Last year I went on many dates and the average expense was like $25. Yes, I did sometimes go out to restaurants, but they’d be either coffee shops with food or fast casual places. And yes I pay for her meal too. How are people spending $200 on a night out?

Wait it’s the average vs the median probably. A couple extreme outliers are inflating the average.

Same with motorcycles sadly. They are fairly cheap to buy, especially when used, but the maintenance, insurance, and parking adds up to thousands of dollars quickly.

I literally pay the same for Nebula, which is decidedly not my own media. Paying a subscription for your own media playback is so stupid.

It’s more like:

There are 2 grocery store chains in your city and zero restaurants or other ways to get food not owned by those chains. One already has a supply of only expensive, big-brand products, with nothing organic and very few healthy items The other chain has more independent items that are healthier and more reasonably-priced, as they allowed smaller companies to sell there. Now they are closing the door to these smaller companies, making them appear as a clone to the first chain.

25Gbit? From my room I’m lucky to get 2.5Mbit (from my nominally 300Mbit Internet due to the WiFi sucking)…

I’ve been getting back into Sid Meier’s Civilization 6 again and am actually going for victories. Because I want to really understand the mechanics I’m just playing with the base ruleset and won a religious victory and am now going for domination.

The problem is that the one more turn mindset is consuming me.

We used to get by with much less. If only we could start writing more efficient software again…

I’m late to the party, but if you’re new to Civ and looking for which game to start on, ignore the people who say that you need the DLCs for the “complete” experience.

I started on Civ 6, and fell for this, getting a complete edition (at a deep discount). When I tried to play it, I was quickly overwhelmed by the complexity. Now, 80 hours in, I realized I can play with just the base game rules, and that’s what I’ve been doing, and now I yearn for one more turn. I’ll eventually start playing with the DLC rules, but not before I get a good grasp on the base game.

Gomi, an early $5 iOS game that involved eating successively larger objects until an objective was reached, utilizing the tilt feature. It had so much potential to be a game with a medium to large speedrun/highscore community.

This just sounds like Factorio with Angel’s mods…

Copyright is far too long and should only last at most 20 years.

Actually, George Washington would agree with me if he was still alive. He and the other founding fathers created the notion of copyright, which was to last 14 years. Then big corporations changed the laws in their favor.