I was thinking the same thing. It must have a whole raft of licensing fees on it. If the price keeps enough people out of the market for it then these will turn out to be some of the most valuable minifigs of all time. I wonder what it costs if you buy the same pieces (less the figures) via parts orders.
Why do you guys suck so bad?
Same reason you suck so bad at logic.
Well, I said victim of violent crime, not murder
Yes and I already addressed that and pointed out why it was a disingenuous point
Speaking of which, you're almost twice as likely to be murdered in London than to be killed by a car. You people have funny priorities.
You really struggle with numbers, don't you?
Murders over the last year in London: 104--116 depending on where you draw the boundary
Road deaths per year in London in 2024 110.
Last I checked, 110 wasn't a factor of 2 larger than 110, but perhaps that's just "ethnocentric bullshit".
If we wanted that culture- we'd have it.
Ah you know that meme of the guy completely stacking it and then claiming "I meant to do that"...?
Would you please decide if you don't have murder roads or if it's the culture you want to have murder roads. It can't be both.
The most dangerous state in the US for pedestrians is fucking New Mexico. It's not because of stroads.
It's hard to stop when drunk, driving on two emergency spares (somehow) and have a ristra hanging from the rear view mirror blocking your view.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/t...
New Mexico the deadliest state for pedestrians. Reason: poor design of roads. And the main cited reason in the research this article is about is mixing high and low speed features on one road. Which means it's stroads.
Are stroads a good idea, or bad?
Bad.
Who knows- who's to say.
No one knows! Feelings are better than facts. You can't measure anything ever because it might upset people, so let's just throw our hands up and claim we don't know!
They are (a) dangerous, (b) expensive and (c) inefficient at moving traffic and (d) generate more traffic than other designs.
Here's a fun fact: in countries with safe roads (i.e. Western Europe), during covid the roads got even safer per km since there were fewer cars. In America, the easing congestion finally allowed people to actually make use of the high speed features of stroads which are normally out of use due to their inefficiency and so the roads got more dangerous per km driven.
There's arguments in either direction,
there are not.
but no strong evidence.
There is large amount of strong evidence.
But you've still got to decide: are your roads not a piece of shit or are you from a culture that prefers it? You kind of seem to want it to be both...
Probably the most likely answer is the roads are poorly designed and most people simply don't realise there are better alternatives.
"Roblox is a shit hole of creeps and wannabe child rapists. My teen has been on it for years"
Awesome self own there
the security guard at the door wears a stab proof vest and is 6'5" tall. this is not like your neighborhood grocery store, this is downtown literally across the street from a major train station
This safeway is directly across the street from the main "downtown" caltrain station and also two muni rail lines (n judah and
I see- your arbitrary line is better than my arbitrary line.
Yeah? I mean if you're trying to see if your country is doing well or badly then you are best of comparing it to countries that are in some way comparable. Compared to much of western Europe, yeah the UK is doing decently well in this regard. Not the best, but pretty highly ranked.
That seems reasonable. Our infrastructure ought to be much better than an ex Soviet state with a fraction of the gdp per capita. The only point of making such a comparison is to know if you've fucked up really hard.
Let's just look at it this way- you're more likely to be a victim of a violent crime walking in London than you are be killed by a car in the US as a pedestrian.
A good part of that is because the US has made itself so astonishingly hostile to pedestrians that everyone drives if they can. And speaking of which:
London has 116 murders from a population of 15 million. The US has 41000 road deaths from a population of 340e6. So you're 15 times as likely to die on the roads in America as you are likely to be murdered in London. But if you insist on just pedestrians that was just 7500, meaning you're only 3x as likely to die as a pedestrian in America as you are to be murdered in London.
Yeah yeah I know you said violent crime not murder. But you're comparing pedestrian fatalities to non fatal injuries in order to make America look less like a poor ex Soviet state in this regard. It would be much more reasonably to compare pedestrian wounding and death to all violent crime including murder. But that way America would still look bad so...
Yeah so despite you trying to pain London as murder streets it's still 3-15x safer than simply being on the roads in America. I reckon I'll take my chances in London.
I think one valid complaint is the use of DRMs.
I am in every way anti-DRM, but it's ubiquitous. A lot of publishers won't publish on GOG for this reason. I agree that Epic is arguing in bad faith. The enemy of my enemy is convenient, nothing more, so I am not delusional about Epic but I still enjoy their actions.
They are basically throwing money to become relevant enough that they can be profitable without having to throw money. If that ever happens, you can be sure that there will be no more free games.
TBH I usually forget to go look at the free games they are typically so underwhelming, though there have been some legitimate greats too.
Meanwhile Steam is sustainable and superior on features.
There are only two features of Steam beyond buying installing games which I care about, and one of them sucks. I like that it handles updates for me, but that is also the bad one, because practically none of the updates are differential. I want them to make that easier so that publishers actually do it. I know that it requires significant support from publishers when they use packed data files, but even that is something that could be addressed. (If the files are compressed individually instead of using compressed archives, then binary patches are feasible.) The other feature is Proton. Anything else including friends, achievements, and even reviews is all optional to me. I enjoy some of those features, but I would still use Steam without them.
I see I'm still living rent-free in some heads.
U MAD [I'm alive] BRO?
And ammo. Yeah some people have thousands of rounds of ammo. The military has millions of rounds, and enough men to go with them to effectively utilize suppressive fire. If you do get in an old-fashioned firefight with soldiers they can simply outbullet you if for some reason they don't have an armed backpack drone. Which by the way they totally do.
What pushes some demographics to participate in street take overs
What demographic? Poor and disadvantaged? You know events like these are held by white people where there's only white people, right?
twerking on police cars
You completely lost me right here, bro. OH THE BOOTYANITY TWERKING ON COP CARS
You get that the unemployment rate is literally designed to be a falsehood because it stops counting people when they have been unemployed for a while, right? The methodology used for it has no concept of who is looking for work at all, it's based on a fundamentally bogus assumption that people who haven't found any for long enough aren't looking.
Who has ever tried UBI? Make sure your answer is about UBI and not just BI for a test group.
Most of those guns are irrelevant, as guns don't kill people by themselves, and a person can only realistically use two at a time, and can only use one at a time well.
Plus, you know, the government has thermal vision, guided munitions, satellite overwatch...
Infinitely more would be removing yourself from the equation in a carbon negative way. I suggest swallowing seeds and falling into an early grave.
186,000 Miles per Second. It's not just a good idea. IT'S THE LAW.
