• AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world
    23·
    1 year ago

    Ah memories. I used to steal school supplies to make origami fortune tellers and sell them to kids in grade school.

    Then I realized becoming an unfeeling capitalist only concerned with profiting off of my fortune tellers was making me into a monster, and I haven’t looked back since. Now if I do origami, it is either for personal use or as gifts. The darkness tested me, I saw what that path would make of me, and I chose the light.

    I may not be an origami mogul, but my humanity wasn’t worth discarding to become one.

    • _stranger_@lemmy.world
      5·
      1 year ago

      I see you fellow anti capitalist.

      I remember this asshole of a kid in middle school selling these neat looking pens for a dollar each.

      I found a box of them at a flea market that weekend and had my mom buy them for me, they came out to like 10 cents each. I sold them to every kid in class for a quarter and shut his shitty grift right down.

    • Anders429@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 year ago

      Whenever people ask why anyone makes open source software for free, I’m going to use this as a metaphor.

    • Anders429@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      Dang, a whole dollar? I would sell origami tanks for 25¢ each, didn’t realize people would pay more than that.

  • Kahlenar@lemmy.world
    9·
    1 year ago

    Yo what? Does no one here remember the origami tv show? It might have been PBS and only 10\15 minutes long but it was real. It started out with them always fanning it a stack of origami paper by rubbing their fist on it and then squaring it out again. I don’t think they spoke. Early 90s, let me go find a link.

  • lugal@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    I’m a 2000’s kid so I had the internet and found a lot of pictograms with Japanese explanations and if I were lucky, there were English ones with isn’t my native language either

  • vivavideri@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 year ago

    And you got damn good at it eventually!

    I wow people with tiny flowers and cranes, I could do it in my sleep lol

  • Retreaux@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    I definitely much prefer the esoteric lines and diagrams I can’t stand watching a video to fold, it sucks rewinding and pausing to try and keep up. Hey is there anybody else out there fucking around with pirated PDFs, Tanteidan conventions, and Double Tissue?

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    Worst books were the ones that missed a step or forgot to draw a line. Something simple like flipping the paper over.

    I think I got one or two books like that as a kid and have never touched origami since.