You are right, Lego prices are one of the few, which didn’t go up as much as other popular toy brands, in fact for a few decades now they managed to be consistent with prices.

The audience is huge for SW and Lego amongst adults makes it possible to release these enormous multi-thousand piece sets, which pushes the prices up. More pieces = higher price.

Its a lots of money? Yes.

Is it more overpriced, than the average lego set price per piece in general? No.

Not playing the devils advocate, only as a fun fact:

The price of lego sets per piece (PPP) is pretty consistent over the years, almost since the 80s. Even the licenced sets are staying relatively close to the average PPP.

The big difference is, that all the Lego enthusiast kids from the 80s and 90s are now adults with disposable income and Lego is riding this wave since the mid 2000s by releasing bigger and bigger sets aiming mainly adults, who can in theory buy them.

Here is an insanely in-depth analysis about the prices if someone is interested:

https://therealityprose.wordpress.com/2013/01/17/what_happened_with_lego/

We reach the point, where the optimal windows install will include multiple complicated tinker steps for disabling intrusive features, while many Linux distro installs are nowadays pretty much streamlined and straightforward.

Oh how the turntables…

Exactly, when a game on purpose disrespects your time and forces you to repeat things for no reason.

Some call it a difficulty curve, I don’t call it anything, just uninstall it.

Apart from the endless EA, Ubisoft and similar AAA copy/paste titles I never understood the hype around MOBA games.

I don’t get it. Its not real time strategy, but not an ARPG either, you dont create a character, instead have an insane pool of unique characters with a few abilities each. Its just feels like someone wrote down some random game mechanics and choose 5 at random.

All levels are basically the same with mild variations and the whole gameplay loop boils down to optimised fast clicking on abilities and to get strong asap.

Its super boring for me and couldn’t spend more than a couple hours with the games from the genre. Same goes for watching other people play.

Its just a cherry on top to have the biggest tournaments and cash prices, while the top players are celebrated as superstars. Also somehow the biggest MOBA communities are infamous for toxicity.

Definitely not my cup of tea.

They all look like the muppet version of Luke Skywalker

Remnant 2 - as much as I suck at souls-likes, I am keep going back to this one. Loved the first one, beat it multiple times with friends and randos, but I think the sequel improved on every aspect. Just started a new character (of course the puppy class) and slowly progressing throught the firs world solo.

Rotated the pic 45 degrees and made a diagonal cut.

In my country its usually required for new builds to have 2 methods of heating. People usually have gas or heat pumps as primary but almost all of them puts a fireplace as well in the house, so chimneys here are very common.

I also have a fireplace additional to a heat pump, but I would only use it if there was a power outage for multiple days during winter.

So yeah, fireplaces are mainly for the vibes :)

I don’t know what restaurants you go to, but during my adult life not once “water please” failed to get me a glass of water.

Sometimes the waiter asks if bottled or tap, but thats about it.

Same, every console I had was purchased waaay into the current generations lifespan. Hell I got my PS3 when they released the PS4 :) …yet somehow I preordered the Steam Deck after 1 hour the official site went live. Its a brilliant little machine.

CoD is the FPS equivalent of FIFA. If you played one since MW1 than you played all of them pretty much.

Agree, the internet is full of useless AI trash “infodumps” and “articles”. Its more and more difficult to find accurat information.

Its just sad that people who know how internet search works for the sake of comfort let someone else decide what they see when searching for stuff.

Stupid people and internet illiterate people exist since the dawn of the internet. Thats not news.

Whats scary is how a new generation of people will lose or not develop basic critical thinking and research skills, and let an algorithm serve up content to them when looking for information.

Many people I know are also using LLMs for searching stuff.

Its just baffling how they can trust a single answer frankensteind together from often unknown sources presented as a fact.

Jeez we are fucked, aren’t we?

Bought one when moved to a different country and had to pack a lots of big boxes.

Its great time saver, only downside is how god awful loud they can be.

Fallout 2/New Vegas

Terraria

Pillars of Eternity 1-2

But please ask me in a hour and probably will give you 3 new favs.

Icewind Dale

The Outer Worlds

Deus Ex

Sorry bad phrasing, by most I meant a lot of americans. Thanks for correcting me :)

I am somewhat familiar with the type of gun owners from US media and movies.

For me the most mind-blowing thing is how easy is to get a gun at some places. I just imagine some shady people I know in my country, even some of my family members and can’t imagine them having access to guns :D

Isn’t this just a vicious cycle? You own a gun, because other people also have access to guns. The burglar might bring a gun, because the home owner possibly has a gun, etc