Ah memories. I used to steal school supplies to make origami fortune tellers and sell them to kids in grade school.
Then I realized becoming an unfeeling capitalist only concerned with profiting off of my fortune tellers was making me into a monster, and I haven’t looked back since. Now if I do origami, it is either for personal use or as gifts. The darkness tested me, I saw what that path would make of me, and I chose the light.
I may not be an origami mogul, but my humanity wasn’t worth discarding to become one.
I see you fellow anti capitalist.
I remember this asshole of a kid in middle school selling these neat looking pens for a dollar each.
I found a box of them at a flea market that weekend and had my mom buy them for me, they came out to like 10 cents each. I sold them to every kid in class for a quarter and shut his shitty grift right down.
The version of this I always think of is the one in which you’re playing a video game and get stuck. And unlike today, where you might spend an hour before you give up and lookup a walkthrough, in the 90’s when you got stuck, you just… stayed stuck. Like, “well, I guess I’m going to spend the next week or two on the Water Temple running into every wall and bombing everything until hopefully something opens.” Oh and it turns out the solution is something you tried within the first 15 minutes but didn’t get quite right.
Oh yeah for sure. Zelda 1, the 7th dungeon, took me 10 years. It was a block pushing room, but all the other block pushing rooms were obvious. This was a unique pattern. Old man your advice sucks.
I’m a bit younger than you, we had to read ASCII maps and terrible, terrible directions on IGN. These guide writers would be calling enemies by their real names that you don’t know without the guide book and it’s basically "go right, walk a little bit, go left, go right twice, jump on the crate (followed by several more minutes worth of instructions but you already took the “wrong” left)
Made a killing selling origami ninja stars in elementary school for a buck each.
You sold yours? Damn, I should have tried that. I made hundreds of them out of graph paper while bored in math class.
I don’t do origami much anymore, but I really liked it as a kid. In any case, I think the books are honestly nicer to use. You can look away without having to pause each time to make a fold, and you don’t have to wait for the person in the video to finish each step. Just have to get the hang of interpreting the different types of dashed lines and what they mean to do. It does help when the book is well written and includes a small amount of text under each step to help interpret ambiguous instructions though.
Don’t forget trying to go through a knot tying book with only images and descriptions to guide you.
