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The Retailor Pledges for Winds of Exchange · Archons Corner

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It's about time that said here we go. We're not sat what's going on?
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Everybody? I'm the one, the only w okay. I joined here
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with the PhD of p Forge doctor sheep. Yes, I'm here, and
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I guess enough enough of you PopEd him to make him do a thing.
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That's normally how we get cheap to do stuff. Enough got me in trouble.
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I said, listen to the patreon or check out the patreon if you
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want to know about the retailer pledges. And then people like, it's not
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on patreons. Well that's because we haven't recorded it. Yeah, we got
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to actually record the thing first. Yeah, I actually got to do things.
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Yeah, and we are the kings of saying we're gonna do something and
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then never following through. It would fall through. Sometimes there is another company
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that promised bunched stuff. It didn't falter. What that would never happen of
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the company we know and love. But let's go through the retailer pledges.
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As my Premiere Pro opens to let me know it's still here. Thanks Premiere
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Pro, I ask a lot of questions and it's it is interesting to me
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on how like the all the retailer information is very hidden. Is that.
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I don't know. If that's by design, I don't know, if that's
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by choice, I don't know. I don't know either. But let's go
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through the first step. So participation of the program, you must follow the
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following steps. You have to pledge a dollar to the retailer pledge and the
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game found campaign here by the by April eighteenth. So if you start as
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dot, it's too late. It's over. No, no, it's it
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launches launches April eighteenth. Never mind fine reading is fundamental? Which is I
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failed English? Yeah, we we know we're bad at that. After pledging,
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fill out this form which I'm not clicking any of this because it doesn't
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work any It doesn't work anyways, it doesn't work on the actual and then
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provide this form is received by Ghost Galaxy prior to the start of the campaign's
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pledge Manager period. You're will be included in the key Forge home base bonus
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uh voter options to the prom During the pledge manager period, our sales team
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will reach out to you to settle payments for your retailer pledge package. Who
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is odd the I need to know? Who is on the sales team?
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Alex Alex. Alex is the one I know that sounds like a real person.
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Yea, and a name I recognized for some reason. Yeah. Isn't
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he also the one that does art or whatever? Alger he does something with
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the program. No, No, he's there, he's there sales. Yes,
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now he was at Seattle. Oh, I was not at Seattle.
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When it is? When it is ready to ship to backers, your retailer
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pledge will be shipped to you with your key Forge home based bonus if any
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sea below. Important note. As a retailer backer, you may sell any
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product received in your retail pledge package and Keyfordge home based bonus if any on
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receipt. Note we do not guarantee a given day of receipt. Retailer pledges
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will be sent out alongside consumer pledges and will arrive as your collation team as
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our coalation team and the freight terriers complete their work. Participating retailers must select
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one of the three packages below. Wasn't there more packages? Time? Was
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it like five? No? It was last time? All right, So
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we have the small pledge, which I think is very similar to the last
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one. You will get three key Forge wins. Ar. I'm sorry,
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amber Sky's displays and six customized key forge umber Sky's decks with your store logo
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and name, so that I believe is the same as last. Do we
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want to go over pricing on these? Probably not a I mean a little
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bit touch on. Like amber Sky's is one seventy nine eighty eight retailer box,
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so that's the fourteen ninety nine a deck price. They actually your store
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logo decks have the same retail value. That's fun. Yeh yeah, so
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yeah like that, like straight up, it's two hundred and ninety five dollars
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for your store to get this stuff, so it's not it's not too bad
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like pricing wise, the no definitely able to make money if they buy them.
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I don't know why drasscour is not allowed to speak, but drafs course
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here Now what's up drass corps? Hey guys, where are you? I'm
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in a hotel room in Charlotte, North Carolina? Are you going to be
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trying? I don't know what you're talking about? Experience? I feel it
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forcing through my veins. Why why why would you do anything else? We
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could just have an uber paid by the company take you everywhere. I guess
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that that works out we're just going through the packages and we're onto the medium
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package where it actually gets good. Yeah, the medium package you get six
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keyfords ember Sky's displays twelve customized Keyforde ember Sky's decks with your store logo and
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name. Two Keyforde Tokens of Change displays what one super key, I don't
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really know how far one super key is gonna get hit. One super key
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ends up in Cheap's pocket and he's pretty happy about this pledge level. All
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right, one, So I turned out how I was going to get a
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super key. Well, I think what you do is you run a tournament,
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right, You're like, hey, whoever wins the tournament gets a super
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key. One day. They will have really fun local events where it is
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enticing to come play for our local store should have one of these super keys
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as well to give out. So this one is actually getting it's this is
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a six to ninety five pledge. But the retail value on this no,
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it doesn't hear say, Tokens Change are one seventy nine eighty eight, so
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they're fifteen dollars a thing too. Super Keys have an MSRP of twenty five,
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as it shows in the regular game Found, so they might become regular
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available. But this is almost like if and I don't know how many of
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our listeners care or know this guy stuff, but when you order product,
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typically these days through your standard distribution, there's like a retail markup or discount.
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And these days, like Games Workshop, I believe, is like high
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thirties is all the discount is. So like if something's a hundred bucks with
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Games Workshop, it's often like seventy or seventy two dollars to order that thing.
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So there's only yeah, thirty eight percent. Yeah, mark discount,
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not a lot of room when you have to pay for your square feet,
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right, you gotta and your employees and yeah, insurance taxes, like yeah,
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no it it's tough, but you say this these, uh, when
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you order these direct from the game Found package, this comes at a fifty
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seven percent discount, which assuming you that would be assuming you sell your store
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logo decks though, which that's what we did at our store. We ran
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a seon. Even if you take out the store logo decks, right,
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it's only twelve of them. Hold on, yeah, but twelve one hundred
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and eighty dollars worth of decks, right, but even still like it's still
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a good chunk of margin for the Yeah, well that's gonna say. Actually
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the margins are pretty attractive. It is. It is a good it's actually
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a pretty good deal, like for your store, as long as the customers
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are willing to pay for it. Yeah, like you got to buy the
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stuff from them. Yeah, so's we take care of our store just fine.
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We are doing just fine there. Yeah, and then you can go
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to the large tier package, so the big boy package, the big Daddy,
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the big Kahuna. Actually, this is that's about the same from the
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last storm. The number of store logo decks is doubled on all these from
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last time. I'm pretty sure it was three, six and twelve because that's
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all we got for a c decks was twelve and we did the large pledge.
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Now it's up that that's good. That's good. I actually my uh,
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I'm actually getting my store to pledge this time to do this. And
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I think the only reason he's willing to go through the rigamaroll is because he's
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pissed at ASTHM for various reasons right now. Yeah, like thank you ASBE
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for screwing up whatever non key forge order that he had that he was like
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grumbling about, and I was like, let me tell you how you can
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get around there, So why do I have a solution for you? Exactly?
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So, so he's in, so he's gonna do it. He sent
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me, shit, I gotta do something with that. He sent me the
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store logo as an image, and of course it's like totally the wrong size
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and I have to figure out how to mess with it to get it.
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Yeah. Yeah, it's like to me, it's like, I'll put it
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in the right yeah. Yeah. Nobody knows how these days, and then
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you'll hand it over to Sheep and I will screw it up somehow. Good.
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Good. But this one you're getting twelve displays of amber Sky's, so
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that's a full two cases. They come in cases of six now cases of
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amber Skies. That's what I bought last time, and I actually had to
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wullsale half of them to move through the Grim Reminders I bought. That's so
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weird because Grimm Reminders is such an awesome set. What everybody bumps so much
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of their stuff from the game. Found they didn't need to buy anything from
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both, and this is one of my biggest problems with the game. Found
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even getting the retailers involved, Like great, it's an awesome idea, but
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like, again, we buy so much of it, excuse me moving through
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it and what just we're buying at a personal level, like it don't like
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these are great margins. But at what point, well I'd be like,
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yeah, I'm done with the stuff at home now. Now I gotta go
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to my local game store, like I just gotta want to seal the vent
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every week. Yeah, that's still the end of three seals every week.
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Absolutely, I mean I buy what two to three typically when I go to
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the go to our game store. So you know, I like Winders real
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good. Now have a bad set, and this stuff can sit anyway.
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It's this large pledge fourteen ninety five. Six Amber Skies, twelve Amber skis,
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twelve boxes of Amber, twelve boxes of Member Skys, twenty four customized
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key Forge deck, six tokens of change displays, two super keys, super
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key. Don't forget cheap. We forgot about this the most important part,
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KeyForge, posters and pop material. Yeah, posters and pop material. Yup.
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There six hundred dollars of stuff for a mere fourteen ninety five. So
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here is the home base bonus so yeah, so it is. This is
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important for those and again we'll try to you gotta try to get this out
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tomorrow if any retail stores well, which and it's going on the Patreon too,
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but if any retail stores received three or more votes from consumer backers,
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I'm gonna cough, they will get the outpost bonus, which is but that
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means they have to have backed this within the next five days as we all
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wander off the vault tours and complete their paperwork before the pledge manager goes live.
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I don't know how long between closing and pledge manager going live is.
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It's some amount of time. But like this is one of those places whereas
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players, we have to stay on our game stores for them to get stuff
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done because they got so much to do they often ignore emails. Oh I
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often ignore emails me too. So so for the outpost, you are going
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to get six limited ember Sky's colored KeyForge homepace pins, pins, baby,
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three additional customized KeyForge ember Sky's decks with your store name and logo on it.
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So just three more. I think they're exactly the same as the ones
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you get in the standard package. Six decks of hobby Retailer exclusive Ultra rare
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more mass mutations decks, And this is a big thing. It is msrped
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at nineteen ninety nine a deck like they're going to be twenty dollars a deck,
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which means when the store goes to buy more, those boxes are going
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to be one hundred and twenty dollars for the store to buy them before they
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then try to sell them to you to make some money. Yeah, and
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then yeah, you'll have the option to purchase more. So this but this
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is pretty good when you look at look at it from a store point of
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view, if you know you can get the three votes, because this is
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another one hundred and seventy five dollars worth of stuff that you just get and
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you can do whatever you want with in theory, sell or run events that
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make enough money to pay for them however you want to do it. But
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like this is these are totally free. This out post package, the six
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mms, the three extra name decks, and the six pins totally free if
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you get to your three votes. But you should be able to well,
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obviously you should be able to. Those of us who have regular meetings at
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game stores should be able to do this. In theory because you probably got
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at least four folks at the store, and if you can get three of
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them to back, then there you go. Yeah, I know this seems
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like a fair thing. That that there's no guaranteed way to deal with it
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is a little weird because some stores, you know they're gonna sell them,
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and then they're gonna send I'll sell all six to one person and the other
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three people or two or three people worry like what the hell? Or yeah,
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I guess that's possible, but ye will see hopefully, I mean,
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I think the way it seems these days, most people have a pretty good
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relationship with the store they're playing at, so hopefully nothing to a little stingy.
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Well, so this is a it's it's this is totally free, like
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this is Hey, you've pledged your backing. Three people say they'll play at
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your store or picked your store. Here is some free stuff. But once
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you hit that, you also get the option to purchase additional retail exclusive key
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Force Mayoor Mutation product and down here a little bit farther, it talks vaguely
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that the number you're going to be able to buy is based off of the
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tier of votings you get and there's no indication what that is. I don't
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know if that's I don't know if their plan is like they only want to
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produce one hundred boxes of more mutations, that's it, or if they want
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yeah I have and that's just a totally arbitrary number. But you know,
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like they did a fixed number and then they'll find the number of stores that
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they can do it and do the division and be like, well you can
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buy this money or you know, they're planning, you know, like right
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now they're planning based off of projections out they're gonna be like small stores can
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buy three, big stores can buy six, and you know, or whatever,
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and that would should equate to selling this money boxes and then that would
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those numbers will change based off of how many people actually back. Right.
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I think from a pure business perspective, this is a good move for them.
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Right. You could take an old set, breathe a little life into
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it. Yeah, I assume it's a guaranteed gigantic. I mean, if
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it's not, then it's like a little tougher, right, But let's just
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say it's a guarantee gigantic. You there was a ton of MM on the
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market, right, so you don't want to flood this out there because it'll
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quickly devalue, because we all have I have more MM than I don't know
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if it's really the all deck's devalue once they're open, Yes, for sure.
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I'm talking about sale in case you need some MM to drive you over
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to more mmm. Right, Like the sealed product will devalue if it's too
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much, right, so so right, So like I think if they want
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to sell a twenty bucks, you produce a very small number people get,
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yes, and I just get for you to get a few gigantics, they
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need to buy the upgrade for the printer so they can start printing one of
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x's on deck. So like they said, it's a there are ten thousand
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mass mutation plus decks and your serial numbers right on your deck. I got,
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And then I will pay extra to get deck for twenty two mm hmm
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yeah, put some chase on numbers. Yeah, I mean, I'm sure
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quick draw will pay for whatever that goofball number he has on his name,
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right that the sloppy labork always mentions, right, Yeah, I don't know,
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three four, five seven something. Yeah, sure, all right,
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let's go with it. Let's move into the home next home based bonus,
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which is a castle. It'll be awarded to the retail store that receives a
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substantial number of votes. What that number means nobody knows because there's no number
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attached to it. They got a little blurb down, do they? Okay,
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so we'll go through the little blurb. I don't see the yes.
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Okay. Well, if you are part of the Castle, you'll get twelve
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pins, six additional ember Sky's decks with your store name and logo, one
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display of more mmm, and then again the option to buy more. And
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then you go through the Fortress awarded. Fortress awarded to participating retailer stores that
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receive an amazing number of votes. Again whatever that means, I bet you
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they'll get a personal visit from Josh too. I don't see that on the
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list. But they're gonna get eighteen pins, nine additional key for dember Sky's
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store name, decks, two displays, and the option to buy more.
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To prevent vote manipulation, Gigi not will not disclose the number of votes necessary
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to achieve the Castle or Fortress home based level. Again, I don't I
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don't know who hurts CTP, but man, he must have been at a
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tournament somewhere where the collusion was real us rotten. Yes, for sure.
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Uh, there's there's no here. You're because you're reading the text description.
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The picture says you're gonna get twelve additional name decks, not nine additional custom
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decks. I bet you it is twelve, and the picture is right.
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Mm. But yeah, I think they they have a specific number of fortresses
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that they want there to be, and so that's why they're not saying how
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many votes, because they're like, well, we just need three of them
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or five of them. So over the top five are the number. There's
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a three, two does eight? The ABR guys are so spread out,
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I don't know. Yeah, they have a single store, and yes some
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of the some of the cities have like more than one store. Uh,
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but sometimes I don't know, Like I'm like I'm trying to figure it,
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like does my store have a chance? Is it? Like if I I
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don't know, I don't know if there's Well, so then there's also the
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question of if there are enough international backers do that, because the other one
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that I would think could pull that votes is the the place that runs the
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the Italian vaults too. Yeah, that's possible. I also think the Baltimore
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store, the place the vault is going to be at, there's there's a
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good that that's Millennium where you guys will be this weekend. Because even talking
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to the locals, this isn't even the store they play key forget normally,
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right, It's just a big store, a big store. Yeah, but
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the same with San Antonio here, that's not actually a key forged spot.
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They just like to run events and they have a big space. So so
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I don't think it's going to be that. So I I actually, well,
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well check okay. So that they have a description for more Mutation,
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it says key Ford More Mutation is a special set based on the most popular
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and hardest to find past key fordet Mass Mutation hardest too, fine is this
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is this not the easiest? Well, you know what, it was the
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easiest, fine, but most people opened another one dollar decks and didn't see
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on them, like me and the guy just a little bit self of me
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who has like the price another Yeah, the prices going back up like forty
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or fifty boxes sitting back there. Yeah, so I actually think might be
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the hardest to find, but not that far behind. You can still buy
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DT through distribution. Oh really, okay, that's right. A little add
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on when I was clicking around the retailer portal. Through my retailer account,
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you can buy DT boxes, AOA boxes and grim Reminders boxes right, and
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then on Chained and Menagerie too. The funny part was an AOA box was
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listed at one hundred and forty four dollars and this is this is directly from
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GG one hundred and forty four dollars for the for the Anway boxes for that
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price. I don't know what they're thinking with that. That's crazy. We
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see Josh says, please buy the DT because it takes up half of his
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office. DT is in his office. This is why we don't have in
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store play. The DC is all over Johnsons. Every time he goes to
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work, he has to move boxes a DT out of the wa It all
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makes sense now, I did not know any of this. Yeah. Key
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for my mutation includes a curated pool. People have been pointing out that that's
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interesting. Curated pool. Are they actually going to reduce some of the cards?
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And I made the horrible joke that, of course is going to be
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like in furnace. Mark of diss and the good artifact is what they'll pull
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because you know they do terrible things like that. But new legacy cards which
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the rumor I heard on that is it will be possible for Grim Reminders cards
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to legacy into m M because M plus because M plus is printed after GR
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so that should be fun. And we just lost dras cor Yeah, cars
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going Night Night eleven, additional gigantics and related of port cards. So that's
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the factures and allow each house in M plus to field two different gigantic creatures.
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What more, key Forge M plus is an ultraware sets exclusively to those
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retailers participating in the campaign and that qualified for outposter hire. In addition to
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the free M plus provided the stores as part of the home based bonus,
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qualifying stores will be offered the option to purchase additional displays of M plus at
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wholesale pricing alongside their retailer pledge. So this sounds like it might be a'll
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buy it once and done thing. The amount of additional displays that may be
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purchased will be contingent on your store's home based level, but never described,
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never never defined higher levels more prop ghost Galaxy will never sell these stacks online
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or at shows, so they say you will not be able to find these
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at your vaults through them unless the store running the vault has them for that
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reason, and then you gotta pay shipping as well. On top of all
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this yay shipping. I actually like people can plant it's shipping. The shipping
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is actually not that bad because that large pledge, which is like eighteen boxes
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of cards. The most expensive shipping that they have listed is Australia New Zealand
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and it's eighty five bucks, which is kind of meaningless that. I mean,
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it's cheap enough, that's only a few bucks a box. But then
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it also says and then you're responsible for any of your guys's import fees.
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So and that's where I think most of the stuff gets killed, you over
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a playing the import fees. Yeah, so all right now I'm lost when
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I'm clicking buttons. I figured it there. I'm on my phone. I
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got out of the stage. So yeah, that's that is the reasons,
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or that's the that's what's behind the retailer pledges time. So there's like three
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preset plaquage packages your store, and by getting them to do the medium pledge
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I just to me, looks like the best overall deal unless they can actually
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move twelve boxes of Amber skies. We're uh talking to my guy. We're
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going big. We're getting a whole bunch of stuff. So oh and that
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also when you pledge this, I was looking around. You can pledge multiple
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copies of any of these pledges. So if you wanted to do five large
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retail pledges, you can do five large retail pledges and then get one hundred
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door logo decks. You can do that if you can justify it. Yeah,
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we're I think where my guy's at. He said he would do two
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of them, So two large pledges. Yeah, we're gonna be rolling sealed.
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That's pretty cool, yep. I I think I'm gonna try to get
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our I actually don't know what we want to ask the store. We play
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at the pledge, and I think for what I'm gonna do personally, especially
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since I'm backing near zero for actual backing just cheap to get a vote,
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I'll probably do a medium pledge for the store. Mhm, because you know,
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I think I can move that much stuff between myself and Sunday Night Seals
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all us other scrubs who you know, do stuff and things and things.
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Yeah, so that's what we got. That's all we got. I am
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trying to create our custom title belt right now, and I am like,
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right that struggle buzz. Do expect there will be more arcons corner custom decks
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out of this next order though, because yeah, Sheep needs them sweet sweet
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ac dollars. I'm just I mean, I could shend in my Sheep logo
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right and just do just do straight up sheet decks that there you go,
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They're like, now they're just for me, just for me. Yeah,
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you should just replace one of the you know, the the wheel of Arkhan
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circles, just replace one of them with Sheep. Just do a little subtle
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logo. Yeah. I don't know if I can get that done and paint,
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yeah, we know, somebody photoshop. I don't know. Do you
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think we can get each of the cast member's face and tiny circles in there?
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Probably? Is that rendering I've been trying to. I've been trying to
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render your face onto a coin for at least a year now, No lock,
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but I've been trying. It's not going well. Some help ah that
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Yeah, I mean, that's that's gonna do it. For us this week.
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Really, I mean, we haven't got anything else going on, do
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we. Well, I'm about to head out to Rochester tomorrow. My my
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crazy plan flying back from Charlotte into Philadelphia. My buddy is picking up from
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the airport. We're driving to Rochester because because I'm flying on the company dimes,
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so I can't really go to Rochester from Charlotte. You you do what
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you like. I'm just kidding. Don't do what you like. If you
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are listening to this as a Patreon uh, there is. We are working
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on transitioning some of the responsibilities to drop better around being that he's a rotten
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quitter, rotten quitter and he's there will be a Patreon recorded episode of Z
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teaching some of us how Elsea scoring works so we can share that responsibility a
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little more. We're working to do that because obviously he is leaving yeah open
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his big mouth, made a lot of promises and then dumped it on us
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pretty much. And if you want to see the sweet a Shutter title belt,
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you know I'll wait wait wait, wait wait wait what did we lose?
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I think we lost him. He's not like you passed out. Yeah,
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I'm working on it. You know, and uh, that'll do it
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first. Next week we'll see actually this week. We haven't done a patrion
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episode in a long time, but I'll do it first this time. We'll
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see in the future for six weeks maybe eventually, Oh byels, when I'll
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bring my bones. Soon, all moscow's being golden. My name's forever.
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Let's wait, I'll bring my boots. See all moscows be golden. My
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name's Bang. Bang. Will stop dealing with that job. You'll stop dealing
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with that job.