Boy's back in Pokemon scene after few years hiatus

First time opening these current Scarlet & Violet-series packs since beginning of 2021 - four&1/2-year hiatus

By end of 2021; Began financial-ruin he has

Pull results:

Legendary holos! A NEW-Gen Pokémon_EX!

And a charming ultra rare Full Art!! -- 'Up'Yours, Thatcher! GO, Miners!'

Not Bad Pulls🤣

Alongside very-first Poke-TCG drawings since Covid'2020

iHaven'T LOST my EDGE since - Talent hardly ever fades away!

Hand-drawn'd 10 | 30 remaining_

~ If U Cn'T Pull'em -- Hav'Mii DRAW'em! ~

On a serious note:

I witnessed a sad-state-of-affairs recently of 'Pokemon' fans with zero-Integrity, throwing away $30+ on a SINGLE PRINTED, mass-produced AI-generated Ugly-as-Fuck'mon cards - Oh, NOT 'Hand-Made' as these creatively-bankrupt grifters would state, every sell-per-hour given directly to them on Etsy 'Now AI-Infested' market.

That ONE particular creatively-bankrupt, AI-grifter from Italy slapped a generic-one-liner “Thank you so much for the support!” cheeky tagline on their Etsy store page with a staggering 25000+ in sales

— a sure way of expressing they're completely stunned by the flood of easy money,

all the while laughing their way to the bank.

Well, We'll be ready to cleanse that ugly scene much sooner than never.
Italy: Where almost all of my eBay sales mysteriously disappeared or stolen.

Though ironically, it's where my earliest Poke-TCG art, a 2016 pen drawing of Mega Gengar EX,

now hangs proudly in one uomo's game room in Milan (or was it Florence?..

On another serious note shared with almost every fan affected:

Especially for newcomers this the worst time to get back into the Pokémon TCG =/= In comparison to my first array of entering TCG scene during Marvellous-MEGA XY-era of late 2015 that lead towards ULTRA-Awesome S&M-era >>> Almost a decade in;

4-pack Power tins have now almost doubled the price in stores, tripled elsewhere. 3-pack Blisters are nearly impossible to find in them. And MOST SHOCKING of ALL - I have not seen a single 8-Pack Elite Trainer Box available online like I used to, even around post-Covid 2021 last that I've checked to purchase.

I’m not even going to look at 36-pack booster boxes

-- THE Current-State Highlighter.

'Sneaker-Heads' & 'AI-Hacks' have literally taken over BIG TIME.

These majority R-rated, AAA-COD-player, ONLINE-Bros. 'Glory-Hunting!' of capitalist-vulturing basterds-AND-gold'digging biatches that NEVER. EVER. SPARED any LOVE for Pokemon franchise; via their online message, image/video uploads, etc before,... until Covid-19 -- bored'em all inwards, only to suck the life out of this beloved franchise world-over, which deep-inside they still nose-down on.

'C00L Story, br0🤣'

Now P#ss Off.