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SpacePig posted:a dumb Funco Pop thing I'm not really into dropping money on plastic crap in general but Funco Pop is especially mystifying because intentionally making collectible figurines look as identical and interchangeable as possible seems to defeat the entire purpose of displaying them in the first place.
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drat, the lootcrate is even worse than I always expected The only service of this type that ever seemed worth the money to me was the BurnBox, a similar thing for  smoking supplies that is now defunct. $30 would get you a decent pipe, a few trinkets (something like branded lighters, a joint roller, reusable tips, etc.), and selection of papers and blunt wraps. The value per box was really nice, as everything in the box would have set you back $60-70 if bought individually at the head shop, but after two months I had two new pipes and more than a year's worth of supplies for rolling, so I cancelled the box because I don't need an endless supply of pipes and papers. Neither does anyone else, apparently, which is why I got an e-mail several weeks ago to inform me they were ending their service altogether.
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Jul 6, 2016 22:09
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I do not understand who could possibly get a lootcrate or other subscription box for more than a couple months and not think "I have to much of this now" to themselves.
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Jul 6, 2016 22:11
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TestTube was great for cosmetics and beauty stuff--I got a very nice, very expensive brush one month--except they did start to repeat themselves after several months (I have at least three travel-sized bottles of this particular spray-on hair conditioner) and they don't bother finding out anything about their recipients like some subscription beauty boxes do. I wound up with a lot of anti-aging stuff (I may be  on SA, but I'm too young for wrinkle fillers), poo poo for curly hair and dry skin (I have stick-straight hair and not-dry skin), and makeup in colors that simply didn't work with my complexion. Even my mom got tired of me fobbing stuff off on her.
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Hirayuki posted:TestTube was great for cosmetics and beauty stuff--I got a very nice, very expensive brush one month--except they did start to repeat themselves after several months (I have at least three travel-sized bottles of this particular spray-on hair conditioner) and they don't bother finding out anything about their recipients like some subscription beauty boxes do. I wound up with a lot of anti-aging stuff (I may be BirchBox was better about tailoring stuff to individuals. Got some nice perfumes that I really liked a lot, and a handful of hair things I still use. I still ended up unsubscribing because I was accumulating a lot of poo poo I just wasn't using. I can't imagine what happens to 90% of the stuff in LootCrates. Landfills, I guess.
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Hirayuki posted:My husband got some post-apocalyptic wasteland 'Crate. His boss tried to make it seem relevant by talking about how my husband's homeland of Australia is practically a post-apocalyptic wasteland already. Problem is, my husband's from New Zealand. Also, he doesn't play video games and hasn't even heard of 90 percent of the poo poo in this box. Your husband has never heard of Fallout, Terminator and Robocop?
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Jul 6, 2016 23:20
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ravenkult posted:Your husband has never heard of Fallout, Terminator and Robocop? More on-topic: Whose bright idea was it to use whistling in every other commercial lately? It drives me nuts. I thought it was just a US thing, but no, I was in Japan earlier this month, and it's the same over there. It's like all the rear end in a top hat marketers (but I repeat myself) got together and said, "Okay, here's the new thing: whistling."
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ravenkult posted:Your husband has never heard of Fallout, Terminator and Robocop? One of these things is not like the other in terms of general public awareness. Can you spot it?
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Last Chance posted:One of these things is not like the other in terms of general public awareness. Can you spot it? Sure, but what's the 90% he's not remotely aware of? The cult movies The Matrix and Terminator?
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Jul 6, 2016 23:59
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Zaphod42 posted:Even in the ad though, he gets a bunch of poo poo. There's an oven mitt that doesn't even fit him and a hulk bobblehead. That oven mitt was so bad that it was recalled for melting.
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Jul 7, 2016 00:10
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podcast ads are a necessary evil, since we get good things like griffinspacejam.com from it
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I love how Lootcrate is a very old scam meant for senile senior citizens that has just been re-branded to target nerds.
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The only subscription box thing I'd probably do is one I saw that mails you Japanese candies and snacks, because at least you could eat the things in the box and you wouldn't have to deal with them being around. Also Japanese candy is good.
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IShallRiseAgain posted:I love how Lootcrate is a very old scam meant for senile senior citizens that has just been re-branded to target nerds. It reminds me of those flea market grab bags. It was always just a paper sack of useless unwanted garbage, but at least they only cost a dollar.
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Waffleman_ posted:The only subscription box thing I'd probably do is one I saw that mails you Japanese candies and snacks, because at least you could eat the things in the box and you wouldn't have to deal with them being around. Also Japanese candy is good. There is one that does snacks and candies from all over the world, not just Japan , and it's apparently pretty nice from the videos I've seen. Called MunchPak I think?
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Tired Moritz posted:what kind of boss buys you stuff My boss took us to a casino and handed us $200
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That boss sounds awesome. You're from Australia or something, right? Here, have some Fallout poo poo
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Ashens recently had a video about ToyBoxes and the 80s one is just appalling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtOuFG_9UkY lovely MASK miniset that's missing the figure, new-style MotU figure with no accessories, and 1/4 of a Micromasters squad. Very obviously the company's way of getting rid of incomplete stock that no collector's gonna touch. I'll give them one thing, it's extremely authentic because as a kid you'd lose the accessories and 3/4 of your Micromasters anyway, but on the other hand, there's digging through your parents' attic for some nostalgia stuff and there's paying for a Toybox plus shipping.
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Improbable Lobster posted:I do not understand who could possibly get a lootcrate or other subscription box for more than a couple months and not think "I have to much of this now" to themselves. Retrieving a package from my apartment complex's closet of packages indicates that at least 4 people at my complex subscribe to Lootcrate.
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My favorite podcast pimped Naturebox for a while. It's a lovely service with crappy snacks. Just go to trader joe's and buy a tub of pretzels and peanuts for $5.
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Waffleman_ posted:The only subscription box thing I'd probably do is one I saw that mails you Japanese candies and snacks, because at least you could eat the things in the box and you wouldn't have to deal with them being around. Also Japanese candy is good.
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Gann Jerrod posted:That oven mitt was so bad that it was recalled for melting. Wow that's lovely. And I guess that means you're out part of your lootcrate that month, I really doubt they sent replacement gifts or whatever. What a load of poo poo.
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Mu Zeta posted:My favorite podcast pimped Naturebox for a while. It's a lovely service with crappy snacks. Just go to trader joe's and buy a tub of pretzels and peanuts for $5. But these snacks are GMO free and whatnot! And delivered straight to my door! Sure, I only get what amounts to a handful of snacks for the price of a large bag of chips, but come on! Nature! I remember actually looking into it once, thinking maybe it'd be cool to give a try at least once. There was basically no size information on the site without having to do math using serving size suggestions, and the clearest one was their fig bars. 5 in a bag.
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I used to subscribe to Lootcrate but realized that I didn't need more t-shirts or pop vinyls finally.
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Iron Crowned posted:Retrieving a package from my apartment complex's closet of packages indicates that at least 4 people at my complex subscribe to Lootcrate. Do you live in a college town where it's a college for nerds like RIT?
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Does someone have a link to that SA-Mart thread where a goon literally scammed a bunch of other goons into his fake Lootcrate-esque service? IIRC, he was literally sending out his trash in boxes at like $20-$25 a pop, "guaranteeing" that there was at least $30 or so worth of merch in them. He even showed pictures of his company's "office" that some other goon figured out was just a loving conference room in some university's student union. Hell, it might even have already been mentioned/linked to in this thread.
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Literal trash? Empty boxes of Fruity Pebbles, squeezed out roll of butt ointment?
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DrBouvenstein posted:Does someone have a link to that SA-Mart thread where a goon literally scammed a bunch of other goons into his fake Lootcrate-esque service? Don't have the link, but I remember reading that thread. That was ridiculous.
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Mu Zeta posted:My favorite podcast pimped Naturebox for a while. It's a lovely service with crappy snacks. Just go to trader joe's and buy a tub of pretzels and peanuts for $5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nemw0KkHRAs I'm always seeing this commercial playing on TV, and holy poo poo is it pretentious
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PenguinKnight posted:podcast ads are a necessary evil, since we get good things like griffinspacejam.com from it Podcast ads are bad, ads for podcasts are the worst. I only listen to a few McElroy bros programs on the MaxFun network and without fail every ad for other shows on it is a grab bag of insufferable 30-somethings that sound like cartoon characters and are incapable of actually giving you a reason to care about them and their hot pop culture scoops when it's the entire show. And considering how quickly they hemorrhage shows and then bring on more garbage to replace them I don't think anyone is actually interested in what they keep pushing.
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Wanamingo posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nemw0KkHRAs The "first box free" thing reminds me of how Blue Apron advertises saying that you can get like three or so meals free but what they fail to mention is that you only get that if you pay for multiple orders.
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Guy Mann posted:Podcast ads are bad, ads for podcasts are the worst. I only listen to a few McElroy bros programs on the MaxFun network and without fail every ad for other shows on it is a grab bag of insufferable 30-somethings that sound like cartoon characters and are incapable of actually giving you a reason to care about them and their hot pop culture scoops when it's the entire show. And considering how quickly they hemorrhage shows and then bring on more garbage to replace them I don't think anyone is actually interested in what they keep pushing. MaxFun seems like the wooooooorst part of the Mcelroy family of shows.
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My Lovely Horse posted:Ashens recently had a video about ToyBoxes and the 80s one is just appalling: I have no interest in any of these pop-culture boxes at all and I don't recognize a good 90% of the stuff in them, but for some reason I can't stop watching this guy's videos.
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Ashens gets a lot of mileage out of "A guy looks at weird products on a couch." The fact that he's not insufferable works too.
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Improbable Lobster posted:MaxFun seems like the wooooooorst part of the Mcelroy family of shows. When I binged my way through The Adventure Zone the only episode I skipped was the one where the Flop House guys took over, I listened to like twenty minutes of it and skipped to the next real episode (though I did listen to the Flop House episode that the Macelroys did). Those people were insufferable.
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Waffleman_ posted:Ashens gets a lot of mileage out of "A guy looks at weird products on a couch." The fact that he's not insufferable works too. He's basically inoffensive, and he's got enough expertise to talk intelligently about the stuff he's looking at. He worked in a toy shop, so he knows stuff like "I can tell by the feel of the plastic that this will break if a kid plays with it" and "this is from a standard mould so all that will set it apart is the paint work." Also he's got a nicely eclectic taste in what makes a toy or game good and interesting.
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My wife gets HorrorBlock and it's been worthwhile - a horror movie themed t-shirt, a Vinyl Pop, some trinket like a zombie door stop or stickers, a copy of Rue Morgue magazine, and a cheesy straight-to-DVD movie. We cancelled LootCrate and one other two or three months in, but we've had HorrorBlock for a year now.
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Veotax posted:When I binged my way through The Adventure Zone the only episode I skipped was the one where the Flop House guys took over, I listened to like twenty minutes of it and skipped to the next real episode (though I did listen to the Flop House episode that the Macelroys did). Those people were insufferable. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx4ZSQCXAa0 "Listen to our podcast where you can hear me, the man with the most annoying voice in the world, sing badly on purpose v  ~"
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Well thanks to you guys TIL what the gently caress a "vinyl pop" is and now I want to subscribe to HorrorBlock. My wallet hates you. 
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Mu Zeta posted:My favorite podcast pimped Naturebox for a while. It's a lovely service with crappy snacks. Just go to trader joe's and buy a tub of pretzels and peanuts for $5. Goons went crazy for either Naturebox or Graze when it first started. There was a huge referrals thread and everyone was raving about the snacks they were getting.
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