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.
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.
The live action Cowboy Bebop
Ty! It was so good. I was so disappointed when it got just shit on by the fan base. I was never huge into anime, but I did watch the original, and thought the live action was really good and faithful where it counted.
After Dragonball Evolution, I can no longer be convinced that live-action anime adaptations will ever work.
Go full blown animated or don’t even try.
Avatar the last airbender serie is a pretty cool adaptation.
It’s also widely hated by the fan base. Maybe not completely fairly though, although not completely unfairly either.
No, that was bad.
See? People are so upset that the girl playing Faye didn’t make them feel the way the original did when they were 12.
Nah, it was stylish and goofy in a way that made you realize how goofy the original was.
Lack of Ed killed that show.
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.
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
There’s still a dedicated community of windows phone enthusiasts. It definitely had something. Unfortunately I never got to try one
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.
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.
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.
For me, it’s just so boring. Plus the character writing is meh
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
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 ending of Battlestar Galactica.
Honest question: So it’s still worth the ride?
I loved the vibe, and the Newtonian (-esque?) space battles, but I kinda dropped off, and after the ending was spoiled for me I was like “Wow. Saved myself the time.” Lol
But is the show worth it overall? I’ve liked things with silly/bad endings before. :p
Yes, it is still excellent even by today’s standards, and you can see why so many new shows followed their big budget approach.
There are a couple small parts that can be a bit hard to get through, but for me that’s just part of the situation they are in, and it is all totally worth it.
No matter what anyone thinks of the ending, it does at least have a conclusion. You are not left wondering or half expecting a sequel.
Cool! I appreciate your opinion! I should really stick to it this time. It seems besides The Expanse (still gotta watch that one) or Orville, we’re simply not spoiled with great sci-fi/sci-fantasy shows anymore. :)
No matter what anyone thinks of the ending, it does at least have a conclusion.
Oof, you’ve got a point there, pardner. (cries in Firefly)
Posting one for Firefly!
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.
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.
“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.
I recall it being great for sponge toffee, also fantastic for melting things like chocolate or other (non-culinary) stuff.
Oh melting chocolate, I need to try that next time. I’m always worried about burning the chocolate in the pot.
Though I’d highlight that warming food up in a pan or pot on the stove is criminally underrated.
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.
I mean it is radiation, just like 5G signals, and y’know, light
That is true lol.
The heating effect is more due to standing waves rotating the (polar) water molecules in the food.
There aren’t hot radiation particles moving into and staying in the food like a number of people believe.
Microwaves (and 5G) have much less energy than visible light, but its a scary sound word. People don’t like to think that they are exposed to radiation 100% of the time.
Microwaves are ~2.4GHz, same as wifi. That is the resonant freq of water. They don’t go deep, not even close to a milimeter. And it all converts to heat.
The sun is more damageing then microwaves of same power. And ionizing radiation is the really harmful one.
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.
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 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.
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.
Can you explain what you mean by “lowest common denominator” as well as the bits on “no incentives or rewards for innovation?” The USSR was one of the mosy scientifically advanced countries in the 20th century.
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.
low effort
Refusing to answer and instead insulting the user based on instance usage is childish.
i shrugged off an insult and you figured to dog pile on pretending that i’m the insulter.
You decided to say something really ill-informed on a platform with many Communists, you could have just disengaged.
really not ill-informed. this isnt a communist platform, and i’m aware that i’m pushing against a hive mind.
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.
Yep. Especially on right-wing instances like Lemmy.world in particular, but it’s far worse IRL in the West.
Open-minded conversation.
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.
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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