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xieyaohuan · 4 months

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I am officially fucked now that I've experienced business class on a transcontinental flight because I've been looking at flights for a trip where I need to pay my own way, and the moment I see that economy costs more than EUR 600 my brain immediately switches to "Well then I might as well pay the EUR 2600 for a business flight!"

I blame it on growing up piss poor. In my mind, EUR 600 and EUR 2600 are roughly the same because they both are "a shit ton of money"/"more than I should ever spend on anything," so my brain tells itself "why should I fly economy for 'a lot of money' if I can also fly sooo much more comfortably for the exact same price of 'also a lot of money?'"

I have to force myself to subtract 600 from 2600, and then I can see that the difference is 2000 (which in my brain has the same value as 600 and 2600 in that it is also "more than I should ever spend on anything"), and then my brain understands I can actually save "a lot of money" by flying economy.

#personal #this probably sounds insane and it is #but I lived off of only euro 400 per month (including rent and all utilities) for a reeeally long time #I could not afford to buy clothes until I was 29 when I got my first good job and lived exclusively off of clothes donations #so I still have a hard time understanding the differences between all sums larger than 500 #it's a huge mental barrier and not at all rational and I fully understand this #and I also objectively understand that 2600 is a lot more than 600 but *emotionally* the two sums are the same to me #and it means that 99% of the time I'm super stingy #and then occasionally I splurge in really insane ways #In many ways this is a first world problem and really dumb but it also comes from poverty trauma and feels like a bit of a disability #aaaaanyway

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legitimatesatanspawn · 7 months

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Because I forgot to post it:

Nintendo Direct hypes:

Paper Mario TTYD Remake and Super Mario RPG Remake - interested but not super interested. They're good games. But I'm more interested in other things right now, but the fact that they're coming out means a lot of people will get to play them which is great.

Detective Pikachu Returns - I forget right now if it's a sequel or a port but either way I enjoyed OG's 3DS demo so I'm invested.

F-Zero 99 - Not something I'll play because I'm stingy about subscriptions but the idea is terrifying and cool. 99 racers on one track. Time to Redline it up, baby.

Another Code - I'm gonna admit I've only tried Trace Memory via a laggy emulated rom because it wasn't something I ever saw in stores around here. I'm very very interested in it so I'm excited. Its not just the first game remade but also the sequel too.

Unicorn Overlord - Bizarre name, pretty artwork, fantastic looking RPG. I'm down for it. Kind of has a Fire Emblem / Ogre feel.

Luigi's Mansion 2 - I've not actually played the series since faintly remembered OG because I was a coward and thought it was a scary game. I want to bust these ghosts.

Princess Peach 2 - Hell yeah. Thankfully the power isn't ELEMENTAL EMOTIONS again because you would not believe the amount of "Super PMS Peach" jokes I herd around when that came out but damn her powerup outfits look nice.

Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes - I've been interested in this for a while. I got the tech demo prequel on PC and let me say, it's a solid game. Plot's a little dumb but I had fun.

Playstation State of Play hypes:

Ghostrunner 2, although I'm more interested in it on PC.

Spider-Man 2 - Got to try the first game thanks to a friend and while I'm still debating on getting it and Miles on PC, I'm still low key terrified of picking up another open world game anytime soon.

FF7R Part 2 - I'm still waiting for FF7R: Complete Edition a-la StarCraft 2 but damn it looks good. (Also who's bright idea was it to put what looks like Costa Del Sol Cloud on a segwey? I'm still laughing at that.)

Roblox for PS5... ... okay I'm gonna admit, I laughed seeing that fact.

Lies of P - still a bizarrely cool concept but not sure if I'm overly invested in it.

Xbox... while my family never bought into the console wars, let's face it: what's on Xbox can easily be on other things so I don't really pay much attention to it.

PC:

Sonic Superstars - big maybe, but with how Frontiers is actually pretty good I might give it a shot too.

Like a Dragon - Well... so far I have 0 and 4 on PC. I don't need either Dragon right now because each one will be a significant investment.

Dungeons 4 - ... the series is still being made? Cool!

Long Gone Days - It's got a (hopefully 100% confirmed) release date! After the occasional updates to the build. Nice.

World of Horror - I thought this was dead!

#gaming #nintendo direct #playstation state of play #yes i'm late

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