• Coelacanth
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    163 days ago

    That’s a classic negotiation technique abusing the psychological anchoring effect.

    • @[email protected]
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      103 days ago

      Yeah, I’ve heard of writers on shows like the Animaniacs doing it, insisting heavily on a more outrageous joke having to go in knowing it’ll get knocked back as a Trojan horse to slip the real jokes they want in.