I agree with this, but it kind of goes to a related point. There is a kind of awkward feeling when I want a movie to do well because I’m a liberal and it’s doing something good, but I just don’t want to see it. I mean, I defended the Ghostbusters reboot having female leads, but then the previews started coming out and…

He’s like the stereotype of an evil fatcat. I wonder what the pro-Trump crowd will think of this. I keep hearing about how Jared and Ivanka are so great. They’ll keep Trump in line. They’re smart, and it’s good they are there. Yet, every actual piece of information we find out about either one of them makes them look…

I’ve voted by mail in Minnesota for the last two elections, since they changed the law so you could do that, and it is so much better. Not only do I avoid the line, and avoid having to figure out where I’m supposed to be voting, but I love sitting at a table with my laptop open and researching every candidate. I have…

Yeah, it is very complicated, though as long as you have bipartisan or non-partisan committees on it, you can do good work. Just looking at California’s map, which is done by a bipartisan commission, and it is pretty logical and smart.

I know there will be tons of Republicans who say this is rude or classless or over the line. To them, I will only ask one question: Is this more rude than the things Donald Trump has done? If the answer is “no” and you still support him, shut your mouth.

It’s estimated that it costs between 0.1 and 2 cents per Lego. They charge an average of 10.4 cents per piece, on top of a $7.34 base price (meaning a set with 0 pieces would theoretically cost $7.34). I get that there has to be a mark up of some sort. They have to pay for the license, design the things, package…

I don’t know. That seems too high for me. Tiny, mass produced pieces of plastic shouldn’t be going for that high, in my opinion.

I just mean that there is a basic economic principle that you can often make more money if you make the thing cheaper. You make less per item sold, but make up for that by selling far more. I think these things are selling to a small fraction of the people who might buy them if not for the high prices.

The reason I absolutely don’t buy that is that there are a few brands that do the same thing as Lego does, with licenses, and for massively cheaper. And the cost of design is basically nil compared to the number of units you are producing. Yeah, they have a full time design team, and those people need to be paid,…

Plastic isn’t cheap? Nor is mass producing it? Wow...

9 cents for a tiny piece of plastic that is mass produced? I’m not sure that is a fair price. I think this set looks great, but that price is ridiculous. All Lego prices are ridiculous.

The thing that baffles me about Lego, especially the big sets, is how do they make money at those prices? Every time I see one of these, I think “I would love that, but I’d never pay that for it.” I have to think there are a ton more people out there like me.

That’s a fair point.

It still seems a little odd they’d leave him out. I mean, yeah, leave him out of the single player campaign, but it’s a fighting game. There’s not a lot of reason to leave him off the roster altogether, especially since they have the character built from the previous game.

When people bring up Teras Kasi now, I only hear bad things. I had it at the time, and loved it, but I haven’t played it since, so I really can’t judge it. But I’d love to try it again.

I saw your comment, and had to rush to Wikipedia to try to figure out why you called him a parody of Cable. I guess I can see it.

Reviewers debate whether you need to complete a game in order to review it. I get that with a book or movie, obviously you’d have to complete it, but the main way you rate a game is on mechanics, not narrative, and so if you’ve seen all there is to see mechanically, you don’t necessarily need to complete it. Plus,…

Speaking out about this type of thing helps the market decide. Controversies like this do drive down ticket sales. I agree that the market will ultimately make the decision, but this helps affect that. Saying nothing isn’t going to do anything.

He put 34 hours in before he experienced this and then more time dealing with support and having a temporary fix that didn’t hold. He’s put in his time. Both for him and for IGN, at some point it’s not necessarily worth it to keep someone on the game for longer than that. It isn’t their fault the thing was fucked…

I think that is not a very safe assumption. Perhaps this bug was that rare, but we are seeing quite a few people had it. A minority, sure, but still a lot of people.