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The story
In a chat thread on 5ch’s “Live: Anything Goes” board, a post about “ladder-hopping” (梯子, hashigo) — entering multiple Duel Masters store tournaments (“CS”) in one day — got autocorrected to “chair” (椅子, isu), sparking a split among posters over whether the joke actually landed. From there the conversation drifted into ribbing regulars for still playing card games as adults, a story about a girlfriend’s birthday gift of a card box turning out to duplicate cards the poster had already bought as singles on release day, and finally lunch photos and news about a new Hololive gacha, as the chat rambled on.
What people said
What's a CS?
Duel Masters' Championship Series.
It means a tournament held at a store.
You "ladder" between them.
"Chair" them? What's that supposed to mean?
If you don't clear the qualifiers at the first CS, you head to the next CS venue and enter a second one.
There are actually people who don't get what "ladder-hopping" means?😱
Re: #112
Taking a joke seriously lol
That's not even one of the standard-use school kanji, is it?
Writing it out as "hashigo suru" in kana is what a proper working adult would do.
Right, that's exactly it.
And what's your hobby and age, then?
In the last thread some guy who's never had a girlfriend despite his age was losing it, so yeah, that says it all.
Ahh-hyun, beh-hyun lol (a mocking, sing-song jeer)
Why is there bread sitting on top of the udon?
I've got a girlfriend, actually — she just doesn't know much about card games.
She once gave me a booster box for my birthday,
but since I'd already collected a full playset (4 copies) of the singles online on release day, it left me with mixed feelings.
Sorry, can you write that so an actual human can understand it?
"My girlfriend and I are lovey-dovey."
Does that get the point across?
What I meant is: my girlfriend gave me a box of card packs for my birthday,
but I'd already ordered 4 copies each of the key cards you'd likely pull from that box, online, on release day — so it left me with mixed feelings.
Are the people who worship this thing part of the crowd that used to watch Pop Team Epic?
Yep.
How'd you know?
Because I'm your dad.
If you're my dad, weren't you just at the car dealership?
I'm watching this thread together with the guy from the dealership.
To eat green onion miso ramen?
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Torn between Fubuki-chan and Korone🍄💦 (Hololive VTubers Shirakami Fubuki and Inugami Korone)
Why'd you schedule it right on top of the Shironeko Project collab?
Hidakaya's Dragon Chicken
Green onion miso ramen
Hidakaya's stir-fried meat and vegetables with fried rice
Your stovetop's covered in mold.
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Background and Talking Points
Threads like this one come from 5ch’s “Live: Anything Goes” board, a topic-free chat space where each participant brings their own subject. This time the focus was “hashigo” (梯子, literally “ladder”), card-game community slang for entering multiple official Duel Masters store tournaments (“CS”) held the same day, moving between venues to try to clear the qualifiers. When a poster unfamiliar with the term misread it as “isu” (椅子, “chair”), opinions split over whether it was a deliberate joke or a genuine misreading. Later in the thread, jabs at grown adults for still playing card games crossed with rebuttals of “I do have a girlfriend,” in a familiar back-and-forth about hobbies and age. A story about a birthday-gift card box turning out to duplicate cards the poster had already bought as singles on release day struck a chord as a relatable collector’s mishap, giving this otherwise ordinary chat thread a small glimpse of very human moments.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Live: Anything Goes board) thread “Funa’s Secretly Sucking Octopus Behind the Scenes, Funari🐙(・o・🍬)🏰.”
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