Poll #18 Yu-Gi-Oh Cards:  “I Get It”/”I Don’t Get It”

Results:

12 Responses   5 “I Get It” / 6 “I Don’t Get It” / 1 Undecided

Those damn cards.... they are going to get it! – Corrie

sure i get it this was on the drawing board of chemical bette..she would use the micro warrior to shoot the sleeping drug out to the masses and make them go to sleep and be good little kidddies.....night night...gary

Sorta get it.  But only because some of my equally geeky friends are involved in other games of the sort.  Have I played, no?  Would I?  Probably not - I have other geeky interests to pursue.   Think of it as the latest Pog/Beanie Baby/Cabbage Patch/transformer sorta thing.   laurie  

Oh the things in the world that make us ponder.  I get it.  Thea

I'm not a big fan of yu-gi-oh so i don't get it at all.. Fue

I guess it might be because I'm getting older, but I don't get it.  Of course, I've never heard of these trading cards before, but it seems ridiculous that there would be trading cards of animated robots.  Then again our parents probably had the same reaction to Garbage Pail Kids.  Ah, remember those days of trading your duplicates of snot-running, mussed-up hair little degenerates for cards your would otherwise lay your life down for.  I think Josh might remember the frantic trading sessions we used to have on the bus in the mornings after buying the latest batch from the country store the afternoon before.  Good times.  Well, those days are gone forever, at least there's my baseball card collection to fall back on, that thing must be worth five bucks at least these days.  God Bless mass production making rarity obsolete.  Jeremy

I don't get it.    Hasmik

I don't want to get it.  never a big fan of comics, trading cards, video games, and all that other crap.  Is Yu-Gi-Oh really at the very heart of your being?  if so, i think it is time for some serious analyizing of your existance. Krista

i get it.   and yes.... every other country,,,,is laughing at us.... america needs to wake up, stop eating mc donalds....turn off the tv....and do something besides bitch. –tyler

I don't get it......but the 4th graders in my class sure do!  whatsup with that?

If by "get it" you mean do I understand it, then no.  If by "get it" you mean have I heard of it, 
then no.  I'm assuming this is popular with children.  I have a seven year-old, so should I look 
into this?

 Holly 

I once believed that at the very core of my being was a certain boldly significant something from which all of my ideals and values stemmed.  I spent a great deal of time searching for that something and the meaning it held for me.  My hope was that upon finding this “core”, I would discover an absolute set of rights and wrongs, trues and falses, yeses and nos.  I haphazardly decided cynicism would be the best way to approach finding this core.  I became critical of everything I saw, heard, experienced.  I believed that maintaining against the status-quo would lead me to self-discovery.  What I learned is that cynicism only made me less understanding of other people and their points of view.  Once I saw that cynicism alone was not the answer, I came to realize that life is not about some deep political, spiritual, social, etc. beliefs, because all of these things are purely relative.  Not only are they relative, they are always changing.  What once seemed entirely taboo over time becomes acceptable.  What determines this, then?  It is not politics.  Politics is the motor for policy and policies are followed on a “pick-and-choose” basis.  It is common consensus that determines acceptable rights and wrongs and in turn, our ever-changing belief systems.  Common consensus is an entity all too powerful to change through policy.  Why don’t kids perform in schools?  Why is there no more nuclear family?  Why is there so much violence in the media?  Because the majority of people think these things are okay.  Consensus is that school is not necessary, disbanded families are okay and violence is entertainment.  Do I think this is good or bad?  I don’t know or really care, I just think that it is.  So what does this all have to do with Yu-Gi-Oh?  On one hand, Yu-Gi-Oh represents the concept of common consensus.  Why on earth would a silly little card game be so popular?  Why pogs, why beanie babies, why power rangers, why whatever?  Is there a perfect formula for the perfect toy?  No.  Popularity is determined by that intangible, ever-changing consensus.  One's beliefs, no matter how deep, are determined by this same intangible mechanism.  On the other hand, Yu-Gi-Oh represents one thing that is as close to universal as anything can be.  Enjoyment.  I say that is what life is about.  Find what you enjoy and do it.  Don’t let your feeble notion of fighting the status quo or being or not-being part of a group decide what you do and who you are.  Stop looking to others to find self-worth.  Perhaps more importantly, allow others to do what they enjoy.  If they like to play nerdy card games/video games, let them and leave your self-righteousness out of it.  Just accept that you don’t understand and go.  Yu-Gi-Oh?  I don’t really get it, but I get it.  Josh