arch_8ngel

That would be @fcgamer with the "Taiwan Tower of 'Tender Tapes"

Was that a hoax?

Completely agree. The most obvious explanation is that Wata puffed up their early marketing by overstating how involved some people were in their early days. At the time, it may not have felt like as much of an overstatement to Deniz (and he very well could have been hoping for/expecting ongoing advice/help at that time) -- but in hindsight, it's definitely a bad look for Wata. I'm inclined to chalk Deniz's apparent misstep at that time to naivete and enthusiasm, though. And given the other history in other collectibles -- my current leaning would be that if anyone acted "diabolically" and with ill-intent, it mostly falls on HA's doorstep. For pretty much everyone else, it is very very easily chalked up to a form Hanlon's razor. (where I would generously replace "stupidity" with core participants not ever really grasping the gravity of the inherent risks of the apparent conflicts of interest)

@Dain Glad to see you around and doing well, despite the crazy circumstances.

Wow... what an evening.

"three little kids" -- i.e. would assume he means under age 12.

Would be an interesting question for our resident lawyers. I had the distinct impression you had to inject yourself into the situation to become an involuntary public figure (which Dain has certainly attempted to stay well clear of). Though it may be a fair argument that his long-time involvement as the head of NAge gave him the status, by default, in context. Still -- if I were him, I'd be a bit annoyed, at the very least.

Remains to be seen. And whether there is, or there isn't, something legitimate to encourage some intelligent people to get into those two in particular -- the VAST MAJORITY of people buying them don't know anything about anything with respect to investing. Point is -- there is an epidemic of irrationality right now, across the board, and it is no surprise to me, at all, that it spilled over into sealed games.

Do you live in a different timeline? Almost nobody got in trouble for 2008...

Naming a private citizen, who you haven't received any permission from, in a massively public video of generally negative tone definitely fits my definition of "being dragged into it".

We're in a reality where people are paying hundreds-of-dollars-per-share for Gamestop and whatever silly money AMC is going for right now, amongst a dozen other meme-stock contenders -- the world is full of idiots right now who clearly have more money than sense. Zero surprise to me, at all, that it spills over to a mania in collectibles. (just look at sports cards with the store-stockers being stalked/harassed on their store runs) This is ultimate-Hanlon's-razer going on.

If I were him, I wouldn't be concerned about that, at all. And if I were Karl, I would have done a shitload more due diligence before dragging Dain into it.

Let's take a couple steps back and recognize that the most logical explanation for the insane prices, across the board, is a flood of crypto-money and meme-stock-money from people cooped up in their mom's basement for the past year. And let's take a few moments to consider that if WATA did, in fact, successfully complete their sale to a major company, that the buying company would have thoroughly audited their books and probably would have been turned off / turned away by self-dealing that might be construed as borderline fraud.

Pretty sure those filings have nothing to do with registering corporate leadership or board members. They are solely for selling shares in a company with an exemption from Regulation D. The only information they provide is how much money people invested in the company under that exemption, and the supposed corporate leadership at the time of filing (but not before, and not after)

I'm missing something -- what "scathing" would Dain suffer from any of this beyond the annoyance of harassment from the uninformed public? The only lawyering Dain would need is suing Karl for defamation that led to subsequent harassment.

What I've been seeing on the Heroquest facebook groups is speculation that they'll pump out the release at an upcoming convention. Latest official newsletters have shown the completed expansion pack parts. So they are getting close.

My sister and I used to watch that VHS tape WEEKLY, back in the day. It was part of the Saturday morning ritual for us. I was much bigger into Heroquest, but enjoyed some of the added complexity of Dragon Strike. But I will say -- I found the differences between the prototypes (in the pictures and on the box) and the actual parts to be HUGELY disappointing. Not just mold-quality issues -- but completely different poses.

The board game?

Well, it sounds like CU hired a PR firm to respond on their behalf

If the sale to CU has already gone through, they likely aren't allowed to talk about the company publicly without approval. If it hasn't gone through, then they'd be foolish to risk the sale by speaking publicly, anyway.

I haven't. What is the summary that led to the @ mention? EDIT: I've "seen this" in the context of being aware that this discussion is going on. I'm just not big, at all, on watching web videos, so I haven't watched this one, either.

Maybe if we had fully representative and high voter turnout, in the first place. What we really end up with here, is a situation where it becomes a question of which side is more motivated to show up to vote based on how events turned out. A bunch of "R" voters dying -- well, if that fires up their base and they build the right narrative around it could have the opposite impact of what you describe.

I doubt that "Large financial institutions" are spending their time buying a video game for $1MM+ at an open auction. Because you're right -- it's a "drop in the ocean" to them, and not remotely worth their time to pursue, because it doesn't scale, at all, even if they were right in their valuation. The only involvement "large financial institutions" likely have in the hobby are when private equity buys out an existing company like CLCT. They're making their money selling the proverbial shovels for the hobby, not participating in it directly.

Sure - but if we're talking about someone spending $1MM+ with what we assume is relatively little knowledge/research -- I would think it makes a whole lot more sense that they are some young, dumb, got-rich-quick type of person. Maybe it's not crypto money. Maybe it's some wave of high earning sports stars, that in a previous generation would have pissed it away on supercars. Who knows. I just think it is more likely, than not, that they're too young to have grown up on classic SMB.