In the field of economics, there is a professional term called sunk cost. It means the cost of achieving something but ultimately failing.
Take Little Fatty as an example. In order to get Fantasy, he had spent 30,000 USD. If he gave up now, the 30,000 USD would have been wasted. This cost would have sunk to the bottom of the sea. Therefore, this was called sunk cost.
If the little fatty knew that he couldn't get anything for thirty thousand dollars, he would never dream of drawing fantasy.
But now, he had already drawn thirty thousand dollars. If he gave up at this time, the thirty thousand dollars would all go to waste. This was something that the little fatty absolutely couldn't accept.
"Give me another hundred!" In the end, the little fatty could only say with red eyes like a gambler.
"Little guy, why don't you buy more Kentales!" The grocery store owner probably couldn't stand it anymore and suggested.
"Why?" The little fatty asked puzzledly.
"Because my store has two fantasy eggs. They were both hatched from Kentales' eggs!" The store owner said.
"Boss, that's metaphysics. It's not scientific. The officials said that everything is random. It has nothing to do with Kentales!" The little fatty muttered.
"Then do as you wish …" The store owner was too lazy to persuade him again. However, the little fatty's expression changed again and again. Finally, he said, "Okay boss, can you get me a thousand Kentales?"
"Okay! It's just a matter of a phone call! " The store owner smiled and then called the Daqian. After a while, someone sent over a thousand boxes of Kentales' pocket electronic pets.
After all, it was a big order to ask for a thousand boxes in one go. Moreover, what he wanted was a pocket electronic pet like Kentales. Naturally, the Daqian sent it over as quickly as possible.
"I don't believe it. It's really that metaphysical …" The little fatty muttered as he opened the first hatched Kentales. After that, there was nothing.
Soon, the two to three hundred Kentales were all thrown out.
"Look! It's all a waste of time! "The little fatty sighed. Then, he skillfully activated another Kentales.
The little fatty glanced at it slightly. When he was about to throw away this Kentales, his eyebrows suddenly jumped.
Wait, I think I saw something just now!
The little fatty grabbed Kentaro in his hand and stared at the screen several times. Then, he jumped up in an instant.
"Eh, I got it! I've been hit by Kentaro! "
"Bah! I'm in a dream!! "
The little fatty danced with joy as he grabbed the Kentaro and jumped around crazily. Many buyers gathered around and looked at the little fatty enviously. He actually won the Fantasy. He was too lucky!
"Little guy, do you still want the rest of the Kentaro? If you don't want it, I'll refund you the money! " Seeing that there were still more than 600 Kentales left to be sold, the boss asked with some heartache. If the little fatty didn't want them, then all of these Kentales would be gone.
"Yes! I want them all!! " The little fatty felt that Kentaro was his lucky star and immediately bought all of them. The boss also smiled.
He suddenly realized that even if the little fatty didn't want this batch of Kentales, it didn't matter. Because the surrounding customers were eyeing these Kentales covetously. It seemed that he didn't have to worry about not being able to sell them.
In the end, Little Fatty returned home with a mixture of sadness and joy. He was happy because he had finally won the Dream Lottery, but sad because he had accumulated almost 40,000 electronic pets in his pocket. He definitely wouldn't be able to take care of all these things.
Once the pocket electronic pets were activated, their value would be greatly reduced. The little fatty didn't know what to do with these pocket electronic pets.
He definitely couldn't bring them home. If his mother found out that he spent 40,000 dollars to buy pocket electronic pets when these were all free, he would definitely be killed by his mother.
Therefore, the little fatty could only bring these activated pocket electronic pets back to the company.
Because the number of 40,000 units was too large, the little fatty had to hire a small car to help him transport the things.
"Why did you bring so many pocket electronic pets back?" The editor-in-chief of < < Gaming Life > >, Conan West, frowned and asked.
"Nothing, I just borrowed the company's warehouse to store them …" The little fatty sighed.
"You went to draw the Fantasy!" Conan West wasn't stupid. When he saw so many pocket electronic pets, he naturally understood what the little fatty was doing.
"En!" The little fatty nodded.
"Did you win it?" Conan West asked curiously.
"Yes!" The little fatty smiled and took out his Fantasy. Then, he told the story that just happened. Conan West immediately said with some envy, "Yes, you only spent less than 40,000 dollars to get the Fantasy. You are at least luckier than those who spent more than 100,000 dollars!"
"Ai! It's only when I think about it that I feel a little better. Otherwise, I would really have the heart to die! "Little Fatty sighed and said.
"But Kentales are too metaphysical!" Conan West rolled his eyes and said, "You still have more than 600 unactivated Kentales. Why don't you sell them all to me?"
"Okay!" Actually, Little Fatty was already regretting taking back all the Kentales. Could it be that he was hoping to get another Dream from the remaining Kentales? Wasn't this a waste of money?
So when he heard that Conan West was going to take over, he immediately agreed without hesitation.
Conan West smiled and then took a Kentales. He pressed a button to activate it. A pet egg with a magic cloud icon immediately appeared on the electronic screen …
"Hey, I seem to have won it too!" Conan West said with a bad smile.
"God! What sin have I committed? " Seeing Conan West use Soul Imprint in his first move and use Dreamland, the little fatty really wanted to commit suicide.
But fortunately, when Conan West opened all the remaining Kentales, he only had one Fantasy. It made the little fatty feel a little better, but it was still very uncomfortable.
Why was it that he had spent more than 30,000 USD to get a fantasy, while Conan West had cut his own leak and gotten a fantasy?!
Just when the little fatty was brooding, Conan West showed a smile at the corner of his mouth. "Little fatty, I think it's time for our magazine to publish a supplement! The title will be, The Mysterious Metaphysics of Kentales. What do you think? "
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"Chairman, because of this issue of the magazine, the stock of Kentales, which was originally the most serious, was emptied overnight. If it weren't for the small number of Kentales sent by the head office, I'm afraid the sales would be second only to Pikachu!" Jack Orlens explained the reason to Boss Jia with a wry smile.
It turned out that after the supplement of "Gaming Life" was released, everyone believed the rumor of the high probability of Fantasy in Kentales.
"These guys … they really found it …" Jack Orlens thought it was just a coincidence, but Boss Jia knew that it was a mistake by the Daqian.
When setting up the Fantasy, it was originally set up for every 10,000 units.
However, due to a programming error, about three weeks ago, there was a time when 100 Dreamsuits were created in one go.
Because Pokemon of the same type were produced together, these 100 Fantasy Pokemon all fell into Kentaro's hands.
As a result, when the Daqian discovered the problem, this batch of Kentales had already been sent to the United States market. But at this time, Kentales was in a serious state of unsalability, so they were all piled up in the warehouse, and no one sold them in a short period of time.
But in the end, it was discovered by the game editor, and it was openly written in the game guide, causing Kentales to sell like hotcakes. Then the buyers really found out that Kentales had a high probability of shipping.
So this wasn't metaphysics at all, it was the fault of a cheating programmer.
But Boss Jia obviously wouldn't expose all of this. Instead, he secretly ordered the Daqian to double the probability of shipping Kentales, and then mass produce Kentales.
The result was that in the next one or two years, the sales of other Pokemon plummeted, and only Kentales' sales remained unchanged. In the end, Kentales surpassed Pikachu and became the most popular Pokemon.
Later on, this gradually evolved into a joke. Whenever there was a metaphysical card draw, the players would habitually mock, "Do you think you're Kentales?!"
In Lin Jie's previous life, the low-level Pokemon, Kentaro, which was not very popular, had become one of the most popular Pokemon in this era. It couldn't be helped, the world's people had a very good impression of Kentaro!
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