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    7 months ago

    Oh look, a bunch of polluting plastic designed to be used once and then trashed

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      7 months ago

      To be fair, these are novelty promotional collectors items, not really meant to be trashed.

      It’s different from all the plastic packaging you find on every item in the supermarket, when they ban the one final plastic bag people use to carry all their other plastic bags.

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        Anything that is made as a “collectors” item is just landfill fodder. It’s junk that isn’t worth anything. Just look at Funko Pops.

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          That depends on what you mean by “worth”.
          Paintings and sculptures aren’t really “worth anything” in pretty much the same way.
          What’s a movie “worth” for that matter?

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            Paintings and sculptures are individual artistic creations. You might be able to say such things about mass produced replicas, but not art itself.

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              Art itself could be considered the idea. The individual physical creation would be merely an expression of that idea. Does mass production dilute that idea or it’s “worth”?

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                It disseminates the idea and dilutes the worth, because worth is tied to scarcity.

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                  And I think that’s our primary point of disagreement. I don’t care how scarce something is.

                  In fact not quite 30min ago, I flushed something unique down the toilet because it was worthless to me. While the toilet I flush it with, is worth quite a lot to me, even though it’s very common and and found everywhere in my country. In fact if it was scarce, even unique, it might be entirely worthless.

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          Just let people be happy and collect their little things. Why are you people so boring

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      7 months ago

      I’ve already used it multiple times. My popcorn intake has increased drastically.

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    I guarantee somebody knew we’d be sickos about it and the exec just didn’t wanna hear it.

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    I guarantee everyone below the execs knew what this thing looked like, and correctly guessed that the sales would go crazy because of it.

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    Hahahahahahahahahahaha, this is why you hire immature idiots like myself. One look and I knew someone would try and fuck it.

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    I see they’ve never read further in the dune series, otherwise they’d know this is right on-brand for Dune.

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    It just goes to show how disconnected they are from actual reality because everyone saw it immediately. I’m also sure a mod of people realized this before production but didn’t say anything because they are just trying to get through their day

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    Has anyone here penetrated the bucket with their hand or penis? If its big enough for a hand then I don’t think it would work as a flashlight…

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      Even if you’re just a bit above average in thickness, then typical fleshlights are way too tight. Especially when you’re also a bit above average in length, because then you reach into the thinner end of the “handle”, which typically has those plastic struts for stability on the inside. You also will kinda push the soft part out when penetrating because the casing can’t fit that AND your dick inside, since they’re designed for small to average dicks.
      Male toys suck ass in general though, because they wear and tear so quickly while costing way too much, on top of the exorbitant costs of decent lube, because all the water based shit becomes sticky after a minute or so. And don’t get me started on keeping that shit clean either because it’s like those sticky flobber type kids toys that just gathers up all the dust, fibers, hair, etc. I honestly envy women in that regard, because wearing a dildo down would take some serious effort, and they have such a huge variety of toys too. You can also easily rinse them down in a sink too and most women easily lubricate themselves when aroused, while also being more flexible in regards to erogenous zones that actually benefit from stimulation like vibrations (a vibrator on a dick does basically nothing). /rant

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    I, for one, support the mass production of fleshlights to reduce their cost and make them more accessible to the masses