Sorry for quick question but was Shadow of the Erdtree actually as good as that page wants you to think? All I remember is jokes about how the difficulty was jacked
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I enjoyed it a lot which is the most important thing.
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Shadow of the Erdtree was really good, and imo much better than the base game, but if you already are the big Costco bag of Elden Ring, itās still more Elden Ring.
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Pogs are back, baby
Iā¦ think itās a physical game and not digital
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Pogs are back in TCG form?!?
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Soon to be banned from your local comic/gaming store
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Canāt wait to revive the OJ Simpson Meta
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Weird cat.
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Yep.
I donāt think Iāve ever seen anyone actually play pogs, and I never even knew they were a game for a long time. I thought they were just collectables. From what I hear on Slam Throne, youāve got a tower of regular cardboard pogs but the slamming pogs are metal? Is that how pogs were?
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there are both metal and plastic slammers, metal ones are way more fun
We had a round of pogs at one of the sb kusoge tourneys
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Yeah the metal pogs were called slammers and you used them to knock over the cardboard stack by āslammingā it on top. The ones that landed face up you got to keep, is I think how the rules went. I had some pogs, like everyone else in 1994, but I donāt remember actually playing other people for them.
For me pogging started when one evening my dad came home and gave me some pogs heād bought, telling me they were going to be the cool new thing. And lo and behold at school the next day or so there were a bunch of kids who had pogs and were trading them and playing for them and it was āthe cool new thingā. Over the next month or so I started seeing pogs everywhere: tv commercials, thick metal slammers with sick skull designs being sold at gas stations and even one local restaurant, people at school with big plastic tubes full of pogs of all kinds. Then one day just as quickly as it came about it was all over and no one was talking about pogs anymore. Very bizarre experience that was only matched a year or so later when the Macarena came to town.
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Didnāt think Iād have reason to link this, but here we go.
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I remember there was a kiosk at the mall that was surrounded by a mob of children like ants swirling over of drop of honey. One of the guys running it looked like an old veteran of the pog conflicts. They sold plastic slammers, metal slammers, and this weird sex toy, but only if you were sure you were ready to become a pog expert.
Collected a few more pogs from trading card conventions, but I donāt think they ever figured out a good way of selling them in blind packages, because most of them were just sold as the unpunched sheets. And then months later went back to the mall and the kiosk, and supply, was gone completely.
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i was just thinking about these ribbed stairway bannister looking metal slammers.
i had one in brass, with a yinyang sticker on top, it was the prized centerpiece of my collection. i remember seeing them in various heights/power-levels.
during the pogs era my father was in a band that would play local fairs, crawfish boils, etc; and we would also frequent a local permanent flea market semi regularly, so I remember a lot of time spent looking through pog booths and vendor tables, tracking the slammer arms race over what seemed like a long period of time, but what in reality must have been maybe a few child-brain months.
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yeah i bought a bag of like 1000 of them on ebay, and then i also made a bunch of pogs (not regulation size unfortunately), it was a blast
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It was so fun!
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I got really into collecting pogs that had an 8-ball motif, for some reason I just thought they were the coolest thing ever
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Extremely old news but I had not heard about this earlier somehow
Iām 14 years older than fucking Mario?
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I thought the Mario Bros were closer in age such that Luigi would also be an adult. If heās a teen with that moustache thatās mad funny tho
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