#( the barter system. )

[an-eggs-quest]

HIIIIII :] you shooooould doodle Doey playing “shop” with the critters, they do have an entire trading post in the Safe Haven

Fun fact looking back on the trading post they have Bron and Catbee benches!

Dialogue:

Doey: Aaalright let’s see…how much for the train?

Bubba: 6 crayons!

Doey: Okaaay…the rocket?

Bubba: the BIG ball.

Doey: Yeesh.. you drive a hard bargain, don’t cha pal

[caveat-canine]

hear me out guys... online therian/otherkin/nonhuman trinket trade marketplace

[tau1tvec]

My mom picked up some things she asked me to order her while I was at work, and in return left me some mangoes.

[couriers-mile]

I like when RPGs have more than one monetary denomination. I don't want money to be streamlined into All Prices Are In Gold Coins. At the very minimum I require gold, silver, and bronze coinage in my fantasy setting. The Fallout: New Vegas gold standard of course being multiple currencies with different exchange rates.

[capsofcotton]

Somehow my jazzprowl tfone fic has become instead a scathing critique of capitalism how did we get here

[baejax-the-great]

Priam had over fifty children, and we know they didn't all come from his wife. Do we really think that all the women that this king was out impregnating were thrilled to be baby momma number 25? Do we really think they all had a real choice as we understand it in modern times? Do we think that not a single one of them was acquired through conquest? Do we think crusty ass ancient Priam was winning over new baby mommas with his charm and good looks?

[essektheylyss]

I know this whole society is fucked but it's so delightful that they could feasibly barter their way through Ruidus with Druidcrafted berries.

[horsegirlhob]

When I was a kid I made up a religion for which I was the high priestess and all the kids in my neighbourhood followed it. There were like three different "cities" in various different parts of the woods with different groups of kids in them and they were all at war (fighting with sticks, destroying each others forts, etc.) but I had temples in all of them and I was always welcome. I was in charge of ceremonies and dead bird burials and gave blessings before battles. Everyone prayed to the gods I had invented and it felt like they were praying to me. Needless to say I have been chasing this high ever since.

[cryoverkiltmilk]

Support local businesses. Support physical media. The Playstation and Nintendo online marketplaces will never give you this experience.

[craftochism]

Starting a new crafting project for the 12MonthsOfCrafting subreddit.

May’s theme is upcycling, so I’m going to make reusable bags out of plarn from grocery sacks.

Pattern by ChiarosCurosity (sp?), bought from Etsy

[sexiestwerewolf]

imagine Lloyd has really pointy ears in his human form and sharper canines but not more than what some people have and Sora and Arin KNOW he's not fully human but don't actually know specifically what he is so they have a betting pool (that euphrasia, wyldfyre, and Geo's kids eventually join in on)

some of the theories are:

vampire

elf (they even have different species of elf to make it more fun)

some other kind of undead

human but with body modifications

skeleton with a magical disguise thrown over him

and then they also have a betting pool on when it is Lloyd will finally reveal what he is. after the whole "how did you just never tell us that youre the grandson of the guy who created Ninjago?" fiasco Sora and Arin moved their bets wayyy into the future

edit: thinking I should write a fanfiction about this now....

[fistfulsofzen]

Playing Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 has just made me want to live in a hovel away from the world, brew potions and only grow or trade for what I need.

[halloweentual]

gaming will make you go man i miss the pathologic 2 barter mechanic

[jaggedteeth]

went from $900 in my bank account to $23 in my bank account in under a week.. oh how fast the night changes

[fraternum-momentum]

[Onlynude.men anon]

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[waterparksdrama]

I have no one levelheaded to discuss this stupid band with so I'm directing this to you but. Oh my god the way he constantly complains about having no hits is making me crazy. I get some of the frustration w fbr I guess but I feel like he's focused so hard on that and is scrambling to blame someone for them not being in arenas as if funeral grey radio play would have propelled them into household name superstars. They're not the world's biggest band but he genuinely seems so bitter they're not 21p or fob when they're doing well considering how the music industry is. It honestly puts a weirder taste in my mouth than the favoritism idgaf about that

here's what anon is referring to for context but wow still bitter as he was in 2022 when he was realizing they were going nowhere even with a label that famously fucks people over unless they're marketable enough but hey at least instead of lashing out at his own fans that provide for him he identified at least on source of his failures can't say that about every man's problems. too bad he didn't realize one of the problems was himself so that's another loss for self realization.

(can i also point out how he's clearly trying to play victim in a situation he brought attention to like yes this label is bad but are you trying to get them on your ass by saying the quiet part out loud????)

this pursuit shouldn't be surprising honestly, awsten always talks about wanting to be a pop star and is the worst with labels and fbr is one of the most draining alternative labels out there for trying to make every one of their artists a pop star and dump them if they're not marketable enough.

if you wanted to go deeper, i guess you could also root some of awsten's own obsession over business and metrics affecting the quality and reception to his works back to the people he looks up to/has boosted parx's career and him naturally adopting those habits in his own way. big example right now is finn mckenty aka the punk rock mba. parx got their start posting their music videos on his old music site, stuffyouwillhate.com which was a blog that covered alternative music and awsten has hung out with him irl on a tour stop in the past couple of years. and despite all this music stuff, finn has retired from his youtube channel because he says he actually hates music and only cares about money and essentially does a wiki read on all the bands he covers because he only cares about marketing. yeah sure okay dickbag at least you're being honest now but spewing out slop and blaming the market instead of going against your own interests is stupid lol.

don't even get me started on the maddens and their fucking outputs and crypto bro isms bleeding into everything they do. they had good songs i'll admit but that was like over ten years ago and even since they reunited, they haven't put out a new album since then to focus on stuff like buying altpress and attempting to cater to their decidedly alternative fanbase by shoehorning joel madden's podcasts (usually with mddn artists, most of which have dropped them as management at this point including parx) every fucking week and trying to make web3 stuff a thing on there for a couple years when PEOPLE ONLY FUCKING CARE ABOUT MUSIC AND NOT STUPID ATTEMPTS TO MAKE MONEY OFF OF BLOCKCHAIN DOLL MAKERS

ugh anyways you can already see some of these patterns and habits in awsten the real big difference is he genuinely does love music and making things and producing and being insane with thousands of demos but sometimes the business side gets the best of him thinking it must be transactional that because of the amount of insane work he can put into making even just one mixed and mastered song warrants success and if they don't get it, he will beg and barter his way with fans into getting enough streams for him to get one taco in houston or lash out when someone points out a flaw in that thinking because obviously he can't possibly be part of the reason waterparks isn't getting any bigger but just gaining a small portion of more insane fans who want to tear him to pieces and fuck the wounds all while he goes more insane with them because if he doesn't have the success he wants, he at least wants the consistent attention and affection he can get from fans that don't turn on him.

but yeah, sure funeral grey could've been a pop radio hit but maybe other things that led him to now could've changed too. - iz