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The Real Slim Shady said:
Why didn't you eat them right away inside or on the way back? Were you afraid that someone might have stolen the food? (This is a genuine question)
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Life is weird. I still have the boxes they just have little gross stains I can't get rid of. The only thing without minor staining is the bag because they forgot to give me the one tied to the meal with the QR code and the sauce ad art at first, and the drink due to it being a plastic cup. I'll probably clean that one a little at some point.
 
Noble Redditor said:
A lot of the people who hopped on the retro game collecting trend during COVID will outgrow it or get tired of it and a lot of those games will end up back at the same thrift store or garage sales they were picked from. It's a continuous cycle. That's why some collectables are on their fourth or fifth owner at this point.
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I noticed the jump of people buying retro stuff during the first 6-12months of Covid. I actually ended up downsizing during this time and got rid of most of my consoles and stuff I had kicking around. One thing I noticed was the days of buying stuff from Japan was dead. Shipping quadrupled in priced, prices on Ebay went way up. I think every dickhead who watches eBay retro channels thought they were going to make a living from buying consoles from Japan, refurbing them and flipping them.

I even feel like garage sales and thrift stores are dead. Sometimes I see something half decent pop up on Facebook, but it feels like it's not really worth it.

Scuffed Marisa said:
I'd go so far as to say that the actual, real fans of old games and exclusively people who emulate and NOT the "collectors." The actual game is the ephemeral digital code, not the physical object.
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As time goes on, I care more about my save files. I can always get another copy or a rom of a game, but losing my saves seems to hurt more now. I pumped 50+ hours into a Final Fantasy game well as Marvel V Capcom 2 a few years via emulation and the save file through the emulator fucked out and I couldn't recover the save. Now I'm thinking of dumping multiple copies of my saves into physical and cloud backups.

Jhonson the Two said:
Most people who do it love more the games than the collectors who shame them anyway, also it's true that having the thing in your hand is satisfying , but having a digital back up somewhere is as important as having a physical one ; both can be destroyed after all.
And me think they're pissed because they stupidly spend thousands thinking it is some classy elite shit to do, only to see smarter/poorer people enjoying it all around the World without spending a
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To me, all comes back to nerd elitism. Dorks who get good at one thing and will gatekeep it to ridiculous degrees.

It reminds me of getting into Magic the Gathering and going into a card shop to buy a pack of cards and having to deal with a thirty year old dork who has a snobbish attitude towards everyone including people who want to give them money. Fuck these losers who want to set a high bar of participation for what is a childs hobby.
 
foam rolla said:
To me, all comes back to nerd elitism. Dorks who get good at one thing and will gatekeep it to ridiculous degrees
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Ah, like the fucker who told me that MTG cards released officially in our language were "not real-real" and that all the people in the scene use grey import english cards.
 
Noble Redditor said:
Huh? It's not software people are paying for. It's an official hard copy of a vintage game that was made 25 (or 18 or 30) years ago.
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That should cost 1 dollar nowadays.

You are delusional, man. You got brainwashed into believing a piece of plastic from 3 decades ago should cost more than 1 buck.
 
foam rolla said:
I noticed the jump of people buying retro stuff during the first 6-12months of Covid. I actually ended up downsizing during this time and got rid of most of my consoles and stuff I had kicking around. One thing I noticed was the days of buying stuff from Japan was dead. Shipping quadrupled in priced, prices on Ebay went way up. I think every dickhead who watches eBay retro channels thought they were going to make a living from buying consoles from Japan, refurbing them and flipping them.

I even feel like garage sales and thrift stores are dead. Sometimes I see something half decent pop up on Facebook, but it feels like it's not really worth it.
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Retro stuff in japan has been getting more expensive over the years in general. A lot of it comes down to retards on youtube going to Super Potato (like MJR) and thinking all that overpriced shit they got there is actually worth it and "inspiring" people to buy more at that price, as you said. I've been to the Akihabara and the Ikebukuro one a couple of years ago and it was already really bad back then.

The days of bargains are long over. On the other hand, if you go to Japan for buying videogames, then you probably deserve to pay out of your ass.
 
foam rolla said:
I noticed the jump of people buying retro stuff during the first 6-12months of Covid. I actually ended up downsizing during this time and got rid of most of my consoles and stuff I had kicking around. One thing I noticed was the days of buying stuff from Japan was dead. Shipping quadrupled in priced, prices on Ebay went way up. I think every dickhead who watches eBay retro channels thought they were going to make a living from buying consoles from Japan, refurbing them and flipping them.

I even feel like garage sales and thrift stores are dead. Sometimes I see something half decent pop up on Facebook, but it feels like it's not really worth it.
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Made me remember something
In my village, every year in summer there is a giant garage sale where everyone can sell their items on the sidewalk in the street (you buy your place cheaply at the town hall and that's it). It's a big event where you can find lots of great things if you look well enough, like tea towels hand-sewn by tiny grandmas or collectible stones for only 10 dollars, plants, old comics, whole motors to tinker with, etc. etc.
Since two years there has been this guy with a big stand who has been selling Pokémon cards still packaged in their booster packs or in their still plasticized boxes at a high price. This was obviously to double surf on the collecting fever and that these cards became complicated to find for parents who just want to buy cards for their children. I guess selling them at a garage sale gives a false sense of a good deal, but it is hilaroius to see him alone in his giant ass stand with maybe one or two clients looking at it. I don't think he'll be here this years.
 
Van Darkholme said:
The days of bargains are long over. On the other hand, if you go to Japan for buying videogames, then you probably deserve to pay out of your ass.
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"But bro I got some amazing deals on retro consoles in Japan" - But forgets to factor in the thousands of dollars spent on flights, accommodation and food.
 
I came across this video of a guy going around various retail stores and looking at all Disney slop clogging up the shelves. It's reassuring to know that despite all the astroturfing, little Timmy still doesn't want to buy the latest sheboon toy.

I tried to watch some of his other videos, but he's a big consoomer himself with a wall of shit behind him.
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I'm not sure if I've just become horrible and jaded over time but I'm starting to find retro gaming youtubers gross. Something about seeing a guy past his 40s wearing a Mario Bros baseball cap indoors and the backdrop of their room is full of funkopops, figurines, gaming paraphernalia meticulously organized into a shrine to their childhood.

Maybe I'm being a cunt or maybe it's projecting, but I find that stuff hard to look at.
 
foam rolla said:
I'm not sure if I've just become horrible and jaded over time but I'm starting to find retro gaming youtubers gross. Something about seeing a guy past his 40s wearing a Mario Bros baseball cap indoors and the backdrop of their room is full of funkopops, figurines, gaming paraphernalia meticulously organized into a shrine to their childhood.

Maybe I'm being a cunt or maybe it's projecting, but I find that stuff hard to look at.
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No, you're right. It sucks. The whole community sucks. The videos are way too long with tons of unnecessary commentary and everyone makes the exact same video with practically no variation. It's exactly what this thread is about because it's just consooooooming every new product mindlessly and getting excited about it even though it's stupid trash for children. I feel sorry for the people who get caught up in the content loop because it's almost impossible to get out of it once YouTube starts spamming you with it. Look it's a chubby guy with a beard wearing a bright green Luigi fitted hat talking about Nintendo's crackdown on piracy, surrounded by GameStop figurines.

I really can't stand how safe and corporatized all of these content creators are now. There are so many stupidly obnoxious things they do. Editing out the profanity is annoying enough, but they now edit out words like "die" "suicide" and "rape" because apparently, allegedly, possibly they're "bad" for the algorithm although nobody has ever explained how or why. Even if it were true, who cares? You don't have to blatantly copy and follow some arbitrary new censorship rule just because everyone else is doing it. It's bad for the algorithm how? Is it going to flag your video and get you banned? Are the police going to raid your house and kill you? Or are you actually worried about some obnoxious transexual getting his discord server to raid your comment section about how those words are triggering to people who have suffered "abuse?"

It's a frighteningly mindless adherence to new social trends just to virtue signal to the absolute lowest common denominator.
 
@Noble Redditor by bad for the algorithm they mean that the video will literally be censored from people, show up lower in search rankings, etc if it includes those words. If you make a video it's because you want people to watch it, of course they're going to end up doing what the algorithm demands.
 
Noble Redditor said:
Editing out the profanity is annoying enough, but they now edit out words like "die" "suicide" and "rape" because apparently, allegedly, possibly they're "bad" for the algorithm although nobody has ever explained how or why.
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You get demonetized instantly.
 
I can't quote @Noble Redditor post for some reason.

I probably shouldn't of specified Youtubers but it's the main source of where I see these people (or on Twitch) it's not really about them producing content but more so seeing men approaching middle age and building their whole personality around gaming. "Hey guys, this is RetroGamingDad_420" Even more so when they've cordoned off part of the family home so it can be their personal gaming shrine. My Dad played golf when I was growing up but if I found him turning one of the bedrooms into a golf shrine and was making a videos dressed as a golf caddy, I would of changed my surname.

Funnily enough, I had a school friend who's dad was a retro toy enthusiast and had sectioned off part of the family garage so it would be his personal toy room. What made it worse was the rest of the family wasn't allowed in there and he had it locked off with a separate key and would go nuts when his kids would sneak in there.
 
foam rolla said:
I can't quote @Noble Redditor post for some reason.

I probably shouldn't of specified Youtubers but it's the main source of where I see these people (or on Twitch) it's not really about them producing content but more so seeing men approaching middle age and building their whole personality around gaming. "Hey guys, this is RetroGamingDad_420" Even more so when they've cordoned off part of the family home so it can be their personal gaming shrine. My Dad played golf when I was growing up but if I found him turning one of the bedrooms into a golf shrine and was making a videos dressed as a golf caddy, I would of changed my surname.

Funnily enough, I had a school friend who's dad was a retro toy enthusiast and had sectioned off part of the family garage so it would be his personal toy room. What made it worse was the rest of the family wasn't allowed in there and he had it locked off with a separate key and would go nuts when his kids would sneak in there.
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It's really no different from a LinkedIn-fluencer who makes their entire personality not just their job, but the fanatical evangelism that their way is "the way" and that people can't possibly live a fulfilling life unless they follow the same exact path.

We contain multitudes and people who willfully ignore entire sections of their personality to chase fame/money/whatever are hard to watch because we know it's not human nature to act that way.
 
foam rolla said:
To me, all comes back to nerd elitism. Dorks who get good at one thing and will gatekeep it to ridiculous degrees.

It reminds me of getting into Magic the Gathering and going into a card shop to buy a pack of cards and having to deal with a thirty year old dork who has a snobbish attitude towards everyone including people who want to give them money. Fuck these losers who want to set a high bar of participation for what is a childs hobby.
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The Simpsons created Comic Book Guy for a reason. Apparently it's a lot more common than I thought.
 
Adult video gamers and toy collectors need to be ostracized again. Hobbies should be productive and creative, not just collecting garbage. Even Pixar did it but I doubt we can go back now the investors have a grip on the industries.

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We need to bring bullying back so people stop being such sadsacks
 
I was watching a video about inflation and how everyone is financially fucked right now and one of the people featured in it unironically said "Get yourself signed up for tiktok shop, review something you own and use already, get a commission".
That's where we are now. In times of financial struggle, the easiest and most reliable way to make a quick buck is on modern Home Shopping Network.

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Torque Wheeler said:
Adult video gamers and toy collectors need to be ostracized again. Hobbies should be productive and creative, not just collecting garbage. Even Pixar did it but I doubt we can go back now the investors have a grip on the industries.

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We need to bring bullying back so people stop being such sadsacks
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Ironically the director is a collector himself and created the character because he realized his own absurdity of not letting his kids play with his collection.
 
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