Some of this phenomena I think isn't too different than how boomers will spend 6 figures on a 50-60 year old car. Boomers are probably doing it because they saw that car a lot growing up and thought it was badass but couldn't afford it until they were retired. In this same way your 30-something consoomer loved Pokemon cards and vidya growing up but until he put in a few years in the Big Tech bug hive he could never afford it. But now that he has a decent apartment and disposable income he can buy all the Pokemon cards and vidya he ever wanted, which is all of them.
Pokemon cards were 3-4 dollars a pack and a lot of the old ones ran cheap till current year scalper-er i mean VALUE EVALUATORS decidedthey were worth thousands and proceeded to hoard both old and new ones and getinto fistfights in walmart over the things tothe point it made national news and they temporarily pulled them from shelves as a result.
The boomer is going to put 1,500 miles on that car in four years and drive it in a couple of parades before he parks it for ten years and then sells it for way more than it's worth and a bullshit "Drive it every day" story to some guy my age who wants a nice mechanically simple car that I can fix myself and this piece of shit is barely running because it's been stored improperly for so long. I've seen that song and dance way more than once, hell I've danced that dance more than once.
That is an incredibly common story for people who were involved in Pokemon and Yugioh cards when they first got popular due to as you said, the actually rare cards aren't all that rare. I used to have like seven of the first print holo Blue Eyes and Dark Magician cards because those were so common in 2005 or so that you were practically tripping over the things. Turns out those are worth money these days but I honestly couldn't bring myself to care.
IIRC game completion rate works off achievements. Achievement completionism is by itself an ultra consoom, whether you go for likely shit games with easy achievements, or autistically play a decent game to 100% competion long past the point it stops being fun, or edit them in.
Like 10 years late but map to Luke Skywalker. My brain hurts. People fucking move around in a space opera and even planets travel through space, on occasions unpredictably. Making a quest item out of a map to a living person, broken into parts no less, is so intellectually offensive it only gets beaten by the dagger from Rise of Palpatine (don't judge, I watched that on movie night). It's a shitty "in spaaaaaace" reskin of a generic high fantasy b movie script. It's Todd.
It happens with feminine hobbies too, but more with woke than loser incel nerds. BP has a whole thread about fiber arts drama. For the past decade or so, the community has become full of incredibly woke lunacy to the point where Ravelry (a knitting pattern database with forums etc) made mainstream news for literally banning any expression of support for Trump. Quillette even has an article about this shit.
I’m sort of a physical media sperg, I’ve got a decent library of old tech and media formats. I collect it for a couple of different reasons, firstly I don’t like the concept of having a streaming service decide my library is ‘problematic’ and deleting some titles. Secondly, many albums and titles are out of print. The only way you can see some rare films is on VHS, and some cassette / CD compilations had exclusive remixes, so I like to try and preserve that (one of these days I’ll get around to sharing those files). I would like to give these people the benefit of the doubt by saying they have similar concerns, but I have a hard time doing so. It seems more about the concept that it’s PS rather than an actual drive to preserve the media. None of the stuff in these videos even looks like it gets used.
The only disk I ever heard of being an actual issue was the game Sanitarium whose discs would shatter if you put its disc in a newer drive it due to poor workmanship. Can't find the write up on it, but found some anecdotes.
Cruising can really cheap way to go on a vacation. If you just want to get on a boat, go to some beaches, and eat some decent food for a week, a cruise is a great way to do that for not a whole lot of money. Obviously , there are the really fancy cruise ships, but for something like Royal Caribbean or Princess, it's not as expensive as an all-inclusive resort.
That's it? That was their idea of an exciting christening ceremony? JFC even Carnival launches new ships with more fanfare.
When you have to shoot BLM rioters at 10 and film a Game Overthinker at 11
I would agree to a point but those classic car shows filled with boomers towing in multiple old cars to sit in front of them and show off makes me think even cars are fair game at this point.
I fucking hate boomers who sit in front of their corvettes yelling shit like "one-of-a-kind!" and "only year in this color!". You're supposed to look at other people's cars not fish for compliments. Also, people who put mirrors under their cars. Why would I want to see your oil pan.
