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Post by Batflunkie on Aug 5, 2020 16:18:23 GMT -5
Movies like Death Wish, for me, even with the contextual justification, fly against what I came to feel. To me, Bronson is as big a psycho as Jeff Goldblum and the other punks who raped his daughter. I could never understand anyone who sympathized with Alex, in A Clockwork Orange. I get the inhumane conditioning adds a layer of sympathy to him; but, since it is an artificial change, he has no redemption. To me, he is still the psychotic monster who rapes and murders. The people who idolize that film scare the @#$% out of me. Falling Down is probably right up your alley then. Without giving too much away, it dehumanizes the lead in every possible way. He got pushed a little too hard and totally went off the deep end Personally I hated the movie because of those very reasons
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 5, 2020 17:43:13 GMT -5
Movies like Death Wish, for me, even with the contextual justification, fly against what I came to feel. To me, Bronson is as big a psycho as Jeff Goldblum and the other punks who raped his daughter. I could never understand anyone who sympathized with Alex, in A Clockwork Orange. I get the inhumane conditioning adds a layer of sympathy to him; but, since it is an artificial change, he has no redemption. To me, he is still the psychotic monster who rapes and murders. The people who idolize that film scare the @#$% out of me. Falling Down is probably right up your alley then. Without giving too much away, it dehumanizes the lead in every possible way. He got pushed a little too hard and totally went off the deep end Personally I hated the movie because of those very reasons I've seen it. Not a fan. I prefer a bit of poetic justice, without bloodshed. I'll stick with Bugs Bunny. He's content to live and let live, until someone threatens him or attacks him, then he uses his brains to humiliate the aggressor until he surrenders.
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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 8, 2020 5:46:56 GMT -5
Because you demanded it There I said it.
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Post by Cei-U! on Aug 8, 2020 5:53:53 GMT -5
Because you demanded it There I said it. Cadbury could take them both.
Cei-U! I summon Richie's right hand man Friday!
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 8, 2020 7:18:17 GMT -5
Jeeves by a knockout!
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Post by impulse on Aug 8, 2020 9:51:09 GMT -5
Why is Alfred swole af?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2020 15:32:45 GMT -5
I have a friend who passed a landmark this week, he sent in his 500th submission for the year to CGC. 500 graded books January to start of August. He might make it 1000 by year's end.
He then flips all his slabbed books, because he doesn't like slabbed books....and that's how he makes the hobby pay for itself.
Smart.
There, I said it.
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Post by junkmonkey on Aug 8, 2020 16:44:01 GMT -5
I have a friend who passed a landmark this week, he sent in his 500th submission for the year to CGC. 500 graded books January to start of August. He might make it 1000 by year's end.
He then flips all his slabbed books, because he doesn't like slabbed books....and that's how he makes the hobby pay for itself.
Smart.
There, I said it.
Thank you. Now, could you translate that into the sort of English a non-obsessed comic collector would understand? because I didn't understand a word of that.
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 8, 2020 19:05:15 GMT -5
I have a friend who passed a landmark this week, he sent in his 500th submission for the year to CGC. 500 graded books January to start of August. He might make it 1000 by year's end.
He then flips all his slabbed books, because he doesn't like slabbed books....and that's how he makes the hobby pay for itself.
Smart.
There, I said it.
Thank you. Now, could you translate that into the sort of English a non-obsessed comic collector would understand? because I didn't understand a word of that. He has paid someone 500 times (or for 500 items) to arbitrarily grade his comics on a highly subjective scale, then encase them in plastic, so they are unreadable and sells them to suckers who want to own a piece of a reading medium, but not actually read it or appreciate the art. Or is that too sarcastic? Hey, if he's making money at it and fleecing the suckers, more power to him. Personally, I find the whole concept of sealing books, permanently, in plastic to be beyond ridiculous.
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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 8, 2020 19:36:47 GMT -5
Thank you. Now, could you translate that into the sort of English a non-obsessed comic collector would understand? because I didn't understand a word of that. He has paid someone 500 times (or for 500 items) to arbitrarily grade his comics on a highly subjective scale, then encase them in plastic, so they are unreadable and sells them to suckers who want to own a piece of a reading medium, but not actually read it or appreciate the art. Or is that too sarcastic? Hey, if he's making money at it and fleecing the suckers, more power to him. Personally, I find the whole concept of sealing books, permanently, in plastic to be beyond ridiculous. There's a market for it and it seems to make buyers more confidant in their purchases. Not my cup of tea, but it is part of todays comic collecting.
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Post by beccabear67 on Aug 8, 2020 20:17:39 GMT -5
Edward never came across anything permanently sealed that stood the test of time, nor of his fingers.
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 8, 2020 20:57:20 GMT -5
He has paid someone 500 times (or for 500 items) to arbitrarily grade his comics on a highly subjective scale, then encase them in plastic, so they are unreadable and sells them to suckers who want to own a piece of a reading medium, but not actually read it or appreciate the art. Or is that too sarcastic? Hey, if he's making money at it and fleecing the suckers, more power to him. Personally, I find the whole concept of sealing books, permanently, in plastic to be beyond ridiculous. There's a market for it and it seems to make buyers more confidant in their purchases. Not my cup of tea, but it is part of todays comic collecting. I have some tulip bulb futures that are guaranteed to double in value they can invest in...
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Post by kirby101 on Aug 8, 2020 21:39:15 GMT -5
There's a market for it and it seems to make buyers more confidant in their purchases. Not my cup of tea, but it is part of todays comic collecting. I have some tulip bulb futures that are guaranteed to double in value they can invest in... The prices may fluctuate, but rare comics are not a bubble. They aren't making any more mint Amazing Fantasy 15s.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2020 22:50:23 GMT -5
I have some tulip bulb futures that are guaranteed to double in value they can invest in... The prices may fluctuate, but rare comics are not a bubble. They aren't making any more mint Amazing Fantasy 15s. With collectibles, it is not supply that determines value, it is demand. If everyone who wants a mint AF 15 dies off and no one wants one, it doesn't matter how many there are. That is much more likely to happen than the demand for gold or agricultural futures to go away. Not likely, but more likely than the others. Rare comics are a bubble in that long term demand for them cannot be assured. It's not likely to go away, but if say Marvel or DC folds, and no new material and no new fans of the characters are created for a significant amount of time, demand will disappear and those books will have no inherent value. Again, not likely, but their value is tied to demand, not supply. -M
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2020 23:14:21 GMT -5
Personally, I find the whole concept of sealing books, permanently, in plastic to be beyond ridiculous.
Which is why they are not permanently sealed. The case can be opened. The only thing that gets voided is the CGC grade, which is irrelevant to anyone who couldn't care less about it anyway.
But it's really a dead horse debate. Those who don't care for the niche are free to stick to their own. I can walk both worlds.
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