everything feels like the rotting corner of a hoarder's house, even things that are supposed to be shiny and new
it does not feel good that the current market of New Stuff And Things are just sold in a worse functional state than goofy little gadgets like a toy Pokedex I've had since I was like 12 which I bought in a fucking thrift store which was covered in sticker gunk, or vinyl records i got from another thrift store when I was 18 that didn't even come in a sleeve - they were just kinda There, unprotected.
fun fact: i bought them because i figured they'd be so busted as to not work, so it'd be cool to hang some of em up on my wall. I tried em in my vinyl player and they were scuffed but still listenable.
these days a video game will last like a year and then its servers get shut down and you just straight up can't play the fuckin game anymore because it didn't even have a single player campaign that wasn't unnecessarily Online Only for some reason



