It is hard for me to argue with a comfortable recliner and giant bullets. My cousins young kid saw this a few months ago and ask me, "Where did you get the giant iphone?"
I have no delusions of grandeur. I'm ok with being bad a shooters. I'm not going to be getting any world records or even a 1cc any time soon. Most games I wipe at lv4,5 mid-boss. Under Defeat I may be able to 1cc if i put another 30 hours in it.
I really enjoy the meditative game play of shooters. I may practice a level for a few hours or so. Watch a super play and try to copy the run. Or just credit feed and zone out. The practice and desire to get better is the fun part. Like someone who practices sport ball.
@djsheep OR its like starting to dj on Technics and not being good, until you have done it long enough to where you are always on point and it
feels good.
Being bad and getting better is fun.
As for getting rid of your Cave PCB's, I predict that would only happen if you were stuck in divorce proceedings. Likely, they'll be buried with you.
this project has put me in a bit of a existential crisis. :/
lol, maybe. I always thought people bought non-registered assets to hide money in a divorce, not sell things? Friend of mine used to own a comic store. He had customers of 20 years come in and ask him to under value their collection because of divorce. Or a new random guy would come in wanting to buy 100k in comics
Because he was getting a divorce
.
I bought the majority of my games before the speculation, organized shilling, and pumping started. Arcade collecting for me was about the fun. It was the destination. Not some
man-boy in cargo shorts stand in commodities market for projecting mechanics of speculative short term
investing. The arcade market was never a end-user consumer market. There are plenty of man-boy things designed for secondary speculative markets one can play in that wont damage the exchange. Speculative purchases of arcade stuff is a self fulfilling prophecy. It's enviable that you will price yourself out of the market and lock up the exchange.
I was buying full kits for nothing compared to today. Now it's just stupid. I feel like I have burdened my self with a financial responsibility I never wanted in the first place. My PCBs are just closeted and i'm afraid of them. If i'm going to shelf collect there are other thing I can do that with to show my personal appreciation for it.
Arguing against market bs doesn't help. I was reading a Harvard/MIT study on internet market manipulation that found arguing against artificial inflation or market manipulation actually validates the increased ask. So I might as well give up and go cry in a corner.