Originally posted by: fcgamer
What I am talking about is stated nicely when people start asking why what is included in a full set matters so much to me, or why so-called elitist collectors want to belittle the achievements of others, etc. I would turn the comments around a bit and ask why do people insist on being a bit disingenuous with their collections, trying to make them out to be larger than they are. If no one cares about the so called full set, why are so many people concerned about trying to claim they own one, then attaching a billion Strings to go with it.
This is kind of a bad attitude. I'd say most people aren't doing it to pretend like their collection is huge, they are setting a realistic goals for themselves, and using a shorthand phrase, i.e. "full set." People hearing about someone's "illegitimate fullset" either a) Don't actually give 2 shits about this, because they have their own things in life to care about, or b) Are collectors themselves, and understand there HAVE to be strings attached.
"I have a fullset of NES games" is easy to say, and good enough for nearly any occassion. Do you really insist on people saying "I have a full set of licensed NES games that were commercially released and not recalled but only between the years 1985-1995 and only released in the US" every time they talk about it, just so you feel that they are being honest?
