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No Places To "Be" (Rant)
a year ago
I miss the thrill of thrift store hopping, finding neat cheap little things. Thrifting now, everything is so expensive because of DIYers and resellers, and there's so little in the places to begin with (might be a local issue).
Used gaming is one of the big ones. It's the logical conclusion to the industry going digital and getting more locked down in how it treats classics. I'm just glad I got a lot of my collecting, close to all of it, without paying collector's prices. But with all the neat little stores gone, there's not even a place I feel comfortable hanging out anymore.
This was a problem in 2011, and it's just as bad post-Pandemic. But there's simply no place to just be outside of the home anymore. Or maybe it's more that there's no place to be that doesn't have a paywall or a membership fee (in time and/or money). Everything has to be choreographed and controlled when you're in a public space; it has to have a grindset meaning nowadays. I have to be doing something meaningful, when I've already finished my 40 hours this week doing that.
Little rant.
Used gaming is one of the big ones. It's the logical conclusion to the industry going digital and getting more locked down in how it treats classics. I'm just glad I got a lot of my collecting, close to all of it, without paying collector's prices. But with all the neat little stores gone, there's not even a place I feel comfortable hanging out anymore.
This was a problem in 2011, and it's just as bad post-Pandemic. But there's simply no place to just be outside of the home anymore. Or maybe it's more that there's no place to be that doesn't have a paywall or a membership fee (in time and/or money). Everything has to be choreographed and controlled when you're in a public space; it has to have a grindset meaning nowadays. I have to be doing something meaningful, when I've already finished my 40 hours this week doing that.
Little rant.
it kind of sucks. i guess its also why i enjoy walking in the woods, as well as furcons. both are less hectic grind-mindset and allow you to appreciate time passing around you while being your most true self.
but this feeling of being boxed into a life of work-sleep work-sleep is absolutely a problem for everyone right now... like where do you fit in a life?
Granted I do spend a decent amount of my time in my own spaces, it's mostly when my day is taken up by work or personal tasks that need to be done, a d that space becomes an oasis.