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tangentially related to tech bubble, there are too many funko pops so they’re skipping the collector step and putting them directly in the landfill: https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1632441427698253832?s=20
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Internet Janitor posted:sounds like they aren't worth 30 million dollars, then thats the tax break they’ll get for writing them down!!
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Achmed Jones posted:imagine being a person who spent five figures on a funko pop. agreed, the soulless bug-eyes somehow manage to look smug, and the “goofy caricature” style is desperately played out, but the company made $1 billion dollars in 2021 so obviously i’m a loving idiot who has no taste
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bob dobbs is dead posted:54 cad is not surprisingly cheap, christ just imagine how much it will appreciate in value! it’s really an investment
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collecting collectables is as legitimate of a hobby as any, but the pic of the funko pop collector wearing the Avengers+Funko shirt perfectly captures my feelings: they’re banal mass-market kidult cash-in “investments” destined for the ocean. at least actual children loved beanie babies
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Achmed Jones posted:gonna have to disagree here i think collecting cool/rare poo poo like tv & movie props is neat. but i am deeply resentful of my mother-in-law buying novelty salt shakers from the dollar store for my wife to collect
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Shame Boy posted:anyway i collect loving rocks and my rocks have way more personality than funko pops, and are usually much cheaper rock collecting is actually cool and good
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yeah, i think collecting is good, maybe even if it's MCU poo poo I suppose. the mass-market fandoms are not my thing. i won't throw stones at collectors since i went through a 40k phase after college. but speculation is generally harmful to the hobby and the environment when it's detached from the collection hobby
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Carthag Tuek posted:hmm seems tweets stopped embedding twitter.com is down lmao
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Carthag Tuek posted:drat you got my hopes up, it still loads for me Concerning.
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El Mero Mero posted:Man it's gonna be waffleimages 2.0 for the forums when twitter finally kicks the bucket. I wonder if there's some sort of screenshot script that could be run that would convert tweets from an embed into something archivable for the forums. yeah a lambda running puppeteer could both scrape the forums and create screenshots from embeds. with an admin login it could even edit posts and replace the embed. is it worth the compute cost? probably not
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seems like a lot of trade holds on bank shares
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Khorne posted:apparently the company I work at banked with svb mine did too, despite being in Colorado
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my brother in law bought a new model s last year and paid extra for the yoke
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i use chatgpt all the time to outsource cringey business poo poo, like when an executive had me make my team “awards” ugh
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https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/chatgpts-new-ai-store-is-struggling-to-keep-a-lid-on-all-the-ai-girlfriends OpenAI had to turn off the store search, apparently because the store is flooded with AI girlfriends
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cured diseases? no, epidemics!
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