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Snakes In The Ball Pit => Yay, I get to talk about me! => Topic started by: Cat Planet on February 08, 2015, 12:37:27 pm
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Since we are all nerds here... does anyone collect stuff? My first girlfriend had a nice Soviet coin collection, and I've recently started amassing cats:
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I collect metal shirts!
I have 60 or so!
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Last year at a Watain show, some sperg approached me over my Dissection - Reinkaos tshirt and launced into a monologue how Jon Nodveidt's later beliefs were his and his band's undoing, and how wrong I am for supporting his "destructive cosmology". He was probably on coke or something. That's my metal shirt story for today.
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Last year at a Watain show, some sperg approached me over my Dissection - Reinkaos tshirt and launced into a monologue how Jon Nodveidt's later beliefs were his and his band's undoing, and how wrong I am for supporting his "destructive cosmology". He was probably on coke or something. That's my metal shirt story for today.
Cat Planet, February 08, 2015, 08:39:24 pm
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLY SHIT. hahahahahahahahahahahahaahh
you totally should have gone on a rant about how Cold Lake was Celtic Frost's only relevant album
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(http://i.imgur.com/TRRP5ax.jpg)(http://i.imgur.com/SFYhMh9.jpg)
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I'm a monster
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Awesome necro menagerie, perfectly reasonable explanation for your forum nickname.
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I have a couple of small and ridiculous collections tucked away here and there. I have a cool rocks/crystals collection from my new age days, a coin collection that's largely someone else's collection I found in a pile of stuff being given away, some assorted little dolls and figures (I have a terrible weakness for tiny dollhouse things and this is the closest I will allow myself to get to this) and a little jar somewhere with some cool dead bugs in it. Other than that it's mostly art supplies and books/comics.
I guess I also collect weird freeware PC games because I've had friends remark about be knowing about a lot of those.
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Full set of these (http://www.havanafolks.com/snoopy/mcd/hm3.htm)bad boys×aww yeah (http://www.havanafolks.com/snoopy/mcd/hm2.htm[/url)
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I have a collection of coins, mostly a direct result of my grandparents on both sides just kind of putting all their assorted change from abroad in tins or boxes in case they visit those places again, and then never doing anything with them. As well as a bunch of misplaced old local change they always had stashed away as well.
Honestly, it's more a testament to what countries my grandparents visited more than anything.
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I have a bunch of pterosaur figures/toys in boxes somewhere in this apartment. At least, I hope they survived anyway. Some time I want to dig them out and put them all on a shelf so they can have a little pterosaur party.
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I've mentioned this before, but I collect records (mostly metal) and outdated engineering, physics and chemistry handbooks. I've got about 40 assorted handbooks. I've been trying to get a hold of the full CRC collection (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRC_Handbook_of_Chemistry_and_Physics). Currently there'r 95 editions out there. But in order to complete that dream I'll need a far larger room. I don't own a camera otherwise I would take a picture of my collection.
Jacked from wiki. They are 8ish pound tomes that feature just about everything to do with chemistry and physics at the time of publishing.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/64thCRC.png/220px-64thCRC.png)
A gross spider has the best corpse collection you can legally have without a permit. Did you collect the specimens yourself? If so which is your proudest find?
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please tell me you've hidden a flask in one of them
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please tell me you've hidden a flask in one of them
chai tea latte, February 09, 2015, 04:08:59 am
I don't own a flask but I do keep a bottle of rum and some tumblers nested behind my CRC books.
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I used to have a bunch of video games but I sold 80% of them. At my max I had something like 220 NES games, a lot of them boxed, some of them pretty damn rare (Duck Tales 2 and Tengen Tetris were the gems of the collection.) I had a whole shit ton of other stuff too, but I don't know if I have any good pictures of them.
I have a small collection of vinyl records going now, but I'm being a lot more judicious in my purchases than I was with games.
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You know those little plastic rings around soda bottles and water bottles? I've been collecting them in a wastebin for several years and I've got it a good 4/5ths filled up by now.
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I collect bookmarks.
I hoard bookmarks.
Ever since I started favoriting things on IE several years ago, mostly youtube and dumb things, I realized the potential of it all - but I failed to foresee the inevitable mess. I've accumulated bookmarks on IE, Firefox and now Chrome which is my primary browser. Barely any of it is organized, so I usually just look at what was most recently bookmarked. I sometimes edit the titles of bookmarks after I show them to friends in case I want to keep them but don't want to accidentally send them again in the future.
Here's what I look at every day: http://i.imgur.com/npWjntL.png (http://i.imgur.com/npWjntL.png)
So, in order to ascertain the exact number of my current bookmarks I had to export them to an HTML file and CTRL + F a bit of a tag. This is what I found: http://imgur.com/QeMdOgh (http://imgur.com/QeMdOgh)
If you can't read what it says up there, that's 6,976. I mean, I guess that's not terrible, but this can't be healthy either way.
Edit: I'm disappointed that I didn't get 6969
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I have a very small collection of Orthodox Icons, but I can't get more because they're real expensive. I'm planning for my next acquisition to be a commissioned St. Patrick and then a St. Augustine, but I don't have a spare $800 lying around :/
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I collect bookmarks.
I hoard bookmarks.
Ever since I started favoriting things on IE several years ago, mostly youtube and dumb things, I realized the potential of it all - but I failed to foresee the inevitable mess. I've accumulated bookmarks on IE, Firefox and now Chrome which is my primary browser. Barely any of it is organized, so I usually just look at what was most recently bookmarked. I sometimes edit the titles of bookmarks after I show them to friends in case I want to keep them but don't want to accidentally send them again in the future.
Here's what I look at every day: http://i.imgur.com/npWjntL.png (http://i.imgur.com/npWjntL.png)
So, in order to ascertain the exact number of my current bookmarks I had to export them to an HTML file and CTRL + F a bit of a tag. This is what I found: http://imgur.com/QeMdOgh (http://imgur.com/QeMdOgh)
If you can't read what it says up there, that's 6,976. I mean, I guess that's not terrible, but this can't be healthy either way.
Edit: I'm disappointed that I didn't get 6969
Sovereign, March 05, 2015, 09:15:13 am
As someone with a lot of bookmarks themselves, I have no idea if I have that many, but I gotta say, your organization is bullshit. Here's the REAL way to organize your bookmarks (http://s13.postimg.org/r98ge6us7/bookmarks.png)
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I collect bookmarks.
I hoard bookmarks.
Ever since I started favoriting things on IE several years ago, mostly youtube and dumb things, I realized the potential of it all - but I failed to foresee the inevitable mess. I've accumulated bookmarks on IE, Firefox and now Chrome which is my primary browser. Barely any of it is organized, so I usually just look at what was most recently bookmarked. I sometimes edit the titles of bookmarks after I show them to friends in case I want to keep them but don't want to accidentally send them again in the future.
Here's what I look at every day: http://i.imgur.com/npWjntL.png (http://i.imgur.com/npWjntL.png)
So, in order to ascertain the exact number of my current bookmarks I had to export them to an HTML file and CTRL + F a bit of a tag. This is what I found: http://imgur.com/QeMdOgh (http://imgur.com/QeMdOgh)
If you can't read what it says up there, that's 6,976. I mean, I guess that's not terrible, but this can't be healthy either way.
Edit: I'm disappointed that I didn't get 6969
Sovereign, March 05, 2015, 09:15:13 am
As someone with a lot of bookmarks themselves, I have no idea if I have that many, but I gotta say, your organization is bullshit. Here's the REAL way to organize your bookmarks (http://s13.postimg.org/r98ge6us7/bookmarks.png)
Tiny Prancer, March 05, 2015, 04:20:53 pm
That's some pretty solid organizing. I don't think I have enough specific types of bookmarks to fill half of those folders though. I'm not a very interesting person.
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I've got somewhere between 2500 and 3500 records (I'm estimating maybe 2800) but I don't really actively collect them any more, most of that was from the 6 years I worked at a record store, especially the year when I was also working a couple days a week at a thrift shop and could get, say, 40 middle of the road classic rock records for 50 cents each and then take them t my other job and trade them in for a couple dollars each in store credit. These days if I buy one record in a month that's a lot.
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I've been collecting Dr Who books and memorabilia since the Wilderness Years of the 90s. Needless to say, my collection has tripled in size since '05.
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For awhile I collected Megazords, but I pretty much got all the good ones I could afford. After Time Force, the quality took a nosedive (except the Mystic Force series which are at least thematically interesting). I'm really liking the LEGO Architecture kits right now, but they're quite expensive. I highly recommend Fallingwater.
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I collect those nintendo amiibo figures that I'm way too old to be collecting. So far I have Fox, Megaman, Sonic, Pikachu, both DKs, Bowser and Wii fit trainer. Gonna buy Pac-man tomorrow.
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I used to collect children's books and stamps. I've stopped for now.
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I have a couple of small and ridiculous collections tucked away here and there. I have a cool rocks/crystals collection from my new age days, a coin collection that's largely someone else's collection I found in a pile of stuff being given away, some assorted little dolls and figures (I have a terrible weakness for tiny dollhouse things and this is the closest I will allow myself to get to this) and a little jar somewhere with some cool dead bugs in it. Other than that it's mostly art supplies and books/comics.
I guess I also collect weird freeware PC games because I've had friends remark about be knowing about a lot of those.
Tiny Prancer, February 09, 2015, 01:35:05 am
I realize this is digging up a p old post but if you're still looking at this, any suggestions? I love me some freeware, something about a game in which one person got to chuck all their weirdness at an rpg maker without any sort of editing or censoring always delights me. Probably if it's any sort of well known I've at least heard of it but idk any you're fond of in particular? I always like having more weird freeware to try.
Needless to say my games folder is also kind of overdone. I used to collect tea bags tho. Not the tea receptacle itself, but the paper envelope surrounding it. I drink tea every day and used to just have tea bags instead of loose leaf and and for reasons unknown to me I collected the paper envelopes for YEARS and had thousands of them for a while. I would collect as many brands and flavors as I could because I just liked having a whole bunch of different ones. I liked the colors, it was spergy as FUCK. Then I moved houses often enough that I came to the realization that having piles of literal trash is not ideal when you can't even move around your actually useful belongings with any sort of efficiency, so the tea bag collection should PROBABLY be all gone by now. But I've found forgotten boxes packed SOLID with that shit several times before cleaning out a closet or a desk or whatever and I can't shake the feeling that I'll just find a fucking stack of slightly torn bigelow bags where I least expect it. In a sock drawer probably.
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Failures.
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I collect records!! I'm a huge White Stripes fan so a lot of my collection consists of exclusive White Stripes/Jack White solo live shows his record label has released in their special "Vault" program. The ones I have so far are:
Live at the Gold Dollar (Detroit, 1997, their first live show. White vinyl.)
Jack White and the Bricks (a live side project recorded at a bowling alley, bowling pin white vinyl.)
Live Under the Lights of the Rising Sun (Tokyo, 2000. Two discs, black and red vinyl.)
Nine Miles from the White City (Chicago, 2003. Two discs, red and white vinyl.)
Under Amazonian Lights (Manuas, Brazil, 2005. Two discs, both red vinyl with a black swirl. Also a kickass box set.)
Live in Mississippi (their last live show, 2007. Black vinyl.)
Jack White Live at Third Man Records (Nashville, 2012. Two discs, both half-black, half-blue)
Jack White Live at Bonnaroo 2014 (another kickass box set! Three discs, black, white, and blue vinyl.)
On the cheaper side of things, I also collect old movie soundtracks on vinyl that I find used. For instance, I just found a copy of the Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid score for two bucks!
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I love collecting things. What I collect goes in phases. My biggest collection was a massive collection of comic books, (50,000 books. Literally a comic book store... hell, bigger than some stores I've been in). Right now though I'm collecting pins. I don't have them with me to take a beautiful picture of them, but I have a (nearly) complete set of DOTA 2 pins, a bunch of the Disney and Pinny Arcade pins, and now I'm gathering pins from the places I travel.
(http://likegypsies.weebly.com/uploads/2/5/2/2/25220145/8097350_orig.jpg)
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I collect designer vinyl toys (I wish there was a better name for them, "designer vinyl" sounds so pretentious) and some sofubi, but I fell off the wagon a little bit last year. I'm starting to get the itch again, though.