I don’t remember a specific age the transition happened, or if I ever actually believed it, but I remember my family getting a PS3 one year for Christmas “from Santa”. Sometime in the Summer, I was in the car while my mom was on the phone talking about the PS3 she got for us needing a repair or something. Again it wasn’t that I believed in Santa at that point, it just became a core memory of “Oh you lied about that”
Thought this was Mildly Annoying, and I would have agreed. As a retail stocker, the shelf expects them to all be the same, but the one that’s a slightly different shape usually doesn’t fit as many as the rest. It’s even worse when companies decide to change the packaging for the same product, like Stouffers, and I have to spend an extra five seconds determining if the items are the same or aren’t.
I’ve had this same thought for years. There’s nothing more frustrating than loading up YT and a recommended video on the home page has a major spoiler in the thumbnail for something I’m interested in. Titles can be bad too, but at least I can skim over most of them and not actually process them.
Oh man, not something I ever would have considered, but something I’m extremely excited for! I don’t know how much help I could be, but I’ll join your discord later.
Everybody way oh!