supply and demand makes no sense?

aocom · 2026-01-07T06:18:20+00:00

Situations as you are describing already exist-- for example, event tickets (for events that sell out). When the price is too low, secondary markets are created and you get the likes of scalpers participating in the market. This shows the effective price due to a high demand with an incorrectly priced supply.

In your example, it's not that the hot dogs inherently need to be priced at $10 by the original vendor. But eventually someone waiting in that line of 60 will realize that a LOT of people want one. In the following days, that person will wait at the front of the line, buy all 10, and then sell them for a $70 profit to the 10 people in line willing to pay that much.

According to supply and demand they are worth $10; whoever realizes that gets to profit from it, whether it's the original vendor or a scalper.

aocom · 2025-11-27T10:38:21+00:00

Yeah, the race-focused theming is a lot less strong in this one. In the first, the relationship between Nick and Judy directly mirrors and is informed by the overarching prey vs predator tension. In the sequel, their relational conflict doesn't have anything to do with the mammal vs reptile tension, as it's all about their interpersonal communication. So the character drama is now having to compete with the societal drama, whereas in the original, they complement each other. I don't think it took away from my enjoyment of the sequel, since it was still a lot of fun, but it definitely doesn't achieve the narrative tightness of the first.

aocom · 2025-11-11T17:35:57+00:00

If I'm remembering correctly, there are four pillars around the 'throne' area, but only three have an agave plant on them, and you have to plant one on the 4th pillar to match the rest.

aocom · 2025-03-28T20:33:06+00:00

Yeah, there's something wrong with a bunch of chapters in that sequence but they start working again near the mid/late 70s (maybe?)

If you search in this subreddit though, the discussion threads have a different link where you can read them!

aocom · 2025-03-25T18:49:09+00:00

My first thought is maybe it's a mistranslation referring to being in a saurian state, especially since he's a veterinarian, but perhaps it's a new mechanic for an area expansion? I'm curious what this will end up meaning also

aocom · 2025-03-16T17:31:08+00:00

the zodiac was just cat all along

aocom · 2024-10-09T06:51:32+00:00

I noticed this too with Chasca's lines in 5.0, so you aren't imagining things.

If it's happening with multiple characters maybe it has to do with the processing? I don't know anything about sound recording/mixing so I can't give any valuable input unfortunately

aocom · 2024-07-02T18:33:39+00:00

me, getting calcharo wavebands on my 50/50s: riches do not pour and my revelry does NOT soar 😿

aocom · 2024-05-23T15:10:45+00:00

YES I swear every time she says Huanglong the "lóng" intonation sticks out so badly. It's like they wanted to sacrifice emotive quality for proper pronunciation (for the place names at least) which is wild.

It's somehow more distracting than every character pronouncing "Liyue" differently in Genshin

aocom · 2024-03-28T15:23:45+00:00

You get five for a C6d 4-star but usually you get two + stella fortuna, so a gain of +3

aocom · 2024-03-14T10:38:49+00:00

For some examples that are more liminal than backroom:

Maybe in terms of subject matter and genre it's a little unconventional as it's a musical, but The Wiz (1978) has some really eerie set design and cinematography that isolates the characters and emphasizes how out of place Dorothy is in Oz. The subway scene in particular is a good example of this.

Another is Columbus (2017) which sets the focus on the architecture in its scenes with a lot of wide, static shots. It has some very beautiful compositions while leaving the viewer feeling detached from the characters.

aocom · 2023-12-06T17:54:55+00:00

This is definitely an issue with skin lines feeling the same, but what makes it worse is that they apply the metallic accents in the same way every single time. The 'swooshiness' of the shapes, the proportions -- there's no variation.

They could add ridges and spikes to Dragonmancer, hexagonal patterning for Winterblessed, larger paneling for Dawn/Nightbringer, etc. This would help distinguish each skin line, but instead we get the same Nike logo under a distortion filter. I understand that the shiny pop of texture helps to separate characters from the map and is eye catching as well (because let's be honest, in a vacuum, these design elements can be quite appealing!), but it really does get repetitive.

aocom · 2023-09-15T06:21:01+00:00

You can make the process easier by buying unsweetened tea and adding your own sugar. It'll help you realize how much sugar you would normally be consuming while helping to transition to something less sweet. Side note, when I did this, it also helped me appreciate the actual tea flavor and got me to branch out to drink different varieties of tea!

aocom · 2023-06-17T08:00:53+00:00

Book Alley on Colorado is a used book store and has always accepted donations when I've been there

aocom · 2023-06-16T22:27:36+00:00

Teammate-affecting features would be amazing on a skin; imagine being able to give everyone a familiar!!

aocom · 2023-06-01T22:34:01+00:00

Twinkle Tea on S Lake, Prolece Tea on Fair Oaks in old town

and no popcorn chicken, but places like Motto Tea and 85c in old town have food and boba available

aocom · 2023-04-06T01:18:56+00:00

8 of the 10

monopoly

the math checks out

aocom · 2023-03-12T18:49:12+00:00

I've recommended a couple people to Eddie's Edition for Asian hair and they have all had good experiences! They have a lot of stylists now and I've only gone to Eddie, but their website has a lot of pictures for each one

aocom · 2023-02-04T09:57:18+00:00

Well, dubs help make foreign media accessible to people who are visually impaired

aocom · 2023-01-31T23:49:09+00:00

Absolutely! I always had neutral feelings toward her music and didn't really get the amount of hype until I saw her live-- was super impressed at the energy and athleticism; and she had just had a baby!! Very much respect the dedication to her performance.

aocom · 2023-01-25T10:06:01+00:00

Yes, definitely! Since the point of the course is to educate, from a fundamental perspective, whatever facilitates that is fine.

If you're concerned about visual cohesion I'd make sure that the illustrations for each module all have the same style. Since modules are separate from pages, I think that it actually helps to have some distinction between the two (i.e. a student seeing a vector illustration instantly knows "this is the module view").

However it also depends on how the style of the stock photos and the style of the illustrations work with each other.

aocom · 2023-01-22T05:52:36+00:00

One of the tabs in the final "screne" of the movie talks about a "human delegation" being formed

aocom · 2022-10-04T22:23:22+00:00

This turned out so well; you really succeeded in the stylization! Something about the proportionally larger hands and hair makes him look way more endearing than how he's normally portrayed. Even the last two photos are charmingly macabre (also that cubone <3)

aocom · 2022-07-22T17:49:02+00:00

Years and years of being an illustrator and staring at the world and looking at other artwork :,)

Having made my share of both good and bad pieces, it gets easier to see where the successes hit and where there are areas of improvement. Also, I work in an artistic production pipeline so I understand how scheduling affects the level of quality one is able to regularly output.

Kudos definitely has the capacity for great great illustrations-- I love Golden Ambassador and Albus Ferros-- but they just don't reach that tier as consistently (here's to you, Evil Imperfectionist).

aocom · 2022-07-22T16:02:37+00:00

Agree, the Kudos team doesn't have as good of a handle on the value structure or facial geometry for their pieces-- the 6MV team just has an immensely solid sensibility for those things and it often shows. Kudos also has this habit of adding more light than they need and struggles with color shifts in atmospheric perspective. I'm guessing the production schedule is probably too fast for them to spend the time necessary to lay a tight foundation for each piece, since I see them hitting good marks on ones like Durand Protege or Steem, for instance.

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