He’s right, though, that De Beers was largely responsible for creating the current consumer mystique around diamond jewelery. It was a marketing tour de force.

Sure, but those days are gone. They only have 30% of the market now.

“Diamonds may be rare and precious on Earth”.

Worse, most of the time, new folks first encounter the Space Marines through the Ultra Smurfs, who are about as vanilla as it gets within the wider lore.

In fairness, “new GW” (post Kirby firing in 2016) is actually doing a lot better. Sure, it’s still expensive as all hell, but they’re actually making an attempt at value again, and for the first time in the history of the company are doing things like “engaging with the community” and “market research” to give the…

I’ve followed 40k since the 80's, mainly for lore. It’s always been an interesting space—and quite massive. The level of detail added by the rise of their overpriced Black Library books has helped make an already expansive world even larger...

I consider it more of an update than a redesign.
Even when I was a kid, I thought the lycra suits were a bit underwhelming. This actually looks more like something you’d wear to battle.

Internet service is just a product.

Can you clarify - do you mean dates too young for radio dating, or too old?

This is one of those cases where no one actually believes it’s a threat, but everyone involved mumbles something along the lines of “better safe than sorry”, and claims it can be construed as a threat. Then they make a big deal about how they “had no choice” but to pretend this thing they knew wasn’t a threat was a…

You know, Pai is just slimy enough and so blatantly in big Telecoms pocket that I could see him being sacrificed by the Republicans as a good faith token. Net neutrality is a hot topic, Repubs could garner brownie points from the masses by just not doing anything and allowing the Dems to prosecute him.

I’m more of a Kotor fan myself

A government agency...taxpayer dollars spent for citizens and they’re barring people from attending...christ. This is America in the 21st century?

A dick screwing over more people that Ron Jeremy or Wilt Chamberlain

While, in effect, Pai may be obstructing congressional oversight of his agency by failing to respond to the members’ inquiries, Democrats are in the minority are therefore have no power to compel his response. Even formal questions for the record, passed along when agency officials fail to respond sufficiently in…

Huh imagine that. When you cede some of your legislative power to another branch of the government, sometimes they don’t feel like they need to answer to you. Doubly so if there’s very few consequences for your failing to do so.

Well there’s the problem, it’s addressed to the Honorable Ajit V. Pai

For real, plus the way he’s looking at her comes across more of “I wanna wear your skin like a leotard.” than “Please, do go on.”

THIS, SO MUCH THIS. They wonder why people pirate shit, because when you need to run 1 of 5 different services to stream whatever new movie came out, or you can’t rent it you can only buy it, or its only available in HD when you’d prefer 4k, or its just fucking frustrating to find even, what do you think is going to…

Comcast’s decision to bring cold hard cash to the table is a bold move that can’t be ignored.