OMG BRILLIANT!

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Originally Posted by Psy

Still you are talking about casual collectors simply showing off their collection to other casual collectors. It is like bothering to poke fun at casual DVD collectors for not know what is really collectible.

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and still you completely miss the point. The funny part is NOT the fact that stupid collectors exist with no idea what stuff is worth, the funny part is this dudes comments he makes on each game. Seriously, are you one of those people that go to a stand up comedy act and say "hey, you stop bein mean, those people work really hard to make that airline food!" because that's exactly what you're doing. Shows like Family Guy, Futurama, South Park, Robot Chicken, etc. must go waaaay over your head if you can't see that this video is absolutely brilliant.

Here, I'll give another example: When I used to post on car forums, a guy that had just bought a 240sx came on an SR20 forum (an SR20 is a japanese spec turbo motor that can be swapped into a 240sx, as well as being available in non-turbo form in the early 90's Sentra SE-R and a couple other cars). Well, not only was the dude's grammar super ebonics-ified but he went around saying stuff like "I like back wheel drive better than cheap a$$ front wheel drive and the fast and the furious was a good movie but I always wanted to drift i ono why" and asked about all kinds of ricer modifications. Everyone immediately began to make fun of him for his ignorance and several people took quotes from his posts as sigs. The bottom line, when someone that doesn't know what the hell they are talking about comes on the internet and claims to know something, they get the slap in the face they deserve. This is no different here. These people aren't saying "here's some games I have that I like," they're saying "OMG SUPER RARE NEVER SEEN ANYWHERE, SUPER GAMEBOY IS THE RAREST THING EVER, THATS WHY YOU CAN GET THEM FOR $5 SHIPPED ON AMAZON!!!!!"

Bottom line, I don't get why everyone is having such a hard time grasping this, the people at nesforums.com all seemed to find it hysterical.

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Originally Posted by Elusive

heh yeah you got me! a girl! on the internet! oh god i really hope she saw me post!! maybe... we could talk about how much she likes sonic via pm? then we could hook up over Fusion's netplay and play through the Emerald Hill Zone ... together *blushes*

Someone who is probably new to retrogaming made a video, and someone else felt so strongly how wrong she was he put together a parody video. To be honest, I don't care who either of them are, but one presumably likes videogames and the other cares *too much* about their videogames.

So stop trying to score 'nyeer nyeer' points!

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Liking videogames and saying "I HAVE RARE GAMES NO ONE HAS EVER HAD EVAR!!!!!11!1!" are two entirely different things. Basically Its a vid with some chick saying she has a UBER RARE collection and another guy paroding many vids in the same vein. All good fun so stop acting like if the girl needs defending. Like I said, if it was a guy, some of you would be insulting the newbie.

I just don't get what's so funny. She has some nice games there. You guys are too elitist to tolerate someone showing off their games on YouTube, yes ?

*sigh* yes Chris, yes we are.

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Originally Posted by Metal_Sonic

Liking videogames and saying "I HAVE RARE GAMES NO ONE HAS EVER HAD EVAR!!!!!11!1!" are two entirely different things. Basically Its a vid with some chick saying she has a UBER RARE collection and another guy paroding many vids in the same vein. All good fun so stop acting like if the girl needs defending. Like I said, if it was a guy, some of you would be insulting the newbie.

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She doesn't say she has "uber rare games", she shows her "rare games" and in the intro she said "some can be considered rare, some can not, depending on the area you live in."

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Originally Posted by Christuserloeser

I just don't get what's so funny. She has some nice games there. You guys are too elitist to tolerate someone showing off their games on YouTube, yes ?

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Werd!

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Originally Posted by Psy

She doesn't say she has "uber rare games", she shows her "rare games" and in the intro she said "some can be considered rare, some can not, depending on the area you live in."

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Okay now its just silly. So if a game was "printed" 5,000,000 times, and you can only find three copies locally, it makes the game rare? There is no need to defend her GAWD, nor is there a need to insult her.

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Originally Posted by Metal_Sonic

Okay now its just silly. So if a game was "printed" 5,000,000 times, and you can only find three copies locally, it makes the game rare? There is no need to defend her GAWD, nor is there a need to insult her.

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First off number the of units manufactured does not directly relate to rarity (those it does greatly effect it). If 4,900,000 of the 5,000,000 units are being horded worldwide by collectors then it would be uncommon as it would be hard for someone new to the scene to find a copy. This is why the Amiga community is currently in crisis, as while about 4,850,000 Amigas were manufactured they are mostly being hoarded by collectors thus why the interest in the Amiga community for a standard Amiga clone (yet the community has a mess of different standards to replace the existing hardware) since as time goes on hardware failures is causing collectors to hoard Amiga systems more while the supply of hardware shrinks.

Also the Amiga scene has divided rarity based on region due to the most of the system are in Europe with few system in North America, we in video game systems do the same thing but it is somewhat hidden by the fact each region has a different release) So all she was doing was taking it one step further by gaging availability locally, that is not that stupid as it is true some games are more common in say New York City then in say Los Angeles.

the overall point here is that no matter how you slice it her games are not actually rare by the TRUE definition of rarity, meaning actual low production numbers or small number of remaining copies IN EXISTENCE, NOT THE MARKETPLACE. I mean, is the Wii rare because they sell out as soon as they get them in stores? Is Metal Gear Solid 4 rare because it just came out and there probably aren't very many copies printed yet? Many of these games actually show up all the time, they just sell really quick because of fanboys. I've talked to video game store owners/employees and they say they get FF VII all the time, but it just sells right away. The bottom line is that the video was entirely unnecessary and pointless. There are only the following reasons to make such a video:

#1 to show people what the games look like because they are so rare no one has ever seen them. In this case, it would make more sense to take a hi res picture than to show grainy, poorly lit youtube videos about them, and in the case with the mexican collector, pointless because all his games have torn labels and marker all over them.

#2 to tell people what games you have. Why not just type up a freakin list, or, again, take a damn picture.

#3 to prove to a d-bag that is denying your claim that you actually own them, in which case all you would do is show the games and say "see *insert asshat screenname here* I do have these games *shows middle finger"

#4 to make an "educational" video where you talk about how hard to find and awesome your collection is. This is the only possible explanation any of these users could give for making their video and the fact that their collections are neither truly rare nor is the information given accurate in any way they deserve to be corrected and ridiculed. It is now and has always been my opinion that the worst legal thing you can do to someone is give them wrong information because you were too lazy or too stubborn to find out the real answer and go around acting like an expert when you're not. My cousin's ex-wife (when they were still married) worked at Cingular and swore up and down I would kill my battery if I didn't run it all the way down before charging. Skeptical, I went online and researched it and found out I had a lithium ion battery and they don't suffer from the memory effect. In other words, she was completely fucking wrong yet acted like she was more sure than anything else ever in the world she was right. If this girl that apparently works at gamestop (I think she mentioned it, but I can't stand to watch it again to find out) would even spend 10 minutes on Wikipedia she would know that over 90% of her collection is comprised of some of the highest produced games ever made. If anything, she should have named her video "HOLY FUCKING HELL LOOK HOW MANY INCREDIBLY COMMON AND POPULAR GAMES I HAVE!!!!" because that would be a much more accurate title since pretty much all of them are way over fanboyed and eBay price hyped. The only games I saw that might truly be rare are Dance Dance Revolution Mario Mix and Chocobo Dungeon 2, and I'm not even sure about those, I'm just basing that on eBay price hype.

Oh, and for the 2.6 millionth time, the parody is funny because the guy did such a clever job describing the games, not because of the source material. If he wanted to be an asshole, he could've made a webcam video just saying "OMG YOU'RE SO DUMB, NONE OF THOSE ARE RARE U DUMBASS LOL WHAT A NOOB!!!!" Instead, he saw the video(s) and was like "this is hilarious, I can't believe these people are so clueless" and imitated them in a satirical manner. Again, do you get mad at Seth Macfarlane for making Family Guy because it makes fun of people and society? I'm done arguing about this, this video is one of the funniest video game collecting related things I've ever seen and the fact that no one is getting it is making me lose faith in the intelligence of mankind and so I am now preventing myself from any future viewings of this thread because it may make me want to kill myself so I won't have to face the dire retardation of humanity any longer.

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Originally Posted by 17daysolderthannes

I am now preventing myself from any future viewings of this thread because it may make me want to kill myself so I won't have to face the dire retardation of humanity any longer.

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I'll bet all my "SUPER RARE" games that you continue to view this thread.

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Originally Posted by 17daysolderthannes

the overall point here is that no matter how you slice it her games are not actually rare by the TRUE definition of rarity,

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The dictionary definition of rare is uncommon.

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Originally Posted by 17daysolderthannes

meaning actual low production numbers or small number of remaining copies IN EXISTENCE, NOT THE MARKETPLACE.

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Actually even collectors are not that constant with the term, for example they will class a pirate cart from Hong Kong that is very very very common in Asia to be extremely rare.

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Originally Posted by 17daysolderthannes

I mean, is the Wii rare because they sell out as soon as they get them in stores? Is Metal Gear Solid 4 rare because it just came out and there probably aren't very many copies printed yet? Many of these games actually show up all the time, they just sell really quick because of fanboys. I've talked to video game store owners/employees and they say they get FF VII all the time, but it just sells right away.

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You assume everyone uses words the same way and/or collectors have some kind of authority of defining words outside of their own communities.

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Originally Posted by 17daysolderthannes

The bottom line is that the video was entirely unnecessary and pointless. There are only the following reasons to make such a video:

#1 to show people what the games look like because they are so rare no one has ever seen them. In this case, it would make more sense to take a hi res picture than to show grainy, poorly lit youtube videos about them, and in the case with the mexican collector, pointless because all his games have torn labels and marker all over them.

#2 to tell people what games you have. Why not just type up a freakin list, or, again, take a damn picture.

#3 to prove to a d-bag that is denying your claim that you actually own them, in which case all you would do is show the games and say "see *insert asshat screenname here* I do have these games *shows middle finger"

#4 to make an "educational" video where you talk about how hard to find and awesome your collection is. This is the only possible explanation any of these users could give for making their video and the fact that their collections are neither truly rare nor is the information given accurate in any way they deserve to be corrected and ridiculed. It is now and has always been my opinion that the worst legal thing you can do to someone is give them wrong information because you were too lazy or too stubborn to find out the real answer and go around acting like an expert when you're not. My cousin's ex-wife (when they were still married) worked at Cingular and swore up and down I would kill my battery if I didn't run it all the way down before charging. Skeptical, I went online and researched it and found out I had a lithium ion battery and they don't suffer from the memory effect. In other words, she was completely fucking wrong yet acted like she was more sure than anything else ever in the world she was right. If this girl that apparently works at gamestop (I think she mentioned it, but I can't stand to watch it again to find out) would even spend 10 minutes on Wikipedia she would know that over 90% of her collection is comprised of some of the highest produced games ever made. If anything, she should have named her video "HOLY FUCKING HELL LOOK HOW MANY INCREDIBLY COMMON AND POPULAR GAMES I HAVE!!!!" because that would be a much more accurate title since pretty much all of them are way over fanboyed and eBay price hyped. The only games I saw that might truly be rare are Dance Dance Revolution Mario Mix and Chocobo Dungeon 2, and I'm not even sure about those, I'm just basing that on eBay price hype.

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Again you assume overall or Internet availability = local availability, at the beginning of her video she said she was basing it her area. So to disprove her you'd have to find out the area she lives in then prove those games are actually common for that area.

Lets say someone in America says "Vib Ribbon is so rare over here" and someone in Japan responds saying "You are wrong, Vib Ribbon is so F*ing common", well both would be right, Vib Ribbon is very rare in North America while being very common in Japan. This is why even when there is no difference to the product (that is the case for Vib Ribbon as Americans import the Japanese version) between regions collectors still divides rarity by region. That said it is not insane to go farther and gage rarity locally if you announce that you are talking locally and not regionally.

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Originally Posted by 17daysolderthannes

Oh, and for the 2.6 millionth time, the parody is funny because the guy did such a clever job describing the games, not because of the source material. If he wanted to be an asshole, he could've made a webcam video just saying "OMG YOU'RE SO DUMB, NONE OF THOSE ARE RARE U DUMBASS LOL WHAT A NOOB!!!!" Instead, he saw the video(s) and was like "this is hilarious, I can't believe these people are so clueless" and imitated them in a satirical manner. Again, do you get mad at Seth Macfarlane for making Family Guy because it makes fun of people and society? I'm done arguing about this, this video is one of the funniest video game collecting related things I've ever seen and the fact that no one is getting it is making me lose faith in the intelligence of mankind and so I am now preventing myself from any future viewings of this thread because it may make me want to kill myself so I won't have to face the dire retardation of humanity any longer.

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And what if she was technically correct, what if in her city those titles are somewhat rare?

LOL,Great videos THANK YOU!!

wow, wow, time for some serious anger management. I can sort of understand why someone would make such a video - both the girl, and the parodist. Personally, I just don't find the parody funny, just kinda "meh"... to me, both videos show something I don't quite like about the Internet: People CAN tell everyone their opinion... but everything believes that they HAVE TO! At least the girl showed her face, something the parodist apparently didn't dare to...

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Oh, and for the 2.6 millionth time, the parody is funny because the guy did such a clever job describing the games, not because of the source material.

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Could we please agree that there MIGHT be different opinions on what is funny or not? Just because you think something is funny doesn't mean that others have to agree with you, no matter why...

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Originally Posted by j_factor

Some random chick makes a dumb video and then some other random dude parodies how dumb her video was. Who the hell cares?

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Apparently some of the posters in this dreadful thread; so much for being gamerswithbrains.com, right? How does arrogantchildishjerks.org sound instead?

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Originally Posted by Psy

This is why the Amiga community is currently in crisis, as while about 4,850,000 Amigas were manufactured they are mostly being hoarded by collectors thus why the interest in the Amiga community for a standard Amiga clone

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This may be true. But I find it hard to believe that there are THAT many collectors of Amiga. I wonder how many have been destroyed and sent to the landfills.

I think she uses the term "hard to come by" and maybe she is not into eBay or online trading. I think she talks about working at a video game store so maybe her town is small enough that it IS rare or hard to come by where she is.

I live in a town of 40,000 and there is only 1 used video game store here. It has very little used stuff. Everything on her dance dance pad would be considered rare here. Without eBay I'd have very little. Even in the nearest bigger city, of 200,000, there are only 4-5 used video game stores and the older stuff is fairly hard to come by and pricey. I have found a few items at the pawn shops, but very little and again, way overpriced.

It's all relative. I couldn't even watch the parody video to see if I find it funny or not. I couldn't stand his voice. From what I did watch, it didn't seem as if it was a direct parody of hers, but more of a generic "My Games Are So RARE!" fuck you. I'll take your word for it being funny. The GF playing NEs was funny, tho.