JP went from a Dinosaur Movie to a very generic monster movie with the exact same plot every time.

Greedy evildoer wants SuperDino for nefarious purposes and must be defeated. Repeat.

Instant read digital thermometer.

Game changing.

No more over-cooked meats and ending up with tough chicken and rubbery fish. No guesswork if something has reached safe internal temperature. A must have in the kitchen.

Slick for ebay parts. The 3d printed extras are sharp.

There was nothing hostile in what I said. Maybe you don’t like being proven wrog? I didn’t expect anything of you much less a hyperbolic research paper, but nonetheless you chose hyperbole and shuffled the goalposts instead of actually continuing the discussion. I never said when I bought the games, but convenient of you to arbitrarily decide how old a game is before it’s not worth it for you. Nonetheless they’re on sale by your own admission, so that blows your “rarely” out of the water while you ignore BF6 being repeatedly on sale. But I suppose you’ll make excuses about that too?

Literally BF6 is on sale right now for 40% off. It was 50% off on some locations on Black Friday. It was 30% off 4 months ago. It was released early October. That’s 4 sales in 7 months for a AAA game.

I’ve bought Stray, Cyberpunk 2077, GTA, Elite: Dangeorus, Borderlands series, and many others all on sale and even a couple games for free.

I can’t help it if your particular games don’t get discounted, but telling me AAA games rarely do is completely wrong.

You can buy new AAA games. Be /patientgamers. Just wait a few weeks or months after release and they almost always go on sale when companies want to boost server numbers to make quarterly reports look good. I haven’t paid release price for any AAA game in years. And it should go without saying: Do not preorder!

Well, at least they’re outside.

Hah. I get that.

I’m reading a book series that’s more like a serialized tv show than a novel set. They’re not good, but they’re certainly good enough to grow on me. I think I’m on book 32 or something and actually waiting for the next one.

$4/gal today.

Here we go again acting like rich people don’t get paid. It’s not the poor CEO’s fault, we don’t actually give them much money ~just millions in stock options~ . It’s all the fault of the people that do the actual work.

Yeah, I get what it is. But I’m wondering who the culprit is that really opened the door for it to be used against the average consumer.

Gotta love everything being “stock-market-ized”. Where did it start at the consumer level? I wanna say solidly with entertainment industry. The one that simultaneously sells tickets to events and also operates the resale business. Sell a shitload of tickets to scalpers, then people have to pay extra to buy the “market” price for the ticket. Uber and Lyft certainly had to contribute with their “surge” pricing methods. PC parts were a big one with the shortages of everything from GPUs to HDDs over the last decade plus, but those didn’t affect the general public.

About one week on:

$3.65

Up $1. Just over a week ago it was ~$2.70.

Alpha Centauri was the shit. I played the heck out of that.

Ouch

Nope. Raspbian, Arch, Ubuntu, Ubuntu MATE (sorta samesies, I guess), Manjaro…I think that’s it.

If you converted that to eMPG it would actually contribute to the conversation, particularly with the increasing costs of electricity.

Your electricity costs are awful.

Gotta go your own way. Trump is trying to take the world down with him. We only have a few weeks before the oil restriction will cause international concern and militaries will start moving to open up Hormuz. Shit can go bad there.

Ouch. Thanks for the conversion.