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I mean you could ask me why I own a Super Nintendo and games for it when I can instead just download them on my wii u. The answer is because physical reality is better than the fantasy.
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Magnus Gallant posted:I've not bought any books but I know which ones I would buy if I were going to follow through. There's this obscure thing called a "low cost index fund" that's really up and coming that you should check out.
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Pinterest Mom posted:There's this obscure thing called a "low cost index fund" that's really up and coming that you should check out. Being condescending is expected from you but it's still not a good look. My uncle works on Wall Street, as do a couple friends from high school. If I wanted to invest in stocks id just have to ask them for guidance. I'm asking you guys about your tastes in media that you think others might not share/aren't popular enough to get a reprint.
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My father gave me a small loan of one million dollars
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Tremendous Taste posted:My father gave me a small loan of one million dollars Cool, my parents are worth 10 mil
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Captain Foo posted:i think by understanding this you are dq'd from karaoke  don't hate just because I have a strong understanding of which songs work for which vocal ranges.Actually though I suck at karaoke because I mostly listen to male singers and sing harmony, which completely screws me when I try to pick a song -- it's usually way out of my range. So I sing a couple really badly and then I get blackout drunk and pick something off Hysteria by Def Leppard and then I go home and throw up.
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Kill them for the insurance
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Magnus Gallant posted:I mean you could ask me why I own a Super Nintendo and games for it when I can instead just download them on my wii u. The answer is because physical reality is better than the fantasy. Was that irony intentional, I never kno with u
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my dad's portfolio could beat up your dad's portfolio!!!
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Haha they're not really but I do have a rich as gently caress uncle. He works on Wall Street and his wife is an eye doctor with her own practice. They're fun to hang out with.
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You know I used to think it was the owning of something was an important thing back in my late teens/early 20s. It took 15+ years to figure out that it's the experience that matters not a physical item.
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GUISSEPPE PIZZAPIE posted:Was that irony intentional, I never kno with u 
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Yeah possessions are dumb, gently caress those things.
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I like to own some physical things, depending on what it is.
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TMMadman posted:You know I used to think it was the owning of something was an important thing back in my late teens/early 20s. It took 15+ years to figure out that it's the experience that matters not a physical item. Except when you want to mark up/reread them multiple times. The things I buy are high quality and I use them until they are unusable anymore. I don't buy cheap
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I own people online where it's still legal to do so
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GUISSEPPE PIZZAPIE posted:I own people online where it's still legal to do so You've certainly owned me over the years.
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Magnus Gallant posted:I'm asking you guys about your tastes in media that you think others might not share/aren't popular enough to get a reprint. Mike Doughty's stuff used to go out of print a lot, if you run across cheap copies of the full Smofe + Smang album or his poetry book Slanky those are probably worth grabbing. really though best advice is not so much what to buy (basically just go scour used bookstores and look for hidden treasure) but to invest in making certain that your investment does not get destroyed (make sure where you're keeping your books is humidity-controlled/pest free etc)
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I'm going to try to knit DS9 from DS9 for another secret santa I am in. I can't find anyone who has even attempted it before so I am very excited to try something completely new. It will be difficult I think, but I'll give it a try!
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Owning things is so bourgeois.
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They announced a new star trek series.
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Kashuno posted:They announced a new star trek series. When did they do that
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In Star Trek's post-scarcity economy, there is no reason to own anything.
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CapitalistPig posted:Yeah possessions are dumb, gently caress those things. gonna have to rename yourself communist pig now
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Magnus Gallant posted:When did they do that today. Only on CBS' streaming service, from the co-writer and producer of the new star trek movies. 
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CapitalistPig posted:Yeah possessions are dumb, gently caress those things. As a ghost I disagree
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The way I see it the only way I could lose my books is if I sell them. No one steals books. They do steal computers and tablets. I own a typewriter for my fiction writing, no one would ever steal that old rear end poo poo.
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people have posted on this page who have not yet signed up for secret santa. You/y'all should do so!!!!!!!!!! Here it is again for your edification: EccoRaven posted:
(note that we already have twenty-one signups, which is more than all of 2012 but less than in 20s 13 and 14. but it's only been ONE DAY!!! So LET'S BREAK SOME RECORDS FOR CHRISTMAS.)
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The Ninth Annual Mafia Secret Santa!! 
Hint: if you sign up for Secret Santa, try to include breadcrumbs in your forum posts for what you like and dislike - it'll really help out your Santa!
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EccoRaven posted:people have posted on this page who have not yet signed up for secret santa. joined. I like nerdy stuff.
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Magnus Gallant posted:The way I see it the only way I could lose my books is if I sell them. No one steals books. They do steal computers and tablets. Fact: I once had to talk a friend out of swiping a first edition copy of Gravity's Rainbow from the home of the vice President of my college.
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GUISSEPPE PIZZAPIE posted:I'd sign up if I wasn't moving this month, get ye giving, forsooth if you have a new address to where you will be moved you can sign up with freedom and fidelity.
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EccoRaven posted:if you have a new address to where you will be moved you can sign up with freedom and fidelity. It's between a few places and its a big silly hassle so I'd rather not subject my secret santee to that in case it changes again~~
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CCKeane posted:Fact: I once had to talk a friend out of swiping a first edition copy of Gravity's Rainbow from the home of the vice President of my college. Stealing it? That's good that you talked him out of stealing it.
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I actively don't writing on typewriters and prefer modern technology and sometimes I feel like other writers will judge me if I am open with it #lamesecrets
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Magnus Gallant posted:Yeah but stocks aren't helpful to other humans. I agree with the others that it isn't a super great idea BUT I think you can at least buy 2 copies of books of this style, if you want to keep one, and then sell the other. Antique books are really cool. I have a copy of Candide from 1918 with a cool preamble on WWI. I agree owning books is neat. I think you could do well owning certain graphic novels or anthologies, for example I haven't been able to find Gary Larson anthologies in stores anymore, only online, and they're a bit prohibitively expensive. Niche art books from museum exhibitions like you mentioned would do marginally well I think. Or cook books. A lot of cook books aren't reprinted, but the trick is to find a good one that people will always want. I personally adore the Silver Spoon books on Italian cooking.
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The far side is a great example of what I'm talking about. The far side rules and its out of print.
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Asiina posted:I'm going to try to knit DS9 from DS9 for another secret santa I am in. I can't find anyone who has even attempted it before so I am very excited to try something completely new. It will be difficult I think, but I'll give it a try! I absolutely have to see the picture of this when you are done. So cool.
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