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| instantreplay:
--- Quote from: disgaeniac on May 20, 2014, 11:56:14 am --- --- Quote from: instantreplay on May 20, 2014, 10:53:36 am ---A hoarder would buy the game at a low price no matter how many copies they owned. --- End quote --- As would a collector who also buys, trades, and sells/resells ;) I see a copy of Suikoden 2 for $5...even if I had 20 of them...I'd buy it just to re-sell and/or put in the "trade material" category ;D My point? It doesn't so much come down to *what* you do -but- *why* you're doing it! In this case, if you were buying a 21st copy as a "backup" for when your other 20 copies get scratched/no longer work = it would (IMO), signify something different that buying it in the way that I stated above 8) --- End quote --- I knew someone was going to say that XD You actually missed the most important point. The behavior has to be interfering with the person's life. It is a combination of both the what and why that ultimately allows a you to determine if a person is suffering from a mental disorder. If you just look at why someone is doing something, then someone who compulsively washes their hands 3,000 times a day (there is a case study about someone like that) is merely being thorough. Also, if you've broken 20 copies of a game and are buying a working copy, that's simply replacing something that's broken. Understand that I'm trying to condense what I've learned in 3 years into a couple of paragraphs so there are a lot of things I'm just skimming over just to get the main points across. |
| burningdoom:
Having a back-up in case one breaks is smart. Or having one or two extras for spare parts. And having extras if you're gonna sell them makes sense. But otherwise, yeah, it kind of is hoarding in my eyes. What do you need 10 Xboxes or whatever for? |
| disgaeniac:
--- Quote from: instantreplay on May 20, 2014, 01:50:24 pm --- --- Quote from: disgaeniac on May 20, 2014, 11:56:14 am --- --- Quote from: instantreplay on May 20, 2014, 10:53:36 am ---A hoarder would buy the game at a low price no matter how many copies they owned. --- End quote --- As would a collector who also buys, trades, and sells/resells ;) I see a copy of Suikoden 2 for $5...even if I had 20 of them...I'd buy it just to re-sell and/or put in the "trade material" category ;D My point? It doesn't so much come down to *what* you do -but- *why* you're doing it! In this case, if you were buying a 21st copy as a "backup" for when your other 20 copies get scratched/no longer work = it would (IMO), signify something different that buying it in the way that I stated above 8) --- End quote --- I knew someone was going to say that XD You actually missed the most important point. The behavior has to be interfering with the person's life. It is a combination of both the what and why that ultimately allows a you to determine if a person is suffering from a mental disorder. If you just look at why someone is doing something, then someone who compulsively washes their hands 3,000 times a day (there is a case study about someone like that) is merely being thorough. Also, if you've broken 20 copies of a game and are buying a working copy, that's simply replacing something that's broken. Understand that I'm trying to condense what I've learned in 3 years into a couple of paragraphs so there are a lot of things I'm just skimming over just to get the main points across. --- End quote --- Fair enough 8) |
| scott:
--- Quote from: burningdoom on May 20, 2014, 02:00:09 pm ---What do you need 10 Xboxes or whatever for? --- End quote --- LANing Halo 2. >_> |
| dreama1:
Obesssion is such a dirty word. But in actuality it's not so bad, in my opinion it's the lesser of the two evils video game obbession compared to other obbessions. To say it does not influence you or your decisions at all, or doesn't effect your daily life is total nonsense sorry from the people you meet to things you do they shall haunt you forever even after the person or thing has ceased to exist that's the cold reality. So tread carefully. If your worried about the console breaking with it will break down then that must mean all consoles will break down totally meaning collecting consoles is pointless which means collecting video games is pointless if they all break down or die in the end. I say again be careful where you tread there's gold farming in WoW they keep telling themselves there going to make money off it but they never end doing so, and things all get worse at that point. Only afew elite experts actually make anything. |
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