by Rastak
plezercruz wrote:
Rastak wrote:
Shendue wrote:
I just received the game as a Christmas gift and I was thinking about how to preserve the components and avoid permanent modification.
I've read some arguments by both sides on the topic and i understand the reasoning in both, but they don't actually touch the point i'm concerned about.
Personally, i've always been morally STRONGLY against the very concept of wasting stuff. I think that our modern consumeristic society is a mess that leads to nothing good, as it is, and that we need to learn to recycle things as much as possible and limit drastically the amount of waste we, as a society, produce.
I've read of people complaining about the economic impact of the thing and the opposite side writing about the missed emotional factor, but nobody really isn't opposed to the very concept of destroying perfectly working components not because of the economical value, but just because it's a waste?
Humanity creates in a year about 2.6 trillion pounds of garbage, the weight of about (i'm quoting a website about ecologic sustainability here) 7,000 Empire State Buildings.
I understand the concept of legacy games, about creating something special and unique by modifying permanently a game, but i can't fight the feeling that wasting new components because i can just buy another copy for 50 bucks is inherently wrong.
I've been educated since i was a kid about not to waste something unless it's strictly necessary. If my jeans are ripped, i cut them and recycle them as shorts, and i use the remains to make patches or as a rag; if my shirt as a hole in it, i repair it, or else i just wear it to sleep.
Therefore, to me, ripping cards and writing on a game board with permanent markers looks like throwing away edible food for fun or something like that. You write about emotional experiences, but the emotional experience of trashing something for the sake of it for me it's really like spitting in the face of a beggar asking for food while i use a 100 dollar bill to light up a cigar, and it isn't a thrill, it just feels terrible.
Burn it for fuel, it's not that complicated.
Pete (would keep all the plastic bits though)
Exactly. Play it, deface it then burn it for fuel saving a tiny tiny bit of oil or gas or coal or whatever shameful means the OP uses for electricity.
Mcdog (Never talks in the third person, oh wait.....)