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Bitter sweet because I'm pretty sure this means we lost real one. RIP

It's church thrift store run by elderly people and they get overwhelmed and will just toss anything on a whim. They practically give away the stuff they do sell.

The others that were piled up in the bottom of the box. Some of the discs had fallen out of the cases and sleeves but they all seemed fine except for one: Half-Life GOTY disc got a few tiny fatal cracks. A lot of software and bargain bin games have been excluded.

There were two discs that go with two joysticks I have. I have a sidewinder somewhere but couldn't bother looking for it for the pic. https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/1860493f-80f8-44e0-9a02-bf763c6224c1.jpeg

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[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I share your lego trauma.

Mine didnt throw away my lego, they just dumped them all into one box.. then threw away the boxes and the manuals, which.. to me at least, was worse. I'd have prefered if the legos had been thrown away in addition to the boxes and manuals.

and they did it while i was a kid and still actively playing with them.

I cant even remember what lego sets I had anymore, outside of like.. one big set. So I cant even search for manuals online.

[–] kossa@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Erm...but the manuals are all online, though? So, I feel you, that it would be cooler with the actual manuals, but still having the bricks...is cool, I guess.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I cant even remember what lego sets I had anymore, outside of like… one big set. So I cant even search for manuals online.

[–] kossa@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago

I was in a kinda similar position. Browse Lego sets of that time, a lot came back to me that way.