#Can't talk about Making Money

[skullduggeryandfilibuster]

Boots theory is still applicable, because the point of it is the reason the rich have more money than the poor is because they spend less money. Which is very much true: they cheap out on their own products and wages, and they get subsidized and tax cuts.

This makes me so sad and also I'm trying to remember if any of the Discworld books dealt with late stage capitalism

[egophiliac]

LEON

LEON YOUR EYEBALLS

[bloggingboutburgers]

Tbh I feel like going to the US while the Nazis are in power is suicidal. So of course I don't understand your choice of going instead of your SO coming to Europe. But while I don't understand, I wish and pray for you to be safe. Whatever you choose, I hope you guys will be okay

You might be right. I have no idea what the future has in store or if I'll come to regret it. But I've already stated my reasons. As it stands, with the year-long process we've already started and that we can't just flip on a dime overnight, my partner can't come and stay in Europe legally just like that. Legal immigration is not that easy in one way or the other. Also... Yeah, I've stated that before, but one shouldn't underestimate how shitty things have been getting in Europe for the past few years as well, and how the influence of the US (which is huge) is likely to make things worse. So again I'm not 100% sure whether that'd have been better anyway.

Also also... Ima be real, I've shared that before, but the time where I was separated from my partner due to the travel ban was the only time in my life where I had actual suicidal ideation. I don't want this to happen again. That's why I'm making moves so it doesn't, first and foremost.

[corvid-ghost]

You guys think maybe besides just shame Jethro Callow (Wyatts dad) killed himself so no one could make money off of his boy

[tomwambsgans]

tom + greg + money + you value most what you've been denied etc

[uwudonoodle]

Writeblr: "NoNoWriMo are sell outs. Let's cancel them!"

Me, who is brand new to writing, thinking it was just an activity people chose to do, much like making a New Year's Resolution: "It's an organization...? With like money and stuff???"

[icewindandboringhorror]

sometimes looking at like Self Help Strategies lists for the symptoms I'm having is always just like:

thing that I already do

thing I have tried 10 times

thing I already do

thing that I don't have the money to do

thing I already do

thing I've been doing since I was 10yrs old to no avail

thing that is impossible given my situation

thing that doesn't apply to me

thing that I already do

thing I have already tried

hrmm, oh wait, maybe finally- OH, yeah.. okay. thing that I already do but it was just phrased slightly differently

thing I have already done

[okitanoniisan]

no one can reach my level of petty hating about the stupid english title

[aesethewitch]

@dandelionfaggot Hey! I figured I'd make this its own post, since my reply was getting really long, lol.

A money bowl is a spell designed to draw money to the target. The idea is that you take a vessel (a bowl, most typically, hence the name) and fill it with herbs, stones, dollar bills, coins, and other things with the goal of attracting wealth. Some focus on just drawing in money, others emphasize the flow of money coming in and going out.

In my case, the targets are me and my partner, since we function as a household unit. My vessel is a small, green bowl filled with salt, basil, oregano, cinnamon, bay, and other money-related herbs. I also include a set of handwritten instructions for the spell, sealed with green wax. The exact construction of a money bowl depends on the practitioner's preferences.

So does the upkeep. I've made a lot of money bowls in the past with different casting methods and upkeep needs. This current iteration uses a tall, green taper candle stationed just behind the bowl. I burn it every day for at least 30 minutes, but sometimes longer, while I'm working. When I blow the candle out, I pick up the bowl and wave it through the smoke, too, to pick up any escaping energy.

I've done bowls that require burning a single candle at the new and full moons, ones that need just one candle at casting, ones that use little tealight candles, ones that just take pure energy, ones that require exchanging dollars/coins... Basically, the upkeep is recharging the spell's batteries and recasting it on a schedule (day before the full moon each month).

They're fairly simple spells to set up! I highly recommend them to beginners who are interested in money magic. The Witch of Wonderlust on YouTube has a great video on working a money bowl that's a really friendly guide on setting one up and taking care of it.

[balkanlila]

i'm sorry, but lila going in depth about enzo's cart (in english nonetheless) in her secret notebooks + enzo's introduction in book 2 stating that lila has had a liking for him since childhood. i just loveee how it's not this overstated romance, it isn't necessarily going in that direction at all at this point, but it's still such a Statement, and such a fitting one at that, to have her practice a new language on something as prosaic and essential as enzo's fruit and vegetable cart. it feels very grounded and that's always incredibly touching to me. it's a bridge between something enzo is doing strictly for survival and what used to be the only declaration of affection from a boy in lila's life for a long time. enzo's fruit selling business underlines the true nature of earning money (which he would have been conscious of way earlier than elena and lila), but lila decides to focus on that exact cart in her involuntary outbursts of creativity and determination to keep up with elena. the point i am trying to make is that lila and elena have always saw money and writing as interconnected, but their idea of money wasn't the kind of money that enzo is familiar with. so to have lila write about something that is representative of the more tangible, rather tiring reality of making a living, and to have her do that unprompted, purely in the form of description, is blindingly endearing to me. it's bringing the dream and the privilege of studying (+ that childlike excitement and innocent romantic fulfilment lila feels exiled from and associates with enzo's gift) on the same level as the actuality of everyday challenges and that's exactly what the relationship between lila and enzo eventually amounts to.

it's also... so... moving to me how lila writes about the tools rino and fernando use in the shoe shop and how that admiration clearly is the root of her admiring enzo's equivalent of this and how book 1 ending is so loud about the way work has shaped lila's hands (stefano makes this exact observation too out of false admiration that lila senses as adjacent to her own and so much of her faith in stefano resides in this sentiment, this acknowledgement of her and her family as they are) and how this is brutally mutilated for her once marcello makes his big entrance that is only big to lila (and elena) and how she gets to restore this feeling in enzo.

[smartzelda]

Sometimes it's frustrating having worked in video game retail and knowing anything about game/console prices and deals watching people just. Say things online

"Look at this nintendo add for the SNES you could get the console and super mario world for like $100! Companies never do that anymore they're so greedy hahaha"

Yes, companies still bundle consoles with games. And yes, often this means the games come at a reduced price. (Mario Kart World for Switch 2 is $50 in the bundle versus the $80 for physical. When Gamestop was bundling games and controllers with new ps5s to keep away scalpers in like 2022, the games included often would be discounted between $10 and $20 for that bundle.)

Don't get me wrong. Of course less than $200 for a console and a first party game would be swell these days BUT. When you decided to get up in arms over prices these days, did you adjust for inflation? (Because like. It's one thing if the new console you're doing comparisons with the old one is much more expensive even when factoring in inflation. But also like some of those old consoles adjusted for inflation are worth about the same if not more than a switch 2, then it's like...okay? At that point the prices aren't the problem. The root issue is the companies not paying you in accordance with rising inflation.)

Believe it or not YES. Nintendo still does console deals where you can buy their most recent home console with a first party game added in for free! (Listen to me. Listen. In 2021 and 2022 for Christmas it was possible to walk into a video game store and buy a $300 switch bundle that included Mario Kart 8 deluxe and like 3 months free Nintendo Online. In like 2022/2023 for Christmas they also did $350 switch oled bundles that included Mario Kart 8 deluxe and 3 months nintendo online for free. The price of a console for a $60 video game and 3 months of the online service. This isn't some mythic business practice that stopped happening in like 2005 or something. I promise.)

Yes obviously the companies are greedy. They use deals to pull you in to get you to spend more than you expected. They also often have more sales than you're even aware of because they benefit more from people paying full price. They underpay people and they use whatever excuses needed oftentimes to raise prices to keep that profit rising. But it does no one any real good other than allow people to get pissed off to lie or assume things which aren't true. There are so many reasons to dislike companies (esp. Nintendo), you don't need to rely on acting like things used to be so much better in cases that they're not, or treating things that are industry wide standards/issues as something one company is the sole perpetrator of.

Moral of the story, maybe perhaps like do a bit a research instead of assuming whatever thing that pisses you off greatly is 100% true, and direct your ire in the right direction. Ground yourself emotionally and mentally, know what's going on. Be pissed at corporations. You're allowed to be fuckin pissed at corporations. Just please know what tf you're talking about and what exactly the root issue is

[frickingnerd]

okay, i never really give game recommendations, BUT-- you guys should def check out our life: beginning & always!

it's a free visual novel/dating sim on steam & it's not too long either! i'm currently playing it & am considering writing for it once i open requests again! so like-- if anyone actually knew that game, that'd be so cool 👉🏻👈🏻

[sharonccrter]

So I actually sat down to watch the BBC special of TT Boybands Forever cause I was really interested after the way Robbie talked about Gary being stitched up and also I just love watching this kinda stuff just finished the Boyzone Documentary. Let's just say I have thoughts - I'm going to put them in the tags (and I had a lot of thoughts). I'd say it's worth watching yourself and making your own opinion.

[please-let-this-work-oh-my-god]

I don't know if somebody here has pointed this out yet, but a detail that I really like in the Voyager tarot garment is how the the placement of Voyager herself as well as the objects in the background make the card kind of resemble a clock

[moiraimyths]

Before we call anon rude because let’s see it from their perspective, imagine getting an entire feast to eat. That can be pretty hard to start with so much that’s going on, but if they start with one thing they know they’ll like (aka one character they like) that can be the start for them leaping to other characters to finish the story and the bigger story. I struggle the same way to start book series if I don’t have at least one character that drives me to read it, it’s all about what can be the hook to push them through. Sounds like the anon is neurodivergent (just a guess) so they might genuinely not see it as rude and see it as a solution to even play the game to start with.

Btw absolutely adore the game, the complex and rich characters making them all so unique is amazing. The art is so pleasing to the eyes I love it!! I’m waiting for it all to get out at once so I don’t get too impatient. Shae however interests me the most, which routes will have the most lore for them? Will there be routes that give more lore in general based on decisions you make or do they all share the same amount? (I mean general lore not just Shae lore)

Apologies; we are not trying to accuse any asker of being rude! We are simply explaining our perspective as the developers / are trying to broadly encourage folks to dip their toes into other areas of the story outside of the main route(s) they're interested in, especially considering some routes will be made available sooner than others, and these other routes will likely contain additional scenes/lore of everyone's fave(s) regardless! We want to give each main cast member an equal amount of love (and lore) regardless of their overall popularity, so our goal is not to tut-tut anyone for having strong preferences for one character over the others, but rather to explain that you may be surprised by how much *more* you learn about your preferred characters in the other routes. That's all!

For Shae... Well, they were a foot soldier for one of the worst periods of the War. Lore wise, any other story that touches on the War will likely have content relevant to them and their experiences. ^^

[sublux]

busy week.... therapy, rheum appointment, scheduled more labs, scheduled an endocrinology appointment, renewed my health insurance, PCP appointment tomorrow 😔 help