Recent content by TiQuinn

Having been a comic book collector in the past, I know full well that the publishers may benefit from the appearance of collectibility, but they are in no way beholden to it, and it's buyer beware for anyone participating in that.

Did you finally realize Lucy is just never going to let you kick that football?

Ah, thought of an all-encompassing type of geek media I'll never get into - collectible card games. I have no desire to play them, no desire to put my money towards them. I hate the idea of buying something that I don't know what I'm getting; that it has a collectibility aspect to it that makes...

All three of those are on my list too with the same caveats for Star Wars - it could draw me back in but I really have all I need from the OT and PT. Magic and Wheel of Time - they just feel insurmountable. Like, why would I want to get started now? For me, you can add Game of Thrones. I'm done...

So, I will try pretty much anything once, but once I feel like I've been burned by something, I don't really care how long that thing goes on or how much it changes, I'm probably not going back to it.

I don't necessarily disagree (I'm tired of the OSR = Deadly mindset too) but what separates that from just using 5e or Pathfinder in a dungeon setting?

I mean, that makes total sense. The earliest D&D games were dungeon crawlers. Colville's talked in the past at length about how early D&D was driven based on getting loot from dungeons, and that's what he's created. Does it mean that someone couldn't create a dungeon crawler that bucks all of...

I think the last comic book that I bought and read the entire run of was Joe Hill's Locke and Key, which was a masterpiece IMO.

The name reminds me of a video game a few years back called The Guild of Dungeoneering that was really cute, and I would love to see another one of those, but that's all I got.

My issues don't have anything to do with his onscreen work. It's solely a matter of separating the artist from some of the things he's done, and admitted to doing. When it comes to that, I tend to look at his work and think there's a lot of other actors who could've done this role who don't have...

THAT is some crazy stuff! Dang!

I think that's a lot of tilting at windmills unless the folks doing the suing are people with deep pockets like a Carl Icahn-type individual to be able to prove that executive bonuses and stock sales are evidence of wrongdoing.

There's certainly impact from people buying more of those cards, and it can absolutely be a bad idea to use short term interest that's driven from speculation as the basis for making more and more cards. I'm not saying they didn't do something dumb, but it's a far cry from something that is...

But do they refer to their product as collector's items? Do they profit from the increase or decrease of that perceived secondary value? That's part of this. Yes, the elephant in the room is that there is a secondary market where these things are sold for a lot of money. Yes, Hasbro is aware...

Would Hasbro say they've entered into a social contract regarding the secondary market value of their cards? Like, that sounds very much like a collector's justification for why Hasbro is to blame for prices in the secondary market, but that doesn't make it true.