Professor Beanbus Percibean Airlock Brian Bumblebean (adjunct) is back and ready to begin this week's lecture.
As I try gather lunch on campus, it's inevitable that I hear the ceaseless prattle of the student body. Their latest obsession, I have gathered through unwilling osmosis, is not a new mode of play, but rather the acquisition and display of what can only be described as digital finery in Among Us 3D. An entire in-game mercantile emporium, a "store," if you will, dedicated to purely aesthetic accoutrements.
While the rational mind recoils at the concept of exchanging tangible currency for intangible fripperies, the academic mind sees an opportunity. This is a pristine ecosystem for observing the most fundamental of primate behaviors: social signaling, status display, and what the great sociologist Thorstein Veblen would call "conspicuous consumption."
I have therefore taken it upon myself to compile a preliminary catalog of these items, and delve into Bean bourgeoise vis as vis the Store and Stardust.
Before any transaction can occur in this digital bazaar, participants must first acquire the local legal tender. This is not a currency backed by gold or government decree, but an intangible asset known as Stardust.
One does not simply get a hat; one purchases the Stardust to procure the hat. This process creates a direct link between effort and aesthetic expression.
Stardust is the official currency of Among Us 3D and Among Us 3D: VR
Purchase Stardust to shop the Store
Look for bundles and weekly drops
Customize your look with unique combinations
My extensive breakdown of cataloging the category of wares can be found here in the full lesson itinerary.
And as before, the entirety of my previous lectures can be found in the "learning hub" class syllabus.
Now, if you will excuse me, I must complete my paper on the correlation between ridiculous hats and a statistically significant increase in being ejected first. The preliminary data is quite compelling.
Class dismissed.