Oh! Oh! Oh! Check this out: "Before I answer about sending another request, will it work? Can the person send another request? I assume so, but wanted to check with you first." <- from my project lead.
Everyone is so obsessed with picking the best out of ten candidates that they are ready to totally miss the fact that all of them are worse than any given eleventh would be. This is how American Idol and presidential elections work.
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Which one is easier to manipulate: hundreds of deployed voting machines, from a couple vendors, all running different versions of the software? Or a handful of mobile carrier networks?
Hey, good news is that I have a second consulting project, and in the "status completed" meeting that I had yesterday, the executive team was highly complimentary and wants to hire me to do more stuff. At a higher rate.
It helped that the numbers were really impressive. We imported 8,600+ datafiles for all of last year for a whopping 18 million lines of store transaction data with only 3% of the datafiles missing.
wait... so, you like the fact that the packages are opaque? but you want one of every one of the minifigs? So your approach would be to buy OVER 9000 and thus guarantee your complete collection? I'd rather be able to just buy a pack with all 16, then I'd be done with the exercise.
OR: they should make 16 awesome figs, instead of 10 awesome ones, 3 questionable ones, and 3 shitty ones (seriously: how many skaters/skiers do we need?)
I mean, with series three, or was it two, I just went to the store with the bar codes, got myself all 16 packages, and exactly 16. But back at home, I had no idea which package contained which figure. So the element of surprise was still there, as was the element of completionism.
The best of both worlds.
Plus, while I had all the bar codes, I hadn't examined every single minifig in advance. I knew there would be a mime and a gladiator, etc., but for the most part I didn't even remember what I'd be getting.
But with the current series, it goes like: you want the statue of liberty, you molest the packages till you are 100% sure that you get the statue of liberty, and then you get the statue of liberty.
@MattЭллен no, i was agreeing with you. randomness, and the inevitability of getting a crap rare every now and then, is part of the fun. more importantly, it's central to the economics of a CCG
there's an article somewhere by markrose about why magic has to make bad cards. i'm pretty sure every argument there also applies to why lego has to make bad minifigs
@Kitḫ since i play exclusively online, it basically is an MMOCCG
@JSBᾶngs A CCG implies that you have other people to play that CCG with, and thus will have opportunity to trade, etc. "Collectible minifigs" does not have that same implication. I, for one, have nobody to trade with, and if I did they'd probably want the same ones as me.
@MrShinyandNew安宇 the fact that everybody wants the same ones is, again, part of the economy. the combination of rarity and desirability is what sets the price in the secondary market
but i don't know what kind of secondary market lego has. i just know that the secondary market for Magic cards is huge
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Can I use "exempli gratia" (short for e.g.) in place of "for example?" If so, do I need to add any words to it to completely replace the phrase "for example?"
@JSBᾶngs But Lego doesn't make money from the secondary market, so their objective should be to make more money in the primary market. And by making it hard to complete the collection, you're more likely to get dupes. And I understand that, and it wouldn't be a problem if I had an easy way to trade figs with other collectors. But I'm the only AFOL I know personally. And all the kids I know are under 4.
@WillHunting actually, "actually" is one of my daughter's favourite words. She actually often starts sentences with "actually". "Actually, when I was three years old, we went to the museum"
@JSB: Yeah that sounds familiar. But is that so strange? They trust their own judgement as to what goals are worth supporting more than the government's.
I've seen many cases where people dislike the item, and for that reason don't click "like", but if there'd been a button called "dislike" they'd click that.
"12 Likes" doesn't tell you jack. It doesn't tell you whether it was 12 out of 10000000 people, or 12 out of 12. So for all intents and purposes, all it tells you is that the number of visitors is >= 12.
If a person comes up to you and says "I like your hair today, Reg", that isn't meaningless. It means that person likes your hair. It's anecdotal, you can't use that as the basis of your commercial plan to revolutionize hair-care. But it does mean that that one person liked your hair.
You don't need to know how many people saw your hair, or how many people disliked it.
@RegDwightѬſ道 mathematically? not much. So what? Maybe they liked the article because of the way it approaches the subject matter, even if they dislike child-rape. What would it tell you if 34 people clicked "like" and 78 clicked "dislike" and 456707 read the article and didn't click?