(S11) - PT 4 - Card Collecting

[Phobospwns]

GOMHL Media

[harvey]

SHL Affiliation

[Renrut]

Childish Gambino used to love collecting baseball cards and Pokémon cards. When he would visit his grandparents, he would spend hours and hours going through all of his grandpas old cards in hopes of being able to shock his Grandpa with that special and/or rare card that he may have forgotten about. Having to go through hundreds and hundreds of boxes, he didn’t find that rare card. As he continued to grow up he started to give up baseball card collecting and would play Pokémon with his friends. All the kids on the block were after an elusive Charizard card, one that took them weeks, hell months to find. Every couple dollars they got, they would buy a pack of cards in hopes of landing the Charizard. Every birthday the friends had, they bought packs of cards for each other and secretly wished that the Charizard was not in that pack. One day his friend Steve came to his birthday party with 5 packs of cards for Gambino. Steve disappeared for a while during the party and so did the cards. We found the opened wrappers in the downstairs toilet, yet Steve was nowhere to be seen. The next day Steve just happened to have a brand new Charizard card. Fuck Steve.

When Gambino’s grandfather passed away, he gave all the cards to Childish and it sparked a renewed interest in going through them again. Countless hours were spent going through those boxes until one day he couldn’t believe his eyes. A 1933 Goudey Babe Ruth card worth an estimated $55,000 and beyond. He still owns that card today and refuses to sell.


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[DonnoMania]

In his youth, Devo Cansino would often collect Yu-Gi-Oh cards seeing how he'd see kids his age at the time playing the game during lunch time and trading them around in other places. He started off with a little starter deck that was pretty shit (as all starter packs are.) and he absolutely sucked in battles against other kids, but that didn't stop him from buying more cards and of course stealing cards from unexpecting children because... Let's honest here, did you have a sense of self-integrity as a child? Nevermind. Back on track, Devo would eventually collect more and more cards making his decks both good and somewhat valuable in tournaments and battles. Eventually, he would end up burning himself out on Yu-Gi-Oh and would end up dropping the collecting cards game in sophomore year of high school due to costs of packs nowadays and because the fan hype in his area for Yu-Gi-Oh is pretty dead seeing how times have changed. But even though his Yu-Gi-Oh days are over, he still holds on to his decks just in case, for one of these days, someone will come asking for a battle and he'll be ready at will... One of these days...

[iamslm22]

There are many many card games that Charlie Trout has collected over the years. The first of which is the best one - MLB showdown. The best cards of those were the year 2001. There were some cards that were better than others and the best of the bunch was Pedro Martinez. Pedro had a 5 control and outs from 1-17. Dude was a monster, and the best card in teh game. AS far as hitters there was Barry Bonds and Carlos Delago (both them were also monsters). Pudge Rodriguez was the catcher who was the best, along with Mike Piazza and this other dude on the white sox I don't remember Jason Giabmi was also good and so was Greg Maddux. Great card game and fun to collect.

In addition to MLB showdown there was the pokemon cards. Pokemon cards were a lot of fun even if they had not a lot to do with the game. For example the types were all messed up. Like fighting and ground were the same type. And psychic (which is strong against poison and weak against) and Poison (weak against psychic) and Ghost all wound up being the same type. How fricken weird is that? Still though they were a lot of fun to collect and I enjoyed it.

[PigSnout]

Errol Maddox has always enjoyed collecting trading cards. Since beginning his football career, he has taken a particular interest in collecting football cards. The NSFL releases official trading cards to help promote the league. Each NSFL player has their own card and Maddox's goal is to collect them all. The cards also serve a practical purpose as they have codes that can be redeemed on the NSFL Football Game App. There is a game mode called NSFL Ultimate Team where you can build a team out of all of the players that you own cards of. Every time you redeem a card's code, that player is added to your inventory and you can use them on your team. There are rare special edition cards that are harder to find but have higher ratings in the game. Maddox has collected several of these cards and almost has a full team of special edition players. Once he makes it to the NSFL, Maddox is hoping to collect his own card some day. If he can play well enough, there may even be a special edition version of him that he can collect to try to complete his own team. Maddox's fascination with trading cards has provided somewhat of a motivating factor for him in his career as he hopes to one day find himself on a card of his own.

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[CDub2]

It is so disappointing for Cameron Taylor to see the gaming industry head towards these Ultimate Team styles of games. We already pay close to 100 bucks to acquire the game in the first place, pumping more money into it throughout the year just to put in another 100 bucks in the following year for a glorified roster update has started to wear Cameron and lots of his similar aged friends down. Remember when Madden was a cutting edge leader in Franchise mode? Franchise mode and Superstar mode were so deep, Cameron would spend 8 hour binges in his basement playing. Building up every team, playing Superstar in every position, it was endless. Now Madden has become a pissing contest for pro gamers to see who can spam the best plays over and over again and a money cow for EA to milk in the form of 15 and 16 year olds opening pack after pack trying to acquire the team of the week Khalil Mack or punter position Tom Brady. It's blowing up the gaming industry and the more money EA makes of pack sales, the less time they put into Franchise Mode and Superstar Mode and general innovation and the more time they put into designing packs. And it's not just Madden. Look at NHL, NBA, Star Wars Battlefront, and pretty much every other game. The innovation is gone. So no, Cameron Taylor does not collect Ultimate Team cards. They are a cancer to the gaming industry. He does have a great collection of first generation Pokemon cards. Only missing a Charizard and an original Dragonite.

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[RedCydranth]

The NSFL used to have, months ago, was a series of trading cards. I never cared for them because they cost money and I needed my cash to buy weekly training. There was no TPE incentive to trade or collect them and it still cost cash to purchase them, so I saw the entire thing as a waste of time. Now, if there was some way to make the whole things worthwhile, like you could trade in specific ones for something, I would have considered collecting.

Another gaming craze that took over NSFL for a while was the Pokemon bot game in Discord. There were dozens of people playing that game for a couple weeks. Seeing as I have been a Pokemon master since the original game came out years back, this was naturally a game I could dominate in. I know every pokemon and I had quite a few. The only reason others had more pokemon than I did was because they played in multiple rooms, while I stayed only in the NSFL community room (until I got one open in Otterville). Sadly, that craze died out rather quickly and all the Pokemon discord rooms are now graveyards laying dormant.

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[Alkaiid]

Many people have a collection, I am no different. I collect small stylized vinyl figures known as Pop! Figures. I cant get enough of the little bastards. I collect many different series of them as well, from Different Athletes, Different Musicians, to various anime and video game characters. My personal favorite Pop! Figure is from Dragon Ball Z mostly because it glows in the dark and who doesn't love that. I stack them on shelves in my office and on my entertainment center in the living room. Be careful opening closets and cupboards over at my house or they may fall out from there as well. I even have a small shelf in my bathroom with some so I hope you like company while you're using the facilities, because they'll be there, watching, judging. Just kidding. I dont really have a goal with my collection, I just pick one up off the shelves if I see one I like. On occasion I will trade Pop!s with people online to finish out various groups of them. One time I traded a single figure to a guy online for fifteen of his, I thought he was kidding, but he really wanted to have that D'Pez Poopsie Pop! I found it in a bargain bin but grabbed it anyway and thanks to the trade I'm glad I did.

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[DeathOnReddit]

Arbin Asipi III has always loved the madden games. He's been playing them ever since he was a kid, and while at first it was just franchise games, and regular online games, once he found the ultimate team feature he knew exactly what he wanted to play Madden for. At first he tried to make a Bears only ultimate team, but finally started to make a regular ultimate team after he realized the Bears only team would never work. He never spent money, asides from once in a while, because he didn't have a credit card obviously at his young age. Once in a while he would ask his dad to buy him some madden points if Asipi III saw that there was a really good pack coming out. He never became one of the best at the game, but he was decent enough to win games here and there. He also played the ultimate team in Fifa, and was much better at it. Because his dad also played Fifa a lot, the team he used was much better than the one he had in Madden. As for in real life, Arbin Asipi III never collected cards in real life, he didn't have the desire and he didn't really want to spend any money on it.