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No anti-nautilism posts. See: Eco-fascism Primer
Slop posts go in c/slop. Don't post low-hanging fruit here.
Capitalism realized a while ago that a huge swath of young millennials and elder Gen Z are just broke enough to not comfortably start a family or buy a house but just flush with enough cash to fill the emotional holes left by shitty boomer parents with overpriced children’s toys.
https://bsky.app/profile/wapplehouse.bsky.social/post/3ly23expml22j
fun fact, that's also why the price of veterinary care has been increasing at an alarming rate lately – millennials can't afford houses or kids, so we have (relatively inexpensive) pets and treat them as kids, so of course the parasite class wants to make owning and caring for a pet expensive.
Yeah, corporations are buying up all the vets and jacking up the prices
I didn't even know my vet was owned by a venture capital firm until they shut down randomly. Tried to book an appointment, they cancelled, google maps said they were closed.
The employees still had access to their instagram account and were saying they were locked out and out of business and the VC firm cut contact with them.
I go to a privately owned place now, but they nickel and dime me more than the vet I used to go to... $80 poop inspection, $200 visit fee, $30 for a single dewormer pill that you can get for $5 online. Everyone's taking advantage of it now it seems.
The New Lego Death Star is $1000
So it's a massive, highly detailed set for only the most dedicated collectors, right?
I mean it's 9000 pieces, that's about in line with Lego prices for a while now
It's a lot of pieces sure, but I was imagining a big nice looking model of the Death Star at that price, not a playset where they've crammed a representation of every single room from the movie into a little dollhouse.
I was gonna say kids love dollhouses but it's a $1000 set lol. It's a shame that Lego barely makes the cheap sets anymore, most of the sets I got as a kid were like $10-20 but now most of the new sets are like $100+
I remember there was that Lego Death Star about the size of a basketball that had rooms on every side. There was still some expectation you would play with it.
This is just a bookshelf piece for Zelda-Shirt Cargo-Short guys.
Zelda-Shirt Cargo-Short guys.
The sickest burn I ever pulled off was telling a dude his triforce tattoo is the Ramones t-shirt of gamer culture.
Zelda-Shirt Cargo-Short guys
Walkin' up to the girlies or should I say ladies like...
But why do they always laugh? I don't get it.
lmao imagine being "really into Star wars" in the year of our Lord 2025
If you had told the early teen me in 1977 that Star Wars would still be incredibly popular in 2025 - I probably would say "Super cool!" But then just a few seconds later I might say "Why?"
You're my late mom's age. She wasn't all that wowed by SW when she saw it in theaters, not like Jaws or The Exorcist which scared the shit out of her.
I'm sorry about your mom's passing.
I saw Star Wars and Jaws at movie theaters. Star Wars blew my mind. Jaws scared the crap out me. For the life of me - I can't remember exactly when I saw The Exorcist. It came out in 1973. Did I see it before the other two? After? In any case - the vital thing is I watched it on tv. I must have secretly watched it late at night on Creature Features. And in the fat-back tv era - the tv experience was shit. The resolution was low. Maybe like a sort of crappy 480p rip today? Broadcasts were "edited for tv" and there was pan-and-scan. At best watching a movie like The Exorcist was 1/10th as powerful as watching it at the movies.
Unlike the other two - I thought it was "scary" but I quickly forgot about it. Decades later I watched it at home and I really liked it. Right now - I'm thinking about watching it again. Maybe I can't. I used to love horror - cough - to death. The problem is that I've watched 100s of hours of terrible, shitty movies and tv series that ripped off The Exorcist in a way that might make it hard for me to enjoy it now.
An example is a series I watched where possessed people spewed CGI vomit that flowed upwards so it covered the ceiling. For fuck's sake. That's not scary. That's silly and dumb! [Ninja edit. Maybe it was Outcast?]
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Pan and scan is a film editing technique used to modify widescreen images for display on a fullscreen screen. It involves cropping the sides of the original widescreen image and panning across it when the shot's focus changes. This cropping can result in the loss of key visual elements but may draw the viewers' attention towards a particular portion of the scene.
Thanks. Yeah she saw a bunch of classics in the theaters with my aunt and uncle. Vomit that flows upwards? Bone-chilling.
Google rant
As is my custom - I thought got all the details wrong. It turns out - I was spot on. The series I was thinking of is called Outcast and it has 20 episodes. Never mind the vomit - can't find a CGI screengrab of anything from that series and I can't find anything useful at all. Incredible. Every time I think google can't get more garbage-y - it surprises me and it beats my expectations. Top-notch, google - top-notch.
Eh, there's older franchises, by like A LOT. None quite as big as Star Wars but close. Heck one is quite popular here (technically) 
I think if I lived in 1977 and was told the same thing I would just assume the movie turned into a SciFi TV show, not that it's become a sprawling slop empire of mid-overall-quality (with the very occasional banger). Though I think it would be hard for someone in the 70s to imagine modern media enshittification.
I would have been equally surprised that Star Trek was super-popular in 2025. How? In 1977 - I thought of the series as "really old". And it was in ~10 year old reruns after all. If I thought about "trekkies" at all - I surely thought of them as dumb dorks. Plus the first trek movie was two years away.
Andor seems to be good, so there's that. But yeah, cursed franchise.
Andor is too good for Star Wars. Watching that show, any time I thought about how it was all building up to Rogue One it took me completely out of the experience.
andor should've been a star trek show, and those nu-trek shows should've never been made
Lmao death star with 0 tie fighters gtf outta here nerds
There is actually a space in this model explicitly designed to put in a tie fighter and a couple dudes working on it. Early photos of the kit included this.
They decided to remove it and turn it into a special separate kit that you can have included with the death star, but only if you buy it now!
This would've cost 18 dollars in 1991
But it's 9000 pieces 
Kind of this, honestly. I skrimpt and saved up my allowance for some expensive-ass LEGO sets when I was a kid and probably the most expensive one was like $150 which is around $350 in today-money, and it sure as shit wasn't anywhere near 9,000 pieces.
My estimate is $16. 666666 but I see your point.
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Apparently there's no way to use a repeating digit at Hexbear.
$16.666666
Well - okay. I guess I had that coming.
I can't even make a digits vs digit joke because my joke logic doesn't work. The bar thing isn't standardized and there's no Unicode for it. I wonder why that's the case. That seems very weird to me but I'm not a math guy or a Unicode guy.
I've seen 16.(6) in use as well. I wonder how 16.{6|___} renders in the default ui.
edit: Three underscores and it's quite passable.
16.{6|___}
Ah!
But only the richest kid in the neighborhood would have one.
Bit idea: open source the specs for every piece needed for the new Lego via 3D printer and the instructions for building them.
Hey, guys - welcome to my Youtube channel. Wanna build the GELO Depth Star at about 1/20th the cost? The GELO Depth Star for $50 bucks! Sweet! You know what I'm talkin' about - right? No copyright infringement. No copyright infringement. No copyright infringement. Heh-heh. Let's get to makin'...
Lol, Chinese clone factories will have one out in a month or two. 20% the price. You can't copyright the shape of a starship or a recipe.
It’s about 11¢ per piece, which is on the cheaper end of Star Wars sets, it’s just very large, literally the biggest they’ve ever made
Yeah, I didn't notice how huge it was until I saw that's almost a full size Lambda shuttle kit they've managed to fit inside it.
Wonder how much clone sets will be. I always wanted the death star as a child.
Usually about 20% for a good one.
B-b-b-b-but the manufacturing tolerances are so tight!
(I had someone tell me this like that fact alone excuses what Lego does to pocketbooks and the environment)
Chinese Lego is indistinguishable now, the pieces even interlock
For a $1000 I should get the entire Death Star
And the superlaser should be somewhat functional
What's grinding my gears is the number of indefinitely more useful shit you could buy with 1000$
I am very underwhelmed by that thing.
I have no choice but to repost a link that I posted just an hour ago.
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Surely you've heard of me? I'm Lord Vader. Sir Lord Darth Vader... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxX7QCll3oc
the back of it looks awful, like it's unfinished. check the animation, 3 of 23 in the link below
I actually burst out laughing at this...
I couldn't figure out why at first. Finding it funny would be typical of me but why that funny? After about 10 seconds I realized something had instantly came up and was lurking in my sub-conscious. This - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxX7QCll3oc
I look forward to hearing about this on the next Guys episode
I hope Bryan can pay his rent next month after he buys this thing
