Halloweenmaxxing - Optimizing Yourself into a Monster

Dictionary.com just crowned "maxxing" the 2026 Word of the Year. Looksmaxxing, sleepmaxxing, hardmaxxing - everyone's optimizing something. But folklore has been tracking maxxers for centuries, and it always asks the same question - who pays the bill? Tonight on Troubled Minds it's Halloween maxxing.

Victorian mirror rituals that showed your future spouse or a skull. Belladonna eyes and arsenic complexion wafers. Glamour, the spell hiding inside the word grammar. Dorian Gray's full D&D stat block, alignment dumped for Charisma 24. Monks who dieted themselves into mummies. The razor-blade candy panic. And a 13-step haggmaxxing routine for the witch who has everything.

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