Is Dragan actually selling the Performance Toys property?

There's a Facebook ad running from someone claiming to be the realtor for it, and that it's on the market.

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u/Tanthiel — 9 days ago

PSA for lurking customers

Just because one store has Needoh in doesn't mean every store does. We can tell you're here because of the flurry of extra calls after someone says they have them in. Also, no we do not know when they're coming in. This is what we see:

Hope this helps.

u/Tanthiel — 22 days ago

Look what I spotted in the wild!

Got excited by Doom Patrol and Legion at the LCS last week and forgot to pick up The Deadman #4. Went by today to pick it up, and the actual last issue of the 1964 run was just sitting there.

u/Tanthiel — 1 month ago

Why is SAIA so terrible and why do we use them as a shipper?

Seriously, I advise customers to just not order anything online anymore, or if they do to have it shipped to the store so Fed Ex will get it instead of SAIA. If I had a dollar for customer complaint about every late, lost, damaged or otherwise poorly delivered item from SAIA I'd have a couple of extra paychecks by now.

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u/Tanthiel — 1 month ago
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When does Textra tell me images failed to send when they were received?

New Textra user, Samsung Messages, you know the drill. A friend and I have image heavy chats and Textra always tells me images failed to send when she's received them.

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u/Tanthiel — 2 months ago

Does it always take this long for the Dice Throne store to ship product?

I ordered Marvel Adventures on the 11th and it still has not shipped.

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u/Tanthiel — 2 months ago

How to politely tell my co-managers to knock it off with scanning?

Okay so we've had some staffing issues this weekend and we're currently one entire truck behind (still shrink wrapped in the backroom) and no one can address the situation because the staffing issues are ongoing and the other managers won't stop scanning holes, and we get ridiculous fill reports and POG EXs, and by the time that's resolved the morning stock person is going home, and again, staffing issues so either the evening stock person is in the checkstand or is the one who called in. Half the scan problems would be nonexistent if they let us get to the truck, but that's not getting through when I suggest it politely.

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u/Tanthiel — 2 months ago

Thoughts on Fre$h Kill (1991)?

I blind bought it at the end of the promotion and sat down to watch it last night, but couldn't get into it and ended up putting it away for another day. The synopsis seemed interesting but it felt like it wasn't going anywhere.

u/Tanthiel — 3 months ago

The Omni lady is the worst coworker in the store

Look, Siri or Cortana or whatever the fuck your name is, you said there was an omni order expiring in ten minutes 20 seconds ago. No one is even close to the file jackets, you gotta give us time to get over there.

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u/Tanthiel — 3 months ago

Moonrunners (1975)

This was a rough one.

I've always wanted to see this just because it's the immediate predecessor to the Dukes of Hazzard television series, but it's always been scarce. I found a dvd recently though. I'm not sure if it's the dvd or the movie itself, but the color grading is off, it's ridiculously dark and hard to tell what's going on.

James Mitchum and Kiel Martin are Bo and Luke Duke Grady and Bobby Lee Hagg, Arthur Huneycutt is Uncle Jesse Duke Hagg. After a terminally slow 45 minutes the plot kicks in and it's a standard episode of the show. Boss Hogg Jake Haney tries to get them Duke Hagg boys with the assistance of Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane (no strikethrough needed). Waylon Jennings is even there to narrate. There's not really a Daisy Duke Hagg analogue, which I think it probably could have used - Chris Forbes is *there* but mostly as a romance option for Grady and isn't that strong of a character.

I tried a couple of times to get through it before I finally pushed my way through it. I have a high tolerance for older movies, but it just wasn't very good.

u/Tanthiel — 3 months ago

TSA Josh got laid off/fired

Not sure if you've seen it, but was in store emails today, seems to be abrupt with the "I was informed today is my last day" wording.

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u/Tanthiel — 4 months ago

What's the reasoning behind Jean Grey switching back and forth every turn?

It doesn't really make sense character wise for her to go back and forth between Jean Grey and Dark Phoenix, and it would make more sense for it to be something that happens in the course of game flow, whether it's a bad roll on her board or something that could be inflicted.

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u/Tanthiel — 4 months ago

Quick reminder: Rachael Pollack was not popular with the readership when she replaced Morrison

I've had this discussion with a couple of people across different sites, so I'm going to collect some thoughts here.

To start with, let's keep this in context of the time period. When Pollack took over Doom Patrol, it was a pre-internet era. Your predominant sources for comics news were Wizard, which barely focused on Vertigo, and fanzines whose distribution was spotty.

Doom Patrol was Rachael Pollack's first comic, and there wasn't a lot of overlap between the metaphysical outlets she typically wrote for and comics - and again, pre-internet so you couldn't just get on Google and find out who she was.

On top of that, Tom Peyer thought that an elaborate prank that depended on inside knowledge was the way to introduce her to the readership. Instead of just telling the readers "hey, this is Rachael Pollack, she's a respected writer in metaphysical nonfiction", she was presented as an unhinged fan writing letters to the letters page before Morrison's departure was announced, badgering about when she would get the job writing Doom Patrol. People legitimately thought she was an absolute lunatic who pestered her way onto the book because Peyer didn't want to upset her mother.

She had already alienated large parts of the audience, and when Richard Case left and the art declined, people started checking out. There were a ton of readers who didn't even give her run a shot.

Of course, without the context of the letters page on collections you get absolutely none of that. Pollack never really got a fair chance with the readers, which is both none and all of her fault.

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u/Tanthiel — 5 months ago

Does anyone ever get a "tough guy" character that the AI is obsessed with?

For me, it's a biker named Darius who likes to clench his jaw and be super possessive of women who he has no business being possessive of. He keeps popping back up after I've chided the AI to get him out of the story. He was initially a minor character at a stoplight, but then the AI started writing him like it's self insert mc.

I've just started killing him off in increasingly gruesome manner when he pops back up.

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u/Tanthiel — 5 months ago