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[Frumple]

Itch.io's racial justice bundle is... kinda' crazy. 5 USD minimum buy in, pay what you want past that, gets you access to, uh. 1400 and counting different... things. Mostly computer games, some tabletop, plus like occasional art assets and whatnot. And it's not just bottle barrel shovelware or somethin', there's quite a lot of legit high quality stuff in there. It's nuts, and a good kind of nuts.

[TamerVirus]

So a massive backlog to add to the massive backlog? 

[hops]

I'm kind of weirded out by people who doesn't buy the bundle because they felt like they won't use most of the bundle. Like... that's kinda the point. I'm just buying it for Oxenfree and the social aspect. Getting The Sleuth playbook for Blades in the Dark and various visual novels is a bonus.

[scriver]

I'm kind of weirded out by people who buy the bundle despite knowing they won't play most of the games. What kind of perverse materialism is that? Why don't you just donate the money directly instead?

[NJW2000]

Materialism? What material?

Information age capitalism makes no sense anyway. Just roll with it.

[scriver]

Materialism? What material?

Information age capitalism makes no sense anyway. Just roll with it.

All information is material somewhere

[Grim Portent]

Some Daphnia I ordered online arrived today.

One bag for the aqurium fish to eat, one bag for the shrimp tank to clear out some algae, one bag for the pond for the same reason.

They're kinda cute to watch swimming around with the shrimp. Kind of like a tiny egg that swims using a mustache.

[Frumple]

I'm kind of weirded out by people who buy the bundle despite knowing they won't play most of the games. What kind of perverse materialism is that? Why don't you just donate the money directly instead?

Honestly, at least part of the reason for me is plausible deniability. If someone gives me shit about donating a bit of my limited funds to the NAACP and a bail fund (and stateside organizations, cops, whatever, absolutely have a history of doing things like that), I can say I was in it for the games. Most of the rest of it was just using the games as an excuse to trick my eternally penny pinching hindbrain into not complaining about it. Spending most of your life with little to no disposable funds can fuck with your decision making process pretty hard in some ways. It's a massive pain in the ass to convince myself to donate to stuff, but dropping a bit to functionally put a fork in most of the rest of the year's entertainment budget is much easier.

Rest of it was just that the buy in price was bloody crazy, heh. Even if most of it was stuff I wasn't interested in, the price I did drop was a massive discount just on the stuff I was. It ain't materialism driving the thought processes there, it's fiscal scarcity

[scriver]

I mean, I totally understand it

I just wanted to turn cinder's comment around because I felt hit (it hurt me deep in the heart, Cinder, deep!) I don't want 1.200 games. What would I even do with them. It's too many to even parse for the games I actually want. It's like. I really like books. Despite not reading much books any more since I lost my ability to concentrate well, but you know, I still like books. My brother. He likes books. Her buy an entire book anticuarium if he got the chance. He's literally bought entire cartons of books without even knowing what's in them. And it's like that. I don't want that. It's too many books. It stresses me out just thinking about it.

[Frumple]

I guess? This isn't a carton of books, though. Space wise you could probably fit most or all of it on a flash drive or two; rather than filling a room with stuff, it literally fits in your pocket. I could dig you if it were like CD cases or old game boxes or somethin' (I'm in a similar place with books, if I tried to feed my reading habit with actual print media I'd probably fill a good portion of the surrounding countryside with books and book related material), but it's just... not. S'just data, and data is both super cheap and super space efficient...

E: Shifting through it for stuff you're interested in is a different story, but... honestly, all it really takes is setting aside an hour or two (or a few minutes every once in a bit) to skim through looking for stuff you're interested in. Not a huge effort in practice, more or less. The first time you encounter that kind of thing can be kinda' intimidating (like walking into a bookstore or library for the first time ), I guess, but it's pretty easy to get used to.

[Yoink]

Jeez, I buy a shitload of books, but I try to at least grab ones I have some interest in.   
Though I suppose I could see myself buying them by the carton if that's how they were being sold, and for the right price - kind of a lucky dip.       

[dragdeler]

Lootboxes are surprise mechanics lol

[TamerVirus]

Realistically this bundle’s got enough ‘big name’ games that makes it worth it, not so much all the shovelware that’s backloaded with it. Even then, those ‘big name’ games I either already have or would prefer to get on Steam

If you’re in it for donation purposes, just donate to an organization directly and get a tax deductible

[scriver]

I guess? This isn't a carton of books, though. Space wise you could probably fit most or all of it on a flash drive or two; rather than filling a room with stuff, it literally fits in your pocket. I could dig you if it were like CD cases or old game boxes or somethin' (I'm in a similar place with books, if I tried to feed my reading habit with actual print media I'd probably fill a good portion of the surrounding countryside with books and book related material), but it's just... not. S'just data, and data is both super cheap and super space efficient...

E: Shifting through it for stuff you're interested in is a different story, but... honestly, all it really takes is setting aside an hour or two (or a few minutes every once in a bit) to skim through looking for stuff you're interested in. Not a huge effort in practice, more or less. The first time you encounter that kind of thing can be kinda' intimidating (like walking into a bookstore or library for the first time ), I guess, but it's pretty easy to get used to.

It's not a carton of books, but it's stresses me out for the same reason: it's just too many. A carton of books is much much less books. It's not the space they take up in real life. It's the space they take up in my mind

Jeez, I buy a shitload of books, but I try to at least grab ones I have some interest in.   
Though I suppose I could see myself buying them by the carton if that's how they were being sold, and for the right price - kind of a lucky dip.       

He'll literally buy unsorted cartons of books at auctions just because. It's borderline hoarder behaviour. Hoarderline behaviour. Behavioarderline.

[Dunamisdeos]

I started making music stuff in FFXIV and people actually stop to listen and they say it makes them happy and that makes me happy :>