A Generic Video Game Podcast About Taxes
A perhaps-ly named conversation about video games between Anthony Ernst and Mollie L Patterson.
//Episode 049
//Show Note: We talk about the new tax code for selling items, Whatnot app, SNK vs Capcom Card Fighters Clash, Neo Geo Pocket Color, Valis + limited print games, Taito Egret II mini, Microsoft buys Activision Blizzard, Xbox Game Pass and ownership of media, anime on blu-ray, and more!
//Radio site: radio.morningproject.com
//Email: gvgp@morningproject.com
//Twitter: Anthony (@24bitAJE), Mollie (@mollipen), morning radio (@mornradio)
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February 15, 2022 — 10:37
Maybe it’s just age (I’m 40) but the entire act of physical collecting is basically a fool’s errand. When I was kid, before I moved out on my own, I wanted to have the physical box, the special edition, the limited run art book, the pre-order T-Shirt etc. I bought the Akira VHS twice and like 4 versions of the DVD. This was hundreds of dollars total, and for what? Just so I could have it sit on a shelf and look at it? So I could know in my own mind that I have this physical thing that somehow elicits a certain feeling when I think of its presence in my home? Once I moved out and had to cart this stuff around I started to realize the futility of it all. Now in my older age this seems like insanity to want to collect things in this nature, like some form of mental illness. If you think about it logically there’s no need to own a physical copy when you can just watch it some other way. Same goes for videogames. If you can play it, why do you need the physical medium which really only exists just to provide a way to access the ability to play the game? Again, it’s nuts when you think about it logically.
Great cast again.