{"id":7789,"date":"2018-11-05T08:00:52","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T13:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=7789"},"modified":"2018-10-21T17:26:56","modified_gmt":"2018-10-21T22:26:56","slug":"woes-of-the-impulse-buyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=7789","title":{"rendered":"Woes of the Impulse Buyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As part of being a responsible adult, I set myself a 2018 budget for video games. I know they\u2019re my largest non-essential expense (if you don\u2019t consider internet essential), and that I am more than willing to say \u201cI shouldn\u2019t buy this, but f**k it\u201d when a new game catches my eye.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Having already factored in the purchases of <\/span><b>Pok\u00e9mon Let\u2019s Go<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>Super Smash Bros Ultimate<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the coming months\u2026 I\u2019ve hit my allowed spending limit. Dang! I mean, I actually have $9 left to spend, but close enough. There are several indie games on Switch that are calling out to me, and they\u2019re all significantly more than nine bucks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anyway, the point is that I\u2019m not going to buy them. Unless they go on sale for under $9. Or someone randomly gives me money as a gift (which I don&#8217;t count toward the budget). But aside from those very specific situations, I will stand strong! I must! And now that it\u2019s down in writing for the world to see, I\u2019m basically forced to hold myself to it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSo,\u201d you ask, \u201cwhat was the total budget for the year anyway?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019m not telling. I\u2019d rather leave it up to your imagination. But if you go over the monthend wrap-ups and count up all the games I played that were released in 2018, you could probably come up with a pretty close figure!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of being a responsible adult, I set myself a 2018 budget for video games. I know they\u2019re my largest non-essential expense (if you don\u2019t consider internet essential), and that I am more than willing to say \u201cI shouldn\u2019t buy this, but f**k it\u201d when a new game catches my eye. Having already factored &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=7789\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Woes of the Impulse Buyer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irl","category-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7790,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7789\/revisions\/7790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}