Ditch Fahrenheit

I wonder if CCGmod0 has the day off. Haven't seen Arch throw a strike in a long time.

phampton1737 - strike LINK

The_Beyonder - strike

Any bets on the CGC 9.9 max price for this?

When did Marvel start publishing Archie? No kidding. I hate parallel universes.

Archie Dies

You've had WAY more Dune discussion than we've had Wilfred review. I wanna know what happened with the Wilfred statue.

Your italics made me laugh.

I'm still waiting for the Wilfred summary.

Yeah to bolster your position. I prefer the term, 'elucidate.'

PS - We could so easily bring Dune into this discussion right now.

When I was a kid I was addicted to Sherlock Holmes and thought that the greatest fun would be as a member of one of those clubs where you sit in a leather chair in front of a fireplace, sipping port, reading the paper, and waiting for one of your friends to come in and engage you in a provocative discussion.

So, in summary, I think his analysis is spot on. He offered no solutions, which I'm guessing was not part of his thesis. I actually think the solution is a simple one.

I may watch that tomorrow. Does he discuss sexual freedom unconstrained and its effect on the decline of traditional marriage, courtship, and procreation? No...mores are completely excluded from the presentation except for their underlying complexity. Although, come to think about it, family size is discussed as it relates to cost. If he isn't talking about the decline of the American family, size, citizenship, and communal role, he's missing a huge piece of the puzzle, IMO. I imagine it could be woven into his complexity model, since successful civilizations are complex in many ways including complex social structures, but his focus is primarily on energy and wealth. You could tell he wanted to spend more time discussing the decline and collapse of previous civilizations, but there was only so much time available in the lecture. Regardless, it has my interest. Have you seen the Zeitgeist series of documentaries? I don't agree with everything in them, most importantly the underlying philosophical premise, but they are compelling. I haven't seen the Zeitgeist movies. But after Googling them, the content is familiar to me.

I may watch that tomorrow. Does he discuss sexual freedom unconstrained and its effect on the decline of traditional marriage, courtship, and procreation? No...mores are completely excluded from the presentation except for their underlying complexity. Although, come to think about it, family size is discussed as it relates to cost. If he isn't talking about the decline of the American family, size, citizenship, and communal role, he's missing a huge piece of the puzzle, IMO. I imagine it could be woven into his complexity model, since successful civilizations are complex in many ways including complex social structures, but his focus is primarily on energy and wealth. You could tell he wanted to spend more time discussing the decline and collapse of previous civilizations, but there was only so much time available in the lecture.

I may watch that tomorrow. Does he discuss sexual freedom unconstrained and its effect on the decline of traditional marriage, courtship, and procreation? No...mores are completely excluded from the presentation except for their underlying complexity. Although, come to think about it, family size is discussed as it relates to cost.

Agreed... I dont have an issue with him citing that sales data on the 3.0...its the cherry picking of the $400 sale of the 2.5 that seems leading... (and as a side note, do people bump value between OW and OW/W? I guess I've only really noticed people paying "top market" for white pages, and below that grade being less decisive between the whimsical differences between OW and OW/W... now Cream is another matter... The problem with quoting GPA in this forum is that the seller netted far less than that sales price whether it be from Ebay or other auction site. A book sold here at GPA would net the seller 10% or more than the seller of the GPA recorded books netted. Yup. And this is much more significant than the 2.9% PayPal fee that so many people have gotten their panties in a twist about. Weird that no one mentions this.

Watched this earlier today. This guy is absolutely spot on.

In all fairness to the OP, he wrote N/Mint - so he most likely means NM. That the books don't look to be in NM condition either is a different story, though You guys are being way too hard on him. N/Mint is short for "this comic would be Nice if it were Mint." I read it as 'not mint.'

Wow...for six years old he is really awesome! He just needs to improve his bass drum timing...other than that he's almost perfect.