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Cake day: March 8th, 2024

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  • That sounds like mental illness.

    ETA: Replace “work” in that quote with practically any other activity/subject, whether outlandish or banal.

    I sit through movies but I don’t remember them because I’m thinking about baking cakes.

    I sit through movies but I don’t remember them because I’m thinking about traffic patterns.

    I sit through movies but I don’t remember them because I’m thinking about cannibalism.

    I sit through movies but I don’t remember them because I’m thinking about shitposting.

    Obsessed with something? At best, you’re “quirky” (depending on what you’re obsessed with). Unless it’s money. Being obsessed with that is somehow virtuous.










  • But the fact people spend $60 on a skin in a game, for just one character or weapon, is absolutely fucking insane.

    My nephew got very excited about the Transformers skins coming to Overwatch. I let him have his hype cycle (we are both Transformers fans), then asked him how much it cost. I told him he could buy an entire game for that much. Then, on his own, he started analyzing the pricing, and how buying 3 of the 4 on their own is more than buying the whole pack. Which segued nicely into how companies use price to steer people into buying specific things.

    But he was still iffy until I told him that the same money could buy 2-3 HG Gundam kits. The next day he told me that he had bought an RG kit instead. Works for me.