Fuku: The Crushing Guilt
23All of these people lamenting their fuku failures makes it so hard to enjoy my success.
I don't live on the yucky East coast ==> I'm a spoiled brat with an unfair advantage.
I'm relatively vampiric with my sleep/wake patterns ==> I'm a lazy bum with an unfair advantage. I need to contribute to society by getting a soul-crushing job that makes me get up in the early morning.
My purchase went through this time instead of resulting in an oops/sellout message ==> I finally got popular enough to make the mediocre employees toggle me over to the super-secret fuku-eligible list that enables my purchase to go through! Unfair advantage.
Hahaha! No.
I'm sad for some of you, but I'm enjoying the fact that I don't hate everyone right now.
(Sorry, guys. I'm usually a nice person.)
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You will think guilt when you get a gross of microwave chip trays. :)
@thismyusername Mostly because I will be sending them to all of my friends.
Seemed like the whole thing was meant to make you "*" feel good.
All 600+ were sold out in 11+ minutes....riiiiiiiiiight😒
Enjoy 😁 I guess Christmas / Hanukkah / Ramadan / Kwanzaa does come once a year LoL
@nitornemo 2 minutes.
@nitornemo They sold out in under 2 minutes. It was probably faster, but processing time made it last 2 minutes. When 10,000 people try to purchase 690ish products, sellouts happen fast.
Congrats on the grab! Most of us knew it was coming but it doesn't really help. The time and chance you're taking to get a Fuku upset some people when they don't get what they came for. I'm the opposite of everything you said and I've gotten several myself. Don't let the whining bring you down! Rejoice! Be merry! And enjoy your fuku!
Oh and post pics in the reveal thread.
Good to see I rustled some jimmies.
I don't feel guilty; I just feel grateful, because I know some day it will become impossible for me to get one, too.
There but for the grace of the Meh servers, go I.
@darksaber99999 ^^^ This. With just a little guilt.
😒
No need to feel guilty about getting one. I don't, and I've purchased #2 through #6 as well as the Fuko (this one really wasn't the best choice).
I feel a wee bit guilty. I didn't know I'd successfully gotten one until the next morning. Before I realized that I told myself, "You don't deserve any more Fukus, your last one was super epic. After receiving the $750 coffee machine all other Fuku's will seem like crap next to it."
But fuck it! I got one! Neener, neener.
@Teripie I know that feeling. I've scored some fantastic BOCs over the years - it does change the way you view the "normal" ones! I figure that I could keep buying them for several years and still come out "ahead" because of the few really stellar ones.
@Thumperchick I have never, ever gotten anything near being a stellar BOC. The best thing I ever got in one was a mini calculator. The one I got a few weeks ago looked like the stuff came from a Dollar Tree dumpster. I threw everything in the garbage. Lesson learned. No more BOC's for me. Fuku all the way. Assuming can I score one.
@heartny that is disheartening, I bought a BOC recently (I can't remember who posted the link) but I received a jambox speaker in mine. I love it, but I would never spend that kind of money on a speaker! $8 was more in my ballpark :)
I, too, let the immediate angst of some (they know who they are) bring down my elation. But why? Why not bask in the glow of our amazing luck? Rejoice, my friend, and let us fully enjoy this moment.
@jaremelz It seems to me that I have problems with your images more often than not. Are you using a porn site?
@joelmw That's been something I've been getting on meh the last few days. Generally, when I refresh, I'll be able to see them.
And not this time, surprisingly.
@jaremelz Pretty much since the beginning I've had this problem. Some of them never show on my work computer. I always assumed it had to do with the sites where the images are hosted (there are many that we're not allowed to get to, though, ironically, while we can't visit, for instance, imgur or tumblr, we can see stuff that's hosted there). When I pull up the page on one of my mobile devices, the images show.
On the other hand, I have sometimes experienced the same general effect with the whole incremental load thing. I.e., the images appear not to be loading but e v e n t u a l l y they do.
@joelmw I usually use giphy. And although when I see the images missing in the way that you've posted mine, that goes away after a refresh, I will often just see black boxes with other's posts. I'm always on mobile, and when that happens I have to track down a laptop (and good luck with that, having a teenage boy, he's forever stealing it).
@joelmw I think it's you... if images are laggy they're usually just blank white boxes - not broken link images. Have you mentioned your issue to @shawn in the forum updates thread?
@joelmw I think @jaremelz is using a porn site.
@Barney@joelmw Porn site?
Ha. @Barney's on my side. I win. :-)
@mfladd I like this both because of what I think you meant to say and because it looks like he's a little excited and can't help visualizing what this discovery means.
@Barney @mfladd @joelmw I don't know what you guys are talking about. I don't even know what those are.
@joelmw - It's not just @jaremelz for me. It's @mfladd, too.
@jaremelz just wanted you to know, all your graphical elements are loading fine for me. I think they might be messing with the goat.
@KDemo I swear that @mfladd aren't on the same sites!
@thismyusername That just means you're doing it right. The loading, not the porn sites. Wait, that didn't come out right. ...
Was this post supposed to be mean? I'm disappointed. Because it's not.
Ha. Not really. I mean I'm not really disappointed, not that it's not really not mean.
Moreover I approve. So there. And you shouldn't be more like your brother. Not that there's anything wrong with how he is. Damnit.
@joelmw my husband said something along the lines of "taunting and teasing complainers isn't mean, it's legit." I wish I could remember his exact words.
I hope you get a box of '80s era electronics. So there.
@sammydog01 Apple //e and DuoDisks for the win!
@duodec Sony Walkman, cassette version.
I've resigned myself to never getting one. I barely check the forums and I don't bother with social media. I also have to get kids up for school at the crack of dawn so I'm rarely awake at 11 cst, and if I am it's cause I'm... uh... doing stuff. With my husband, and I think after that if I were concerned about Meh, we'd have a real problem.
@caddylikescake What, like hanging cabinets? Building bookshelves? Making pottery?
What could you be doing at midnight eastern?
@lumpthar @caddylikescake Must be nailing some wood.
@jaremelz @lumpthar @caddylikescake and it's that quick too =P
I'm currently pitching a perfect game with 7 of 7. I don't feel guilty, I'm here everyday at product drop and throughout the day. I pay attention and take steps to help improve my chances. Granted out of those 7 I haven't been one of the select few to get anything "above and beyond" but in the end, I'm just in it for the thrill of the chase!
@studerc You suck. I had a perfect streak until this one. I also never got a rare 'special' but every one of them was fun and had at least one cool, usable, interesting item in it (including an AV stereo receiver last time)
@duodec I got the last two and nothing good. The birthday one was especially disappointing. At least I got the sadness over quickly this time.
@studerc I'm 1 for 1, so we pretty much have the same success rate ;)
@FroodyFrog Well played and congrats on your perfect record!
@studerc And you on yours.
I don't care if you got all 700 - enjoy!
I don't feel bad that I got one, but I am a little upset that my timer for cookies was going off at the same time as meh rollover. I had to choose between a fuku and cookies. Now I have a fuku and over-baked cookies.
@metaphore So you're both blaming and unblaming @jaremelz too for this?
@narfcake Well, she gets unblamed because I got a fuku, and then blamed for the cookies being over-baked, but then unblamed again because I got cookies and only 1 tray was over-baked. So I think @jaremelz comes out ahead on the blame game this time.
@metaphore @narfcake
@metaphore You chose wisely. Perfect cookies would have been pathetic consolation for a missed fuku.
Don't let the grumpy Gusses get you down!!
Well, I managed to get one, even though I forgot to check the not-a-robot box at first. I attribute my success solely to luck. I have missed them before.
I eagerly await its arrival.
I am sad for I did not get the invite.