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        You pay for something once you know what you’re getting. If you don’t know what you’re getting, it can hardly be argued there was ever a meeting of minds. See the “The Peerless” case.

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          You also can’t do whatever the fuck you want with someone else’s property, which IMO supersedes the “getting to know the merchandise”. If the terms of the seller is not sufficient, don’t buy it. Or do buy it, try it out (without damaging or breaking it), and exercise your right to return if you don’t like it. But don’t fuck around with it unless you both agree or you pay.

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            Even if it is damaged or broken, you’d be able to return it for the full price, because you did not get what you were promised (at least in countries with legal warranty)

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    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.

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      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.

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        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.

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          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).

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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.

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          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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            Lol you are pathetic, you dont need to have a perfectly active community or constant content. Get your head out of your ass for fucks sake.

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    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.

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      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.

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    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.