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.
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.
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 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
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
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
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.
Real talk - as a balding dude, there was a time when I was part of a bonus structure program, and I half-jokingly started looking at hair systems. Not because I’m balding and ashamed of it, whatever, but I missed being able to style my hair in a way that looked good. That, and I loved the idea of showing up to work with a whole head of hair, refusing to acknowledge it aside from saying I got a haircut. 'Cause that shit would’ve been hilarious.
Ultimately decided against it, too much $ for vanity and a joke versus sensible balding guy haircuts/the occasional clear cut.
Get one and (after you tire of that excellent joke) swap it on/off and hide it when people have their back turned like Igor’s hump switching in Young Frankenstein.
wigs are like make up. if done right you shouldnt even notice it.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
I thought it was great on release. Bugs were mostly easy to work around or beneficial and didn’t stop me from completing the game. I stumbled onto a bug that was basically infinite money and unlocked all the cars and motorcycles before it was quickly patched. Also a way to terrain glitch the psychos and beat them when I should’ve have been strong enough. Cruising through content when you feel like you’re breaking the world like Neo dropped into a William Gibson novel is exactly what I wanted from a cyberpunk game.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Communism.
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.
Most people who oppose socialism haven’t lived in a socialist country. Meanwhile I’ve lived my whole life under capitalism and can see it doesn’t work for the vast majority of the population, or for the planet as a whole.
Most of the world is capitalist, and most of the world is poor.
You live in a fantasy invented by your own propaganda. I don’t even know how you’d measure what you’re saying at a mass scale, much less notice it while living in a country.
“Oh man, if we were in a capitalist country, Jim would have invented a new form of sliced bread, but alas we are unmotivated by our available housing and food.”
id be shocked if i didnt see a gavel response from a lemmy.ml user. all the best.
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.
Babylon 5 did an incredible job showing how fascism can slowly take power. Great show.
I agree with you as a contemporary but I do think it’s important to remember that while DS9 started slower it ended up delivering excellent narratives on the same topic.
They are both worth a watch though because Bab5 had a grittiness to it that most other sci-fi wouldn’t embrace until the resurgence of Cyberpunk. Bab5 contains several love letters to Gibson buried in its themeing that even DS9 (the grittiest of Star Treks) didn’t come close to matching.
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 mean it is radiation, just like 5G signals, and y’know, light
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.
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.
“Honey, how long do you want your food to wiggle?”
It’s even the optimal way to cook some things, and people still avoid it.
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.
Though I’d highlight that warming food up in a pan or pot on the stove is criminally underrated.
U2 for that album that they gave away for free
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.
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.
The same one that was installed on people’s devices without their knowledge or consent? I think you’re avoiding the real issue there.
It was added to the libraries in iTunes. Not forcefully downloaded.
Bono didn’t go through everyone’s iPhones
In an era when libraries synced automatically and space was valuable.
Bono did get Apple to do something invasive and shitty.
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!
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.
