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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Bluesky Post (this was also posted on twitter)

I was hoping to find a statement from the aggressor, but it seems to be too early.

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[–] [email protected] 152 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

I've always hated funkopops, they're ugly and the very epitome of the enshitification and commercialisation of geek culture. This does nothing to change my mind

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes and they’re yet another collectible product that exploits the psychology of a subset of people who compulsively collect things. I put them in the same category as gambling and note that there’s a lot of crossover with these things (loot boxes and CCG booster packs being prime examples of a gambling and collectible combo).

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Yeah, I hate those assholes too. I feel bad for anyone who falls for their business model.

Glances at my Tyranid collection

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

At least you can play a game with 'Nid models. Also have you guys gotten any updated models yet? I know you guys were in the same boat as the Skaven for quite awhile.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

10th gave us a ton! New Gaunts, Hormagaunts, Lictors, Deathleapers, biovores, Screamer fex, and 4 new units!!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fucken A dude, I know the Gaunts were getting crusty. Now if only Games Workshop would update some of the non-Cadian Guard models, I want some non-forgeworld Armageddon Steel Legion models.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

They did mother fucking Krieg!!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I know but I want my other gas mask boys damnit!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Yes, Inquisitor. This one right here. They have been proclaiming something about the Star Children.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

At least you can actually do something with those ‘Nids.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago

The FOMO based businesses are preying on people with poor impulse control...which there are no shortage of in the nerd world.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My partner has an entire bookcase of them, all still in box.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Get them out and play with them!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My mom got me my first one in 2019 or 2020 because she thought it was cute (Guyfolye from Silicon Valley). A few months later she asked me if they were just Beanie Babies and I thought that was the end of it. Now every Christmas I get one even though she knows I don't like them and we both snark on the super niche weird ones. She even got custom ones for me and my wife last year. It never ends, and I have 6 sets of beady little eyes staring at me when I'm watching TV in the basement.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I feel like you need to hear this: just because someone gifts you something doesn't mean you need to keep it endlessly, or at all. Donate/giveaway/trash.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

I know, I've been trying to work on it. Moving furniture and throwing away things is pretty hard for me.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

A true death of art.

I remember going through the prices my buddy paid for his with actual sculptures on Etsy and him just getting more and more annoyed. He's probably going to have a Funko themed wedding next year.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I wouldn't say the epitome, have you heard of The Big Bang Theory?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I've seen enough of it to know I don't like it for pretty much the same reasons

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I wouldn't say that show commercialized geek culture. It seemed to me it was more about how geek culture should be the butt of jokes. And ASD people as well.