Your expectations for paint are incredibly high then. Or more likely, I think you just don’t appreciate weathered/realistic treatment.

The Homura figurine can be purchased directly from Goodsmile on their web site. It is also available on Amazon.jp. The Futaba figurine is likewise available from other retailers in Japan. Just because you live in the USA doesn’t mean it’s the only place that exists. I’m not aware of this Destiny figure being available…

You’re forgetting to mention the parts where you missed that this is obviously articulated, painted with weathering, a limited edition exclusive to a single retailer, and flippantly compared it to a figma.

Because figmas are neither as detailed nor to scale. Might as well compare it to a G.I. Joe.

You can’t seriously be comparing this to a figma...

Your usual 1/8-1/6 scale figures aren’t articulated, so it’s not really a fair comparison you’re making. This is also a limited edition release.

I don’t know how you can come to that conclusion without anything suggesting they knowingly provided inaccurate information. They clearly screwed up in the original statement by not ensuring it was accurate but saying they lied is both extreme and unfair. Perhaps they did lie to protect the people in their personnel…

The situation was not the same in 2008. Back then you could get cleared in much less time.

Probably very little; that’s the problem. Clearances have been taking extremely long ever since the OPM hack because everyone has to go through a full investigation, even if it’s just for renewal. Compound that with the lack of increased workforce and you’ve got the situation in which we are currently.

Seriously! Thank you! There is absolutely nothing abnormal about this. There are tons of valid reasons to criticize the current administration yet everyone’s focusing on absolutely meaningless stuff like this.

This is totally normal. Seriously. An interim is granted once the investigation has progressed to the point that the remaining work is mostly just processing. Investigations are taking longer than they used to thanks to the OPM hack. Considering a lot of Trump’s people are new to civil servitude, they have to go…

To be fair, aren’t the only North Koreans competing part of the women’s hockey team? It’s not like they’ve fully teamed up for the Olympics or anything. Even so, it’s been pretty controversial in South Korea.

Knew a guy who was hit by a deer (seriously) while traveling at speed on the highway. He walked away totally fine. ATGATT.

Shit’s on sale! Time to initiate dollar cost averaging!

I’m not saying the record is legit; I’m just pointing out how Tekton was a jackass about reading quotations.

Literally in the very next paragraph:

You’re calling bullshit that this free web site isn’t a full-fledged simulation software providing accurate information that’s computationally expensive? Okay.

The Sega Nomad was a handheld console and it played only Genesis games. By your logic, laptops don’t exist; they’re just portable desktops.

That’s kind of the point of any auction...

It’s more of like a proof-of-concept for developers. Nintendo is basically charging $80 for tech-demo games built in-house. Their hope is certainly that developers will create games for labo or at lest supporting labo.