[Brownfinger]

Missed the Korg/Grandmaster news. If that's true, that's incredible.
(No Miek? Surely there's a little Miek accessory)

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Originally Posted by Black Arbor

This is by no means meant to be a defense of gatekeeping, but a lot of us on here are old enough to remember a time when liking superheroes, sci-fi and horror was a thing you got bullied for and ostracized, so I can understand why they'd be defensive when all of a sudden the same people who used to beat you up in middle school for having Marvel trading cards in your backpack are now saying how they're such a HUGE fan of Captain America and Spider-Man... But you should definitely invite the missus, I'd invite mine but she couldn't give two figs about this stuff, anime is more her speed haha

That's a pretty broad brush to paint people with, though.
If "bully" encompasses everyone who was outside the hobby prior to the movies, hating everyone that became a recent fan seems... exhausting? You don't know that everyone who got into comics or the movies recently has a speck of the disdain we felt as kids. Assuming the worst in people that are different is kinda responsible for much of this country's misery right now, should be an easy enough lesson to extrapolate.
However they found it, our love of the thing is something that should unite us. I love my MCU figures as much as my comics ones. We learned how to not be dicks about sharing stuff through Sesame Street, it seems like the most basic thing and I see a whole lot of grown ass dorks who still can't figure it out.