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Joycon collections are still a real thing.
Plagued Consoomers / Consoomer Culture - Because if it has a recogniseable brand on it, I’d buy it!
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Joycon collections are still a real thing.
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It's the worst time to collect anything or buy anything even tangentially related to electronics. Scalpers will be selling consumer items for or over their original release price, even with the item still for sale at an unchanged MSRP. Ebay is the melting pot of mentally broken buyers and ego driven greedy sellers. Not that anywhere else is in particularly good shape.
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$10k on newsprint that is probably mostly unread.
Hoarding paperback books you don't reread is completely pointless. If a book is just going to deteriorate on a shelf for the next decade, let it deteriorate on a shelf at the public library for free.
Hoarding paperback books you don't reread is completely pointless. If a book is just going to deteriorate on a shelf for the next decade, let it deteriorate on a shelf at the public library for free.
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He is buying whole boxsets, this has all the looks of someone who's not been building up through years of reading but just burned a ton of cash at once so he could shelf-brag
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Whenever I see posts about how much they spend on this shit I just think about the time value of money and compound interest. I know it's a boomerish sentiment. But I always wonder if these people have any retirement savings. Or do they just have an eternal child mentality and think they'll never grow up? Mom and Dad will take care of them? The government? I genuinely don't understand this sort of behavior.
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It's a mystery. If you have any emergency, liquidating cubic yards of expensive secondhand junk will be an albatross around your neck while you're already in crisis. The haul people who buy junk every week give me existential anxiety. None of us are immortal. Older generations were able to retire with savings because most of them didn't regularly buy knickknacks and media. Even $25 wasted every week is $1,300 at the end of a year.
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I agree, something about watching other people's financial stupidity gets to me more than other cow antics. I always hear about people running up massive debt on consumer purchases and wonder who these people are and how they let this happen. All along it was redditors maxing out their credit card to buy funko pops and dollar cost averaging into depreciating manga.
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Reddit follows the Phil Hendrie rule of talk radio where the guest is fake but the callers are real. Likewise the original posts are fake but the commenters are all real. It’s high comedy if you are in the know.
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To be fair, A lot of libraries don't even accept book donations nowadays
Bit of a powerlevel, but I had a bunch of unread college textbooks thanks to a relative, and the librarian literally told me they only accept blu-ray donations.
The place seems to be more a daycare type place, considering they got rid of a ton of bookshelf's to put a play area and more computers I saw kids only using to play Roblox.
I wonder if other libraries are suffering this fate?
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I tried giving mine some like-new stuff from my childhood and teenweeb phase recently. They only put FMA and some of the Warrior Cats into circulation lol, you know the TRULY TIMELESS classics. My public library is basically a daycare for the homeless, any families that come in get some books and immediately leave after a few minutes. It's really depressing tbh, when I was growing up they had a lot of hands on activity centers and displays for kids.
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Look I get liking manga. I bought a small three layer shelf from Walmart for my collection of shit that I REGULARLY collect and read. If I stop reading it, fall out of love, etc, there's a store in my area that buys manga so I can keep said shelf clear. This is ridiculous. The floor has been color coded, the box sets on top neatly arranged- this is a fucking project that will never get finished.
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Here's a video I got recommended recently:
Not only does he have multiple copies of the "rare and expensive version" of Japanese Tetris, and not only does he have multiple BOXED copies of various "versions" (you'll see how slight the differences are in the video), this fully grown man gasps like a woman who just witnessed a car accident when he sees that there is a missing hyphen in a game manual/box.
That's it. That's the whole difference. He's excited about that. He has at least 10 copies of fucking Tetris.
Not only does he have multiple copies of the "rare and expensive version" of Japanese Tetris, and not only does he have multiple BOXED copies of various "versions" (you'll see how slight the differences are in the video), this fully grown man gasps like a woman who just witnessed a car accident when he sees that there is a missing hyphen in a game manual/box.
That's it. That's the whole difference. He's excited about that. He has at least 10 copies of fucking Tetris.
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Funny you should mention Night Court....
Only the first three seasons of Night Court were released on DVD at retail. The remaining six seasons were considered lost media for ages until Warner Archive slowly (and I mean slowly) started putting them out via the Warner Archive MOD program (which is affiliated with Amazon so you can either buy them directly from Warner or from Amazon but not at retail stores).
Night Court is infamous for its casting changes and the "core cast" that everyone remembers and associates with the show, didn't fully form until season four. Because of this, the first couple of seasons didn't sell well and for a while, the series was never going to get those seasons people actually liked/cared about/thought about when thinking about Night Court until Warner Archive manned up and finished the series.
It's currently only available on DVD as individual sets, though if you only buy DVDs in stores, you'll never see it outside the occasional sighting of the many unbought S1 sets that show up from time to time at Wal Mart as a budget $10 release. But I would not be shocked if the new revival of the show might give Warner the needed push to put out a complete series release to retail to cash in on the series revival.
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This is why I never even think to waste time donating books. Even if I don't read a book again in its totality, I can at least have it on hand to read portions of it if I remember something I read in it and want a refresher. I might as well keep books that I only plan to read portions of instead of having it literally end up in the trash because a library needed to make space.
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I like manga but the amount of shelf space and money is pretty insane for hardcopies. A small novel series of 3 or so regular books probably won't cost more than $50 brand new and you can put at least 15 more books on the same shelf. A manga series of around 15 volumes would probably take up around half a shelf for me and one volume is around $15-20 in the stores around my area. For me that's a nightmare to the point where while I much prefer physical books as that equates to less screen time I just buy them online for less than half the price and never have to worry about ridiculous shelf real-estate again.
Imagine taking up a hobby only to be interested in dealing with the worst parts of it with little interest in enjoying it in the way a normal person does.
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Most public libraries won't take book donations. Would take far too much time processing them and infrastructure. Library problems aren't funding for books, it's being defacto front line social workers/daycare for the homeless.
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Well, I she hasn't dropped off the box of NES and SNES carts yet, but for some reason Faxanadu was mixed with the PlayStation stuff. I have Suikoden I and II which gives me the biggest stomach ache because supposedly it's worth so much, but when you look online plenty are going for cheap.
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Could be worse, you could have been left a giant box of magic cards. Its such a pain in the ass to catalog, price and publish to sell every individual card that is not uncommon to see people just dumping the whole folders as is for a flat price rather than waste so much time on it.
I saw so much of that when i was younger. All that collecting and it just amounts to nothing, usually an older guy would leave the hobby and the corpse of his collection was passed down for bigger fatties to scrap for the morsels until they inevitably end up doing exactly the same.