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What is being measured is how more often tweets come from iphones than from android. So iphone owners are more obssesed with twitter but according to the article spend a lot more money carelessly on apps. A strawman of retardation and being a sucker starts to form around the hipster areas of the city center
I don’t know what it is about K-pop, but they seem to attract even more blatant consumers than even hardcore Marvel fans. I understand liking bands and whatnot, but sometimes it just becomes too much. Getting a few band tees and maybe a poster or two is pretty normal, but saving wrappers from a meal the band promoted? That’s a special kind of dedicated consumer.
Much of it was ironically driven by the hobby shops themselves. RC parts were much more profitable, and thus they would stock more of those at the expense of model railway stuff. That drome more modelers to buy from catalogs or online, and the cycle brutalized the hobby shops.
The scourge of ready to run. RtR was a MAJOR push in the 90s, stuff that ostensibly you could just take out of the box, place on a layout, and be done with it. By the 2000s they had started putting decent couplers and wheels on the things so they could legit be run without modification, not always well, but still. Bonus: companies could charge nearly double for this RtR stuff, and people lapped it up.
It's genuinely impossible to get the kind of cheap kits one used to learn on. Now kits are either pre assembled, babbies first playschool tier, or elite woodworker. Everything else is gone now. No skill involved, its all about spending $$$ to get what you want.
I'm OK with RTR for many things (locomotives in particular, very few kits were made for them anyway), but it seems like it some other areas it suffered, particularly buildings. I am also not a fan of resin kits as a replacement for the old wooden ones for freight cars, they are messier/uglier to do kitbashes of.
It's a hobby that requires money and space. It used to be more affordable.
I can't take credit for this meme, but I couldn't find the original so I had to recreate it from memory:
You're completely correct, actually.
On the first day of this thing, there were some amusing posts from American BTS fans crying about not getting the purple packaging. Saw a few people melodramatically remind other fans to not be rude to the employees. Was too busy to screenshot and archive them, sadly.
Fucking hell, it seems like I actually underestimated how monstrous K-Pop is in its artificial veneer and addictiveness. Like, the Disney, Pokemon, Fashion stuff, etc. are also built for consumption, but compared to them, K=Pop really feels absolutely min-maxed to get as much people paying and consuming and dedicating phases of their lives to it.
Do you know many parents? Because this is an extremely optimistic take on parenthood. Parenthood does not magically transform people into strong-jawed alpha males and tradwives. They just move into a different consumer category. Why do you think most crappy branded stuff is still aimed at kids? The nostalgia market for adult nerds might be huge, but it is still dwarfed by the amount of crap Disney sells to actual children, by way of their parents. Parents these days still have a bunch of infantile hobbies as well. Not all of them, but it is definitely not something that changes just because someone popped out a kid.
I can only speak on my own observations and experience, but you make a good point, that ultimately lots of people will buy a ton of crap fpr their kids. Also that not everyone has their priorities in order.
There's also the fact that they'll release multiple copies of the same album, just with a different member of the group on the cover and maybe some stickers of them, where people will buy the same album over and over to get their favorites or all of the members (some groups being 10+ members).
The harsh redpill is that Firefly, like every other Joss Whedon show, would have become worse as it went on. The TV show was great and I love it, however, but I'm not interested in getting any merch that wasn't the Blurays.
Another harsh redpill is that in some cases the DVDs look better than the Blurays. Or, hell, even the VHS looks the same as the DVDs sometimes. (I am aware VHS collecting is a thing again, and I'm not immune to that.) I am of course speaking about the kind of shit that Vinegar Syndrome carries - I highly doubt somebody's going back and cleaning up the masters of movies which got famous because they got featured on Best of the Worst. If you're watching on a CRT, like you should (because I'm an elitist faggot), it all kind of looks the same. HD was a mistake, it's nothing but trash.
HD would be perfectly better if companies simply upscaled professionally or took better shots of existing old film for use in a rerelease but they've gotta re-edit and slap a bunch of filters over this shit too to simulate HDR or whatever.
I mean, Vinegar Syndrome is known for doing all new restorations in house since they have the equipment for it. They get the negatives, if they can, and scan/restore it into 4k which is a lot better than it probably every looked besides when it first screened in theatres. It's more major label releases that are likely to look like straight garbage reusing old masters but slapping a shitty filter (like DNR Hell) or new packaging so they can sell it for a higher price. Boutique labels have a harder time offloading junk given the market they cater to, unless it's someone like Kino Lorber (sells lots of films for cheap with the trade off of being mostly old masters) because of the image they've built for themselves.
Hard disagree, you're missing out on so much detail watching things that way especially if you're actually watching dinky vhs copies (usually made using muddy nth generation prints). Modern day technology has proved amazing for properly restoring older films to their original beauty that wasn't possible in the years they were putting out vhs. The ability to digitally splice together different prints/negatives and fix up physical deterioration using programs, along with just advancements in scanning tools helps so much. Not really interested in intentionally gimping my viewing experience, especially if a newer "HD" release gets to make use of original film negatives shot on glorious nitrate film.
This is why I align with all the newly appearing independent film restoration groups popping up over time as film scanners hit the resale market, if the studios themselves won't do anything like Hong Kong Rescue then someone else has to step in.
