The collector psychosis

If this is you raise your hand. No shame here. This is a psychopath friendly space :joy:

It’s 2:17 AM. After hunting for 3 days and having to pay for a CGPT subscription, Chat GPT has assured you that you finally know which card would perfectly round out your collection. It will bring the whole mini collection to exactly 10 cards. The question is “Is one available?”. It has to be grade 10. Anything less will drive you nuts. You check eBay - nothing. Fanatics Collect - nothing. Crap. Load another zyn pouch. “Let’s try googling it…”. “Who the **** listed this on mercari?!?!”. This is it - hope it’s not a scam. The seller wants $500 over market and at the rate you’ve been on you’re heading towards overdraft faster than a crackhead to a treatment facility. You did it. After hours of back and forth. You sick freak, you actually did it. It’ll be fine, we’ll just sell off some excess cards from the collection.

You look at the collection to decide what’s getting cut. And it dawns on you. Out of the 33 slabs in here that you’ve spent thousands on…you only really care about 4 of them. “What am I doing with my life?”.

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Surely there’s a 5th card

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THERE HAS TO BE EXACTLY 5 :shaking_face:

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But then surely there must be a 6th card

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Well that’s the thing is that it actually never ends even though I swear to God this is the final card

I dont think a single bit of this is relatable for me.

Im not sure how to use chatgpt or where to even go for it without googling it.
My binders hold 9 cards, not 10.
I collect the card, not the grade.
Availability is taken into account with what i want.
What is a zyn pouch? Is it tobacco?
Multiple keywords, specific sites, mislisted wording, google is like barely the entry level search.
Scams can be spotted pretty easily.
I have a relative budget i stick to.
I only buy it if i like it.

But if thats the way you can collect and it works for your life, more power to you.

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tom-delonge-blink182

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FYI this may be slightly exaggerated and meant as humor targeting addictive personality types. Possibly myself :eyes:

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Also welcome to the forum! Hopefully you find what you’re looking for here :slight_smile:

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truest thing I’ve seen today, although those post 2 AM decisions do create a lot of core memories

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Please don’t read that and start using chat GPT :joy: There’s no coming back from it.

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not my style, I like to go on tangents and ramble on when I write. That has to come from the soul or it isn’t authentic

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I feel a manifesto coming on