• Rhaedas@fedia.io
      2·
      3 months ago

      Probably banned for kids now because someone determined it would damage their ego or something. I always say the era of good toys ended when Tonka started making plastic vehicles. Somehow LEGO still got through the purging, barely. How a destroyer of feet still exists in today’s fragile world is perplexing.

        • Rhaedas@fedia.io
          2·
          3 months ago

          Yeah, I’m old. I also had better toys than kids these days, and they don’t even realize it.

          • hedgehog@ttrpg.networkEnglish
            1·
            3 months ago

            Do you honestly think that’s because all the older toys got banned and not largely because toy companies sell whatever makes them the most money?

          • jorp@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            3 months ago

            You played with toys as a kid? Back in my day kids worked. You little pansy

          • kemsat@lemmy.worldEnglish
            0·
            3 months ago

            You had better toys because y’all’s generations sacrificed your children at the altar of capitalism.

            • Rhaedas@fedia.io
              0·
              3 months ago

              Nah, Gen-X here. That’s our parents and grandparents, brainwashed into the cult of Edward Bernays. The place was already doomed long before we got here.

        • Rhaedas@fedia.io
          0·
          3 months ago

          Pretty terrible trolling actually, as it was just a side comment on the slide into acceptance of crap by the masses. If it was trolling because it wasn’t funny, then so be it, but that’s been a long tradition of humor forums to have commentary that is serious, not funny. I did upset some people, so if that’s the bar for trolling, then sure…

          But toys were better back then. No one has dismissed that claim, because they know it’s true. Sorry.

  • neidu2@feddit.nlEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    This comment field taught me the name. I knew immediately the toy he meant, but I never knew the name. However, his spelling was one letter away from me calling it a dvorak-stick.

  • neatchee@lemmy.worldEnglish
    02·
    3 months ago

    AAAAEEEEEEEUUUU

    …don’t say it, don’t say it, don’t say, don’t say it …

    …

    …

    …KILLER TOFUUUUUUUUUU!!!