J T wrote:except for the programmers and engineers who make the automaton
Well I'm glad I work in industrial automation then.
Machine learning will eventually make us programmers and engineers obsolete too though.
We'll always need teachers, so I reckon I'm pretty safe. Even if we go super "student driven learning" bullshit, you'll still need a teacher to answer students' questions, explain complex issues, modify instructional material based on learning disabilities and academic level, and evaluate assessments.
People may make snide jokes like "Those who can't do teach," but people can't do without being taught. Many of us have probably taught ourselves skills, but for most people - and especially in more complicated and advanced fields - a teacher is a necessity.
ElkinFencer10 wrote:We'll always need teachers, so I reckon I'm pretty safe. Even if we go super "student driven learning" bullshit, you'll still need a teacher to answer students' questions, explain complex issues, modify instructional material based on learning disabilities and academic level, and evaluate assessments.
People may make snide jokes like "Those who can't do teach," but people can't do without being taught. Many of us have probably taught ourselves skills, but for most people - and especially in more complicated and advanced fields - a teacher is a necessity.
Well, I've known for years that the Republicans are trying to put me out a job. Why do you think no one ever moves TO North Carolina to teach? The fucking exodus wasn't about Moses and the Israelites' fleeing Egypt (of which, btw, there is zero evidence outside of the Bible itself that it actually occurred); it was a premonition about teachers' fleeing North Carolina under the oppression of Führer McCrory.
It might be futile, but I still can't help but think that at some point a light bulb will go off in everyone's head that you can get these games a million different ways and for much cheaper than finding/buying the physical media. The number of people interested in old games (or interested in them again) is large right now. I imagine the number of people that care about the actual physical copies has to be a minority percentage of that. I guess emulators and multicarts just aren't well known enough? Like I have a copy of Panic Restaurant. It's on a Chinese cart with almost 200 games on it that I paid like $15 for. I could've paid nothing had I just emulated it in about 30 seconds.
I guess until multicarts start popping up with every NES game on them free and clear or emulators become mainstream we'll continue to have these prices. Everyone has their limit as well. Some don't mind the prices. Personally I do since anything over $30 is steep for me (at least to buy often) considering I can play almost any game any time I want. Literally almost any game, and that's no different for anyone else that has an internet connection. For that reason I have quite a hard time reconciling these prices, especially when no one can make sense of the prices of most games anyways other than saying "the market dictates" and leaving it at that.
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Snatch1414 wrote:It might be futile, but I still can't help but think that at some point a light bulb will go off in everyone's head that you can get these games a million different ways and for much cheaper than finding/buying the physical media. The number of people interested in old games (or interested in them again) is large right now. I imagine the number of people that care about the actual physical copies has to be a minority percentage of that. I guess emulators and multicarts just aren't well known enough? Like I have a copy of Panic Restaurant. It's on a Chinese cart with almost 200 games on it that I paid like $15 for. I could've paid nothing had I just emulated it in about 30 seconds.
I guess until multicarts start popping up with every NES game on them free and clear or emulators become mainstream we'll continue to have these prices. Everyone has their limit as well. Some don't mind the prices. Personally I do since anything over $30 is steep for me (at least to buy often) considering I can play almost any game any time I want. Literally almost any game, and that's no different for anyone else that has an internet connection. For that reason I have quite a hard time reconciling these prices, especially when no one can make sense of the prices of most games anyways other than saying "the market dictates" and leaving it at that.
To beat that dead horse some more, emulation =/= owning the physical media. Yes, it's the same game to be played, but that's not why people are paying the current market's prices. Emulation is not a secret, and it's not any sort of answer to the market, either. Some people would just rather spend lots of money on the original product.
Stuff that far back is hard to corroborate, period. There's a lot of indirect speculation, which is what we do with lots of cultures where there is little or no hard archeological evidence.
Anyway, as regarding video games, I don't think they're at the level of baseball cards, because as others have mentioned, they do have a use beyond just collecting them. Furthermore, they weren't explicitly made to be collectible, which is why they are actually collectible. I believe that many of the older games will level out eventually as future generations care less about the games in question, or just obtain them digitally. Until then, though, it's going to stay pretty stable-to-increasing in prices across the board.
pretty good analogy! i guess that fits better than say early 90s comics, because while we absolutely have rampant speculation going, we're missing the chromium-eque publisher fleecing trends stuff...since as you said, no new product is being made here.
the crash & burn will be glorious. i hope to net many a master system/etc title from weeping resellers in the coming years.
