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This is something that's been going on for well over a decade, and I've never liked it. Someone will make a public post saying that the last sale a few months ago was, say, 200 bucks. Someone made a private offer on my copy for 300 bucks. I didn't want to sell, but that was a couple months ago and we haven't seen any new copies for sale since so now it must be worth 400 bucks. Just like that, a game's value has doubled and nothing has happened. Just feels icky.

The video title is misleading; should be "Dude in tank top says "sphere" weird."

I am both of those people. I just don't take things seriously enough to dislike them I suppose. But also I don't like anything, really.

All of a sudden it's feeling a bit like 1999 in here... I'm not going to lie, I kind of like it.

Yo for real this is exactly how I've felt about the overall NES collecting scene for like 20 years. Then again, as a working class schmuck, I've spent almost my whole life completely priced out. So maybe I'm just jaded. Or a jerk. Or both.

For sure. I've met Dain and I liked the guy-- really super dude. I am comfortable publicly wishing him the best. He's basically just a footnote in the video but I can only imagine he figured he was, you know, done with the whole collecting scene. The other side of the coin is I don't think Karl Jobst has to worry about being successfully sued by anyone mentioned in the video. He might get served by someone anyway though! That's just how legal teams do. Just to add that Karl has, in the past, done corrections videos and even corrects small details, so he might do the same here if things are brought to his attention.

(quoting arch for old times' sake-- not meant a a direct reply to this particular post-- more a reply to some recent comments in general) Oh boy, journalism law is my favorite! Is Dain a Private Citizen or a Public Figure? Someone can be considered a public figure if they are "famous" enough, even if they don't want to be, even within a narrow band of interest. Merely discussing a person on the internet to a sufficient level can make someone a public figure. It's basically just anyone with pervasive notoriety. This is the part where whoever is reading this comment has to decide for themselves if this is the case. Now the fun part; if you are a public figure, and you want to sue for libel or defamation, you have to prove that the accused acted with malice, with clear evidence they knowingly stated a falsehood or recklessly ignored the truth. To be clear, whether the capital T Truth was actually published itself is not important when suing for damages. Only that the accused knew the truth and ignored it, or was extremely careless with the truth. This is the part where whoever is reading this comment has to decide for themselves if this is the case. But OSG, you might be saying, how can anyone sue for injury to reputation, if merely being defamed might make you a public figure? LATER NERDS

So. I think this counts as related, I changed my avatar on NA to the monopoly man because of the odd comments I would see of people valuing high-end stuff for prices they had never actually sold for, with the source being, "well it could sell for that" because irreverent humor is kind of my schtick. Seems tangentially related, at minimum. Also semi-related I came back just to read this thread.

Hey fellas it's me, some dude. Is something shitty happening at the top of the hobby for the first time ever?

Yesterday the neighborhood people were sitting in their front yards in lawn chairs having shout-conversations with each other. I went to get some groceries and they had wash stations set up. People are going to get sick anyway because they just will, but it seems like everyone around here is taking things appropriately seriously to slow the spread. Construction is still considered essential so I could be working, but am currently at home living off of sweet sweet credit. I will perhaps work intermittently over the coming weeks until we're ordered shut down too.

My kid's school is shut down for 2 weeks too. Normally this would be a nightmare but my wife's work is shutting down too. She's possibly working from home, if they can figure out a way. She's a library tech, so maybe she can populate the database from home and deal with the physical books when it reopens? I dont know. We get to find out later what's going on there. I'm in construction and there's whispers of work sites shutting down as well. If we're both home 2 weeks without pay, there's going to be some unhappy bill collectors so I hope the unions figure something out on the dollars possibly lost front. Contrary to popular belief, construction isn't an amazing way to save up a cushion of cash just in case of emergency.

I dunno, it seems to me like it was a successful distraction. For example, I just went to a video game forum and clicked on a thread about impeachment and everyone was talking about Iran in there in stead. Doesn't really matter if it's popular, the subject has been changed.

I think all 3 NES games are pretty good. I like 3 the most. It's very unforgiving in terms of progression but once you get the mechanics it's fun to play. 2 is good also but is extremely clunky at times. The platforming especially is unpleasant. 1 is fun at times but it's maybe the hardest for me to actually sit though. It feels the most repetitive and the least fair with its platforming sections.

Nah, I'm not that guy. I know that guy though. We went pub crawling once in Toronto. That also counts as a pretty good gaming achievement, I think.

Once they let me play Zelda II at AGDQ. I softlocked and had to abandon the run. Good times. I was #1 in newgame+ at the time. Now I'm #2. Good times.