What do you think got way too much hate than it should've? (kbin.melroy.org)

submitted 4 days ago by NeoToasty@kbin.melroy.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[-] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

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

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago

Alright, I'll bite. Wth is a funko

[-] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago

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.

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

pass

[-] themoken@startrek.website 3 points 3 days ago

It's a "collectible" piece of plastic that looks like a fat chibi, square headed version of some tired character from pop culture. The only people that own them are psychic vampires.

[-] dwindling7373@feddit.it 1 points 2 days ago

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.

this post was submitted on 26 Nov 2024

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