Probably one of the most "I am the media and toys I consume" moments I've yet seen.
Probably like 40 grand on those shelves
Most kind of hobby subreddit's top posts are:
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Fuckhuge collection of treats worth over 20k€
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Call to action post from several years ago (#FreeHK, Stop [bad government action], etc.)
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Meme
Honestly don't mind as much when it's a pricey home theater or gaming setup as long as the person is actually enjoying it. It's so bizarre when it's different versions of the same item all clearly unopened.
But yeah, a lot of the gaming subreddits don't even talk about games anymore, it's all middle aged dudes showing off their surround sound systems.
when is the hexbear funkopop coming out? I need it for my collection :so-true:
old.reddit.com/r/airbreathers/top/?sort=top&t=all
- URGENT: Congress is going to push $regulation on the internet! Imagine if you had to pay a fee if you breathed in copyrighted molecules in your air! Write your senator now!
- My collection of air jars harvested from the highest mountain on each continent
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- Half-naked girls get thousands of upvotes, how much for this whoopee cushion in blue?
- We call on Reddit to take a stand against rampant COVID-19 misinformation propagated on this site
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I wonder how many of those kinds of "look at my collection" posts are just paid marketing ops to encourage people to buy more
You seen some of the posts on the gaming subreddit where it's like "was just reading a book while my girlfriend went to the store for milk and she comes back with this! Shows photo of PS5/Switch or whaver the current newest and hard to find console is ATM karma farming
The Lego sub had to ask people to stop posting pictures of unopened star wars Legos and at the very least build the things. It's just bragging and redditeurs doffing their caps at each other
I would love to have some of the older lego sets like the sci-fi submarines or the octane city stuff. I hate that 99% of lego sets these days are basically spiderman or whatever movie came out this year.
I also hate minecraft, but it looks like I'll be better off getting my lego fix from that, and it'll be better for my finances.
Here I am in my garaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaage
I have mixed feelings about collecting games. I have a few physical games that are worth a lot of money, like Earthbound, Rez, and Silent Hill 1, but that's because I like them a lot. They're special to me. I can't imagine collecting every single game on a system out of some pack rat instinct.
Like I'd love if there was some kind of public area with tons of retro games and TVs where everyone can enjoy them. I guess like an arcade. It would be cool to bring a friend somewhere to play Contra 3 on SNES on the hardware. I can do it now online with an emulator sure, but there's something fun about hardware and being close to people. Or just looking over a huge shelf of games and picking one out based on the cover art.
Collecting games could be fun as a public thing to be shared. When it's just big piles of shit in a person's basement it only makes me sad. Total waste
There are a few retro game museums
And I think it's nice in someone's basement compared to in the landfill
I can do it now online with an emulator sure, but there’s something fun about hardware and being close to people.
What's the hexbear party line on outdoor g*mers?
There's ways to turn this cool, like archiving .isos of whatever here and then sharing them when nobody cares about it anymore or the companies go bust or such. But anything like this would require work beyond putting up a shelf and clicking buy so it's not happening
I'd love that. Old school games with a pal in the same room is Good and Cool Gaming.
I respect the old collectors, like the ones who collected Atari and NES games and gear in the early-2000s. The games were basically being thrown away and cheap. They joined together online to help map out and document all of the games released, the production histories, etc. They had stories and went places IRL to flea markets and garage sales to find this stuff. They wrote about the hidden gems and stuff that people rarely got to play as kids because we couldn't risk our limited gifts/money on risky purchases a lot of the time. Nowadays it's expensive and pointless outside the last archival efforts.
Exactly I'm the same way. When I collect a game or a book it's because it's important to me and my life in some way and I liked it. I'm not going to buy Sesame street for Super Nintendo and hoard plastic just so I can have a "complete collection"
Collecting things shouldn't be considered a hobby
edit: : Buying things isn't a hobby
I don't know, curating things and doing research about stuff, then knowing how to display them in an interesting way is a valid hobby. People collect rocks or put leaves into wax paper.
Collecting video games indiscriminately out of brand loyalty is suspect though. But even as I say that I'd love physical copies of every Silent Hill game.
People used to have curios of things they collected. They had stories and emotional value though. These are usually "I bought it because on sale because I knew it was going to get expensive" and "I bought it online".
Oh man, I have watched all the Adam Savage videos of him explaining every little movie prop he's collected or built, or any of the other weird things he owns. I love going into people's houses and seeing all the random shit they have. Everyone should have their own little museums or libraries everyone else can see.
With the "collectible as investment" shit that's getting into every collecting hobby out there, this is a unironically a good move finance-wise and those things in total will likely cost millions in the future.
Collecting vintage anything is becoming straight up impossible as everything is getting bought by tech and finance bros who wanted to turn shiny cards into a portfolio.
and those things in total will likely cost millions in the future.
I think there is a line tho. Things that are physical and "just work" (NES, SNES, etc.) will be valuable, but things that are too much hassle and mostly digital or online-only anyways (current gen stuff) probably won't. I can see buying the first xbox for nostalgia and having a good time. I can see buying a PS5 in 2040 for nostalgia and having a shit-time because all the DRMs/digital stores/DLC/day-2-bugfixes can't connect to the servers that existed in 2020 and local co-op/LAN were never options in the first place for most games.
adults weren't interested in things like NES or 80's toys back then so there's a genuine rarity to finding a pristine boxed GI JOE headquarters or NES games in their plastic packaging. we as kids were abusing the fuck out of that stuff and didn't save boxes.
if everyone is buying this shit now in the hope that it'll be valuable it'll likely end up like all those people who bought baseball cards as an investment which are now mostly worthless because everyone was doing the same.
Same shit with first edition and other rare issues of comics, they were considered slightly above disposable so the earlier you get the more of a chance it is that the average reader would just have shoved their issue in the bottom of a damp cardboard box to decay in. Then collecting started hitting its stride so companies cashed in with special edition covers and constantly relaunching comic runs to have more #1's, but most are probably only slightly above average in value now.
I think I read someone talking about how with all the variants between the publisher and vendor commissioned variant covers you can have like a dozen versions of the same issue, complete nonsense shit going on.
Comics have lots of variants now but I don't know if most people are buying them for future resale value. They just look cool and sometimes you might be a fan of the particular who is making the variant so you might request for that one.
I like to hide all my shit. white projector mounted on the white ceiling/no screen. just an "accent wall" in a good projector neutral gain paint. two old floor speakers for stereo against a homemade bookshelf filled with books. my htpc, streaming box, consoles all tucked away under corner shelves, cables tied and secured behind/under furniture.
"oh you don't even own a TV. you must be one of those sophisticated adults."
"nothing personal, kid, but you are inside the TV."
like a David Blaine, I pull a controller from inside my laughing mouth and begin watering my plants in animal crossing on the giant wall behind you.
If this guy had been born 30 years earlier he'd probably be a model railroad guy or something, and that'd be much cooler, except, does model railroad stuff hold its value as well as "vintage" video games seem to?
I'm sure to a point. Both are cool. When I was in the retro game business I had a model train in the room I stored games, some which was personal collection, some was stock and some was a Grey area depending on my financial situation
I'm guessing you mean 30 years earlier unless you're saying very young kids are into model trains.
We have all these playstation games but you decided to play me instead, baby. :cowboy-cri:
I get collecting games to a certain extent (games that mean a lot to you or things like that) but hoarding crap like the chicken little the movie game?
The hell?
Love gaming and talking about it with people. "gamerstm" and the retro collecting market ATM not so much Mr. soros
Playing now-forgotten games from 1987 :geordi-yes:
Interacting with the community of people who build their identity around that kind of consumption :geordi-no:
When I talk to those kinds of people I can't help but be reminded games are capitalist treats at their core. At least when im playing something older like Super Metroid or Super Mario RPG, it's a bit easier to forget.
there was some grassroots video game development in the socialist bloc back in the 80s, but it was mostly limited to a few nerds and due to their technological disadvantage in the field of chips, not that complex either.
tetris, still to this day popular, made without any capitalist pressures
:hero-of-socialist-labor:
Limited edition consoles are cool, but collecting them? That's alot of commitment space-wise and financially.
I could see buying one after having a regular one, but having 15 that you don't even play? Lmao
Damn, why do so many rich people spend their money on the stupidest shit? If I had this kinda cash, I'd have some awesome shit and not a wall of expensive consoles treated like funko pops. It's bad enough the world is a fuck partially so these people can have their treats, can they at least not have the absolute shittiest taste in treats?
I'd definitely have a bunch of dumb toys but I've always wanted to be rich so I be the Oprah Winfrey of trans surgery. "And you get a pussy, and you get a pussy, and you get a dick!"
people spend 40k on pointless home renovations so why not have PS4s instead
Both are stupid IMO. I live in a shitty apartment I have money for a single console and some games.
I agree its dumb as hell. I move fairly often so digital games have been a boon for me, even carrying around my normal sized collection of games seemed like a burden
