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    Quote from killer tomato

    FFS, I mean, you can't be serious.

    All that stuff is just a worthless alibi that you haven't been doing something valuable the last years of your life.

    Well, that is one narrowminded way of looking it.

    I don't know what to say, reading the spawn forums and newsarama forums, where alot of the guys are comic book collectors and well collectors of anything basically. Those people respect the effort that guys is making.

    And besides, if you really believed in that "you haven't been doing something valuable the last years of your life" you wouldn't be so anxious on working for the game industry, after you die, you won't leave nothing but a rotting carcass and no great achievement to help humanity.

    As I see it, everyone uses their life on some useless shit and jerking around, even the doctors who invent cancer medicines might collect stamps and what nots, if you only know the stamp collecting side of him, you'd be thinking "what a fucking jerkoff is that old fart" and don't know that he has done alot more with his life than you.

    All I know is that this guy might be a fireman or something, but his hobby is just collecting toys.

    collecting comics, open & read them = ok

    collecting comics and keeping them in a plastic cover forever = nerdy

    buying a collector's edition dvd/game because it has some cool exclusive and usefull features = ok

    buying a collector's edition AND the normal edition and every possible edition that exists = nerdy

    having 3 or 4 action figures of your favorite childhood hero on your shelf = kinda ok

    having a whole shitload of figures, still in the original wrapping, bought for hunderds of dollars on ebay and geek conventions = definitely nerdy

    :roll:

    I have bought comics that later I noticed are worth around 20€-50€, sure as hell I keep them in plastic wraps, I don't have any comic books on my shelf that I haven't read or I'm about to read (got so many that reading all of them would take a serious part of my daily life away).

    I have bought collectors editions for the sheer fact that I love the franchise so much, last being the WoW collectors edition that cost around 80€ or so.

    I have alot of action figures from different franchises, and I collect Heroclix just because they are comic book superheroes.

    There are alot of franchises that are only about the collecting, like card playing games, Macig: the gathering and sucj, the whole Battletech universe (and anything FASA/Wizkids has ever done) Warhammer 40k (and anything Games Workshop has ever done).

    I bought a Lara Croft figure once, and lost one of her handguns on the Eurotunnel from France

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    having a whole shitload of figures, still in the original wrapping, bought for hunderds of dollars on ebay and geek conventions = definitely nerdy

    At least he's a rich nerd

    I've never collected anything (except PC Gamer mags I guess) but I can't say I'd turn down that Simpsons merchandise.

    Quote from Kosmo

    Well, that is one narrowminded way of looking it.

    I don't know what to say, reading the spawn forums and newsarama forums, where alot of the guys are comic book collectors and well collectors of anything basically. Those people respect the effort that guys is making.

    And besides, if you really believed in that "you haven't been doing something valuable the last years of your life" you wouldn't be so anxious on working for the game industry, after you die, you won't leave nothing but a rotting carcass and no great achievement to help humanity.

    As I see it, everyone uses their life on some useless shit and jerking around, even the doctors who invent cancer medicines might collect stamps and what nots, if you only know the stamp collecting side of him, you'd be thinking "what a fucking jerkoff is that old fart" and don't know that he has done alot more with his life than you.

    All I know is that this guy might be a fireman or something, but his hobby is just collecting toys.

    You're right. It was kind of narrowminded of me...

    I still think there's no other word for this then: 'obsession'. And, inventfull doctor or no, obsessions suck balls.

    Doing things for 'humanity' ain't my thing neiher. Being important to one induvidual is hard enough...

    - tomato

    I think everyone is obsessed by something, ofcourse there are varing degrees of obsessions, since some would pay thousands of dollars to get something, and some would pay mere hundred dollars or so. I like to think that I'm obsessed with Blizzard products, but I wouldn't pay several thousand dollars for some piece of Blizz goodnes, I would max around 150-200. But that is obsessed non the less.

    I have too much spare time and something I noticed is, that when I can't set myself to do something (go outside, meet friends etc.) but only think, there's a chance I might get obsessed with things. Even if it's only for 2 hours. Even when I only spend mostly 10 euro's, it's still an obsession.

    And obsessions suck balls.

    The amount of money spent into a collection like that is freakin' insane!

    I would have personally hooked up with Warren Buffet and get some serious kick ass investment info and sink my money into that instead of toys.

    Sure, he may be happy now, but when his house (and all its collectables) burns to the ground in a fire ball of death, Im sure he would have prefered to invest the money into good stocks / bonds etc... instead.

    The only way this could pay off is if this collection becomes extremely valuable in the future and he sells it. Otherwise, I don't see this helping him out financially when he's in his late 60's, too old to work and is crapping his diapers while living in a cardboard box because he cannot afford a retirement home..

    Cheers

    NRG

    Quote from GrayFox

    No, not necessarily.

    They did with mine...

    LOL, I got it now... (yes, I'm slow)

    Well ehr...

    You are not slow and I must say that I hadn't looked at my post that way.

    That's not what I ment but I guess that interpretation kind of symbolizes one of my obsessions.

    It's ignorant and misunderstanding replies like these that are the reason people don't often post their collections to the interweb. Some people are collectors, they have the urge to collect. So what. It's not uncommon, in fact entire industries are rooted in collectors like this guy. Give them a break, it's how they enjoy spending their time and money and it's completely harmless.

    If you want to gawk at a waste of time and money why don't you ostracize destructive hobbies like drinking and gambling.

    Quote from ginsengavenger

    If you want to gawk at a waste of time and money why don't you ostracize destructive hobbies like drinking and gambling.

    Thats what i do.

    Spellbinder.

    Quote from NRG

    The amount of money spent into a collection like that is freakin' insane! I would have personally hooked up with Warren Buffet and get some serious kick ass investment info and sink my money into that instead of toys.

    Sure, he may be happy now, but when his house (and all its collectables) burns to the ground in a fire ball of death, Im sure he would have prefered to invest the money into good stocks / bonds etc... instead.

    The only way this could pay off is if this collection becomes extremely valuable in the future and he sells it. Otherwise, I don't see this helping him out financially when he's in his late 60's, too old to work and is crapping his diapers while living in a cardboard box because he cannot afford a retirement home..

    Cheers

    NRG

    And not for a second did you stop to think that, this guy might actually be loaded, I mean literally rolling in sacks of money and playboy bunnies. You related him to yourself, because you think that only nerds collect those kinds of things?

    If the guy has inherited a fortune of millions of dollars and he goes to work, but has to spend his income somehow, because he doesn't actually have to work, so he spends all to these collectibles.

    Talking about narrowminded :roll:

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