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Cake day: May 12th, 2020

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  • I hate when people gatekeep what is"literature" and what is “genre”. One of the more egregious examples is someone was rest to die on the hill that The Time Traveler’s Wife is “literary fiction” instead of “genre fiction” like sci-fi, particularly since time travel is central to the plot.

    TL;DR: anyone who calls one type of fiction literature and excludes the rest from that definition is deeply unserious and so are their statements.




  • Here’s one: Trading cards are something you own. Skins are limited to a game you’re licensing.

    Here’s another: trading cards are portable; they can be put in a collection for display, put in a safety deposit box, etc. When CS goes, all the skins go with it.

    Another minor one: baseball cards are informational, the skins are cosmetic only.

    Mind you, I think both are forms of unregulated gambling and trading cards as well as loot boxes should have better societal scrutiny, but they aren’t identical.

    Edited for typo