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I guess so. I was a baby during Pokemon's height of popularity, so that is probably one of the reasons why I never really got into it.
I'll never understand the appeal of Pokemon. It seems so outdated in my opinion.
Things go through cycles of popularity and dullness, and I think Nintendo just figured out the ultimate way to make Pokemon relevant again. In 15 more years, there'll be another Pokemon and another one of you saying the same thing. 
It's funny, I literally never played Pokemon before till I found Pokemon Yellow (which turned out to be a fun game if you can get it for cheap and happen to have a player) for Gameboy at a yard sale two weeks ago for 50 cents, and now Pokemon is everywhere again.
Must of started the trend, Brickcrazy 
I wasn't allowed any kind of gaming consul or handheld when I was a kid, so I never got into pokemon. So I have neither the nostalgia nor the time to hop on the bandwagon.
I tried playing the game, but I didn't like it. I don't like waiting up for a game. If it's a cutscene, that's, but if there is literally nothing to do if there's no Pokemon around, it's kind of dumb. I want a game that you actually play.
Not to mention I couldn't play the game because of the garbage servers.
I had one of the teens in the youth group brag about the number of Pokemon he has caught. His words were: "Yeah, I've have (however many) Pokemon already." My reply: "I have a life."
You shouldn't be proud of shaming someone for finding different ways of having fun to you. Therein lies the dark side.
I have the app, but I've only been able to get a Squirtle and an Eevee so far. I don't buy data so I'm reliant on finding free outdoor wifi, which is fine in the middle of York or London, where I spend most of the year, but in my quaint little hometown...not so much. Guess I'll have to settle for finishing Alpha Sapphire until I go back to uni at the end of September.
For all the bad Pokemon Go is undoubtedly going to cause, it's nice to see the kind of camaraderie it is bringing out in people. And it's getting people outside. That ain't bad at all.
Not only is it my birthday tomorrow, but this time last year I joined BiM. On that exact day, I also released this film. After receiving a lot of helpful, constructive criticism from you guys on BiM, this is how much I have progressed in the last year. Of course I am nowhere near perfect, but any progress I have made in this past year, is all thanks to all you awesome people on this awesome website!
It's my birthday!
Happy belated birthday, William! 
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Yes, I've played it quite a bit. I also own many other collectible card games, including:
Young Jedi
7th Sea (Highly recommended)
Star Trek CCG
Austin Powers
Transformers: Energon Wars
24 Trading Card Game
Dragon Booster
WWE Raw Deal
WARS Trading Card Game
And I'm leaving out a few others.
MTG's been around for over 20 years now, and it's considered the first game of this type. Creater Richard Garfield was inspired by the 1970s sci fi board game COSMIC ENCOUNTER. (By the way, Cosmic Encounter is recently re-released by Fantasy Flight Games. RECOMMENDED!) What he liked about CE is that you can choose one of over 20 alien races, and each have game mechanics that allow th player to "break" one of the rules. Gaming strategy was never the same depending on which races were playing each other. This is where he got the idea that cards would have their own "curveball" rules.
If you're new to the game, learn the five colors and their strengths:
White: Life & healing
Blue: Tricks & deception
Black: High-stakes risk for greater reward
Red: Direct attacks
Green: Growth, and strength
Some colors work well with others, so you can build your decks of two, three, even five colors. Find a starter deck witht hte colors you like for your first deck. The game can become an expensive hobby, too, but it doesn't have to be. A good way to play economically is to play a "weenine" game, where all players agree not to use creatures with strengths greater than 1, or decks without rare or mythic rare cards. If that's the case, you can buy official repackages of Magic: The Gathering cards for a mere $1 at DOLLAR TREE stores. These packages contain 10 commons and one uncommon.
My favorite card in the entire game is PLATINUM ANGEL. It plays well with ANY DECK, but especially my White-Red deck and my white/blue/artifact deck, or anything with white. As long as it's on the playing field, you can't lose the game and your opponent can[t win. I keep two or three in my deck (plus the ring of three wishes artifact, which lets you search the deck to bring it out). I love when my life is -57 and I'm still in the game. BE WARNED: if both players have a platinum Angel on the field, and I've played such games, it's almost always the best idea to just agree on a draw.
The reason I got into the game was because I loved these games in general and played several of the titles I mentioned above, but because I wanted to make a CCG based on and faithful to Generation 1 Transformers. SO I played the game to learn the mechanics, and to try and avoid making the games too similar.
There is a bit of a learning curve, so if you can't play with a good teacher off the bat, get the video game DUELS OF THE PLANESWALKERS and start there, since it won't let you cheat, you can learn the rules most quickly that way. I recommend the 2012 edition. I've played other editions, and the computer opponent in art least the 2013 and 2014 editions get the same cards in the same order, EVERY TIME you play them. They also PLAY THEIR CARDS EXACTLY THE SAME WAY EVERY TIME! Their decks are also carefully sequenced to make them become so powerful so quickly that it's more frustrating than fun. 2012 is much more like real life, where your opponent's deck is as shuffled as yours.
I love this topic, and I'd love to continue talking about this, other CCGs, strategy table-top and board games, and even RPGs (which I'm not into), with you or anyone else on the forum.
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that's really cool. The first of these types of games that I started playing is Young Jedi, which is based on the characters and events of Star Wars: episode I. It was then that I discovered Magic, but never got into it, because I wasn't into fantasy games. If I got into it then, I'd probably have some nice valuable cards. I've got a nice Magic collection, but I can't go out there and spend hundreds, 1 hundred, 50, or even $14 on a single card. I'm a more casual player, Many of the other games out there I'm more hardcore about, like Young Jedi. I recently got into 7th Sea, whcih is hard to find, but I've been wanting to try out for a while. In the fall, I found a lot of 7th Sea decks and boosters for a low price. RECOMMENDED.
What I like about most games is that they are defunct; that is, no new cards are being made. It's nice to go back over the history of the game. For the Star Trek CCG, I've been buying cases of booster packs in the order they were released. Both of those games have one mechanic that is common: you set up the planets/ seas in a row before beginning the adventure, and your ships can travel from one to another and encounter adventures or conflicts when at the same place.
When you are a Minifigure, and thus incapable of making a fist in anger:
to simulate animating a clenched fist in anger, I just vibrate the arm, or the hand, very slightly back and forth.
Same here.
There are a lot of interesting was one can give the impression of certain gestures with minifigures even though they aren't actually doing them properly. Like raising both arms simultaneously and turning their hands outwards can give the impression of shrugging even though their shoulders can't move up.
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