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.
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 on on screen as possible. 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…
The current state of Windows retroactively justifies the hate for windows phone.
There’s still a dedicated community of windows phone enthusiasts. It definitely had something. Unfortunately I never got to try one
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. :)
I legitimately miss my lumia 1020, I really liked the way that applications “flowed” as well, entire ui was really intuitive, maybe partly because I had a zune with the touch pad for years before getting a wp7, zune was another solid but memed on device.
Oh I wish I had a Zune HD, it’s exactly my kinda thing; quirky, niche and pretty much failed. I loved the interface of that old Zune media player that was available for Windows 7, used that for quite a while before switching to Foobar2k.
Nokia Mix Radio was amazing as well, used that all the time on my Lumia 930.
The collage with artist information was really cool with the Zune media player, I’m Canadian so we didn’t get the Zune pass for a while, that during the iPod era was ahead of its time as a streaming service.
The hard disk in my Zune died years ago and its totally been lost in moves unfortunately, would love to have flash modded it like people do with their old iPods, having a dedicated media device would be great. I’ve seen refurbed zune HDs on eBay, temptation is there, just need to find out if there’s any way to sync with the Zune media player, had a Foobar2k plugin years ago that did iPod syncing, something like that.
The Zunes on eBay over here are either non-existent or super expensive unfortunately
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
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I just want the butthole cut.
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.
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.
For me, it’s just so boring. Plus the character writing is meh
I had fun with it. I don’t pay attention to the story anyway. Skyrim and oblivion didn’t have great stories imho either.
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.
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.
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.
Open-minded conversation.
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.
Palestine
Buying music as CDs. Sure they were expensive at their peak, but they came in high quality, I could rip and do with them as I wished, while still having an offline copy. I have a lot of my old ones from childhood
The Pontiac Aztek. It had awesome features I’d love to have in my car today. Tailgate with molded seats and cup holders. Speakers facing out of the back. A cooler. Foldable and removable rear seating. MP3 cd player from the factory.
Also, Funko Pops deserve more hate than they get. But I don’t like figures of any kind, I collect staplers.
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.
@yogthos This. Crypto as well.
Having some Internet-wide independent currency is, in my books, a genuinely good idea. It allows people like me to survive under the unfair governments. Yes, plural. I work internationally, you see.
What’s happening around this tech with all this scams and market gambling and the fact that everybody jumped on the literally first implementation which is very much underdeveloped (frankly, fucking raw) - well… that sucks, and that creates a blind backlash.
pretty much yeah
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!
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That title isn’t getting as much hate as it deserves.
It’s either “What do you think got way too much hate?” or “What do you think got way more hate than it should’ve?”. You somehow combined those sentences into a grammatically broken mess.
And it’s fucked up that this hasn’t been pointed out and isn’t one of the top comments.
It hasn’t been pointed out and isn’t one of the top comments because nobody fucking cares.
You are the epitome of 🤓
It was a joke dweeb
where funny? the cringelord i’m replying to just comes off as mad and they do this kinda shit in other threads any time they see a grammatical error
Online sellers usually refuse to deal with funkos because the people who collect them are way too picky and hard to deal with.
Alright, I’ll bite. Wth is a funko
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
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.
