How Do You Keep Your Gaming Room Organized?

**Fe 26** · 18 Jan 2011, 03:18 PM

It can be. From the looks of that picture of Melf and his kids, it can. I see a man building memories with two people he loves.

And you can use a lot of the same arguments against keeping it. It was broken. You don't need broken things. Neither of them could fix it, and probably never were going to be able to fix it. It was big and heavy. It took up space. It was probably in the way. He'd already gotten her a new one to replace it in the jobs it did.

Both kinds of resource management can be destructive. IMO, it is just as bad to be wasteful as it is to hoard things you don't need, use, or really want. The person who throws sell-able shit in the garbage is just as stupid as the person who has so many magazines in his house he can't get around.

Being wasteful is wrong. That goes for your living space AND the shit you've spent money on.

**Yoshi** · 18 Jan 2011, 03:18 PM

I would have kept the mixer but given the kid away.

**Josh** · 18 Jan 2011, 03:20 PM

I would have used the mixer to blend the kid.

**kingoffighters** · 18 Jan 2011, 03:21 PM

It is not too late!

**Drewbacca** · 18 Jan 2011, 03:21 PM

Originally Posted by Fe 26

That sounds like a pretty shitty way to live. Like you are removing expectations or goals to avoid disappointment. "I'll never get to this, so why bother"

You sound like a beaten man, rationalizing life under the guise of being sensible.

With cash and credit I can get anything I want. I get more enjoyment out of building my social site and trying to play the ukele than a thousand games sitting around I'll never play. Now someone else is going to have the chance to play them. If I REALLY want to play that game again for some reason I can just get a used copy off of eBay. But guess what? Never happens.

Originally Posted by Ironplant

further proving my point that the people who live this way are doing it for emotional reasons, not necessarily logical ones.

You're running this false assumption that doing things for emotional well-being is bad. It isn't. It's part of that whole pesky work-life-play balance. Getting rid of baggage you think you need but don't shows maturity.

Originally Posted by Drewbacca

I could ask you the same thing. What are you doing with the money you are saving? What are you doing that is giving you greater returns than the person who collects?

I have a lot of investments and small 3 businesses. I'm also making a social website for fun right now. I'm investing my time in making things that contribute to the lives of me and anybody I employ. All of my companies are run like Republics right now, too.

But you ask for what? What do people who collect get?

I collect books, music related things, antique electronics, and a couple games.

I rarely buy fiction. Most of the books I buy are technical. And on material not easily found online. This is an investment into myself. It increases both my skill and knowledge base.

The fiction that I do own, I will lump in with movies or rpgs. They either have a sentimental attachment or a link to a thought process that is helpful. I'd probably lump related objects into this category as well. Looking at an old toy on a shelf or seeing an old movie might make me think back to some random day in my childhood. It might also remind me of the moment of a story to boost my morale for the day. These things serve to take me out of the current moment and step outside of myself. And/or frame a moment from within another moment.

The music stuff I own is both work and art related. I can work on it to learn skills. I can build new music stuff, to learn skills. These skills in turn can make money. The music made with it is enriching, even if my playing is horrible. As horrible as I am at it, I still enjoy the act. Not to be all art fag, but the music stuff, is like my mind and soul. It is the bread I make and the bread I eat. This covers gear, guitars, records, cds, etc. The records and cds have the added benefit of what I said about fiction. Records not only give back drops to day dreaming, but also have spatial connections in my memory.

tools, well that should be self evident. Fuck, I wish I had more tools. I could never own enough fancy tools. The things I could make. Endless possibilities from tools

Then there is the added benefits of human bonding. I can have people over and play music. I can have people over and watch movies. I can have people over and play multiplayer games. And I can go to people's houses and do the same thing. I can't always do that with backed up media. They might not have anything to play avi files with.

And I buy most of this stuff at lower than the market value. And I know how to flip it. When I went to Europe, $2000-$3000 of my money came from reselling shit I didn't have to own or just dug up.

I get something out of everything I own.

TLDR. I don't care if you collect things. I think it's a waste of time and love the way my place looks and how functional it is to have people over and clean and how comfortable it is to live in. To each their own.

EDIT: I don't know why I bothered to give an honest reply. A lot of this comes down to the type of memory people have and how dominant each form is. Like Spatial or temporal. Where one person may see simple objects another might see information and potential for other task. Which I guess is why people who don't think like I do on this issue, bug me. It is like watching someone throw resources away. Like they are shooting themselves in the foot because they are limiting the potential around them.

This is the kind of thing crackheads say. It has nothing to do with memory or the space/time continuum.

**Fe 26** · 18 Jan 2011, 03:36 PM

Originally Posted by Drewbacca

thousand games sitting around I'll never play.

Why did you assholes ever get that way in the first place? And what do you think is right about going from one extreme to the other?

What happened, did you wake up one day and realize you were a shallow shell of a man and you didn't actually like 95% of the shit around you? What sort of bizarre hold did ECM have over you guys? Why the fuck did you ever waste so damn much money in the 90s?

Originally Posted by Drewbacca

You're running this false assumption that doing things for emotional well-being is bad.

No, I think it is stupid to advice people to adhere to things you do purely based on them making you FEEL better. I'm not going to tell some fag to like tits, but I will tell him that he should change the oil in his car to maintain it. One is feelings and the other is a fact. It is stupid to tell others to make choices based on your own very personal feelings.

Originally Posted by Drewbacca

I have a lot of investments and small 3 businesses. I'm also making a social website for fun right now. I'm investing my time in making things that contribute to the lives of me and anybody I employ. All of my companies are run like Republics right now, too.

And this is done with money you made by selling your past collection or selling things after you buy them? Saying that games are no longer an interest so you spend money on companies is not an argument against you hoarding. You'd actually need to still want to collect or hoard or whatever. It sounds more like your taste have changed and you are investing your money into other things.

Originally Posted by Drewbacca

This is the kind of thing crackheads say. It has nothing to do with memory or the space/time continuum.

crackheads, Psychiatrist, whatever.