Produced by | Tiger Sniff Youth Culture Group
Author | Slag County
They furrowed their brows, staring intently at the torn paper shell in their hands, their hands slowly wandering above it, as if mysterious as a magician's enchantment.
When it comes to this scene, the first thing that comes to mind is that they are friends at the table next to them.
But believe me, compared to the card table, this kind of cult action, you are more likely to meet bubble Martry on the corner of the work, those people with blind boxes in their hands are like wild Ip Man on the street.
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The stock games are all losses, only the blind box has back and forth.
Although the size of the objects in the hand varies, the hardcore gameplay of the table and the blind box is a gamble; the former fights the combination of numbers, and the latter is the hidden doll in the cardboard box.
Compared with the twists and turns of the financial market and the unpredictable hearts on the card game, the blind box game on the side of the road does provide a simple new choice for honest people to get on the table, and buying a blind box of less than 100 yuan may be exchanged for 5 or 6 times the income and a good mood of the day.
Ten thousand steps back, if you don't open a premium, there will be no risk of losing all your pants, and more affordable, the gadgets that fall down can decorate life.
And for a shrewd person like Xiao Shi, the existence of the blind box has spelled out the last part of the consumer perpetual motion machine:
"Little loss, you see these on my desk, all of them are heavy; after a while, I will smoke a few of the ugliest ones and throw them to my colleagues, not only clean up the desktop, but also false prosperity at once, killing two birds with one stone, how good."
Wise people don't gamble, but they can buy blind boxes.
This is not because of the philosophical problem of "life is a gamble", but because smart people have discovered the bug of the blind box game, as long as the box is successful, you can kick the probability science, lead the luck to walk the dog, and truly take the fate into your own hands.
The word shake box sounds simple, but its content is very mysterious, as the ancient Local technique that started with bubble Mart's career at the same time, we can disassemble it into 5 technical actions of "lifting, shaking, listening, touching, and sweeping".
The moment you lift the blind box is the first step in joining the secret organization of the box, you can think of it as the ceremony of captain touching the gold, or as a preparatory pose for the take-off of the broadcast gymnastics eagle, no matter what it is understood, it is the starting point of your grand cause.
The action of shaking and listening is structural analysis.
The subtle collision sound of the outer packaging with dolls, identity cards, and desiccants allows a veteran of the shaker box to determine the size of the object and the number of parts in a few seconds, which are enough details to allow them to distinguish the identity in the box according to the schematic diagram.
The blind novice's waging shake obscures the code in the voice, in vain like a bear breaking a stick, while the calm master will shake just right to keep the sound wave pure.
The law is as ineffable as the Dharma, if you want to gain insight into some of the mysteries, you must be like tasting the "Symphony of Destiny", figuring out the wonderful truth of each decibel, if you can't understand the mystery, it is recommended that you play more gunfight games, and the sound discernment in it will be of great benefit to you.
Image source: Little Red Book @ YeYi YEYI
The shaking action is a theory, a bold hypothesis and a great idea in blind box research, but if you want to make your dream come true, you still have to dip your feet on the ground and carefully seek verification through the touch and touch of your hands, in order to achieve the unity of knowledge and action.
Touching is to further judge the shape of the doll in the box through the feel; it is to further clarify one's judgment through weight.
The difficulty of this trial is patience, you have to check the trigonometric function operation of the college entrance examination repeatedly, once careless, you can only do another one.
Novice Lao Zhang said triumphantly when a bottle of less than half a bottle was dangling: "I seem to have touched the brim of the hat of the hidden cowboy (worth 380 yuan)!" And the mentor Xiao Shi touched it and announced the cruel truth: "You fucking that's a tricycle ass." ”
Image source: Little Red Book @ Yao Maruzi
But in the face of the value temptation of hidden models, someone will always break this fairy tale illusion.
Excessive box pinching is the evil of rough unloading Ling Lux, and the dry boxes on the shelves in the store always remind you of the greed of the British and French troops to break into the Yuanmingyuan.
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Xiao Shi feels that the hidden model is a praise for skill, and it is a platinum trophy for the blind box.
And the group of box-pinching guerrillas who can't tell whether it is scalpers or players have ruined everyone's fun, and the deep and shallow marks on the box are equivalent to telling you: this place has been swept away, and your excellency will come back one day.
Image source: Little Red Book @ Little f Cat Hall
However, rough box pinching is not the most lethal cheating, technology is the real subversive power.
The most chicken thieves cheaters have long learned to use electronic scales to accurately salvage hidden money on the shelves according to online strategies. This practice is like blowing a neutron bomb in the store, making you look like the years are quiet, but in fact, it has long become a blind box wasteland.
Image source: Little Red Book @ just call it pig's trotter
In a sense, Bubble Mart's box touching method is more like Shi Cheng's origin of the Lego Smoking Music Touch Bone Pie in 2010.
Lego players will also explore the ups and downs of special parts through the packaging, figuring out the rise and fall of the joints; the store is a happy land, even if you pinch an afternoon, no one will stop you.
This happy day lasted until Mr.Gold arrived in 2013.
The gilded doll in the tenth season has a global limited edition of 5,000 identities and the only key bound, bringing a premium rate of nearly 20,000% and a value of $5,966.
People noticed the value of the lottery, the Lego store became the California of the new gold diggers, and because there were too many myths of getting rich, there was even a Lego toy that became an urban legend of Mexican gangsters trading currency.
In that frenzied chase, someone hoped to find Mr. Kim's trail through a printed steel seal code.
There are also big brothers who directly use X-rays to glimpse the providence of destiny in the bag.
In addition to Mr. Kim, Gangster also understands the charm of these out-of-print, stock-fixed dolls - the toy store has become a blessing for their crimes.
The final result is that the smoking music becomes wrinkled, and the toys are sold in the cabinet, becoming a treasure that is strictly guarded.
Locking up toys, but also locking craftsmanship, lego bone touching methods that have been passed down for many years are now on the verge of being lost, becoming an intangible cultural heritage that needs urgent help.
In China, it is difficult to see the pristine LEGO jungle again. The opportunity to touch the bone, but also the ambiguity before the checkout - the bone touching at the end of the checkout is not called touching the bone, it can only be regarded as a game of self-amusement, and if you hit the hard goods, it can only prove that you are lucky.
Now, toy collectors like Xiao Shi are more accustomed to getting smoking pleasure by setting porcelain with the clerk, and then letting them touch the cherished villain and then buy it in piles.
However, unfortunately, touching the whole is never the ultimate of a player like Xiao Shi, and touching the whole by himself is the end of a perfect exploration.
Therefore, in his heart, as long as he can touch it, he still has to touch it himself. Even if it sounds a bit pretentious, he says it's a sentiment you don't understand:
"Heavy pumping is the norm in life, and the blind box is also a game with yourself." But you have to know that touching the baby is not a means, smoking is not the end, you are touching, you are still touching, this is the most important thing, or, why do I take you to touch the box? ”
I said, You're really playing philosophers. ”
It is true that the blind box in the world has never been just bubble Mart and Lego smoking, but the same thing is that the human obsession with touching the blind box has formed a stereotypical behavior like a cat drilling a hole.
Life is a game about probability, play mobile game card you can't hold the pulse, work and layoffs do not know which one will come first, the uncertainties of life, said good point is the "Forrest Gump" sandwich chocolate, said cruel point is a leaf duckweed.
Touching the box gives people a sense of certain control, and the constant improvement of skills will always make you full of confidence in controlling the unknown at a certain checkout moment.
Therefore, although the world is broken, in this small matter of coming and going with the blind box, human beings have taken the lead in achieving the unity of the world.