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.
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
- (meme that’s so bullshit you genuinely question whatever life choices led you to this moment of browsing a subreddit)
- 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
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.
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
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?
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.
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.
