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Well GP is wrong. I have a 10 year old girl, I’ve bought a dozen of these, and she loved them each time. Yes, she may play with them only for a few hours each, but if it brings a smile to her face & makes her happy for many hours, then I think most parents agree it’s worth it.

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What ever works for you man. That stuff is meth, trash, superficial garbage.

That kids can grow out of, it's harmless than actual 'meth' and other 'addictions' adults almost never 'grow out of'.

Do you know where our plastic ends up? Every documentary I’ve seen on the subject shows that our plastic ends up with no oversight in some poor country while children literally sift through it for pennies a day.

Only due to the recent habit of tossing toys and all kinds of junk in recycling bins, where they don't belong. Over-recycling is worse for the planet than simply throwing away garbage responsibly. Most parts of the US have no shortage of landfill space.

Maybe your plastic.

Mine is transported several miles away, where it is buried and can then leech into the river, which is used as our water supply downstream.

But, yeah, who decided to put the water treatment plant next to the landfill?

Unlike the cultured and refined stuff you like, I assume?

And your kids are watching Godard films?

The amount of plastic waste around some of these toys is shocking: https://youtu.be/CZpG032TR5A. It reminds me of the packaging around AMD Threadripper and Intel 9900k packaging - both also very wasteful. If they only make a child happy for a few hours then it's probably not worth it.

One of my friends built a PC into his dad's Threadripper box, inspired by this: https://www.anandtech.com/show/14473/spotted-at-computex-a-r...

Remember, these things are targeted at a subset of an enthusiast market (and some HEDT stuff, too) and are mainly Halo products- and for many people, if they're paying $600 for a CPU, a nice box / unboxing experience is a quite nice touch.

She may have only played with them for a few hours but the plastic waste will outlive her by 100x. You really can't see anything negative here?

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