Do You Really Need 197 Pieces of Meat?
Healing Poverty Brain through Tears of the Kingdom
6 min readJun 13, 2023
I realized poverty brain had invaded my time in video games when my partner stood in front of me holding the 164 Amiibo cards I’d amassed to get free resources in Tears of the Kingdom.
“Do you really need 197 pieces of meat?” She asked me, looking at my inventory screen in my paused game.
