Yes, I am thinking it was from a video game or maybe TV show from the late 90s to mid 2000s but I’ll be damned if I can remember what.
StarViper. They both expand/fold similar too.
YES! Holy shit, thank you for removing that mental itch, that is precisely what I was thinking of. Pretty sure I had the Micro Machines version of that thing.
The soundtrack and voice over from the best E3 trailer fit so well for Star Citizen! It’s awesome and so true.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrFEVmYs2r8
(Ignore the wrong title at the end. It’s actually a community event from the SC Leaks channel. Just imagine Star Citizen is the title that comes up).
That was awesome. :D
That interview was interesting. When $100K is disposable income and you have a whole lot more of it than free time, you end up with copies of a ship in multiple stations. That way it’s easier to get to your stuff without wasting time.
It’s obviously spending at a level most of us can’t understand. But it’s not like the guy is part of a cult.
not sure if serious
Sure I am. Did you listen to him? It’s hobby money. He could be spending 100K in Vegas and not think too much of it.
To be clear, I don’t think it’s a productive use of one’s money. And I certainly am not considering doing the same. I simply found the interview and glimpse into the mindset of a whale interesting.
No. I’d also rather not hear from MLM folks about how great those schemes are going for them.
Sure, I’d say that an unhealthy addiction is a behavior almost as unhealthy as being in a cult.
Yep. And at least when you’re buying a cup of coffee, or going on a vacation, or buying a game you probably don’t need, at least you’re kicking money into a recognizable economic system/circle.
When you’re plunking down $100k for this grift, you’re enabling more grift.
It keeps 400-ish(?) people employed!
Totally understandable and I’m with you on that. It’s frankly insane and obscene the amount of money that gets wasted without thought at those levels of income.
It’s not something I aspire to. Though not having to spread the cost of the new monitor I just had to buy over 5 months would be great.
I do think it’s interesting to hear the reasoning, or lack thereof, behind the spending. It’s a “today I learned” type of thing.
In that case, I don’t really have anything to say about your hot take.
I received a $45,000 settlement from being hit by a car. It was actually $100,000 but the lawyers took their cut.
Anyway, the first thing I did was order a $6000 computer. 486 DX 50. 340mb SCSI drive. Etc. State of the art in I think 1993?
Also a Thrustmaster joystick and the newest Soundblaster card. And of course speakers. Then the add-on for the sound card.
Anyway, that was not a small amount at the time. But I wanted to get a decent system. As much as I loved my Commodore 128. :)
I can understand buying a solid object that would make me happy.
But who am I to say that anyone with that much cash is wrong? Follow your heart wealthy guy. Follow your heart.
And if you read this?
Call me. Please?
Oh, to be clear I do not typically begrudge people spending their hard-earned cash on things that make them happy. We all should do that if we’re lucky enough to have disposable income. I think it genuinely makes you feel happier as a human being to do so. Lord knows I do that too when I’m able!
I guess I get my haunches up over something like this because it feels (to me at least) very much like an ongoing scam. Maybe it isn’t. But it definitely gives off that whiff to me. And it seems to me, in my opinion, like it is the whales in the community who prop all this up and allow it to continue so that it can pull money from other whales, and hook potentially unsuspecting new consumers who may not know the whole development history here.
All of which is fine for what it is, I suppose. I remain somewhat of a fan of capitalism. And here, caveat emptor and all that. With that said, and this is just a personal opinion to be taken for what it is worth (which is “nothing”) – I am not too much a fan of amplifying whale-ish behavior regarding this enterprise.
I definitely don’t care about an ultra-rich person wasting six digits because I dislike the concentration of wealth more than this predatory model.
However I think that the majority of funding is not from people who consider it throw away money. They sell a dream where spending money will convey status in game to a lot of people desperate for status. The amount of people talking about buying these large fleets of ships for their someday ‘org’ to fly is depressing to me. I think that the marketing continues to go further into this dream of being important and special.
They sold the 890 jump with a tagline of “It’s not a ship. It’s a lifestyle” for $600-950
The game is nothing like that trailer. Even if they actually completed the next few years of work on schedule the game is not going to be anything like that trailer. But they aren’t selling the game.
Lantz probably articulated what I was trying to say better than I did. :) Go with his response.
Their “excuse” is that it’s “in-game fiction.”
Ha! Is there a registration site somewhere?
Back in my late 20ies, I was made redundant from a job and given near 1 year salary. It would have been similar to your settlement. I paid off some credit cards, got myself a really nice computer too. I think it was a Pentium III maybe; it probably ran at 10 times those 50Mhz by then. Such wild speeds! And the rest of the money proceeded to “vanish” over the next few months. I also got a few flying lessons out of it I guess. I never saw that kind of money again in one go. My 20 something self was pretty financially irresponsible. :(
That’s fair. And I don’t plan to make it a regular feature. I’m mostly about posting my own game experience or interesting bits of news I come across.
I had no idea. We must talk about that when we next board game.