#human blogs

i quit before because... the website wasn't giving me enough dopamine to keep coming back :M

Buying a tool. I call the locally owned hardware store and get a price quote for $1200. I find the exact same product from Home Depot for a couple hundred dollars less, not even on sale. I call back the locally owned small business and ask them to match the price, and they tell me they won’t because “we assemble it and make sure it works”. It’s a 5-10 min job to assemble it, without any special tools. If it doesn’t work (unlikely) I’ll return it for another one. I tell the guy I’ll just buy it at Home Depot. I would have been willing to to pay $50 more, happily, but the guy didn’t even ask me what the Home Depot price is, he just immediately rejected the idea of being competitive.

2. Seafood shop I’ve gone to regularly for a few years to get fresh North American oysters puts a big sign in their doorway- “MASKS REQUIRED”. I find canned oysters from South Korea on amazon for a little less. Whatever. I cook them anyways. Ordered and delivered to my door in a couple days.

3. Small produce store has Karen employees asking me to wear masks when I go in. I always ignore them but it annoys me and I don’t like wasting energy psyching myself up for a potential confrontation everytime I want some carrots. I can walk in Walmart and get same quality produce there and use the self checkout and nobody bothers me.

I mean, at least with amazon and Walmart I know where bezos and the waltons stand. They don’t put on airs about being down to earth and local. the reality is mom and pops offer nothing great, at least where I live. The restaurants suck, I just get McDoubles from mcdonalds if I’m out and need food, instead of paying $16 for a small bowl of ethnic curry or 3 soft tacos, I can just make the food at home way better anyways. I asked the owner of a small pizza place if he uses canola or olive oil in his food because I wanted to order a pizza once and he seemed confused and annoyed as to why I would even ask him. This guy sells $25-30 pizzas and he seemed like he was annoyed I was asking for info on the ingredients. I can get a dominos pizza for 1/3 of the price and all the ingredients are listed online.

Yeah screw A star casting for attention but as long as the product is entertaining I don’t mind too much. I feel a bit bad for Charles Martinet but at least he will still have a role. Maybe they will pay him as much as Chris Pratt? Doubt it but if Charles is on board as a VA, that could hopefully mean there is no bad blood.

Anya Taylor-Joy as Peach is something I never thought I wanted. Hopefully she has more than 5 lines and kicks it off good with Jack Black.

Jack Black as Bowser… perfect.

The others I know are famous but I don’t really care for them. Best wishes to everyone still for a good mario movie :)

Thank you for asking!

Leon - I’d have liked to drop a language I study to study Japanese, but schools here in Malta don’t teach it :<.

Ibuki - Nope, never really was interested in any instrument, but I very rarely play some random tunes on my sister’s piano when I feel like it.