Sign Collector Guy

I have been exploring Neo Geo via my modded Wii on a CRT with component in and I must say Neo Geo really kicks ass. Not much exposure to the system until this month. I get why people love it.

My God cereal with Bananas is amazing. I have been doing a fiber cereal with Fresh rasberries lately.

I eased up on my collecting because just having things in boxes not on display felt wrong. So I feel yeah! Yah dirty hoarder.

Game Pass is huge bang for the buck. I went on a download spree and downloaded over 100 games this month. Thank God I bought an 8TB HD last year.

For sure buy "the" sticker seal Mario. Then sell it for 2 Million a year later.

It is now my 2nd copy of Earthbound in the collection. lol

Turned an old hand me down chainsaw in my shed into a couple games this morning. Games were a fresh barn find pick from the seller. No money outta my pocket. EB Battery still good too! Score! Been awhile since I felt a win.

Sold Raw for $6500. Today for $75K. Wild stuff man.

Interesting read from Wiki..... Concept of collecting For people who collect, the value of their collections are not monetary but emotional. The collections allow people to relive their childhood, connect themselves to a period or to a time they feel strongly about. Their collections help them ease insecurity and anxiety about losing a part of themselves and to keep the past to continue to exist in the present.[1] Some collect for the thrill of the hunt. For these collectors, collecting is a quest, a lifelong pursuit which can never be completed.[2] Collecting may provide psychological security by filling a part of the self one feels is missing or is void of meaning.[3] When one collects, one experiments with arranging, organizing, and presenting a part of the world which may serve to provide a safety zone, a place of refuge where fears are calmed and insecurity is managed.[4] Motives are not mutually exclusive, rather, different motives combine for each collector for a multitude of reasons. What is collected People can and do collect almost anything. Saint Louis collected saints’ relics and built temples for them. Collections may be antisocial, such as the collection described in Mozart’s darkest opera, Don Giovanni. Mozart’s character, Don Giovanni, scoured the town collecting sexual conquests, making his indentured servant, Leporello, follow after him, listing names in a catalog and verifying the authenticity of the account while doing so.[5] Henry Wellcome, a pharmacist, collected for society. He spent 40 years collecting over a million sharp objects that he felt represented the history of medical science. He later opened a museum, "The Museum of Medical Science", which operated during World War I.[5] The infamous are famous for their collections. Demi Moore has an entire house filled exclusively with her doll collection, Sharon Stone collects cashmere sweaters. Napoleon collected countries, a habit that led to the "Napoleon complex" cliché we use to describe a man who compensates for physical flaws through acts of aggression. Psychologists' perspectives Psychologists have often taken a Freudian perspective when describing why people collect.[5] They highlight the controlling and impulsive dark side to collecting, the need for people to have "an object of desire." This desire, and hence the innate propensity to collect, begins at birth. The infant first desires the emotional and physical comfort of the nourishing breast, then the familiar baby blanket the child clings to for comfort and security. Stuffed animals, favorite toys are taken to bed and provide the emotional security needed to fall asleep. A sense of ownership and control is facilitated through possession of these items for the vulnerable child.[5] Freud himself took a more extreme position on the origins of collecting. Not surprisingly, he postulated that all collecting stems from unresolved toilet training conflict. Freud took the stance that the loss of bowel control was a traumatic experience, and the product from the bowels was disgusting and frightening to the child. Therefore, the collector is trying to gain back control of their bowels as well as their "possessions" which were long flushed down the toilet.[3] Where Freud linked object fixation to the anal-retentive stage in childhood, Muensterberger, in his perspective paper "Unruly Passion" believes collecting to be a "need-driven compensatory behavior where every new object effectively gives the notion of fantasized omnipotence." Jung had his own theories about why people become collectors. He touted the influence of archetypes on behavior. These universal symbols are embedded in what he termed our collective unconscious. Using this logic, collecting and completing sets have as their archetypal antecedents the collecting of "nuts and berries" once needed for survival by our early ancestors.[3][6] A dark side of the moon? There are unemotional commerce-motivated collectors, those that hunt for collectibles only to turn them around soon after and sell them.[7] However, the current author of many autograph collecting books, Mark Baker, describes most autograph seekers as being emotionally motivated to collect. Baker (2005) estimates that over 90% of autograph collectors have no intention to sell their wares. If not for money, and assuming issues arising from childhood were long resolved, then what reasons do people give for collecting? "For me there are three sides to it," says Petrulis, a former outfielder at St. Mary's University in Winona, Minnesota who is an avid autograph collector. "The thrill of the chase, seeing who will sign that day. Second, the collecting aspect, trying to put together one of the best autograph collections around. And, finally, feeling more connected to the game because I actually meet the guys playing it instead of just seeing them on television." Petrulis also admits there is a dark side to collecting, providing some support for views that certain passions can be bad. "It gets addictive," says Petrulis, "just like gambling, drugs or sex. It's like putting a coin in a slot machine. It might not pay off this time, so you put another quarter in and keep doing it until you are tapped out or finally hit the jackpot." When collecting is happy Despite the interesting "dark side" of collecting, collecting is still mostly associated with positive emotions.[8] There is the happiness from adding a new find to the collection, the excitement of the hunt, the social camaraderie when sharing their collection with other collectors.[9] Oxlade-Vaz describes the intense emotional bond she had with her grandmother, and the rich heart-warming memories she had amassed at her grandma's house as a child and even as an adult. Her grandmother, a product of the Great Depression, "saved" everything. As a child, the author recalls the loving and gentle way her grandmother organized seemingly ordinary items: rubber bands were neatly bound together and artfully displayed on the mantle. Tops of pens of all colors and sizes were neatly arranged in drawers and bins. Artificial flowers, saved from the dumpster decorated every room in the house. At her grandmother's death, Oxlade-Vaz recalls the overwhelmingly pleasant emotions that overcame her as she sorted through her grandma's collections. Though not valuable, the author kept these collections to remember her grandma's thrifty, sensible, wisdom—reminders of the graceful way her grandmother was able to provide seemingly useless items dignity and respect. Hoarding There are also times when collecting is not pleasant for anyone— and much harder to describe than simply dark. These are the collectors that have surpassed healthy collecting behavior and are considered hoarders. When a collection becomes hoarding is when it also becomes pathological. Hoarding is pathological because it interferes with living a normal daily life.[10] Differences between collecting and hoarding are clear. Items in a collection are neatly organized, maintained, and presented or manipulated with ease. If a collector of 1000+ trains wants to find a particular one from his collection, he can find it easily. Collections are often catalogued, sorted, and objectively maintained like books in a library. Hoarding behavior is the opposite. Items with no value or use are piled up in stacks without order nor reason. Steven W. Anderson, a neurologist who studies hoarding behavior, posits that the need to collect stems from a basic drive to collect basic supplies such as food. This drive originates in the subcortical and limbic portions of the brain. According to Anderson, people need their prefrontal cortex to determine what supplies are worth saving (or hoarding). Anderson has found that many compulsive hoarders with brain injury had suffered damage to a region of their brain that regulates cognitive behaviors like decision making, information processing, and organizing behavior—the prefrontal cortex. Those with brain injury who did not display hoarding behavior, did not have damage to their frontal cortex, but showed damage distributed throughout the right and left hemispheres of their brain.[11]

Just got back from taking a look myself. It's pretty wild.

A beauty! I still remember sitting in the basement living room beating this game after countless hours of playing as my older brother cheered me on after countless hours of watching me. A true classic of my generation.

I am sure my Niece will want to see it............On a sidenote watch the new movie Klaus on Netflix!!! It's great! Got me right in the feels.

Well you summed it up well at the end and I was thinking the same thing after looking at the data. Lack of consistency with no fixed pattern. Comparing these 2 populations against each other is interesting. I use Minitab at work and wonder if there are some analysis programs to run the raw data through to get a p-value.

I really do hold onto the idea you will find a sign I want and we will have great trade sex. No kissing though.

A buddy really outdid my meme.

Just goes to show it's the people that make a community. Not the name or the location. The community has spoken. I could throw some rocks on everything that happened but I will simply say that change is good and we are exactly where we are meant to be. Welcome to the SAGE!!!

2008 I feel is worth $4000

Getting closer to the finish line

@Rareusgold is a good dude. Good exposure for this one of a kind game. But gotta make a meme!!

Rumor has it there has been a $300K offer on it.

Jive Turkey award winner checking in.

Our decorations were up on 11/3............Not my call but if it makes her happy no big deal for me.

Been playing alot of TG16 lately and the amount of fun shooters is staggering. Blazing Lazers is a recent one that comes to mind.

Been watching The Mandalorian and thought I would note some neat trivia. Courtesy IMDB First appearance of a toilet in a Star Wars production. In the first episode the Mandalorian's bounty mentions trying to get home for "Life Day." Life Day was a central part of the plot for the much maligned Star Wars Holiday Special from 1978. The Mandalorian's phase-pulse blaster is based on Boba Fett's rifle from The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978). During the first episode, a Kowakian monkey lizard is briefly seen roasting on a spit. This is the same species as Salacious Crumb, who was with Jabba The Hut on his throne. Practical models were used in multiple shots of the main protagonists vehicle, the Razorcrest. This is an obvious callback to the method used in the original Star Wars trilogy. The series is a space spaghetti western with influences from Sergio Leone's "Dollars Trilogy." One of the cast members, Brendan Wayne, is the grandson of legendary actor John Wayne, who was know for doing westerns. Takes place six years before the birth of Rey. Set approximately five years after Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983).

That sucks! Could we see the damage. Curious to see where it fractured.