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other than a curious find for anthropologists in 200 years when these plastic door stops are exhumed, i fail to see anything endearing about burying a collection of batteries, lead, and plastic into the earth to contaminate groundwater.
Close that laptop! Save it for computation that _matters_. Don't be an environmental terrorist!
When I was a kid Tamagotchis we’re all the rage. My parents weren’t exactly in a position to spoil me so I never had one while a good deal of my friends did. And then I learned about this. I could not believe my ears when I heard about it because how is it fair that I can’t afford one of these while others somewhere else in the world get to just throw them out? I know it’s silly but yeah that was a moment that really…
other than a curious find for anthropologists in 200 years when these plastic door stops are exhumed, i fail to see anything endearing about burying a collection of batteries, lead, and plastic into the earth to contaminate groundwater.
If you can’t look at it under any other light than the logical, maybe instead consider how interesting it is that humans can feel powerful sentimentality towards inanimate objects... to the extent that they feel compelled to act in irrational ways. You can find varying rituals like this across almost all cultures.
I guess it’s interesting, but it’s also just a fact of life. Feeling sentimental over stuff is why I have so much I don’t actually need.
When I was a kid Tamagotchis we’re all the rage. My parents weren’t exactly in a position to spoil me so I never had one while a good deal of my friends did. And then I learned about this. I could not believe my ears when I heard about it because how is it fair that I can’t afford one of these while others somewhere else in the world get to just throw them out? I know it’s silly but yeah that was a moment that really…
Were these really ever expensive? Maybe they only reached my part of the world when it’d become cheap plastic. At least I certainly don’t remember ever considering them expensive (though for a child nothing is cheap).
Interestingly, seeing this made me Google Tamagotchi, thinking my daughter might like an old school Tamagotchi. Apparently, a new “Tamagotchi Pix”[0] product is releasing July 1st. It’s $60 and has a camera for some reason. Was the original Tamagotchi only marketed towards girls? It looks like the new one will be available only in purple and pink. [0] https://tamagotchi.com/product/tamagotchi-pix/
other than a curious find for anthropologists in 200 years when these plastic door stops are exhumed, i fail to see anything endearing about burying a collection of batteries, lead, and plastic into the earth to contaminate groundwater.
If you can’t look at it under any other light than the logical, maybe instead consider how interesting it is that humans can feel powerful sentimentality towards inanimate objects... to the extent that they feel compelled to act in irrational ways. You can find varying rituals like this across almost all cultures.
Interestingly, seeing this made me Google Tamagotchi, thinking my daughter might like an old school Tamagotchi. Apparently, a new “Tamagotchi Pix”[0] product is releasing July 1st. It’s $60 and has a camera for some reason. Was the original Tamagotchi only marketed towards girls? It looks like the new one will be available only in purple and pink. [0] https://tamagotchi.com/product/tamagotchi-pix/
> Was the original Tamagotchi only marketed towards girls? It looks like the new one will be available only in purple and pink. IIRC, the boy version was Digimon. Basically the same toy, but you could battle them.
In addition, to get in on the craze, other companies made their own products that played identically to tamagotchis. Tiger Electronics had the Giga Pet brand [1], for example, from which I had the alien.
Quick edit: Ah wait maybe you meant these [2], which were before the Digivices. I never had one, don't know if they were more like tamagotchis.
[0] https://wikimon.net/Digivice_Toy
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Were these really ever expensive? Maybe they only reached my part of the world when it’d become cheap plastic. At least I certainly don’t remember ever considering them expensive (though for a child nothing is cheap).
$17.99.
other than a curious find for anthropologists in 200 years when these plastic door stops are exhumed, i fail to see anything endearing about burying a collection of batteries, lead, and plastic into the earth to contaminate groundwater.