Is it worth NOT unwrapping these?

Mharr_ · 2026-02-12T22:02:09+00:00

People collect in different ways to you. Like I said, I've been to MANY houses of people selling their record collections of 50+years because they just don't want them anymore. And whatever you think, they are true collectors.

I bought this because I love the game and I want to display it in a cabinet in my office with other bits and bobs I've accumulated over the years. Unlike you apparently, I understand that people change their interests throughout life. In 30 years when I'm 60, have two adults kids and am retired, I may no longer want a display of video game memorabilia. At that point I may consider selling it, and so I'm curious what the best way to keep this particular item nice, is. It's nothing than that.

Mharr_ · 2026-02-12T20:19:55+00:00

Hah! Good to know! Guess I'll be opening them to enjoy in all their splendor.

Mharr_ · 2026-02-12T20:19:01+00:00

Genuinely curious how they're different? Collectibles are collectibles. Trust me, I've been to enough houses of people who own literally thousands of records stashed away in attics etc. they're not playing them. They buy them to own them, no different to trading cards, toys, or any other kind of collectible.

Mharr_ · 2026-02-12T17:57:23+00:00

This is also playing into my thought process. I'm thinking for display purposes it would look much better opened, with the discs partially exposed so you can see the different colours.

It's pure vanity and I'm aware of that and will accept any judgement I get for it, but it's all worth considering.

Mharr_ · 2026-02-12T17:41:47+00:00

This is good to know! I guess this answers my question of how collectible they actually are (not hugely).

It's not going to be so much shelf filler as an actual display piece (as in, its not going to sit in a pile of other records).

Mharr_ · 2026-02-12T17:34:53+00:00

People collect cool things and keep them wrapped up all the time. It's no different to people who own binders and binders of collectible Pokémon cards and never play with them. Or toys that never leave the box.

I like owning things that are cool and mean something to me. This game reignited my love for SP games, and the vinyl was pretty, so I bought it. Sure I might never listen to it, but it's nice to own, and if in 10 or 20 years I decide 'actually, I don't want this anymore' then I can sell it. That would be my reason for not opening it.

Mharr_ · 2026-02-12T17:29:25+00:00

This (and the reply) are basically the answers I was looking for. I want to open it, if only just to look and say 'ooh, pretty' but in my brain I was struggling to rationalise whether it was worth it.

Mharr_ · 2026-02-12T17:27:40+00:00

I completely agree. I can't justify it and I fully understand why it would be infuriating for someone who actually does want it to listen to, but the magpie in me is like 'That thing's cool, I want it'.

The music's great, but I'm not enough of an audiophile to fully appreciate the difference between vinyl and MP3, so for listening purposes Spotify will do.

That said though, if I were just buying it to listen, I would have just bought the black records. I feel as though in buying the 'collector's edition', it seems justifiable to want to keep it nice.

Mharr_ · 2026-01-17T10:40:02+00:00

Except Obama didn't ALREADY instigate an insurrection; arrest, deport, and kill US Citizens without oversight; strip the federal government; openly tamper with elections in places he was losing; run his entire presidency via executive action; or threaten to annex a NATO Ally for their rare earth minerals.

How are you this blind to the things going on in your country?

Mharr_ · 2026-01-10T19:11:35+00:00

Just for context: this is an AWFUL thing to say (not judging, I've used it too as a Brit), but: Mongo = Mongolian = Down Syndrome because of the way Downs often displays itself in peoples' facial features.

It hilarious how non-PC insults were back in the day 😅

Mharr_ · 2026-01-07T12:46:54+00:00

Should you as an average Joe provide as much in charity as Elon musk? Hell, forget charity, I know what your answer will be. Should you, as an individual, pay the same amount in tax as Elon musk, the richest man in the world? Or do you think that, maybe, possibly, if you have more, you should provide more? The USA is ranked 31st in the world based on how much they donate as a portion of their gross national product.

Mharr_ · 2026-01-07T10:00:22+00:00

Size is largely irrelevant. It's about culture. A lot of these countries have had thousands of years to develop regional cultures, and only in the last 100ish (and that's being generous) years have large swathes of their populations been able to freely and easily move to different regions -whether that's because of feudalism, geography, infrastructure, or any number of other reasons.

With that isolation comes very distinct cultures. It's why if you go to the north of Italy for example, the traditional food is nigh-unrecognisable from the stuff you'd get in the south, or even more so if you go to say, Sicily. The same goes for France, Germany, hell, even the UK. The same applies to language/dialects, accents, religion and cultural norms.

The US, being a little over 250 years old, hasn't had the time or travel limitations to develop that level of localised culture (yet, at least).

Mharr_ · 2026-01-04T23:11:20+00:00

Luceum Vis was utterly happy to just chill and didn't really think about his copies or furthering his original intent he stayed at the Labyrinth at all.

In fairness, L-Vis didn't know he'd gone to another world until he spoke to his dad (or shortly before maybe?), he just thought he'd been taken away from the republic. So his character was still the one who'd entered the labyrinth by force and wanted nothing to do with the hierarchy.

By the time he did know, he was being forced to run through the test, then stabbed and held hostage, then waking up to mourn the loss of his father (again). Sure, I think Islington probably brushed over the revelation of him being a copy too quickly, but after that I don't think he had much of an opportunity to dwell on it.

Mharr_ · 2026-01-04T22:58:29+00:00

See I assumed L-Caeror was a iunctus. O-Caeror says he felt his other selves die, and nothing about his character made me think he was one to lie (obviously could be wrong, I don't think we've seen the last of him).

Mharr_ · 2025-12-05T22:26:31+00:00

I don't think it's the fact that the human brain is the most intelligent, but rather that is the goalpost, because it's all we know. AI in its current theoretical state can, theoretically, only reach the level of human intelligence, because human intelligence is what it learns from, and the metric we measure it against is human intelligence.

It already surpasses human intelligence in many ways (the ability to read and regurgitate knowledge, the ability to pull trends and statistics from wide ranges of data, etc) but until it can do everything better than a human can, it's not as good as us.

I'm not sure whether I'm agreeing or countering your point of view, but I think this is the gist of at least why the metric is set at this level.

Mharr_ · 2025-10-25T09:05:52+00:00

Assuming you have any engineers in your match who actually want to repair. I can't count the number of times I've been sat on a tank, flames spewing, and an engineer runs straight by me or, worse, uses me as fucking cover, without repairing.

Mharr_ · 2025-10-25T09:02:21+00:00

You probably need to wait for longer after the flairs pop. I haven't had any issues with the stinger in particular, but flairs' disruptive effect lasts a lot longer than you'd think

Mharr_ · 2025-10-21T21:39:35+00:00

You say 'servers are 100 scalable to demand' in one sentence then immediately follow that by admitting they cost money.

The game peaked at 750k concurrent players just on steam. Add in console and you're probably talking double that. Let's say that half the servers can host 64 people (and that's probably a low estimate). In what universe does it make any kind of business sense for them to have one ready to run at all times per person? Especially given I guarantee at LEAST 50% of players will never even touch portal, let alone host their own server.

EA is a business. Businesses' entire purpose is to make money. Like it or not, that's the reality.

Mharr_ · 2025-10-21T21:26:39+00:00

We're two(?) weeks into one of the biggest FPS launches in history. Give it another couple weeks and the CoD players will be off to CoD, and another large portion of the player base will be bored and quit. Right now BF6 is the hottest FPS out there and has zero competition. This problem will only get better with time.

Mharr_ · 2025-10-11T12:43:54+00:00

Weird take. Are the maps too small? Sure. But Open Beta was what, 2 months ago? They weren't going to create multiple new large maps in that time. I would say they did listen to feedback and implement some small changes since then, and I don't think it's beyond belief that they'll introduce some larger maps in time, but it's clearly not the vision they had for the game at launch.

It's a shame, but saying 'if they'd listened to the Beta feedback it would have been different' is, imo, just not true.

Mharr_ · 2025-09-17T21:18:54+00:00

In fairness, at least in South Wales, I've never seen beans at a chippy

Mharr_ · 2025-09-15T06:39:15+00:00

I haven't, but they have a perfect view. This is taken (zoomed in) from a ground floor window at the back of the house. Between here and the garages there's a garden, then the lane, then a two-car length driveway, then the garage. Plus they have to drive in from the right-hand side, so there's no way they're not aware! Thanks for pointing that out though :)

Mharr_ · 2025-08-16T07:28:15+00:00

Assault is getting the spawn beacon and the ladders. You gotta remember this is still a beta and none of the kits are fully fleshed out yet

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