So LGR has a Loom and a Sam and Max big box coming out. I am super tempted to get them, because both games are rather expensive to buy their OG boxes. In fact over the last couple of years collecting has gotten pretty hard, because it's way to expensive for normal people. It mildly frustrates me seeing YouTubers and "influencers" hoard this shit.
It's a problem in retro tech too. Probably why I have gotten way more into comic books lately, because the mid 90's stuff is absolutely worthless and no one else wants to collect it. At least until a YouTuber decides to do some weird ass video essay and everyone and their mother decides it's time to buy lousy Youngblood comics from the 90's. This is a rant and I don't have any particular point, but it is frustrating how so many of my hobbies have become unaffordable in the last few years.
That reminds me, some streamer/influencer dipshit, I wanna say one of those asshole brothers, Logan Paul or... The other one, they embedded a bunch of Gameboys in a stupid slab of resin to make a table. And it's like, oh cool, not only are those wasted by being hoarded, they are RUINED by being permanently embedded in that shit. An increasingly scarce item is made more scarce, in a stupid brick of plastic that's going to turn yellow and be thrown away in a few years.
I literally work with plastic professionally making displays and furniture and shit and there are so many nondestructive ways to encapsulate an item. if you wanted something solid and heavy, acrylic would do the trick beautifully, and stay clear and beautiful for /years and years/, and when it ages or breaks, you could REMOVE THEM. Bricking the devices in resin is lazy, gleeful destruction. Part of their fun is making sure no one else can ever have it even if they stop giving a shit the second the camera turns off. It frustrates me so badly.
