#Capitalism ho!

[raisengen]

How to make Snowsant megabucks

I saw some confusion on the Snowsant shop minigame, and the tutorial skips over some stuff, I so I thought I'd throw out a few pointers.

Caveat: I'm writing this with only one set of items in the shop, so I don't know how their release will change things. There are other ways of playing, but I'm confident this should Just Work.

TL;DR:

Don't buy high on food and drink, it's low-profit

Do buy high on the gifts, holy shit Snowsant that's a 10x markup you're scamming these people

Save your scouting for the selling phase since you've got more info to work with then.

Reasoning under the cut:

First off, the tutorial doesn't mention that there are extra cash prizes depending on your gross sales in each category ($5k/$2k/$1k for 1st/2nd/3rd). This doesn't include your expenditures, so you could buy high, sell low and all but guarantee your reward. However.

When doing this with food and drink, this also wipes out your profit margins, so it's hard to make more money than just taking the middle route. You're also more at risk of having leftover stock, which will ruin your profits.

Overall, I'd recommend the middle-ground strategy as default here. Then use your scouting to undercut someone by at least a bit, whatever you need to clear stock.

For gifts, it's another story. We're selling those at a stupidly high 10x markup, and if you've got leftovers you can just sell them tomorrow, or whenever there's a surge of demand. The difference in buying prices and the position rewards don't matter much if you're just shovelling as many of them through your shop as you possibly can.

I'm planning on buying high all day every day, see you at the top of the points ladder

(For scouting, I've sort of hinted it already but I'd recommend saving your scouts for the selling phase. By then you already know how much stock you (and everyone else) has, so you can seek out a price point that clears all your stock more safely.)

[y2kbugs]

@miquellah replied to your post “I love merchants in any RPG. I want to play a game...”:

ive heard very good things about Recettear, which is kind of a jrpg-esque ver of this concept! it looks v cute

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Oh this looks incredible, thank you so much for the recommendation

[misacreakingskull]

Can I have about tree fiddy? :<

One out of the 3 "Red Girl" drawings are done However, I'm gonna be a dick and only let ppl on my discord server and ko-fi tippers have it b4 I'm done with the set... so, idk, HAND OVAH THAT DOLLA BILL :U ... if u wanna see a cute biker girl with a flaming katana right now https://ko-fi.com/creakingskull

yeah, that's it, it's rough for everyone, gotta make money somehow, sorry m8s... "Capitalism, Ho!" - Recette, Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale

[battle-acs-official]

IIIIIIIIIT BEGIIIIIIIIIIINNNSSSSS!!!!!!!!

[ofermod]

HAPPY TOAD KING DISCOUNT TUESDAY.

[ghost-in-a-cup]

hey guys, maybe before you pirate LEARN SOME ETIQUETTE

why are these important? well, if you openly share the sites, they wil get shut down. corporations are willing to copyright strike anything. you are only going to make accessing these resources harder.

remember: LOOSE LIPS SINK SHIPS

if you want to share resources, don't post them on public forums like tumblr, twitter,instagram or any popular site. remember how zlibrary shut down? yall want that to happen to more sites? do you?

also like if they get shut down, people who can't access these otherwise because they don't have the means for it or its banned in their country are losing access.

Don't post links online. Only share in private conversations.

try and avoid linking the sites directly. a workaround is sharing the downloaded files via other file hosting sites similar to google drive and drop box

DON'T SHARE ON PUBLIC FORUMS. EVER. PLEASE

Use a VPN. i personally like proton vpn, it is a freemium model but the free version works fine.

These are just the basics, there are others but please keep these in mind.

[ayyeeequality]

Parasite (2019) is such a fantastic & gut-wrenching film

And I am reminded today that most non-poor people just won't get it

Twice that movie was so relatable it made me feel uncomfortable

Have you ever had to go out of your way to get other sources of wifi because you couldn't pay the bill for it or cell service?

Have you ever overheard someone talking about how bad something (you) smell?

Have you ever heard a college student say "I'm not rich but" and then proceed to admit that they didn't know food stamps were real? While you're sitting in that same room as you, yourself, use food stamps?

Because I have

[jiskblr]

And we have a capitalist class that has apparently given up on the future—incapable of dealing with the climate crisis, a truly dire threat

Proof the author doesn’t know what they’re talking about. The most blatant and visible example of ‘capitalist class’ dealing with the climate crisis is of course Elon ‘Tesla-SolarCity’ Musk, but across the board, the climate is being fixed almost exclusively by investment and business. Solar panels are vastly improved, wind farms are vastly improved, batteries make electric cars viable and are on their way to making nighttime capacity sufficient, all at the hands of industry. Which of course was inevitable; it’s not like the government is competent to fix it. The US government has taken various ineffectual actions, while over in Europe where the Greens have occasional roles in government they have taken such forward-thinking actions as promising to shut down all nuclear power plants by 2030, probably the worst possible action from a climate standpoint. (This is your brain. This is your brain on environmentalism. Environmentalism: not even once.)

There are obviously some bad incentives in big business; I’d say the three biggest are that public executive pay leads to a signaling competition to perform success by spending the most on executives, public company reward structures push executive incentives toward short-term thinking by hooking compensation too closely to quarterly earnings, and monopoly-busting suppressed R&D because the return on investment for basic research, as it turns out, is only good if you have confidence in a long future period of market dominance to capitalize on the development that comes downstream of that research. But those are actually all policy changes implemented by the government at the urging of the populace which backfired in various ways, which were varying degrees of predictable in advance. And, despite that, we still have had a lot of interesting and useful technological development. Other than the Musksphere, it’s almost never flashy, but it’s no less impactful; Amazon.com has done more for the rural poor than any charity and almost any government program, and it was done by someone who was very smart but thoroughly selfish.

I’ll conclude by returning to a theme I brought up earlier: the shrunken time horizon of the US ruling class. The current motley crew looks nothing like the set who planned the post-World War II order. They emerged from—or recruits were assimilated to—an ethnically and socially homogenous WASP aristocracy who felt themselves above quotidian distractions and rank commercial temptations. Of course, it was all in the interest of long-term accumulation under US guidance, but it was all successfully planned and executed (at least until things started slipping some in the 1970s). Now with the US in a long process of imperial decline, our planning elite seems fragmented and lost. You have Republicans criticizing Biden for not having shot down the Chinese balloon quickly enough, and Democrats acting as if it was an act of heroism. Our rulers don’t act like they have any good idea about coping with the rise of China, except with bellicose and one hopes ineffectual gestures, because God knows, we don’t want bellicose gestures to lead to an actual war.

And we have a capitalist class that has apparently given up on the future—incapable of dealing with the climate crisis, a truly dire threat, but also consuming capital rather than investing it. Net investment—net, that is, of depreciation—by both business and government—has been falling relative to GDP for decades. The vast flow of free money and 0% interest rates from the Federal Reserve has been channeled into an impressive set of bubbles: the most extended valuations of stocks in US history, crypto, unicorns, housing. It used to be normal to have one particular asset lead the way in a speculative orgy, whether it was stocks in the late 1990s or housing in the following decade. Now we’ve got multiple and serial bubbles that have only been partly deflated by the Fed’s tightening moves of the last year. And Wall Street is dearly hoping the central bank will reverse those moves in a few months and resume the cheap money flow. The bond vigilantes of the 1980s and 1990s, always on the lookout for an inflation that needs to be crushed, have largely disappeared.

I’ll give the last word to Etienne Balibar, who has diagnosed the affliction precisely. “We realize now that our ruling class is no longer a bourgeoisie in the historical sense of the word. It does not have a project of intellectual hegemony nor an artistic point of honor. It needs (or so it thinks) only cost-benefit analyses, “cognitive” educational programs, and committees of experts. That is why, with the help of the pandemic and the internet revolution, the same ruling class is preparing the demise of the social sciences, humanities and even the theoretical sciences.” The bourgeoisie no longer has any civilizational project, national or otherwise. Live for today, and if the water rises, they can just move inland. Or to their underground bunkers.

post-nationalism

[propaganda-works-actually]

ok, so, I did not anticipate how much work would fuck me up the last two weeks before we break up for christmas, I've had no time to write and I'm nackered, so I'm on a brief pause until I can recover and get back to it when I'm off. I really wanna write but gods know I don't have the energy at the moment

[evapilot1]

Recettear is the best game ever made.

[magic5ball]

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[drinkinboilingcoffee]

Reblogs appreciated

[super-sootica]

How do I even fully express that billionaires, corporations, governments etc directly and indirectly communicate life has no value to them. They will roll over the earth and everyone else to get their 15 pieces of silver.

So if life has no value to them as evidenced by their behaviour then why should their life have any value to me? To us?

[fipindustries]

this looks sick as shit dude, im going to be there day one

[doodle17]

Like how everyone is butt-hurt about Halloween being over and how they're "dreading Christmas" but I'm over here thriving because I am both a big Halloween AND Christmas enthusiast

I am ready to deck those halls and trim some trees bby girl

[unfuck-your-tech]

Unfuck your Tech

The Internet is increasingly profit-based in its design, intended to extract the maximum amount of value from your use of it. Proprietary tech, ads, monetization, algorithmic content dissemination, digital rights media (DRM) etc. are all things that benefit corporations, but that make the Internet more hostile to real individuals and communities.

This blog shares community-oriented tools, free alternatives to paid content, and ways for healthier more human media consumption with a focus on free open-source software (FOSS), that anyone can use to remove limiters, paywalls, ads, mindless endless content feeds, and take back digital autonomy, self-respect and fulfillment.

Unfuck your technology, and make your digital landscape a kinder place.

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