Marvel Legends Gamerverse

[hmmberto]

I'm sure there's at least one more Gamerverse Wolverine re-use coming.

I don't want to see this Wolverine body used for a comic figure. The Juggernaut wave Wolverine body is almost a decade old, too. It's past time for them to start on a new Wolverine body.

I do want to see this Wolverine used for a comic figure, but not to become the standard comic Wolverine body. Make the jacked 90s / savage Wolverine on this body, then take a very similar articulation scheme and size him appropriately for a new standard Wolvie body. I'm not sold on the butterflies, but the torso articulation is absolutely perfect. Let's just start introducing that across the board.

 

[Stoopid_Sandwich]

I wouldn’t mind seeing the Gamerverse Wolverine body in a battle damaged uniform along with the brown and tan costume


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[vicious]

Agreed. Everything about this just seems repellent to me. The whole "branding" thing is like that for me. Why would I want to pay to advertise your shitty, overpriced line?

It is funny how a mature customer's feelings toward the branding changes how we feel about "repping" them. I was laughing the other day when I realized the KITH logo looks like costco's KIRKLAND logo, at least a similar sans serif typeface/font. Except I'd actually wear a $30 KIRKLAND hoodie without shame, same can't be said about wearing a $700 KITH hoodie.

 

[docsilence]

I was day drunk on a snowy December day in Quebec City like five years ago and we stopped in at Pub de Borgia on the stairs of the old city and we saw they had a merch display case. I asked the waitress how much one of their wool beanies were (just a black hat with BORGIA on the front) and she starts laughing and says no one has ever asked about the hats, no one has ever bought a hat, she didn't even know if they were for sale.

So anyway I bought a hat and I'm wearing it right now because my house is cold. I'll rep a brand if the brand makes me happy, but I sure ain't repping a brand for clout.

 

[AceofKnaves]

Always hated brand logos on clothes. Like clothing with a picture of a movie/comic/character or whatever, I can do. But I absolutely NEVER want the name/logo of the manufacturer of the clothing ON the clothing I wear. Never, never, never. Feels totally weird to me to be like “LOOK here’s the name of the brand of this shirt, on this shirt!!” It feels completely bizarre to me, always has. Even if I *like* the brand, I don’t want to “rep” it. I actually have a particular brand of boots that I love because they are comfy and durable and awesome, and said brand is low-key famous in goth and other alt-communities, and I always get embarrassed when someone notices them and knows the brand and is like “oooooooh are those New Rocks?!?” I often dress VERY idiosyncratically, but the very last thing I am looking for is “clout”. Gross gross gross.

Also, some company wanting me to do their advertising for them can absolutely get fucked.

 

[AceofKnaves]

Well, so I just opened the Punisher/Fury pack and I frigging love it. Something about the cool-toned, greyish blue of Frank’s suit makes my eyes happy. His heads are both amazing, I prefer them immensely to the Jim Lee heads of the last release. Gonna strip the white paint off that thigh, but it doesn’t bother me as much as I thought it would. Great body, as we know. Wonderful figure.
I also dig Nick. The head is cool but I do like the SHIELD 3 pack one better. Just a solid figure overall, and I definitely wanted a non-uniformed Fury.

I will say that the rifles that come with this set are tiny and weird and kinda awful. The rest of the weapons are great.

 

[secondwhiteline]

One of the things about logo-ing on fashion is that a logo is one of the only elements of a design you can actually protect legally, which is something that's become unfortunately a really great idea for brands in a fast-fashion era where ultra-cheap copies of runway designs get dropped on platforms like Shein about 5 minutes after a show. So you get a weird situation where the only real incentive to present forward-thinking, unique designs is to keep your reputation for that in fashion media, while the things you'll actually make the most money selling are super basic, staple wardrobe pieces with your logo on them, which you can convince enough influencers to wear to make them popular. Basically, it's like everything else now: you make one good thing for the awards shows and everything else you make is joyless slop, because capitalism ultimately kills innovation through deskilling and replicability. Plus most influencers don't know the difference and the ones who do are deep-cut hobbyists that focus on unique, small-market products, like they're probably ignoring a brand with major reach like LVMH until they do something annoying like buy a beloved niche brand like Kapital.

This sounds eerily like the Funko/Mondo discussion, but I guess they're basically the same thing. The only difference is that nerd culture is about having someone else's logo on your products.

 

[mrboshek]

I learned two things from the parts I watched of ACBA's stream. Jason Alexander is the face of Kith x NY Yankees and people were allowed only one figure if they were at a kith location. Not one of each. One figure.

If I were to embrace my inner Hype Beast, would I have to be in that mode 7 days a week or can I do 3 days? I was thinking Tue, Fri, Sat, then regenerate on the off days.

 

[secondwhiteline]

George Costanza is a stylish man.

 

[altcunningham]

See but here’s the thing:
I am aware of “Kith” now, but in a “fucking yuck this is to be avoided” kind of way.
Happens a lot with “branding” and me: sure, they get the message out to me, but not with the results they wanted.
I know folks say there is no such thing as bad publicity, but at least on a personal level that is absolutely not true.

That's how you and I operate.

Just means we get to be Rowdy Roddy in a sheep world.

 

[altcunningham]

I learned two things from the parts I watched of ACBA's stream. Jason Alexander is the face of Kith x NY Yankees and people were allowed only one figure if they were at a kith location. Not one of each. One figure.

If I were to embrace my inner Hype Beast, would I have to be in that mode 7 days a week or can I do 3 days? I was thinking Tue, Fri, Sat, then regenerate on the off days.

No sarcasm.

It is a lifestyle. I have a few clients and associates who do it. In a way, I think it's the action figures and comics that equalizes us in their head.

 

[AceofKnaves]

which you can convince enough influencers to wear to make them popular

And that, of course, is one of the many many MANY reasons why I don’t do “influencers”.
Actually, influencers are a rare exception to my “I don’t like this, but I’m not gonna try to get in the way of this”: I don’t think “influencer” should be a job people can have. If I were “the boss”, I would regulate influencers until they could not make a profit and outright ban them if I could.

 

[secondwhiteline]

And that, of course, is one of the many many MANY reasons why I don’t do “influencers”.
Actually, influencers are a rare exception to my “I don’t like this, but I’m not gonna try to get in the way of this”: I don’t think “influencer” should be a job people can have. If I were “the boss”, I would regulate influencers until they could not make a profit and outright ban them if I could.

I know what you're reacting to is a particular way of being online and a particular type of content, but while I was using "influencers" as a catchall for a more general kind of lifestyle content creator, the term also includes people who have expert-level understandings of their subjects (for instance, Menswear Guy, who I linked in this thread). Given the haziness between what counts as influencing and what would count as content creation, what you're basically suggesting is that no individual should be able to make money online, which I'm sure is an idea the current administration's billionaire owners would love.

 

[AceofKnaves]

Given the haziness between what counts as influencing and what would count as content creation

That’s fair.
That said: anyone self-identifying as an “influencer” and/or not explicitly rejecting that title when others use it to describe them, would tend to not be hazy to me.

And the whole idea of “making something popular” is one of the things I object to.

what you're basically suggesting is that no individual should be able to make money online

I think it is significantly more nuanced than that, but I understand why you take it that way.

which I'm sure is an idea the current administration's billionaire owners would love.

I mean I literally think no one should be allowed to be in a position to become a billionaire at all, so . . .


Bottom line: I’m an anticapitalist and, more germane to this point, someone with a lot of experience dealing with cults and cult-like situations, and I know that parasocial relationships (such as the ones deliberately fostered by “influencers”, politicians, some “celebrities”, etc with their “followers”) are inherently harmful and unhealthy. I don’t have all the answers as to how to deal with unwinding that sort of thing from our collective cultural experience, but I can perceive the collective disorder.

Definitely not trying to antagonize anyone here, but this goes a lot deeper than “I don’t like that”.

 

[Reno]

I have no problem with anyone making money any way that they can, as long as it's legal and not hurting others. I expect that it's going to become a whole lot harder for ANYONE and EVERYONE to make a living very soon and I say more power to anyone who has figured out any way to make it work.

I'm a data scientist by trade, I've always been kind of like the human calculator who can do complex math in my head faster than people can use an actual calculator or spreadsheet and have picked up programming and data visualization talents along the way. I now lead a large team of similar people. However, AI is quickly bringing the better quicker calculator and my skills will no longer be needed. This is going to be true for a lot of different jobs out there. We all need to make whatever money we can while we can.

If someone can make money by posting YouTube videos or whatever, good for them. There's more and more AI created content every single day, so they're just as much at risk as most of the rest of us long term.

There a lot of people out there struggling now with what, a 4% unemployment rate? Even with baby boomers leaving the work force every day I still expect the unemployment rate to hit double digits by the end of this decade. And Universal Basic Income will never happen. Those in power would NEVER allow that. 3% of the population will continue to profit and the other 97% will continue to be worse off than before.