This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
Working Title: Crack Is Cheaper: From YKTTW
Samster: So to summarize this entire trope. Hobbies cost alot money?
Robert Bingham: Oh my lord. I could not stop laughing as I read through that. Especially since, as mentioned in the YKTTW, I've amassed quite the collection of Tabletop Games over roughly seven to eight years. Roughly 30-40 games, most of them corebooks as I buy a lot of indie games, but a good amount of it being supplements for three of the four major editions of D&D that I have (only editions I don't have are the original edition and first edition) as well as supplements for my first major game, Vampire The Masquerade. I must have burned through at least several thousand dollars during the course of building that collection, and there are gamers out there who have even bigger collections than mine. And that's not even counting the number of free games I have on my HD. Yeah. It gets addictive.
Vampire Buddha: Took this pile of natter out of the Transformers example. As a sidenote, who knew knittting was Serious Business?
- *** Oh, great. I live in Australia, which has the highest price Transformers toys in the world.
***I dunno... Israel has Deluxe class movie figures for about sixty shequels at Toys 'R' Us...
*** That's about $22 Australian; our Deluxe class movie figures are around $30 Australian, which is about 81 shequels.
*** Look at the bright side. Our figures are larger, more articulated and poseable then Warhammer 40k models (see above). Some have die-cast metal parts & electronics too! Heck, the vast majority of transformers, including the expensive Takara imports are outright CHEAP compared to Warhammer minis. Maybe Warhammer players should take on to using Transformers for their games... A single masterpiece Starscream is both cheaper, bigger, more detailed AND fully assembled (save for some stickers) then that fiften hundred dollar Tau figure...
*** Bigger? That Manta is the size of a two-year-old!
*** I recommend that W 40 K fans do not use Transformers in their games, because the world cannot contain that much awesome.
** Not to mention the sheer number of toys Hasbro puts out a year, even if you only count new molds.
** There's a reason many Transformers forum-goers call trips to Toys R' Us "plastic crack runs".
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Crazyrabbits: I'm going to take a look at rewriting some of this in the future. The examples are completely scattershot.
Dammerung: This page is awesome but it definitely requires some kind of organization. Split the examples into physical/digital hobbies? Or maybe an ascending scale of entry costs?
You should include purchasing anything in California because the sales tax is too fucking high.
Some Sort Of Troper: Cheer up. You've still got a lower sales tax than nearly all the rest of the Western world outside of America and one of the lowest overall taxes inside it.
Grev: Wonder if we could get a pic upgrade to M10 here?
Some Sort Of Troper: I think one of the most disliked sort of picture (especially by the administration) is the random pic of a characters face along with a caption that, essentially, is just telling you that they are an example. It's Fany Myopia, it's kinda dull and it's useless as anything other than Entry Pimping. Now we had that but with a box of Magic The Gathering rather than random Haruhi character so I've replaced it with somethng that syncs up with the trope.
Skooma: I was at first taken a back at just how expensive all this stuff is but then I thought "what we spend on hobbies like this is equal to what others spend on alcohol at bars or going out with friends". We all need a money sink. Some people shoot their money into veins, slam it from a shot glass, fire it out of a gun or put it on the mantle.
....what kind of bars and restaurants do these "others" go to?
Umm, this page feels more like a forum, but I don't know where to begin trimming unnecessary bits.
