A torn-open foil trading card pack on a Japanese convenience store counter at evening, seven baseball cards fanned out, one card shimmering holographic, a smartphone beside them scanning a small square code printed on the back of one card

I Bought a Pack of Japanese Baseball Cards. They Play the Season.

by CDCulture, Video GamesPosted on No Comments

I used to collect baseball cards in the 1990s in the USA and on a whim bought a Japanese pack in a konbini for 500 yen… What I found inside was not the cardboard nostalgia I expected. It was something far more interesting. The pack was from Bandai’s Pro Baseball Fan Stars League (プロ野球 ファンスターズリーグ), …

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w3wu – What it is. why it matters.

by CDAI, Fiction, Productivity, Video GamesPosted on No Comments

W3 Worlds Unlimited is a collaborative worldbuilding platform. You create a world, populate it with structured entries — characters, locations, factions, events, artifacts, concepts, magic systems — and set rules for how other people can participate. Open, curated, or paid. You decide what’s canon and what’s lore. You decide who can fork your world and under what conditions.

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