I'm going to start a new currency backed by guitar pedals. It'll be a limited supply, sound money.
Just ask @vladcostea
@pete You'd be surprised to see how easily they can turn into collectibles. But it's only the first editions that are most valuable and a few brands that really count. If you buy clones, don't expect to ever recover your investment unless the person who made them gets famous.
They also tend to become more valuable when some famous artist records a hit with a particular model. But since rock is no longer in the charts, it's become more difficult to get songs that sell pedals.
@vladcostea "You'd be surprised to see how easily they can turn into collectibles."
I mean, beanie babies were a thing...
@pete Yeah, but beanie babies won't help you sound like THAT album and won't give you the special eureka moment that you get as soon as you figure out how some famous guitar player uses effects to get a particular sound.
TLDR: Beanie babies don't give you the joy of twisting knobs.
@vladcostea "the joy of twisting knobs"
Pff, your puny guitar pedals got nothing on @alyssa's modular synths.
@vladcostea @alyssa I mean, they are divisible... what about 1/10th of a modular synth rack?
@pete @vladcostea @alyssa Completely out of topic, but the mathematics behind the training of neural networks is like playing with modular synths.
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@pete @alyssa My simple brain can't compute that amount of complexity. Even pedals with more than 5 knobs give me a hard time figuring out what each one really does.
So in a post-nuclear apocalypse, I most likely won't accept modular synths as means of payment.