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Krismusic

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21 hours ago, DavidTheDavid said:

Many collect digital goods now. We had cases filled with tapes, then cd's. Today, you either create a digital library or just pay a monthly subscription for as much music as you can get. Apple TV advertises, "Build Your Collection!" Gamers have game collections on Steam. People who play digital card games like Hearthstone collect those cards. I work in digital gaming, and we love when a completist comes along, someone who wants every card or item in a game. Skins, avatars, Kindle libraries: those are collectibles. There are even living digital card games now, with fixed quantities of certain cards. There's a digital card game built on the blockchain; these cards can be traded and have varying values. There are even digital collectibles that are simply like old trading cards not connected to any game, but built on the blockchain so that each copy is singular.

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Heck, lots of kids collect memes, storing thousands of them in computer folders

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I don't think that collecting impulse will ever die. It's just been massively disrupted as has everything else in our society.

:facepalm: what has happened to the days when you had 20 folders with random titles to hide your online porn collection when you had dial up and had to wait like 10 mins for a picture to load never the less a video so you would save that mess lol. doh!

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theCapraAegagrus

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2 minutes ago, Krishosein said:

:facepalm: what has happened to the days when you had 20 folders with random titles to hide your online porn collection when you had dial up and had to wait like 10 mins for a picture to load never the less a video so you would save that mess lol. doh!

Why didn't you just Hide the folder and un-check "Show Hidden Folders"..?

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Krismusic

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12 minutes ago, TwoPiece said:

Why didn't you just Hide the folder and un-check "Show Hidden Folders"..?

didn't know about that way back in the day. Also was that feature even available on the Windows 95? 

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1 hour ago, Krishosein said:

:facepalm: what has happened to the days when you had 20 folders with random titles to hide your online porn collection when you had dial up and had to wait like 10 mins for a picture to load never the less a video so you would save that mess lol. doh!

You could have 200 folders as long as they were subfolders of a single folder on your desktop called "Software Expansion". :cool:

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14 minutes ago, valiantman said:

You could have 200 folders as long as they were subfolders of a single folder on your desktop called "Software Expansion". :cool:

Current pervs are doing themselves a disservice if they're not using live-boot USB drives with persistence.

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38 minutes ago, valiantman said:

You could have 200 folders as long as they were subfolders of a single folder on your desktop called "Software Expansion". :cool:

Lol I don't think that's a great Desktop folder name as a friend of mine had that same name I was using his computer to try out half life or maybe Counter strike thought there was an expansion in that folder didn't work out like that lol. after that I kind of understood his taste in girlfriends :roflmao:

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2 hours ago, valiantman said:

You could have 200 folders as long as they were subfolders of a single folder on your desktop called "Software Expansion". :cool:

Ewwwwww.

:sick:

This forum has gotten dramatically pornographic in the last day or so...

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2 hours ago, valiantman said:

You could have 200 folders as long as they were subfolders of a single folder on your desktop called "Software Expansion". :cool:

All this talk has my software expanding, i'll tell you what.

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1 hour ago, RockMyAmadeus said:

Ewwwwww.

:sick:

This forum has gotten dramatically pornographic in the last day or so...

:sumo:

 

53 minutes ago, TwoPiece said:
59 minutes ago, F For Fake said:

All this talk has my software expanding, i'll tell you what.

:sick:

Why, has your software expanded itself into hardware?  (tsk)  lol

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25 minutes ago, lou_fine said:

 

Why, has your software expanded itself into hardware?  (tsk)  lol

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20 hours ago, lou_fine said:

I remember being lucky enough to find a dealer with 2 uber HG copies of Cap 29 and Cap 31 at $500 a pop.  When I showed them to a dealer, he told me I was crazy to pay that kind of money for books like that which will eventually go down in value once all of the old collectors die off.  Instead, he stated that my $1K would have been much better spent on the Spidey 1 which was a true rarity and would never see $1,000 again, especially since it was drawn by McFarlane who would be the super hot artist going forward.  

:roflmao:Is that "dealer" still in business? 

Which one of the dealers are you referring to?

The one that I brought the 2 Cap's off was Jon Warren who was Overstreet's go to guy when it came to his Price Guide Update at the time.  I believe he went on to become the Price Guide Editor for Wizard after that.  My only regret was that I passed on the 2 Marvel Mystery's that were behind the Cap's because they did not appear to be quite as nice as the Cap's.  The guy behind me was right on the ball and snapped them up as he knew right away they were the Tom Reilly SF copies as evident by the "G" codes on the cover.  doh!

As for the other dealer, I believe these kinds of dealers are still alive and well even in today's marketplace, as clearly evident by all of the speculative fever with buyers chasing after both CGC 9.8 graded copies of common books and variants that are fresh off the shelves of the LCS's on a weekly basis.  :screwy:

But it's really a case of to each, their own when it comes to collecting and my way is not necessarily any better or right as compared to their way of collecting.  It's just good to see that's there's room for all types of collectors and/or speculators in this wonderful hobby of ours.  (thumbsu

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7 minutes ago, lou_fine said:

The one that I brought the 2 Cap's off was Jon Warren who was Overstreet's go to guy when it came to his Price Guide Update at the time.  I believe he went on to become the Price Guide Editor for Wizard after that.

Jon Warren is/was a very, very smart man when it came to comics. He would put the online know-it-all-but-know-nothing bloggers to shame...and they, no doubt, would attack him, and call him a "cyber bully."

meh

 

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1 hour ago, RockMyAmadeus said:
1 hour ago, lou_fine said:

The one that I brought the 2 Cap's off was Jon Warren who was Overstreet's go to guy when it came to his Price Guide Update at the time.  I believe he went on to become the Price Guide Editor for Wizard after that.

Jon Warren is/was a very, very smart man when it came to comics. He would put the online know-it-all-but-know-nothing bloggers to shame...and they, no doubt, would attack him, and call him a "cyber bully."

meh

You won't get any agruments from me about this point.  (thumbsu

Surprisingly though, I would have expected him to have realized that the two Marvel Mystery's were from the San Francisco pedigree collection. The buyer was astute enough to snap them up and from what I heard, able to convert them into a pedigree copy of Exciting Comics #9 with the key origin and first appearance of the Black Terror.  :luhv:

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