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Negotiator said:
Don't buy new games until you've finished the ones you already have, and don't do this either.
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There's a guy like that who collects VHS copies of the movie Speed. He was even featured in the show Shipping Wars.

The way I look at it is these guys see collectors buying games, movies and what not, but wanted to be unique and collect the same useless item for attention.
 
Negotiator said:
Don't buy new games until you've finished the ones you already have, and don't do this either.
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Imagine being the poor kids' of this lunatic. Just pissing away their inheritance money on thousand of copies of Jerry Rice and Nitus Dog Football. Not even jewelry, stocks or land, just plastic garbage. That will be the only disappointing legacy these people will leave behind.
 
Tootsie Bear said:
The way I look at it is these guys see collectors buying games, movies and what not, but wanted to be unique and collect the same useless item for attention.
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Yeah, that's about right. It's a pretty dumb and easy way to make a joke, but I've seen enough huge collections of the same game enough times for it to be overdone, especially when the game in question is something lolsorandom like "Dog Football". It's always something like that now.

Some ideas of games to collect a lot of for better reasons:
  • 100 Classic Books for Nintendo DS: it's an official Nintendo release that has the word "nigger" in it, lmao
  • Any bad game with a celebrity prominently featured on the cover, with plans to give those games back to that celebrity as retaliation for their bad game
  • I'm already running out of ideas. Uhh, maybe like, if the creator of the game is down with internet humor, you could mess with them? Like sending Toby Fox a picture of a shelf packed full of Undertales with the message "come on over toby, let's make this collection complete" and then see how he reacts
or just don't collect a bazillion of any one game because that is a ridiculous practice
 
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Pissmaster said:
Yeah, that's about right. It's a pretty dumb and easy way to make a joke, but I've seen enough huge collections of the same game enough times for it to be overdone, especially when the game in question is something lolsorandom like "Dog Football". It's always something like that now. The

Some ideas of games to collect a lot of for better reasons:
  • 100 Classic Books for Nintendo DS: it's an official Nintendo release that has the word "nigger" in it, lmao
  • Any bad game with a celebrity prominently featured on the cover, with plans to give those games back to that celebrity as retaliation for their bad game
  • I'm already running out of ideas. Uhh, maybe like, if the creator of the game is down with internet humor, you could mess with them? Like sending Toby Fox a picture of a shelf packed full of Undertales with the message "come on over toby, let's make this collection complete" and then see how he reacts
or just don't collect a bazillion of any one game because that is a ridiculous practice
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Collecting many copies of a game like the original Shantae back when it was new would have been a good idea considering how much it sells for now.
 
UselessIdiot said:
I don't know if most homes are owned by corporations yet, but it's becoming that way. Home ownership is pretty out of reach for the average person now, and the only people who will probably be able to own in the future are the small upper-middle class and wealthy, everyone else will only be able to rent in perpetuity. The metro area I live in used to be very affordable, but now it's basically become LA price-wise. I've heard stories of people in older apartment complexes near me having to move out to the exurbs because the landlords are jacking the rent up like $900 more a month, and who can afford that kind of increase?

The left wanted us to become more like Europe, and that's just going oh so well!
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Sounds like the left wanted you to become more like Northwestern Europe, specifically. Home ownership is very widespread and, at least outside the big cities, the norm in countries like Spain, Italy and Greece - you know, the countries that were mired in debt and got that ginormous bailout financed mainly by the German taxpayer, who is in fact unlikely to own a home. From what you said it sounds like the US is on it's way to become like Germany, where home ownership is only possible now if you either inherit a home, have a very high income that is still high enough after taxes so you can pay the mortgage, or buy a property in the middle of bumfuck nowhere. Germans are a people of tenants - and the rent got jacked up like hell, just like property prices. This isn't going to end anytime soon because the European Central Bank is not willing to abandon its zero interest policy.
 
Pissmaster said:
That, and the fundamentally weird concept of having slippers with a character's face in the middle of the brooch. The characters in movies, and people in real life, don't wear anything like that. It feels like a thing that comes from arrogant boomers that think kids are stupid and will buy anything with their favorite character's face on it.

That being said, here's the logo of a game about Caribbean pirates stamped on a foam football:
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What, you don't consoom Star Wars grapes?

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LateralusJambi said:
There were SW branded fruits/vegetables? (slight PL) I'm not from US/Western Europe and I never seen those.
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Yes. Big media companies pay $$$ to food companies to advertise their product. Ive seen it with Poptarts, cereal, and Eggo waffles as well. Some marketing psychologist have convinced corporate, that if you advertise your product on essentials like food, you can teach kids to CONSOOM at an early age. It starts by collecting all 4 salad variants.
 
Puerto Pollo said:
What, you don't consoom Star Wars grapes?

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I knew I had at least one picture of Star Wars food saved, and it made me laugh when the one I have is a different variety of grapes.
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LateralusJambi said:
There were SW branded fruits/vegetables? (slight PL) I'm not from US/Western Europe and I never seen those.
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Yeah, it was nuts. I had some Star Wars coffee creamer for a time all because it was on clearance for its packaging.

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LateralusJambi said:
There were SW branded fruits/vegetables? (slight PL) I'm not from US/Western Europe and I never seen those.
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Yeah, there was this enormous marketing blitz at the time where they would slap the Star Wars logo and promotional pictures of the nuWars characters all over absolutely every product possible. Well, except for refrigerators and ovens, which was for Rise of Skywalker. Either GE thought that a Star Wars tie in would sell more fridges or Disney thought that the whole "Disney mom" segment was their new Star Wars consumer.
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FAQnews Correspondent said:
Yeah, there was this enormous marketing blitz at the time where they would slap the Star Wars logo and promotional pictures of the nuWars characters all over absolutely every product possible. Well, except for refrigerators and ovens, which was for Rise of Skywalker. Either GE thought that a Star Wars tie in would sell more fridges or Disney thought that the whole "Disney mom" segment was their new Star Wars consumer.
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Someone already tried to pick away at the decal to see if it's removable because they need a new refrigerator and don't want to have Daisy Ridley staring at them from their kitchen for the next 20 years
 
I really hate the idea that flooring has now become something you replace every few years, like Ikea furniture. Things like "vinyl tile" are so wasteful, stores shouldn't even be allowed to sell home supplies that won't still look decent after 20 years of normal use. Renovations should be because things look a bit old and worn, not shitshack-ed. It's just another way to push the cost of housing sky high.
Anyway, enjoy this plastic sticker tile nightmare I found on Home Depot's website. Going down?
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Maggots on a Train v2 said:
I really hate the idea that flooring has now become something you replace every few years, like Ikea furniture. Things like "vinyl tile" are so wasteful, stores shouldn't even be allowed to sell home supplies that won't still look decent after 20 years of normal use. Renovations should be because things look a bit old and worn, not shitshack-ed. It's just another way to push the cost of housing sky high.
Anyway, enjoy this plastic sticker tile nightmare I found on Home Depot's website. Going down?
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That clashes with the wooden floor and looks like shit. I hate sterile interior design. It's so cheap and soulless.
 
Myrtle the Turtle said:
Some marketing psychologist have convinced corporate, that if you advertise your product on essentials like food, you can teach kids to CONSOOM at an early age.
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Mexico banned cartoon mascots with that excuse. No Chester Cheeta, no Tony the tiger, etc. The products can still be sold, they just have to change the packaging.

I am pretty sure its not the only country were that kind of marketing on food products is regulated. I am generally pro-free market type of person but even i agree the stuff that is directed at kids is insidious and a lot of it should't be a thing. Everyone like to shit on Mcdonalds for example, but my one gripe with them is the Disney deals and the insane ammount of marketing they do for kids. It seems absurd to allow so much media manipulation directed at a demographic that is not even supposed to make their own nutrional choices.
 
Maggots on a Train v2 said:
I really hate the idea that flooring has now become something you replace every few years, like Ikea furniture. Things like "vinyl tile" are so wasteful, stores shouldn't even be allowed to sell home supplies that won't still look decent after 20 years of normal use. Renovations should be because things look a bit old and worn, not shitshack-ed. It's just another way to push the cost of housing sky high.
Anyway, enjoy this plastic sticker tile nightmare I found on Home Depot's website. Going down?
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Huh. I wonder if this is actually Minecraft-branded.

Also on the flipside you have people installing hardwood flooring and immediately beating the shit out of it with belts to make it look rustic. Also leaving it unsealed, which is not going to go so hot.
 
Myrtle the Turtle said:
Imagine being the poor kids' of this lunatic. Just pissing away their inheritance money on thousand of copies of Jerry Rice and Nitus Dog Football. Not even jewelry, stocks or land, just plastic garbage. That will be the only disappointing legacy these people will leave behind.
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This reminds me of a thread saw last night where OP started a conversation about Boomer parents by venting about his mom who, like this guy, was blowing all her money on stupid shit.
It sparked a whole discussion about how, yes, no one is really entitled to anything that belongs to someone else, but at the same time is does say quite a lot about the mentality of people like OP's mom that they do not plan around or seem to care about their children or grandchildren.
Other anecdotes I've seen recently in this same vein:
  • Anonette who passed her fertile years dealing with her boomer father's bullshit and decided to never have children because of it. Now he's dead and it's not even like she got an inheritance out of it.
  • Anon's boomer mom who told him that she's not planning to pay off her house and will be leaving her assets to a charity that provides for undocumented immigrants in California and she hopes it will encourage him to "work hard" since he has it easier than they do.
  • Another anon whose parents have multiple home equity loans for things like boats and trucks but will leave behind no actual wealth since the bank basically owns the whole "estate".
  • Yet another Anon's boomer mom and uncle took out a reverse mortgage on a fully-paid-off home left to them by his grandfather, only to lose the whole thing to the bank after being unable to make payments.
  • An anon whose father sat him down 1:1 and told him that Anon needed to make Mrs. Anon get a full-time job so they can afford a bigger house. Why? Because BoomerDad "Isn't going to be around forever" and Anon needs a big house to hold all his "nice things" when BoomerDad downsizes/dies.
 
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