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10-20-2021, 02:01 PM
Stormtrooper12
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That's just too fucking rich! I love supposedly grown-ass adults who obsess over kid's toys calling others mentally ill. Jesus fuck, you do know you're an aberration, right? Normal adults don't give a fuck about toys beyond the ones their kids want and/or those of the sexual variety, but here we all are, spending way too much time talking seriously about this stupid shit. Seriously, no adult who collects toys is standing on firm enough mental or emotional ground to pass mental health judgements on anyone.
I am absolutely tired of this way of thinking. It makes no sense whatsoever.
Adult toys come in many different shapes and sizes. Thinking that collecting the action figure variety is enough to say one is mentally unstable is stupid. One guy from work put it this way “boys don’t change, their hobbies just get more expensive”.
Someone who collects AR15s could be considered just as much of a looney as us. Who the fuck needs 20 1300 dollar ARs? No one, there is no way to make a practical excuse for having that many. The same goes with motorcycles, miniatures, dioramas, painting, video games, etc. Some people simply collect seeds or postal stamps.What about those stupid lifted pavement princess trucks? The dumb RAMs that are lifted, yet useless offroad, bad for hauling a trailer, and bad work trucks in general. Those are nothing besides big hot wheels cars. They just exist to have fun. This can be said for just about anything an adult uses to cool off with and take a break, they are all toys. Some are just more expensive, and more complex.
The underlying factor is that to a degree none of those things are practical. Sure you can say that one might need at least a few AR15s, maybe a truck gun, house gun, long barrel AR10, and a 22 to kill rodents with. But most gun collectors don’t simply buy guns to use them for a practical purpose. They have a few to fit that need, but the rest are for reasons just a s stupid as “its from COD”, or “its from a movie”, or “it looks cool bro”, or “cus fuck it, why not”.
Fuck maybe we are more sane then anyone else. At least by collecting Joes we aren't spending 60,000 on a truck we don’t need. Or building monthly AR’s that drain our savings accounts. Or just shooting ammo that is hard to get anyways. We do none of that. Most of us seem to just buy a few figures a month, and make a big investment a few times a year. And unlike cars which lose value, or ammo wich you can’t regain its lost value after shooting it, you can sell your figures. So maybe we are the most mature, most financially responsible adults with hobbies out there.
DT’s problem can happen to anyone in any of those other realms of adult entertainment. Addiction and mental illness happens all the time to many different people.
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