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Cake day: March 25th, 2025

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  • Land ownership, entrenched wealth. The economy already started to shift towards selling a few exceptionally expensive items to the rich over selling a ton of cheap items to the poor years ago, and we’re going to see how far it can go into “if nobody has money who’s going to buy everything” before a collapse. The examples I’m most familiar with are in video games. Gacha games target whales while, in the worst cases, using free players as content for those whales who are spending thousands or tens of thousands a month. Meanwhile, the price for individual releases keeps going up to the point that there’s speculation that the coming console generation the switch 2 is heralding will be the first one that isn’t affordable for the average american household.

    The top 10% of US earners are already behind half of all consumer spending.















  • I think it depends strongly on your taste for getting into a series (do you want to play the best game first, or work up to it? Etc) However, if you enjoyed the Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog you probably want to look into the IDW Sonic comics, which are being adapted for mobile formats on webtoons for free right now once a week.

    Mind you, thats the IDW comics, not the old archie ones, which… Have a certain appeal but are so unhinged.






  • So, forest spirit seeks tribute and those paying tribute review it on their own, sure. Someone eventually brings this up while paying tribute, alright, I’m still with you. But “the spirit of the deep woods has a smart phone with a data plan and the means to keep it charged” is where I start to get real worried.