The rise of "dopamine sites": fake food delivery and shopping apps that satisfy cravings without spending a cent

Fake shopping sites for people with real problems with impulse control.

This is sad.

Excuse me what the fuck

So just a sim game?

I simultaneously think it’s fucked, and I can immediately think of people in my life where this’d be harm reduction.

My soul hurts boss

Not quite the same thing, but it is really fun putting together a fresh build on pcpartpicker whenever a new hardware generation comes out just to think about.

Probably a big unexplored space for videogames with this type of concept

Ok, this is one of the many signs that civilization needs to just, STOP, and re-evaluate everything.

Ok but isnt the fun part of ordering something the moment it arrives?

Consumerism and materialism really do hold a grasp on the mind for many. Can recount several people I know personally who make really dang good money, far better than I, but spend it all on so much unnecessary bullcrap that they wind up struggling financially.

Wait til these sites are filled with real ads and/or expect you to pay real money in order to sign up and use them.

South Korea is almost laughably dystopic. The all-consuming obsession with pop artists and world renowned vanity and love for plastic surgery weren’t enough? Whatever Koreans over there were before the Burgers fucked them up mentally with their antihuman ideology/attitudes is dead, now there’s only dysfunction, superficiality and hedonistic nihilism. 😭

So can you pay for a site or app that is designed to not spend your money?

Bear with me, what if my real dopamine kick is not paying for a pay site that is about not paying for things. Which would inevitably give rise to the site that gets you to pay for the site that you don’t want to pay for that allows you to spend money without spending it.

It is a game of capitalist and mouse.

This is really sad, but one has to wonder if it’s actually prevalent enough to warrant news or the typical “everyone panic the youth are doing blank” when someone just said something on the internet once.

Another site allows users to pretend they are taking a smoke break with other people without actually smoking or physically being around anyone. The site displays an image of a cigarette, a “start” button, and messages from other logged-in users, creating the feeling of an online break room.

That’s kind of neat actually, but nothing that didn’t already exist on AOL in the 90s

Why do you think a popular genre of games these days are life Sim stuff that gets weirdly mundane.

People want to be able to build computers or drive a truck or a train or clean a pool but dont want to not be paid a livable wage to do so. So nw we all make believe.

Just can’t seem to get the real world in line so now its just all pretend. Thats the part that sucks.

Reminds me of this meme app

People are saying it’s bleak but at least people aren’t buying random crap they don’t need

Where’s the humor? This is bleak as fuck.

If it ever progresses beyond the concept stage, justbuynothing.com might include a clearance section, rewards, and games for earning fake money. Users can try it now by activating developer mode in Chrome.

That’s not suspicious at all. Am I missing something?

Wouldn’t a better idea be to write an extension that just pretends a bogus card number was accepted for multiple sites?

Humanity is really going for that Darwin award.