If you break it, you bought it. If you hurt yourself, congratulations!
“But… I studied The Blade for 25 minutes from Master Dudebro on Youtube! I AM AN EXPERT!”
I also studied Blade. - You mean the blade? - no no. Blade. The whole trilogy. Like a million times. I can recite it by heart.
I used to have a family. Wife, two daughters. Then one night I started watching the Blade trilogy.
Yeah honestly this sign just screams “I don’t understand my audience”. Like, you’re selling nerdy swords to nerds in a store that seemingly caters to nerd stuff - of course the nerds interested in your products are gonna do nerdy stuff with it.
Given what the sign below it says, I think the point they’re trying to make is just that they don’t want people playing around with this stuff before buying it. I’m guessing “I’m checking the balance” or something like that is a common excuse they hear from customers who took something off the wall without permission.
The store would rather a staff member be present to minimize the risk of a customer breaking something.
So put it inside a glass cabinet instead of insulting your potential customers.
One presumes that idiots have broken several it hurt each other by the time this sign came about.
Is there an equivalent to r/mallninja on Lemmy yet?
It’s posted here. You saw the content without needing to make another clone of a super-specific Reddit sub.
You do know that multiple kinds of content can exist in the same community right? This isn’t a sorting/content organization competition.
Sure, but sometimes you want to see specific content, not see a bunch of content and sometimes see that thing you wanted to see an hour ago. By your logic, we could just get rid of communities and have nothing but an ‘all’ area.
No my logic is that the subreddit arose because of an overwhelming amount of that specific type of content going into various subs.
There isn’t an overwhelming amount of this kind - or really any hyper-specific content on lemmy. More communities just makes shit harder to find and discourages engagement because most people aren’t going to contribute to a community that is entirely seeded by bots or that hasn’t had an actual post in a month.
Do you have enough content to keep that community active for months? Or are you just gonna repost shit from Reddit with a bot and have a ton of threads with 0 comments? And do you really think either of those are useful for the larger lemmy community?
Holy fuck dude get your head out of your ass.
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That’s literally how I browse Lemmy. And how I always browsed reddit when I was there.
It’s so much more interesting when you don’t know what you’re about to get.
Exactly! I have so many filters in place, some times it’s nice to have a targeted community to feed the exact trash I want to ingest without a glut of meta-memes or low effort Musk spam (as examples).
Can’t imagine why the even more nerdy and opinionated version of Reddit would feel attacked by this
R/mallninjashit would just point and laugh.
I’m judgemental towards you, also please buy my stuff!
Whoa whoa! A fat, sarcastic star trek fan. You must be a devil with the ladies!
You’ve inspired me to rewatch some of the golden era simpsons
Oh man this triggered some people in the comments didn’t it?
A replica decorative sword can still beat the crap outta you. Assuming it’s balanced.
LMAO
Where’s that clip of a Chinese mall Ninja sword bending when trying to cut a bottle of water?
Is your skin made of plastic?
The metal might bend, but your bones will also shatter.
There’s a reason people call these wall-hangers “sword-like objects”.
Who knows maybe I will be swinging it around my house when I’m alone before the other half gets home. Thats the part where it needs to not have a weird weight distribution or the blade come loose from the hilt.
Sign is trash - owner wants to get rid of the “silly cartoon swords” but they make too much money.
Many of these swordlike objects aren’t made to be swung, and are liable to break if you try it.
Then separate them into “replica sword” and “basically just a painting to hang in your living room” sections and lock the part that’s useless in a display case.
The only problem is that the functional replica anime sword section is probably going to be entirely empty. They’re basically all decorative wall hangers.
They’ll differ in build quality, though. Some might break if you swing them hard, others might break if you hit something with them.
If I can’t pretend to check the heft and balance of a cartoon sword replica what the fuck are we even doing here?
Right? Pretending they’re real is what the damn things are for
Why are you making fun of people giving you money lol
I don’t think they are buying
I’m really enjoying how many people in this thread are insulted by this sign.
I check the heft and balance of sticks I throw for my dog, not because I’m an expert stickmaster, but because it’s nice to know the weight and feel of something before I start swinging it around and throwing it.
May I invite you to !stick@sh.itjust.works
Oooh, thanks for linking!
You’re an expert stickmaster in the eyes of your dog and that’s all that counts.
I am! She’s always amazed that when she leaps for the stick in my hand I somehow manage to move it out of the way and she sails right by.
You must be some kind of magician!
Just an expert stickman… wait, is that right?
You still have to carry it around all day if you’re using it for cosplay and shit, if someone wants to see how it feels in their hands then why is that an issue?
Was going to say, you may still have to swing it around and strike a pose for a cosplay pic, maybe check if it’s going to hang awkwardly in the scabbard of the costume, or maybe just let that little inner kid loose in the back yard in some imaginary battles against hordes of invaders. Maybe you want to know if it’s going to rattle alarmingly, or feel as if the blade will fly off the hilt at any moment.
They may be toys, but you still don’t want to be buying crap that’s going to fall apart in the middle of a con.
They forgot the /s, their customers won’t get the joke.
