If I’m buying a sword, even if that sword is going to spend 99% of its time on a wall or in a display case, I still want to know that it feels good to hold, otherwise what’s the fucking point of owning a sword.
If I see a sick in the street, I’m going to do the exact same thing, I ain’t no expert, I just like to experience a little joy in my life where I can.
When I go shopping for a replica van Gogh I always hang it on a wall first to see if it arts well
I totally agree with you about the swords. Not so much about the sick in the street though…
I agree with the stick in the street comment, what kid didn’t like to wave around a good stick every now and then? Gotta make sure it feels right.
…they sell latex/foam swords and have never heard of LARPing? 🤦
The hell are you talking about “latex and foam?” It’s not date night with your mom.
Way to communicate contempt for your customers. If you’re in the business of selling decorative replicas of cartoon swords, you need to be in on the kayfabe. Nobody is expecting to take one of these to a real swordfight. What they are expecting, however, is to have a cool prop to show their friends, and it’s not unreasonable to expect the cool prop to feel like it’s not trying to fly across the yard if you swing it around.
If you don’t want people to touch the merchandise, the second sign is all you need.
If you don’t want people to touch the merchandise, the second sign is all you need.
True, though it would probably help if a significant amount of it wasn’t obscured behind said merchandise…
Not true. I for one can’t see a sign without wanting to read it out of pure curiosity of what it might say and I’m sure others feel the same lol.
Whether people reading it are all OBEYING the instructions is another matter, though 😁
Right? If you don’t want people handling your cool replica swords then maybe stop selling cool replica swords.
Each to their own, of course, but the people who are picking them up to “expertly inspect the heft and balance” certainly think they’re cool.
Agreed with your other points but some mall ninjas genuinely believe these could be used haha most people that don’t know any better wouldn’t know why they couldn’t
Right, exactly what all store owners want. For potential customers to go somewhere else instead.
it’s not unreasonable to expect the cool prop to feel like it’s not trying to fly across the yard if you swing it around.
You might think that, but most of these are called wall hangers for a reason.
Many of them have rat-tail tangs or are made with stainless steel. They might feel balanced, but are liable to snap if you swing them around.
And if someone wanted to check if it is a cheap wall hanger or a replica that could be swung, they might want to do more than just look at it on the wall.
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.
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.
