• Rose@slrpnk.net
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    Long while ago some antique show had someone bring in a Commodore 64 in full working order. The antique guy was like I was like “well some old nerd will pay a lot of money for this”. I was like hell yeah, thank you so much for not chucking it in ewaste, and oh yeah, argh, I’m getting older.

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    16 hours ago

    If the point is that you felt old, you should’ve felt old watching a show about antiquing and enjoying it.

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    Pfft, I heard them refer to All the small things by Blink 182 as classic rock on the radio once… that fucking ruined me.

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      a couple years ago the local alternative station said “for today’s throwback here’s Macklemore’s Thrift Shop”.

      also obligatory “When did Mötley Crüe become classic rock?”

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      Last night I listened to Avril Lavigne’s I’m With You on repeat like 20 times. I remembered it as being “of my time”, figured I was a teen when it came out

      It came out in 2002, I was 8, and Avril Lavigne is not just a little older than me, not early 30s, she’s 41.

      Fuck.

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      18 hours ago

      It’s been over a decade since I heard a DJ on SiriusXM’s Alt Nation refer to Blink-182 and Red Hot Chili Peppers as “nostalgia bands”

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        It’s a gut punch you can never be ready for. Brace yourself GenZ, it’s coming for you soon.

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    I have a binder about that size of cards of approximately that generation. I should check what it’s worth.

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      Apparently, not a lot unless they’re both very rare and you’ve also paid some 3rd party grading service to grade it for you (who are the ones making the real money of collectible cards).

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          that doesnt make sense. they grade the cards theyre not selling the unopened packs. its like saying the guys during a gold rush who determine what karat gold you found are selling shovels in a gold rush. theyre not

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            Nah, it still fits. Shovel vendors get a bit of cash from everyone in the rush, and graders get a bit from each person investing in the hobby.

            I would put gold rush purity testers in a similar bracket, though

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              it doesnt fit and the shovel vendors weren’t the richest in the gold rush