Article is about collecting and grading often unplayable vintage console game media.
This is like saying that “baseball is dying” because baseball card traders are assholes.
Yeah. That is not retrogaming. That’s speculation, by assholes, for assholes.
Its like an expose revealing that literally everyone heavily involved in crypto trading is a complete dickbag.
Is it ironic that this is on substack?
why?
Lotta Nazis on substack
And, of course, just in case you’re the type of centrist hack who says it doesn’t matter that he’s a violent authoritarian fascist because you can “separate art from the artist”, Modretro has done the rhetoricians (i.e. me) a favor by announcing a special Anduril-themed version of the Chromatic, covered in Anduril branding and made of “the same magnesium aluminum alloy as Anduril’s attack drones” last December. They were sold as a limited edition directly through Anduril’s merchandise store.
They sold out day one.
And, of course, just in case you’re the type of centrist hack
I grow weary of limited USAian “there are only two truths” viewpoint. It’s high time we cut the cord from US media and all the bullshit opinions that come with it. They have managed to make being rational and level-headed a curse word. “centrist” 🙄 People who unironically use that word in a derogatory fashion sound like those who still believe in things like the disney portrayal of the world. “real love”, “true love”, “forever and ever”
This comment unintentionally makes you sound very jaded lol do you not believe in true love? Wild
People who unironically use that word in a derogatory fashion sound like those who still believe in things like the disney portrayal of the world.
Weird cus that is exactly how centrists sound to everybody else lol
They have managed to make being rational and level-headed a curse word. "
No, it is conservatives that despise rationality and level-headedness and it is precisely centrists that sat by and let this mode of thinking proliferate even as leftists were sounding the alarm.
Centrists were busy wringing their hands in nervousness about all the things conservatives told them about leftists and barely noticed when January 6th happened.
And here, a perfect example. “there are only two sides, hurr durr”. Thanks for proving my point.
How am I meant to take an article that opens by claiming the entire economy is based on scams and gambling seriously?
I’m sitting here wondering why I ever trusted one that didn’t.
So is the ISP you’re using a scam? Your electric company? Your own job? The place where you get your food? Your doctor is a scammer? The people who maintain the roads?
Well, the work I did last month made my company over 4 million dollars, and my salary earned me about 7k. That’s a normal salary for my position, but if you and a partner made that much money together and they took 99.8% of the share, it’d feel pretty scammy, right?
I’m not sure how much money my ISP, electric company, grocery store, or hospital make, but I can imagine that they have a similar issue where the people doing the work get way too little of a piece of the pie. We consider it normal because it’s so prevalent, but it used to be that the CEO and other executive suite members had a much smaller piece, allowing for everyone else to get relatively more.
Sure, the higher-ups always took the biggest chunk and always will, but at this point our economy is entirely based on the idea of extracting as much wealth from the people generating it as possible, which is definitely a scam.
Karl Jobst has done some good investigative journalism on the auction fraud and the “fractional ownership” trading platform scams.
Historically, auction houses and platforms are often using relationships with celebrities and influential people to artificially boost the prices. The platform provides the veneer of a neutral open-market sale. The celebrity provides the “credibility” of a rich buyer, justifying the record price on the game or collectable.
I’d say don’t take any retro game prices at face value, and understand your own local market before buying anything. You can list things for any price you want on eBay. Doesn’t mean the product is routinely trading at that price. Wata can list and claim a “sale” at a ridiculous price on their own platform, and currently there is no way to credibly verify that sale was to a real buyer, and not pre-arranged or fraudulent in some way designed to inflate the precieved value of the item.
