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.
Ghostbusters: Answer the Call
Nah Imma let it ring
If that movie had not come out in 2016, it might’ve been somewhat okay. The problem also is that they picked the most unfunny female comedians that they could find. But because it came out in 2016, it was criticized for being “woke”.
Holtzmann made that movie. I still tingle when she goes to town with the dual proton pistols.
Yeah. I’m a huge ghostbusters nerd. I really enjoyed it. There’s one quick change that could be made that would have made it tons better. Set it in Boston and make them a franchisee. Making it a spinoff instead of a reboot.
Same. I loved Ghostbusters as a kid, while everyone else was about gi Joe and Ninja turtles. I even like extreme Ghostbusters and the last two movies.
But AtC was just blah. Not very funny. Trying to do the same old stuff. A lot of it felt like they were trying to just tick checkboxes off.
i love the spinoff idea.
YouTube premium.
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.
What’s good about it?
Creators get a lot more money per view than ad based views
Donations and buying merch just works better.
luckily people can do both if they want to
It makes your pocket lighter.
I agree. For now …
Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton.
Both had awful parents and public struggles with addiction, but people just like looking down on “party girls”
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.
I mean wouldn’t you want to separate yourself from people who put you in essentially an abusive prison/lockdown camp for nearly a year because they didn’t bother trying to help you with your ADHD?
Paris Hilton shares story of traumatic abuse while testifying before congress
‘Stolen’ exposes horrors of pricey rehabs for troubled teens
Teen Titans Go.
I think most of the hate came from the people who grew up with the 2003 show, which ended abruptly, leading them to believe that TTG was meant to be a replacement.
Most of the hate has died down now, but I still think all that contempt was unwarranted.
Yep, all 3 of my kids loved TTG. I understand where people are coming from but the show has some genuinely funny moments
The ending of Battlestar Galactica.
Honest question: So it’s still worth the ride?
I loved the vibe, and the Newtonian (-esque?) space battles, but I kinda dropped off, and after the ending was spoiled for me I was like “Wow. Saved myself the time.” Lol
But is the show worth it overall? I’ve liked things with silly/bad endings before. :p
Yes, it is still excellent even by today’s standards, and you can see why so many new shows followed their big budget approach.
There are a couple small parts that can be a bit hard to get through, but for me that’s just part of the situation they are in, and it is all totally worth it.
No matter what anyone thinks of the ending, it does at least have a conclusion. You are not left wondering or half expecting a sequel.
Cool! I appreciate your opinion! I should really stick to it this time. It seems besides The Expanse (still gotta watch that one) or Orville, we’re simply not spoiled with great sci-fi/sci-fantasy shows anymore. :)
No matter what anyone thinks of the ending, it does at least have a conclusion.
Oof, you’ve got a point there, pardner. (cries in Firefly)
Posting one for Firefly!
Funko Pops
I… I don’t think of these at all, I just ignore their existence.
Personally, hating on people who post things on social media that are slightly offensive to others get more hate than they should. We should reach out and try to explain the issue in a civil matter instead of just loosing it because that doesn’t make us any better. And if the person doesn’t want to understand or care, just ignore them and move on.
Hating on products because either are bad, or underwhelming is ok as these companies know this and clearly don’t care because they are already making money off it. However this is only recent due to all the Enshittrification we are getting force fed by these same companies.
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.
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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.
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.
You must hate furniture then. Because, I’d want my bookshelves, nightstands and even my bed to do SOMETHING.
Bookshelves hold books, nightstands hold plenty of shit, and beds hold my sleepy self.
What were you trying to say?
BTW, if you want to criticize throw pillows I’m happy to join in but I don’t understand your choice of furnishings to criticize.
I’m a woodworker, youtube often recommends me woodtube content. Tool reviews, project builds, shit like that. And occasionally “How I made $15k making these” with a thumbnail of a guy holding a simple pine triangle.
Turns out he miter saws triangles out of pine, stains them, paints the tip of them white, and now it’s a mountain, which he sells on Etsy for damn near $30 for three. They are functionless and do nothing. And there’s apparently a demand for them.
I refuse to sell trinkets like that. If I make anything, it will have some function. Maybe I will take some off-cuts and band saw out some apple-shaped coasters or something because keeping the condensation from your drink from puddling on your nice new table is a thing and it might as well be a fun shape, but I will always be that one step away from “pieces of wood to clutter your house with.”
Also a woodworker and primarily a tool maker for this reason. I want to make something USEFUL.
Shit if you have enough off cuts after a table, matching coasters for that table is always the best move. Baller as fuck.
On my own projects (some of which you can find in [email protected]) I end up having narrow off-cuts, often from ripping boards to width. I save these up and when I’m sick of having them around I glue them up into panels, cut them into squares and make coasters out of them. They don’t really match anything other than they’re made of the same species I tend to work with.
Ah shame, oh well!
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.
I see benefits of displaying art made by a person, but I take issue with collecting. It feels like a form of hoarding.
I collect comics, which are (printed, yes, but) art made by people. Sometimes I’ll sell off a run, some I’ll keep forever because they’re fantastic. Different strokes ig.
Keeping them to read them is different than keeping them to have them. The former is an in-use library, the latter is collecting.
Fair enough.
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.
Those dead-eyed monstrosities stare deep into my soul and give me a case of the howling fantods, so yes, agree.
long serie of figures faithful
I hate to be that person, but the singular of “series” is “series”. There is no singular called “serie”.
They are the opposite of art in every imaginable way.
Yes, but english language call “art” literally everything made with even a slightest hint of intention, which those things had to be because there is no other purpose (except lining the pockets of publishing mafia).
Starfield. The game isn’t bad, it just isn’t as good and the game design was especially outdated for its release window. It’s legitimately a better RPG than most Bethesda games.
I’m fairly confident modders will actually be able to salvage it despite its flaws.
I remember being underwhelmed when elite dangerous released an expansion that let you explore some planets on foot. And then starfield released.
For me, it’s just so boring. Plus the character writing is meh
I’d be less annoyed with it if it were bad. It’s just the most boring thing. There’s nothing interesting going on. If it were bad there’d be a reason to care about it.
It’s just really annoying because Bethesda used to care about doing something interesting with their games. It’s just increasingly gotten more generic though, and Starfield is the worst of it.
Some of the questlines were fun, like the Pirate Double Agent questline.
I enjoyed the basic formula of past Bethesda games and Starfield delivered more of the same plus some cool extras like being able to disable and board/capture spaceships. I don’t understand the sentiment that’s it’s outdated. Modern AAA games are not dramatically different in design to games from 10 years ago in my experience.
I had fun with it. I don’t pay attention to the story anyway. Skyrim and oblivion didn’t have great stories imho either.
Seconded. I actually enjoyed the game for what it was, almost Skyrim in space. Almost, don’t shoot me for saying that.
I had fun with the various factions, with constellation, and the story was reasonably unique but maybe not extremely enthralling.
That said, my expectations were basically zero. I purposefully ignore all prerelease hype about video games as it tends to ruin the actual experience of playing the game for the first time.
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Alright, I’ll bite. Wth is a funko
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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.
On the matter of “collectible”, how is it even ontologically sound to “collect” things that are expressily produced as collectibles? You collect things, coins, paintings, stamps, phone cards, even gaming cards. All things that exist in their own merit that you choose to collect, usually giving them value according to their accidental rarity.
With this shit you are not collecting, you are just purchasing.
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.
pass
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.
I don’t like it, but that’s because it’s usually the faster but inferior quality option, bread/bun gets hard, sometimes uneven heating, some things get slimy, etc. I opt for toaster oven or range/pot/pan over microwave 9/10 times just because I have the extra 10-20min and prefer the quality. Radiation (for me) has nothing to do with it.
That’s a fair call and I’m the same, its not optimal for a lot reheating. I’ve met a fair few people who refuse to own or use a microwave because the don’t want their food “irradiated” or think that it is somehow unhealthy.
I mean it is radiation, just like 5G signals, and y’know, light
That is true lol.
The heating effect is more due to standing waves rotating the (polar) water molecules in the food.
There aren’t hot radiation particles moving into and staying in the food like a number of people believe.
Microwaves (and 5G) have much less energy than visible light, but its a scary sound word. People don’t like to think that they are exposed to radiation 100% of the time.
Microwaves are ~2.4GHz, same as wifi. That is the resonant freq of water. They don’t go deep, not even close to a milimeter. And it all converts to heat.
The sun is more damageing then microwaves of same power. And ionizing radiation is the really harmful one.
That was a weird time, when troubleshooting internet connection issues was like “Is anyone using the microwave or perhaps a cordless phone at the moment?” Lol
they often called it nuking. took a good 15 years before mass acceptance. early ones had warnings about standing near with pacemakers could kill you.
It’s even the optimal way to cook some things, and people still avoid it.
Though I’d highlight that warming food up in a pan or pot on the stove is criminally underrated.
which food comes out better in a microwave?
Things with a lot of water evenly distributed. Potatoes, steamed vegetables, stuff like that. I’ve read it’s good for making caramel too but haven’t tried that one.
I recall it being great for sponge toffee, also fantastic for melting things like chocolate or other (non-culinary) stuff.
Oh melting chocolate, I need to try that next time. I’m always worried about burning the chocolate in the pot.
Everything I’ve seen says do it in 30s bursts and stir, apparently does a good job of melting it with breaking
“Honey, how long do you want your food to wiggle?”
Trans people
The reason they’re being hated is entirely for religious reasons. Just like any other individual from the LGBTQ umbrella are scorned similarly.
But I have to play devil’s advocate now that I’m thinking of it, but one thing I don’t like about trans people, isn’t just who they are. It’s the spotlight is primarily on them, by a community that had once stressed about caring about all individuals of all backgrounds. Yet, Trans people got all the attention almost and what that has caused is levels of infighting and people giving cold shoulders. They’re from people who’re gay or bisexual (which these days, bisexual people feel shunned the most).
That’s not what should happen but unfortunately, it is and I don’t like that people just suddenly decide who gets more priority over others. That’s not equality.
But I have to play devil’s advocate
That’s not being a devils advocate, it’s just plain transphobia. As if trans people somehow have the power social power to choose the worlds attention.
You say hate is for religious reasons, and then blame the victims of that hate for the attention they’re getting from their oppressors, the very people you yourself just said are responsible for it.
And honest opinion or not, you chose to spend your energy undermining a trans person talking about our oppression, when you could simply have chosen to not do that. And that shit is creating the very problem you just blamed trans people for
Do you even know what a ‘devil’s advocate’ is? No, so you just jump to a baseless assumption instead which clues me in, into how intellectually inefficient you are. A devil’s advocate is “a person who expresses a contentious opinion in order to provoke debate or test the strength of the opposing arguments.”
You continue to entangle and twist the context of my comments to squeeze into your narrative. And you want to talk about undermining? You are truly insufferable. Maybe you ought to take a look into the mirror and understand that your attitude partly contributes to some of the more legitimate problems people have against trans people such as you. And why your kind is being used as a platform to base trans people off as which is trigger-happy, oversensitive, broken people.
Congratulations for proving me right. And this is coming from a non-binary bisexual individual by the way.
show this thread to someone you trust IRL
You went mask off pretty quickly…
Yeah. I feel like they get so much hate because they are the closest symbol for “maybe things aren’t as clear cut as you thought”, and it freaks people out.
I think also some people who feel like they can’t be as openly homophobic as they used to be in the 80s/90s/2000s have just transferred their bigotry onto trans people instead because they think they can get away with it.
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Edit: it’s… sadly very easy to forget that you don’t deserve the hate, which is why I didn’t put this in my post. It’s something I’ve been trying to work through lately.
My first thought was this, and when I opened the thread your reply was the first response listed as well.
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.
Oh, it had some bugs for sure. It was rushed out the door by the publisher. But again, if given time to actually work on it, it had potential to become a new trilogy. The story was clearly trying to do something, even if it was mired by bugs.
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.
Those weren’t even the main complaints about the game, I actually remember being there
The game had shit animations and a ton of bugs on TOP of being a less interesting game even when compared directly to just ME1
Gamers just don’t know what the hell they want anymore. They’ll bitch and cry about anything.
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.
The live action Cowboy Bebop
Lack of Ed killed that show.
After Dragonball Evolution, I can no longer be convinced that live-action anime adaptations will ever work.
Go full blown animated or don’t even try.
Avatar the last airbender serie is a pretty cool adaptation.
It’s also widely hated by the fan base. Maybe not completely fairly though, although not completely unfairly either.
No, that was bad.
See? People are so upset that the girl playing Faye didn’t make them feel the way the original did when they were 12.
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Ty! It was so good. I was so disappointed when it got just shit on by the fan base. I was never huge into anime, but I did watch the original, and thought the live action was really good and faithful where it counted.
The Berkeley professor jam.
It has a lot of really cool elements. Most of it is really good. Everything is just all at the same time in the clip which is… Challenging to listen to.
