Online service for a year is $90. It would take you 5 years just to break even for a bottom of the barrel built pc. If you have a decent pc it would be 10 years.

You also can’t factor pirating into your calculation. By that logic I could steal the console and my cost would be zero.

That’s a good question. There’s a lot of factors at play and I’d love to see the math on it.

So I have both. A built pc and consoles and nothing irks me more than pcmasterrace folks straight up lying and misrepresenting the facts about building a pc.

First of all it hasn’t been economically viable to build a pc since Covid. Graphics card prices and now ram. In a few years it’ll be something else.

Second you got 1 person that finds a steal of a deal from someone on eBay and they preach to the universe that parts are out there and readily available for cheap. Not to mention all the risks associated from buying used parts.

Third a lot more multiplayer games are made with console in mind and are poorly optimized for pc and run like shit and look like shit. That doesn’t happen much on console because the graphics are already capped to a certain maximum most of the time.

Lastly pc players are much fewer than console players and on certain games you’ll be hard pressed to have queue times under 5 minutes. Even brand new games! I bought black ops 3 and 2k18 at release for pc and queue times were ABYSMAL.

If you are a tech savvy person it makes sense to make that investment because you have a lot more options on pc for modding and you’ll save on the multiplayer side because you won’t be paying for a live service but for the average person building a pc makes no sense.

It’s not lower. Most electric bills are lower in the winter. You’d pay more in the winter months.

Brother the only way it’s cheaper to source your own panels is if you buy them outright. Less than 50% of Americans have a savings account let alone 10k in disposable income.

If you take out a loan for the panels the payments equal what your electric bill would be and by the time you pay off the panels it’s time to replace them.

This is an absolute fact: the government refuses to invest in green energy because it produces too much energy and they’d have to give out power for free.

In lawsuits, details matter. Ya if a person jumps down the stairs it’s their fault. If a business failed to clean up a spill because they layed off workers to reduce costs and a customer falls down the stairs, yes it is the business’ fault.

There was a strong propaganda push in the 90s to make you think that. Mainly stemming from that McDonald’s lawsuit with the coffee. It was a PR campaign let by corporations and tort reform advocates to downplay the seriousness of corporate negligence and place the blame on consumers to try to stop people from suing.

Clearly it was successful. Billion dollar corporations have an obligation to create things with public safety in mind. If nothing else, to make sure they have the max possible customers. If a product injures or kills a customer the business should do everything in its power to correct and amend that. To blame the customer for corporate negligence is absurd.

IIRC it’s a picture of a person before and after WW1, possibly WW2.

You’re not wrong about OP but also the rewatchability isn’t great. The power creep for one piece is ridiculous and the early episodes are kind of boring when compared to later episodes that aren’t filler.

90s millennials really got lucky. Too young to be affected by 2008 crash and just getting out of high school to take advantage of Obamas economy. If they played their cards right they bought houses or invested when Trump was putting trillions into the stock market to prop it up and keep interest rates low.

This isn’t even possible and the cost even if it was would be ASTRONOMICAL.

I’m surprised the boobs aren’t worn out from people grabbing them.

Honestly, if you’re coming from IPhone you won’t find any meaningful advice on Lemmy. Everyone here hates iPhones, and will try to sell you on phones with little to no market support. They’ll tell you to wipe the device and boot load your own OS.

I haven’t used an android in years but their strength is the flexibility in apps and you have a lot more options in terms of app ecosystem. That said I don’t know how long you’ve had an iPhone but if you exclusively use the apple ecosystem like MacOS, Apple Music, Apple TV it’s not worth changing it unless you are fully committed to starting over.

The other thing to consider is the camera. If you take photos every single day the Samsung phones will be your best bet.

Damn I use to love these guys videos. Taught me a lot over the years. Shut the fuck up when cops ask questions!

Was getting up and turning on the light switch not an option?

They don’t carry the hot fries chips 😭

I have family in Chicago and I asked them for pizza recommendations when I was on vacation there and they said Costco😡

Yes that’s exactly what it looked like when I pulled it out!

This worked like a charm thanks. Surprised how easy it ended up being. When I tried a different method it felt like it was glued shut.