O...M...G...

[Kosmo]

It's just a way of life, like some people collect air soft guns, and some collect all stuff warcraft, read comics and want to have a small statue of their favourite hero or character.

Can you tell me with a straight face that you have never bought a collector's edition movie or a theme mug or anything like that?

You have never liked anything so much that you wanted to have something extra besides the movie/comics book/game?

Yes.

No.

Spellbinder.

You must have such a boring life.

Kosmo.

[Steppenwolf]

Why does he collect all the toys?

[Fletch]

Why does he collect all the toys?

My money is on OCD.

[Kosmo]

Why does he collect all the toys?

But he doesn't, there are alot of popular toys he doesn't collect, or I can't see them in the pictures. Like, where are all the Transformers toys?

[⌐■_■]

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.

[-Stratesiz-]

To me it looks like a visual nightmare, a junkyard.

[Kosmo]

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.

[ShaDoW]

If he puts his collection for sale in a couple of years, this man is a millionaire.

[jayrabbit]

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:

[Kosmo]

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).

[Phatsniper]

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

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.

[⌐■_■]

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.

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

[Kosmo]

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.

[GrayFox]

And obsessions suck balls.

No, not necessarily.