Comment Re:Missing WMD (Score 1) 245
What if the purported caches of "evil spells" proves to be false?
You mean the "spells of mass destruction"?
What if the purported caches of "evil spells" proves to be false?
You mean the "spells of mass destruction"?
I'm not asking you to come to Jesus or anything. I'm just asking you to dial back the contempt a little, and recognize that like it or not, that 2000 year old book of fairy tales has had a profound and enduring influence on Western civilization. And even to entertain the possibility that its influence was not all bad.
The New Testament, which I assume you're talking about, isn't 2000 years old. The bible as it is It widely known and understood is at most 4-500 years old and the result of selective editing by people with agendas. The shocking thing is that much if any of the original message made it through at all. Even the oldest received text that the King James was based on was written hundreds of years after Jesus died and left widely open to interpretation in order to push the concept of Hell and damnation for non-believers that wasn't in the original text. If you allow that the Jewish tradition is the expert on Old Testament study, ask yourself why they don't conceive of Hell and the "popular" view of Satan.
Worse yet is the fact that Lego can reintroduce any of these collectible sets at any time. (Possibly owing a tied-in movie some additional revenue).
These sets are the ultimate in abandon-ware. Created for a short run, then the company moves on to some other fad, but always using the same parts.
The kids that find them under the Christmas tree could care less if its StarWars, or Dinosaurs, because they are only going to make little houses out of them, and become bored with them quickly.
Its easy to put inflated prices for particular sets on a web page, but who actually seeks these things out and spends good money on them?
I think you've managed to misunderstand how kids' brains work, the meaning of the term "abandonware" and the ultra-custom nature of modern Lego sets all in a single post.
My nephew likes Darth Maul and Lego. Hey, there's bound to be a Lego set with Maul in it, right? There is. Good luck finding it with a price tag less than five times the original RRP. Whether anyone buys them is, I agree, an entirely different manner. I got him Meccano instead.
It's quite trivial for this to happen. Suppose someone writes a Word document (with the latest version of Word), then sends it to another person who has Word 97, who maybe opens and edits it, then passes it along to someone with another version of Word again. Somewhere along the line the document will get corrupted, as the classic Word format is just a memory dump of the objects that happen to be alive during editing.
Microsoft has a solution for that. You're supposed to upgrade to the latest version every time they release one. Buying Microsoft is buying built-in obsolescence.
Don't panic.
