So did my first two husbands.

And I play it far, far more than my PC or Switch.

Good for you?

I’m watching him fight “Rennala”, which because of how it transitions to a second phase, means he has to fight Malenia TWICE in a row (four full phases) without breaks. And he still beat her!

And the company voluntarily recognized the union instead of fighting it with the NLRB. Pretty big in forming the union, isn’t it? How many unions have formed without the company recognizing it, and how little power do any of those unions have in moving worker rights forward with the company?

In my experience, there’s always a chance when you walk by a manhole cover that a purple robot ninja will jump out of the sewer and throw the cover at you, so I guess get good at catching?

Honestly Funko Pop genocide is one of the the rare occasions where capitalism actually works, like the proverbial broken clock.

Yeah, we have a bunch of them on top of our TV stand because we didn’t know what to do with that space, and we just downsized that display by ~40% this past week. We kept the ones that the spouse has full collections for, but I purged most of mine. At a certain point a little toy of Snarf or Mr. Meeseeks is more sad…

I think it’s fair to say that 99.99% of publicly traded companies do not care about the environment outside of “does it effect the stock price?”

They’re flooding every convention I go to these days, big or small. EVERY booth has POPS, a half dozen booths will be just POPS, same crap over and over at every booth, they’re just trying to get rid of stock and it’s all the same stuff.

FYI, this happens ALL the time with many different products, particularly with clothing. Sure, a lot of the extra stuff ends up at Marshall’s, TJ Maxx, etc., and some of it gets donated (like all of those unsold “Superbowl Champions!” t-shirts), but a lot also finds it’s way into landfills.

I’ve never understood the appeal of these things. They’re creepy. I acquired one as a freebie from a video game convention once and it took me years to get rid of it.

Funko Pop!(s) as an investment?

This should be illegal. Creating that much waste and probably having to pay close to nothing to dump it, thereby passing the true cost onto everyone else who has to deal with plastics in our food, medicine, water, etc. If you can’t accurately forecast the demand for these trinkets, then you should have to firesale…

Most plastic isn’t recyclable anyway. Even the stuff you dutifully clean and put in the proper bin just gets dumped in a landfill, or shipped off to some other country that will just dump it a landfill over there. At least fabric and paper will degrade. I mean, unless it’s a synthetic fabric that is made out some sort…

do you really think that the company selling cringe PVC garbage cares an ounce for the environment? Like, for real?

I’ve gone to two fairly small comic book conventions in my life, and there were no less than five vendors at each selling 12-foot tall shelves of nothing but Pops out of maybe 15 vendors in total. It was so incredibly depressing.

That’s where they belong, friends don’t let friends buy POPS, and nobody with an ounce of integrity collects these for real. Buy real figures or statues, not POPS. 

Dammit, where were you when Funko needed you the most!?

...throwing them out will be cheaper than trying to sell them.