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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] 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

Babylon 5, that show was brilliant and I don't get why it gets the hate it does, if you love space courtroom drama and intergalactic diplomatic shenanigans, then Babylon 5 has you more than covered.

You want a deep multi level story? Yep got that.

Space racisim? Got that as well.

A will they won't they love hate relationship between to opposing alien species who may or may not have killed a substantial amount of each others species? hell yeah we got that in bulk!

That show is worth the watch. If they had just the slightest bit of extra money to get better cgi, we would be talking about Babylon 5 different.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

Microwaving food. Too many people think that it's radiating the food. Its just making the water molecules in the food wiggle and heat up to warm the food through internal collisions.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

It's even the optimal way to cook some things, and people still avoid it.

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

U2 for that album that they gave away for free

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

U2 was very obnoxious and pretentious in the 2000s. We're talking, they thought they were as popular as Jesus without saying the quote the Beatles did way back when.

Glad they aren't really much of a thing these days.

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

I feel like, but then, U2 was on their way out as a band. They weren't bad, but they were ubiquitous for so long that people were getting sick of them.

I know the band still tours and makes music still, but I feel like that giveaway was the watershed in breaking their popularity.

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

The same one that was installed on people's devices without their knowledge or consent? I think you're avoiding the real issue there.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It was added to the libraries in iTunes. Not forcefully downloaded.

Bono didn’t go through everyone’s iPhones

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

In an era when libraries synced automatically and space was valuable.

Bono did get Apple to do something invasive and shitty.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I was surprised when I learned that Pikmin 3 is often disliked or even hated. It's shamelessly my fave game of the series. I get that the story is shorter than it should be and it's more linear but it has this charm that's unmatched, and I enjoy the graphics style so much that it inspired several facets of my artstyle even. Also the mission mode is just the right difficulty and a ton of fun!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

The first 60 minutes was GOD AWFUL. So much hand holding and text conversations that it turned me off to the game completely.

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

High Guardian Spice. I'm not personally an enjoyer of it, but the amount of criticism it received was vastly, vastly out of proportion simply because it was "woke".

And as Ada said, trans people.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

Funko Pops

Imo they aren't getting nearly enough of hate they deserve. I'm not against figure collecting in general but FP are the ugliest motherfucking thing i ever seen in this department, for the same amount of resources, labour and energy they could produce something much better. In fact, a consistent long serie of figures faithful to the original (not ultra-deformed) across so many franchises would been great, but alas only thing there is are those unholy abominations.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I also take issue with buying something that does nothing. “Oh I’m going to put this on that shelf and never touch it again”. It screams cash grab. They’re made of brittle plastic so you can’t play with them. And as you say, they’re ugly.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I would argue that collecting things having purely aesthetical value is also legit, though there is an issue about manufactured demand and role of merchandise in popculture, but fair enough.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I see benefits of displaying art made by a person, but I take issue with collecting. It feels like a form of hoarding.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It definitely can be, for example art is very often hoarded as form of investment, and this can be a much lower-price form of the same, but not necessarily. I would say the more those things price is, the more chance for hoarding.

That is, economically. If you mean hoarding as in psychology probably it's more depending on person, a lot of people i know including me were collecting more or less useless things but nobody i know went into true hoarding problem and most of those people at some point got bored and got rid of their collections. Other than above personal experience, idk.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

long serie of figures faithful

I hate to be that person, but the singular of "series" is "series". There is no singular called "serie".

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (7 children)

Windows Phone, particularly Windows Phone 8.1. It had its flaws, the biggest being the lack of third-party support of course but the UX was the best I've ever experienced on a mobile device.

The UI was very different from Android/iOS but felt more consistent and intuitive. The Live Tiles especially were just such a good feature to get as much information as possible on one screen. And it all looked so incredibly good for the time with its silky smooth animations.

It's a shame Microsoft ruined it all with Windows Phone 10...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

Also the keyboard! I have never used one I liked more until thumbkey came along :) The windows keyboard was so good for swipe typing, it makes me wonder how they now own swift key and it isn't as good!

When I had to go to Android (phone battery on the Lumia 950xl started swelling), I used things to replicate Windows Phone as it was so fun to use. :)

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Both had awful parents and public struggles with addiction, but people just like looking down on “party girls”

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

TBF I think Hilton was deliberate to some extent. She rode the wave of controversy she created and made a name for herself separate from the family name. She’s still controversial, but she’s independent.

Lohan was just an addict in a downward spiral chased by harsh public opinion. Unfortunately the public loves to see a star fall.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I resented that culture insisted I care about people who, as far as I could tell, hadn't done anything. I don't care about how much someone parties, or if they're rich, or have a sex tape. Lohan was an actor, at least- I don't want to hear about Paris or the Kardashians because why?

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

Pokemon go. There were always people eager to tell you how it's not very good. Like, ok. Do you want me to stop having fun now, or is there a grace period, or?

Though ironically I do have a bit of a "fun police" impulse around dungeons and dragons via "oh my gosh why are you doing a social intrigue game with this rules set" I've been working on keeping that to myself.

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

Their music algorithm has been better to me than any of the others. And the amount of educational videos I end up watching far exceeds what I would have found on any other streaming platform.

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

I agree. For now ...

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