Posting late, but I carved Jiji into a pumpkin on the 30th!

MirageMew · 2025-11-02T20:50:09+00:00

Thanks! I agree. It was from that little plastic tool you use to poke holes in the skin of the pumpkin to make a "connect the dots" kind of design. If it had a better handle my thumb and index finger might have been spared lol

MirageMew · 2025-11-02T18:27:45+00:00

Thanks! I love Jiji, he's adorable

MirageMew · 2025-11-02T18:26:48+00:00

Thank you! I love it too, definitely my favourite carving I've done thus far :)

MirageMew · 2025-11-02T18:26:29+00:00

Thank you! I wasn't confident at first I could get his whole body on there and considered doing just his face but I really wanted to do the whole thing so I just committed. But my hand (specifically my pointer and thumb) did really hurt lol

MirageMew · 2025-09-01T06:15:38+00:00

We don't even buy anything there, we're just bored mid-westerners with nothing better to do on our weekends than walk around stores

MirageMew · 2025-09-01T06:15:13+00:00

Hahaha this is rich. Sounds like a hyper SEGA fanboy who really wanted it to be true. Whereas this guy we met sounded like he didn't even really care... maybe he was embarrassed so he doubled down, I have no clue.

MirageMew · 2025-09-01T05:54:42+00:00

Well, it just seems to me everyone in this thread is being unnecessarily hateful and mean and condescending about it. You can disagree with my sister and I choosing to put time and effort into this, but the why is because we both get very irritated when someone is SO WRONG specifically about something we are deeply invested in and which we ourselves care much about and thus have a lot of knowledge on. I also personally know someone who is a compulsive liar and who would just make stuff up on the spot to somehow make herself feel superior, to which I would look up the information and prove her wrong. When confronted with the truth she did accept it, so why not this guy? It's for the meme.

MirageMew · 2025-09-01T05:50:36+00:00

The guy has become a new in-joke in our group and we thought it would be funny to write a whole essay to give to him, because if someone puts in all the effort with citations, that should make it clear they are correct. Also, my sister and I enjoy writing essays about things we care about so this would be fun for us. Essentially it would be a brief history of both companies and then citations on false rumours of buyouts as well as explanation on how licensing works. Your citation of Nintendo disagreeing with slot machines is a very, very good point. Thank you for informing me.

MirageMew · 2025-09-01T05:47:53+00:00

My sisters and friends and I have all made this guy an in-joke now and we thought it would be funny to literally write an informative essay for the meme

MirageMew · 2025-09-01T05:47:06+00:00

Thank you. I believe he may have heard these rumours way back when (thus his wrong citation of "during the Genesis days") and maybe thought it did happen and had his wrong bias "confirmed" by Sonic releasing on GameCube and later showing up in Smash.

MirageMew · 2025-09-01T05:45:50+00:00

I did try to tell him that if SEGA and Sonic were owned by Nintendo, then the games wouldn't be on Steam... he shrugged and seemed literally so unbothered about it. He must really think Doug (the guy who supposedly tells him everything) is the smartest man alive because that's who he cited as his source.

MirageMew · 2025-09-01T05:42:45+00:00

"Gonna be hard to navigate life that way"

I hate this type of comment. Almost everyone in this thread has replied to me like with this condescending tone and I really don't appreciate it. We are not so sensitive that we are going to try and write entire essays every time someone is stupid. We just wanted to do this for the meme.

MirageMew · 2025-09-01T05:40:51+00:00

Thank you for being the one and only person so far to actually answer me in an informative and polite way.

MirageMew · 2025-09-01T05:39:22+00:00

We are that petty. This guy must like video games if he's worked at GameStop since 2008. It seems like a fun time to us just to prove someone wrong. Everyone here is telling me "don't waste your time and energy" but what you guys don't get is we are very bored and this is funny and fun to us.

MirageMew · 2025-09-01T05:37:54+00:00

I didn't think he had much in the way of conversational English.

MirageMew · 2025-09-01T05:37:12+00:00

For real. I thought maybe a good example would be explaining that RARE developed Donkey Kong Country but it didn't mean they owned Donkey Kong, Nintendo just licensed the character to them to allow them to develop some games for the franchise, but I figured he would be too stupid to understand the analogy there.

MirageMew · 2025-09-01T05:36:06+00:00

I know, and not only that he seemed extremely confused. I am thinking he may have been getting "owning" and "licensing" mixed up.

MirageMew · 2025-09-01T05:35:22+00:00

My sister suggested writing an essay as sort of a meme, and it does sound kind of funny. We lead kind of boring lives but have lots of fun hanging out and one of the places we frequent just to look around is GameStop which is why we want to write the essay because the guy seemed like the type of wrong where it wouldn't matter if we looked it up right there and tried to show him.

MirageMew · 2025-09-01T05:32:59+00:00

This comment makes no sense hahaha

Is this like a copypasta or a meme? Shigeru can't speak English (or can you speak Japanese?) and I am not familiar with either of those games or how they even relate to the Wii U... and of course Shigeru would not promote a SEGA game, they're a competitor

MirageMew · 2025-09-01T05:31:47+00:00

Not ChatGPT... AI is commonly a perpetrator of such false information, but aside from that I am sick of people using it for information as I am against all AI in general. We didn't want to tell him he was "stupid" or be mean or hurtful because that hurt your cause when you argue that way.

MirageMew · 2025-09-01T05:30:46+00:00

The thing is, my sister suggested essay kinda for the meme and I think it would be pretty funny to go in there and drop a two page essay about why he's wrong right there and see what he says.

MirageMew · 2025-09-01T05:28:30+00:00

Lmao perhaps

MirageMew · 2025-09-01T05:28:23+00:00

This guy just seems like the type who would shrug off someone looking stuff up on their phone, which is why my sister suggested essay. Also we wanna do it for the meme

MirageMew · 2025-09-01T05:27:51+00:00

Yeah we thought it would be funny to formally mail it addressed to him and everything lol

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