I'm not a fan of "always evil" races generally, but Tuskens are little more than animals. Even in the old EU, they're just fucking dicks to every living thing that is not a Tusken or Sharad Hett.
And look at what happened with Hett. Dude became the next Palpatine, but worse. At least when Palpatine was done with Order 66, he was okay with letting some Jedi escape so they can bury their heads in humiliation before the Sith. Krayt was more like Vader in that he wanted every last Jedi dead.
And KOTOR made the best case for why eliminating them was a good idea. All giving them evaporators did was reduce the attacks, not stop them, nor do they move to the deep desert like they said they were going to do and to get to that point, you had to get a HK-47 to translate, whom at retail was 5000 credits and you must survive the attacks to get into their compound, which you had to sneak into or get shot by their turrets. So anyone who wasn't a high level Jedi can't engage in diplomacy even if they wanted to. Given the right circumstances, killing them doesn't even net Dark Side points.
Basically, the game was practically tempting you to kill them all, and you have to go really out of your way to NOT kill them.
At one point, I wiped them out by accident after conversing with their historian. And given that what they did eventually pushed the Chosen One to the Dark Side (seriously, imagine how Anakin would fall if his mom was still alive) I don't have any regrets. I don't have any regrets chopping them down with a lightsaber in Jedi Academy, I don't have any regrets gunning them down in Battlefront 1, especially when I play as the Imperials and I take the one Tusken camp that they have on the far left side, leaving them with that one command post right next to the Rebels, and that leads to a bloodbath where the Rebels and the Tuskens slaughter one another around the Sarlacc Pit.
You have COVID, WFH. People move to areas with lower COL, get proper offices, and decorate those offices with their Round Lumps. With vacation, commute, and dry cleaning money no longer an issue, they have more money for "investing" in those ultrarare pepes Pops.
During COVID, I was more invested in PC games rather than pops. I never got the appeal of it, but one of my coworkers loved them.
There also seems to have been a consumer awaking; given all the above, the "casual buyers" seem to have woken up the fact that Funkos will never stop coming. You don't have a many "completionist" super fans trying to get everything Funko makes, buyers are focusing more just the characters they want, which is a problem because Funko already made a lot of those.
Reminds me of the Pokemon cards; back then you had people rushing to have at least one card for each of the 151 classic Pokemon. Then the Jhoto League stuff came out and you had more Pokemon, and as time went on, you had even more Pokemon, to the point where most folks just pick the ones they like and not give a fuck about the rest. Completionism with modern day Pokemon cards is a pipe dream, and I imagine the same goes for Funko Pops.
To further back up this analysis spergy discussion of toys these fucking things are not toys, they are collectibles. they are Hummels for manchildren.
That's another problem. At least when a collector's done with their collection of toys, (either they lose their passion, or they die) their collection can be donated to some nearby children's place so kids can play with say, Stormtrooper figures, figures of wrestlers, robots, anime characters, GI Joe soldiers, Marvel/DC superheroes, and whatnot. What can kids do with Funko Pops aside from smash them around?
So sort of to your point about adult collectors, because funkos were never targeted to kids (just nerds who aren't 18 yet at the lowest), if space is at a premium and there's no HR breating down your neck, why get some sexless distillation of the character you like when you can get a proper one.
My point exactly. Without HR breathing down their necks, folks are okay with showing off sexy woman figures. I've been seeing them all over the place, both Japanese and western. Some anime girls, some old classic DC/Marvel superheroines, that kind of thing.
Does anyone else think the best content in SWTOR is the original class stories and planets, I think most of the expansions content and stories are pretty bad.
The original class stories were made with a sense of passion and continuity, as well as some passing knowledge of logistics. The lore from the original game website stated that the Sith Empire's population is way lower than that of the Republic, and come the end of the original class stories, that population problem kicks in when the Sith offensive stalls in Corellia and they don't have the manpower to hold their conquests in the core worlds.
The expansions were just made to pad out a story that should've ended with KOTFE at the most and should've ended way before that.
