GraniteM
@GraniteM@lemmy.world
- Comment on There's fucking ads in board games now 3 days ago:
Adam Smith does pretty well. I’d say it’s Marxism, mushroom guides, and beekeeping that remain consistently at the top of the rankings. Then you’ve got whatever fiction is currently hot. For a while there it was Where the Crawdads Sing or Demon Copperhead. Sarah J. Maas is currently enjoying an extended streak of very strong sales. The Twilight series went through a bit of a low ebb for a while there but for some reason it’s been selling quite well again lately. Harry Potter used to be a rock solid seller, but one can see that J. K.'s attempts to alienate her fan base have been at least partially successful. It’s interesting to see the trends develop over time.
- Comment on There's fucking ads in board games now 3 days ago:
I work at a used book store. Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto is a great seller, one of the best selling titles we ever get in, in fact. As a result, we keep raising the resale price on the thing each time a new one comes in, and it keeps selling. I’ve never had to mark down a Communist Manifesto for sitting on the shelf for too long. It’s a textbook example of supply and demand in action… and I think that Karl would kind of hate that.
- Comment on Caption this. 5 days ago:
He became the devil.
- Comment on Anon goes to therapy 1 week ago:
You know what you call a doctor who got all Cs throughout college?
Doctor.
- Comment on Anons make the worst game ever 1 week ago:
Equipment can be upgraded, but only through an enormous amount of tedious grind for tiny incremental improvements.
By halfway through the upgrade tree, all the equipment is overpowered and will make any box fight trivial. All additional upgrades are meaningless.
You don’t get to see the real ending unless you fully upgrade all the equipment.
- Comment on The Greatest Cover Song of All Time? 2 weeks ago:
It’s a long listen, but I’m a fan of the extended Tainted Love / Where Did Our Love Go from Soft Cell
- Comment on New Virtua Fighter Project Teaser Trailer 4 weeks ago:
Awesome. Can we get a new Bushido Blade, while we’re at it?
- Comment on Are there humans who require heating lights like pet reptiles? 4 weeks ago:
Not a lamp, but I developed cold urticaria in my 30s; my skin gets rashy if it’s exposed to cold air. I get really bad hives if I’m in cold water, and I need to wear full ankle-to-wrist pajamas or else I get itchy while I’m trying to sleep, just from the cold of the sheets. I’m seriously considering adding an electric heating pad to buy bedtime routine.
- Comment on duhh 1 month ago:
Pinatas
The tape they stretch across race finish lines
Karate dojo boards
- Comment on oh no 1 month ago:
The entire world is covered in a fine layer of poo particles. Really, anything that isn’t covered in poo is the outlier and ought to be highly suspicious.
- Comment on [Thread] Mental Math 1 month ago:
Put on some halfway decent headphones and try out the virtual barbershop.
- Comment on Larian revealed that Baldur's Gate 3 has sold 2 copies in the Vatican 1 month ago:
“I tried to find out who was playing Baldur’s Gate 3, but all I found was this worthless pile of sexual abuse evidence!” [Throws cardboard box into incinerator]
- Comment on Blue 1 month ago:
Mirrored:
- Comment on Blue 1 month ago:
No, I took it
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- Comment on Tony Todd Dies: ‘Candyman’ Star Whose Hundreds Of Credits Include ‘Final Destination’ Films & ‘Platoon’ Was 69 2 months ago:
I got his autograph at a convention once. Most celebrities fall somewhere close to the middle of the “smile, nod, sign autograph, receive money” curve. Tony Todd started asking me questions about what I was doing at the con, what sort of stuff I was looking forward to. He was sweet and kind and giving to a gigantic dork to whom he owed nothing, and he gave me a memory that I’ll cherish forever. He deserves every ounce of praise he’ll receive, and more.
- Comment on How is it that "protecting basic democracy and the rule of law, and not crowning a criminal dictator" wasn't even on the chart?! 2 months ago:
The American electorate:
- Comment on Is it offensive for me as a man to dress as a male version of a female fictional character for Halloween?' 2 months ago:
I’m just having a hard time imagining a scenario in which it would be offensive…
Plenty where it would be a little confusing. Sandra Dude O’Connor, or Susan Bro Anthony would take some explaining, at the least.
- Comment on Capsaicin 2 months ago:
I love sitting neck-deep in an outdoor hot tub on a cold day!
- Comment on Eat lead 2 months ago:
We’re doing the extra-silly speedthrough right now. Next time will be much more comprehensible.
- Comment on Eat lead 2 months ago:
Instructions unclear.
GotGod diagnosed with lead poisoningWell, that certainly explains the platypus!
- Comment on Anon reads a book for school 2 months ago:
Knocking him down won the first fight. I wanted to win all the next ones, too, right then, so they’d leave me alone.
—Ender Wiggin, Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card
P.S. This attitude led Ender to >!accidentally genocide an entire sentient alien species.!<
- Comment on Anon wants a cute girlfriend. 2 months ago:
What’s odd is that Anon is so close to achieving enlightenment. I got to a point in my life where I felt like I had no idea how to attract a romantic partner. I’d dated a few times, but each time it had kind of fell into my lap, and I never got the hang of talking to women I found attractive in a way that made it clear I was interested.
So I just gave up. I accepted that I had no idea how to get a date, and I just went about my life, pursuing things that I found interesting.
And, lo and behold, I wound up meeting the woman I would marry, albeit through the mechanism of someone straight up telling me that she was interested in me.
If you’re focused on “getting” a girlfriend, you’re thinking of a partner as a valuable object to be acquired, and you’re not enjoying your own life, and improving yourself within that life. If you don’t think of romance as a pursuit, but rather as something good that can happen within the context of living your life well, then you are much better off.
Also, you’ve really got to get it into your head and heart that women are people and not prey animals, which I’m going to be honest, it seems might be a detail that is escaping Anon.
- Comment on Cynthia Erivo calls out fans who made their own Wicked poster 2 months ago:
In matters of taste, the customer is always right.
Nobody but the audience gets to decide what the audience wants. Not writers, not directors, not graphic designers. If you can give the audience something they didn’t know that they wanted until they got it, so much the better for you. But if the audience just plain wants something else, then there’s no amount of cajoling or negotiation that will make them feel otherwise.
That said, I have no idea what the collective response is to either of these posters, and this does feel a bit like a tempest in a teapot.
- Comment on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 2 months ago:
Colorado River toad:
Humanity: ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
- Comment on Urticaria 2 months ago:
Oh, I’ve got fucking Cold urticaria. My body takes it personally if I go swimming in cold water, or don’t wear a heavy sweatshirt on a chilly day, or God forbid if my sheets are just a little bit cold and I’m not wearing wrist-to-ankle pajamas. It fucking sucks, and it didn’t even develop until I was in my thirties, so it’s not as if this something that I learned to live with so early that it’s second nature to me now. FUCK my fucking cold-activated histamines.
- Comment on Magic Mineral 2 months ago:
Treat your taste kindly with KENT, the cigarette with the NEW Micronite filter!
^^Micronite ^^is ^^asbestos.
- Comment on Oxbowin' 2 months ago:
- Comment on What's a good gift for a 2-year old? 2 months ago:
The Pop-up Book of Phobias is also great.
- Comment on What's a good gift for a 2-year old? 2 months ago:
Nothing that makes noise or takes batteries.
Board books. Toddlers are murder on books with paper pages. Stick with classics like Goodnight Moon or Dr. Seuss, or if you want something more recent the Little Owl series by Divya Srinivasan, or Calm-Down Time by Elizabeth Verdick are really good.
Playground/beach toys, like a bucket / shovel / rake set that parents can keep in the car. They’ll likely get lost, so go for cheap and sturdy over premium and expensive.
Sidewalk chalk, like the huge fat ones.
The water based coloring books someone else mentioned are great, too. No cleanup (beyond the occasional water spill), they can be reused, and they’re great entertainment for the car.
And yeah, like others have said, coordinate with the parents.
And if you hate the parents, get a Furby knockoff or something else that makes noise.