I was checking out eBay for random Transformers stuff and found a seller selling "G1 reissue no box" stuff that's clearly just Temu Knockoffs
DJ Reverend_H7:51 AM
Man look at da chicken legs on dat guy yo
@SpeedRcrX7:51 AM
I know it looks jank in the age of cartoon-accurate 'bots and crazy engineering
but it makes me think of how f[BLEEP]king mindblowing those things were back then - we dodn't think of them as jank, we were like "that's a cool ass robot made up of smaller robots and I wish I could afford it!"
Nowadays I can afford the "proper" looking ones but it kinda makes me sad, looking at the s[BLEEP]tty world around me
There was a time when the robots were jank but the world was bright
FireFly_97:54 AM
These things come in cycles, Haruka-poppa. At some point the evil will burn itself out, or get burned out.
@SpeedRcrX7:55 AM
Man you're usually the pessimistic one but god damn I've watched the economy collapse how many times over my life? Once-a-century s[BLEEP]t happening every 8-10 years now
And nobody f[BLEEP]king seems to learn
FireFly_97:55 AM
Oh, plenty have learned. But plenty more have learned to play the game, and that's the problem.