed by the massive weight of the world’s #1 franchise; the viewership of small creators like DeltaSeeker, Ruby Retro, Celio’s Network may not represent the tiny user-base of this site, & those channels are extremely tiny compared to juggernauts like Leonhart or Maxmoefoe. Even if we fully agree with you we simply don’t have the raw number of users logistically to brigade every channel you don’t like; we are not your personal army. If Delta deleted your comment he’d surely remove others like it so any gate-keeping support wouldn’t get through anyway.
I understand it can be very frustrating seeing someone become modestly successful off of your research & you have been discouraged from starting a YT channel based on your past experience; maybe this is a sign to give it another try? You could consider working with another channel & providing scripts/research/topics while leaving the editing, visuals & presentations to your collaborator, does that sound more appealing? You’d be able to reach a much wider audience via the YT medium & receive more recognition for it too, sounds like a dream job to me & if anyone can do it it’d be you!
I’m rooting for you Amb, give ’em a solid Water Punch! (reference to your call-out comment on Kabutops ex which nearly made me spit out my coffee it was so funny)
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ambassador[at]proton[dot]me
Hey, absolutely don’t bother to comment on that channel’s video for the reasons you outlined – they’ll just get deleted anyway. I mentioned that I posted and it got deleted to indicate “alright, this is a guy that isn’t going to own up, and isn’t going to play ball.” I wouldn’t even be asking you to go in there and ‘defend’ my posts – as mentioned, I didn’t keep receipts of mine/our collective posts, and I was using myself and my own specific “I’m pretty sure this video is just ripping off posts that have been made on this site” to indicate there was smoke, and vocalize as much to see if anyone could point to a fire. A fire’s already been identified – his most recent video is definitely ripping off an article I’ve already mentioned here and previously linked to on this site (coincidentally, another EX Sandstorm card, on top of the aforementioned Kabutops ex), and DeltaSeeker is being demonstrably disingenuous there too.
So, nah, I think if my posts are reading as a “what would you actually have us do?” then I’m still – and I’m a little bit sorry to say this – coming across a bit too optimistic. It seems like all online communities reach a point where there is a loss of common understanding of what the rules underpinning that community are, but when this happens it isn’t immediately noticed – it is noticed when the next big stressor is introduced, which can be days, weeks, months, maybe even years after that loss of common understanding occurs. These stressors are usually sudden influxes of new members to the community, at which point it’s an unquestionable system collapse – the new members are en masse violating what used to be collectively understood to be the rules/norms of the community, but they aren’t acknowledged/corrected by the community in an organized fashion, because it’s when one person attempts to say “hey, that’s now how we do things here” to a new member who isn’t following the rules, and then aren’t sufficiently backed up because there is no longer a consensus on what the rules are. So it’s too late – the established members will be too preoccupied bickering with each other internally to address the new systemic stressor, and the new members will continue to break the rules in the interim. Even if the established members finally reach some kind of consensus or new understanding on how to address the situation, once they leave the proverbial “meeting room” they will find they are now outnumbered and overwhelmed by the new members, who have now already fully established their own new set of rules/norms for the community they’ve invaded.
I have experienced this in several online communities over the many, many years of being online to now be able to recognize the early signs of their descent/demise. It isn’t to undermine the positive comments about the TCG community I’ve made above – they were true and still are true, but I suspect in the next few years, they will no longer be true.
I am happy with the time I’ve spent here, it’s been therapeutic. I’ve had a chance to talk to a few people and share my passion about these cards, and it’s been nice to get another shot at living in what felt like the internet etiquette of the mid-2000s. Yours and other comments on the site showing appreciation of comments is very flattering, and I hope some of the positive comments I’ve left on others have made other folks happy. But I really do mean what I meant by the above – “cheers, Ambassador, but we’ve had enough of you and we’d like someone else to take over now” is in reference to the new members of this community who are going to write its new set of rules, one I presume will result in the miserable state of discourse of, for example, Pokémon VG discussion. And the new members *are* going to write that new set of rules, because we can now clearly see that the established members aren’t on the same page.
I’m not terrifically happy for this to be my last comment on the site. I know I still have to make one comment to follow up on a train of thought I started on EX Poochyena, and I’ll pick one other card to leave a post on. I have really only one request of the admin team of the site, which is that while you can edit out some portions of any of the comments I’ve left here (e.g. if you’d like to censor out specific mentions of any other fansites to avoid conflict, that’s fine), that you might only delete any of the comments I’ve left here so long as *all* the comments I’ve ever left on the site are deleted. I always wrote my comments with future readers in mind – someone perusing the site in 5-10 years and seeing comments from that long ago, just like the age of most of the comments on the site I was reading when I was browsing it – and these comments will be informative to future readers of what TCG discourse was like in 2023.
MasterMarkus
Maybe it’s because I’m new to the site, but I don’t understand why this all adds up to you thinking other people are saying “We don’t want to hear from you anymore” and that you should leave the site?
parttimetcgcollector
I hope it is not too late for you to see my reply, but people are too dimwitted and careless to even bother to check, question the sources. Throughout human civilization, people take others’ work and claim ownership. But then, there are these dimwitted, carefree audience who does not practice skepticism and either question the individual or do an investigation. They are just as bad as the thief. Safe to say pokemon tcg community doesn’t deserve you Ambassador.
Ambassador
I’ve been notified that the main video in question that was offending was successfully taken down after a valid copyright claim was submitted by a third party. I’m glad of this and think it means I can be comfortable in this fan scene for hopefully a little while longer – if I get proven wrong on all the above, I’ll be happy! Still, I think I’ll focus most of my research on my blog for now – this was all a good sign for me to consider some level of propriety and balance stuff out so the next time this happens my reaction can be more moderated (or at least more contained somewhere else) as I won’t have over-invested myself in a setting I don’t have full control of. Thanks all for kind words and thanks for criticism as well, gives insight on everything.