pick up your fucking duel disk and start organizing your deck instead of pretending to be the King of Games. You don't even have Exodia.

saying something this edgy does not absolve you of the shadow game penalty

edit: for anyone stumbling into the drama, i probably should have elaborated on this post. I am not saying you can't make fun of Seto Kaiba not being able to beat a Dark Magician deck with the entire supply of Blue Eyes White Dragon cards in existence or anything, but at some point it becomes self-flagellating. to quote comrade JoeyWheeler:

It's good to challenge Kaibacorp in all of its incarnations at all time. It's certainly good to refuse to be proud to be a Kaibacorp certified Duelist considering what the concept of Kaibacorp's dueling is.

It's another thing to performatively hate dueling in a cocktail of millennial self-deprecation and liberal duelist's guilt. It's not revolutionary, and it's probably not good for you.

that is all. comrades just know i dont hate any of you. i'm not trying to start a slapfight. i just saw this as weird performative behavior and wanted to call it out.

  • Nakoichi [they/them]M
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    9 months ago

    bad bit and probably bait

    Can we not make memes trying to reignite a struggle session?

      • Nakoichi [they/them]M
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        9 months ago

        okay but I have to deal with it when stuff like this invites people to reignite a recent struggle session and it is really annoying, just letting you know. I thought it was funny for what it's worth. It's only bad because it's just baiting people into arguments again.

        • RonPaulyShore [none/use name]
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          9 months ago

          if the community could nip the underlying problem in the bud, and then we wouldn't have to worry about goof posts, imho.

          • Nakoichi [they/them]M
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            9 months ago

            Yes and we should and I feel like joking about a serious underlying problem in this way is in bad taste and the OP should not be so defensive about a bad joke.

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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    9 months ago

    Nobody ever mentions Red Eyes Black Dragon on Red Eyes Black Dragon violence when it makes up over 70% of all Dragon violence!

    • crispy_lol [he/him]
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      9 months ago

      I’m sorry, does no one care about the BABIES? I’m very concerned about this time wizard guy, what happened to the baby dragon?

  • Cherufe [he/him]
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    9 months ago

    Terrible take

    You are going to the Shadow Realm

  • WithoutFurtherBelay
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    9 months ago

    This doesn’t make sense because duelists and KaibaCorp are actually separate entities, and duelists have a genuine vested interest in despising KaibaCorp (their greed and active manipulation of card quantities to their own advantage)

    • abc [he/him, comrade/them]
      hexagon
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      9 months ago

      oh yeah..? why does every generation of duelists use kaibacorp technology?? why does Kaibacorp offer contracts to professional duelists??? he-admit-it

      • WithoutFurtherBelay
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        9 months ago

        Because they benefit directly from the continued existence of duelists and want to create a loyal Kaiba-Duelist fan club. Dueling has been an important form of self-defense for all classes of society going back to Ancient Egypt- this is just the latest in many attempts by capitalists to fully claim it for themselves. Allowing them to commodify dueling would be suicide for all working class people.

        All attempts to discard the proletariat must be frustrated, by dueling if necessary.

        • Karl, “Slyfer Red” Marx
  • Mindfury [he/him]
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    9 months ago

    if laughing at the Big Five being trapped in the Virtual World is self-flagellation, then I am the greatest warrior monk of our time