Newly discovered endemic disease in the community: AEDS

Shito

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Yes, a high-end team of top scientist finally succeded in isolating the disease.

Its dreadful name:
AEDS - Advance Entertainement Dependency Syndrome

Typical synthoms:

1) Great appreciation, to the limit of the whorship, of a so-called 'videogame home console system' known as 'Neo-Geo'

2) Compulsive need of purchasing its old and outdated, yet extra-expencive games.

3) Total loss of real money value when dealing about Neo-Geo home cartidges, such as thinking $325 for new realease are 'fair prices' to pay, or $500 for some rare titles are 'bargains'.

4) Quitting any other expences, first other hobbies, then even more serious thing, just for put the Neo-Geo as top priority in the 'to buy list'.

5) Spending insane amount of time collecting all kind of information on the system and the games.

6) Starting appreciating crappy games just because running on the Neo-Geo, finding good aspect even in the crappier product.

7) Starting thinking 'just a little more than a hundred of titles are not that much to collect them all after all'.

8) Jumping on extreme online dealing, sometime risky and all, just to find rare carts.

9) To think the word 'mint' has the most exciting sound in the world.

10) Stay up all night to sniper and auction for a Neo-Geo cart.

11) Becoming extremely anal about stupid issues like 'baggies', 'seals', 'ankeeto kaado', or even 'unswapped parts'.

As for now, there are NO known remedies for the disease.

Also unknow is the way of contamination as well of the origin of the thing.

An anaerobic virus maybe? Originated from the game system itself?

May be.

Scientist are still working are on these top issues still in need to be clarified.

Be sure we will update you as other news will follow!
 

Daisuke Jigen

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Now this, I like.

Quite funny! <img src="graemlins/eek2.gif" border="0" alt="[Eek 2]" />
 

Average Joe

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I think I'm suffering from the early stages of AEDS, if there is a cure I don't want to know about it.
 

FeelGood

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I think I know a cure - completion of the collection. Some have been known to actually progress into even darker stages of AEDS though. For example Vince Yang, who used to moderate Dolphinlords. He has every cart, but now has entered the never ending magical journey of finding the perfect Magical Drop 2 cart. Not a pretty case.

I have heard some really sad cases about people so devoted to the Neo Geo that they translate manga relating to it...
 

SNKJorge

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I beleive I have that decease all over my body...
 

LWK

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This kind of reminds me of neo alecs old signs thingamajig. I submitted a few signs.
 

Shito

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Originally posted by EvilWasabi:
<strong>I think I know a cure - completion of the collection. Some have been known to actually progress into even darker stages of AEDS though. For example Vince Yang, who used to moderate Dolphinlords. He has every cart, but now has entered the never ending magical journey of finding the perfect Magical Drop 2 cart. Not a pretty case.

I have heard some really sad cases about people so devoted to the Neo Geo that they translate manga relating to it...</strong><hr></blockquote>

Yeah Charlie, you got the right point, just as usual.

You know, when completing your collection, there are possibilities you feel just as your 'mission 1, completed'.

MIssion 2 is obviously a matter of 'upgrading condition'.

But, if your in the 'unswapping party' as I am, that cambe MUCH more painful! :)

The never ending quest.

Oh, and I have a perfect mint Drop2.

If Vince like to trade it with his minty Maruko, I'm really OK with it! :D

[ October 11, 2002: Message edited by: Shito ]</p>
 

Kid Aphex

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this thread is the true-est thing i've ever read.

never has an addiction afflicted me with such a vigorous and constant attack on my pocketbook. fucking aes.
 

Shito

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Originally posted by Kid Aphex:
<strong>this thread is the true-est thing i've ever read.

never has an addiction afflicted me with such a vigorous and constant attack on my pocketbook. fucking aes.</strong><hr></blockquote>

Damn.

The most amazing thing is how the fucking AES frenzy twist the 'money value' issue in your mind.

You know something like 'argh, $700 for a DVD player... that's really a lot of money man... I have to think about it', while 'argh, $700 for a minty Blazing Star, what a bargain! Hurry! Contact the seller before someone else buy it! That MUST be MINE!'

And so it goes...

I second that, fucking AES.

It's a fucking disease really, a mental disease, worse than any addiction.

[ October 11, 2002: Message edited by: Shito ]</p>
 

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SonGohan

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Originally posted by Shito:
<strong>

1) Great appreciation, to the limit of the whorship, of a so-called 'videogame home console system' known as 'Neo-Geo'

3) Total loss of real money value when dealing about Neo-Geo home cartidges, such as thinking $325 for new realease are 'fair prices' to pay, or $500 for some rare titles are 'bargains'.

4) Quitting any other expences, first other hobbies, then even more serious thing, just for put the Neo-Geo as top priority in the 'to buy list'.

7) Starting thinking 'just a little more than a hundred of titles are not that much to collect them all after all'.

10) Stay up all night to sniper and auction for a Neo-Geo cart.
</strong><hr></blockquote>

I'm so guilty of the above it's not funny
 

FeelGood

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Originally posted by Shito:
<strong>
Oh, and I have a perfect mint Drop2.

If Vince like to trade it with his minty Maruko, I'm really OK with it! :D

[ October 11, 2002: Message edited by: Shito ]</strong><hr></blockquote>


You know he paid $300 (or was it less) for his Maruko back in like 1998.

Not worth crying over... Or is it?
 

Shito

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Originally posted by EvilWasabi:
<strong>


You know he paid $300 (or was it less) for his Maruko back in like 1998.

Not worth crying over... Or is it?</strong><hr></blockquote>

Ok, nice to know. So when trading it with my Drop2 he would add about $100, ok? :D

[ October 11, 2002: Message edited by: Shito ]</p>
 
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