My formula:

$1 - $5ish = Fine, it got some good reviews, I’ll give it a shot and support a small publisher. No real loss, I spend more on gas-station snacks. If I get more than 20 minutes out of it, it will have been worth it.

$10 - $15 = I’ll look at the reviews a little more, it should be at least a genre I like. That’s a meal, so if I’m giving someone a meal, I don’t want to feel scammed for it.

$20ish = It better have great reviews, and I am waiting until friday.

$30+ Nope. I’ll wait for a sale. Even then, if it’s a AAA release it better have fantastic reviews.

I think for a good game, by a good company worth supporting, $30 is very fair and reasonable, especially if you get more than a few hours of play out of it.

We seem to spend $60 on movie tickets and snacks for two and leave the theaters after 90 minutes disappointed and never complain as a society beyond saying the movie sucked, but then going to watch the sequel because everyone else is watching it.

The only reason I wouldn’t personally spend more than $30 or so on a game is because generally everything more expensive is published by a major studio, and thus sucks ASS.

I have not spent more than $30 for a video game in over a decade and a half. I have no idea who’s affording all these “AAA” titles that go for $50+, or who’s keeping that market alive.

There are some miserable, well-off parents out there in liberal America who just throw money at their kids and ignore what they do with it I guess.

Were… were you under the impression that companies who sell products of any kind have some kind of deep formula for making sure their pricing is only the razor-edge of what they need to price it at to keep a business running?

Are you insane? Have you ever sold anything? Have you ever run a business?

Also $8 is “greedy assholes” to you? Are you a bot or a tankie or something?

Cutting them to look like Mario Bros mushrooms.

https://ironchefshellie.com/2013/04/12/tutorial-radish-super-mario-mushroom/

the butter is undoing the idea of them being low-calorie, but you can use greek yoghurt with garlic and lime and seasoning as a dipping sauce you will have a far, far healthier snack.

I’m sorry for your friend, and yes mortality puts life into new perspectives.

But I want to make it clear… I am not kind. I just have values I live by, knowing what your values are is your guiding star when you can’t decide to care about something or everything. I have a train-wreck derailment of people I’ve made angry in my life by sticking to my values and principles, and I feel zero regret about it, because I know my values are correct, and I don’t compromise at a certain level.

I am getting increasingly distressed by how alien this seems to modern generations, and how many people are open about the fact that they can’t decide or figure out how to build their values and seem to default to “attitude” over ethics.

They kiss.

Now you just lost like, 90% of Lemmy with these wild, unrealistic stories of fantasy situations they’ve never imagined even possible.

ITT: lots of people overthinking it

Yah he learned from the second time, never climbed another tree even as we lived in the woods.

That’s a great story, I appreciate your sharing.

I want our species to be judged by how far out of our way we go to help those who have no impact on our own lives, and how much we value even the smallest lives and the connection between us and other species even.

Yah there people in here, on Lemmy of all places, making the argument for the stability of businesses.

I feel the effort we put into the smallest acts of kindness is a much better measure of who and what we are as a species.

I’m sure some of the folks responding in here may be on the spectrum or failing to express their arguments and reasoning in a neurotypical way, but for the rest, I hope they actually never learn what it feels like to be the entity depending on someone or something to save them for no reward to themselves. It’s a rotten, hopeless feeling and the callousness that people embrace to justify allowing others to experience that, well that’s a state that spreads quickly through our society when we allow it to fester. Always push back on heartlessness.

You’re digging yourself into a hole that seems oblivious to normal human feelings and getting irate at the responses. This is all you baby.

No no, I’m sure that old wooden pole with the ceramic donut insulator, splinters and dangling wires is powering like fucking NORAD or something. 🙄

No really, thank you. There is a segment of people who think themselves “progressive” in spaces like Lemmy but are utterly heartless and exist like soulless automations when it comes to the stuff that actually matters in our lives like protecting the innocent and making sacrifices for small things that make someone or something else have a better experience in life, even if the risk “outweighs” the reward. It’s denying the human experience to make that kind of calculation.

Imagine how much better our world would be if everyone, everywhere stopped what they were doing to help someone or something innocent in need. We wouldn’t have the fucking Epstein files right now. It actually makes my blood boil and I deleted a few comments here before moderating my tone to be more civil.

He was my only friend for many years, living in isolated areas and being kept out of school I didn’t have much else besides shitty parents and siblings that just wanted to get high, the whole idea of people being heartless towards innocent beings in need of aid makes my blood run cold and the back of my neck feel hot with anger.

Lemmy, looking at an old wooden pole with splinters and hanging wires and old ceramic insulators: “LET THE CAT DIE, THAT THING IS POWERING THE ENTIRE WESTERN SEABOARD, RUSSIA WILL TAKE ADVANTAGE AND INVADE, MILLIONS WILL DIE.”

I hate you all and hope your non-existent girlfriends leave you one day for being heartless and mechanical.

That power line fed some houses. It’s an old wooden residential line, they also usually have redundancy because these things have to be serviced all the time.

It’s crazy how many people in here are like “FUCK LIFE UTILITIES ARE MORE IMPORTANT” no wonder we’re in an age of heartlessness where people don’t care about harm to innocents.

Isn’t Lemmy supposed to be mostly rational intelligent people?

Are you fucking insane.

When I was about 11 I had a cat I loved dearly get stuck in a massive cottonwood tree over my house for 5 days, it was agonizing listening to him cry every day.

My parents were cold and heartless about it and joked that there would be a “cat skeleton tree” in our yard.

I tried everything, finally got an older sibling to help throw a fishing line up and pull up a bucket with wet food. It didn’t make it quite to his limb, but eventually the smell drove him to climb towards it, and from there I was able to coax him down. He was covered in ants and dehydrated but he was fine.

A couple weeks later he ran up a pine tree and got stuck for 4 days again. This time I fashioned a pole and just knocked him off the branch. He fell about 20 feet into a pile of leaves and pine needles and was fine.

They reroute and turn off sections of wiring all the damn time for maintenance, they have crews out in the field who are literally going around, turning some lines off after turning others on, and doing routine work on lines, transformers and other components. It’s not life and death, it’s just a company being cheap and lazy.

If having a love for life and wanting better outcomes and hope and inspiration for innocent life baffles your sense of logic, then maybe your sense of logic is flawed and holding you back from emotional growth.