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Funko Pops, to me.

I understand that some of them are fairly overpriced, but I also really like them as is. It doesn't work on all characters, but it sometimes work on a lot and there's so much representation and variety that it's good to have a few.

If people want to talk about waste of plastic and vinyl, they should bark at the companies who make teeny tiny figurines that serve no purpose and have so little detail that spending any money on them is a waste.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

I don't think they're a problem at all. I didn't buy any lol.

Everyone wants to talk predatory, but for some reason admitting you might be taken in by consumerist garbage might be a bit too much.

I'm not the problem!

mountain of tacky crap

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Open-minded conversation.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I think generative AI is a great recent example. It's a neat toy, it has some practical applications. The problems that people ascribe to it aren't inherent in the technology, but are simply symptoms of underlying social problems in a capitalist society.

For example, people complain that it takes jobs away, but the whole idea that we have to work for the sake of work is idiotic to begin with. Technology that frees up people from work should create more free time for people to enjoy. The reason that's not happening is because capitalism is not a rational economic system.

Another common argument is that it's very resource intensive and wastes energy. This is true, but there's no reason to believe this won't be optimized. In fact, we've already seen a lot of optimizations happen in just a few years that now make it possible to run models that used to require a data centre to run on a laptop.

However, more fundamentally, wasting energy is once again an aspect of the capitalist system itself. Before AI we saw stuff like crypto, NFTs, and so on. Much of the technology that's developed under capitalism ends up being frivolous or even actively harmful. So, it's not generative AI that's the problem, but the social system that guides allocation of labour and resources.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Online sellers usually refuse to deal with funkos because the people who collect them are way too picky and hard to deal with.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Alright, I'll bite. Wth is a funko

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/04/6a/52/046a52d8b2aadebad4fe8285ce88ebfb.jpg

"collectible" little vinyl figures from all sorts of franchises. TV shows, anime, video games etc.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Men wearing wigs.

For whatever reason, we've decided as a society that women wearing wigs/weaves/extensions to make themselves feel attractive and nice is perfectly normal, but if a man does it it's laughable and pathetic. I say, wigs for anyone who wants them!

Also before the accusations start, I'm not a bald dude lol.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

wigs are like make up. if done right you shouldnt even notice it.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

I’m going to put up another movie, The Dark Tower.

I’m a big Stephen King fan, and the Dark Tower series is probably my favorite work of his, aside from The Stand.

I think the movie got too much hate from all the stans and it was clearly just farther along in the many turns of the wheel of Ka.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Mass Effect Andromeda. The hate was so intense it caused the publisher to disavow the series entirely.

The hate was because people were comparing Andromeda (the start of a new trilogy) with the entirety of the first trilogy. People were upset that Andromeda wasn’t grander in scale than all three former games combined. The gameplay was fine, and it was clear that they were trying to build the story up just like they had done with the original trilogy. There were several DLC chapters planned, and it was going to grow into an entire series of its own.

It’s like people forgot that the original trilogy spent an entire game just introducing the main villain. Like you didn’t even realize who the main villain for the trilogy was until the very end of the game. But when Andromeda did something similar, people got baby-mad about it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The hate was so intense it caused the publisher to disavow the series entirely.

The game wasn't exactly flop money-wise, it sold about what they predicted it would and at least one big DLC was heavily hinted in the game itself. What really killed it is the fucking 2018-2020 era in computer gaming when multiplayer shooters propagated like crazy and idiot doomsayers and other marketing "experts" prophecised end of not only RPG genre but single player games in general, for example Bioware was ordered to drop everything and make the Anthem trash.

Agree with placing Andromeda here though. That game did had some glaring design flaws (like ship and vehicle being unarmed and alien having just few different faces) but overall it wasn't nearly that bad as haters say.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Gamers just don't know what the hell they want anymore. They'll bitch and cry about anything.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

I think it wasn't a bad game, it just wasn't a great Mass Effect game. If it had released as it's own stand-alone thing and had been marketed a bit less grandly I think it would have been a lot better received.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

Cyberpunk 2077 - it was overhyped as fuck but as someone who ignores the bullshit grind mill of video game journalism it was a decent game on release that became pretty fucking awesome after patches and the expansion.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Same with anything. I didn't see the Barbie hype, went in an watched it and thought it was good. Same with the Wakanda film. Didn't see any of the hype and had a great time.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah I think once games reach a certain level of hype there's almost no way to release them without getting a big backlash. People (IE gamers) tend to build these things up way too much in their minds and go in with really unrealistic expectations.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It was a buggy mess on release and deserved the hate for that. Now 2.0 fixed that and redeemed it. It doesn't deserve new hate.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Most of the release bugs were pretty minor and cosmetic - like cars exploding without warning.

It absolutely wasn't amazing on release but the gameplay and world were fun and engaging.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Absolutely not lmao. They made an open world game that's set in the criminal underground of a busy city, but the police was literally unable to drive until a patch several weeks after launch. Which A LOT of people didn't get to experience because for weeks the game wasn't stable enough to playable for them anyway.

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 3 weeks ago (10 children)

my opinion is that people who push for it havent lived in it. everything is lowest common denominator, if you can even get it. no incentive to invent, no reward for innovation.

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