Hacker News Reader

Comment by Gelob | Hacker News Reader

Nothing went wrong. You never watched something on tv when you were younger that your parents thought was filth and stupid?

View on HN

Jackass / CKY videos come to mind for my generation. Even Bum Fights.

Shame what’s happened to Bam Margera.

> Shame what’s happened to Bam Margera

Considering how much he’s refused support, this was predicted for years. It’s all on him.

I’m always curious why people think that blame has something to do with compassion. They’re entirely orthogonal. If you only have compassion for the blameless, you may not be doing it right.

Why should anyone feel sorry for him? He’s 40 yrs old and lost, he had the time and resources.

I don’t feel sorry for someone who throws away that many chances.

Fair enough. People who do feel compassion for those who caused their own suffering usually do so out of an awareness that they are fallible as well.

Bam Margera looks like he could star on Bum Fights as a bum. They could call it Bam Fights.

No, I'm not aware of anyone getting scammed by He-Man.

He-Man was the scam. The entire show was created specifically to sell toys to children. Before Reagan's deregulation crusade in the early 80s, that was illegal.

What was illegal? Disney was selling character stuff for decades prior. Star Wars toys were licensed by Lucas before that movie came out[1].

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenner_Star_Wars_action_figure...

I mean its not a scam if you get a toy after you pay for it. The issue with this scam is none of these people got what they paid for.

If true that’s yet another reason to celebrate Raegan. Better for kids to buy toys of men in leotards than the Johnny 5 all in one super weapon.

What is the Johnny 5 all in one super weapon?

I think the parent commenter meant the Johnny Seven O.M.A (One Man Army) toy: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Seven_OMA

Jonny Seven One Man Army.

Legal Eagle did a video over dangerous toys recently and had this in it.

https://youtu.be/UtT34FNuBf0

At the 3:15 mark.

You benefited from strong regulations which covered television programming, and even stronger regulations about those aimed at kids.

If NBC had broadcast scams in He-Man or Scooby Doo rather than the weekly moral messages they'd have been off air faster than you could blink.

Regulation barely exists any more, except mainly to defend copyright owners.

You clearly never ordered the products advertised in the back of the comics.

I wanted that hovercraft kit so bad.

More than x-ray vision? Real x-ray vision[0]?

[0] Or so I was led to believe.

Lol, forgot that one!

But kids were being scammed by those 1-900 "call Santa" television commercials.

Yes. And that was a problem with parenthood back then too.

I did, but I fortunately didn't have $500k to “invest” in a game at the time.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com