Funko Pop!(s) as an investment?

Over the long run, 99 percent of Funkos are worthless outside of whatever depraved joy fans get from occasionally making eye contact with the ones lining their shelves.

Funko building a whole-ass IPO on what was clearly a fad is just fucking astounding to me.

Are you familiar with Adams? This isn't uncharacteristic for him. His very, very, very far right. The type that complained Trump wasn't extreme enough 

Instead, the secret point bonuses led people to feel gaslit about how difficult it was to achieve three stars on lighter characters.

I had a bag of sun chips pop open, in the back of my car, as I went over a high pass in the Rockies a few years ago. Very good science lesson for the kid. I asked the frito guy at the next grocery store and he said that they drive a certain route not going over certain high passes because popping an entire truck of…

People aren’t GameStop’s most precious resource.

I sat down last night after a long day of work and starting playing a game I’ve been playing lately. Lamenting that I don’t have the time I’d really like to sink into it and just play for a few hours.

While it’s disgusting what’s happened to her and the other female streamers, I have no idea who she is, or the others that Kotaku hasn’t fawned over in the past.  Even the ones that I might recognize by name, like... Amaranth, I think?  I wouldn’t be able to pick her photo out of a line up.  I only recognize the name…

Yep, as soon as I read that line, I was like, damn Kotaku really thinks all of it’s readership is really into Twitch. I guess that explains why we get so many articles like this.

“You know Sweet Anita. You’ve seen her streams, stumbled across her Twitter account, or watched clips of her on TikTok.”

No, I don’t, and no, I haven’t. I have never heard of this person before now. The whole twitch-streamer sphere really doesn’t grasp how insular it is, does it? If you’re not parts of that ecosystem,…

And let me guess, Subway corporate is going to force heir franchisees to buy new equipment and train employees all the while threatening to take their franchises if they don’t comply.

I don’t know what the correct way to cleaner a slicer is but I do know that OSHA would not have approved of the way 16 year old me was taught to clean one years ago.

IMHO Harley has the best marketing of any product in the world. You can completely buy in to the bad ass cosplaying dentist persona.

I once saw a senior employee at my old workplace hauled off by IT because he’d browsed porn on his company laptop when he was off the clock. We live in an era now though where you have an internet connected device in your pocket that is completely separate from your workplaces hardware and network (assuming you don’t…

So very sad.  Robots were supposed to take our jobs, not take our joys and hobbies.  Hey, no need to paint or write music anymore, go to work.  The robot will do all that for you.

Yep. Corporate has got very aggressive toward the laborers and creative labors since the pandemic’s peak. Their push to make creative labor obsolete is very much an expression of their criminality.

Watched it for 30 minutes, laughed more than I have at 30 minutes of “written” comedy in ages. It’s absurd, it doesn’t make any sense, and because it’s not adhering to typical formulaic comedy tropes or setups it is able to surprise you (destruction of an expectation is the root of the majority of good comedy).

I’ll…

Tesla Model 3. I like the size, the price, the exterior styling, and could, I guess, live with the interior. I can afford it, and in 2 or 3 years will likely be looking for something electric. But the company owner is a deal breaking flaw for me (and especially my wife).

Blaming a porn site with a very explicit policy against deepfakes that apparently even extends to their advertisement for why you ended up on a site with deepfake porn of people you know and are friends with is uh...well...something.