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Obviously somewhat subjective, but if one looks at old figures, they're often... lacking. Evangelion figures where the eyes don't look like they're in the same direction. Oh My Goddess figures with plastic that discolors over time. Really rough paint jobs, etc.. Only some of the really high end ones of the 00s compete with the budget figures of today.

So, in your opinion as a collector, at what points did the quality uptick noticeably? When do you say, 'ah, that's when the good stuff really starts coming out?'

And general thread for discussion of changes in quality of figure production over time

Fixbots are great! They're in a number of places and they're super helpful. Some seem able to have conversations, others don't.

So seeing as everything else even the save points have lore, what's theirs? Are they Eldridge tech that others copy and use? Something Solaris made? Something multiple civilizations use?

What do we think?

The number of movies out there is vast, but when one gets down to smaller selections of movies, any particular type is sometimes surprisingly finite. You'll never run out of 'comedies' or 'action' or 'romance,' but you could easily run out of a particular style of same, comedy-romance films.

The first time I realized I could run out of a movie subgenre was in the 00s. I liked cyberpunk, so I decided to go into cyberpunk movies and see all the good stuff- only to realize I had already seen, like, 80% of them, because at the time there just weren't that many and they were my kind of thing! Young genre, obviously, and there's been a steady stream since.

During covid's lockdowns, I deliberately went through every kaiju movie I'd been holding back on, and have now 'finished' the genre. The only ones I haven't seen are Asylum or Asylum-quality ones I don't wish to see, a new release or two, and some lost movies.

Nowadays I'm going through old style gothic horror movies, and while there's a lot to go I'd say I'm somewhere around 70% through the major releases, and I've long since began delving other country's takes. Horror movie making has changed so much in the 70s and 80s in many fundamental ways that movies with that framing and style largely just stopped, giving a pretty clear total. While there's still the occasional one that comes out of someone deliberately aiming for the past style, one or two a year would be a very good year, many years have none, and most stuff that homages them does so visually but is written and styled more like a modern horror movie ('modern' being 80s-on in this context). Once I finish the Hammers and French movies and Spanish movies and such, I'll largely be done.

So I'm curious! What subgenre of movie have you watched enough that running out is in sight? Or have finished in it's entirety?

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