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    5 days ago

    Wonder how that conversation came up.

    “I’m sad. My parakeet died today.”

    “Alright, fuck it, let’s make a deal!”

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      Commercial honey is often pasteurized and filtered to avoid crystallization, be smoother and be pollen free. While it can effect the shelf life raw honey isn’t enormously dangerous (or illegal anywhere as far as I’m aware) like raw milk but should still be avoided by infants and immunocompromised people. I am also not american.

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    Um, Ackshually… It would be for the Biggoron’s Sword.

    Giant’s Knife is the 200 Ruppee scam from Medigoron.

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          Was it that bad? I thought I remembered its power as being pretty decent but the reach being poor so you had to time/distance fairly well. Maybe depended on the version, I know I played an emulator port of it about 15 years ago, perhaps the stats were modified for that. No idea if my memory refers to emulator, og n64 version, or is purely fabricated.

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            Could be different per version, I know for the Nintendo Online N64 its power is 1, same as Kokiri Sword

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    Sounds better than sitting in a cubicle for the best hours of the day, and the best years of your life

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    At the end of this trade quest they will either end up with an alternate costume that people only wear because of the quest or the most powerful weapon ever conceved. We will just have to wait and see if the earth is destroyed by the stick of unlimited damage or someone walking around some weird dead parakeet suit that offers no protection.

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    Wow, what a quaint little folk-tale. I wonder how this will…

    When did my life get this weird?

    Oh.

    Oh shit, someone should let this person know that a lot of these don’t end well.

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      Best I can do is when I went to germany to baptize my french nephew with the ceremony being in Spanish

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    The Giant’s knife was the garbage that was easy to acquire. You’re thinking of the Biggoron’s Sword, obviously

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      One red paperclip.

      I’m guessing that’s what you’re referencing.

      There was a dude in the Lego community on Lugnet at the time that took the idea and did a similar thing trading up from a 1x1 red stud to a Technic bulldozer that was one of the most expensive sets at the time.

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        Nope, a quest in popular mmo Runescape. It makes the player fetch items which require other items repeatedly and then you work your way backwards, usually takes between 2 and 6 hours depending on what systems if transport the player has unlocked.

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      While I agree this is probably just a made up funny joke, if you you’ve ever actually lived in a gift/barter community, it’s pretty much this. Hung out pretty much exclusively with anarchist and various left-communists for years, and this was my life. You do things for folks, they do things for you, and along the way you end up with stuff like a shit ton of honey, and you end up giving that honey out in exchange for something else, and you end up meeting someone with a weird skill, and it all just spirals into this weird and glorious community.

      The difference is that in real life, you’re not saying “I’ll give you this honey for a bird corpse” you say “hey, man, can I have your bird corpse, I know a girl who loves macabre art, and it would be a really cool way to honor your beloved pet,” and then you either give them honey as a thank you, or just later on when it comes up that they want some honey, you give them some because you happen to have some.

      I once had a friend who straight up gave this guy his Prius, that same dude ended up giving a mutual friend a place to stay for over a year. Original Prius owner never got anything directly for the Prius, but he was within the little gift economy, and ended up receiving lots of things and services from various members over the years. I doubt he feels like he was not repaid for it.

      It’s a pretty great way to live. It’s a shame we all could never work out a way to get land and built the cohousing community we dreamt of.

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        left-communists

        Is there such a thing as right-communists?

        Also I’m guessing your friend didn’t originally acquire the Prius by bringing honey to the Toyota dealership. That’s where this kind of thing breaks down.

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          It’s not lol. The issue isn’t that barter centric systems fall apart with complex products/services. The blame as always rest with mega corps, investors, and the most insatiably greedy cunts that we always hand power and leniency to.

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            Anarchist systems fall apart at scale. Because they rely on social reputation to keep people well behaved. And social reputation doesn’t work if you want factories and electronics and other things that require the collaboration of tens of thousands of workers around the globe.

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          Left-communism refers to philosophies such an anarchism, council communism, platformism, and other left wing thoughts that do not advocate for an all encompassing and powerful worker’s state, and instead believe in achieving a communist system (stateless, classless, moneyless) through means of democracy, consensus, councils, or other means that put the actual people impacted by a decision in charge, or at least in the conversation, of making the decision.

          And of course not. Because we do not live in a society where that happens. The topic is not “does gift economy work” or “do we live in a gift economy.” The topic was explaining a micro-economy that existed around mutual aid and gift economics.