I've been working on getting albums I like, I've found playing from vinyl is just kinda fun. I have my favorites set up in the hallway, and I rotate what's in front whenever I play one so it's constantly changing artwork. The rest are in the box
I don't know yet what I'm gonna do when I run out of space 😅
Well, not collect; I host parties where the beer (bottles) are free. They're in the beer fridge in the garage. Next to the fridge in a stand with a bottle opener. Below that is a bucket, where I've been collecting the caps from the past 10 years. There's thousands. I have no idea what to do with them, but I really hope Fallout is right, cause I'll be rich!
I probably should be using ISO too but I typically just have the BDMV and friends there. It defaults to ISO for (some?) DVDs though which I find interesting; I can’t remember the logic there.
I wish money IRL was like money in a video game. IRL it's hard to come by and needed for everything, where as in a video game it's easy to come by and there's never much to spend it on.
According to my steam library, apparently video games I haven’t played.
I’m also building up a small collection of manga books, mostly consisting of cat-themed works since I’m not big on romancey stuff or the “big” shonens.
For around 10 years i have been promising myself i will assign a day and i will sort the screws. I think i am now too afraid as i will have to find the odd stragglers of my fav ones that have depleted over the years.
I I think I want to sort them mentally but I always end up rifling through by colour materiel etc. always stab my hand. I think maybe when I retire I’ll do that 🤣
I'm the pay I used to collect knives and gargoyles. Now I only collect digital video games, because you can often get them free or cheap and they take up no space on my small home.
I don't collect much these days. Most of my money goes into investments and savings now, as I've kind of turned from acrruing objects to wanting to buy back as much of my free time as possible.
When I did collect, it was comic books, regular books, and toys, of which I still have many. During COVID, when I was stuck being at home at all times, it hit me that I had over-collected and I was stacking stuff all around me. I've since sold maybe a third of my collection and it's my hope that the people who bought those things are getting a lot more enjoyment out of them than I was.
And, when I moved three years ago, I gave about half of my comic collection to neighbors, friends, and their kids, which the vast majority of these being books that were released in recent years and unlikely to ever be worth much. The gems of my collection, like Batman Adventures #12 and my X-Men #4 signed by Stan Lee, obviously aren't going anywhere.
I still occasionally see things I want, but whenever I feel like I need to buy another plastic thing, I don't look at the price tag. I look at the price tag plus whatever the accrued interest might be if I stuck it in investments instead.
Images of movies, tv shows, anime and manga I watched/ read and really like. Got about 33K images categorized in Eagle library.
Books, books and books. Unfortunately though, I can’t collect a lot yet. I don’t have my own apartment yet, so no real bookcase. I’ll definitely collect when I got my own place.
Digital games that I actually like and want to own through Piracy.
What is this Eagle library? I too collect images from shows and series I like. And fanarts. I assume this is all digital. I don't have the physical space to collect physical art
Yeah, everything digitally of course. EagleCool is an app/ software that allows you to easily collect and organize your digital images, videos, gifs, etc. It also allows you to get images from all over the internet. They even have a plugin that allows you to ”one-click” download all the images from Pinterest boards.
EDIT: Forgot to mention it is for both Windows and Mac.
Nudes from women who willingly send them to me. I don't share them with other people, and I usually send one to them of myself. These are also women I talk with semi-regularly, not randos.
Ive liked things in the past but I have been sorta minimalist. I like don't feel like I would much want to collect things again without like a really secure living situation with enough room to properly deal with a collection. Of course if I had it at this point I also have that I am sorta getting old and I don't want to have to have someone else deal with it later and I like things like gardening and walking and just playing video games. I could see really getting into collecting virtual things as it would not take to much space to put up a well backed up file server.
Fitgirl releases of everything rated "mostly positive" or above on Steam (Fitgirl because I don't care about extraction time, but storage comes at a premium these days)
yeah it got really confusing when i managed to make a thing that passed the right side and ended up back on the left after starting a new stack and then crashed because of recursion depth. really need an interactive debugger for that one.
Watches I suppose, although I wouldn't want to be called a watch collector because I have zero interest in most of the watches that most watch collectors consider must-have
Mechanical keyboards, though about forty percent of them at this point are ones I feel comfortable saying I “made,” which is to say I did something significantly more involved than assembling a barebones kit. Still, they’re accumulating a bit and sometimes I build one just to try some small layout tweak or technique I haven’t done before.
I also have a fountain pen collection, but I haven’t added much to it recently. It’s not a bad gift vector for loved ones though, and it turns out that my Montblanc really is nice, though not by such a margin that I was ever going to pay for it myself.
Would have gotten new¹ manga a while ago, but couldn't make it to a manga swap I planned on attending. So I think the last manga I got were a couple Junji Ito beginning of last month.
Majority of my CDs are 90s US pop, but I have a couple CDs I can never share because they could give away the relative location I live. But I also have what I recently found out was a limited special edition. KZlivetune's と CD with a DVD containing music videos. I consider that currently the gem of my small collection.
i buy a watch everytime i have a big thing happening in my life. new place, new job, stuff like that. usually go for one that has date and day counter, cause im buying them if i cant use them for the purpose they were designed in the first place.
Steam games... used to be physical games but I had to downsize and really only have my digital games library left and a handful of physical switch. Ps4/5 and Xbox one games left.
Guilt and shame
And painful life lessons
Just got finished shaming myself. The guilt is there in abundance too. Those two sentences are unrelated btw.
I've been working on getting albums I like, I've found playing from vinyl is just kinda fun. I have my favorites set up in the hallway, and I rotate what's in front whenever I play one so it's constantly changing artwork. The rest are in the box
I don't know yet what I'm gonna do when I run out of space 😅
Bottle caps.
Well, not collect; I host parties where the beer (bottles) are free. They're in the beer fridge in the garage. Next to the fridge in a stand with a bottle opener. Below that is a bucket, where I've been collecting the caps from the past 10 years. There's thousands. I have no idea what to do with them, but I really hope Fallout is right, cause I'll be rich!
And there's no mold, I've checked.
raiders want to know your location
Cats. I only have 2 "permanent" cats, but am fostering 10 kittens at the moment and have fostered over 150 so far.
Username checks out
Lately, pirated movies, TV shows and games. I'm expecting things to be harder to find in the future.
I like renting physical Blu-rays then dumping them to my NAS. I’m a stickler for quality so I don’t re-encode or compress anything.
I like ripping Blu-ray's too. I rip them with MakeMKV and make an .iso out of it.
I probably should be using ISO too but I typically just have the BDMV and friends there. It defaults to ISO for (some?) DVDs though which I find interesting; I can’t remember the logic there.
Money.
I am awful at spending money.
I have many more years of life left, and what if I need it more matter than today?
It’s why I never use potions in games.
While I can't relate to the money aspect, I too am extremely conservative with potion use in games!
I wish money IRL was like money in a video game. IRL it's hard to come by and needed for everything, where as in a video game it's easy to come by and there's never much to spend it on.
According to my steam library, apparently video games I haven’t played.
I’m also building up a small collection of manga books, mostly consisting of cat-themed works since I’m not big on romancey stuff or the “big” shonens.
Unsorted screws half broken bike parts and wooden boards of various sizes.
For around 10 years i have been promising myself i will assign a day and i will sort the screws. I think i am now too afraid as i will have to find the odd stragglers of my fav ones that have depleted over the years.
For the screws apparently what happens if you do it long enough is that you aquire a sifting pan for well sifting through your screws.
I I think I want to sort them mentally but I always end up rifling through by colour materiel etc. always stab my hand. I think maybe when I retire I’ll do that 🤣
Ahh yeah I have mine separated into machine and other screws. At least mostly separated.
Handheld two-way radios, apparently
Mostly music for me. 35ish years of CD purchases, modest vinyl collection. Bootlegs (though digital these days).
Some books, mostly just favorite authors/franchises.
I also have a decent enough GameCube collection.
I love collecting things. It's terrible.
Currently, plants and plant-related items.
And always books.
Books.
I have more than i can ever read, but i don’t care. Having so much variety right in my home makes me feel rich. And they’re cheap - i mostly buy used.
Terabytes on top of terabytes of live music recordings
That’s not how I thought that was going to end
I'm the pay I used to collect knives and gargoyles. Now I only collect digital video games, because you can often get them free or cheap and they take up no space on my small home.
Knives, rocks, locks, movies(DVD, Blu-ray), Bows and arrows, brass candle holders
I don't collect much these days. Most of my money goes into investments and savings now, as I've kind of turned from acrruing objects to wanting to buy back as much of my free time as possible.
When I did collect, it was comic books, regular books, and toys, of which I still have many. During COVID, when I was stuck being at home at all times, it hit me that I had over-collected and I was stacking stuff all around me. I've since sold maybe a third of my collection and it's my hope that the people who bought those things are getting a lot more enjoyment out of them than I was.
And, when I moved three years ago, I gave about half of my comic collection to neighbors, friends, and their kids, which the vast majority of these being books that were released in recent years and unlikely to ever be worth much. The gems of my collection, like Batman Adventures #12 and my X-Men #4 signed by Stan Lee, obviously aren't going anywhere.
I still occasionally see things I want, but whenever I feel like I need to buy another plastic thing, I don't look at the price tag. I look at the price tag plus whatever the accrued interest might be if I stuck it in investments instead.
Craft things: 'I'm going to get to soon' (I just got some Nalbinding needles, still haven't tried quilling yet).
And art books that I rarely read.
Images of movies, tv shows, anime and manga I watched/ read and really like. Got about 33K images categorized in Eagle library.
Books, books and books. Unfortunately though, I can’t collect a lot yet. I don’t have my own apartment yet, so no real bookcase. I’ll definitely collect when I got my own place.
Digital games that I actually like and want to own through Piracy.
What is this Eagle library? I too collect images from shows and series I like. And fanarts. I assume this is all digital. I don't have the physical space to collect physical art
Yeah, everything digitally of course. EagleCool is an app/ software that allows you to easily collect and organize your digital images, videos, gifs, etc. It also allows you to get images from all over the internet. They even have a plugin that allows you to ”one-click” download all the images from Pinterest boards.
EDIT: Forgot to mention it is for both Windows and Mac.
I have ADHD, so hobbies, mostly. And 3/4 finished projects that I'll totally come back to and finish one day.
Very Soon (TM)
Plastic model kits. Especially from Bandai. Please send help
Ah another person with a pile of shame
Sea glass. I have a bunch of jars with it from all over the world.
Embarassing Life Moments
Nudes from women who willingly send them to me. I don't share them with other people, and I usually send one to them of myself. These are also women I talk with semi-regularly, not randos.
Pancakes.
too many pancakes
Seeds, silver & gold, ammo, firearms and accessories
Lots of things. The biggest categories are probably video games and music. I also like airline playing cards.
Ive liked things in the past but I have been sorta minimalist. I like don't feel like I would much want to collect things again without like a really secure living situation with enough room to properly deal with a collection. Of course if I had it at this point I also have that I am sorta getting old and I don't want to have to have someone else deal with it later and I like things like gardening and walking and just playing video games. I could see really getting into collecting virtual things as it would not take to much space to put up a well backed up file server.
Nail polish primarily. I keep my nails short, but having them different, fun colors as temporary art is a small joy.
Enemies regrets broken dreams bad writing styles kinks
dust bunnies.
Fitgirl releases of everything rated "mostly positive" or above on Steam (Fitgirl because I don't care about extraction time, but storage comes at a premium these days)
Mostly memories that hurt and new things to fear.
Regrets and lessons learned the hard way, apparently
Programming languages. These are the ones currently installed on my computer:
ever tried befunge?
Yes! Befunge is my favorite Esolang!
noice. i'm partial to intercal, but <>< is up there as well.
Fish is a nice extension to befunge. I like how you can create new stacks.
yeah it got really confusing when i managed to make a thing that passed the right side and ended up back on the left after starting a new stack and then crashed because of recursion depth. really need an interactive debugger for that one.
Watches I suppose, although I wouldn't want to be called a watch collector because I have zero interest in most of the watches that most watch collectors consider must-have
Vintage audio equipment particularly if it's distressed.
It's satisfying to bring these things back to life.
Mechanical keyboards, though about forty percent of them at this point are ones I feel comfortable saying I “made,” which is to say I did something significantly more involved than assembling a barebones kit. Still, they’re accumulating a bit and sometimes I build one just to try some small layout tweak or technique I haven’t done before.
I also have a fountain pen collection, but I haven’t added much to it recently. It’s not a bad gift vector for loved ones though, and it turns out that my Montblanc really is nice, though not by such a margin that I was ever going to pay for it myself.
Good memories
Hardships
Currently CDs and manga.
Would have gotten new¹ manga a while ago, but couldn't make it to a manga swap I planned on attending. So I think the last manga I got were a couple Junji Ito beginning of last month.
Majority of my CDs are 90s US pop, but I have a couple CDs I can never share because they could give away the relative location I live. But I also have what I recently found out was a limited special edition. KZlivetune's と CD with a DVD containing music videos. I consider that currently the gem of my small collection.
¹ new as in new to my collection
Nothing. Variety is the spice of life.
And he who controls the variety controls the universe?
Mostly physical media like CD's, SACD's, DVD's, Blu-ray's, and books.
i buy a watch everytime i have a big thing happening in my life. new place, new job, stuff like that. usually go for one that has date and day counter, cause im buying them if i cant use them for the purpose they were designed in the first place.
Steam games... used to be physical games but I had to downsize and really only have my digital games library left and a handful of physical switch. Ps4/5 and Xbox one games left.
skin
Figurines and plushies