Yeah. In any event, it’s a very poorly designed console in terms of its shape. It’s really just terrible, and so much seems like it’s in place to make up for that? Because I’m positive this shape wasn’t for any engineering purpose beyond Sony thinking this is what people wanted. Faux future chic........

I don’t like the vertical, but the thing is so freaking huge that it’s just legitimately easier to find space for it that way.

Yeah, agreed. And the nice part about countering with Rogue or Enchantress is that their utility isn’t niche, where Shang-Chi’s is far more limited.

I think there’s also a reality that the vast majority of “Aliens!” people have absolutely no clue about the timelines of antiquity. I think, to them, they are all simultaneous, sort of like thinking all Dinosaurs lived at the same time.

I totally get where you’re coming from. I’m just trying to point out that slave-built structures in regions we have white-washed in our current cultural narrative around race (namely, Grecian and Roman structures) are almost never the subject of the “aliens!” conspiracies, despite also having produced technically…

The motivation is racism from the perspective that these cultures are being extraordinarily under-valued, because they couldn’t possibly have built something so grand.

Also true of most impressive, older structures in the West.

The problem with how snapping is currently implemented is that using snapping any time other than the start means an opponent is more likely to leave and you end up with just 1.

I’ve seen almost no advertising for it, whatsoever.

Yeah. Shang-Chi is absurdly fun to completely shatter a lucky infinaut play. But it’s not enough of a use case to actually use him.

Shang-Chi looks great on paper. But there are two big factors against it.

The biggest thing is that the OT ship designs, having been based in the idea of having interesting textures, translate so well to lego. As time went on, and ships transitioned so heavily to CGI, they got sleeker.

I’m seriously considering grabbing the tie bomber. It having no stickers also makes it super nice...

Counterpoint - the Tomb Raider movies are amazing as long as you go in expecting so-bad-they’re-good, campy, 90s action-comedy.

That’s valid, kid. Don’t settle for the “it was all a dream” trope!

Oh yeah, I definitely think the value skyrockets for a kid.

Awww, yay. I’m happy you loved it so much! It’s always nice to hear things that I was meh about are beloved by someone else.

Having bought it while I had Covid over the summer, did I enjoy it? Sure. But tbh it doesn’t live up to the memory of the original. Even with whatever updates they made (if any), it feels dated.

D0n’t give me that bullshit. Yeah, there is a small subset of trans* folks who are still buying HP merch. There are hyper conservative trans* folks like Caitlyn Jenner, and others who have written pro-JKR op-eds. That doesn’t mean they represent even a significant minority of the community, let alone the majority.

There is a difference here.