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WCDT strips 4311-4315 (20-25 July 2020)
citizenfive:
--- Quote from: Gus_Smedstad on 21 Jul 2020, 21:59 ---Links to TVTropes should probably come with some sort of warning that you're about to disappear down a rabbit hole and may be following tangential links for hours.
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I second this; I just fell down the aforementioned rabbit hole. TVTropes links are dangerous.
Geographus:
--- Quote from: shanejayell on 21 Jul 2020, 18:53 ---I'd say Jeph's underestimating the resale value. I belong to a anime collectors group, and some sealed, out of print anime go for up to $500. Plus they say the print runs were destroyed? Then who knows how high it'd go.
Collectors are WEIRD.
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Definitely. (Yes I know the low value is part of the joke.)
I once got a promo-CD from some obscure metal-band out of such a blind bag at a fundraiser for a local metal/rock pub. Looked up their music
on Youtube, it wasn't my taste so I put the sealed CD up on eBay.
Apparently it was one of the bands first ever promos which had like 200 copies and they became quite famous since then (for their genre of music)
so it ended up selling for way over 100€.
BenRG:
I'm guessing that CRMDR is a good example of entertainment media that one owns to own, not to actually consume because no-one would actually want to consume something written and produced that badly. The film's rep probably adds to its market value but the question remains whether or not it was withdrawn and mostly eradicated because it was so explicit or because it was so bad that everyone, including the producers and distributors, wanted it gone!
Given what Marigold says about its actual money value, I assume that the real value comes from bragging rights. "Oh yeah, I got a pristine never-opened one!" However, not strong enough bragging rights that people would be willing to part with money for it.
Meanwhile, we are reminded that Dale and Marigold are May's friends. She might not admit it to herself but it is a fact and Marigold proved it by giving up her emergency secret trade stash! Actually from what Momo says in panel 1, it's obvious that this group has been waiting for a while for a sign that May will accept their help, which is a wonderful thing, really!
Prediction: Pintsize was the vendor of the blind bag in which Marigold got that disc. Even he has standards!
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: Tova on 21 Jul 2020, 22:06 ---
--- Quote from: Gus_Smedstad on 21 Jul 2020, 21:59 ---ET being the canonical example of something horrible that is still a collector's item.
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The way you say "still a collector's item" would, if I didn't know better, lead me to think you believed it is collectible in spite of being famously horrible, rather than because.
BTW its infamy is one of those truthy things that everyone says because every says it, though, right? There are a ton of YouTube videos claiming it's not as bad as people say. Just putting that on record.
Disclaimer: I've never played it myself. I do recall watching a YouTube video of someone who decided to try and play through it. It was pretty amusing, I'll grant you that.
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They found the legendary Atari dump site in New Mexico.
Tova:
Ah, now I remember! I watched the documentary about that. Atari: Game Over. It was enjoyable.
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