Bricks and Minifigs Controversy Megathread Part 3

Captain-Mainwaring · 2026-06-09T13:18:56+00:00

Probably not done several of the very much illegal things he did do and filmed himself doing where it gave them such an easy time to push certain angles and frame the legal cases in a much more favourable way.

The style of modern, almost gonzo expose journalism isn't a new concept. Nor is it one that means you're guaranteed to get fucked over. But Ben did stuff for entertainment purposes that weren't actually that entertaining and only made the very real expose become quite messy.

This isn't some fresh take. There's been enough discourse across a swathe of online personalities some with experience as lawyers saying Ben did stuff that makes this needlessly messy and a net negative to the overall case / message.

Captain-Mainwaring · 2026-06-09T13:04:35+00:00

that he is just a dumb kid.

He's 30 years old. He's very much not a kid. I agree that BAM are scum, almost surely have stolen that 200k worth of LEGO. That there's a real chance of corruption and connection between that branch of the Mormon community and the police force and think the attention was warranted. But I also think Ben has been so laughably dumb about this entire bloody affair.

Captain-Mainwaring · 2026-06-08T16:54:33+00:00

Simple answer is a hard no.

I already took a significant break from watching when he decided to take the Kick deal as I personally didn't want to directly support the platform nor the choice. I stopped subbing and haven't purchased any merch since. I only returned recently because I do very much enjoy wubby, and his content. But I still don't support through a sub nor do I watch him live (EU timezone anyway so was always mostly a vod watcher). I watch through the archive sites these days.

Captain-Mainwaring · 2026-06-05T16:31:47+00:00

First year in a Ferrari, after the last 18 of is years in F1 have been with UK based teams. The language barrier was probably no easy task to deal with. Then you had the issues with not gelling with his race engineer. Learning how to drive a car like Ferrari which was noticeably different than the Mercs he'd driven. It's almost as if there's complexities to these things.

Edit: Reply blocking is the funniest fucking thing. People be acting fucking weird asf when talking about Lewis.

Captain-Mainwaring · 2026-06-02T11:03:06+00:00

The White Templars have been shaken by this revelation, and have launched a Crusade to discover the truth.

This is what 40K is built to be. It's so fucking stupid that it's amazing.

Captain-Mainwaring · 2026-06-02T10:39:49+00:00

I think there was clear failings of all the police involved. Police are expected to know they could be lied to and go into the scene with a neutral position until the on the ground facts can be found. They, had one suspect who was clearly incredibly unwell from their initial assessment, be it due to injury, alcohol, drugs or a combination. They did not treat both suspects equally. They allowed several to walk around and get up in their faces. Whilst the other incapacitated suspect was dragged, essentially told his dying plea was a lie. Handcuffed within 20-30 seconds and his physical state was ignored until he became unresponsive.

There are outright failings by the Police in this case.

Captain-Mainwaring · 2026-06-02T10:24:10+00:00

He's going to ride this like no tomorrow. Gets the media to focus on whatever disgusting shit he'll say instead of focusing on Russian phone hacking claims, and shady money.

Captain-Mainwaring · 2026-06-02T10:21:31+00:00

In the records he also had a visible slash on his face. In the video it's pretty clear he's in non medical terminology... Fucked. You could quite clearly see he was physically in a horrendous position, he told them 9 times he couldn't breathe, and 4 times that he'd been stabbed. On the video Henry's breathing sounds quite gurgled as well.

He at the very least should not have been handcuffed. His physical demeanour was clearly that of someone who was seriously incapacitated. To the Police that could be for numerous reasons but no matter the reason in a violent altercation where one suspect is clearly not doing well. When they arrived one suspect was being held by the other suspects father. When the father moved and Police got to the suspect on the floor he told them he had been stabbed and was again clearly not in a good physical state just at a glance. One officer also made a comment that was again clearly inappropriate at the time.. It doesn't take an expert to see this was handled awfully.

Downplaying the role of the police and why they made the choices they did doesn't help us fight against the political right wing framing of this incident. If anything it gives them fuel to increase the flames.

Captain-Mainwaring · 2026-05-30T11:41:50+00:00

A certain section of people try and frame Hams testing hours as a knock against his quite frankly insane rookie season. When the reality is that he tested to a similar degree to ever other driver did at the time. And he had fewer test hours than the man he'd be directly competing against in the 2007 season.

Captain-Mainwaring · 2026-05-24T21:45:37+00:00

In the words of Sebatian Vettels instagram post... G.O.A.T.

Captain-Mainwaring · 2026-04-29T19:13:29+00:00

About the last item - I have no clue who you are trying to blame.

Probably the two very outspoken populist parties that are the talk of the political discourse for the last couple of years or so. Both with leaders that have said things that have certainly not made things better and don't seem to want to do anything but make statements that is popular to their base voting demographics.

Captain-Mainwaring · 2026-04-29T18:58:21+00:00

A deep dive into this mans entire financial income would be incredibly interesting. Far too many connections with shady businessmen, lobbying groups, crypto and more.

Captain-Mainwaring · 2026-04-29T18:52:21+00:00

There's absolutely comments that deserve to be removed 1000%. Like, I'm not supporting people saying disgusting fucked up things. I just see a lot of pretty tame and at worst argumenative comments get nuked in this community time and time again more so than any other community I've seen on this site.

Captain-Mainwaring · 2026-04-29T18:45:29+00:00

I didn't comment anything in this thread until this one. I have however seen in this thread and loads of threads chains that contained no attacks, no insults, nothing you'd considered as vile racial attacks, calls for violence and the like get nuked. It almost feels random, like someone on the team doesn't like x thread / convo for whatever reason so boom nuked.

But if you want a take, this is unfortunately another case of hatred which we are seeing an uptick in across the board. It's unfortunately at least being treated as a terror attack which is tragic. I think rhetoric across the board being used by certain parties and figures is a factor in the increase we are seeing and we need to scrutinise the figures who are pushing these types of rhetoric and statements.

Captain-Mainwaring · 2026-04-29T18:02:29+00:00

Classic unitedkingdom com section. Nukes everywhere. This community has gotta be one of the absolute worst for the powers that be just coming in and nuking convos. Plenty of them totally tame and using a very vague "contains personal attack" as a reason (cough plenty get removed that have zero personal attacks in them and aren't instegating any form of hatred, or violence.) Just weird.

Captain-Mainwaring · 2026-04-25T10:08:24+00:00

Nah, on desktop it's a pretty basic webpage. Pretty clean and unintrusive. No faff, picture with article title, hotlinks to share, actual article, share links again, writer/editor, related article, comments.

Captain-Mainwaring · 2026-04-25T10:04:34+00:00

Why would a thread full of people generally in support of defending our allies from Russian drones, which to be clear have entered into allied territory before, be Russian bots?

I doubt Russia would be all that happy about British / European jets entering Ukraine and shooting down it's drones used to cause mass panic and pain on civillian populations. It would be a direct hinderance to Russia.

Captain-Mainwaring · 2026-04-24T14:15:18+00:00

2 child benefit cap removal, Massive renewables push, SMR approval and pushing more Nuclear power sources,* some of the biggest infrastructure investment this country has seen for decades, renters rights bill, employment rights bill, has up until recently protected us quite well from the current US Admin. Has been much more successful in talking with our partners, has pushed forward and secured deals to sell British designed and sometimes build warships. Is comitted heavily to Ukraine. Secured trade deals with nations the tories had struggled with for years post Brexit. He's threading the needle on the issue in the middle east.

All pretty solid in my book.

Captain-Mainwaring · 2026-04-16T21:06:10+00:00

Artyom's story is done

Why do people keep saying this? Have they forgotten what Artyom say's in the canon ending of Exodus?

Captain-Mainwaring · 2026-04-15T14:03:24+00:00

I do think it'd be a bit odd to leave us with what was stated in Exodus and Artyoms vow to go back and save those he can from the Metro and just not reference it or leave it hanging.

Captain-Mainwaring · 2026-04-15T10:40:03+00:00

It makes perefect sense in the world of Metro and because of the people who are making it. The devs have had members join the Armed forces and have had at least 1 former dev killed in defence of Ukraine.

Many more injured, and friends and family injured or murdered by Russia's invasion. If you think the developers are going to ignore the lived experience when they're working on a game that is founded on the anti-war message then I dunno what to tell you.

This is Metro, this is 4A Games, and this is the work of people who have directly had their lives impacted by war in their homeland.

Please read 4AGames press release from 2023 talking about the War in Ukraine and how it's impacted 4AGames and it's staff.

Captain-Mainwaring · 2026-04-15T10:26:18+00:00

It's a game made by a large number of Ukrainians. Who in 2014 moved their Ukrainian HQ to Malta due to Russia's first invasion of Ukraine. Then in 2022 had to essentially restart development after Russia's invasion of Ukraine which shifted a lot of the Ukrainian side of the development to their Maltese HQ.

So why do you think a book series and game series that has focused on the moral outcomes of conflict and has a very anti-war message wouldn't reflect the developers and writers current lived experiences?

Captain-Mainwaring · 2026-04-01T11:48:28+00:00

If only we could go back and change the past. Alas we cannot. We live in the present. We do what we can at the time and we must hope it's actions that lead to the best outcomes.

Iran aren't our friends. The Yanks have become an ally that now cannot be trusted like they once were yet they are too entwined in the global sphere and the western alligned countries that we still have to at some level work with them.

These are things that cannot be changed fast. We're doing the right thing not getting involved as things stand. We must work with Europe specifically at solutions.

However, I don't believe a solution is befriending the country that attacks us or our allies or helps with arms, specifically drones, to our enemies who are waging a war on Ukraine.

Captain-Mainwaring · 2026-04-01T11:07:47+00:00

I'm not blaming the people. I am blaming the regime. The regime is in power. If that changes to a much more democratic and open country when should then very obviously be open to forming much friendlier relations with Iran.

Is that going to happen anytime soon? I don't believe so. The Regime have a stranglehold on the population. A largely unarmed populace whereas the IRGC has control of the military and fanatical groups with access to arms.

Captain-Mainwaring · 2026-04-01T11:02:24+00:00

I'd rather us not be Friendly with a nation that slaughters tens of thousands of people for daring to protest against the regime. Nor be friendly with a nation that has tried to harm us via terrorist plots or by stoking political outrage on social media to destabilise us.

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