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People paying thousands for shoes are called airheads


Cornerstone of big business.

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Same could he said for people who play video games. You game much?

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Not really the same since a video game can be mentally stimulating and give you a longer period of entertainment than a shoe

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A great many people derive positive feelings from fashion, and people that wear Jordan’s take care of them or maybe just collect them. My point is that singling out a group of people who find joy in something as harmless as buying, collecting, selling sneakers is hypocritical.
I enjoy a good video game every now then, but for every sneakerhead out there, there is someone wasting their life away playing video games, 3, 5, 7 hours a day. What you call stimulating, I would call cognitive regression. And I was simply using it as example of how people are quick to project their subjective and judgmental viewpoints on to others without considering aspects of their own lives that other people may feel the same way about.

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Like you are doing now?

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Not at all, just pointing out that OP is a pot calling the kettle black is all.

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My father would take vacations he could not afford, and then guilt me into "loaning" him money to pay the mortgage. He said there was an indescribable feeling hitting the clear blue water in whatever exotic locale. I asked how he feels about a man who buys a five-thousand-dollar suit. He said they're "stupid." But what about the feeling they enjoy? The compliments, the attention? And that suit will last for a while.

We can say that most things are pointless. It's also gone full circle: When it comes to video games, people spend money on clothes for their characters. I inherited the mortgage. In the end, the property should be worth considerably more than what I put into it. The vacation experiences were not passed down. The pictures of those visits are on a hard drive somewhere; I have no interest in looking at them.

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Another “indescribable feeling”: having the marshals evict you and your family from a foreclosed home because your father didn’t pay the mortgage.

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lol, what a silly comparison. 1 thing costs a fraction of the other.

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Who pays thousands for a videogame?
Doesn't make sense.
$70-80 tops.

How do you even correlate two things so incredibly far removed?

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People who go to shit movies like this call themselves cinephiles so they have an excuse to be watching shitty movies they're embarrassed aren't actually good

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No, you don't know what to expect if you don't read reviews or watch trailers.

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Killing for them as well.

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