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My theory is that Funko Pops are the result of an experiment where some scientists hypothesized that nerds would buy absolutely anything as long as it referenced anime/comics/etc, but they waited too long to reveal the joke and publish their findings and now it would be super awkward
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Oh you did not jus diss Hifumi's dorky rear end sweater.
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Jan 22, 2019 10:19
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Funko pops "work" inasmuch as they cater to literally every fandom possible at a price point that makes it cheap to manufacturer and acquire. There will be a layer of organic molecules that millions of years from now future saurid geologists will be puzzling over as to what biological activity deposited it, and that'll be everyone's Funko pops accreting into a geological strata.
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Jan 22, 2019 14:31
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I just don't understand them. The faces look terrible so if I care about the character's face I don't want it. If the outfit matters their bodies are tiny and overshadowed by the terrible head/face. Morgana is the only one of those I would consider but then I remember it's Morgana.
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Jan 22, 2019 19:12
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I actually bought that Morgana Nendoroid and it's dope, I just leave it in his All-out Attack pose
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Jan 22, 2019 19:19
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Apples and Oranges, Arist
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Jan 22, 2019 19:23
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I'm surprised Akechi is actually dead.
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Jan 22, 2019 19:45
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yeah, Nendoroids actually look decent - unfortunately they're pricey and don't do more obscure fandoms (I'd kill for a Raidou one)
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I just made the mistake of looking up some more Nendoroids and I immediately saw Jotaro and Alphonse Elric and a BotW Guardian and Makoto and like eight more I want
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Farseli posted:I just don't understand them. The faces look terrible so if I care about the character's face I don't want it. If the outfit matters their bodies are tiny and overshadowed by the terrible head/face. Morgana is the only one of those I would consider but then I remember it's Morgana. Same. Having worked NYCC for the past 9 years, I've seen the obsession with them by some attendees grow way out of control, and lately there hasn't been a year without some sort of mob at the con going all out to find the rare convention exclusives or whatever. Yeah, I actually own one, but only because I bought it for $5 off of a friend to help them get rid of stuff for quick cash when she was moving across the country. Like, this year, there was supposedly a booth selling a Gold Vegeta one or something, only they never showed day of, and it was our Info Booth Staff that had to tell them all they weren't here, take down names with which to contact said retailer, and find some way to get them distributed when they did show up. They never did lol, probably because they got their locations mixed up and set up in the main area of the Javits instead of our out of the way Anime Expo cash in con location 20 blocks north. Man, that sucked. Arist posted:I actually bought that Morgana Nendoroid and it's dope, I just leave it in his All-out Attack pose Robindaybird posted:yeah, Nendoroids actually look decent - unfortunately they're pricey and don't do more obscure fandoms (I'd kill for a Raidou one) Yeah, this. I'd actually buy nendroids, if only they weren't so pricey and stuff like crane game figs so much cheaper to buy at cons and such.
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I went looking for nendos recently and it seems like Good Smile only sells them on an individual basis via time-limited preorders, so anyone who misses the window for a particular one needs to find it through a different retailer or scalpers on eBay or whatever? (Correct me if I'm wrong because I, too, would love an adorable BotW Guardian.)
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Jan 22, 2019 23:37
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Funko Pops are just Precious Moments figures for nerds 
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Miz Kriss posted:Funko Pops are just Precious Moments figures for nerds
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Arist posted:
While I know the writing has been consistent that most adults are useless or malicious, there's something about these bits that just rubs me the wrong way. The whole "the youths need to be the ones to change the future now while the adults look on" is ignoring that adults also need to get off their asses and help out if they want the future to change for the better.
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I’ve got my hands full dealing with my own life. Good luck to them, I guess.
Oh, you didn’t think I would? Sorry, but I know about most things. ...Take care. It’s an unfortunate truth, but the kinds of adults the Phantom Thieves despised… they’re everywhere. Even when you return home, I’m sure you’ll find plenty there. ...Don’t be influenced by terrible adults.
No one wants to grow old, but I don’t think it’s a bad thing. It’s up to young people to take action and change the world, right? I think I’m able to sit back and just enjoy watching that now.
I hope the lessons of this year remain within the hearts of the young for the rest of their lives.
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I still don't understand why we couldn't have a story where we learn that there are just terrible people, both young and old, and it takes good people standing up for what's right in general than one or the other sitting on their rear end and ignoring everything. ...Oh wait then we'd have to make Tora a main character, and he's not hot enough to make into super sexy dolls and figurines.
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Jan 23, 2019 15:06
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Funko pops always felt like the hot topic store of collectibles. You know it's all cheap garbage from other content, but people buy it anyway. amigolupus posted:While I know the writing has been consistent that most adults are useless or malicious, there's something about these bits that just rubs me the wrong way. The whole "the youths need to be the ones to change the future now while the adults look on" is ignoring that adults also need to get off their asses and help out if they want the future to change for the better. To give the game the benefit of the doubt, there are quite a few people who think like this. But on the other hand it's really funny that we just got through an arch about the public being guilty of inaction (or something along those lines) and then we get dialogue like this.
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Jan 23, 2019 15:11
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Tora being the main character would be 100% acceptable. I can't hate the writing in this game because some of the confidants are just fantastic. There are seeds of a much better written story in a bunch of those characters.
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Charlett posted:...Oh wait then we'd have to make Tora a main character, and he's not hot enough to make into super sexy dolls and figurines. maybe in your eyes 
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Jan 23, 2019 15:21
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I wonder what kind of Persona and costume Tora would have if he was a Phantom Thief.
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:I wonder what kind of Persona and costume Tora would have if he was a Phantom Thief. there's art of that somewhere, i think it was linked earlier in the thread p sure his persona was actually hercules
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Jan 23, 2019 16:22
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Arist posted:maybe in your eyes I second this motion!
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Jan 23, 2019 16:29
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:I wonder what kind of Persona and costume Tora would have if he was a Phantom Thief. 
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Jan 23, 2019 16:31
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"Hey we need a greco-roman themed thief to name our politician's secret identity after." "Well, there's Prometheus, the Titan that stole fire from the gods to give to humans." "Got it, Titan." "That's not what I said." "And his Persona is a giant flaming goat centaur named Odysseus." "That's even less correct." Kurieg fucked around with this message at 16:37 on Jan 23, 2019 |
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Jan 23, 2019 16:34
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Kurieg posted:"Hey we need a greco-roman themed thief to name our politician's secret identity after." Odysseus as a legendary trickster does make a lot of sense though.
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Edit: Forum fuckery led to a double post.
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To an extent, I mostly just think of him as a Legendary rear end in a top hat. The only person he tricked was Polyphemus.
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Jan 23, 2019 16:41
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Kurieg posted:"Hey we need a greco-roman themed thief to name our politician's secret identity after." pretty sure the "centaur" bit on that design is a trojan horse reference
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Kurieg posted:To an extent, I mostly just think of him as a Legendary rear end in a top hat. The only person he tricked was Polyphemus. "Haha, you dumb rear end in a top hat. IT WAS ME, ODYSSEUS! oh gently caress you're related to Poseidon and I'm on the ocean oh gently caress oh gently caress." is one of my favorite moments of hubris ever.
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Night10194 posted:"Haha, you dumb rear end in a top hat. IT WAS ME, ODYSSEUS! oh gently caress you're related to Poseidon and I'm on the ocean oh gently caress oh gently caress." is one of my favorite moments of hubris ever. yep, honestly there's bits where he could've gotten home a lot sooner if he either told his crew what's up ("hey don't open that bag, it keeps the winds that would've blown us off course contained), or again - not announcing his name. Honestly it would fit Tora's adult arc that he got cocky and lost his way, and then he had to build himself back up after losing everything.
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Kurieg posted:To an extent, I mostly just think of him as a Legendary rear end in a top hat. The only person he tricked was Polyphemus. He tricked the suitors that were harassing his wife and abusing sacred hospitality in his home by letting them think he was just a beggar before he reclaimed his legendary bow and murdered the poo poo out of all of them.
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So I get the idea that it’s a parting and should be kinda bittersweet, but Maaku is going to be gone for like, a year, tops, because gently caress living anywhere in Japan that isn’t Tokyo.
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Rogue 7 posted:So I get the idea that it’s a parting and should be kinda bittersweet, but Maaku is going to be gone for like, a year, tops, because gently caress living anywhere in Japan that isn’t Tokyo. Future spin offs will reveal that like Yu, he comes back every few weeks because he has 0 hometown friends to spend vacations or long weekends with. And by coincidence some entity is always organizing a fighting tournament or something in a randomly reformed mementos at the same time.
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Jan 23, 2019 23:16
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Maaku's parents are going to ship him back to Tokyo within an hour of his return.
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Jan 23, 2019 23:17
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Funky Valentine posted:Maaku's parents are going to ship him back to Tokyo within an hour of his return. Maaku's gonna return with a stamp on his forehead that reads "RETURN TO SENDER"
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Jan 23, 2019 23:21
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He’ll arrive home only to find a notice on the door from his parents telling him they moved to Tokyo and here’s their new address.
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Jan 24, 2019 01:11
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How many Persona 3 and onwards characters have parents that show up onscreen? I want to say Yukiko and, uh... That's it?
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Jan 24, 2019 01:18
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Kanji has a mom
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:How many Persona 3 and onwards characters have parents that show up onscreen? I want to say Yukiko and, uh... Haru's dad is one of the heists; Futaba's mom shows up as a cognition in her Palace and Sojiro is her adoptive dad. It's pretty common for kids in fiction to have parents who are dead, absent, abusive, or otherwise ineffectual. Let's face it: a decent parent would never let their kid go off on crazy adventures. Authors need to get the parents out of the picture somehow because God knows you don't want to read about kids NOT having crazy adventures! VVVV If we're counting non-party characters, we also meet Shinya's mom and Hifumi's mom. VVV Pththya-lyi fucked around with this message at 01:51 on Jan 24, 2019 |
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Ryotaro Dojima, Nanako's dad, starts off a poo poo parent, but gets better over the course of the game (his massive fumble in arresting his nephew not withstanding). Also, Hanged Man from 3, Tower from 4, and Tower from 5 also have parents show up on screen. And Temperance from 4 is a step-mother. W.T. Fits fucked around with this message at 01:50 on Jan 24, 2019 |
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