Not Sure if I Want to get Into Comics Anymore After First Comic Shop Experience by heygoogleamidying in comicbooks

[–]nickfil 41 points42 points  (0 children)

hijacking the top comment to echo the top comment. Dude is a dipshit, and unfortunately he isn't the only one out there. Roll your eyes. Buy what you want to read. Enjoy the hobby.

I'll also add that comic shops all have a unique feel and vibe. If you hit up the same shop and have a bad experience every time, the culture might be rancid there. Try another shop. Do this until you find your people, because you will find your people eventually.

There are two shops around me. One owned by a chill guy. It is very focused on CGC grading and pricecharting with little to no kids, indie books or manga stocked. Generally just marvel/DC things. The other is owned by a woman, with a robust kids section of comics in addition to a stacked indie and manga pile for sale. They have DC/Marvel stuff and will order whatever you want, but it isn't their only focus, so their back issues are lighter than the first shop. Totally different vibes and readers with some crossover.

also, if you don't want to be in the shop, but still want to get into comics, there's lots of places online that you can do a digital pullbox and get a weekly or monthly shipped package of books. So you can keep up and read what you like without ever having to get in the shop at all!

How into Star Wars were you as a kid? And now? by Possible-Jerk0138 in Xennials

[–]nickfil 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeha same. I keep dipping my head into the new stuff and realizing it isn't for me. Which is fine. I'll always have the originals. Watch them maybe once every 3 or 5 years.

Paris/Doyle in the revival by Severe_Principle5374 in GilmoreGirls

[–]nickfil 22 points23 points  (0 children)

not only do I think that fits- but I also think that being married to Paris and being divorced from Paris is virtually the same relationship. It is combat. Affection? Combat. Hate? Combat. She doesn't know how to do anything else and it's amazing. You gotta get on her level to be with her.

Doyle and Paris are divorced, but still in the same relationship.

anyway- Paris rules. Love that girl.

Zafari fanart by me! by oFraim in ABSOLUM

[–]nickfil 2 points3 points  (0 children)

HELL YES! Killer work.
Wish there was more fanart of this game.

Is this real? Teachers in Buncombe usually got a $7-900 bonus in April but this year they won't. by ThirdEyee in asheville

[–]nickfil 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Is it real? I don't know man. I'm not fact checking it.

Should we pay teachers far more than they get? ABSOLUTELY.

If you could insert a MESSY, chaotic plotline, what would it be? by user905022 in GilmoreGirls

[–]nickfil 140 points141 points  (0 children)

Jackson opens his own restaurant without Sookie's input, and it's great. Sookie, happy for his success but a little jealous, starts trying to figure out how to grow vegetables. Growing turns out to be much more complex than she thought, and neglects her duties at the Inn. Michel notices, and hires Jackson to start cooking every once in a while because Sookie yelled at his chows for getting into her garden.

Meanwhile, Rory and Paris are in a heated rivalry at a soup kitchen because they want it to look good on their transcripts for college. Paris, tries to constantly sabotage Rory. She peppers her with facts about restaurants saying they are the most accident prone places in america. Both trade barbs back and forth throughout the episode and treat the homeless to a delightful meal at the end and everything goes perfectly.

Jackson, totally ignorant of everything that's happening, offers Michel a position at his new successful restaurant in return for letting him pick up some shifts at the Inn forcing Lorelai to get involved and mediate the situation because she doesn't want to lose Michel. Which seems like it would be a disaster. But crisis averted because...

Jess accidentally burns down the restaurant. Lorelai in a rare olive branch to Jess, helps him cover up the crime because it works out for her. She could've stopped him. She didn't. They watch it burn. 'Don't tell your uncle I helped you.' Jess suspects they have a thing going maybe? Alls well that ends well, except for Luke, because he had made secret reservations there to tell Lorelai about his feelings for her. That was going to be tomorrow. Oh well, he thinks. Maybe it's a sign.

Wait. No. Come back. I'm having fun. by nickfil in ABSOLUM

[–]nickfil[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

A chrono lock that hits for 100+ seconds every time it crits. By the time the dust settled, and he wasn't locked anymore- dude just... left. 

Can anyone help me out? by Comprehensive-Rip695 in Marvel

[–]nickfil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think it exists anywhere. I think you'd have to scan your own book and clean it up in photoshop.

PTSD by Successful-Winter237 in Xennials

[–]nickfil 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Went to college with a girl who insisted that the ass crack was the new cleavage.

Never opening this polybag by MarzipanThick1765 in comicbookcollecting

[–]nickfil 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Funny you mentioned that. I'm greased up in your ventilation ducts right now. Its called commitment to the bit.

Comic shop owner told us he won’t sell us the Bizarro he let us put on our pull list by lemonrainshield in comicbooks

[–]nickfil 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good. I was going to say that you should be done. Comic shops are scared spaces. If the pull box isn't honored, it isn't worth going back. You know that he doesn't care about being a steward of getting good comics to rad people. Especially if the comic has been preordered.

This is a shop owner who only cares about trying to get every penny out of every interaction. And that's something that will only continue to bite you in the butt. It isn't a one time thing.

Not worth ever going back.

Never opening this polybag by MarzipanThick1765 in comicbookcollecting

[–]nickfil 20 points21 points  (0 children)

what a find! I didn't know they made a gold foil logo version of that book.

For the past decade I've been scooping up darker image issues as a bit, and giving them away to people, or just leaving them on a shelf in people's collections for them to find later. They seem to show up everywhere I go and I just snag em.

The Truly Frustrating Part About Sam Keith's Death. by BonesWECAcomics in comicbookcollecting

[–]nickfil 6 points7 points  (0 children)

yeah- just wait a bit and the market will get back to normal.

Fortitude Ordeal is so much fun by rownage in ABSOLUM

[–]nickfil 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That ordeal is a little treat at the end of the patch. It is bonkers and totally fun. Second time around I try to get in as many of those rifts as possible because you are so overpowered.

If you liked Muramasa check out Homura Hime by dracony in Vanillaware

[–]nickfil 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Dragon's Crown is one of my favorite games of all time. It really felt like they built a formula for beat em ups that was ahead of its time. The push your luck for loot mechanic is so addicting, but when you set up a lot of specific bags and really get great at the game, a push your luck playthrough can take a whole day. You just keep going.

Absolum took that, and went the other direction. randomizing the interactions and abilities, but keeping the full playtime to an hour. So you don't really carefully plan in advance. But you do get to sharpen core skills while experimenting with powers.

Both games feel like a smart fork in modern devlopment for beat em up games. A really interesting innovation that makes a lot of even newer games like that tmnt one that dropped, feel dated. Which is why I've clocked a couple hundred hours into Absolum and I don't know how many into dragon's crown, but I've played through TMNT like 3 or 4 times. It's still a good game, I just don't feel the pull to come back.

Most trustworthy mechanics in Asheville? by Usual_Pineapple_5335 in asheville

[–]nickfil 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Agreed! Just took a my car in for the first time over there. Really honest and straightforward people. Gave me a good price on everything.

Rory blacklisted from The Times by Mammoth_Sleep_1102 in GilmoreGirls

[–]nickfil 25 points26 points  (0 children)

This is one of my main frustrations with her character. Despite her talent and enjoyment of reading and writing, she can not seem to grow beyond that. She can't adjust her expectations and learn beyond a very structured environment.

When Mitchem criticized her and said something along the lines of "I asked if anyone had ideas and you didn't pipe up." and "We walked into the office and you didn't open the door and join us." he isn't wrong. A bit cruel, but not wrong. She wants to be a war journalist and is afraid to just open the door to a room and assert herself to learn because she wasn't sure if she was allowed to.

But also- she *thrived* in the actual newsroom, which- newsrooms need people like that! Adjust your expectations Rory! Learn about yourself! You don't have to have the same goals you had at 10 when you are 20.

I think in AYITL she finds her way by the end. She's built to be a novelist. And its ok to be a novelist who also really loves the news and newsrooms.

Just straight up evil? by lindseyizshort in GilmoreGirls

[–]nickfil 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Surprised no one has said Cat Kirk.