It’s almost like the entire narrative is just bad faith tribalism.

I thought Nintendo games never went on sale? 🤯

It’s new math. In this new approach, the important thing is to understand what you’re doing rebroadcast the narrative, rather than to get the right answer.

Sometimes I think my main hobby is collecting boxes, and my secondary hobby is building Gunpla.

- OP

Your box collection must be astounding if beauty like this is your side gig.

There’s different quantity limits on different items. Some are only one per.

That said, the mods weren’t scalping (at least as far as I know). Unlike a lot of other storefronts, once you put something in your cart on PB, it can’t be sold out from under you. So people were loading up their carts and just letting them sit. Then someone on discord would say “is for me? 👉👈” or whatever, and someone would remove one from their cart while the other person refreshed like mad. They did this for HOURS when the II Neo Zeong was reprinted a few years ago. Their justification was that they were making sure the kits were received by fans and not gobbled up by scalpers. But it’s still gatekeeping. People who weren’t part of that Reddit/discord clique? Well, they can get fucked I guess. 🙄

I cannot articulate how perfect this synopsis is.

I paid dearly for mine. Compound interest is a bitch.

Its saving grace is that pretty much everything comes back around if you’re patient enough. I absolutely hate the timed preorder game, especially when there’s not enough quantity to last more than a few minutes. I have missed every PB Efreet drop. 🙃 And then there’s nonsense like the r/Gunpla mods running interference by loading up their carts with something in high demand (like, say, II Neo Zeong) and letting them go one or two at a time to make sure the in-crowd on discord can get their orders in. Buncha bullshit.

I have red-logo kits from the mid 2000s that I haven’t touched. And until I went broke I kept buying more. Completionnaire’s Disease is a bitch.

USA getting P-Bandai was a blessing and a curse.

I’ve done some seriously stupid shit in excel, mostly due to it being the only tool I had. By the time I handed the project off to someone else for maintenance/feature creep, there were VLOOKUP ranges spanning dozens of columns. VLOOKUP doesn’t care what column the target is named, only the offset from the beginning of the range. So being able to calculate CA minus W is pretty handy.

Yes, the project should have been a database. But these things happen when skinflint company meets annoyed amateur: you get a sprawling VBA abomination that, despite making actual developers want to choke a bitch, still works orders of magnitude better than the previous system.

That’s the general gist of the standard advice, yeah.

This is the superior Zeta color scheme. Looking forward to the finished product!

Seasons for me. It’s where I started and it will always have that special place. Runner up would be God Hates Us All. While I appreciate their early stuff, I think South of Heaven is where they really started to grow as musicians.

The backfire effect, as presented by The Oatmeal:

https://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe

If you have a hatchback, it’s even easier. Lean in, start the car, roll down the windows, walk around to the hatch. I don’t even bother doing more than one open and close anymore.

A similar situation is happening with the Colorado River:

https://youtu.be/d3Lt58tTYFk

Me seeing the thumbnail: cool, real type Zaku Gouf

Me reading the post: holy shit dude freestyled

Nice 👊

To my knowledge, they never made the teased sequel. Booooooo!

Great movie.

Good news, everyone!

(Not really good news)