Posted by exodus on February 18, 2025 at 18:10:40 EST in reply to There is some noob on the Laserdisc forum who is trying collect every version of the “Faces” Star Wars LDs. Leaving aside the fact that these are not the best versions of those movies at all there is the idea that he’s trying to collect…this is truly the stupidest…he’s trying to get a list of everyone’s mint marks, numbers seen at the inner edge of the disc to indicate which tool was used to make them…so that he can get a copy of every one. So in other words…imagine tracking down Dracula X…not just a copy of it but a copy for every stamper they used to make it. Maybe a dozen copies of exactly the same thing, same catalog number, same cover, same release date, sold at the same store, but made from different stampers. For a disc as popular as the Faces Star Wars, which probably sold 150,000 copies in the US alone, this has to be dozens of copies, multiplied by three since it’s a trilogy. Imagine having a section of your LD shelf that was 75 discs but only three movies. Each copy is two discs though so it’s an actual foot thick. I’ve been on that forum for well over a decade and I’ve never heard anyone posit such a stupid idea. We track mint marks to keep track of defective releases. That’s it. What would your dad say about that? “Son, are you really going to watch 25 different copies of Jedi? In NTSC? Are you really going to sell them off some day? To what sort of person? What are you actually doing here, son? I don’t understand why you spent $700 shipping all this one at a time from 75 different locations. You know, your sister is going to visit Scotland this year. You always liked Doctor Who, maybe you and her could go together.” This collectard thing is 10x as bad as it was when I first realized how fucked it was getting. The worst thing is that if you question their behaviors in any way they think *you’re* crazy. In my youth I did a few things a little too stupid in the service of some kind of fandom, occasionally paying a price, but I’ve never deliberately bought 50 redundant copies of a movie I’ll never watch and more importantly I never called anyone who questioned me a hater. I knew living off the convention industry all summer wasn’t a thing I was going to be doing all my life. These dumb fuckers don’t seem to understand that at some point we die. All the stuff you hoard is just someone else’s job to get rid of later. Keeping records in shrink wrap, pickles in a jar, in massive quantities…crazy in the cocoanut. So in other words I have no difficulty believing someone paid more for an off brand link cable than what a real one goes for. Someone just paid $500 for a copy of The Matrix on Laserdisc because of it’s brilliant philosophical underpinnings. What are you going to do, tell people how to enjoy their hobbies? Don’t judge. Don’t use any judgment at all. Turn the brain god gave you, which took millions of years to evolved, right the fuck off. Just tell everyone they are awesome all day no matter what they do. There’s no way our culture can be damage by totally ignoring all negative feedback. I think I’ll get married in Vegas tonight. My Tesla will drive me there. YOU CANNOT HAVE REGRETS! from SignOfZeta.
purely discussing the star wars laserdisc bit, that is nuts. nobody needs that! I reckon they're hoping to corner/invent some sort of collectors market, and I hope it doesn't work.
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