Satoshi commented in his article at http://www.pojo.com/TCGStrategies/March2000/30o.htm:

1-Little Kids and Trading
Okay, true that trading with a little kid can be frusterating, but they
know a lot more than some of the articles have given out. Or, they think
they do, anyway. I just reecently got a 9-card promo NEO set, thinking I
could get some good trades with newly released japanese cards. Sure enough,
I got the last blastpise I needed for my raindance deck. I traded the water
family. Some of you may be thinking, "bad move." Nope. I can't play 'em,
they're japanese. So I trade for cards I can play. Right after this
transaction, the kid yells out, "no trade backs!!!!" Like he ripped me off
or something. See, the littler kids don't need our help anymore.

I was worried for a minute that there was a new water Pokèmon that I hadn't heard of before---that is until I looked closely at what he typed and realized that he's just as bad of a typer as I am. I do agree with you though, when you say that kids should be watched carefully. I think that many of them use thier "kidness" to get away with many injustices that if the same things were said/done by older people would not be tolerated.

Next he commented at http://www.pojo.com/TCGStrategies/March2000/30y.htm:

1-Archtype haters
I have been hearing a LOT of talk about how archtypes are "unoriginal" or
"going out" or "don't win tournaments." Ha! Bull. That is a lot of bull.
These people are the ones that refuse to realize why people use these kind
of decks; as a result, the decks win, the people lose, and thus continue to
bash on archtype decks, except now they have the bitter taste of loss
lingering in threir mouths.

No, what is bitter is that I spend the time to come up with something that has not been printed in a hundred magazines or on a thousand websites, something with form, strategy, complexitity, and an interesting theme, only to be beaten by some snot-nosed punk who thinks he's cool cause he's got 4 Blastoise (or Electabuzz, or Charizards… or whatever.)

All you archtype haters need to simmer down and take these "ceap decks for
a test spin. If you continue to argue without having ever tried at least one
of archtype decks in a tournament, then your argument is one-sided, and
contains nothing worht arguing over.

I've taken these "cheap decks" (funny name, since most are incredibly expensive to construct if you buy them piece by piece) for their 'test-spin' as you call it. I've had fun for about 15 minutes with each of them… until I realized the challenge of a good game was gone, and nobody wanted to play my Ahanilltion deck, or my TSUNAMI deck anyore… people aren't inherently stupid-they don't pl when they KNOW they won't win.

Personally, I would like to see turbo raindance, turbo wiggly, pure haymaker etc. banned from tournament play, unless the builder brings with them a detailed description of why every card is in there, can produce an origional deck concept/strategy, and gives it a frigging name other than "Raindance", "HAYMAKER", or "I copied this deck from a magazine."

TheLady@pojo.com