These "one day no purchase" things don't work. It takes sustained effort to "vote with your wallet".
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We are still in this together, but "this" is going to be real different in the very near future. This demands a different kind of "we."
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It's time.
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Even here there are so many replies that are "it won't matter, it doesn't hurt them enough". Cmon y'all, nothing will take them down in a single day. But when something out of the ordinary happens, like even a few percent drop for no apparent reason on one day, it's a small shock that makes predicting the future a bit trickier. Its also a signal that, hey guess what, the crowd of regular people CAN be organized about something without a rich person telling them what to do. Maybe we just need a critical mass to send small shocks through things. Call it an organized piece of performance art. Or testing the resiliency of financial networks. Just one time deals of "on this day everyone who can afford an Amazon basics robe should wait for my signal to either buy or not buy". Then you will have Amazon either scrambling to fulfill a huge order of robes, way more than baseline, or perhaps preparing for it only for it to turn out I flipped a tails that day and nobody is buying one and now they have a big stock of robes they won't be able to offload. They'll hate it purely because they can't plan for it with much certainty.
Hmm the 28th isn't super convenient though. I think I'll do it on the 29th.
But what's the objective here? Not buying stuff and boycotting for one day usually means you'll buy more in preparation before the boycott, or buy more after the boycott to make up for the deficit.
Jokes on them, I am so broke these days I am barely buying shit anyway.
Saying it will work or not work are both equally stupid unless you provide some evidence for it.
Here's why it might work:
Modern economies are extremely fragile. The only reason amazon is able to provide same day delivery is because they can predict with reasonable certainty, what the demand will be.
Youtube or any big social media works by predicting what the usage will be.
We are just used to seeing how magically all the technologies work but at their roots, its all about predicting the future trends.
So if there is enough mass behind this movement to cause disruptions, it will hurt them. Even if it creates some noise, this will force them to increase fault tolerance.
So the real question everyone should be asking is this:
Will the inconvenience caused by not buying on 28th more than the potential for some damage?
Woudn't it be better to target more focused for a longer duration? Don't buy anything from Amazon for 3 months.
Just stop buying from large corporations, only buy from your local neighborhood super, etc, and do it ALWAYS.
If I'm very generous and say that 50% of the population will not buy anything on that day, sales would be down by 50% for a single day, something that will barely register, if at all
If those same people just stop buying from home Depot, stop buying Tesla, stop buying at Walmart, etc. that will be noticed. Probably a law will be enacted requiring people to buy at Walmart for patriotism or something stupid like that, but at least it'll be noticed
Will this have a huge impact? Almost certainly not. But Stephen King is always on the people's side. This isn't the first political post he's ever made.
Yeah, I agree. The only thing that matters is when things have huge impact. Change happens immediately and never in small increments. It's worthless to make people aware of how they can be part of the solution. That's just messing with hope.
Edit: Really should've added the /s
But that's precisely why you start out with actions that put your movement in the spotlight, like going on protests or similar forms of agitation.
Not going to the store for a day is hardly going to make anyone care (as it's literally based on absence rather than presence), especially the shops who this type of boycott is supposed to harm. People still need food, basic necessities and tools and can't live without them, so this would result in people buying more some other day to compensate.
I was being sarcastic. Edited my message. Of course change is slow. IMO it's idiotic to expect large changes without doing a fucking thing for it. "I'll just twiddle my thumbs and live life as always, surely something will change".
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I made no implication that it had to have a huge impact.
"I'm just saying..."
Too broke to boycott. So I boycott everything, every day. Is it working yet?
Its not about the individual. Its about the collective effort
What's happening on FEbuary 28th? I'm sorry I'm out of the loop
It's non-consumerism day
Ah good to know, Yugioh Early Days drops that day and I was planning on buying it day one (Because aint nobody got time to wait 40 minutes for the opponent to win on his first turn) now, I will not
I salute your dedication to the cause. (Not sarcasm)
We all want a version of Yugioh that doesn't cost literal thousands of real world dollars to get decent cards for in a format that isn't "Waiting 40 minutes for your opponent to play Solitaire until he finishes Special Summoning five of his overpriced boss monsters"
I've waited years for such a thing, I can wait one more day.
This is painfully accurate, And I don't even play any of those card games.
I feel like Konami and I both want it to be like the show, but that means different things to both parties.
I think it means, a battle of wits in which ultimately two parties are summoning stronger and stronger monsters trying to one up the other in the course of a duel while throwing curve balls via Spell or Traps, maybe even an Effect monster or two.
And Konami thinks it means "Every card printed after 2006 needs to be the most gimmicky bullshit you've ever seen and do such absurd things that it would and literally does have entire paragraphs printed on the smallest text ever on each card just to go on and on about how horribly this warps the rules of the game, and the further you go, the more absurdly broken these cards get to the point where insane moon logic is at play more than anything else."
So I want Battle City and Konami wants Duelist Kingdom, which is ironic because Battle City comes after Duelist Kingdom
Seriously I tried playing Master Duel and had to surrender because I literally got a headache trying to remember what all of my cards did.
Remember when most of your monsters were just Attack/Defend goons who just had flavor text whereas a few here and there might have some small effect? Good times... I'm not even sure Non-Effect monsters exist anymore.
My son taught me to play MTG once. Super basic cards, nothing crazy. Not only could I not keep up with what my cards did, all of the "this effect is in play, but except not this card, because of this other effect, and then there's a couple other effects going on, too." I couldn't be made to care enough to figure that out every time.
This video is more or less what the game has devolved into, I don't expect you to be able to follow it, because I can't either.
All you really need to know is Modern Yugioh asks and answers a bold question..
That question is "So when does the other gentleman in the duel get to actually have a turn?" and the answer is "The neat part is, that he does not."
What is the point of a card game where whoever goes first wins because they can just continue to play more cards until they win?
And that's why I'm excited for Early Days, to play in a format where you can't do that.
See normally, you can summon ONE Monster, use as many Spell Cards as you have, or set (Put them on the field face down) Spell or Trap cards to use later... Maybe even set a spell card that doesn't actually do anything relevant at any real juncture to bluff your opponent and make them think that you put down some deadly trap that will activate if they do the wrong thing.
But hold on, you can use cards that SPECIAL Summon a monster and that doesn't count against your summoning of ONE Monster... but when only a couple of rarer spells or Effect Monsters do that and only under special conditions it's not a problem....
But then you keep printing cards that let you Special Summon, then you make cards that when Special Summoned allow you to put them back in your hand and summon something from your deck in its place.
Oh and also you can "Link two monsters together" to Synchro-Summon a third stronger monster from your extra deck, which counts as a Special Summon and thus isn't using your ONE normal summon...
Basically: The rules were fair, but... then they KEPT printing stronger and stronger cards without any concern for how to balance the game...
Personally I gave up when Normal Monsters more or less stop being printed and Effect Monsters stopped being this "Once in a blue moon, you'll get a monster that does something special.. Maybe if it you flip it over it kills a monster or restores life points, maybe it has a low summon cost BUT the effect forces you to pay a different kind of cost to make up for it ?", and started being more "Every monster will wildly change the rules of the game and let you do two or three things."
And Konami is such an incompetent company that Pot of Greed (a card that lets you... draw two cards.. and nothing else) is this super evil card that must be banned at all costs (yet they keep making support cards that require being played in conjunction with Pot of Greed in order to do anything... so... figure that one out) and never allowed to see the light of day...
But a card like Exoddius The Ultimate Forbidden Lord that has no cost to play, counts as a special summon, completely empties my graveyard, revives EVERY monster that was inside of it and puts them back in my deck (giving me amazing levels of card advantage), that gains 1000 attack power for every monster in my graveyard is just fine...
See it's fine because my graveyard was emptied, so Exoddius only has 0 Attack power to start with and isn't going to live very long unless I do something clever...
Is what I'd say if there weren't like 500 cards that just automatically let me do overpowered shit that makes my turn take even longer, for the cost of... weak cards that actually are an advantage to me when killed not only because Exoddius gets a boost from their deaths... but have their own effects that activate upon them reaching the graveyard...
Ugh.... In fact so many cards have a "When this card is sent to the graveyard" or "While this card is in the graveyard" effect, that in the current meta, your discard pile is basically a second deck of resources at this point..
So much so that a SECOND Discard Pile had to be created for cards that are COMPLETELY out of play and have NO ABILITY to effect anything, just so the game can be even slightly balanced and it obviously still isn't.
Reboot. The. Card. Game. Already. Konami.
You might pre-order and just get the download that day. Or cartridge in the mail or whatever, I don't know what device the game is released for.
Then stock up on food the day before and lock yourself in ;-)
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I've gotta spread the word, gotta hit em where it hurts.
What is Feb 28th? The end of black history month?
Canadian here, we're in on it as well... have it posted on my profile 👍💪
might just be crazy enough to work, count me in
I don't buy anything on most Fridays though. What difference could this possibly make? Most weeks I don't really buy anything other than essentials like food.
Ok, maybe a couple gallons of apple juice to make my own scrumpy isn't essential. But is not buying that really going to make a difference?