Crack Digital Tv

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— Ookla The Mok, 'Stop Talking About Comic Books or I'll Kill You' Being a geek is hard. But never mind any social stigma, or trying to explain your hobbies to other people. The hardest hits in Geekdom go straight to your bank account. Perhaps because they feel that they don't reach a wide audience, makers of charge a pretty penny for their wares. It doesn't help that geeks are as into their interests as any Sports fan is into his favorite team, which is to say a lot. Just because their bobbleheads are more likely to be than football players, doesn't mean they're not like the rest of mankind. Just in different ways.

Can be made worse by the hardcore 's preference for overpriced merchandise. This guy wants geek paraphernalia to be overpriced because he wants to be the only one on the block who can afford to own it. If an item costs $9.99, then any old fan, even one who has a mortgage and bills to pay, can afford it; but if it costs $129.99 and comes with the fake totally legitimate signature of the fandom's creator, then only a true fan would spend so much of his mother's money to purchase it.

This is a dream come true for the manufacturer, who would much rather sell 10,000 items at a $128 profit margin than 50,000 items at an $8 profit margin. Additionally, because the in-roads and availability of material related to the hobby seems so tenuous, the will be willing to pay inflated prices to ensure that material keeps being produced. Of course, the rise of the internet has proven there is a breaking point, as many anime licensees have found out: expecting people to pay $40 for a good seventy-five minutes of entertainment that can easily be distributed online may soon put you out of business. As these hobbies become more mainstream, the prices will often fall. Many fans then find that the situation doesn't get all that much better, as the lowered prices simply encourage them to get more.

Since these hobbies are so expensive, ads for them count as, just at fans of these instead of the upper class. Obviously, this trope doesn't just apply to 'geek' culture. People can be obsessed with collecting just about anything note Which is why this page is for in-universe examples only, because it 'The thing I like is expensive!' , ranging from guns to sports memorabilia to classic cars and everything in between. The prices for some items can be absurdly high, depending on how rare the item is and how much money collectors are willing to shell out. • has a main set of characters, the Medabots themselves, as expensive to buy and maintain. (Justified, in the fact that they are built to shoot missiles, lasers and other things.) •, in-universe & in real life.

Those cute little Shinki can • Their, the, has this crop up as well, both in-universe and in real life. In episode 4, when the girls start making their own 'rooms' inside a bookshelf, the Materia Twins end up using such luxurious and expensive materials that they end up using up Ao's first paycheck from Frame Advance. She's understandably angry with them for this. • has the Air Treks that are expensive, comparable to what you'd expect from rollerblades with motors, necessitating the teens to work part-time. Unless it's provided for them. Vsam Files In Informatica more.

• Possibly justified by the fact that wearing them apparently allows the user to violate physics. • Definitely justified by the fact that wearing them lets you jump several stories and move close to 100 MPH. If anything, the fact students on a part time job can afford them makes them cheap for what you get • In the characters have all the money hangups of online gamers, but the technology is much better (read: More expensive). Add to that the price of Netrooms when a home computer isn't available, it's no wonder most of them can barely afford it. • Yoshii of spends all his food allowance on anime and manga. He gets around this by eating ridiculously small meals, including sugar water.

• In the series, the main protagonists often spend so much money on books that they have no money for food, much to the dismay of the one Paper Sister who isn't a bibliomaniac. • In: • The girls discuss this trope when they talk about how Japanese people seem to love limited edition items.

Herself does this a lot, often buying limited edition items that are hard to get. • It might be related to the aesthetic ideal of wabi-zabi, and to the Zen idea of the impermanence of all things—that wouldn't be the oddest place in Japanese culture that wabi-zabi has turned up. • This trope is also in the mini-series The Empty Stomachs of the Miyakawas. The titular family in in exactly because the older sibling was trying to fit her hobbies into a bookstore staff wage. • In, Yamazaki, who is already a massive otaku with shelves packed full of manga, DVDs, and figurines, gets Satou into the hobby and trains him to buy things on impulse. But Satou doesn't have much money to spare, so this just accelerates him towards bankruptcy.

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• Hinted at in. While never specifically stated that cards cost vast sums of money, they do mention that the packs do cost something, assumably about the same as they do in real life. Considering that the characters are playing the game for a living, and that the rarer cards are more or less unique or very close to it note ex. Stair Designer Rus 򮰥񪠷᳼. Dark Magician is only seen once outside of Yugi's deck. Not only is it a different color, after winning the duel, he gained possession of the card. The three Blue-Eyes White Dragon cards in Kaiba's deck are explicitly the only ones in existence (there used to be a fourth, but Kaiba destroyed it to maintain his own deck's uniqueness).

And it's strongly implied that the 5-card Exodia set Yugi once possessed was the only one ever printed., so presumably they spend even more money building their decks than professionals do in real life. • The manga chapter introducing the card game (chapter 9) has Sugoroku mention that some people have.

• This is a borderline Meta example since it's based on, but shows the opposite side of this trope with some people who make a living off it. The Harrisons frequently buy things because they know they'll be able to resell them to collectors who are willing to pay huge sums of money for antique guns, classic cars, historic documents, pop culture memorabilia, etc. Though sometimes one of them will buy such items for their own collections, especially if Rick encounters a rare item connected to his idol.

• On both and the word 'boat' is said to be an acronym for 'Bust Out Another Thousand'. Note This is one of the three most popular jokes amount boat owners. The others being that a boat is 'a hole in the water that you pour money into' and that 'the two happiest days of a boat owners life are the day he buys his boat and the day he sells it.' • plays both sides of this trope as it's about a comic book and toy shop that is run by fanboys. • In, the fellas play a card game called Mystic Warlords of Ka'a. One episode sees the release of an absurd Wild West and Witches expansion pack, which Raj describes as 'like a secret tax for guys who cannot get laid'.

Moments after, the four have shelled out $25 each for the expansion. Raj will later show off his Wild West and Witches collector's tin.

• An episode of had Dick becoming to, to the point he begins to lose control of his family's finances. • In, Murtaugh actually says this word-for-word when a posh hotel bar bills him $14 for a bog-standard soda. •: The plot is kicked off by and thus stranding themselves in Japan. Later, Dom and Ed send them money to get home.

• also shares their. • Mentioned by in. • There exists an aptly named webcomic titled. Many of the jokes resolve around the absurd price of Magic cards, like. • In, collecting BDSM equipment turns out to be Ally's only recreational spending outlet. When her partner Lisa asks Ally how much has been spent on all this stuff, Ally refuses to answer. Is that it's been forty grand.

Alan banned her from spending more on this stuff for this very reason. • has this opinion about. • 's spinoff show Bootleg Zones has the Galaxy Warriors (a line of action figures based on ) due to how many sublines, spinoffs, variants and bootlegs the figures have. He often refers to them as the 'Galaxy Black Hole' or 'Galaxy-Hole' when discussing them. • It gets to the point where, while revisiting Turtles Fighters for his, Phelous discovers that the figures he's showcasing actually use accessories bootlegged from a Galaxy Warriors bootleg line, making Turtles Fighters part of the Galaxy-Hole by association.