|
Pineapple improves just about any pizza or sandwich that it is on.
|
#
?
Feb 22, 2017 11:12
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 25, 2024 03:43 |
|
|
Pineapple and banana are both good on pizza. Not at the same time though.
|
|
#
?
Feb 22, 2017 11:30
|
|
|
Banana with cheese and/or tomato sauce is pretty good in general, also matches with onions. My unpopular opinion is that you can totally go back to savoury things after eating a small dessert.
|
|
#
?
Feb 22, 2017 12:12
|
|
|
Mr. Darcy is boring and pompous. Bingley is better.
|
|
#
?
Feb 22, 2017 16:10
|
|
|
Roulette posted:Mr. Darcy is boring and pompous. Bingley is better. agree, but Mr Bennet is above all
|
|
#
?
Feb 23, 2017 00:01
|
|
|
Vic Mackey wasn't the real villain of The Shield - Shane was. Vic did terrible things but he at least was always doing what he thought was in the best interest of his family first and his team second. Shane was entirely self-centered and especially toward the end became far worse than Vic ever was. The only truly unacceptable/understandable thing he did was screwing over Gardocki, but he really should have seen that coming and fled town well before the final ICE bust.
|
|
#
?
Feb 23, 2017 00:30
|
|
|
There's a lot of lovely detail, clever implication of movement and just general artistry that goes into those little high-end animu/videogame figurines. But it's kinda like having Edith Head design the costumes in your basement porno: your product is still going to be wanky garbage at the end of the day.
|
|
#
?
Feb 23, 2017 00:58
|
|
|
The Robocop reboot is actually pretty good.
|
|
#
?
Feb 23, 2017 01:06
|
|
|
Das Boo posted:Man, I like candy hearts and candy corn. You're my friend. Fashionable Jorts posted:The Robocop reboot is actually pretty good. The first 15 minutes or so were great and then it turned into a mediocre generic superhero film.
|
|
#
?
Feb 23, 2017 04:20
|
|
|
Das Boo posted:There's a lot of lovely detail, clever implication of movement and just general artistry that goes into those little high-end animu/videogame figurines. But it's kinda like having Edith Head design the costumes in your basement porno: your product is still going to be wanky garbage at the end of the day. I see a bunch where I'm like "wow that would probably be cool to own if I was the biggest dork on earth" but those things are like $300-$1000 for like a 12" vinyl or resin statue. I showed my buddy this Negan statue cause I thought he'd like it and we looked it up and the drat thing is $295 just cause they know idiots will actually pay that much 
|
|
#
?
Feb 23, 2017 04:24
|
|
|
"I like media franchise therefore I must buy useless doodads related to media franchise" is something people should grow out of after school.
|
|
#
?
Feb 23, 2017 04:35
|
|
|
To be fair high end toys/ statues tend to hold their value really well or increase in value once they are out of production. So at least at this point in time they aren't a terrible investment. Although if the economy goes to poo poo or something they will be the first things to become worthless.
|
|
#
?
Feb 23, 2017 05:15
|
|
|
Video games used to come with cloth maps to justify a $10 premium and I ate that poo poo up when I was a kid. Of course I want a map of Baldur's Gate!
|
|
#
?
Feb 23, 2017 05:16
|
|
|
veni veni veni posted:To be fair high end toys/ statues tend to hold their value really well or increase in value once they are out of production. So at least at this point in time they aren't a terrible investment. At least until the franchise or thing it's based on loses it's interest and the entire bottom falls of of the market. Collectibles are loving stupid. From baseball cards which seemingly held their value for generations, to beanie babies to pogs it's all poo poo unless you time the market. Or just buy things because you like to peep on em rather than as an "investment"
|
|
#
?
Feb 23, 2017 05:22
|
|
|
Investing in general is dumb. You should blow your money on experiences, such as trips and booze, ASAP, because you might be dead tomorrow.
|
|
#
?
Feb 23, 2017 05:55
|
|
|
Baronjutter posted:At least until the franchise or thing it's based on loses it's interest and the entire bottom falls of of the market. Collectibles are loving stupid. From baseball cards which seemingly held their value for generations, to beanie babies to pogs it's all poo poo unless you time the market. Or just buy things because you like to peep on em rather than as an "investment" Yeah no doubt. But some people have a good eye for what is going to hold it's value. Buying a statue of villain that's been in a few episodes of TWD would probably not be a good investment.
|
|
#
?
Feb 23, 2017 06:02
|
|
|
Is that why people collect those things? As an investment? I thought they just really liked them, but I guess I've never spent $1000 on something that didn't have utility.
|
|
#
?
Feb 23, 2017 06:07
|
|
|
No I'm sure people like those things for the most part, honestly you'd kind of have to, to know in the first place what is worth buying. I'm just saying it's not inherently throwing money down the toilet. I love that kind of junk but I never buy it, and am consistently surprised at how much a lot of stuff i wanted to buy ends up being worth way more than MSRP after it goes out of production.
|
|
#
?
Feb 23, 2017 06:18
|
|
|
Das Boo posted:Is that why people collect those things? As an investment? I thought they just really liked them, but I guess I've never spent $1000 on something that didn't have utility. It's how they justify it to their mom when she finds out her son has just blown yet another paycheck on a bust of Doctor Octopus.
|
|
#
?
Feb 23, 2017 06:45
|
|
|
But how many people are buying these 2nd hand pieces of tat? You can put anything you want on eBay for any amount, but it's not worth poo poo if no one buys it.
|
|
#
?
Feb 23, 2017 06:54
|
|
|
starkebn posted:"I like media franchise therefore I must buy useless doodads related to media franchise" is something people should grow out of after school. i dunno, i decorate my place mostly with various historical replicas of things like maps, artworks & sculptures and whatever else i can get my hands on (i recently picked up a couple small haida argillite carvings for e,g,) largely because history is one of my side-interests, i really can't begrudge someone else for doing basically the same thing with their interests so long as it's not sketchy or somehow borderline illegal - like what do i care if someone has a bunch of star wars movie posters framed in their rec room or whatever
|
|
#
?
Feb 23, 2017 07:03
|
|
|
hard counter posted:like what do i care if someone has a bunch of star wars movie posters framed in their rec room or whatever This is not what I'm talking about at all. But sure, people can do what they want.
|
|
#
?
Feb 23, 2017 07:22
|
|
|
starkebn posted:But how many people are buying these 2nd hand pieces of tat? You can put anything you want on eBay for any amount, but it's not worth poo poo if no one buys it. You can look at sold stuff easily to find out how much people are actually buying it for. Ebay sellers are often insane but it's not that hard to find out how much something is actually worth.
|
|
#
?
Feb 23, 2017 07:30
|
|
|
Also with cheesy collectible poo poo it's also pretty key to sell at the right time to make money. It's easy to laugh at stuff like Beanie Babies or pogs but a bunch of people sold dumb stuffed animals and fake milk bottle caps for hundreds of dollars. The people who sat on them forever thinking they would be worth even more or god forbid paid hundreds to begin with in the hopes of striking it rich are the suckers. Honestly I've always wanted to play the nerdy collectible stock market.
|
|
#
?
Feb 23, 2017 07:39
|
|
|
veni veni veni posted:Also with cheesy collectible poo poo it's also pretty key to sell at the right time to make money. It's easy to laugh at stuff like Beanie Babies or pogs but a bunch of people sold dumb stuffed animals and fake milk bottle caps for hundreds of dollars. The people who sat on them forever thinking they would be worth even more or god forbid paid hundreds to begin with in the hopes of striking it rich are the suckers. A lot of the people who collect keep saying things like "it's an investment, i'm just waiting for the right time to sell" but never do. If you have no attachment to the stuff and view it only in terms of its monetary value then yeah you can do that but I think that type of collector is less common than the obsessives (except in their own mind where they view themselves as the savvy investor).
|
|
#
?
Feb 23, 2017 08:34
|
|
|
veni veni veni posted:To be fair high end toys/ statues tend to hold their value really well or increase in value once they are out of production. So at least at this point in time they aren't a terrible investment. veni veni veni posted:Also with cheesy collectible poo poo it's also pretty key to sell at the right time to make money. Greed is the enemy and trying to ride an investment to its peak is a sure fire way to lose money. For each investment you need to set a goal and then sell when it reaches that goal, even if it can potentially rise more. Collateral Damage has a new favorite as of 13:04 on Feb 23, 2017 |
|
#
?
Feb 23, 2017 12:45
|
|
|
doverhog posted:Investing in general is dumb. You should blow your money on experiences, such as trips and booze, ASAP, because you might be dead tomorrow. But you probably won't be.
|
|
#
?
Feb 23, 2017 13:47
|
|
|
Lemonades are the best girl scout cookies.
|
|
#
?
Feb 23, 2017 15:37
|
|
|
sassassin posted:But you probably won't be. Maybe not the next tomorrow, but there's more than one.
|
|
#
?
Feb 23, 2017 16:13
|
|
|
Power_of_the_glory posted:Lemonades are the best girl scout cookies. Reported, you loving sick filth.
|
|
#
?
Feb 23, 2017 17:06
|
|
|
doverhog posted:Maybe not the next tomorrow, but there's more than one. So you should save your money for multiple tomorrows. Don't go spending it all today.
|
|
#
?
Feb 23, 2017 17:09
|
|
|
I used to have these Simpsons tie-in books which were all guide-books from the point of view of characters in the show, so, for example, you would have Mr Burns's Guide to Money, Krusty's Guide to Comedy, Ned Flanders' Book of Faith and so on. The Comic Book Guy One (Comic Book Guy's Guide to Pop Culture) had this section about action figures, which recommended buying five of every figure you wanted. That way, you would have one to open and play with, one to trade, one to customise, one to display, and one to "put away as an investment". 
|
|
#
?
Feb 23, 2017 17:10
|
|
|
sassassin posted:So you should save your money for multiple tomorrows. Don't go spending it all today. You'll make new money for that. Just think of how terrible it would be to die with all that potential for stuff left in some index fund. Worst case, you'll have heirs, and now you've contributed to increasing wealth inequality and the creation of a rich inheritor class!
|
|
#
?
Feb 23, 2017 17:16
|
|
|
If you don't have kids there's no valid reason to be miserly. Saving for retirement is fine and all and everyone should do that at least, but you should never turn down an opportunity to do something you want to do because of money. Just as an example, I have a friend who turned down my invitation to come to norway on a vacation with me because of how much it would cost. He makes about 5 times more than me and is only going to make more since he's in banking, but apparently a couple thousand for a vacation he seemed to really want to go on was too much. If your answer to "when else am I going to do this or go there" is "I don't know", you'll never do it, so I say do it as soon as the opportunity presents itself. Even if you're running low on money, that's what credit cards are for.
|
|
#
?
Feb 23, 2017 17:34
|
|
|
Can we all at least agree that funko pops are cancer
|
|
#
?
Feb 23, 2017 17:41
|
|
|
Digirat posted:Can we all at least agree that funko pops are cancer Every modern thing marketed as collectable is. The stuff that will be worth real money 30-40 years down the road will be the stuff that nobody now could ever imagine collecting. Mass produced plastic will never be worth much more than what it is worth now. If you look at what antiques are actually worth money, they are things that are hard/near impossible to find in good condition, which funko pops and such will never fit that description. Old doesn't necessarily mean valuable and that will always be true.
|
|
#
?
Feb 23, 2017 17:45
|
|
|
When i was 7 i legit thought that buying the first issue of the rugrats comic was going to set me up for life
|
|
#
?
Feb 23, 2017 17:51
|
|
|
I still have a copy of Youngblood #0 somewhere. I bought it for like $2 when I was a child in the 90s and today it's worth $2.50.
|
|
#
?
Feb 23, 2017 17:55
|
|
|
Ramagamma posted:When i was 7 i legit thought that buying the first issue of the rugrats comic was going to set me up for life I thought the same thing about things like the free personal pan pizza coupon for pizza hut that came with TMNT 2 for the NES in the instruction manual (expired: 1992). My mom offered to take us in to pizza hut to turn it in but I said no because I thought I might be able to get more than one pizza if I waited until everyone else turned theirs in. Turns out I can't even get a personal pan pizza for it anymore. Also a big plastic crate full of all the old nintendo powers we got that will probably remain there unsold until I die.
|
|
#
?
Feb 23, 2017 17:55
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 25, 2024 03:43 |
|
|
The_Rob posted:The first 15 minutes or so were great and then it turned into a mediocre generic superhero film. So just like the first Robocop. The only difference being the reboot doesn't have the over-the-top blood (which I'm completely indifferent to), and the social commentary is updated for the 21st century. It also deals with the human an emotional costs of being robocop, something which the first movie completely glossed over. The reboot has an excellent scene where Alex Murphy is visiting his kid for the first time since being transformed, and the framing is incredible for an action movie. He stands as his kid sits in a chair, with his head, the only part of him that's human, completely out of frame. The shot lingers uncomfortably long on this scene, as the kid just takes in the fact that his loving father is no longer a person. Surprisingly touching and emotional for something in an action movie.
|
|
#
?
Feb 23, 2017 21:14
|
|