I gots me some epic lootz.

[Big Rick Cook]

So a little bit of backstory is needed here.

Two weeks ago, my brother called me up and told me that his in-laws had a couple neighbors in their trailer park that just up and disappeared about five months ago. The managers of the trailer park decided that the family (mom, dad, and two children) were never coming back, and they hadn't paid lot rental or any other bills in months, either, so they basically told a few people to come and clear out what they wanted before they paid someone to trash everything else and rent the trailer back out.

SOOOOO, he and his wife went and checked it out. They found a TREASURE TROVE of nerdy stuff. Tabletop RPG books in the dozens. Like nearly a hundred tabletop books. Star Wars toys, the big ones from the '70s, DVDs and VHS of every comic book, fantasy, sci-fi movie in existence. They found LARP gear. They found pr0n (terrible pr0n), they found everything. It was amazing.

He decided to go back one more time to clear out another room on Saturday, and I went with him just for a change of pace, and I got all kinds of cool stuff.

I netted a $25 Barnes & Noble gift card that had never been used. I got some Harry Potter hardcovers with it.

I got Asimov's Foundation series.

Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein.

Novelizations of Gremlins, Battlestar Galactica's '70s series, and Tron.

Couple of Marion Zimmer Bradley novels.

Hardcovers of Lord of the Rings Trilogy and The Hobbit, paperbacks of The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales.

An awesome bracer that I wore for a full day.

Two different replicas of THE ONE RING.

A $50 fantasy dagger.

A $200 fantasy claymore.

25 Dreamcast games (none of which are any good, or games I already own)

I'm in loot land.

[John Mora]

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Best part of the haul is the $25 gift card and the Foundation series.

But read the Robot novels first.

[Fushigi na Renamon]

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Wow. That is definitely some phat lewt. Congratulations on the epic find, Rick!

[Big Rick Cook]

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My brother's already sold half the books and toys he got. He's made $230 so far. I'm not selling ANYTHING.

[Kire]

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yeah, but you stole my friggin' CLOUDSONG!!!!

[JPS]

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I wasn't aware pillaging was still around these days...you savage!

[Big Rick Cook]

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Salvage.

I'm a SALVAGER.

Hee.

[Vonwert]

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I hope you washed the geek off you after you left the trailer

That is quite a find.

[Kire]

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did you also get you some bathin' apes?

[Big Rick Cook]

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God I WISH.

I would be so cool. Like Kanye West.

[Stormy]

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If you read the Robot books first it'll ruin the suprise at the end of Prelude to Foundation!

[Jamos]

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Poor guys are kidnapped by terrorists and then Rick takes all of their stuff.

[Sezjeuric]

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I netted a $25 Barnes & Noble gift card that had never been used. I got some Harry Potter hardcovers with it.

SOME???

How much does Barnes and Noble CHARGE?!?!

[The Toecutter]

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Awesome find. Opportunities like this don't come up too often.

Did they have any of the Heavy Metal graphic novels by chance?

[Perversion]

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This reminds me of what happened to me once, but I was on the receiving end of my stuff being taken. Anyone from the Pav would have rejoiced in the looting of my old apartment (700+ Cds, 400+ VHS/DVDs...mostly indie and foreign, SNES with about 15 games, monochrome Gameboy with about 15 games....the list goes on). Unfortunately, the people who probably ended up with most of it were barely literate crackheads who could probably never in a million years appreciate any of it.

Once, two older, probably close-to-being-homeless black guys were trying to sell me burned CDs and some other (probably stolen CDs) on a street corner. They tried to sell me some Three Doors Down or Limp Bizkit or Korn or something, and I told them, "I don't listen to that crap." So they asked me what I listened to. I told them they'd probably never heard of it before. They asked me, "Why? Because I'm black?" I told them, "No....most white people haven't even heard of the music I listen to."


So, yeah...unless there's some ghetto-dweller out there really getting into SNES Ogre Battle or Mazzy Star or Polanski's Repulsion, something tells me all that stuff ended up in the garbage.


"WHAT THE F*** is this s*** we're listening to?"
"WHAT THE F*** is this game with all these words? I just wanna shoot s***."
"I wanna see a movie with explosions and people getting killed....not this s*** where I've gotta read what everyone's saying because they're talking in some f***ed up language....and nothing's even happening. They're just standing there talking."

*sigh*