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So my sister sent me a link to this guy, Woody6Switch on Etsy.

I raged a bit. For only double the eBay price of a functioning system, you can have a tacky lamp or a briefcase that would get any professional fired!

All proceeds go towards furthering the methodical destruction of classic hardware.

Crimes against games thread?

>> No.748313

That looks sweet as hell. Did pic sell yet?

>> No.748317

Christ, I'm not even a collector by any means and I still cringed. Why would anyone thing that was a good idea?

>> No.748326
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748326

$70 for this bullshit.

>> No.748332

>>748326
Now i know he didn't just ruin an SNES for a shitty carrying case.

>> No.748334

I've actually violently (VIOLENTLY) defended game-related arts and crafts on this board because it annoys me whenever some assdick here starts up the YOU'RE ENJOYING GAMES WRONG thing every time they think someone might not be the same flavor of shut-in bullyvictim as them


but shit, that's just retarded. Who fucking cares that it's bits of an NES, it just looks like a circuitboard, and they're NOT EVEN CUT NICELY. That star is deformed.

>> No.748339

>>748326
>a rare piece

What an awful person.

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>> No.748341

>>748326
why would anyone think that that's a good idea?

if you're a kid and you bring it to school you look like a chump
if you are out in public using it for ANYTHING you look like a chump
if you bring it to work you'll most likely get ridiculed at your officeplace AND look like a chump.
>>748334
it's about re-usability. You're taking away from other people by effectively destroying it for your tacky amusement.

it's like someone cutting a dick out of the Mona-lisa (obviously not a perfect comparison, but valid in many people's eyes) sure you might think it's cute, but you're ruining it for other people at the same time

>> No.748342

>>748326
Perfect for my iPhone, superfluous notepad, spare change, and antique keys that don't go to anything!

>> No.748349

>>748341
People still overreact. There's a ton of game consoles out there and while I'm a preservationist myself I'm not going to act like the NES or SNES are rare. They're incredibly common. We can't bitch about people overcharging them AND act like they're sacred precious things.

At the same time, you can make shit like this out of broken systems. Everyone immediately assumes people make these out of perfectly good hardware.

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748348

Half of this guy's shop is /vr/ hardware gutted in service of obsolete iPhones.

It's not even the new connector, so his market is people with horrible fashion sense, no appreciation for old hardware, and enough money to drop $30 on a charger but not enough to upgrade their iDevices.

>> No.748351

>>748348
>makes a great gift for a seriously old school gamer

if an actually "serious oldschool gamer" replied it would be to tell him he's a fucking idiot.

>> No.748354

>>748351
Is there any "seriously olf-school gamer" out there that actually uses iDevices?

>> No.748356

>>748349
the whole thing about it is that there's a limited quantity of them in existence, as soon as there's a limited supply, demand and price will increase exponentially.

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>>748349
>you can make shit like this out of broken systems

That was my assumption at first, but based on the prices it looks like he's buying working systems from eBay and cutting the circuit boards into tacky Christmas ornaments.

Also this one isn't /vr/ but it's still awful.

>> No.748364

>>748348
This would actually be cool if he hadn't destroyed an actual controller to make it. Just making a charger looking like a NES controller would have been cool but LOLNOPE IMMA GONNA CARVE THIS SAUCY BABY OUT

>> No.748365

>>748359
now I can put a laptop inside my xbox briefcase!
sage for not /vr/

>> No.748369

>>748359
Atleast you get plenty of space.

>> No.748374

>>748359
To be fair it may have had busted internals or he's cutting them up into ornaments.

I'd use it as an MTG case

>> No.748379

>>748354
i have one and play retro games all the time, what's wrong with them? just because they aren't 10 years old doesn't mean they aren't useful for something.

>> No.748380
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748380

$77 goddamn dollars.
Also my last one, I gotta go watch some GCCX after all this.

>> No.748382
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748382

I call it "shit I glued together and stuck a lightbulb to"

>> No.748384

>>748380
Aside from destroying controllers, that's just ugly.

>> No.748387

>>748379
Is not because they aren't retro, it's because they are overpriced pieces of shit.

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>> No.748391
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748391

"its a ROB! with a lightbulb on it!"

>> No.748393

>>748391

To be honest, at least he has some use now.

>> No.748397

>>748391
looks angry

>> No.748394

The worst part? He's had over 50 sales

>> No.748395
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748395

I say we do the right thing.

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>>748382
>>748391
Just... why...

>> No.748405

>>748392
This is kinda neat actually.

>> No.748398

>>748387
i totally agree. just glad my mom bought mine for christmas a couple years ago.

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748408

>mfw this thread.

>> No.748407

>>748379
The general argument is that the platform is unnecessarily locked down and the app store excessively censored and sanitized. Also they're as much overpriced fashion accessories as they are functional pieces of technology.

I'm partial to Android phones, myself, but I can see why certain people prefer Apple. The target demographic for most Apple products, though, is people who hate or are at best indifferent to technology - they don't want to modify it or think about it or even be aware that their phone is anything more than a social media gateway.

>> No.748416

>>748407
jailbreaking fixes a lot of problems that apple doesn't. mine is basically an e-mail checker and a mobile gaming outlet. honestly, i wish it were more useful myself.

>> No.748412

>>748407

iphones are pretty damn easy to hack and modify

>> No.748413
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748413

Greasy collectors hating on Retro hipsters and kiddies. More at 11!

>> No.748420

>>748413
Why would you make such a useless post?

>> No.748424

>>748413
I think this might be more of a case of functionalists disliking destruction of working devices.

I wouldn't really care if it was broken or already destroyed parts being used.

Other stuff, such as the NES mouse posted, at least has a new function.

>> No.748425

>>748412
>>748416
Yeah, they get more hate than they deserve in part due to the culture of ignorance and consumerism that surrounds Apple. Sage for accidentally feeding into an Apple vs. Android argument; forgot I was outside of /g/.

>> No.748426

>>748420

Because he's a faggot.

And yes, jailbreak your iDevice. I jailbroke my iPod Touch 2G and now I can run all kinds of neat shit on it, prolonging its life. Game Boy emulation...not so much.

>> No.748429

>>748424
well obviously because you fall into the greasy collector category.

>> No.748536

I hate all of you and I hate this thread, yes I'm mad. Why wouldn't he just make a mold and a vacuum table? My head and ass hurt all because of this shit thread.

>> No.748539

>>748429
I don't actually have any old consoles. I only collect PC games.

>> No.748583
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748583

Those poor defenseless video games.

>> No.748613

To be fair, I may just take a busted ass nintendo and instead of fixing it up, turn it into a hideaway for my drugs or something.

>> No.748621

I respect gaming as a hobby, but come on, there's 100 million NESes out in the world, 100 million Super Mario Bros. / Duck Hunts, 400 million NES controllers, 50 million zappers, etc. Can't some of the working or broken ones be used for some creative shit? I like gaming memorabilia, I don't see the issue when there are so many excess items out there.

If someone made a lamp out of a NES World Championships cartridge, then I'd say you had a point.

>> No.748630

I dont find a problem as long as he is using broken systems. I plan on buying up some broken systems and painting them. Maybe turning some sports game carts into a clock or somethign.

>> No.748627

>>748621
The bigger issue here, I think, is that he's charging 7 times the cost of a lamp and 12 times more than a nintendo zapper is worth for a nintendo zapper that he turned into a fucking lamp.

>> No.748636

>>748630
Are ya gonna charge eighty grand for em?

>> No.748671

>>748613
thats what my second genesis is for

>> No.748667
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748667

>in study hall at school
>school has these "recycle if you love mother Earth boxes" scattered around in specific areas
>take a peak in the one behind me
>something catches my eye
>there's half a dozen mint NES game boxes with most of the manuals, a "Now You're Playing With Power" poster, and the first issue of "Game Pro" in there
>Since they were obviously discarded by someone who didn't want them I was allowed to have them

I couldn't imagine letting those things go to a landfill

>> No.748672

>>748667
Who da fuck would do that?

>> No.748676

>>748671
Yeah? I just may do that, then.

>> No.748681

>>748305
I liked it.

>> No.748683

>>748676
yup. if its broken, then why not? I gave all the guttings for my friends halloween costume (he was a robot) so it worked out.

>> No.748702

>>748348
Seriously? All he did was take a 2$ iPod cable and hot glue it inside a new controller, that looks unstable as fuck. At least try to be creative.

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>>748672
Well first you've got to understand that I went to a private school for kids that got kicked out of other private schools that was located behind a bar shaped like a jukebox in mobile, alabama

I have a pretty good idea who threw it away though. There with this kind of smelly kid with a bowl cut who kept to himself and was a little bit off. he always wore a blue hoodie

>> No.748759

>>748672
Most kids back when the NES was out and about considered the cardboard box and manual trash. Hell that attitude lasted through the N64 era. I guess if it is cardboard people consider it worthless. One thing that always blows my mind away is how people end up not having the case for their CD games.

>> No.748771

>>748759
I still got every single box that came with every single nintendo game, NES, SNES, N64, I ever bought. S'like 150 games, but I found the damn room for em.

>> No.748779

>>748759
It also doesn't help that cardboard boxes are very easy to damage, and kids likely ripped them open when they were excited. Luckily my parents were ultra-Jews and say "Oy, little Harrel, open the boxes carefully so that we can return them for full price if it's like that other game we got!"

>> No.748786

>>748779
My mom cut off the tops of every single game box so that they'd fit in a plastic bin when I went off to training.

>> No.748794

If I ever see anybody carting around any of this shit in public, I will push them in front of a car.

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>>748786

>> No.748812
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748812

Did someone say crimes against games?

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Because I think somebody said something about crimes against games.

>> No.748830

>>748354

Unlikely. I would think people in their late 20's and older would be using android.

Of course what the fuck do I know. I still use free texting phones.

>> No.748838

>>748305
I kind of like this, but I hope they were made from SMB/Duck Hunt carts

>> No.748856

>>748391
WHY

Looks like the Flatwoods Monster

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>>748816

>> No.748881

>>748636
I am not going to sell them at all. Just going to do it for fun really. See if I can make some neat art for the office.

>> No.749234

>>748812
Looks more like Chrono Trigger.

>> No.749239

>>748342
I was going to say hahah looks like a hipster toolkit to me

>> No.749253

>>748348
>retro stuff made to accommodate Apple products
>Apple

The only "gamers" who have Apple products are annoying hipsters wearing 8-bit video game shirts and Buddy Holly glasses

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>>748305
To be fair, they could at least be from physically dead consoles. Picture related.

If the person butchered an actual, functional NES... then, yes, they're a jackass for it.

>> No.749280

>>749263
That is the most heartbreaking image I've ever seen...

Why? How did that even happen? Who would do such a horrible thing??

>> No.749282

>>748326
that honestly is one of the ugliest and dumbest things i have ever seen in my entire life

>> No.749292

>>749280
Tsunami

>> No.749296

>>749280

Looks like flood damage.

>> No.749305
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749305

I cry evry teim
actually every time I see these the words running through my head is "there's only so many of those"

>> No.749317

>>749263

that stack of like 10 Neo-Geos AES made me physically rattle. With that sad, mud covered saturn back there.

So much evil in this world

>> No.749325

>>748380
Electrical tape? someone report him

>> No.751007

>>749263
That image hurts, anon.

I lost my entire childhood game collection, from the NES and Game Boy through to the PS1, when Katrina flooded my house. All that survived was my PC and Xbox; I kind of stopped playing console games for a long time after that.

>> No.751024

>>749253
And who do you think this is targeting?

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>>748391
Don't ROBs go for hundreds on eBay? Why the fuck would any sane person do this?

>> No.751047

>>751034
So he can make money off of idiots.

>> No.751054

>>751047
Thing is, all collector value is gone and now it's worth a lot less.

>> No.751074

>>748334
>look at this fucking idiot, he's throwing games into the ocean
>HUR DUR DONT TELL HIM HOW TO ENJOY GAMES

>> No.751230

>>749263
These images are from the flood in Japan a couple years back.
Don't cry, this wasn't done by humans.

>> No.752414

>>751230
They're from Australia

>> No.752442

>>749263

In 97 is flooded pretty bad here in the upper midwest.

It ruined my NES collection and Games.

My N64 was ruined as well, but the N64 controllers and my games were for the most part salvageable. We are talking full water submerged for a couple weeks.

>> No.752474

ITT: Poorfags and autists complain about a clever seller's products from readily available retro consoles.

Who gives a fuck if he's gutting and carving up working systems? Plenty of people re-use and re-purpose old electronics for new and interesting applications. I don't have a heart attack every time I see my friend use P4 Processors to prop up his coaster rack or shell out an old printer to use as a book bin.

You people need to get a grip.

>> No.752493

>>752474
>readily available
>P4 Processor

>gutting and carving up working systems
>working systems
>gutting and carving
>Not wrong