• loathsome dongeater@lemmygrad.ml
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      5 months ago

      Even besides the plastic aspect I don’t get why people like it so much. Even if you like the IP that the figurines are of they look like shit.

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        5 months ago

        The “gamer” identity is purely based on mindless consumption regardless of the product’s use value.

        You can buy overpriced chairs labeled for gamers. Powdered sugar, called G-fuel. Gamer shades, gamer branded clothes, fucking blue dyed mac and cheese with a picture of fucking Sonic the Hedgehog.

        A Gamer will drop his cash on the most random shit as long as it’s marketed for gamers.

        You could literally slap a gaming label on a bucket of dogshit and some hyperconsumerist gamerbrained troglodyte will squeal and fork over his lifesavings so he can validate his fake identity as a “gamer.”

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        5 months ago

        Using the same labour and materials they could produce normal looking figures instead of those deformed abominations, which would be actually pretty fine, having so many different ones in the same scale and series.

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        5 months ago

        It’s crazy how they found a way to sell toys little useless plastic things to adults. Capitalism is all about expanding the markets and finding new consumers, like how they found a way to market cigarettes to children.

        Edited toys out because actual toys one can play with can be cool.