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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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[–] dumbass@leminal.space 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 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.

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

People hate Babylon 5?

It's literally got the best character ever.

The first season is a little rough; at first it feels like an inferior Star Trek ripoff, a lot of adventures of the week, the effects and sets are cheesy even by Trek standards, the acting is a little stilted as some of the actors are still finding their strides.

Just before season 2 it gets its shit together and gets GOOD. I'm going to accuse it of having some of the best character arcs ever committed to video tape and some details that are going to make you say "They wrote this in 1996. How did they write this in 1996? How did they know?" upon viewing today.

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 3 points 23 hours ago

I agree with you as a contemporary but I do think it's important to remember that while DS9 started slower it ended up delivering excellent narratives on the same topic.

They are both worth a watch though because Bab5 had a grittiness to it that most other sci-fi wouldn't embrace until the resurgence of Cyberpunk. Bab5 contains several love letters to Gibson buried in its themeing that even DS9 (the grittiest of Star Treks) didn't come close to matching.

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[–] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 68 points 1 day ago (12 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!

[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago

it was bad for the studio. its production budget ballooned to $175M, total cost $235M. the most expensive movie ever made at the time. it lost money at the box office.

i enjoyed it.

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

WTF? That sounds awesome.

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[–] digdilem@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

I found it quite preachy, but still watchable if you don't think about it too hard.

"Oil = bad". "Smokers = bad". Hopper aside, the bad guys were as shallow as you can get in character development.

Plus at 2h15m it was about 45 minutes longer than it should have been, and Kevin Costner is a polarising actor for some due to his lack of charisma.

All that said, I watched it twice. Once partly to admire Jeanne Tripplehorn's dress, which should have got a best supporting role.

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 3 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

May I see your Waterworld and raise you a Poseidon Adventure?

A lot of fun movies get a bad wrap for being unserious and I fucking hate it.

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[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Where did they get the cigarettes? Were they 20 year old stale cigarettes?

[–] RomeCallen@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago
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[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

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 as possible on one screen. 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...

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 2 points 18 hours ago

There's still a dedicated community of windows phone enthusiasts. It definitely had something. Unfortunately I never got to try one

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[–] AnIntenseMoist@lemmy.world 51 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Nickelback. Hate started as a joke but became real. Not like they're groundbreaking, but they don't deserve the amount of actual hate they got.

Also Korn's dubstep album. Not every song was a hit, but there were quite a few bangers on that track list. Get Up got me into dubstep and still goes hard.

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[–] dumblederp@aussie.zone 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Both had awful parents and public struggles with addiction, but people just like looking down on β€œparty girls”

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

TBF I think Hilton was deliberate to some extent. She rode the wave of controversy she created and made a name for herself separate from the family name. She’s still controversial, but she’s independent.

Lohan was just an addict in a downward spiral chased by harsh public opinion. Unfortunately the public loves to see a star fall.

[–] plzExplainNdetail 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I mean wouldn't you want to separate yourself from people who put you in essentially an abusive prison/lockdown camp for nearly a year because they didn't bother trying to help you with your ADHD?

Paris Hilton shares story of traumatic abuse while testifying before congress

'Stolen' exposes horrors of pricey rehabs for troubled teens

Here's comics/drawings someone made about their experience at a similarly run camp called the elan school.

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[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 37 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 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 29 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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

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[–] Chef_Boyargee@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago

I’m going to put up another movie, The Dark Tower.

I’m a big Stephen King fan, and the Dark Tower series is probably my favorite work of his, aside from The Stand.

I think the movie got too much hate from all the stans and it was clearly just farther along in the many turns of the wheel of Ka.

[–] multifariace@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago

Open-minded conversation.

[–] lastunusedusername2@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 day ago (7 children)

The live action Cowboy Bebop

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

Lack of Ed killed that show.

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[–] Corno@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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!

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[–] TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

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