It's like the intro of Idiocracy. The so-called free market that collectards claim is naturally balancing itself no longer exists. Just as humans have fully stepped out of the natural selection cycle. Collectards are the white trash who can't keep track of who they're knocking up and credit cards sustain collectards artificially longer, just as medical science saved Jim Bob(?)'s testicles after he jumped a jet ski into a swimming pool.
Just as scary as it is how rapidly we're catching up to the future society seen in Idiocracy (much faster than we've been progressing towards the future seen in BttF2), we are also racing towards that kind of inevitablity in the world of video games on general, but particulary the "retro" scene.
Frito is a perfect representation of today's collectard. His explanation of how he's good at sex is much more articulate that the average collectard's forum comments. His befriending of the hot coffee guy is accurately encapsulates collectard encounters. "Wow, you like games and money too? We should hang out!"
"The years passed, collectards became stupider at a frightening rate. Some Pcenginefx members had high hopes that updated price guides would correct this trend in evolution, but sadly the greatest minds and resources where focused on realistic bootlegs, Posterity Editions and Magical Game Factory gems."
"Unaware of what kind of forum it was, xelement5x wandered the threads desperate for game discussion. But the collectard language had deteriorated into a hybrid of grade values, rarity, haul pickups and various grunts. xelement5x was able to understand them, but when he spoke using reason and facts, he sounded pompous and faggy to them."
