Call me crazy, but I personally don't think ANYONE posting to this board (or any board like it) has any room to be calling anyone a "loser".  Take a step back and realize that Trekkies, Star Wars fans, RP Gamers, Furries, Members of the 501st, Tailgaters, Hot Wheel Collectors, Comic Book guys, etc, etc, etc......they're ALL dorks, and to largely the same degree. Just about different things.


I'm not a gamer (I don't like D&D, Everquest, or any of that Magic  Card stuff) but I do see myself buying a copy of Star Wars Galaxies when it comes out. That's the same thing as Everquest, but in "our" universe.

Besides, as someone who has an entire room of his house devoted to a movie from the 70's.....I don't thinK I should be wakling around calling anyone else a loser. Especially some guy playing Everquest......because I'll probably be meeting him on "Galaxies" When I try my first MMRPG later this year.

 

I appealed to the members of Rebelscum a few months ago regarding this very same issue. As you know, I started collecting Simpsons stuff in the spring, and I'm about 10 or 12 items away from a complete collection right now.

The problem is.....did I invade my Star Wars room with this stuff? Or did I put it somewhere else. The bedroom is already pretty full, so the only real option is my office. That's what I decided on. Somehow, it just didn't seem right to co-mingle the toys.

Maybe toy segregation is an outdated belief, but it's what I'm sticking with for now.  

I want a new button on the toolbar of my email program:

"Kill Sender".

It would work just like "Reply", except when you click it, you get to choose from many horrible types of death on a nifty drop down menu and then click send.

The sender then receives this sort of death. I'm not sure how that part of the feature would work yet, but....I'm sure they could figure it out at Microsoft.

I see it  primarily being used as a spam filter. It's sort of a permanent way to remove yourself from a spammer's list.

 It would also work for those chain letters I keep getting.

I bet they could bundle this in with the next version of MSN and make millions.

Sure, there'd probably be another trial (this time murder instead of antitrust) but I think they could find their way around that little issue.

After all, could the prosecution find a jury that would convict anyone for using my new feature?


What do you guys think?

Yeah. I won't even buy stuff like that to "help" people by posting it on Rebelscum or wherever. All I'm doing is taking it out of the local market, and possibly, even away from a kid. If I'm not buying it for ME, or out looking for a specific thing for a specific friend, then I leave it there...no matter what the aftermarket value is.

That's just the right thing to do.

You know, I was just thinking about this topic, and I realized there is one figure I did this with.

Hoth Luke on the Taun Taun. When I saw him in the stores, I looked at the back of the box, and he was supposed to be REALLY mangled. Mine looked like he only had a slight scratch and a black eye, so I looked at some others, and found one that had been a little more "brutalized". That's the one I got.

So there you go, I guess I do it too.

True, true. I suppose we can go all "Sports Center" over whether or not the Mariner's are better than the Twins and all, but it would be silly because I don't really care.  

Besides....Even though I'm from Seattle, I'm a Giants fan by birth. That's my real team, even though I only get to read about em.

Oh yeah, they're better than the Twins this year too.  

You still dont' have a full on Jango Fett costume yet, do you? I've seen a few now, and they are pretty darn sweet.

I've got a Jedi outfit, but I just got armor myself, and I highly prefer it. There's something cool about being as close to movie authentic as one can get, you know? I think I decided at Celebration 2 that I was going to get into the 501st, but it's taken me this long to finally do so.

Maybe I'll see Karma at C3 and we'll both be suited up. My girlfriend is currently working on Snowtrooper armor. It's a little trickier than Stormtrooper, because it's not as common, but I think that might be why she's doing it.