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"Good morning, everyone!" They were in the danger shop classroom again, because this class had definitely proven to her that even for normal lessons, holding your class in a sim had its benefits. "It's been a rocky couple of weeks in this class where I kind of feel like certain things have managed to knock it a little off-kilter, so today, we're going to sort of try to get our focus back, and we're going to do that with a sort of group project. We've discovered a few different aspects of multidimensional economics, but I think one thing we can really focus on that will be useful is the development of an idea that will be ultimately successful in the multidimensional marketplace. The best example of this is, obviously, something you've all become familiar with this semester, the plumbus. How did the plumbus become such an ubiquitous multidimensional household item? What are its secrets? Can we attempt to capture that kind of lightning in a bottle for ourselves?

"The first step, I feel, in developing successful strategy is knowing what the consumers want, and figuring out how to fill in that gap in their current economic landscape. For example, I noticed a trend that something like jello was very new but popular with people from a certain galaxy, and so I was able to fulfil that unexplored niche to create a mildly successful jello shop in space until I had to blow it up for unrelated reasons. If things hadn't gone the way they had, there could have been some real potential to tap into that market. I saw a gap, filled it in, and boom! Success! But sometimes the gaps aren't as easy to spot, and that's where something like market research comes in.

"You know those super annoying surveys that pop up on YouTube when all you're trying to do is a watch some tutorial or pop culture drama? It's kind of like that. Today, we're going to work together to come up with some questions we can put together for a marketing survey to get a finger on the pulse of what kind of economic venture we coudl pursue for success on a multidimensional level. Once we've had some good questions gathered up, I'll shoot it out to the multiverse, see what comes back, and next week, we can discuss where there might be a chance bring our own plumbus or space jello franchise to the table. Make sense? We can also take some time to survey each other, too, because maybe a great idea is lurking there in the mind of one of your classmates already, we just need the right kind of market data to really bring it to light."

And with this class? Honestly? Summer just wanted to see what sort of questions they would come up with. This class was about 5% her actually trying to teach business stuff to them, and 95% her own sick fascination and amusement at this point.

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It was a bit of nonsense that had come about just because ~~I forgot Duke's bday and Nina wouldn't lol~~!

"Well, yes, like, that's your world," Nina said. It was her world too, don't be fooled, Troy. "You can't expect every world to be the same!!!!!!!!! And a birthday is really just a celebration of your existence, right?????????"

"That's what I hear," said Troy, "but we don't celebrate birthdays in my family. So it's, you know, just a day. When you were born...you don't really pick when you're born."

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Nina squinted at him.

"So when do other people celebrate your existence?????????"

"Um, like, every day?" said Troy, who, to be fair, was sort of used to that kind of thing at his old school. "And in ways that doesn't make God mad? Like pep rallies. And, you know, parties after you make the winning play on a really tight game with your rivals."

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".......... why would a god be mad you celebrated your birthday??????"

And for a moment, Troy looked just as frustrated about it and bewildered as Nina, shaking his head a little, because that was a question he'd pondered at the start of every December when his own birthday was.

But he gave the answer he was always given, more or less.

"'Cause no one but the bad guys celebrate birthdays in the Bible," said Troy. "If He wanted us to celebrate them, He'd have said so, but also, like...pagans?"

He wasn't as clear on that point. Honestly, when a kid got told justificiations for why they couldn't have birthdays or Christmas, they sort of checked out after that first one.

"So you just kind of celebrate your existence when you feel like it, I guess, so even though we don't celebrate birthdays, specifically, it sounds a little more like we do what you're talking about with the moving birthdays more than people who do celebrate them, like, normal?"

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