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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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[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 99 points 2 months ago (8 children)
[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

<3

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.

[–] kipo@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago

My first thought was this, and when I opened the thread your reply was the first response listed as well.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 months ago

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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[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 45 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 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.

[–] Pulptastic@midwest.social 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I also take issue with buying something that does nothing. β€œOh 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.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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.

[–] Pulptastic@midwest.social 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Pulptastic@midwest.social 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Keeping them to read them is different than keeping them to have them. The former is an in-use library, the latter is collecting.

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[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They are the opposite of art in every imaginable way.

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Those dead-eyed monstrosities stare deep into my soul and give me a case of the howling fantods, so yes, agree.

[–] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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".

[–] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Waterworld is a fantastic movie. Creative world-building, unbelievable sets, stunts and performances (Dennis Hoper as an over the top villain? Yes please) I just can't understand all of the hate it received!

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Best complaint I heard was "it's just mad max on water" .

WTF? That sounds awesome.

[–] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 months ago

Right?? How could you not be entertained by that??

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[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 months ago

I don't think I'm quite as effusive about it as you, but it was a good movie and I don't understand the hate either

[–] i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago

I’ll talk all kinds of shit about that movie, but I’ve watched it end to end more times than most movies I’ve seen, and it’s never been a hate watch.

[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 months ago

I love Dennis Hopper as Bowser in the Super Mario Brothers

:::

[–] Pacrat173@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

Finally someone likes this movie I loved it. I need to watch the ulysses cut sometime

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[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 31 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Crocs. I got my first pair when I was a teenager and they still work now (edit: 30yrs old); though I recently got a new pair because the bottoms were completely smooth on the old pair.

"Ugly" cars. Aka Pontiac Aztec, PT Cruiser, Fiat Multipla, etc. Yeah, they might be ugly as sin, but they're more interesting from a visual standpoint. I'd rather have the road filled with ugly cars than filled with cars that mostly look the same.

[–] Montagge@lemmy.zip 19 points 2 months ago (3 children)

PT Cruisers would be fine if they were just ugly. Those things were notoriously unreliable.

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[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 months ago

Wearing crocs as I type this.

Many got over the hate and now appreciate them. They are also common addons for overnight hiking/bikepacking trips for when you set up camp and your feet are tired.

[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 25 points 2 months ago (3 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.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 5 points 2 months ago

"Honey, how long do you want your food to wiggle?"

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[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] dwindling7373@feddit.it 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

Yep. Especially on right-wing instances like Lemmy.world in particular, but it's far worse IRL in the West.

[–] pH3ra@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 months ago
[–] dumblederp@aussie.zone 10 points 2 months ago

Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton.

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 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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[–] Corno@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago

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!

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago (5 children)

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.

[–] do_not_pm_me@thelemmy.club 3 points 2 months ago

I had fun with it. I don’t pay attention to the story anyway. Skyrim and oblivion didn’t have great stories imho either.

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[–] trouble@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Rhusta@midwest.social 4 points 2 months ago

Agreed but her 2013 cash grab sequel titled Saturday did not receive nearly enough hate.

[–] Montagge@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Recency bias answer, but City Skylines 2

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[–] apotheotic 3 points 2 months 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.

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