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Originally Posted by the ikara cult

Ive never understood that mentality myself, its the same with people who collect model trains and dont play with them or people who buy vinyl and never play it. Its not quite hoarding and its not quite obsessing. Theres something Freudian about it in any case

I know what you're saying. But this is the collector's mentality. It's something of the archivist's thinking, the way a museum curator hopes to preserve something in a nearly perfect state so that it can be seen as it was first intended.