Throughout my time on the web, I’ve met some guys who take the G.I. Joe hobby VERY seriously. I appreciate those folks who work long and hard to enrich the hobby and add to it, I think the community is much better for it.
But every once in a while it’s fun to see someone kind of mock themselves. A long time Joe fan who runs Broca Blutch is needing some cash for college, so he asked me to let folks know he is selling nearly his entire G.I. Joe collection on eBay now.
Normally, if folks ask me to do this, I don’t bother. But the guys over a Broca Blutch are unique:
- They do not hesitate to berate and make fun of themselves as G.I. Joe collectors.
- They’re buddies with a self-proclaimed “rebel blog” called Smash the State, who all pretty much hate my guts. So any time I can show that I’m the bigger person, I’ll take advantage of it.
So, anyway, check out the auction. Bid it up real high. Whether your pay or not is up to you… :shifty:
There’s someone who hates your guts? Really?
210 figures????
That’s his whole collection?
I consider that a decent amount to get for a good army builder. Sheesh!
>:D
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
You may be the bigger man, doesn’t mean I have to be 🙂
Hawk man, I thought we were cool after “GENERAL HAWK REVIEW BINGO” I mean, it’s hard to use since Hasbro ain’t giving us a Zarana! now to clarify we at http://smashthegoddamnedstate.blogspot.com/ (NEW URL, ONE DAY WE’LL HOST IT OURSELVES!) would like to clear the air on some misconceptions!
Uno: I don’t think any of us hate your guts, I’m not a fan of your dio stories or certain aspects of your reviews but as a person you seem alright, especially after that time you pretty much admitted that some of this stuff is done for the SPONSORSHIP DOLLA$! Plus you’ve got a hustle like no one else, anytime Nerds Losing Money can be said, it’s a good day. Plus you gave us some free publicity!
Dos: We ain’t buddies with D. Verberg anymore, well Dr. Henry E. Miller might be, but I haven’t talked to him in over a year!
Frankenchrist (3rd DK album): I don’t think Smash The State (http://smashthegoddamnedstate.blogspot.com/) ever called itself a rebel blog, it’s more of a “collective of surprisingly knowledgeable folks regarding G.I. Joe who’ve become disenfranchised with the double-standards, EXTREME creepiness and general lack of a sense of humour about G.I. Joe” double standards include how you’re not allowed to talk about god on a G.I. Joe message board but you can totally have a link to a religious G.I. Joe website and have an avatar of a SOULESS ROBOT with the words “Transformed” on it! The creepiness is something that you can see by looking at an overly sexualized custom female action figure, or reading about how dicked up some of these folks are where they post a 400 word message about how they berated a overworked underpaid cashier until they were given a Snake Eyes they probably own for $2.00.
Honestly a lot of people see the blog and (HOPEFULLY MESSAGE BOARD!: http://stsforumreview.proboards.com/) think “What jerks” but don’t actually read what we’re saying. The G.I. Joe fandom is so wrapped up in it’s own little bubble where they never stop and look and think “Wait, what? why would you admit such a thing on a public forum” so when people do it’s dirty pool. Some of the jokes and things that amuse us are possibly in bad taste but at the same time it’s either “Laugh at nerds verbally fellate a fat woman who’s best friend committed a god damn murder” or “Laugh at a 6 year old incredibly homophobic joke about Big Brawler”
Anyways Hawk, thanks a bunch for the publicity (it’s not like it’s 2008 and when we got lots of hate mail!) and what your doing for Mr. Verburg is a pretty cool thing, I know I sure wouldn’t (I’d just post a blog called “NERDS LOSING MONEY IN REAL LIFE: D. VERBURG IS POOR”)
p.s. The only people I think it’s safe to say we hate are: Thomas Wheeler, Mike “De Aco” Fountain, The Philthadelphia Flyers. and Dial Tone
p.p.s. I don’t like your dios but at least you never had a Christian Evangelist preach and stereotype atheists, agnostics and Jews as guys who are all “FORGET YOU BRO, I DON’T NEED FRIENDS”
nothing says “i’m the bigger man” like saying “i’m the bigger man”.
Glad everyone took this in the humorous spirit it was intended…
Haha, I don’t know if “THE Jay” did, but he’s “THE” Jay not just any Jay
I’d never heard of Smash the State before today.
Me too….what a worthless site.
Dr. Henry E. Miller and I are still friends, for your information! 🙁
Huh. So that’s how the other side of the fandom is. Interesting.