I agree with a lot of what
@ChipEnvy said above. I just remember how AWESOME it was (seemed?) when one of the best/fun things going for the "community" on CT was the Pharaoh china clay group buy. Things just seemed more innocent and pure back then. I mean people were posting pr0n of china clay sets and we were all discussing them and excited about them. Now, you have to post pr0n of "grail" (hate that term) sets only it seems to get any kind of reaction (slight exaggeration but hopefully you get my point).
I get that there have been obviously more chips and more
types of chips introduced into the market since then, but my point is that we were all talking about chips regardless of status, cost, etc. It just seems now that there is too much snobbery going on nowadays. For crying out loud, new members are signing up and their first purchase is for $4+/chip Paulsons.
I don't know, just rambling right now sorry.