That means you're maladjusted and incompetent.
(I'm totally kidding--it was just teed up, and I couldn't resist. C'mon, we're Canadians.)
― clemenza, Tuesday, 16 February 2021 20:26 (three years ago) link
Hah, I was going to make a similarly (self-)deprecating joke, but you beat me to the punch.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 16 February 2021 20:30 (three years ago) link
I used to be a completist but learned it's better to be a curator.
(I have lots of baseball books that need to go, too)
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 16 February 2021 23:21 (three years ago) link
I definitely suffer from this sickness. Thankfully, I'm neither fervent nor wealthy enough to elevate it to the level of a crippling illness. It helps that my tendency is limited solely to books, comics, and physical copies of filmed media, but it turns out you can really do some damage even within those seemingly narrow parameters.
― The Mandolinrainian (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 16 February 2021 23:38 (three years ago) link
I have completist notions but run up against my own laziness. At one point I had it in mind to collect CBRs of all Marvels from FF#1 until Jim Shooter's elevation to EiC, early 1978, but then I realized how much work it would be.
― Motoroller Scampotron (WmC), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 00:06 (three years ago) link
I was an aspirational Boards of Canada completist until this happened:
www.discogs.com/Boards-Of-Canada-XXXXXX-/release/4516654
Never got the Old Tunes tapes either, of course, but I still actually want those
― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 00:13 (three years ago) link
Another example for me: these puzzles.
http://www.rediscoverjigsawpuzzles.com/
I bought the Dylan, Rolling Stones, Grateful Dead, and Jackson Browne on sale about a decade ago, $10 each. I stupidly passed on the Johnny Cash, two or three of which would pop up in that particular store for the next year or two. Then it was gone, and I never saw it again. I started checking online a few years ago, but with shipping and exchange, it'd now cost upwards of $30 at least. I've also discovered the Hendrix, Bowie, and Nirvana puzzles make up the complete set. I keep checking periodically, and will probably still be checking the day I die.
I'm sure I don't even need to say this: I don't do jigsaw puzzles. They sit on a shelf downstairs unopened.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 01:02 (three years ago) link
― The Mandolinrainian (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 01:15 (three years ago) link
The least I can say is that I do regularly engage with the spoils of my completionist impulses (like, I do keep watching the pre-Code movies I keep amassing). It's just that at a point I know I will have collected more stuff than I can read or watch within the number of years I have remaining. And I suppose I'll have to finally draw a line when/if I fill up the storage unit i rent to deal with the runoff.
― The Mandolinrainian (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 01:24 (three years ago) link
clemenza, your puzzle example makes me think of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_OH78jHz6w
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 01:58 (three years ago) link
That's good! My puzzle quest makes me think of Damone ridiculing Ratner in Fast Times at Ridgemont High: "You bought forty dollars worth of fucking film, and you don't even own a camera."
― clemenza, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 02:14 (three years ago) link
Oh hey - Images of America - that's something worth being completist about!
I think I've only been this way about certain comics.
― Cancel "Orangina", Please (I M Losted), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 12:06 (three years ago) link