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Quoted from Concretehardt:Since games are so soft right now does anyone want to make me a smoking deal on there IMDN LE
No.
“The bubble is bursting!!!!” Except only for Houdini.
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Quoted from JodyG:If Jack could figure out how to sell his base model for $6500, he would eat Stern's lunch.
He already figured that out when he released WOZ at $6500 originally.
All you have to do is be willing to lose money on every game.
Quoted from cait001:I bought a Mazda CX5 three years ago and it's worth LESS now? WTF
Cars are not pinball machines.
Always the fatal flaw in a cargument, in that whatever is being compared to a car is usually a radically different thing.
Quoted from yancy:Going to hop on my pro-cargument soapbox. Sometimes a car analogy works, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes a food analogy works. I don't see anyone clutch their pearls and yell "foodgument!" when someone compares a JJP CE to a steak and a Stern pro to a hamburger.
If anything, a car is almost too close a value comparison to a pin (especially these days), which forces people to clarify that no, in fact, a pinball machine is not a car. No shit Sherlock, that's why language provides analogies.
This is not a valid analogy. It’s a fallacy.
You pro cargumenters just keep the ruse going however.
Almost 100 percent of cars will experience 100 percent depreciation over 20 years. Couldn’t be a more apples and oranges fallacy.
That’s before you even get into the fact that a car is a completely different product with a completely different purpose and uses than a pinball machine.
The ONLY THING a car has in common with a pinball machine is that it is a thing you can buy and sell that contains plastic and steel. Pretty sorry basis for an “analogy.”
You need to brush up on your detective skills, Sherlock!
Quoted from TheLaw:Remember that time o-din made a couchgument? Good times.
I thought he only did burritoguments
Quoted from TheLaw:He tried branching out...some say that's what lead to his demise.
How is it possible he isn't back yet? He lives for this shit!
Quoted from yancy:I wasn't defending that particular cargument, nimrods. (I agree with you, it was wrong!) I took issue with Levi's blanket assertion that all carguments are inherently invalid. Reading comprehension, it's a thing.
If you ever spot a valid cargument, please post it here, as I'd love to finally see one after all these years.
Hint: carguments comparing cars to guns, cigarettes, the confederate flag, and pinball machines are all invalid.
I'm an open-minded guy! If I see a cargument that holds water, I'll fess up to it.
Quoted from Yelobird:Kind of the same thinking I had coming from the car "collector" world. In my view the Difference with the cargument theory is that cars have a Much longer cycle. Look at most Any car pre 1970 and odds are they Have increased over NIB value Today! Back then however, like pinball, they depreciated the second they were driven away. Heck even my 1970 Gremlin is worth more then it cost NIB and that entire AMC company turned to dust...
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Is that counting inflation?
It ain't a pinball argument without an inflation calculator!
I think we could agree the car survival rate is much lower than pinball machines as well?
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Quoted from dung:All this bitching from people with too much time on their hands and here I am just enjoying my Houdini. Buddy was over last night, loves it too. Granted I am in it for 5k and had to do a bit of work to it,
How much work did this almost brand new game need?!
Quoted from wesman:and I feel AP has jumped into this ring, and went toe to toe, regarding production, quality, and above all....a NON licensed theme, in a genuinely successful manner. .
Everybody says they want NON licensed themes and then they don't buy them.
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