The internet has a reputation as a generally fun place. But that wonderful web has a bad habit of taking fun things and pushing them to extremes. You can’t have a casual interest in a subject anymore—the internet and everyone on it demands that your fun hobby become a consuming obsession. Oh, you’re thinking about learning to crochet? Well, I hope you enjoy your 30 new Facebook groups, 40 hours a week of YouTube tutorials, and targeted ads for needles assaulting your eyeballs every time you look at any screen for any reason. This same basic idea also applies to Black Friday, and that’s the inspiration for one of this week’s Techathlon podcast games.
It’s not enough to get the Thanksgiving Day paper and cruise through the advertisement flyers anymore. The true Black Friday experts have had those flyers for weeks and they’ve been taking advantage of super-mega-ultra early bird Black…
