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A fresh disappointment every morning. Like the news, but more honest.
ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION
TUESDAY, 15 OCTOBER 1974
The loot box has a 0.5% chance of something good.
The studio has a 100% chance of your money.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- You "can't do mornings". You also can't do afternoons, evenings or emails.
- You reinstalled Pokémon Go to get your steps up. Eleven kilometres later you'd caught…
- You're not a CEO. You're one person with a logo, a free email account…
- Be yourself. Everyone else is taken. They were picked first. You're what was left.
- Your startup is a chatbot that tells customers they're right. Investors loved it. The…
- You swore you'd never sound like your parents. You just said "because I said…
- Quality family time: everyone on a different screen in the same room, harvested by…
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Newsletter / Issue No. 446
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