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Some aviation equipment is going the same way. All touch. You think it's bad trying not to run over pedestrians while you play Tetris on the Tesla, imagine how much harder it is to do it in turbulence.
Plagued Consoomers / Consoomer Culture - Because if it has a recogniseable brand on it, I’d buy it!
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That's a new one. Apparently, this is a StarCraft term; a pylon is some power-generating structure, and a player by the name Artosis has a nasty habit of making single points of failure with them. Amusingly, Artosis himself apparently prefers to call these Incontrol Pylons, named after some other player whom he believes to be worse.
Well, I can't ever see myself using this knowledge. I don't believe Artosis Pylon will enter my vocabulary. I wanted to learn about some cool architectural term, and I got a StarCraft term instead.
Cuntspiracy Man
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the lack of hardware controls is what really fucks my ass, especially in regard to car touchscreens which is an issue i never thought i'd have to deal with until recently
those things crash, often, especially in freezing weather, and when you don't have any manual way of resetting it you're stuck sat there parked like a retard waiting for it to work
From speaking with Apple users, the general consensus does seem to be that "Apple devices don't work with anything else" which means once you have one device, you gotta have every device you want connected to it be an Apple device
What I don't get is... Why do you want all you devices connected together? Just how racist are Apple devices? Will they not even, say, send files over to another device? Or connect via Bluetooth or something? If so, why would you not determine that you iPhone is the problem and get a different phone next time, as opposed to thinking the issue is with everything else you own. And if that's not the case, why do you need your phone to be able to operate you tablet, smart tv, iVibrator and wine distillery all at once?
In the words of a wise, bald little man: Who needs it?
Fuck man you know what you just made me consider
Many people already struggle with a need for overstimulation, how many people you think are gonna need to play games on their tablet while they drive
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They will, they just made it as uninuitive and annoying as possible in some cases. (For example, I need to use iTunes to transfer files off my ipad to my PC, and only from a specific folder..) Though my ipad pro is an older used model, so they may have made it even more annoying since then. I distinctly remember a friend years ago dual booting their macbook with Windows so they had full functionality for all the programs they wanted to use. Pretty sad.
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But dude, we HAVE TO have that button free Star Trek future I was promised in the 80's! Damn the consequences!
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That’s a waste of money because it’s designed for a single console game, but high end simracing gear can easily cost as much as a real car for the entire setup.Going back to Consoomerism, the jaw-dropping prices for high-end racing wheels is pure. Here's one example, the Fanatec Gran Turismo DD Extreme, which costs a whopping $1300:
A simulator with active pedals, motion, a high end direct drive wheel (with a full color screen like a real race car wheel) and wheelbase, triple large 4k monitors (and/or VR), and a powerful gaming PC is easily over $20k.
Despite the high cost, it is still way, way, way cheaper than racing a real car.
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With the benefit of not dying/getting arrested for street racing.
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1300 bucks for a wheel would be exorbitant for someone like me that only occasionally plays sims.
However if all you play is Sims and you have been doing that shit for 8 years, you could call that shit an investment.
I like flying with a stick but I don't think I am yet at the point where I should get myself an even midclass 300$ stick.
I hope for whoever buys that wheel that you can bind and remap the buttons for use with many sims.
However if all you play is Sims and you have been doing that shit for 8 years, you could call that shit an investment.
I like flying with a stick but I don't think I am yet at the point where I should get myself an even midclass 300$ stick.
I hope for whoever buys that wheel that you can bind and remap the buttons for use with many sims.
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It's fully remappable, the problem is that it imitates a console controller:
Whereas a high-end wheel imitates an actual racing wheel:
The real thing:
This is a wheel that is identical to a real life one (this car has the screen attached to the dash instead of the wheel):
The realistic wheels have buttons that correspond to car functions, not Δ O X □. The Playstation wheel is usable, it just looks like a toy.
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Fell down a rabbit hole and stumbled upon this video of a massive Popmart figure.
Good god, that's hideous. Even the dog is judging.
Wonder how much it costs...
Jesus christ.
Can't afford the 1.4k USD price tag? No worries! You can get a smaller one for a measly $300 instead!
Even their little blind box figures are $16 each. This means if you want a complete set, you're looking at around $200 depending on the series. That doesn't include the random extra exclusive super secret figure you have a 1/144 chance of getting.
Popmart website "who the fuck is buying this ugly shit?" bonus:
Good god, that's hideous. Even the dog is judging.
Wonder how much it costs...
Jesus christ.
Can't afford the 1.4k USD price tag? No worries! You can get a smaller one for a measly $300 instead!
Even their little blind box figures are $16 each. This means if you want a complete set, you're looking at around $200 depending on the series. That doesn't include the random extra exclusive super secret figure you have a 1/144 chance of getting.
Popmart website "who the fuck is buying this ugly shit?" bonus:
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Some blind box figures are quite pretty, but 'pretty' is very much in the eye of the beholder and it is indeed an expensive hobby. That said, I loathe Skullpanda, I think it's ugly and creepy, and I can't understand why it's one of Popmart's most popular lines. The massive statues of blind box lines are aimed squarely at the pop art people, and are (massively over) priced accordingly. The actual blind box lines are more aimed at straddling the market between art collectors and figurine collectors, with a tantalising "unboxing experience" with their own collectors' cards and of course, the chance for a 'rare' figure if you buy as a set or from a shop, rather from websites like Aliexpress which will let you pick the specific figure you're after. And even if you're after a full set, Aliexpress is usually half the price you'd be charged if you bought them legit, so there is definitely a huge mark up in the legit outlets.
Are they useless? Yes.
Are they a waste of money? Yes.
Are the giant two grand lumps of plastic a complete rort? Yes.
Will they suddenly fall out of fashion at some point? Definitely.
Are there lines for absolutely any theme you could conceive of? Yes.
These blind boxes are basically a hybrid between animu figures and gashapon. Same appeal as gashapon, but much better production standards.
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Some of their stuff is interesting in a surreal way. The creepy factor comes in when you notice most of their blind box figures are wearing diapers, implying they're supposed to be babies or toddlers.
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I wonder how archeologists from the future will interpret that.
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"The ancients were pedophiles". I'd assume they'd think the same with Bratz dolls.
RX-78
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What is she even meant to be?
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At least pens have a skill tied to them in caligraphy, and it seems these guys actually use them instead of just making a shrine and substituting their personalitys for it. I can get behind the pen guys.
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I saw a blind box in a store recently and wanted to know what it cost to buy whatever was inside without playing the gambling game and I was legitimately surprised at how hard it is to find that stuff. Is it not on ebay? Where is the secondary market for blind-box content?
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tldr plastic money laundering. They and the bearbrick dudes do it better than anyone else.
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They control the supply, they create the demand, they know exactly where that 10 of a kind figurine will be. The value is already too high , so poorer people can't accidentally buy in and get rich. It's better than hoarding funko pops and hoping one will be valuable some day, but at the same time. Some of these are mortgage payments.
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An astronaut of some kind? No idea.
There could be some Facebook groups. A cursory search on Mercari pulls up a variety of blind box figures, too. Glass_houses also mentioned Aliexpress and it looks like plenty of sellers let you pick the one you want priced by how in demand the figure is.
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Most blind boxes don't really have a trading group and they don't sell them on ebay either unless it's very specific Chinese brands. Aliexpress is your best bet depending on the brand. I have also seen some blind box stores with discord servers that allow selling/trading. Maybe Reddit?