Found this one that checks all the boxes on r/boomerhumor.
Wow
Weirdest experience I ever had with this is with a customer at work.
It’s not an uncommon occurrence for men in their 40s and 50s to refer to their wives as “old bags”, so whenever I do the whole “Would you like a bag” spiel, there’s a 50/50 chance they will point to their wife and say “No thanks I have one right here” or say “Nah I left her at home” Or something else awful and then wink at me and call me darling or sweetheart and just make me want to be smited by god right in that second.
However there was one customer that came in and did this whole song and dance. Not out of the ordinary. What was, however, was how he then followed it up by going “I’m kidding, I’m divorced ha ha.” Then, his face drops and he turns to his friend with a look of absolute horror and goes “Wait, that’s probably why. Do you think that’s why she left me Andy? Because I said things like that?” And then proceeded to look like he was re-evaluating his whole life as his friend led him out of the store.
TL; DR = Boomers are weird and this one was given a glimpse behind the veil of self awareness in a Tesco Extra
Blizzard banned pro Hearthstone winner for supporting free Hong Kong and took away his prize money. It would be SUCH A SHAME if Mei became a symbol of Hong Kong democracy and got Overwatch banned in China like Pooh did.
Join us! Draw this in your style or any blizzard game characters as a Hong Kong protester. Don’t let the Chinese government control our free speech!
seeing the way people react towards situations in video games vs how people react to situations in real life is so fascinating to me. Like imagine you open an MMO and everyone starts out with 100 gold of currency. Except for they don’t. A few people randomly get 50,000 gold to start out with. A much smaller portion of others would get 1,000,000 gold to start out with. People would fucking riot, talking about how much easier it is for some players to get ahead of the rest of the game’s players because they just happened to get lucky with the money they had to start up.
And then you just tell them if they want more gold they should grind for it and they get even matter. Like guys thats how the real world works but you’re not mad about that? You’re only mad when it’s being mimicked in video games?
And the funniest part of this is that I’m not exaggerating or being hypothetical. A while ago I was talking about that guild wars 2 video where the richest players in the game talked about their moneymaking system, which was to use their own labor to generate enough startup capital to pay other people to do the time-sinking, labor intensive grinding for them, which then then profited off of by selling the final product of this labor at a significant markup.
People were LIVID. there was a massive forum in the reddit where people were talking about how the video was a scam, and how, in order for their system to be profitable, they had to be earning more money off of your materials and gameplay time than they were paying you. I was genuinely surprised to see just how fucking mad these people were because if you told them that, in real life, people who have startup capital use it to profit off of people they underpay for their labor, they probably wouldn’t listen.
It’s really fascinating stuff. I bet theres a ton of papers out there about video game economics, I’d love to read them.
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