Count to a Million

[mtmerrick]

Japanese stuff makes my mind hurt.

60160

[MsRowdyRedhead]

60161

LOL.. so true

[mtmerrick]

I don't agree with it at all, but its very funny.

I love Japanese stuff. The culture is amazing, the media is awesome, the language sounds really neat, and the technology is absolutely mindblowing.

60162

[MsRowdyRedhead]

60163

I was more thinking of when I did business with them... they would never say "no" so you had to keep guessing till you got it right...

I love the culture, and most of the food too.. ( no raw fish for me thanks)

[mtmerrick]

sushi = ew
japanese noodles = YUM

60164

[MsRowdyRedhead]

60165

Indeed!!

[Cookieo]

60166

...

[Flipz]

60167

Finally managed to smash Vargas the tormented in LU! 

[Cookieo]

60168

When LU is gone, what will this site become?

-Cookieo

[Flipz]

60169

Look back at me.  The MLNO is now diamonds.  Anything is possible when LU is closed and LEGO has abandoned its older fans.

[Canama]

60170

>Implying LU was aimed at older fans.

-カナマ

[Cookieo]

60171

...

[MsRowdyRedhead]

When LU is gone, what will this site become?

-Cookieo

60171

I believe we will live on, as we did when MLN lagged in interest.

[mtmerrick]

i think he meant what will the site name be?

60172

y'know, when there;s no nexus to be lego networking about?

[MsRowdyRedhead]

60173

LOL

The word Nexus was suggested as a replacement for Network long before it was a part of LU..
We also considered networking, and a few others.

[Flipz]

60170

>Implying LU was aimed at older fans.

-カナマ

60174

No, I realize it wasn't aimed at us, but they shut it down not from lack of funds but because not enough little kids were playing it.  (Read the press release again, it's a very clever twisting of the truth to make it sound like they didn't have a choice.)  Now IDK about you, but if I were selling a game, I wouldn't care who was buying my product as long as they were paying for it.

There's other things too that indicate LEGO doesn't want its older fans, they want us to get out of the way and let the little kids play Lego without us.  This is a superbly short-sighted strategy, as 1.) unlike older fans, 5-12-year-olds don't have the money to but the sets themselves, and 2.) if they alienate us, do they actually think we'll try to get our kids and/or younger relatives into Lego when the time comes?  As it stands now, if I had a younger sibling, there isn't a snowball's chance in Karzhani I'd try to get them involved; I'd actually warn them away from Lego, because I don't trust corporate.

It's sad, really, the managers and lower staff and even most of the website designers and moderators are all REALLY great people, but Lego's 1%, the upper managers and corporate leaders, are short-sighted fools who have no idea how much damage their decisions are doing to their own brand.  I want to go to headquarters, strap them into chairs, and monologue at them until they see reason, but since that's not going to happen I'm trying to distance myself somewhat from LEGO for when the inevitable meltdown occurs.

There are creations I have made that I will not post right now because I'm afraid I'd get Lego's attention and be offered a job.  Normally, I'd want that, but I don't want to be on a sinking ship, so I'm trying to keep a low profile that way.  Once LEGO snaps its head back on properly, I'll gladly offer myself again, but for now...they're on their own.

[MsRowdyRedhead]

60176

One reason to streamline the company to just the manufacturing and distribution focus would be if the current owners were looking to sell. but typically you'd put a CEO/President in charge who had already either overseen the sale of a company or the IPO of the same.. but, eliminating cost centers, keeping the ones that the beancounters can quantify.more importantly, cost centers potential buyers understand.  But the "sell/IPO" experience can be hidden in a very involved board member if that's where the owners are going with it. That makes sense, they've returned to profitable status, the family trust that owns it doesn't want a repeat of the early 2000s, time to sell to someone else.......just one a bunch of assumptions from unknown data
It could have other interpretations. "any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistiguishible from malevolence"

[Canama]

60170

>Implying LU was aimed at older fans.

-カナマ

60174

No, I realize it wasn't aimed at us, but they shut it down not from lack of funds but because not enough little kids were playing it.  (Read the press release again, it's a very clever twisting of the truth to make it sound like they didn't have a choice.)  Now IDK about you, but if I were selling a game, I wouldn't care who was buying my product as long as they were paying for it.

There's other things too that indicate LEGO doesn't want its older fans, they want us to get out of the way and let the little kids play Lego without us.  This is a superbly short-sighted strategy, as 1.) unlike older fans, 5-12-year-olds don't have the money to but the sets themselves, and 2.) if they alienate us, do they actually think we'll try to get our kids and/or younger relatives into Lego when the time comes?  As it stands now, if I had a younger sibling, there isn't a snowball's chance in Karzhani I'd try to get them involved; I'd actually warn them away from Lego, because I don't trust corporate.

It's sad, really, the managers and lower staff and even most of the website designers and moderators are all REALLY great people, but Lego's 1%, the upper managers and corporate leaders, are short-sighted fools who have no idea how much damage their decisions are doing to their own brand.  I want to go to headquarters, strap them into chairs, and monologue at them until they see reason, but since that's not going to happen I'm trying to distance myself somewhat from LEGO for when the inevitable meltdown occurs.

There are creations I have made that I will not post right now because I'm afraid I'd get Lego's attention and be offered a job.  Normally, I'd want that, but I don't want to be on a sinking ship, so I'm trying to keep a low profile that way.  Once LEGO snaps its head back on properly, I'll gladly offer myself again, but for now...they're on their own.

60177

lolwut

CONSPIRACY THEORY IS GO

-カナマ

[Cookieo]

60178

The reason LU is going to close down was because they weren't making much money and it looked like they'd probably be losing money soon.

-Cookieo

[Canama]

60179

Trying out custom TF2 maps... God that game has an amazing community.

-Canama