The Complaint Thread

Also, I feel like the wider those people cast their nets with their performative lists the more disingenuous they are.

I think here everyone is pretty up front. Look at all the arguments and dick jokes we get into. But at the end of it all, camaraderie.

Feel like once you have a public Instagram or Twitter or Blue Sky people will start hedging for cool points with some hipster picks but then some mainstream ones to still be in touch with the Common Collector.

Then I would never trust the top YouTube people with their lists. They seem to exist in an entirely different world than we do anyway. Most of my authority faith in them was shattered long ago because they didn't remember a detail about another figure or they wrote something off without actually investigating it.

I don't know. That's how social media has always felt to me. I'm pretty good at pinging it with my autism Daredevil radar.
 
Yeah, I think on here we're really like "this is the coolest shit I bought this year, this figure made me so happy." So I like the lists on here. but the ones people push out as influencers are a bit dicey. And maybe it's the trauma of being an author who has ended up on and more pointedly NOT ended up on best-of lists over the years, those lists are often "who can I put on here that might help me gain more reads/followers/etc in January" than they are real opinions.

But I find them fun on here cos we can see each others' favorites and biases.
 
Yeah, I like forums for this because it would be pretty hard for any regulars here to have any kind of performative top ten list. First of all... not that anyone would even care. But also because you can't really come out of nowhere with figures you haven't even talked about despite talking about toys regularly with the same group of people. You kinda have to be honest, to some degree.

But I do fundamentally agree with the idea that 'public' awards/top-whatever lists (i.e. those posted on YouTube, major websites, Twitter/BlueSky, or on television -- basically anything where the audience isn't really pre-curated) are bullshit. Oh really, 6 of your top 10 video games this year are weird little indie games with like 2 hours of worthwhile gameplay? Wild how the only game I heard you TALK about all year was Call of Duty and that new Battlefield game. You must have played all these deep-cut indie games while I wasn't paying attention I guess.
Anyway, it would bother me more if I cared. But I don't actually care about anyone's top whatever lists outside of people IN my community. And that includes video game and TV/movie awards shows. Fuck 'em all.
 
Yeah that's the trick with social media.

Someone comes down from the mountain with their top 15, I mean 10, action figures.

And everyone pays attention and there's probably an argument and long discussion about it

And it feels like I'm the only person to stop and go wait who the f*** even is this person and why am I supposed to listen to them? You can have a top 10. I just don't know why you need to be vocal about it.

The original tangent for this topic mentioned the video game awards.

There was a lot of social backlash and a blog went viral. A blog in the year of 2025. And where I saw the blog (resetera) people were lending it all kinds of credence and treating it like holy text, or at hostile odds with it.

I just took it as a bunch of meandering purple prose that took a lot of words to say nothing, maybe posturing about Marxism, but it didn't really amount to anything. And then I went back and was like who the hell even wrote this. I've never heard of this guy in my life and I'm a video game nerd. It was the most performative s*** and it was performative turtles all the way down.

I have a friend who swears by games journo Austin Walker. That's cool. I don't really care about the guy or his opinion on things. In fact being, the host of several podcasts is not any sort of marketing point for me. I don't know why his opinion on a video game matters more than me but according to my friend it matters even then my friend's own opinion on a thing. I could never.
 
One thing that really annoys me during the holidays is the one lane checkout. I first encountered it at the old Fry's Electronics store. It wasn't too bad there. It wasn't until other stores started emulating them or whichever store started it that it became very bad.
I think it was TJX(TJ Maxx, Marshalls, Home Goods) stores that really annoyed me about it. Ridiculously log lines to checkout made even worse when it is also the returns location. Ross stores have the same thing.
Toys R Us started it too before they went under.
Just recently Kohl's department stores adapted the same dumb system.
One of the most complaints about store checkouts is the line and this system really emphasizes that complaint.
These are the stores I avoid during holiday shopping time.
 
docsilence said:
Also we don't really argue about our lists on here. Everyone's doing the old Skurge thing:
BEHOLD: MY STUFF
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This is accurate.

My top ten list this year is all the toys I bought that I didn't almost immediately dislike. Which is most of them because I'm not a weirdo that buys toys I don't expect to enjoy.




Goldbug said:
One thing that really annoys me during the holidays is the one lane checkout. I first encountered it at the old Fry's Electronics store. It wasn't too bad there. It wasn't until other stores started emulating them or whichever store started it that it became very bad.
I think it was TJX(TJ Maxx, Marshalls, Home Goods) stores that really annoyed me about it. Ridiculously log lines to checkout made even worse when it is also the returns location. Ross stores have the same thing.
Toys R Us started it too before they went under.
Just recently Kohl's department stores adapted the same dumb system.
One of the most complaints about store checkouts is the line and this system really emphasizes that complaint.
These are the stores I avoid during holiday shopping time.
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To piggyback on that, I've noticed lately that Walmart (in my city, at least) has inured us to them being EVEN cheaper. Not only did they destroy jobs by getting rid of 80% of their cashiers and replace them with me being my own cashier, but because people were stealing (fucking naturally), they now just turn off half of the self-checks because they only want to bother having ONE person in that area and one person can't watch more than five registers or whatever.
Like.. fuck off. You're WALMART. You can't afford to have 2 more full-timers clocked in during the day?
 
Goldbug said:
One thing that really annoys me during the holidays is the one lane checkout. I first encountered it at the old Fry's Electronics store. It wasn't too bad there. It wasn't until other stores started emulating them or whichever store started it that it became very bad.
I think it was TJX(TJ Maxx, Marshalls, Home Goods) stores that really annoyed me about it. Ridiculously log lines to checkout made even worse when it is also the returns location. Ross stores have the same thing.
Toys R Us started it too before they went under.
Just recently Kohl's department stores adapted the same dumb system.
One of the most complaints about store checkouts is the line and this system really emphasizes that complaint.
These are the stores I avoid during holiday shopping time.
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Like I said elsewhere. They are so salty that they have to go through us to get our money they come up with inane anti consumer layouts and rules and systems, and then blame us when we can't even afford to go there.
 
Beware, my local Walmart went down to just one checkout often for a year before it suddenly closed forever.

Unless you mean one big line that funnels into multiple checkouts like my local Costco. It is crazy. I have the executive membership so I can shop an hour early, and I have to get out in 40 minutes or the line will go all the way to the back of the store. And then at the front you have people budding in line, saying things like "that's the line for self-checkout, I'm not doing self-checkout" when it's clearly a line for all 10 registers + 4 self-checkouts. You think people are going to line up all the way to the back of the store for small self-checkouts? And you are the only one smart enough to go around the line and go to a regular checkout. Didn't want to make a scene so just in front of his face, looked at the person behind me and pointed and said, "can you believe this guy?" kind of deal.
 
vicious said:
Beware, my local Walmart went down to just one checkout often for a year before it suddenly closed forever.
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Up here this is just how Walmarts are. There's six or seven Walmarts within driving distance of me and they're all like this. 12 self-check outs but only 4 of them are actually turned on because only one person is watching them, and only one manned regular till, IF THAT, is open. Been like this for probably the last 2 years at least, at every location.
It's JUST corporate greed. Nothing more.
 
How it started...
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How it's going...
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Urgent Care: That's weird. Here's some antibiotics. If it gets worse, go to the ER. I think it's cellulitis.
ER: That's weird. Here's some antibiotics. Go see an ENT specialist. I think it's cellulitis.
ENT Specialist: It's a ear bruise. We'll drain it so you don't get cauliflower ear.

American Healthcare System, take bow. You're as useful as a dead battery.
 
I firmly believe that you have to let your wife have her chick flicks. Don't complain. Every once in a while, sit down, bite the bullet and watch it with her. It WILL pay off later. But we watched Falling for Christmas once already last week, and I sat through that like a damn champ. Now they (wife, two girls) are watching it again. And that's fine. But I can't be expected to sit through this again. No, no I can't.
 
My wife and I have an excellent system where we respect each other and each other's time, so we just watch the things together that we're both interested in, and watch things separately that we are not both interested in. That seems to work really well for us.
 
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