I did appreciate those who gave me helpful advice.
Blows when you are trying to start over from a f*ck up and everyone would rather bash you.
The thread is dead, I know, but I've been too busy to respond...
Anyway, I found this post amusing because it gives insight into the broken mind of someone who's completely bought into the wannabe reality TV flipper mindset of collectard pricks. He thinks he "made a mistake" and he's trying to restore his rep, that the problem is that he dropped an N bomb on the Neo forums. But, I knew he was as a$$hole from his very first post and I knew nothing about the guy or his history on any forum so...it's probably not a detail from one thread that tips people off. It's probably something that is obvious in every thread, and probably a lot of places in life. I'm sure a number of people in this fellow's life think he stinks as a person.
Somewhere in this thread there is either this f*ck or Tool comparing a sealed game to a painting, completely betraying these people's psychic tone deafness. Let me explain...
...a game is one of thousands (if not hundreds of thousands or even millions) and the real work was making the software, something that can't even be seen or even verified to exist if the box is sealed. The visible part is a cheap (SNES especially) box with a bunch of dumb logos on it and some (usually) pretty lame art work dulled by shrink wrap. The people who made...Sim City for SNES, or whatever, really just wanted someone I play the thing.
...a painting is UNIQUE. Even a shitty painting, even the painting of a five year old child, even something produced in series, even forgeries, all are unique. What makes them unique is generally all out there to see when it hangs on the wall and staring at them while doing nothing else is generally the way they are enjoyed.
Now, just to be clear, I'm not saying that everyone who collects vintage F1 steering wheels has to attach them to a car and go racing every weekend, things like that which have historical or personal significance that completely overwhelms the once practical use of the relic. For example, the Brittish museum doesn't need to have an actual mummy in every Egyptian sarcophagus they have for the patrons to get something about of their visit. Clearly at some point history takes over. Ancient pottery won't hold water anymore.
However, SNES games aren't there yet. Maybe a prototype Pong machine or something, sure, but a SNES game is just a super mass produced piece of cheap plastic, and I'm a pretty big lover of the SNES.
EDIT: if someone collected paintings and hung them in his personal museum with all the faces of the paintings towards the wall so that he couldn't tell what they were...that would be in line with sealed game collectarding. Only in the way it's presented though, the two are nothing alike aside from that.
