my roommates are watching original-4kids yu-gi-oh for some incomprehensible reason and my adult self is losing her mind at what is effectively animated trading-card calvinball
like i watched it as a kid, right? but it's another thing being old enough to realize that almost every move every character makes involves making up a new rule
it was absolutely the most jarring thing when I learned to play the card game as a kid
the worst offense of this was the episode with panik and the castle of dark illusions
i didn't get mad about it until i got castle of dark illusions in a yu-gi-oh game (i think dark duel stories) and it couldn't do any of this awesome shit