Hey door-knob, I'm offended by what you wrote. It's harsh and judgmental and I'm upset. You have a point about the idol worship in my post, but that's about it. The motivation of my post was to say "How come you guys with all the games aren't more active around here?" I threw in a hefty measure of descriptive, idol-worship nonsense because I enjoy writing like that.
Well, I've been trying to figure out exactly what I kind of response I wanted to write to this thread for a month or so. I knew I wanted to write something about collectors/collections/collection worshipers that disgust me, but I couldn't articulate it until you helped me with your post, which was bascially a testament to
materialism, or at least it seemed that way. Of course I was being judgmental. That's what humans do. Every thing we do, say, think, requires judgment.
I don't know about everyone else, but this forum is the one place in my life where I go to dork it up, talk to fellow gamers and be a kid again. You've posted more than me in half the time I've had an account. I also own fewer games than you. Does that make you a loser? Of course not.
How do you know how big my collection of video games is? I mean, seriously, that's an odd thing to assert. Did I mention the size of my game collection someplace and forget about it?
I bust my ass 45 hours a week for an environmental group. I play in two bands and have an album out on label. I sew my own clothes, make instruments out of metal, and manage to keep my 25 year old motorcycle running. I quit drinking and have been with my girl for a year. My band played a gig with the guitarist from the Cramps and the Bad Seeds tonight and I don't have a credit card. That said, I still like Transformers, Weird Al, Men Without Hats and TurboGrafx games. Everybody is a dork; football players, yuppies, politicians...everybody. Some people are just more socially accepted than others.
Where do you get off judging your fellows on the forum you frequent?
I bet you've been dying to give that speach ever since you saw Revenge of the Nerds. I can hear, "We Are the Champions" playing right now, I swear.
No, really, where the hell are you even coming from here? I didn't call you a dork, I was pointing out the supreme fallacy of seeking happiness in material goods, and tangentially the folly of worshiping someone who is doing it. You're really off topic here. I collecting f*cking
PC Engine games! Clearly I'm in no position to call someone a "dork", or whatever. I also like Men Without Hats. My favorite song of theirs is "Messiahs Die Young", from Folk of the 80s Part III, which I own on
vinyl. Dork up, motherf*cker!
I think TurboGrafx games kick ass. I think herr-g and most everyone on this forum kicks ass. Guys like herr-g who own a couple copies of Sapphire don't piss me off. That doesn't affect me. The guys who piss me off are the vermin like Bullseye who jack prices up on ebay.
No, see, that's something that's pretty much just wrong. I have no idea who Bullseye is, but eBay price gouging is pretty harmless, IMO. They only get the money that people gladly shell out. If someone owns multiple copies of a hella rare title, it most definitely raises the price. I mean, if someone owned 75 copies of Darius Alpha, the price would triple. Not that the thing is worth more than $5 to me, but thats simply supply/demand. Sapphire is nowhere near as rare obviously, but every copy the guy has is one less copy on the market, and since the print run is much much less lower than what it should have been, I'd be surprised if it didn't have a direct effect on the price of the next copy sold on eBay.
And by the way, I also have the original Optimus Prime, Darth Vader and the Millennium Falcon.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Um...OK. I have Roadking, and Metroplex complete in box, a first print of Robert Daily's The Cruel Sport, and the Macross: Do You Remember Love Perfect Edition (CAV) laserdisc signed by Mari Ijima. What's your point, dork?
Seriously, you seem cool, I'm just flaming money worship.
