Actual adult humans who pay thousands upon thousands for a piece of mass-printed cardboard are fucking retarded. You can't change my mind.
>PRISTINEIt's a fucking piece of cheap-ass cardboard. Jesus.
>mass-printedi think illuminated manuscripts look great, but at the end of the day the human labour of scribes was just--once upon a time--the only option. i can then admire the artistry of typefaces, even if the printing press and font foundries effectively killed off an industry.think of it like original film prints or animation cels. what are you actually buying/collecting? you can witness the same content elsewhere, you probably don't care that it was John Smith A.S.C. or the 1950s animation slave Kim Seo-Jung.
>>97436134enough with the poors opinions lmao
>>97436158Cardboard can't be pristine?
>>97436134I wish I'd pulled the 1/1 Ring. I would have booked a flight to the nearest volcano and thrown it in. Livestreamed it and everything. Maybe pause before throwing it in, turn around and say "no...it's mine!", only to jam my finger straight through the art, then complain when it doesn't even turn me invisible and then toss the card away.
>>97436134>Actual adult humans who pay thousands upon thousands for [insert your hobby here] are fucking retarded. You can't change my mind.
>>97436448It's a product of the hyper-capitalistic industrial machine. Nothing else.
>>97436134When it comes to anything over 2 hundred its a flex of disposable wealth. When it comes to collosal expenditure it’s calculated spending to push their hobby as an investment and inflate the calue of the rest of their collection. It’s like the 3 milliom dollar The One Ring. I’ll never be convinced that Hasbro didn’t sunsidise that payment especially after Post Malone started doing clearlyPaid marketing for MTG.
>>97436134There's no need to change you're mine, you're right. But we're talking about the same people who genuinely believe their niche cardboard with no actual potential buyers is as safe an investment as gold or even stocks are.
>>97436158jealous much?
>>97437883The majority of wealth flexers aren't actually rich and are debtmaxxing or rich kids who are going to blow their inheritance. Truly rich people don't need to show off to the Poors.
>>97436482I would have hid it if i pulled it only to reveal it when someone found the totally not reprint.
>>97436482How about just putting it in your deck and casually playing with it in tournaments? Maybe a cheap sleeve or something to guard it.
>>97437901There's not a single rich person that doesn't spend money on worthless shit.
>>97436134
>>97436134I have a similar opinion on IVF. Doesn't it cross their minds they shouldn't have kids?
>>97436134This sort of "investing" only works short term. Anyone who thinks there's going to be anyone in 2050 who still wants to pay for this shit is going to end up like the NFT retards or the cat ladies who traded their pensions for beanie babies. There is a window to make some real cash doing this speculative investment shit with "collectibles" but you need to get in and get out. Buy low, sell high. Majority of people fuck that up and end up deeper in debt, and they end up creating these communities of idiots who all very loudly insist that buying and holding cards and childrens' toys and ape jpegs will totally work out if they just keep waiting.Meanwhile, all the people who actually made money on that shit sold years ago and has since jumped to a different "investment" and probably gotten burned repeatedly trying to do the same speculative investment grift on other things and lost all the profit the made.
>>97436134>he didn't achieve his dreams early so he could spend the back half of his life fulfilling all of his childhood fanciesi'm sure your extended childhood, no matter how mild, is a preferable state
>>97439076such a painfully midwit take, especially when someone did your homework for you just two posts above
>>97436134You are correct.
>>9743613499% of these are just jews buying it off each other to inflate its perceived value, and praying that they will be the one holding it if the 1% random rich goy comes around to buy it off them
>>97436134>>97436158Agreed, if you're going to shell out do it for custom printed cards, you can combine your preferred art, card frame, flavour text and card stock material for a bespoke item and doing so for an entire EDH deck will only run you a little more than $100I did two in plastic card stock so that if the worst happens and a drink is spilled or some greasy fat fuck grabs one of my cards I can just rinse them off in the sink, it also allows me to shuffle them properly like poker cards without any concern for damage.
>>97436134me, I cannot understand why this shit did not qualified as gamblingunless there was some money under table passing
>>97440641Because the cards, unlike a ticket or a casino chip, do not have a hard agreed-upon value it can be exchanged for.
>>97440641Because it's just a decentralized stock market of sorts, which is also gambling, and they're never cracking down on that... And worse still, every stock trading platform in the world now allows people to gamble on everything from sports to the weather.
I miss when 4chan was just a place to scream nigger into the void and not a LARP playground for thin wristed communist retards
I will never understand slabsLike >>97436158 this guy will never open this slab to verify his card didn't get swapped with a proxy since the score is already at the top.So this could be a 5$ proxy and the owner would never know.
>>97436134Actual adult humans also paid stupid sums of money for electronic receipts containing URLs to computer-generated pictures of apes.Some actual adult humans are F'ING STUPID.
>>97441793You can still use a loupe on it
>>97441806Stop making my depression worse than it already is.
>>97441862masses being stupid is a good thing, the planet is massively overpopulated and well on track to starving not just all humanity but all life on earth through our consumptive needs if we don't get back down below the 2 billion mark within a couple hundred years.
>>97441878I mean I'd be glad if a world-ending meteor just hit us because all this pointless suffering would end. But I also see some good in some of us so I feel like all this effort is such a fucking waste of sanity.
>>97441904That's apallingly egotistical, there's a lot more life on this planet than human and subhuman, and all that life is the only form of it we know of in the universe, this world is a garden and even if we should be pruned it should still go on to grow later fruits.
>>97441928>gardenAll life on this planet evolved to consume each other from the get-go. Mix consciousness in this soup and you get this hell we have right now. There is no way to prove whether some animals have subjective experience or not.
>>97441935Everything that exists does so as a result of violence, on the cosmic scale every elemtn is the product of massive nuclear exlosions in the form of supernovae, on the intimate human scale all life begins with blood and screaming.Aversion to violence for being violence is unnatural and weird, it's degeneracy and corruption that you should be opposed to, things that do not beget life or do not contribute to the furthering of life but instead actively prevent or hinder that cycle.
>>97436134>>97436158Faggot
>>97436134>>97441806TRVE NUKE
>>97436357The difference between illuminated manuscripts and cardboard cards is that the former take hundreds upon hundreds of hours and a lot of expensive materials to produce, while the latter can nowadays be printed for a few cents per card.Cards and manuscripts are alike in that a lot of the "rare" cardboard cards cost the same as a manuscript painstakingly written by monks.You can just print those cards out yourself anon, there are enough services that let you do that. It's probably not even really illegal in a lot of countries - as long as you don't sell them as authentic cards. By the end of the day it really is just the same card, and knowjng how many production issues happen at those card printing 'factories' yours might end up being printed better than theirs.
>>97441806Christ I forgot all about that.
>>97440718lol
>>97441950Damn
>>97441878>the planet is massively overpopulatednot really. the human population has basically stagnated.
>>97436134OP trusts that the money he has is a few bits represented on a bank server.
>>97436134You're entirely correct. It's fucking cardboard crack.
>>97441878Without India, China, and Africa, we would be pretty close to that number
>>97441793Same, Especially now that I am seeing people make money out of "restoring" poorly graded cards... to get them to be sent back in an attempt to bump up the grade a little more.
>>97439067You underestimate your dependance on mustard yet belittle someone else a technological advantage on the most complex of all of our biological imperatives. Fascinating.
>>97436134I mean sure. But it is literally no different from shiny rock or especially worse, monkey picture. And those are usually way more expensive at their peaks than anything TCG related.
>>97438735Most flexers are upper-middle class or "New Money", pretending to be more than they are to impress people. Genuinely rich people-especially "Old Money"-don't need to impress you with their wealth, nor are they impressed by it, particularly when it comes to brands. Genuinely wealthy individuals often engage in countersignaling. They have nothing to prove to the masses, so they signal only to their peers through "in-the-know" markers. They also know that the wealthier you are, the less you can buy with just money. They begin to face hurdles like: "To get this exclusive Rolex, you must buy this cheaper, gaudy version (we chose the colour, not you) first to join our exclusive club." $50,000+ on "entry-level" item to get the item you actually want. Many truly wealthy people find this "hoop-jumping" degrading. This leads them toward bespoke or commissioned goods. Why beg a brand for a watch when you can pay an independent watchmaker to build a one-of-one piece that is technically superior and entirely unique? They either use items bought at Walmart, or they commission pieces that are expensive but invisible to the naked eye—like a $5,000 coat with no logo, featuring a specific shoulder stitch and fabric that only someone else who shops at that atelier would recognize.
>>97441950Degeneracy and corruption implies there really is a golden firmware, it doesn't actually exist unless it works in the first place.
>>97441904Speak for yourself you crybaby bitch. if you want YOUR suffering to end (You) know what to do. Otherwise, get your shit together.
>>97454795True
>>97456298I mean, have you seen how infertiles behave? They lash out at people for "flaunting" (read: being a parent) their babies, impose themselves in parental roles of their friends and families' own babies (often to the point of interfering with/stealing milestones), and squandering staggering amounts of money instead of living the DINK dream.Nobody wants to study this syndrome because they, again, start lashing out at the idea they are mentally ill. Normal humans don't do this, NPCs do.
>>97457061I used to believe projection was some wishy washy bullshit therapy talk. Now I see it manifest before my eyes more often than I can count.
Every time I run into the HOW CAN YOU SPEND SO MUCH MONEY ON CARDBOARD pearlclutchers like OP, they always have some retarded vice of their own like booze, cigarettes, porn, or gachaslop.So which one is it OP? Maybe we can wrap this thread up before we get to 100 posts
>>97436158>>97436134Grading is a jew scam
>>97436482hate to tell you this but throwing garbage in volcanoes is illegal.
>>97456414>engage in countersignalingA couple days ago I heard that the CEO of Ikea refuses to fly 1st class and will only fly 2nd. Now the BIG thing the ultra rich do to flex is philanthropy. Carnegie spent his wealth on things like public libraries. There are so many foundations out there that exist so rich people can hand out money. It comes to "I have so much money I can just give it away lol".>>97436134Funny story, my game group started MTG during Beta then stopped playing around Ice Age. Starting around 2004 they would sell off some cards to pay for their Gen Con trips. Most of them got 8-9 full Gen Con trips off of card sales. There was one guy around 2000 that walked around the LGS with one of his 5 Black Lotuses tucked in the hat band of his Fedora as a joke on how stupid the prices were on cardboard crack.
