Things I Hate

[a-dev]

Imagine if they had to suffer the 1.0 figure all that time like the rest of us. They get to go straight to the proper one, as is right.

 

[pixletwin]

yup. My wife doesn't give a **** but my teenage daughter, who lost a corrupted My Little Pony kingdom a couple years back, has shown a touching degree of sympathy.

Not something I hate… probably more on topic for the Love thread…. But here is my town as of today.

 

[Solidus]

I hate it when a company releases an updated 2.0 figure and someone says "I'm so pleased I didn't get the other one that was released 25 years ago".

Imagine if they had to suffer the 1.0 figure all that time like the rest of us. They get to go straight to the proper one, as is right.

I'm just annoyed by re-releases in general. The products are undoubtedly improved (in most cases), but it'll only be a matter of time before Hot Toys releases 3.0s.

In the end, we're just needlessly chasing a semblance of perfection in our figures that we'll never be satisfied with. There's something tragic in that.

 

[a-dev]

I'm just annoyed by re-releases in general. The products are undoubtedly improved (in most cases), but it'll only be a matter of time before Hot Toys releases 3.0s.

In the end, we're just needlessly chasing a semblance of perfection in our figures that we'll never be satisfied with. There's something tragic in that.

It makes it pretty easy to pass on Marvel and DC stuff if your circumstances require you to - because hey, there'll be a new version or redo of any given character just down the road.

As far as unattainable perfection - I dunno, I really think I could be made happy with a T-800 figure - Hot Toys just aint the company for the job apparently. They keep repeating the same damn mistakes with Arnie's likeness, seemingly no matter who in their employ does the sculpting. I think someone is bound to get it right eventually, provided they aren't put off from attempting it by the existence of the Hot Toys figures. That's my fear with InArt, that although they're apparently doing T1 they won't touch T2 now because HT just revealed a figure.

 

[Lejuan]

Not something I hate… probably more on topic for the Love thread…. But here is my town as of today.

That's a lot of building to say goodbye to I never got round to building a cool monorail that travelled that far. Loads of stuff in storage too that I was going to fill the new land with. A while back I might've taken hi-res screen caps and stitched together a detailed map for posterity, but I don't know if I'm nerd enough anymore.

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[pixletwin]

What a great Springfield you created. Sucks to have to let it go.

 

[Gipetto0812]

I'm just annoyed by re-releases in general. The products are undoubtedly improved (in most cases), but it'll only be a matter of time before Hot Toys releases 3.0s.

In the end, we're just needlessly chasing a semblance of perfection in our figures that we'll never be satisfied with. There's something tragic in that.

We sort of touched on this in another thread but this is sort of why I'm more interested in statues these days. As an example, for the longest time (I think since 2007), the sideshow Anakin PF was the only large scale EP3 Anakin statue around. It's only now, almost 20 years later, that we're getting new 1/4 scale versions from Iron Studios and Blitzway. After 20 years, you definitely feel like the upgrade is warranted, but it's starting to become a bit annoying when it's happening every 2-3 years in the 1/6 scale arena. And this is coming from someone who used to not mind upgrading since it sort of is the nature of the hobby that "new and improved" versions are bound to be released. Just feels like I'm turning over the collection fast and faster for the next new version of X character when it comes to 1/6 scale stuff.

 

[jaztermareal]

Twitter. It’s all become porn and fight videos. Deleted from all my devices.

Where is all this porn on Twitter? Asking for a friend....


I don't mych if any porn on teitter post Musk. I guess it depends on your usage of the app the algorithm will feed more of certain content. Need to figure out how to get it to feed me porn instead of people yapping on about how much they hate Trump. And all the obvious B.S. "moon landings are fake, earth is flat" posts.



Ah yes I hate conspiracy nuts who repeatedly post the same proven wrong b.s. over and over.

 

[a-dev]

The goddamned Flu at Christmas.

 

[ZE_501]

The goddamned Flu at Christmas.

That sucks dude. I got COVID for my birthday last summer ... it was just a 3-day mild case, but that also sucked.

Having had COVID twice in mild form (I've been vaccinated at least 3 times, can't remember although any immunity I have left is now due to my last infection) I actually prefer it (the current version, not the OG!!) to the flu. Last time I had flu it kicked my ass.

 

[a-dev]

Even though the worst of it has passed I have this horrible hangover. No energy, no appetite, a vague ''might puke......but not gonna!'' feeling, no senses of taste or smell, total apathy about everything.

I had been sweatybed-ridden since I finished work last wednesday. It came on fast. By the next day vicious coughing fits had tore my throat apart and I sounded worse than RFK jnr.

 

[Lejuan]

I last had flu 19 years ago, it was brutal. I remember thinking "ah, so this is why it kills people"

 

[a-dev]

I think the last time I had it was in the early 2000s. This has hit me much worse than any Covid infection I've had - not to diminish Covid, it certainly was no laughing matter to my late mother.

Still have this annoying AF tickly cough and the sweats.

 

[ZE_501]

I last had flu 19 years ago, it was brutal. I remember thinking "ah, so this is why it kills people"

I had it in 2005 and thought the same thing. It was really bad. Wait a minute ... that's when you did. Maybe it was a particularly nasty strain that year.