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a Bop It is something they would have made up for a Disney tv show I think
this is such a outrageously fictional toy
you’re really just showing the XT version? You gotta show them ALL!
The original Bop It
Bop it extreme: Added spin and flick
Bop it extreme 2: Bop it is the only physical toy out there with a sequel
Bratz bop it: yes, this is unfortunately a thing that exists. Pretty sure it’s exactly the same as the original too.
Bop it blast: boomerang
bop it download: This one came with a website AND a biohazard symbol on the front of the box!
Bop it!: Apparently “bop it!” is different from “bop it”. This one came with a fun new command: screaming
Bop it bounce: THAT’S NOT A BOP IT!
Bop it XT: The one you showed, this one asks you to shake violently. However that’s apparently completely optional.
Bop it smash: again, this isn’t a bop it, this could be something else entirely, why’d you call it this
bop it tetris: …what?
ever see those guitars that can play whole songs and you can pretend to play them? This is that, but with a singular, sad drum
The bop it micro series: Ah yes, an even harder way to play bop it
Bop it new moves: This one has TEN NEW RIDICULOUS MOVES: comb it, saw it, cradle it, answer it, selfie it, golf it, drink it, sing it, whip it, and hammer it. I didn’t make any of those up.
Bop it maker: Yes, you heard me right. At some point they decided that making these was both so simple that anyone could do it, and too much work. So instead, they decided to let whoever bought the product make it themselves.
bop it classic: They basically rereleased the original bop it and didn’t even make it look like the original bop it.
BUT WAIT THERE’S MORE! There’s also sister products!
Zing it: It’s a yoyo
Top it: I don’t even know anymore
Torx: Yup, the bop it name has officially lost all meaning as this is THE ONLY one of these products without it or something similar!
Groove it: It’s a wheel, it’s just a fuckin wheel. What have we come to
it’s time for yet another year of chanukah ratings! that’s right folks here are my Very Important Ratings of chanukah memorabilia (or, as I wrote last year with the pun of the century, menorabilia) for this year. Buckle up everyone for a wild ride!
none of these have anything to do with chanukah, but as we all know, chanukah IS the jewish holiday of all time which means it’s time to bring out every single piece of even vaguely jewish-related merchandise! 5/10 the transliterations are incorrect
this is most likely a translation error but the thing is I still don’t know what was supposed to be there. I want this pillow. I’m gonna start peppering this into my conversations. 7/10 many menorah!
oh no. no no no. why is there always at least one of these. I’m so tired. we have never wanted jewish santa. actually this looks like regular santa just stole those items from a jewish household. maybe santa IS christian after all! 1/10 santa has descended into a life of crime and thievery
it’s very funny to me that to goyim chanukah is the live laugh love peace light and joy holiday because of the ~pretty lights~ when in reality it’s about a rebellious uprising against our oppressors. AND latkes. 4/10 why is the t in latkes lowercase
no no you see the big floating magen dovid behind thomas jefferson isn’t antisemitic, it’s just a friendly reminder that jews control the banks! -102938473732/10 hey walmart what the fuck
I for one am ready to accept the hanukkah armadillo as part of the tribe. unfortunately the designers of this were cowards and didn’t even give him a kippah or menorah. 6/10 free the menoradillo from bland christmas capitalism and give him a latke
this feels like an advertisement for “I Spy”. the menorah isn’t kosher. aladdin’s lamp is there for some reason. is he jewish? good for him. mizrachi jewish icon. 5/10 scroll back up and read the hebrew
I saved the best for last purely because Tis The Season of the Boob Donuts. once you notice the Boob Donut you can’t escape. that’s not even how jelly donuts are filled and yet, here we are. 9/10 for boobs and no christmas imagery
[id: photo of four stemless wineglasses with text on each reading: “shalom // [shuh-LOHM]”, “l'chaim // [luh-KHAH-yeem], "chutzpah // [KHOOT-spuh]”, and “mazel tov // [MAH-zuh tawv]”.]
[id: photo of a blue throw pillow with white text reading “HAPPY // Hanukkah// AND MANY// Menorah”]
[id: photo of a Santa Claus figurine holding an enamel menorah and wearing a white scarf with blue stripes.]
[id: photo of four blue and white decor word blocks stacked on top of each other with the top block showing an illustration of the menorah and the rest reading “PEACE // LOVE// LAtKES” going down. The ’t’ in latkes is inside a dreidel illustration.]
[id: photo of a bill holder showing a two dollar bill decorated with Chanukah symbols.]
[id: photo of a white throw pillow with a styalized armadillo illustration and and blue text reading “HAPPY holidays FROM THE HANUKKAH Armadillo”]
[id: photo of a wood wall hanging with a menorah, a lamp, a gift box, dreidels, and gelt painted on with the text reading “Happy Hanukkah” and “הכונח חמש”]
[id: photo of a green tablecloth decorated with Chanukah themed print.]
Kudos to the FRIENDS reference with the Hanukkah Armadillo lmao. Also cringing so so hard at the transliterations and the “Hacunach Chamesh” lmaooo
So let me get this straight, in Monopoly if you give one player more money to start out it’s “unfair” but if you do it in real life it’s “capitalism”?
You know what, I’m going to tell you guys a story.
In my Sociology class a few semesters ago, our prof had us break off into groups and, much to our naive joy, began distributing Monopoly boards! We had no idea what was going on but yay! Games! Of course, once our group, and a number of others, got the board we began to work at setting up and distributing the money…
until suddenly our prof told us to put the money down and pick up the dice.
“Roll the dice and sort yourselves from highest to lowest,” our teacher commanded. "Now, the highest number is the upper class. The next one is upper middle class. The next two or three are middle class. The last person is in poverty.“
Well, as the person who rolled a two this was startling and not wholly welcome news.
From that point the game changed entirely. We had to hand out the money so that the “upper class” had this fucking mountain, and then less for upper middle, even less for middle, and I didn’t get any triple digit bills. We would all collect different amounts from passing go as well.
The biggest change though? Going to jail. Upper class didn’t. Period. Upper middle class could go but they only had to stay for one turn or they could immediately pay their way out. Middle class had some pretty easy guidelines for when they could pay to get out. As lower class, it was really easy for me to wind up in jail and REALLY hard to get out. But since I was working with so little money when everyone else had so much I was in jail all the time because there was no “game over”. If I couldn’t pay I had to go to jail for a certain period of time. I had to take out loans with interest I could never pay back just to get out only to wind up back in it again, rolling dice turn after turn hoping to be able to get out.
It was simultaneously the most enlightening and most awful game I had ever played. I was bored and frustrated and a little terrified about it all. And it wasn’t only me. I would never win, I sort of accepted this, but it was amazing how the middle classes reacted as well. They were stressed. Because they were always that close to either being able to one-up the upper class or from crashing into poverty with me. They had to fight constantly just to stay in the middle.
(I should also mention that the upper class player in one group felt so bad for the lower income players that they ended up overhauling their entire game and creating a “socialist” society instead. I’m not sure how our teacher felt about that one.)
Worth stressing this is entirely in the spirit of the original designer’s aims for Monopoly.
Monopoly’s original form of The Landlord Game which was explicitly designed to teach people about the unfairness of rent systems. To quote from the wikipedia entry, just as it’s the easiest source to hand…
Magie designed the game to be a “practical demonstration of the present system of land grabbing with all its usual outcomes and consequences”.[2] She based the game on the economic principles of Georgism, a system proposed byHenry George, with the object of demonstrating how rents enrich property owners and impoverish tenants. She knew that some people could find it hard to understand why this happened and what might be done about it, and she thought that if Georgist ideas were put into the concrete form of a game, they might be easier to demonstrate.
When the usual suspects start making “don’t bring politics into games” noises, I roll my eyes pretty hard. They have no idea of the history of the form.
WOW.. THIS IS CRUCIAL! Thank you for that!!! 👏👏
I read a study where they had people play Monopoly and gave one person twice as much money as the others but didn’t announce this. In all the test groups the person with more money won quickly and bragged throughout the game about how well they were doing and that they were better at the game than the others were. None of them noticed that they had more money or considered that starting capitol may have been a factor in their winning
Rich people like to believe we all have equal opportunities and they’re just better at playing the game
“From the 16th century, the European population grew while welfare deteriorated and food access declined. But this must be understood within the context of the emerging capitalist system. Productive capacities that could have been used to meet people’s needs were instead diverted to service elite accumulation. Land that could have been used for food cultivation was enclosed and used for other commercial purposes. Furthermore, capitalist elites seeking to increase the size of their labour force used pro-natalist state policies to prevent women from practicing family planning. Similar considerations pertain to Latin America. Mexican wages fell to subsistence levels in 1800, when the population hit 5 million people. But pre-Hispanic Mexico had a population of up to 18 million people. If in 1800 the land could only support 5 million at bare subsistence, it was because the colonial economy was geared towards elite accumulation rather than local food needs. We should not ignore the relationship between population growth and ecology, but we must not treat these as operating in a social and political vacuum.”
It should 100% be illegal for companies to make you give them your payment information when you sign up for a free trial version of their product. It is not necessary and there is no good fucking reason for them to do it. It’s blatantly just so they can steal forgetful customers’ money.
oh hey, thanks for reminding me to cancel a free trial i had going on.
Reblog to save an unnecessary charge cause it also reminded me to cancel a trial lol
this is an old man yells at cloud moment but it’s kinda weird to see so many people (rightfully) complain about Bad Retellings and adult YA book culture also ignore the elephant in the room that is the state of art under capitalism. these books are specifically designed to sell and they only care about that. they are devoid of anything complex and are easily digestible by design because they are meant to make money. as long as the consumer buys them, their purpose is served. it’s a transaction. the rotten core of the problem aren’t bad authors or bad readers (bad literature has always existed and people with the reading comprehension of a tuna can aren’t anything new), the problem is that money breeds soulless creatures. publishers want customers, not readers. it’s not just a matter of individual bad taste, it’s a money-driven behemoth of shit
I don’t care about convincing every cis person to drop their prejudices against trans people I care about taking away their power and ability to act on those prejudices in ways that harm us
“If a white man wants to lynch me, that’s his problem. If he’s got the power to lynch me, that’s my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it’s a question of power. Racism gets its power from capitalism. Thus, if you’re anti-racist, whether you know it or not, you must be anti-capitalist. The power for racism, the power for sexism, comes from capitalism, not an attitude.”
here at megacorporation, one of our core values is number go up. our other core value is rate at which number go up go up. these two core values guide us in our mission to exploit you as effectively as possible
