Buddy, if you’re only buying two lousy packs you can leave my TCG Card Shop Simulator store immediately | Gaming Trailer

While I’ve been known to enjoy a few of them in my time, I tend to view a lot of more mundane simulator games in the same way I view sports games: Looks fine, but I could do this stuff in real life, were I inclined and also social and also vaguely limber instead of owning a spine with roughly the flexibility of a rib n’ saucy Nik Nak.

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Similarly, the currently popping-off on Steam TCG Card Shop Simulator – in its digitization of a hobby-within-a-hobby-within-a-third-place – feels vaguely like the sort of thing that would have made Baudrillard violently shit himself to death. Still, as someone who frequently fantasies about having a.) a killer deck, b.) lots of mates and c.) a good enough understanding of maths to crush those mates into the dust…