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Collecting - The Disease
An anonymous reader writes "Gamers With Jobs has an interesting piece this morning on the nature of collectibility in games. While primarily a personal account of one man's journey into the hell that is Magic: the Gathering, it raises interesting questions about the difference between real-world and virtual-world collecting, and the economic motivations behind both." From the article: "I sit down. I play. I get schooled by a 12-year-old for two hours as he teaches me the ropes with a condescension reserved for teenagers with grownups by the throat. Each game is a bet — loser gives the winner the top card off his deck: Ante. I leave a dozen cards short. I had discovered a great game, and people to play it against. But that's not why the night sits burned into my brain with razor sharp clarity. No, it's because that Tuesday night in San Francisco, I became a collector."
Thurgood Marshall is in a group for people who are addicted and need help.
Thurgood: Hi, I'm Thurgood.
Entire Group: Hi, Thurgood.
Thurgood: and I am addicted to marijuana.
Entire Group groans
Addict: You in here for some marijuana?!? Marijuana!?!? Man, this is some BULLSHIT!
Bob Saget: Marijuana is not a drug! I used to suck dick for Magic: The Gathering cards!
Addict: I seen him!
Bob Saget: Now that's an addiction man! You ever suck some dick for Marijuana?!
Addict: HUH?!
Thurgood: No, I can't say I have.
Bob Saget: Yeah I didn't think so...
Addict: Boo this man! BOO!!!
Everyone "boos" him and throws bottles and trash at him
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
When we'd get a pack, my friends and I would sniff the wrappers, always commenting "they lace it with just enough crack to get you to buy just one more pack..."
So many wasted college nights...
I collect stock certificates, some are even uncancelled. :)
Degaussing scares the bad magnetism out of the monitor and fills it with good karma.
I've been through the 'collecting' addiction many times. It started with MP3s. I downloaded and downloaded and downloaded. I ended up with more music than I could ever listen to. Next was console roms, then Dreamcast games, then X-Box games. I bought both my Dreamcast and my X-Box specifically because you could pirate games. I had hundreds of games with a good percentage of them never having even been placed in the consoles.
Thank You.
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