Cecilily discusses the financialisation of Pokemon cards as an investment vehicle.
It’s one thing that makes me pause in teaching my niece how to play, I don’t want her to get caught up in the abstraction of the cards as anything other than pieces of cardboard with funny pictures of animals
Oh that sounds like some fun game theory I’ll check that podcast out
I haven’t listened for years and don’t think I could get back into it. If I were to I would go some years back - to when he didn’t have to defend dogshit game design and then I’d pick an episode with a title that interested me. He used to be a pretty good yapper that would say interesting stuff.
So I couldn’t find the episode, but this is an article where he touches on the same subject, from around the time that episode would have been out I think. https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/making-magic/lenticular-design-2014-03-31
12 years ago… Christ.