*Happy Thursday! Hope you all enjoy the only slightly worrying new stories we talked about today. Let us know in the comments!* 🎙

@BlueRibbxn

Ай бұрын

Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning is the GOAT 🐐

@sageperkins4367

Ай бұрын

Getting turned one defeated has nothing to do with skill. At this point I hardly feel like we're playing Yu-Gi-Oh we're just playing extreme coin toss. Heads or tails, winner takes all in master duel!

Welcome back to the Pod of Greed!

@nickrodriguez6330

Ай бұрын

Welcome back indeed!

@CatPhil

Ай бұрын

I don’t feel welcome. But thats a me issue i know. Don’t press me please

I understand Konami's reasoning, but I agree with Paul on this. The rules are too strict im a way that is an over correction of the issue. It limits player expression and the unfortunate truth is Konami does not make products of comparable quality. Additionally, Konami is complicit in lewd art with the release of lost art cards, which are notoriously more graphic and lewd, and Konami, in some cases, intentionally teeters the line for sales. Like Labrynth or worst of them all Feet Blossom.

The playmat thing will be interesting because I have knock offs of $100+ stuff like Ixchel judge mats. Its official artwork but not an official mat. I wonder if they would care enough to go after that kind of stuff as the only way to tell is how thick it is.

@Kingcloudii

10 күн бұрын

aslong as it isnt lewd it will be fine, thats what the arguement is

So on the kingdom hearts story, 1.5 has 2 games and a movie version of one of the ds games. And 2.5 is kh2, birth by sleep and a movie version of the other ds game. And then 2.8 is dream drop distance and then the prequel to kh3-birth by sleep .2 a fragmentary passage

I've honestly come to find I'm not a fan of modern YGO. I get some rounds that are fun, but most duels I just get bored watching my opponent combo into multiple negates, while I sit there trying to run my glass canon.

About Paul loving yugioh and the possible mismatch of usual audience vs that video: I think this is kinda why you will get questions about possibly doing more competitive content, because I do think that love for even meta play shows through things like discussions, where I feel like Paul has a lot to give to that section of "more serious" players.

The process for getting information from the other party in a lawsuit is called discovery. They are legally required to give you all the relevant information you ask for, and things don't usually go well for people who try to dodge or ignore discovery requests in an attempt to hide evidence. Legal Eagle has some pretty good videos that can explain it better than I can, but I believe that's the gist of it.

Paul for next Yu-Gi-Oh protagonist

@ForgottenReasons

Ай бұрын

Yes! With new extra deck monsters. Green with new summoning Mechanic. APS summoning.

@Blizz3112

Ай бұрын

What will his slogan be? :-P

Spot on take about the mats and sleeves. It does feel like a way to limit potential IP/licensing issues. There is some of this also feels like how the movie theater doesn't allow outside food and drink in the theater. You gotta buy from them if you want refreshments in their building.

I’m such a fan of all of these Hawaiian shirts.

@CatPhil

Ай бұрын

Me too, but I don’t have money to go to hawaii to buy some clothing.

I watch you guys for any ygo news/related topics but hearing talk about Melee is a pleasant surprise after being a competative Melee player since 2007.

So... Just found out Paul is the Madara Uchiha of Yugioh. I support it. My friends have said similar things about me

Touching base because I was a part of those comments on that last video, but yes to reiterate it's not about clawing back from A Loss into a win. And you had the idea right when you said that for most players it's about a way to relax. So when your homie said it's about players being bad at the game and needing to be good more or less, I don't deny that strikes a chord. Did not turn on master duel with my limited time to play pump my ego let alone their ego turn it on to literally have fun. If your flood gating on turn one for straight what feels like 15 minutes, and I mean I have time to go fry an egg smoke a cigarette take a s*** and come back in some cases, and your turn is still not done and after a little while and the dust settles you find out that you just got turned one...... yep you just sat around for close to 15 to maybe even 20 minutes just to find out that you've literally just wasted those minutes because you didn't even get a turn. At what point does it become skill if you're unable to even play your turn let alone draw a card what skill played into that? ... unless you count the coin toss as a skill trait. So yes if we noticed these habits from afar or if we get any sign that this is about to happen it's better to take my business elsewhere fun time wise. And honestly it's hard because it's the state of the game there are incredibly too many ways to win the game in one turn. I think they should turn away from just banned listing cards and they should consider either just different formats to play the game or Banning certain archetypes... wild and crazy sounding right now lol. For when you have a dumpster fire this bad and inconsistent player consensus on what the problems are... I'd say a game facelift is more or less what's needed. Would be interesting to see competitive play where there would be formats were only certain archetypes were allowed.

A.I. is only getting more advanced and interesting. Can't wait to see how it'll look in Master Duel. Hopefully there's quality of life updates on top the A.I. duelists.

Great pod! I don’t really like podcasts, but you guys are one of the only two I listen to. Keep up the great work!

I have fumbled some sure-things before. I might get baited into wasting my negate or I could even end my turn before making a crucial play because I just didn't see it.

I don’t think Paul is crazy as if I’m playing Dragon Link, Rikka Sunavolan or even Lair or Darkness then I’m willing to try and squeeze water out of rocks. Now if I’m playing a Star or Gadget/Train deck then absolutely not. I feel this falls into the tired competitive vs casual mindset where people who spend so long playing the game in a high octane doing 100 miles on the highway manner find it hard to realize that the average player just wants to be drive at 40 - 50 miles since what provides each other enjoyment is fundamentally different.

1:29:40 I 100% agree. There is a reason that the metric TTP (Time to P) exists in basically every game with a way for players to draw, build, or otherwise make that shape because we always do.

I'm a casual player on Master Duel, and I 100% agree with you about people giving up too quickly. I play cubics, it is not a good deck. I know it's not a good deck. If my opponents would try to play, they would see it is not a good deck. But I've had so many people just immediately surrender at the start of a duel because they had a bad hand, or if I happen to have a negate (I play cubics, I don't have many negates) and end a combo then they'll just surrender. I've gone up the rank ladder so many times specifically because someone has surrendered and like, I have a bad deck. I wanna play, but I don't necessarily want to go up the ranks just because people surrender. I want to actually grind and earn it. And when I squeeze out a win against what is clearly a better deck, that feels awesome. Plus I need to earn gems and if I don't get to play my turn then I'm not doing things to earn gems so I can maybe work on building a deck that isn't trash. But I absolutely LOVE playing my cubics deck.

@spicymemes7458

Ай бұрын

It's not really about anything you are doing. If they get Maxx C or Ashed, they quit and immediately go into another game where they don't, engineering the win rate they want instead of playing it out. Some hate doing it because they don't want to risk ranking down. Others don't care and see it as a numbers game. Just that quitting and going back in is faster than playing the game to the end.

We appreciate all of you folks at Team APS. Keep up the good work!

If I had to dress up in a suit and tie, I'd go in a mobile suit cosplay AND have a TIE fighter kit built and attached to the suit by a wire.

It'd be great if field centers were in structure decks. Hell, they could do several variants with different monsters on the field center. I'm hoping the playmat and sleeve ban backfires and Konami's forced to back track. Odds are though, most of the community in the TCG is too Yu-Gi-Oh brained (same player base that buys up TCG boxes, which are terrible for the players) so this ban will likely stick.

1:30: 00 Heck, if you do your research, you can find news stories of _contrails_ and _flight paths_ drawing out wangs.

Just make it so the only legal mount is the paper playmat boxed with structure decks. No card sleeves allowed at all and deckboxes must be clear plastic bags

Also, i think people drop master duel matches because there is no penalty like being timed out of que, or bans ya know?

How come I can't use a effect veiler o negative exodius head

@31:28 I actually really enjoy that sort of content it's nice to see friends just have fun with whatever. I haven't played yugioh for like 10 years or so and the game is so much more different than when I used to play and it seems a lot more sweaty in general now and so for me it's just nice to see fun games.

21:00 as a recovering Yugi-Boomer finally starting to get caught up to speed with everything, this is going to be the nostalgia we’ve been chasing

@whimsicalman

Ай бұрын

Stick to goat format bro.. the new stuff is just not worth learning imo

@josephcourtright8071

Ай бұрын

Stick to edison format bro... the new stuff is just not worth learning imo

@whimsicalman

Ай бұрын

@@josephcourtright8071 Goat or Edison would be good. Edison has a lot more cards to play and synchro are at least fun to play so I agree with you.

@kevinhowery6060

Ай бұрын

I just can't play a yugioh that never changes. I call it stagnant

@whimsicalman

Ай бұрын

@@kevinhowery6060 I can’t play yugioh that changes to ridiculous extents like what we have with advanced format. The game has been subjected to so much bad decisions at the hands of a greedy company known as Konami. Many of these decisions were made without considering the opinions of the fans. Game is all about otking other players now and not finding a strategy that makes your cards work together to defeat and or outsmart your opponent.

Im just getting into this channel and your videos guys. The guy Paul really spoke to my heart. I don't play Yu-Gi-Oh anymore, its been years. But that competitive fire. Beat me at anything 99 times. I will, WILL, win that 100th match at minimum. People play games to show off, some to fit in.. i play games to challenge myself. Be a rival.

I feel like Master Duel, MTG Arena and now even Pokémon's latest TCG game is the IP companies answer to every Fandom having those fans that "Just want a digital form of the actual card game played on tables." after getting the last 2 decades of video game interpretations of those card games. I definitely had fun with some of those older games in all 3 card game properties, but definitely was also the one that wanted an actual digital form of the exact card game

Need some more sequel games from the PS2 era. Like duelist of the roses 2, capsule monsters 2, and whatever that RPG for the GameCube was

I honestly think it’s a good idea for all tournament participants to show up in proper dress code attire like button up plain white shirt and slacks w/ belt. Then Konami can sell officially licensed YuGiOh jackets like the GX jackets

I noticed you guys mentioned the Realm of light structure deck. However, I only see it at the European Yu-Gi-Oh website. Does this mean we’re not getting it in the US?

I'd love a new Yugioh game similar to the 5ds World championship games on the DS. They basically retold the 5ds story, but with a player custom character in place of Yusei. If they could do something similar, that would be great.

The only one that really makes sense to me is to use the given product for on-stream events, have a sense of uniformity for the decks they're showcasing, something they like to do for top cut.

As someone who is a part of the 50% still on PS4. I ignorantly surmised us PS4 users were just 20%-30% of the PSN player base.

Shadowverse champions battle is the current golden standard for a video game adaption of a card game imo. Really immersive, the npc's have fun dialouges, you move in a 3d space and not in visual novel esque menus, you buy packs from cardshops with in-game currency that you earn from duels, no microtransactions! Like Pokemon (btw Nintendo/Gamfreak/Pokemon Company, new tcg game when?). They other cool games exclusive to japan too, like a duel masters game for the switch, i wish that came over, It may have had the potential to reawaken interest in duel masters in the west but i we will sadly never find out.

Paul turns into the black yami yugi when he duels

Appreciate your weekly, consistent uploads! Looking forward to the next one. Pass turn!

Paul should definitely play competitive tournaments, because Master Duel is not the place to expect die hard players. People who play master duel usually don't own physical cards, so they aren't there to watch you combo for 5+ minutes.

@cwalser544

Ай бұрын

I love Master Duel. At least in virtual reality I can afford a Yu-Gi-Oh deck.

I agree that they need ro crackdown on some of the accessories because of children couldnt agree more, now that being said making it so they can only have either Konomi licenced product or plain is an obvious marketing scheme to remove business of private companies that make and sell their own products, often a deck sleeves and Mat is an expression of themselves. I can understand if its kept like that in official yearly events but it will cause nothing but trouble if it trickles down to Regional or Local tournaments. My personal opinion if its not offensive or something that is appropriate to be around kids let them use what they want.

@MRkriegs

Ай бұрын

The obvious problem with that is it's all subjective. One judge says it's not appropriate and the next judge says its fine. With their new rules it avoids 99% of that. Its black and white and easy for Konami and the judges

Now I wanna see these digimon mats that Alec has XD

Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning is the GOAT 🐐

1:38:52 Black Mirror did an episode on the AI dating years back. CRAZY accurate to what you guys are stating here!

I still can’t believe that people still think that they will get full value for product trade-ins…..they definitely don’t know how business works apparently.

Paul just like me fr, definitely one of the crazies

@apsamplifier

Ай бұрын

I respect a fellow nutjob.

@CatPhil

Ай бұрын

You 2 should seek help

Paul is just preaching not about just gameplay, but competition in life in general

No matter how casual the YGO player, I think there's a lesson to be learned from Paul's stance on players giving up too soon. Rather than ragequit immediately after an opponent handtraps your only starter going first, wait till they start their turn and perform a summon. That will at least let you verify whether their hand is a brick and all it takes is waiting a few extra seconds.

@johnnywu8708

Ай бұрын

​@@roachybill I felt that one. I also play YGO casually. I don't compete in tourneys, but I enjoy playing a few games with my friends. The unfortunate thing about quitting the moment your opponent sets up more than one disruption is that some of the most enjoyable YGO to be had comes from pushing through. Has it ever occurred to those people (the bad eggs of the casual bunch) that maybe the opponent who ashed their starter was also playing a very casual deck? "But I knew they were going to be meta sheep." No, you didn't. You're not the only casual player on the planet. Sometimes, it's as if they forget that for every deck they think is "fair", there is another casual who deems that deck "unfair."

1:26:00 The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Paul I’m a crazy player too and I thought that advice was wonderful. A grandmaster of chess gave the same advice. If you play games out where you think you’re going to lose you can learn a lot. It doesn’t matter if you set up the unbreakable board. You have to then navigate my turn and parody if you want to win. The good duelist knows these spots and how to get out of them. Even people playing at a casual level should still want to improve. I’m a casual learn a ton from every game. Although, i will say when my hand is bricked I’ll scoop from time to time, but it’s a bad habit.

An APS competitive channel would be awesome

Love that water type shirt. Maybe a game where you can't pick the cards you get, and it includes elements like Action cards and Riding Duels could be interesting. Or maybe this is where Duel Links should go.

Paul is not weird for gutting it out. But he is uncommonly lucky for having a significant number of duels against opponents where he CAN gut it out. As someone who also has that "fight to the bitter end" mindset. Who loves winning from behind, I've had to come to terms with the unfortunate truth that most competitive Yu-Gi-Oh decks are designed to not let your opponent PLAY, let alone try to make a comeback. So players who have had to face decks like that a lot (Which seems tragically common) end up Pavloved into surrendering immediately to spare themselves the torture.

Another banger episode! Such great topics discussed today. Can't wait for next episode! See yall next week chat!

Im surprised Paul didnt mention the Junk Warrior revoltech figure.

@apsamplifier

Ай бұрын

Oh I think I briefly saw that one, but forgot!

Red Eyes deserves more spotlights tbh but more so cards than figures.... its been 7 years konami where is our wave

The good ol’ reliable pod of greed!

@CatPhil

Ай бұрын

Thats right boy

10 minute combo to end on a 9 negate board while you only have 4 cards cuz you ashed already? Yeah just move to next game

I'd invest more time into Master Duel if it was easier to get SR and UR cards. But the grind is brutal at least for me. I don't get lucky on pulls and getting gems is a pain.

I just wish 1 master duel loss at gold and beyond wouldn’t push me back 2 wins to catch up

Paul is correct with Po-ke-mon since Po-ke-mon is just an abbreviation of the Japanese title "Poketto Monsutaa", I'm pretty sure I've heard in the English anime references to Po-ki-mon so I would say that is "acceptable".

I just watched Paul’s video about why he doesn’t play competitive yugioh, but honestly, I just think Alec doesn’t like it so much to the point where he doesn’t want to join Paul.

On the yugioh video game, i feel that duel links kind of fills this niche. It really is everything this person asked for.

I'm in it for the love of the sport 😁

Hope everyone’s having a great Thursday!

@CatPhil

Ай бұрын

Thank you. May your fried chicken be juicy today.

I don't really like dating sites but I met my current partner online and it's been going good. We're going on for 2 yrs and living together. There not for everyone but sometimes it works

The real question is would the audience date Ai-ec. The perfect AI version who's a six figure salary outdoor loving muscle man

Konami passing a ban on custom sleeves and playmats is insane most custom stuff is safe for work. It's not like the waifus are naked.

@spicymemes7458

Ай бұрын

Close enough if you ask me. Unlike the artists for the cards and the anime, these third party vendors don't have lines they won't cross to make a dollar

@otterfire4712

Ай бұрын

​@@spicymemes7458it's great because now I can't express my appreciation for Plunder Patroll through a collage mat featuring several Plunder Patroll cards, using Starry Night as the background. Completely SFW and Yu-Gi-Oh themed.

@supaipai420

Ай бұрын

@@spicymemes7458 Can you name a time a person brought to a tournament a mat with a naked Waifu I can't. I'm a Yugi Boomer and been playing since 2002-2003 and this is the first time hearing Konami trying to censor people having custom sleeves or playmats.

@supaipai420

Ай бұрын

@@spicymemes7458 let me also say that Konami released the Lost Arts of most Cards in the USA and for the longest time those cards were censored here but they release them now and are complaining it makes no sense.

@MRkriegs

Ай бұрын

​@@supaipai420I'm sorry but u must simply not know the stuff people are bringing 😂😂😂

You should do a pod or a video on what monster is the GOAT of yugioh. Retrains should probably count as the same monster. I think BLS is a good answer. While Dark Magician was yugi's fave, it was made pretty clear in the anime that yugi's monster spirit was actually BLS. When BLS envoy got unbanned in 2011 he was an absolute boogeyman if your opponent ran him. He is one of the key faces of the game, beyond just the anime

In Jappanese e has an a sound so it's pokemon with an a sound for the e.

@DreamsTCG

Ай бұрын

So it's pronounced pokamon?

@Dolore_band

Ай бұрын

@@DreamsTCG sort of, it has an e sound near the end of it but pretty much.

AI Sarah, Elizabeth, Rachel, Amber, and Chloe doesn’t like Fortnite so The AI determined Alec Will be alone but AI Steve Is A Good Match To AI Alec.

It’s Pokémon, po-kay-moan. Yeah that’s right even the end is different if you wanna get really sweaty with it.

I just want the Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon from Retro Pack I could never afford before 😅😅 Retro Pack was only ever unlimited (never had a first edition printing) so people will never know!!

Paul prioritized yugioh in his free time compared to majority of people. He also has the advantage by having a career making content about the game that he prioritizes. His life is yugioh. I would kill myself if yugioh was all I ever did. It’s not that amazing imo for being something I would want to do all the time.

Great Podcast 👍

In a coveraged event they should just make participants use sleeves and mats they provide so there isn’t a problem

@CatPhil

Ай бұрын

Official tournament 2 player mat should exist

I love melee falco and I always enjoy watching Falco mains

Was good broski’s!

I need me my Lauren Phillips playmat kids!

It's crazy that yugioh players have to be told to shower, dress proper and don't bring porn to a social gathering. It's what drives that new playmat rule in my opinion. Didn't knew you had that competitor mentality Paul, agreed people just give up too fast and not just in yugioh. Now I know why I prefer you (not that other guys are bad, you are all tremendous and my favourite yugioh content on youtube).

This new guy with glasses is pretty cool if he's replacing Paul.

Digimon mat but that doesn’t stop the counting of 200 days of asking for digimon content

@apsamplifier

Ай бұрын

He's editing the video as I type this!

Rokket Recharger is my GOAT

Paul: -"You cant find love on social media websites"... Here I am married for 7 years with the wife I met on Facebook lol 😂

@saviorofs0ng

Ай бұрын

The social climate 7 years ago is wayyyyy different than now

I haven't bought a PS5, and I don't really have any plan to buy one. There are a couple games I would like to play, but gaming has gotten too expensive for me.

Let them use whatever playmat they want. Ain’t no kids playing this game anymore.

Retro pack one is going to be so much fun to draft for me and my yugiboomer friends

@CatPhil

Ай бұрын

Plushies are not real friends. Sorry bro

@chrismiller3548

Ай бұрын

@@CatPhilmy friends at my locals regularly play time wizard format. I don't know why people enjoying old Yu-Gi-Oh pisses off the community so much. Gotta love the toxicity, keep it up 👍

@CatPhil

Ай бұрын

@@chrismiller3548 sorry my comment wasn’t funny. I love old yugioh too!!

42:03 now how much would he get in store credit 😂

Paul IS the heart of the cards, and I believe in him.

It would be more accurate to state that the games will be released on Steam rather than Xbox, considering the typical Xbox user base. It is unlikely that they would be interested in playing Kingdom Hearts titles or would already own a PlayStation console. On the other hand, there is a greater potential for Nintendo Switch users to play these games on Steam. However, expanding to multiple platforms does not always guarantee increased revenue, as certain console players tend to prefer specific games.

to Defend Alec: a BUNCH of Digimon cards are a bit Much (Just look up Beelstarmon, MagnaAngewoman, Lillithmon)

@thejankenthusiast1285

Ай бұрын

Ordinemon is JUST a Naked Digimon

I'm the same way, I'll die before I give up haha

GameStop needs to host tournaments. My city has lost almost all its game/card shops. There’s no where to host local tournaments or anything.

Alec: "Steam might disappear one day" Oh boy, that hits way harder now that's there's rumors that Microsoft might buy Valve.

Im super against the custom sleeves and mats ban

Paul looks good with glasses :)

Omg i share the state of Louisiana with these peoples

Netflix gundam series looks like a ps2 demo😢

well on the flip side paul is farming engagement stats on the "paul talks" video so it's good for the channel