In full forensic accounting, you make/save money by getting off the “convenience” train.
Once you realize that a checkerboard costs $5 but a piece of paper and 24 pennies costs… well nothing… it starts to make more sense. Because most stuff in life, you use once then throw away or stuff into the closet and never think about again.
Breadmaking is just one great example. If I save $300 by making some bread I have to earn $300 less at work. I work less now.
I just don’t anymore.
I don’t buy a wire- or mechanical- puzzle I make one. If I want a tile-based game (think scrabble, qwirkle, rummy) I make them with upcycled junk and paint markers.
I don’t buy bread or pizza crusts or tortillas, I make them. I can make a month of bready products in an optimized hour of work for 1/30th the price.
I play indie games by inexperienced developers who charge $4.99 because I’d rather try new mechanics even if they fall flat.
I’m currently precipitating copper into an aqueous solution on my stovetop and later I’ll try electroplating the copper onto some random thing. Because this is free and fun AS FUCK. Forget going to the arcade or to a pre-packaged event show or movie.
I am just drifting away from everything that’s not hand made. Fuck it already.
You’re wasting your breath. These people are smart enough to know that you can connect (hell, even to an ad-hoc network if you’re so f’king paranoid) once to FW update then hard-reset. These people are just being pissy. They also know that “IF dIsPLaY PIcTuRe No BUg PosSiBLe” are absolutely lying to themselves because they’re not actually that technically illiterate.
I hate it when people pretend to be dumb just to continually underscore a feeble point.
Many never get past level 0 which is to monitor to the heat and stop. fking. flipping. unless its with intention.
There’s lots of different approaches, but I’ve had the same problem.
Steam lets you exclude tags, but they limit how many tags you can exclude so it’s basically a useless feature.
I go to steamDB and it has a ton of sorting options, including being able to exclude “Lovecraftian”, “visual novel”, “dating*”, etc
There’s also a great browser extension for Firefox which is my preferred browser. It enhances the Steam homepage (depending on how you configure it) and lets you do lots of things like quick-sell cards and other stuff.
Facebook was a wonderful tool for me for quite a while. It let me build a digital list of my irl “friends” and then I got watch over the years as they posted their most vile and ill-conceived innermost thoughts.
An excellent tool for seeing what people really think and feel when they’re not “performing” in social settings. Curiously people don’t understand that public posts to a public SM site aren’t anonymous but there’s enough separation from the “real world” that lots of people forget that.
Just sitting back and watching gave me a lot of insight as to how awful people really are when they “feel like” they aren’t being watched.
I hate fun because I hate myself. I hate joy for same reason.
I hate Jurassic Park because it’s scary dino’s aah! Also because of Jeff Goldblum, who I heard enjoys fun and joy.
Jurassic Park.
It’s just jump scares and dinos running around. That’s it.
Squarez Deluxe (which is now Freeware!)
It’s a thinking man’s Tetris and about 100x more rewarding to play
Get therapy.
You might want to take a drink and sit down before you continue reading this comment:
Taxes, utility fees, and depreciation are factored into the price of everything. Time to blow the LID OFF THIS CONSPIRACY
Dunces, the lot of you
Your ability to connect disconnected concepts is legendary. Good luck with your life lol
I blame Toyota for how poorly my Chevy ran.
Crumbfoot!!!
I hate it to the point that I vacuum and wipe the floors in the common areas by hand everyday.
Troll. That’s the explanation.
If it is brand new I don’t think I’m going out on a limb to say you likely purchased it on a credit card.
Many people don’t realize that a ‘standard’ credit card feature is 30-90 day lost/damage/stolen protection. So I would look up your credit card policy and see if it’s there and if you could take advantage of that.
edit: oops wrote year not day lol. Also might as well add in that I’ve used various “cardholder benefits” before. Like the +1 year on warranty, which I used on a Costco laptop once. Costco doubled the 1 year mfg warranty to 2 years, and by buying on my CC I ended up with 3 in total. When the motherboard died 2.5 years in I got a full replacement which obviously ended up being from the newest line and better than what I had!
I have 400+ games from Epic and I’ve given them $0.00
I will never play any of the games. Ever.
Fuck Epic.
I’ll literally buy a game on Steam even if I own it on Epic. Fuck Epic.
4000+ hours in (edit a strategy game) as I used to be the top streamer until the publishing company fucked me around. 3500+ in Diablo 3 as I was able to Leaderboard with a solo Monk… LB’ed and didn’t earn any XP in groups… all solo!
Dough is a great discussion topic to explore.
Once I learned to make dough, I realized it’s actually a total of 30 minutes work distributed over 4 hours. Reorganize and re-prioritizing my time made it work. Simple planning.
If I make dough, I make 2Kg so I cut it up, freeze the chunks I wont be immediately using and I have dough for as long as I need. Why make new dough every time? Batches.
It’s way simpler than you guys think. Scoffing is fun, but getting off the “convenience train” was the best thing I ever did. Requires a bit of upfront adjustment and learning, but change isn’t free.
edit: Another guy above was mean/joking about not having a job. Think, guys. If I save $300 on bread that’s $300 I don’t have to earn at work and pay taxes on. I win big for just learning to stop the bs already and take control.