Gamer spends half a million pounds on skins for a video game character

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[–]Alienhunter 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

You really gotta love whomever came up with the idea of selling people "collectable" lines of code. False scarcity indeed.

[–]notafed 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

"A fool and his money are soon parted."

[–]grassfed 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

😮

[–]BanditMcFuklebuck 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

pounds of what?

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I can only assume they mean 1-pound bricks of cheddar cheese. Its the only possible explanation

[–]Alphix 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Hey, the guy might have a NAV of 20 billion quid for all I know, 500k is nothing.