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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.
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.
Thought Mytical kitchen just did a price check per ingredients and while they're expensive AF, they're not screwing you as bad as mcdonalds.
Subscriptions 🏴☠️
I have one subscription that covers everything!
...it's a vpn. 🤫
Beef, Pork, Bacon, anything in a box.
McDonalds. It used to at least be cheap. Now it's both expensive and still tastes bad.
like 10years ago. they figured that less people are eating it now, and opting for more "better food" like asian ones. or they are more health conscience.
McDonalds? By and large I would not say they have gotten better on the "healthy" front? Or do I not understand?
The main thing I've stopped buying is the lies.
I really can't afford to many of them. I order 1 or 2 as a treat every once in a while.
Way too many things to go in to here. Starting with foods lets start with beef steak. I can buy a weeks worth of food for the price of a few decent steaks.
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.
pre-covid, yea. covid just made these services greedy.
Streaming used to be cheap and a good deal. I remember when YouTube TV launched it was only $35/month and now it's nearly $100
Holy hell, $35 is still crazy!
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.
there are a few buffets in my area that will sell off their remaining food at a steep discount around closing time. $9 for a carry out container that you can cram full with whatever's left.
as long as you don't mind taking it home to eat, it's kind of a better deal. no incentive to overeat and you can save whatever's left for the next day.
DNC excuses.
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.
Yeah I started on the path of "never buy storage used" to "f it we'll do it live with smartctl" because even decade old used server drives are triple in price.
It's so bad I'm genuinely looking at storage pool solutions like stratis which lets you mix and match drive sizes without reducing the total size.
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.
Canned beans. I love some bean medley but at $3 a can.... guess I can't even have beans.
Dry beans life
I am 50/50 on dry beans not rehydrating. Half the time I can have beans tomorrow.
You're making sure not to add any acidic ingredients until they're fully cooked? That'll stop the cooking.
Besides that, I think age matters.
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.
Burgers?
For the cost of a mcValuer meal with a shake I can literally get a thick, Prime ribeye to cook at home, and steaks are crazy expensive right now. They jumped up more in price than anything at the grocery.
I can easily made a dozen patties for that price if I'm making burgers at home. They'll be twice as thick, and topped with real cheese too.