needs v wants and I live a simpler life.
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Concerts.
In the 90s youd go to the record store that had a ticket kiosk. Tickets were 10 to 20 dollars, youd get a printed ticket.
Now it just sucks. Venues add fees, ticketmaster fees double the price, printing fees, sometimes you cant even get the digital ticket until the day of and hope nithing goes wrong.
It all just sucks now.
I go down to my local dive bar and watch some local guys play rock and blues....for tips.
Cost me $40 per ticket to see Pulp in melbs in 1998.
$99 in 2011
$150 in 2026
All general admission
Steaks
McDonalds. It used to at least be cheap. Now it's both expensive and still tastes bad.
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Hard drives. I have a movie hobby and that takes a lot of storage and well, storage now is 3-5 times more expensive than not two years ago and I can't afford it anymore.
But on the flip side, people can now finally nudify my daughter, so that is totally worth it!
Fuck everything about AI.
I am waiting patiently for the AI bubble to pop so that all of a sudden there's an excess supply of ram, gpu's, drives, etc.
Hate to break it to you, but that's not at all how that will work out.
I guess we'll see.
There's nothing to see. Those datacenters run specialized server hardware. If the AI bubble bursts, they'll likely just be sold to another hosting/saas company as is.
Even if the hardware gets back into the market, it's not consumer hardware. There will be no Ryzens and RTXs flooding the market, but Epyc/Xeons, Reg ECC RAM and videoless GPGPUs.
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Any streaming service.
It's not even about the money specifically, if that's what it actually cost or if it was going to a good place. It's the greed of constantly trying to find that line on how hard they can squeeze and at what price point people will keep taking it.
Yep. The Golden Age of Streaming was finished years ago. Once we had a whole pie. Maybe cut into a few slices. Now we have a fragmented pie, cut into tiny slices and it looks like Jim tried to fuck it again.
Prime is the worst. 90% of the shit on prime requires an additional subscription.
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Kids wanted 5 guys, wife + 2 kids.
2 hot dogs, 1 burger and 3 orders of fries and drinks, (i skipped a fucking burger because I saw the price) $70
Never even considered going back.
Though Mytical kitchen just did a price check per ingredients and while they're expensive AF, they're not screwing you as bad as mcdonalds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zOmh9F4xcs
edit: fixed a typo, but i'm going to leave the monstrosity of a line one for everyone's enjoyment
Kids wanted 5 guys, wife + 2 kids.
You know that comma, with no additional verbs, makes it sound like your kids wanted to start their own families, with loads of guys a wife, and two kids of their own.
might have, I can't read their minds.
DNC excuses.
The Chinese buffet. 8.95 for lunch 12.95 dinner. Now 20 bucks at minimum.
Korean karaoke. 20 bucks an hour now 50 an hour or whatever they make up at the time.
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I've not stopped but heavily worked to cut fast food out of my daily meal plan. The cost of most burgers out there I can buy buns, ingredients, and meat to cook myself to how I like it. It'll be juicier, thicker, and tastier as well.
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I have a small garden for a hobby and mental health. I spent $30 on 2 bags of fucking DIRT yesterday. What am I doing? Dirt was $30!?!? I guess I can't even afford dirt anymore. 😭
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It's been more than 10 years it feels like since you could just buy a raspberry pi for a little side project.
Now you better have a good use for it, since it's a good chunk of money.
I feel like raspberry pis have completely lost the plot. Now they're just expensive mini PCs rather than low powered devices for hobby projects. By the time you get a case, a hat for NVME, and the sensors you want, it's be cheaper to buy an actual mini-PC with even more power.
From a hobby perspective, the ESPs are where it's at
Canned beans. I love some bean medley but at $3 a can.... guess I can't even have beans.
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Fast food is hilariously overpriced. You pay about as much for a sit down meal at a restaurant for some crappy burgers. I remember the days when they had a true dollar menu. Now they just call it a "value menu" or whatever.
Used to be able to get two double cheeseburgers for $2 at burger king. Add fries and a drink and you were sitting at about $8 after tax. That same order today will run you about $19 before taxes. I'm not even that old, this all happened within the last two decades or so - prices literally more than doubling and all the while the quality getting worse and portion size getting smaller and smaller.
It's probably better for my health that I can't stomach the idea of paying that much for greasy unhealthy food, so it's an occasional treat to let me have that nostalgic taste.
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