The box that Doom comes in will play Doom
The box that Doom comes in will play Doom
Apologies if this breaks any rules about promotion, but Limited Run Games is a pretty cool outfit, and this is some pretty awesome merch.
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I was wondering what the catch was here, since Limited Run Games is widely known for producing absolute shit products branded as collectibles. $700 for this, lmao.
LRG is the company that sold $150 CD-Rs for 3DO, produced NES cartridges that can fry consoles with unsafe voltage (big preservation W, amirite?), pressed vinyl records from lossy compressed source audio, regularly sells "physical collectible games" that require patches, and justifies the low quality of their "premium collectible" products by saying that their customers don't play the games so it's okay.
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"Look at all this future landfill!" - Mike Stoklasa
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The most gen-x/millenial throwback thing about this set is the random card pack that has a chance to include a "signed cacodaemon rookie card". Genuinely funny that you'd have to buy multiples of this set to try and collect the whole set of cards.
I don't mind this stuff, I mean people spend stacks of cash on far more worthless and non-functional collectactables.
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I assume the Box plays a video of Doom? I don't See any controls, and it says the Box plays Doom, not that you can play it with the Box.
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this is one of the most stupid ideas i've ever heard. I love it
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You can probably still get signed box sets of sigil 1 and 2 direct from John Romero. Plus you avoid LRG as a perk.
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So like $150 of stuff for $666... lmao
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Ah you see, there will only be 666 copies sold, so most of that price is just for the privilege of being able to buy it!
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Yeah I'm not seeing the value anywhere near the price. Playing a box holds virtually no value to me.
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Fuck me, that's kinda awesome... buuuut...
For fuck's sake, Limited Run Games? Will the discs be on CD-Rs and the floppies be of the 5.25 variety just to really fuck people off? I really like the idea of Limited Run but their attitude to consumers is fucking awful.
I've got a massive id collection (up as far as Quake 4 anyway), but I'm really torn on this one.
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$666.66, the price of an Apple I lol
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Handheld Cacodemon
-plays Doom--
This is the only part of this set that I actually want
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Funny to see someone calling LRG a cool outfit. I'm so used to reading seething hate towards them on reddit. I'm pretty neutral towards them, personally.
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I'm just gonna say it.
Not everything needs to be a meme.
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I couldn't resist
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Hah. Hey, I walked right into that one. That one gets to be a meme.
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How tf can they get the caco to float above the magnet? Attached with a string or something?
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It is done entirely with magnets.
There's a few ways it can be arranged, but typically, there will be a large, powerful magnet in the base, a small magnet at the bottom of the floating object that is attracted to the big magnet (to keep the object upright), and a series of other magnets around the object that are repelled by the big magnet (to make it float).
I've seen some that use a secondary "key" magnet on the base and object that is the opposite polarity of the base magnet, that forces the object to sit in a specific orientation. Otherwise, the object can just kind of freely spin/float, so long as the bottom magnet stays pointing down.
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They've clearly manufactored a room temperature Superconductor just to have a floating demon on a magnet. Almost makes it worth the $666 price tag
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