From: pojostaff [pojostaff@pojo.com]
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Subject: Spam Alert: FW: Ben's top ten list of things that annoy me in yugioh

 

 


From: Ben [mailto:farooqq12@hotmail.com]
Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 1:09 AM
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Subject: Ben's top ten list of things that annoy me in yugioh

 

Yo, this is my top ten list of things that I hate in yugioh:

 

10)  People who agreed to trade but then muck around: This is mainly aimed at newbies.  PLEASE, if you agreed to trade a certain card, don't sit there half an hour admiring the artwork, and then change your mind.  Don't beat around the bush, either say you'll trade or not.

 

9) Experienced duelists complaining about newbies: You were new once too, and there is no point getting angry about how bad they are- you agreed to duel them.  However, this is not as annoying as the point below.........

 

8) Newbies complaining about experienced duelists: for one thing, THEY decided to spend all that money on their decks and power it up, so there is no use whinging and complaining how you just got your ass-kicked by a high level duelist.  As you get better at anything, you want to improve yourself.

 

7) People who continually put their losses to 'bad draws' or some other weak-ass excuse: Sure, some duels you do get bad draws, but don't blame it on every loss you have; there are times you have got to admit your deck is not the bronze adonis of the yugioh world.

 

6) The amount of talking on the TV show: The amount of talking shown some of the time on the TV show is preposterous.  I mean, come on, most of it is just about how their 'freindship' pulls them through or some babble about how a card is going to work, then they gotta tell everybody else.

 

5) Top ten lists about made-up cards: Okay, for one thing, I'm afraid nobody really cares about your dream cards.  I did actually read a couple, and the cards listed were stuff that are godlike.  Please, if you make up a card, make an original effect with a decent attack for its level, not just 10 gamebreaking cards that are too good to be real.

 

4) Top ten sexy lists: My god people, they are cardboard peices with a picture of a chick on it who isn't even real.  If you want REAL chicks that are REALLY nude, buy a playboy or something.  Hell, its even cheaper, cuz I mean come on, what can you do: send a poster to Konami and ask for the Dark Magician girl to sign it or something?????

 

3) Strategies that go on the TV show that would never work in real life: Okay, cut away the 3 quarters of the episode talking for a minute and revise the strategies.  I mean, swordsman of landstar?  What the hell?  Whats even worse is when people try to play those strategies.

 

2) People who run defense decks: They simply don't work, no matter how you look at them.  I know some people build onto the idea a good offense is a good defense, but yugioh simply does not work that way at all.  The easiest way to win a duel is to make your opponents life points hit 0, and if you are continually building onto your defense, where is the offensive power going to come from; those 2000 defense monsters aren't designed to go offensive.

 

1) People who take ages to make a move: This seems a bit trivial, but nothing annoys me more when we are in the middle of a tournament when two people are having a duel for over an hour and a half and they still have 4000 lifepoints left and on their first duel.  In a tourney it is especially annoying because you hold up the whole thing. You should be prepared for a tournament, not reading the cards while you hold them, and should have some idea about how they work and what their use is.  There should be a time limit of half an hour for every duel.

 

Ben Crawford

farooqq12@hotmail.com