When we kicked the hoarder housemate out of the house a few years back, she very kindly left the vast majority of her hoard behind. She took her bed, a tallboy and her working fridge. Everything else she left behind, including her fridge that had died months ago and was still stuffed with rotting food. She had no job as she had breast cancer and thyroid problems, and claimed that Centrelink refused to pay her for two years because of database errors. All her hoard was either picked up from the side of the road, free from Facebook, or random junk she'd conned people into giving her. I also strongly suspect that she shoplifted and dumpster dived. God only knows what she would have accumulated if she'd actually had money. As it was, absolutely nothing she left behind was worth a single cent, it was all broken, cheap rubbish.
Remember when people actually used their Playstation and Sega Saturn discs in the 90's? Retro gaming used to be a cheap hobby because people used the games and consoles for their intended purposes. Now everything is overpriced and it's impossible to find anything decent at thrift stores or garage sales anymore. Neckbeard resellers now clean out any retro or thrift stores if they can make at least $1 reselling old junk when in the past it was considered shameful to be a greedy bastard who hoarded everything, especially if the profit margins were so slim. Many collectors are also annoying spergs who demand that 20-30 year old games are somehow still in perfect condition and will give you bad feedback or demand partial refunds if there's a tiny little scratch or fingerprint on the disc or case even though it was mentioned in the description. There seems to be an overlap with consooming and people with autism, hoarding, obsessive compulsive disorder, and just plain greedy assholes who never grew up.
These people ruin retro gaming. So what if the case is a little mangled, you're lucky to have it and the hardware to play it. I buy games for my OG Xbox to play them, thinking of it as an investment when emulators have already digitized pretty much all of it is stupid.
all you really need is the hardware for pretty much every old game console. it's trivial to play pirated copies of games; fuck the collectors, just buy the console and download the games.
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i don't get it, aren't there enough cheap and shitty knickknacks sold in America? all this garbage looks like it comes from a dollar store or some bargain bin. Amazon is also full of cheap novelty items and chinese crap that breaks in 10 minutes.
It feels like a race to the bottom. People will just grab things because they're unbelievably cheap not thinking about things like the "true cost" nor externalities.
Lego continues to have it's finger on the pulse of what is popular with children.
I don't know if they could have made this look less appealing. The set looks like shit but whomever they have for marketing needs to be fired because just about everything is incorrect here.
No doubt they're super focused on kids' trends and catering to that. They're trying to appease the Chinese market too with their recent Monkie Kid theme which is basically the Wukong Journey to the West story. Lego consooomers will eat it all up regardless. Such a shame Lego isn't taking any creative risks since the past decade.
They don't need to and that set will sell on the fact that it's Lego City, right besides Ninjago as their highest seller. A 6 yo wants a cool truck for his birthday, here you go Timmy. Sadly by being the best for so long, their competition has either gone bankrupt or shrunk to such a degree that they're non existent.
That looks like the LEGO City police truck my brother got for Christmas one time that I cannibalized for parts reskinned.
It blows my mind that people pay real money for sub-Walmart quality products straight from sweatshop hell, with no safety testing at all. Even Dollar Tree safety tests its shit and issues recalls. Years ago Walmart sold cheap flipflops coated in chemicals that burned the skin off a woman's feet. At least that shit got recalled and destroyed. Some sweatshop intermediary in China is just going to keep shipping that shit out, it's not like they can be held legally responsible.
If news came out that she
Her whole shtick is to blend all variations of something into a franken-something. So I expect a video on mixing hotel shampoos together.
