Is there a difference? Because I make it known that I don’t buy “fixed-pose” items because I like to pose my figures, but then my buddies like to give me shit for buying amiibo and DBZ capsule figures.

Yup. It wasn’t so much Star Wars, but Pokemon that made me a loser in high school.

I actually saw one in-person last month at a local toy show. The guy was selling the stripped-down base vehicle for $60, and he had multiples of all the panels, doors, and removable bits for sale at $30 a pop.

Packaging I’m more forgiving on since I open my stuff. I picked up an S.H.Figuarts Mighty Morphin Pink Ranger (who goes for around $150 now) for $18 at Barnes and Noble because someone got too happy with a box cutter and sliced open the back of the box.

It’s become a thing with me. “The Choosing Process” is what my friends call it when I start picking up each and every sample of a figure to make sure the paint is good.

I keep hoping they’ll reissue it with a rectangle radar dish.

Being ostracized for being into nerdy/geeky things was a real thing when I was in high school, but then I went to college and found out that there are a lot more people who like this stuff than don’t. Then the superhero moves took over. I distinctly remember being laughed at for wanting to go see the first “Spider-Man…

The fact that he’s NOT saying “don’t harrass innocent people” says a lot.

Better than the concept art?

America: We’d rather risk getting screwed over for being assholes than being pussies.

Pfft. I’m American and I still have no idea. But those dudes who think one assault rifle, a shotgun, a pistol, and a garage full of ammo is going to let them fend off the entire US Army are ridiculous either way.

I saw a news story yesterday where guns will be allowed in Texas campuses and instructors are worried it will change classroom dynamics. Hell yeah it will—how you gonna debate some asshole who has a pistol on his hip? Even if you know there’s a 99.9% chance he won’t pop off and threaten you, just *knowing* it’s there…

That AR-15 isn’t gonna do much good when you get drone’d from ten miles away.

Ain’t that some shit? Like when someone says, “instead of playing Guitar Hero, why don’t you learn to play a real guitar?”

I only used to visit Escapist for Bob and Zero Punctuation, but even Yahtzee’s vids have slowly fallen off my radar (more a result of him not reviewing games I care to hear him talk about than Ben himself).

I never had a super crush on Princess Leia when I was a kid, but I love Carrie Fisher now.

The knee-jerk reaction to hearing “General Leia” is “hell yeah!”

Hasbro really dropped the ball by making the first Leia in their 6” Black Series line Slave Leia. It was another year or two before we got a second Leia—in her bounty hunter disguise.

What’s that George Carlin bit?

I HATE the shine. It got stupidly distracting in Kai.