If you find a collectable in mint condition in a box, chances are, that person believes that it will be worth a lot of money one day.
The problem is that a lot of other people also have the same thing in mint condition, therefore it most likely will not be worth so much even in the future.
Tan
You’re just saying that to make us all open our mint-in-box toys so yours become more valuable!
Collector Items that were sold for a shitload of money, did that because no one though of them as collectable items at the time.
Take for example, comic-books from the 80s-90s, many of them were sold on the basis that they were going to be valuable collectables one day, thus almost every comic-book nerd wasted lots of money on multiple copies.
In many of those cases, those comics are worth less than the price they were bought for.
The comics I got back in the 90s are far from mint as I read them likel they were meant to be used, but even if they were in mint quality, I doubt I could get more than $50 for the entire collection.
Ancestral Hamster
Yes, that’s right. And such things are produced in such quantities nowadays and so many people are squirreling them away thinking they will fund their child’s college education with the profit, that they will be worth little more than their original retail price in 15-20 years.
If I buy action figures, I open the package and pose them on the monitor or dresser, so those of you who still have that same figure minit-in-box have just gained a paper profit of one millionth of a cent (US$).
Fluffy776
I use to never open any toys (short of Lego) because “it might be
worth something some day”. At some point(still quite young, but I don’t remember when) I realized that I was spending money at the hope it would give me a decent ROI. And that a Gundam or Hot-Wheel was way cooler posing on a desk than it was stuck in a box buried in a closet.
ironballs16
To use an example from Calvin & Hobbes regarding comic-book collecting:
“We’re all banking on the other guy’s mom throwing his stuff out”
I think you mean Fiona not Finn 😛
(Google if you haven’t seen the episode).
But she does have a very Adventure Time look to her.
She might be my favorite character now.
Nope I mean Finn from the episode where Susan Strong comes back to take him and Jake underground to fight the glub glubs. There’s a part where she almost drowns him and he takes off his hat. =)
Ruder to let them go there if you believe in it and not care enough to do a thing about it.
begbert2
Highly debatable, once you know that they’re aware of the options and would prefer to go to hell than do whatever you’re offering. It’s rude to disregard other people’s choices too.
Vincent
So I should start informing my local branch of Jehova’s Witness that I think they’re going to hell next time they visit? Got it.
OMG, Dotty is a Ditto in disguise, no wonder she doesn’t believe in God, she knows that Arceus is the creator of the universe and you can catch him if you have a Master Ball.
Yeah me too, then people would realize Micheal Vick was only trying to play pokemon in real life!
I know I’d be mad enough to kill my suicune if it could kill some guys bongo ass houndoom!
Spazman
Personally I view Mew as the deity of Pokemon, since all Pokem came from Mew. And Arceus is most certainly a Pokemon.
buuuuuut I’ve obviously given this way too much thought.
and way too much bitter fan nerdiness over people claiming Arceus was the first Pokemon.
Rex Hondo
And that’s how everybody helped Rex feel like less or a nerd… 😉
artemi
…Mew has the cells of all pokemon. That just means that Mew is some protoform that all other pokemon are decended from. Which means all pokemon have common enough DNA backgrounds that it is possible that Mew has all of their DNA, including, in theory, Dexoys, which isn’t even from this planet. Mew is likely the embodyment of the equivilent of Pokemon Stem Cells, able to become any other pokemon.
That doesn’t mean that something didn’t create Mew, however. That something, is Arceus.
Jabberwocky
Once again, Arceus is just responsible for the Sinnoh region. Mew is a much more likely candidate for a Pokemon “deity.”
AlmightyAtheismo
I always considered Pokemon to be a multiple deity reality. No one almighty deity, just lots of small deities all doing their own thing, spattered amongst a few larger deities.
Besides, everyone knows that Celebi created the universe by accident during a hilarious time travel mishap involving two teenagers trying to pass a history exam.
Tucker
-insert obvious air guitar solo for Bill S. Preston and Theodore Logan-
Okay, if Pokemon is multi deity, then. Mew is the equivilent of Zeus.
@artemi: I heartly endorse your Mew as Arceus’s stem-cells pokemon theory.
Fluffy776
Wait, wouldn’t Ditto be more akin to a Stem-cell Pokemon
than Mew? That does make a lot of sense though, but it also
makes Mewtwo an argument about stem-cell tampering.
So rather than people using the argument of “playing God” with
stem-cell research I will picture said people arguing that they
are playing Team Rocket with such research. And political debates
got more fun again! (Something I was afraid was gone with the loss
of Cain). And, in other news, my brain is a strange place.
Y’know, having created an entire land is probably good enough to qualify as a god at least. Real world mythological deities have earned their chops for a good bit less.
begbert2
Real world gods have gotten their chops for incredibly minor things, at times -and that’s not even counting the ones that were simply born into the position. If we go by that criteria, both you and I qualify too.
Once upon a time, back when IT’S WALKY! was still running, I halfway expected Willis to follow up Monkey Master with the rest of his robot gestalt team: Snakedown, ShredEnd, Nagstrip and WildRhino.
132 thoughts on “Piercing”
Darth Shadow
Because it’s a rare collector’s edition. DUH.
Plasma Mongoose
You beat me to it.
Dean
But it’s no longer mint in box!
Plasma Mongoose
If you find a collectable in mint condition in a box, chances are, that person believes that it will be worth a lot of money one day.
The problem is that a lot of other people also have the same thing in mint condition, therefore it most likely will not be worth so much even in the future.
Tan
You’re just saying that to make us all open our mint-in-box toys so yours become more valuable!
I’m onto you!
Plasma Mongoose
Collector Items that were sold for a shitload of money, did that because no one though of them as collectable items at the time.
Take for example, comic-books from the 80s-90s, many of them were sold on the basis that they were going to be valuable collectables one day, thus almost every comic-book nerd wasted lots of money on multiple copies.
In many of those cases, those comics are worth less than the price they were bought for.
The comics I got back in the 90s are far from mint as I read them likel they were meant to be used, but even if they were in mint quality, I doubt I could get more than $50 for the entire collection.
Ancestral Hamster
Yes, that’s right. And such things are produced in such quantities nowadays and so many people are squirreling them away thinking they will fund their child’s college education with the profit, that they will be worth little more than their original retail price in 15-20 years.
If I buy action figures, I open the package and pose them on the monitor or dresser, so those of you who still have that same figure minit-in-box have just gained a paper profit of one millionth of a cent (US$).
Fluffy776
I use to never open any toys (short of Lego) because “it might be
worth something some day”. At some point(still quite young, but I don’t remember when) I realized that I was spending money at the hope it would give me a decent ROI. And that a Gundam or Hot-Wheel was way cooler posing on a desk than it was stuck in a box buried in a closet.
ironballs16
To use an example from Calvin & Hobbes regarding comic-book collecting:
“We’re all banking on the other guy’s mom throwing his stuff out”
BrokenEye, True False Prophet
I’m sure Walky knows better than to throw a rare collector’s edition toy at someone’s head. It might get hurt.
Den
‘Course he’s invisible, he can do anything 8D
I really wanted to say that :3
Wonder Wig
Without her glasses Dorothy kinda looks like Finn from Adventure Time without his bear hat.
addude
I could see that.
Joraiem
I’m sorry, but the only way I could imagine Finn without his hat is with the CRAZY FREAKING HAIR.
Blob Marley
You rang?
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FVyqhEe1kRY/Tnlw8ny37DI/AAAAAAAAAQE/T9LRLlXYpxI/s1600/AdventureTime_FinnsHair.png
Fluffy776
I think you mean Fiona not Finn 😛
(Google if you haven’t seen the episode).
But she does have a very Adventure Time look to her.
She might be my favorite character now.
Wonder Wig
Nope I mean Finn from the episode where Susan Strong comes back to take him and Jake underground to fight the glub glubs. There’s a part where she almost drowns him and he takes off his hat. =)
Corlanthis
D’AWWWWWWWW! :D!
Tristan J
So much for religious discourse!
Plasma Mongoose
or even intercourse…
Fauxlosopher
Please. Joyce doesn’t want to know ANYONE in a biblical sense right now.
Tristan J
Well, she does, but she represses it. Or suppresses it? I never remember which is which.
Plasma Mongoose
IIRC repress means you try to forget something while suppress means you try to hide something from others.
ryan
so, both then?
Arkadi
She wants to know Sierra. Badly.
Bunk
Looks like Dorothy’s got some S’plaining to do.
Mkvenner
And here we see the deficiencies of Joyce’s homeschooling.
Joraiem
Man, that is a good question, come on. If we didn’t know already, wouldn’t you want Dorothy to tell her?
mechaqua
It would probably be more well known if actually had managed to beat Ratatouille
mechaqua
i got confused by the avatar this post was suppose to
be in response to Mr. Vs response post to Garth about 2 posts down
Eve
Like implying to people they’re going to hell may be rude?
Jarnor
Ruder to let them go there if you believe in it and not care enough to do a thing about it.
begbert2
Highly debatable, once you know that they’re aware of the options and would prefer to go to hell than do whatever you’re offering. It’s rude to disregard other people’s choices too.
Vincent
So I should start informing my local branch of Jehova’s Witness that I think they’re going to hell next time they visit? Got it.
fhqwhgads
DOOO EEEEEEEET
Romanticide
Because it’s great toy.
And if somebody had threw me a toy into my head, I would definitely not return it.
Reboot
Does “going back to pick it up hours later” count as “keeping”?
Rognik
If it’s in her room, and it’s the same toy, it counts. It’s not like she threw it away.
Garth
Persepo? Does she speak spanish? is she a spanish atheist…
Mr. V
That is a poster for Persepolis, a great french animated movie based on an even better graphic novel.
Spazman
As in Joe’s “Debbie Does Persepolis”?
Henry
The Joyce can see into your MIND! THE JOYCE CAN SEE INTO YOUR SOUL!
Really? The Joyce can do all that?
Heh, no!
Blob Marley
BANANABANANABANANA
John
Dorothy looks really funny without her glasses.
carl320
I like the Persepolis movie poster in the background 🙂
Michelle J Caboose
Or is it “Debbie Does Persepolis?”
Kamino Neko
Dotty’s got a cru-ush, Dotty’s got a cru-ush!
Michelle J Caboose
And that’s why she keeps the toy Walky threw at her head.
To hide the fact that she has a crush… On Joyce.
Nexev
The piercing of these questions is not nearly as severe as the piercing Joe gave both of them.
With his penis.
Khrene Cleaver
For a nickel.
L
Woo!
Plasma Mongoose
OMG, Dotty is a Ditto in disguise, no wonder she doesn’t believe in God, she knows that Arceus is the creator of the universe and you can catch him if you have a Master Ball.
Jabberwocky
Actually, technically speaking Arceus is only fabled to have created the Sinnoh region.
Plasma Mongoose
That includes Indiana right?
Valdrax
Absolutely. You do NOT want to go walking in the tall grass in Indiana without an enslaved battle beast in your pocketed balls.
Izzy
I wIsh they were called that instead of pokemon
Khrene Cleaver
Yeah me too, then people would realize Micheal Vick was only trying to play pokemon in real life!
I know I’d be mad enough to kill my suicune if it could kill some guys bongo ass houndoom!
Spazman
Personally I view Mew as the deity of Pokemon, since all Pokem came from Mew. And Arceus is most certainly a Pokemon.
buuuuuut I’ve obviously given this way too much thought.
and way too much bitter fan nerdiness over people claiming Arceus was the first Pokemon.
Rex Hondo
And that’s how everybody helped Rex feel like less or a nerd… 😉
artemi
…Mew has the cells of all pokemon. That just means that Mew is some protoform that all other pokemon are decended from. Which means all pokemon have common enough DNA backgrounds that it is possible that Mew has all of their DNA, including, in theory, Dexoys, which isn’t even from this planet. Mew is likely the embodyment of the equivilent of Pokemon Stem Cells, able to become any other pokemon.
That doesn’t mean that something didn’t create Mew, however. That something, is Arceus.
Jabberwocky
Once again, Arceus is just responsible for the Sinnoh region. Mew is a much more likely candidate for a Pokemon “deity.”
AlmightyAtheismo
I always considered Pokemon to be a multiple deity reality. No one almighty deity, just lots of small deities all doing their own thing, spattered amongst a few larger deities.
Besides, everyone knows that Celebi created the universe by accident during a hilarious time travel mishap involving two teenagers trying to pass a history exam.
Tucker
-insert obvious air guitar solo for Bill S. Preston and Theodore Logan-
Okay, if Pokemon is multi deity, then. Mew is the equivilent of Zeus.
Plasma Mongoose
@artemi: I heartly endorse your Mew as Arceus’s stem-cells pokemon theory.
Fluffy776
Wait, wouldn’t Ditto be more akin to a Stem-cell Pokemon
than Mew? That does make a lot of sense though, but it also
makes Mewtwo an argument about stem-cell tampering.
So rather than people using the argument of “playing God” with
stem-cell research I will picture said people arguing that they
are playing Team Rocket with such research. And political debates
got more fun again! (Something I was afraid was gone with the loss
of Cain). And, in other news, my brain is a strange place.
Plasma Mongoose
@Fluffy776: Dittos are more of the pimpdaddies of the Pokemon world as they can mate with any POkemon to make new Pokemon.
Michelle J Caboose
You’ve certainly given this a lot of thought…
Michelle J Caboose
@Tucker:
“Okay, if Pokemon is multi deity, then. Mew is the equivilent of Zeus.”
Actually, wouldn’t Mew be more like Cronus (minus the children-eating, of course)?
Valdrax
Y’know, having created an entire land is probably good enough to qualify as a god at least. Real world mythological deities have earned their chops for a good bit less.
begbert2
Real world gods have gotten their chops for incredibly minor things, at times -and that’s not even counting the ones that were simply born into the position. If we go by that criteria, both you and I qualify too.
Stephen Bierce
Once upon a time, back when IT’S WALKY! was still running, I halfway expected Willis to follow up Monkey Master with the rest of his robot gestalt team: Snakedown, ShredEnd, Nagstrip and WildRhino.
Damn you Willis.
Bekah