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Transplant

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  1. I was there, young and stupid. Didn't make time during the event to go to the Barks exhibit. But did have a lovely, low-key chat with Stan Lee and Clive Barker while we waited for some hall to open. Rode roller coasters with Neil Gaiman that same dealers con.
  2. Whoo boy. People haven't talked about that one in awhile. For those who don't know. The ban on employees selling books they have graded is just that, a ban on employees doing it (and maybe, IIRC, just a ban on doing it in a commercial endeavor, not limited selling of your collection). It does not affect the limited time (but often very frequent - i.e., multiple times during a year or multi year period) "consultants" they hired during busy times or for whatever reason, i.e., Mark Haspel https://www.cgccomics.com/news/article/3974/consultants/. There were more than just the two I linked. Those consultants (not saying anyone in particular) would be grading for CGC but going around cons buying up raw books and then subbing them and selling during the time they were "consulting."
  3. 2 employees. 1 grader and his wife (in ebay verification for cards) allegedly in scheme where they stole submitted books and subbed them for their own account and then sold them.
  4. Echo is not, first and foremost, a superhero show. Get that notion out of your head. Think of it more as a show set in the MCU. It has more similarities to the Netflix MCU shows, no big surprise. I enjoyed it and recommend others watch as well. It has a good bit of action and earns the mature label, if you step back and see what happens to people in the fight scenes. It was great to see lots of actors from one of my favorite TV shows of the past few years: Reservation Dogs. Echo isn't perfect and they took a good detour to finally setup her main supernatural/human power. Overall though, I think it's well paced and a good story.
  5. I'd add to that: distrust of whether some of the "record sales" were real to begin with.
  6. I've enjoyed the ones I've played. AC Valhalla was really good. There are elements of lots of fetch quests, but I'm not an OCD 100% completionist usually.
  7. Look, people. I don't want to get sucked into whiling away countless hours on this game yet. For some weird reason, I'm sucked into Assassin's Creed Black Flag, a 10 year old game. So I need you nerds to give me your impressions.
  8. Will @MrBedrock be set up at his own con? 'Cause I feel that's kind of like wearing the t-shirt to the concert.
  9. You want to avoid a seller who, even though they said no returns on slabs, is allowing a return and full refund?
  10. A+ I'd heard you were going through a loose grading period.
  11. They're preserving his art, so preserving his toilet would seem to be appropriate. The Venn diagram of the two is a circle.
  12. I did knock out all the Valkyries, but haven't dedicated myself to beating the queen yet. Instead, I did very quickly blaze through the LOU remaster on an easy setting. Also, completed the story in Miles Morales. It was fun. Decided to take a shot at something different and played through the story in The Quarrry. It is basically a motion captured movie that is pick your own adventure style. Decisions impact how the story ends and are supposedly lots and lots of different endings, although I think most of that is just whether some certain characters die or not. I don't know if I will bother going back into the chapters and making different decisions or not.
  13. I'd say there is 2-3 hours of gameplay before you are hooked. The secret sauce is that you actually contribute to and benefit from the progress of other players you never see. The story is the driver, not the action per se.
  14. Way to dodge entirely the complete apex of the comic market. Brilliant timing.
  15. I don't know what the big deal is, all over a few bindery chips.