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   13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 02:30:32 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

   I'm a little uncomfortable that more people are getting into one of my weirdest niche collecting hobbies even though I have very publicly encouraged everyone to do so.

   It's probably half kvlt elitism and half FOMO because it's a collection that I have very little money for and which is only actually fun because it's cheap.

   On the other hand, hopefully this spike in interest spurs greater interest in software preservation.

   (Tge hobby is delisted video games, if you're curious. But specifically in digital formats - it's the comedically low-budget counterpart to physical game collecting.)

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 03:16:08 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     • Devlin :farfetchd:

     @devlin @DarkestKale I don't mean to excite a new gold rush, but based on the clearance place I get most of my physical stuff and on reducing ebay prices, I think the physical game collecting bubble might have finally burst, at least beyond the household name side of things. (I mostly just buy obscure or unpreserved stuff no one else thinks is interesting.)

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     Devlin :farfetchd: (devlin@topspicy.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 03:16:11 JST Devlin :farfetchd:

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     • :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet:

     @DarkestKale If you're looking to shift it, I'm sure you'd have great luck posting on CPCWiki about it

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     :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet: (darkestkale@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 03:16:12 JST :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet:

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     • Devlin :farfetchd:

     @devlin @HauntedOwlbear *remembers a small box of random amstrad CPC shit he needs to get rid of in the garage*

     Hrmmmmm.

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     :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet: (darkestkale@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 03:16:14 JST :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet:

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     • Devlin :farfetchd:

     @devlin @HauntedOwlbear I'll freely admit that I've been on both sides of that before.

     For both retrogames and fighting fantasy gamebooks (one day I'll get back into it and complete my set...)

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     Devlin :farfetchd: (devlin@topspicy.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 03:16:14 JST Devlin :farfetchd:

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     • :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet:

     @DarkestKale @HauntedOwlbear Oh, most definitely same - I tend to buy almost exclusively online now, as my new collection target is Amstrad CPC games and you just *cannot* find them anywhere at all offline

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     :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet: (darkestkale@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 03:16:17 JST :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet:

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     @HauntedOwlbear This is why retro-gaming collectors (when I was into it, in the early 00's) had a love/hate with other people in their own city being into it as well.

     On one hand, someone local to play 2600 games with! Wooo!

     On the other hand, someone else 'stealing' all the thrift-store finds before you can get to 'em... boooooo

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     Devlin :farfetchd: (devlin@topspicy.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 03:16:17 JST Devlin :farfetchd:

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     • :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet:

     @DarkestKale @HauntedOwlbear I remember going into my local game shop, picking a couple NES games I wanted to buy and by the time I got my turn in the queue, someone before me had bought the *entire* stack they had in the window

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     :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet: (darkestkale@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 03:16:18 JST :trebuchet: Kale :trebuchet:

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     @HauntedOwlbear yeah, I understand this.

     Like, it's nice to have people to talk to about X, sure.

     But if suddenly there's a surge in people doing X, and there's a limited pool of resources for X...

     ... then the price goes up.

     Which means, X is less accessible, and often, less fun.

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     13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 03:34:00 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

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     • Devlin :farfetchd:

     @devlin @DarkestKale yeah, I'm there with my DOS games, and it's lovely to just have as a completed thing to interact with and enjoy.

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     Devlin :farfetchd: (devlin@topspicy.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 03:34:01 JST Devlin :farfetchd:

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     @HauntedOwlbear @DarkestKale I've done something similar, and set a clear start/end goal for all my collecting. Once i've cleared my "hit list" for the amstrad i'll probably just keep my collection for looking after and the occasional showing-off of games to folks