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[kernow]

I suppose

 

[terry.330]

Yeah but they're never tasteful, always just mounds of embarrassing shit. "Guys check out my life-size Master Chief statue and Gamecube store kiosk!!!!!"

Then you've got the guys that Nintendo theme everything complete with Mario wall decals, every Pokemon themed console and game displayed proudly and Wii full set. Living out your 10 year old dream as a 40 year old except they do it as if they were still 10.

Dudes spend an entire paycheck on literal garbage because NINTENDO!!!! but can't buy some clean shelves.

There are ways to tastefully integrate your hobby into your living space and a fucking neon Xbox sign and DBZ wall scrolls isn't one of them.

Buying proper furniture and some nice framed art is a good first step. Take the $2000 you were going to spend on that terrible 1/4 scale Assassins Creed statue and go to fucking Ikea.

 

[kernow]

Ahaha

 

[neo_mao]

I never understood the appeal of game store kiosks...

I mean I get having an arcade machine as an experience and nostalgia. But what are people trying to recapture with a store kiosk....the experience of going to GaneStop?

 

[terry.330]

I never understood the appeal of game store kiosks...

I mean I get having an arcade machine as an experience and nostalgia. But what are people trying to recapture with a store kiosk....the experience of going to GaneStop?

Reliving all of all the times your parents neglected you in Walmart.

Who doesn't want to awkwardly stand in front of a 14" screen with sever burn in using controllers with 1000s of kids caked in booger finger crud for hours at a time in the convenience of your own home?

Oh the memories...

 

[doaal]

A lot of collectors items are gaudy, but I'm glad these people are saving this stuff from landfills.

I used to have a big old game collection. Games I'd never gotten around to playing, games I'd buy for cheap and flip for profit, games that I didn't enjoy but were valuable, titles I felt should be in every gamer's collection. Modchips, softmods and emulation now allow me to enjoy whatever I want, and I reserve the ritual of popping a game in a console for my most sacred of titles.

Selling off that collection let me focus on the stuff I actually wanted. Trading off a bunch of big-box PC games for one AES title also saves a ton of shelf space, lol.

 

[kernow]

I could quite happily see a hundred sealed wii-u's go to landfill

Not much retro is worth owning, buying, even playing

 

[sylvie]

I just do PlayStation games now. My first console, my "last" console (for collecting anyway) . I consider modern./recent gen consoles to be merely means to an end, cannot imaging wanting to collect fucking PS3 or PS4 games. Give me the fucking download or loose disc and Im good.

 

[Atro]

I could quite happily see a hundred sealed wii-u's go to landfill

Nothing would be lost.

 

[kernow]

 

[MCF 76]

Class man, especially like the carts angled like that. I got a very similar book shelf like that from Ikea. Think I was the Billy. Only thing about it was the 3/4" thick shelves are made out if particle board. So they will bow like a fucker. I had to make a wood 1× 1 1/2" center brace run it all way to floor basically a center leg. Then center drill through each shelf with long s.s. screws to keep from bowing.

More that I look is that a Billy u have? I got the glass doors but looks exactly the design & depth of it.

 

[TheJiggler]

@kernow mundane conversation inbound

 

[kernow]

Class man, especially like the carts angled like that. I got a very similar book shelf like that from Ikea. Think I was the Billy. Only thing about it was the 3/4" thick shelves are made out if particle board. So they will bow like a fucker. I had to make a wood 1× 1 1/2" center brace run it all way to floor basically a center leg. Then center drill through each shelf with long s.s. screws to keep from bowing.

More that I look is that a Billy u have? I got the glass doors but looks exactly the design & depth of it.

Just some shit £50 argos thing
It's rubbish but will do for now

 

[wataru330]

At the new pad? That’s what’s up. Recon you’ll be all in by Summer?

 

[kernow]

Yeah, moved over the weekend, I need to settle in and get the hifi setup properly before any gaming takes place. I can't remember the last time I played anything

 

[kernow]

 

[MCF 76]

@kernow mundane conversation inbound

Its a pro tip

 

[fake]

I knew Kern wears frilly knickers.

 

[HellioN]

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$50 shipped.

 

[prof]

Looks great, kern. For real. Congrats on the new place, homie.


I do have one tiny suggestion though. If you pick up a coffee table, it'll make it much easier to complete your 'Fairy Dreams' puzzle.

 

[Tarma]

kern dreams of fairy's... wtf?

 

[kernow]

Goobs going csi

 

[theMot]

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Needs a woman's touch.

 

[kernow]

Needs a woman's touch.

So do most members here

 

[Neodogg]

Has to be a good day when you need the Leatherman to get the buttplug out… don’t even want to know what’s on the case either…