What's the last thing you purchased?

[The Prowler]

No. I have a 4 and the 5 isnt backwards compatible. Not dumping good hardware I already like. and the ps+ also expands that library as well.

How am I "suffering"? You spend your money on what you like. I'll do the same.

You are in for a rude awakening unless you buy a PS5.

 

[Jack]

You are in for a rude awakening unless you buy a PS5.

good.

What's the fucking deal with you derailing non MD threads, asshole?

Now I gotta ask Grimm to clean this shit up again.

Why don't you try growing up?

 

[The Prowler]

I hope you bought it from a store with a good return policy.

 

[ESAD TIA]

No. I have a 4 and the 5 isnt backwards compatible. Not dumping good hardware I already like. and the ps+ also expands that library as well.

How am I "suffering"? You spend your money on what you like. I'll do the same.

Not via disk but you can play 90% of ps4 games on a ps5 digitally.

 

[Jack]

Not via disk but you can play 90% of ps4 games on a ps5 digitally.

for $150 extra a year, which I'm already going to spend.

Why spend an additional 600 plus when I can stream for 150? I can also use the + scrip on my 4 hardware.

 

[ESAD TIA]

for $150 extra a year, which I'm already going to spend.

Why spend an additional 600 plus when I can stream for 150? I can also use the + scrip on my 4 hardware.

Sure but I was just making the point you can play most ps4 games on your ps5.

 

[Jack]

Sure but I was just making the point you can play most ps4 games on your ps5.

I bought my 4 from someone for 200 with 30 disks.

Could probably sell it for more but can't be arsed and i like it.

 

[Jack]

some ps5's have no disc player, from what Ive been reading.

 

[ESAD TIA]

I bought my 4 from someone for 200 with 30 disks.

Could probably sell it for more but can't be arsed and i like it.

I still have a ps5, ps4, 2x ps3, 2x ps2 and 2x ps1.

Don't ask.

 

[ESAD TIA]

some ps5's have no disc player, from what Ive been reading.

Yeah digital only.

 

[The Prowler]

 

[The Prowler]

 

[The Prowler]

 

[Joe]

Yeah...that looks like Canada Lex @The Prowler.

Certainly brings back memories.

It was sure cold skating on those Open Ice Frozen lake rinks, that's fer sure!

-20? -30? -40?

Was probably -20 where I grew up.

 

[Joe]

An Original Donald Duck Production Art Painting which first appeared in Disney News Magazine, Summer 1985

 

[Frood]

Yay.... another dole dollar wasted...

 

[Joe]

Yay.... another dole dollar wasted...

...for ORIGINAL Artwork produced for a multi-billion dollar company like Disney?

Cost me $25 US @Frood or about $40 Australian?

That's actually really cheap for an original authenticated piece of art that comes with a COA from a recognized dealer, @Frood.

 

[Joe]

I wonder if that sorta thing interests @Reggie_Essent ?

 

[Reggie_Essent]

I wonder if that sorta thing interests @Reggie_Essent ?

Ephemera can be quite lucrative if you know what you're looking at. I once found a stash of Land Grants from the War of 1812 in an old box of trash. The Grants were signed by President James Monroe. And they didn't even have an AutoPen back then. I got about $1200 a piece for them and they didn't cost me a penny.

Another time I found a $5 dollar bill in an old book. It was an 1899 silver certificate $5 dollar bill and in pristine condition. I eventually sold it in an auction and realized a bit over $4k in pure profit.

 

[Joe]

I've never understood the appeal of paper money @Reggie_Essent. How do you know its even real? so perishable too. at least with a coin you can get them assayed for metal content which pretty well authenticates them. if the metal content is off that pretty well makes them counterfeit. Not too many fakers get them right.

That being said, paper money is an extremely lucrative hobby/pursuit.

Sometimes those old Bill's go for hundreds of thousands of dollars. I suppose theyve replaced stamps as the place to go for paper collectors

 

[Reggie_Essent]

I've never understood the appeal of paper money @Reggie_Essent. How do you know its even real? so perishable too.

That's why it is called 'Ephemera," Joe. It's totally perishable and that's what can make it so valuable to a collector or a museum.

Old paper money, stamps, old art lithograph prints, comic books, certain old magazine publications and newspapers and even old hand written letters between private correspondents are fodder for the Collector market.

 

[Joe]

Here's something else I bought that might interest @LotusBud & @MANCID RILKO Man

A Disney production art piece in Portuguese.

Cost me a whopping $10.

That was a good deal.

I was less interested in its value than how they went from concept into print production.

Surprise how these items aren't worth much since they're 1 of a kind.

Maybe @Reggie_Essent can explain how they get the printer to transform it into color. I know they used negatives & plates but how they got the colors right remains a puzzle to me.

How did they separate the colors Reggie? Take a photo of the color key then make the negs and plates from there?

 

[Seamajor]

Yay.... another dole dollar wasted...

Careful, you don’t have many

 

[ESAD TIA]

Mostly just lots of Christmas presents for my kids.

 

[Alticus]

 

[The Prowler]

Baseball shoes.

Online.

They are too small.

I gotta send them back and exchange for 1/2 a size bigger.

 

[Joe]

There you go Lex @The Prowler one of my latest acquisitions which I traded up/in for:

5 oz pure Gold. The coin on the Bottom is a Canadian $1 coin for size comparison

the other 2 are the original $5 on the left and $10 gold pieces right with the 5 oz piece in the center.

This is what the reverse side looks like in a box

I didn't really 'buy' it. It's just the price of the Metals had gone up which allowed me to do this.

So, it's a bit deceiving. I certainly did NOT pay the current market price for them.

I had extra ounces lying around from when Gold & Silver was cheap or much less expensive than it is today.

I'm certainly not rich. I used what I had bought before when gold/Silver prices were in a SLUMP & 50-75% LOWER to trade up.

 

[The Prowler]

Baseball shoes.

Online.

They are too small.

I gotta send them back and exchange for 1/2 a size bigger.

Adidas.

 

[Joe]

Adidas.

Didja like the coin Lex @The Prowler?

 

[Frood]

A dog tie wire to replace the severed one hanging off my pup's neck when I got home this morning. She didn't realize or it could have been carnage. She's a bit of a terror with roughly half the neighborhood dogs who ever sniffed her the wrong way, ran up just beyond the length of her lead and marked territory, or who tried to mount her. Should be here in a few days. Salvaged the clips and rigged up some camp rope with bowline knots in the meantime.