have you lost or damaged any of your collections due to a flooding basement or similar?
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have you lost or damaged any of your collections due to a flooding basement or similar?
My ex really wanted a dog and brought home a "staffy" pup, motherfricker chewed on my PS2, bunch of GBC carts and totally destroyed my Beats wireless headphones. I got over the PS2 (replaced the case) and the GameBoy games, but I'm still mad about the headphones. They were kinda meh (sound quality wise, 7/10 at best and I'm being nice here), but they charged in like fifteen minutes, lasted for hours and had an absolutely crazy range. Besides for a lot of people they're sorta a fashion statement thing, so I could easily flip them if I ever needed some quick cash. I love dogs, grew up with them, but anyone ever comes to mine with anything that has -terrier in its name, they can frick right off.
Small dogs are worthless in general
It was one of them pitbull fricks (so relatively big, or medium sized I guess), and yeah I know the term isn't kosher, but that's what it was. I think that dogs like that (terriers) should be used for their original purpose, hunting. They have a strong chase drive, rarely shut up, chew on shit constantly, have near limitless energy levels and get bored super fast, which results in damage unless you walk them fifty thousand times a day. Perfect for dragging a fox by the tail, not so much for keeping as a pet if you're catching my drift. But honestly that one's on me, should have told her "no", but instead I caved in and here we are. Oh well. Just glad that dog doesn't live with me anymore. Same goes for the b***h, but that's a different story.
Pitbulls were bred for dogfights
>bring "domesticated" animal into your home
>it wrecks your shit because it's an animal
>tfw didn't fall for the pet meme
Don't worry anon, you'll have a kid one of them days, toddlers like wrecking shit too.
At least I can take it out of their allowance when they get older.
Kek, yeah I keep telling my baby that. Alternatively "with how much you're costing me, I better not end up in a retirement home".
If I need my ass wiped I don't want my son doing it personally. Just one favour I don't need returned.
My son reefed on the disk drive of my 360 and disengaged all the gears in the process. I was able to disassemble it and get it back together properly, but it was a lesson to not leave anything out that I don't mind him grabbing.
On topic, when I lived in a basement suite fresh out of university I had some moderate flooding and it damaged my shitty Walmart shelves. Fortunately I don't keep shit on the floor and there was less than an inch of water.
>has beats headphones
Iq indicator that explains why you would date someone with a destructive dog
40 hours of continuous playback and crazy range, used in a warehouse setting. I didn't need audiophile-tier headphones, I needed something to get me through the night at work. Also reading comprehension, she got the dog after we were together already. If it makes you feel any better though, I'm sure as Hell not the sharpest tool in the shed, especially when it comes to women and I'll freely admit to that. Long story short, have a child from that relationship and got granted full custody. Derp.
At least you admit you aren't buying it for the audio quality, that makes you much more intelligent than the average (beat)ards
Oh no anon the audio quality is (well... was) nothing to write home about, I also found it weird how they're advertised as headphones for people who are into hip-hop, but if there's one genre of music where the tracks would sound flat as frick, it's exactly that. Dre's laughing all the way to the bank. But the battery life and the range, probably the best wireless headphones I had. I normally use Koss Porta Pro and a cheap Sansa Clip player, they just werk.
My basement flooded as a kid completely submerging my PS1, but that fricker still works to this day
i am worried about one that was submerged myself, it's great to hear they're durable
That's incredible.
A friend of mine took my Metal Gear Solid 3 box to a convention and got Kojima to sign it for me.
I was still a teenager at the time so I was living at home. My mom had inherited a hoarder house that never got cleaned out so I slept on the couch and had no personal room/space and she had cats and dogs.
I kept the box on my computer desk since it's the only place I had and every day for like 2 weeks she complained to me about it saying if I care about it I shouldn't leave it around otherwise the dog will eat it. Which makes no sense because it was a 3 legged small dog that had no way to get on the desk in the first place.
One day I come home from school and the box is half eaten, of course around where the signature was. I called my mom and asked if she knew where my box was because it's not where I left it (did not tell her yet it was eaten).
She told me she moved it somewhere "safer" so the dog wouldn't eat it.
Likely the cat knocked it off whatever shelf or table it was on. Which couldn't have happened if it was just left on my desk where it was.
holy shit this one aggravates me. i've dealt with similar levels of bullshit where people think they know better and proceed to frick everything up directly.
Almost. My dad moved my box of NES and SNES games into the basement without my knowledge, and I only found out they got damaged when I came to pick them up.
I was luckily able to get every NES cart to work, and 58 out of 60 SNES carts cleaned and working. Sadly, Turtles In Time and Yoshi's Island did not survive.
My SNES box got ruined by rats years back the boxed games and console were fine since I kept them inside a plastic bin but the box was discolored and chewed.
Sucks to hear the worst a dog has ever done to my games is chew the wire off a SNES controller.
The closet where I stored everything had a leak in it for years that I had no idea about so a lot of boxes and manuals were covered in mold when I went to give them away. The carts and consoles all survived though.
No. I'm not moronic so know water is wet. I don't store stuff in places it's likely to get wet.
>I'm not moronic
>water is wet
We lost our home after my parents divorced, dad was forced to store all our belongings in a moldy, wet, no windows basement from someone he knew because we had nowhere to go for like 3 months during winter and just slept in hotels. Came back 4 months later and everything was fricking trashed, wet and moldy.
I managed to save an Xbox 1 and two N64s with the games that were stored in a closed plastic container. All my PC game boxes like Diablo/Warcraft/Mechwarrior etc were basically just yellow mush. Some of the CDs also no longer worked. All the manga I had was moldy and decomposing, books, family photos, tapes etc.
What pained me the most is that I lost my collection of rare Japanese DBZ TCG cards I had painstakingly collected with my kid allowances and Pogeyman TCG that would be worth thousands now.
All the wood furniture we had to throw out. It was all stored in a rush and we didn't have time to properly insulate and prepare sadly. Dad did the best he could with what he had.
You're so intelligent and so much better than everyone else.
>You're so intelligent and so much better than everyone else.
No. Everyone else knows this shit. It's just you.
>I'm not moronic so know water is wet
>Because I know water is wet
lmfao is that your proudest life achievement, moron?
I understand that might seem like a life achievement to you but it's really just common sense. Which is oddly not very common. As you and several others itt have demonstrated.
>no u
the response of the aggravated and butthurt
>the response of the aggravated and butthurt
Someone broke into our house when we were out back in the early 2000s, and they stole my Xbox and GameCube. We never got them back.
No because im not moronic enough to keep my stuff in a basement that could flood.
No but I've gained stuff due to other people's basements flooding
When I was little and my parents still live in a shitty rented house with a moronic landlord our hot water heater leaked and flooded the entire basement. The only casualty was my mouse trap board game.
When we bought our house, I took the finished side of the basement to be my office/rec room/library. I still remember that first rainy season. It felt like I was checking the sump pump well every half hour during the harder storms. I was obsessed.
Then I realized this house is 60-some years old and has no signs of water damage, despite being the original finishings. That doesn't mean it can't ever happen and that I shouldn't be aware of problems arising, but I was being a complete psycho.
i've only had people steal my shit
I've seen that the other day, them grading companies seem like a huge scam to me. 3k for Pokemon Yellow? With the amount of copies that are still widely available worldwide in really good condition? Frick outta here.
kek
Not flooding, but when I first discovered eBay in 2003, I ended buying a bunch of US games that we never got in Europe. I remember Mario RPG came in an envelope and the mailman clearly had it out in the rain, so it ended up getting squashed and soaked.
I also once cut a mint in box Harvest Moon 64 box as a kid because the seller sent it in an envelope and I was kinda careless when opening it.
Things seemed expensive back in the day, but looking back a 70$ mint SNES or N64 game was a steal and I'm happy I ended up getting some nice games. Sellers were a lot more careless with shipping though. Probably because it was just people getting rid of stuff in their attic and the whole collectable thing wasn't as big back then.
He's a huge homosexual for buying that, but it irks me that the government just decided to destroy this dude's property. I have to laugh at them cutting the face off the box for no reason instead of just opening it though.
intentional and based
My friend lives in the UK, and last year his mom sent him a package with some coffee from companies back home here, as well as a skateboard deck and some other stuff. He told me when the packaged arrived, it had been clearly opened and barely resealed, and that they basically just emptied out the coffee beans into the box before taping it back up. He had coffee ground all into the grip tape of the deck.
So apparently other countries' customs aren't any better. It's kind of comforting to know these people are useless all around the world and not just here.
gubmint wagies give absolutely zero shits about anyone and anything. If anything he's lucky they actually bothered to put everything back in the package.
it would almost be admirable if it weren't for them making everyone's life hell.
lmfao
>sealed video game market
what a scam
I am laughinf because it's a graded games gay, but now I'm fricking spooked this'll happen to me since I'm importing something right now. Especially when it's some vintage computing stuff that I won't be able to easily find again.
It's always a lottery. Shit could get damaged, lost in transit (and if the seller is able to procure some sort of proof of him/her sending your items, you're fricked) or you could get slapped with an additional customs tax and it won't be pretty. Most of the time everything's going to be fine, but the few times where it won't are always going to be super rage inducing, no way around it.
I've been importing collectible shit for nearly 15 years now always have shit in the mail from china or japan or the states and I never had a package """"""""""inspected""""""""""" by customs
There's always the risk but it's really not something you ever have to worry about.
I've had it happen to me four times, but overall I've ordered random shit like thirty times probably, so not that bad of a luck I guess. Could be worse. Some people say you're less likely to get slapped with customs if the seller sends the parcel from a private address, marks the package as a "gift" and doesn't include any invoices/receipts, but I think that's an urban legend and probably doesn't do shit in all honesty.
I'm pleased with this outcome. Serves him right.
Why don't people keep valuable shit like that in an attic? If your attic is flooded you have bigger problems.
You'd be surprised what crazy shit can happen. A few years ago I was living in a 3 story house and had my home office and a lot of vidya on the top floor. We had a massive typhoon and it was raining so hard nothing could drain. The balcony filled up with water and started leaking inside.
Nothing was damaged because I don't store shit in cardboard boxes on the floor. Because I know water is wet and shit like this happens. Could have been a busted pipe, backed up toilet, leaky roof, whatever. Just plan for the possibility that there might be water on the floor and you'll avoid a lot of headache.
Attics are worse than proper basements.
Attics tend to get hot and cold as frick. Basements are at least a bit more climate controlled
Oh hell yes. I lost all my comics too. Most of my Genesis games still work but all the cases got fricked, even the hard shell ones but you cardboard boxes were just gone.
The fricked thing was it was a water line ABOVE the basement that busted, so water just rained down into the basement from above for hours while I was at work.
My Saturn, original Xbox and PS2 destroyed.
NES survived somehow, I guess something inside the SegaCD rusted or something because even though it looked fine, it never worked again. A lot of the CD games started to flake and rot
After I got over the shock of it I realized it was actually kind of nice not having all that bullshit anymore.
>He keeps his collection in a basement
No but probably a block from my house was a big garage and next to it a sort of bluff with a lot of red mud that would be wet or dry depending on the season. I have a GBA game I lost it like 15 years ago and fricking found it like 5 years later near the surface of the dirt buried and when I washed the cart out it still fricking worked and had my save games on it. Still surreal to me that this happened, it feels like a false memory.
Yes, destroyed the labels on 20 or so Xbox games, this happened 5 years ago. The leak was inches away from reaching my SNES collection before I showed up. Pic sadly related.
Damn, if anything this thread has scared me into never getting a dog. I've had ~8 cats in my life, most they've ever done is clawing the couch until I train them.
>something they deem valuable
>put underground in cardboard box
Getting older sucks, I continually lose interest in vidya and realize more-and-more people are high-functioning morons.
I live in Arizona worst thing I have to worry about is an Earthquake making a sink hole under my house
Emuchads…. we won….
>Interesting thread topic, rife for great pictures of destroyed games
>Thread fricking dies with only two images as actual examples.
Frick, saging cause I'll only prolong the inevitable.