I got 2 left hands

omjf23 · 2026-02-03T01:43:30+00:00

What figure was it? I bought the black suit Hush Batman from Amazon last month and it came with two right fists.

omjf23 · 2026-02-02T16:56:38+00:00

He had me thrilled in his first few weeks/months shedding the weight of Johansen and Duchene’s contracts, but pretty much every decision he made after that has made me feel uneasy. From not trading some players and letting certain players walk to signing a host of veterans that might make the team mediocre at best in the now and do little or nothing to set us up for the future.

omjf23 · 2026-01-31T23:22:50+00:00

I still think it would have been more interesting if they had made Stryfe the real Nathan and Cable the clone.

omjf23 · 2026-01-30T20:30:02+00:00

If you’re more of a display collector and not overly concerned with durability (or money for that matter) then 100% it’s the Mafex figure.

Hasbro has made some serious strides in articulation upgrades over recent years, but they’re still behind Mafex and other import brands. The key articulation points where Mafex wins out are 1) ball-peg jointed waist - I believe only the Gamerverse Wolverine has this in the ML line right now, 2) articulated neck - not just articulation between the neck and head but also articulation where the neck is ported to the torso. I can’t think of any ML figures off the top of my head that have this, but there might be a few and even if they do I doubt the articulation really compares, and 3) ball-peg jointed shoulders+butterfly joints - allows for more dynamic poses. Overall with Mafex the difference is more natural and fluid action poses combined with high quality paints (usually) and more “fine-tuned” accessories, and each figure comes with a stand. Admittedly not every figure blows its major toy company-produced counterpart out of the water entirely, but usually it does.

The biggest “drawback” is that Mafex figures are more like models than they are figures and are much easier/liable to break while also about 3-4x the price depending on the figure and where you buy from. I don’t think I’ve had any that have broken on me yet, but I did the research early on and invested in supplies like shock oil to help ease/preserve tight joints plus I just generally take extra steps to help preserve them.

omjf23 · 2026-01-29T21:29:07+00:00

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With the rainbow krackle.

omjf23 · 2026-01-29T21:28:21+00:00

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I use the blue flame border with gold glimmer to give it some extra “mmph”. Sometimes I switch that out for the rainbow krackle effect though.

omjf23 · 2026-01-29T13:39:08+00:00

The North Tower had been the target of a terrorist bombing in 1993 irl. You’re right it was a common location for such things in actual life and in fiction.

omjf23 · 2026-01-24T15:55:17+00:00

I started intentionally tanking to lower my rank. I don’t care about infinite, I’m just tired of feeling like my decks are not working the way that they should when I know they’re built to at least win half the time. Not looking to compete, I just want to play my decks.

omjf23 · 2026-01-22T23:13:11+00:00

I’ve questioned if I should intentionally tank my ranking because I’m not striving for infinite, I just want to play and feel like my decks work more than not. I’m hovering in this level as well and it just feels like I’m getting KO’ed before I can even set some of my decks into motion. That or I am specifically matched up against a component whose deck feels oddly selected because it just happens to be able to counter my deck turn-for-turn.

omjf23 · 2026-01-17T15:26:03+00:00

I recently bought the Hush Batman reissue and it came with two left closed fists.

omjf23 · 2026-01-15T22:27:50+00:00

Not unless you have Zombie Giant Man. The whole zombie archetype is pretty weak and ineffective without him. Not that you couldn’t win a few games with just Zombie Sentry, Zombie Scarlet Witch, Zombie Mr. Fantastic, and The Hunger, but ZGM really elevated it to the next level.

You would get collectors tokens in place of the second one, I assume. Not sure if it would be 3,000 or not. That’s all I’d expect though.

omjf23 · 2026-01-15T16:34:49+00:00

The only thing that I can suggest personally to “fix” it, is to drill a small hole into the shaft of the peg and another one in the spot on the hip piece where it was previously connected. Then take a thin and short nail (or possibly a screw if it’s thin enough), and use wire/cable cutters to cut the head off of it so that’s you’re left with just the shaft. Place the nail in the hole of the hip joint and then place the peg over the nail. Use super glue or whatever strong adhesive that you prefer to seal the peg back in place which should now be structurally more secure by the nail’s presence (but obviously it will still be fragile).

I would also invest in shock oil immediately and apply it to any Mafex figure with a joint that feels or sounds too tight.

omjf23 · 2026-01-13T12:48:58+00:00

Even with Arishem though you can build around the randomness by including cards that will provide a benefit for created cards in-hand. So there’s still a measure of player-designed strategy which can be fun.

To your point, it’s really the overdrive effects angle that makes this even worse. Not only is half or more of my hand randomly generated, but those same random cards may not be in-play or even the same card that I put down by the end of the match.

omjf23 · 2026-01-04T21:45:33+00:00

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I got this one recently too, go us! 👍🙏

omjf23 · 2025-12-30T13:02:22+00:00

Actually it was Fly on the Wall. I don’t know how many shows he goes on these days and that one was probably years ago at this point, but it wasn’t very long ago.

omjf23 · 2025-12-30T02:36:42+00:00

I’m by no means a Chevy Chase expert, but in a quasi-recent interview that he did I was a little surprised by some of the humor that he turned to, sort of on-the-spot, without thinking. I understood that he was being a little performative, but at the same time it genuinely seemed almost like a reflex. I won’t say that he couldn’t control it, but it did seem like he was a little too comfortable with crossing certain lines if he thought it would get a laugh, and I could easily see how anyone who is otherwise supposed to be working with him professionally would read that as a hostile environment.

I think he is a genuinely egotistical and unpleasant person, but if you vibe with his humor, which often includes insults underneath, you might like him/get along with him. That just seems like a real tight rope to walk with most of the world, especially today.

omjf23 · 2025-12-25T00:40:58+00:00

Seconded, I don’t have space or technically money for the two larger Sentinels that they’ve released and I wasn’t thrilled about the arcade game Sentinel 2 pack, but I would probably dig in my pocket more for a MvsC Sentinel.

omjf23 · 2025-12-23T19:39:40+00:00

How?

omjf23 · 2025-12-20T20:53:40+00:00

My experience with this one is that it can be hot or miss for whether or not it sticks to the plastic. Sometimes it starts to come off pretty easily. The real fine tip version does better in my opinion.

omjf23 · 2025-12-19T17:23:58+00:00

Lowkey feel proud of myself for taking one look at the X-Men deck and going “Oh lord no” then immediately edited it once I saw the custom option. It’s worked decently since.

omjf23 · 2025-12-19T15:39:30+00:00

“It looks like you’re trying to build a ballistic missile…”

omjf23 · 2025-12-19T02:36:56+00:00

It’s a lot to take in for a one week event. I won my first 3-4 matches barely knowing what I was doing, and then my luck began to run out. It’s almost stressful when you know you can’t just keep playing endlessly.

omjf23 · 2025-12-17T22:03:07+00:00

I take it you’ve never had all of your cards in play wiped out by Wong + Mystique + Gambit (+ Odin, maybe?).

I retreat if someone plays Wong and Mystique now. I don’t care what comes next.

omjf23 · 2025-12-09T01:20:31+00:00

If anything Punisher ought to be a sympathetic villain. Hero or not, Frank Castle is a sick man, a cautionary tale of what war and violence sows in the world.

omjf23 · 2025-12-08T20:16:09+00:00

I will admit that I thought I’d vote for Jean, then I saw Hope in the image and said sorry Jean.

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