Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

Me all happy after finishing Final Fantasy V:



God damn it.



I have no idea where that missed treasure is from. Fffffff!!!!!

(...and yes. I was randomly at exactly 5,000 battles when I checked this so I had to go get into a random battle to test if it was capping at 5,000 or I just random-*** ended at exactly 5,000 battles).

Snyder cut of justice league is far better than the original, quite a lot of cringe dialogue and moments here and there (especially with the comic relief stuff) but nowhere near as bad as the previous cut.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkdjzb/cargo-ship-suez-canal-***-pic-ever-given?utm_source=vicenewsfacebook&fbclid=IwAR1oyR56V3KwCOmw9xdxPE02Gcm6oHTrjbyOo4vHuOs0OgMTbE4BLHVo1Uw

This, is making me die from laughter.

The overhead view is even better, but I hadn't heard about the richard drawing.

Mule got a pair of max augment Samnuha Tights tonight.

fml

is this youtubes way to say it's enough internet for today? (maybe NSFW)

lol I saw that the other day

Ended up getting this, the light is really neat but its really big. Wish Zidaine was in trance too and maybe the platform was brighter.

Trance always was wasted in FF9 anyway so it's pretty accurate having Zidane look that way.

Finally beat Bravely Default II. 10/10 from me, it was 100% the kind of game I want to play. Hell the fact it was predictable only made it better! Early game I hated a lot of it, but after reaching the end, I'm kind of a biased fan now. 11/10? OwO

jessica walter died ='( rip mrs bluth and mallory archer.

Second pair of maxed Samunah on mule. I am o m e g a l e v e l t r I g g e r e d.

Best satire is the Bee. Everyone knows that.

Onion makes you cry, but the Bee stings!

Imagine lining up in the rain to buy animal crossing amiibo

Wouldn't expect that to be so "must have" they must've only had a handful per store.

I get why people used to buy these many years ago, there was this mindset that they would be worth money 20-30 years from now.

That's really not the case anymore, do they have strict limits on how many they make to trigger rabid FOMO or something?

Hustle Culture.

They don't want them. They want to make twenty bucks cause you want them.

I swear to Christ the new future there won't even be stores or delivery.

Just distribution centers where scalpers pick up the supply and deliver everything for the business. It's the only logical outcome. Why keep paying fedex and UPS when people will pick it up at MSRP AND deliver it for a 10 dollar mark up.

Uber-amazon callabo.

It's actually illegal for producers to sell directly to the public unless they have a brick/mortar store or an approved outlet.

AKA Ford cannot sell their vehicles directly to the public, you have to go to a dealer to get it. Nintendo cannot directly sell hardware to the public, you have to go to the store to buy it there (either online or brick/mortar). Microsoft cannot sell hardware directly to the public (there are few exceptions, but only business-to-business sales), you have to go get those computers directly from other outlets.

So, I wouldn't have to worry about that at all. Unless they repeal that law that is.

Enough loopholes and money changing hands to fix anything.

Yeah, I don't see that as being an issue.

Nothing says loosing their ability to sell in any/all states (each state issues a Sales/Use Tax Certificate/Permit, even those states that have zero Sales/Use Taxes) more than trying to break the law.

Lose the ability to sell in a state, lose the ability to sell in all states. No faster way to kill a corporation than that.

Edit: I mean, I get it. You have the ill-gotten mindset that all businesses/corporations are corrupt, but what you perceive and what is reality are two very different things.

Watched a depressing video about multiplayer matching-making systems in PVP games earlier.

How the matcher will often create a lot of information about someone and use it against them to keep them playing and paying, people just think it matches you against people of a similar level so you can have fun matches. In reality it's playing you.

For instance it will often calculate your preferred play times or how many matches you usually play, and then put you into matches it judges you will win or lose depending on what it's trying to achieve. Like they often will give you a much higher chance of failure for the first few matches to give you a feeling of a challenge and then far far higher chance of wins on the later matches so you feel like you had a tough few matches but you got into your groove and ended your day with great victories. Final matches of the day often dictate how you felt the entire playtime went, ending on a failure is bad for business.

All easy matches = bored, might quit.
All hard losses = demoralized, might quit.
All wins all day but last match before you quit for the night is a loss = fixate on the loss, might quit.

Ultimate goal 50/50 win/lose ratio, with wins being more likely at the end of your calculated play duration.

They will also tend to increase your chances of being matched against lesser skilled players for easy wins if you have spent money on the store recently, to give you a positive feeling linked to those purchases.

The worst one (you just know they do this on PVE games too) was matching very skilled players who owned cosmetics in groups with lesser players that were noted to be willing to spend money, directly to promote sales of those cosmetics to this cash cow player. Because lesser skilled players try to emulate higher skilled players they are impressed with, including buying the gear they wear to look like them.

Everything is money, psychology and playing the player these days.

It makes sense actually.

The goal is make money, if in the future scalpers.LLC is willing to buy 100% of stock at cost and resell saving the company one whole dollar bill, it's going to happen.

Company loses all liability, no more warranty, no more insurance, no more customer service. All the problems fall on the middlemen scalper.LLC