I guess time will tell. I kind of doubt demand is going to drop until the people who are nostalgic for these things start to die, and that is many years off. By that time supply will have dwindled even more.

I think the exponential growth is a bubble that will burst but I’m not sure I can see values actually dropping.

Are you buying things just to collect them? Or do you have a collection of stuff you bought when you were younger and are holding on to that for nostalgic reasons?

I don’t really actively buy any retro stuff anymore unless I’m wanting to play some particular game or something. It’s just too expensive.

But I would have a really really hard time selling things with sentimental value. Maybe that will change someday but for now it’s too recent (20-30 years ago for me for most of it).

The other thing is, unless you really need the money (or space) now… Physical video game paraphernalia is not likely to go down in price over time. It necessarily becomes more scarce as time goes on. So that’s something to consider even if you’re just collecting to gain value.

Yeah this is a good point to make. I am very careful to check the seller on Amazon when I’m buying.

I ordered a Noctua CPU cooler from Amazon a few years ago. It was sold to me as new, and it definitely looked new, but when I opened the package to the it out and install it, it was missing several components. It had obviously been opened and either used or at least taken apart, then put back in the packaging.

I didn’t feel scammed necessarily, but it was extremely annoying. I had no trouble with Amazon taking it back and sending me a new one. Honestly the only reason I think you’d have trouble is if your account has a history of questionable or large returns.

Yeah this is really it. The answer is that there used to be significant technical reasons to do so. Technology improved enough each year that last year’s phones were really showing age.

At this point even basic phones are so fast and so feature rich that no one except niche groups needs anything faster than what came out several years ago. Everything basic like watching videos, maps, internet browsing, and messaging works perfectly fine on anything.

So the reasons shifted to renewing battery life and OS updates. Which are both at least somewhat artificial since manufactures could easily implement longer updates or replaceable batteries.

Well that’s good of you. I’m stressed by cleaning but much more stressed by mess so it’s a balance.

To me this sounds more stressful. Is that routine not stressful? I mean no judgment, I’m honestly curious.

Let me assure you, this kind of passive behavior does NOT work and only results in being resentful as you wait for the other person to figure it out and they never do.

Don’t assume people will figure something out on their own if you care about the result. Communicate openly. I cannot stress that enough.

This is going to sound stupid, but… Don’t you have to clean up for them to be able to come in and do their job?

Our major issue isn’t so much that it’s “dirty” per se. Granted that is an issue too, certainly. But the real issue is just that there are “things” everywhere. Kid stuff, papers or objects put down in haste, things that toddlers surreptitiously grabbed and moved into incorrect locations, etc.

All those things are why we don’t get to truly cleaning. Wouldn’t we have to get all those things picked up if we hired cleaners?

I played a shitload of COD4 with friends in college. I think I played MW2 briefly and then basically dropped COD.

When I bought a PS5 I was looking for games with PS5 versions to show off the graphics and thought hey, why not get back into COD? So I bought Cold War.

The multiplayer menus and lobbies are damn near indecipherable nonsense. There is so much spam and shit I can’t even see what I should do to play the game. It’s a sad state of affairs how things are now.

Yep, this is mine. And I have barely any time in compared to serious players. But when it was first becoming a thing I think I probably put in 50+ hours playing with my friends. As someone who primarily plays single player games this is a lot. Then I realized I hated every minute playing, and it was making me hate my own friends. It was actually stressful to play. I would be angry after ever play session. So I quit.

Fuck League of Legends. It’s shit and no one will convince me otherwise.