fadedmaster

fadedmaster, 10 days ago

Crazy thing is… I’d pay for a service like the one mentioned in the post. As long as it was still a net savings of course. Even if I broke even it would still be taking the mental load of doing that off my wife and I.

fadedmaster, 16 days ago

Yeah. The title actually made me think they had rolled out the ability for Google to remove an app from my phone when it’s been removed from the Play Store.

fadedmaster, 27 days ago

Neither have I. It might be the crowds I’m around or that its drowned out by all the people warning that its going to be a shit game at launch and not to preorder. Haha.

fadedmaster, 1 month ago

Isn’t “women” preferable over both terms? Pretty sure if I used the term “girls” around most women I know they’d find it offensive. But most women I know are between 25 and 50 years old.

fadedmaster, 1 month ago

Oh jeez. I completely forgot about Frontpage. That just brought some memories back.

fadedmaster, 1 month ago

The firearm is called the great equalizer for a reason.

fadedmaster, 1 month ago

Agreed. However, the letter you or I might have written probably wouldn’t have been published. Haha.

fadedmaster, 1 month ago

Because people finance their phones with AT&T, usually without realizing it. “Free” phones and discounted phones are not usually free or discounted. You’re forced to stay with them to get the discount off each month. I hate it because I’d rather just pay for my phone outright and be done, but then you actually pay more.

fadedmaster, 2 months ago

Yeah. The color definitely isn’t a replacement for an actual comic or graphic novel. It’s good enough to give you an idea of what it should look like. And I agree. If you have no need for the color, then black and white is going to be much better.

fadedmaster, 2 months ago

I have the Boox Onyx Note 3c. Its a color e-ink and its okay for comics. But I mainly use it for note taking. The colors are helpful for more detailed notes. The eink display makes it easier in my eyes especially for long days of note taking.

fadedmaster, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

It was the mid 2000’s. And people spend a lot more than $15-30/month on fast food and streaming services. For the people whose finances I’ve seen, it’s usually closer to 30% of their monthly income that goes to pure wants.

Also, someone can absolutely survive in today’s world without a smart phone. It definitely makes things easier to have one though. Not really comparable to today anyway. You can get a basic smartphone for free nowadays. Couldn’t do that back in the 2000’s. The equivalent today is getting a flagship versus a cheapy phone.

I agree that water is a need. I’m talking strictly fast food, eating out, and things like Netflix, Spotify, etc.

This the second time you’ve put words in my mouth. I may have misunderstood what you said initially. But first you’re saying I’m like that avocado toast guy (when I’m not saying people can solve their poverty), and now you’re saying I’m a college was cheap for me guy.

Costs are higher than they have ever been and that’s why it’s even more important these days to control your spending. Costs are high. Wages haven’t kept up. It’s the sucky reality of the world we live in and telling people to keep spending their money irresponsibly in the name of comfort is just going to damn them to worse conditions as they go into debt when real problems arise and that debt puts them in even worse conditions where now they absolutely cannot afford their true bottom of the barrel needs without more debt.

fadedmaster, 2 months ago

I’m not saying Netflix and fast food are keeping people poor like that guy about avocado toast.

I’m saying that if you can’t afford an emergency, that’s an emergency itself.

Buying fast food and Netflix (and all the other things that go with that) instead of saving up so you can afford an emergency is irresponsible.

Not being able to afford Netflix and/or fast food isn’t being “slightly better quality of life than if they were dirt poor.” I may not have been dirt poor. But I was buy expired milk and bread to freeze, can’t afford minutes for my flip phone while my friends have smart phones, poor. And my quality of life wasn’t “slightly better” than “dirt poor.” I had a furnished apartment, a color TV, and was able to borrow videos from the library for entertainment.

fadedmaster, 2 months ago

There are other ways to cut expenses too. I’ll bet a lot of people (not all, but a lot of them, maybe even a majority) are paying for things they don’t need when they’re living paycheck to paycheck. Things like Spotify, Netflix, fast food, car washes, probably even car payments on a car that is beyond their means or at the least way more car than they need.

Every friend of mine I’ve helped get to a financially stable and responsible point in their life could do it without having to increase their income. Obviously an increase in income makes it a lot easier to do this, but if you don’t have the behaviors down, then you’re just going to creep your lifestyle when you make more money.

fadedmaster, 2 months ago

Not having Netflix and the like does not make one dirt poor. That is such an entitled view to have. Literally first world problems if your mental health can’t handle not having the latest entertainment. Go to a library for goodness sakes.

fadedmaster, 2 months ago

We’re talking in circles. You think I only mentioned Netflix. I didn’t. I also said fast food. You also think I said poor people. I didn’t. My suggestion is for everyone.

If you can’t afford luxury items (and I include fast food and streaming services in that category) then you shouldn’t spend your money on them.

I would no sooner suggest someone to purchase Netflix over feeding themselves and their family. And that’s what you could end up having to spend your emergency fund on if you lose your job. But you place these luxuries on the same tier as necessities and that’s just simply irresponsible.

Go ahead and tell all your friends and family, “Don’t worry, I know money is tight, but you shouldn’t save for future emergencies by cutting corners today. I think you should give that money to McDonald’s and Netflix. They clearly need it more than you do. I mean, you can always just put it on your credit card and pay 30% interest!”

fadedmaster, 2 months ago

You’re getting down voted but I was wondering the same. I had no idea this was a cat toy.

fadedmaster, 2 months ago

Did some googling. Found this from a reddit thread but the link they gave is broken so I wasn’t able to confirm. I believe it might be adult content based upon where the broken link redirected.

Source! is [Miyabi] Watashi no Suki na Oji-san x Ore no Suki na Iede Shoujo Ge

The OP scene is in ch.3 pg.9, but it’s edited. She actually says, “I want to stay here!”

fadedmaster, 2 months ago

I remember exiting Windows 3.1 to the MSDOS command prompt and then shutting down.

fadedmaster, 3 months ago

I can’t speak specifically to YouTube Music. But Google Music allowed you to upload I think it was 50,000 of your own songs. And at the time it supported really good audio quality.

The app was also simple and clean. I don’t remember seeing all kinds of ads or suggestions for featured artists, podcasts, etc. Spotify seems a lot busier than what I remember with Google Music. That being said I mostly used Google Music to stream my personal library.

fadedmaster, 4 months ago

This is how my library was with Funimation. Entirely from physical copies. I still canceled my Crunchyroll account and listed this move as my reason. Probably won’t matter one bit since most people will go right on subscribing even after the price hike.

fadedmaster, 8 months ago

Replace “a month” with “per month”

fadedmaster, 11 months ago

I've just been blocking communities I'm not interested as I've seen them. I'd rather curate my experience myself than have someone else curate it for me. To each his own though. I suppose I do use ad block lists prepared by others so not a ton different. Haha.

fadedmaster, 11 months ago

Why do you need or want a list prepared by someone else?