Omegamint [comrade/them, doe/deer]

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Cake day: November 5th, 2020

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  • Legitimately a painful but good thing. Commercial real estate is a fucking massive speculative bubble at this point. In the city I’m in people with what you would think are very successful businesses/shops are getting completely squeezed out by insane rent, like it’s actually baffling. I’m not sure what these dipshit s are thinking charging businesses so much (many of these areas aren’t even very nice), but I’m guessing these properties keep switching hands and every time they try to sell it for more, leading to the next asshole with the bag deciding they need to up rent to make back what they spent in a neverending spiral. Kinda like housing, but somewhat less evil and more stupid.


  • An absurd amount of marketing, mainly. Very easy to shove YA/childrens books down kids throats, they don’t have a lot of natural exposure to literature. Fuck, eragorn was the best example of the YA industry pushing a bad series (they even tried a movie series), I remember loaning it from my school library and being legitimately confused as to why it was becoming popular. I ended up finding a weird romance+fantasy series at the time that I largely consider as not being actually good, but remember finding it way more engaging. Maybe it’s better now that kids are largely terminally online.

    It’s really my biggest gripe with it. There’s better fantasy, better wizard centric fantasy, and better YA books out there. It’s not great by any means, and I’m not surprised that I dropped the series without finishing it as a kid because I was reading much better stuff by the time the last few books came out.