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just a place for anon thoughts. anxious, booky, upset thoughts. I'm anti-ai.
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That album by Two Door cinema Club has such great energy
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My internal voice is like that old voice of the twilight zone you know the black and white one like ooo
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Oh oh oh this is just good the way the words are strung together. I’m so glad this is one of the 25 books I am def reading this year above all else. I hope it doesn’t disappoint (like almond was meh this this book is beautiful)
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Okay now we begin in truth but that introduction was a work of art
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At that point you got no savings, so if something goes wrong you screwed. So yeah I get it.
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It's just our wages are...not great. An apartment can be 1k-1.7k depending upon where you live, groceries are 300-500, nevermind transportation costs a lot of places in USA you have to have a car, utilities? So at least 2500 a month which is 15/h & thats if you got no debt....
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Let me add another reply, if we reverse the cost of inflation, a $60 game today would have cost probably $13. (prices increased by a factor of 4.8-4.9), so let's just round up to be mean. In 1990 that would be $24-$26 (2.3-2.6) and in 2001 a $60 would be half the price. So yeah games are cheaper.
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Also for the USA there is probably some mark up because of tariffs. So...take that? I guess? GG.
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The only thing that I do agree with is the whole charging money for just better frame for a game you already own. Like...give me new content or something. Give me new items and shit.
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I get it the cost of living is has gotten awful, an apartment cost $1000 if you are lucky. Groceries are awful (the cost of eggs) the cost of meat is expensive. I saw an advert on TV recently and a new car payment was in the $490 or something (mine is $473) and my credit was...fair.
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Games have been cheaper than ever. I remember begging my mom for a $50 gamecube game in 2001 (todays money would be worth $89). Minimum wage in 2001 was 6.25. You know what today's federal minimum wage is? 7.25 in the USA. I know Connecticut raised their min wage to what 15 or 16.25
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Is it the era of more indie games over triple AAA? Will you buy early access? Or will you go for PC games that hopefully will stay the same price and will probably have the more indie games produced.
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Is what Nintendo doing suck with their $90 games? Yes! But it doesn't come for a surprise. Just like back then consoles were a lot of money for the average person and same with games. This means the we the consumer have a choice to make. What games do we buy? Do we buy the console?
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idk how you can be offended by that
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Why would you do this
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I know the murmur of bees but I don't think I know the others celadonbooks.com/best-book-tr...
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I'm pretty sure at least one of these books are on those lists but just to save it: theexiledsoul.com/2024/03/29/1...
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Books by female authors from around the world? theturnaroundblog.com/2024/08/19/r...
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I think some of these might be different from the ones above: www.afar.com/magazine/boo...
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another: scroll.in/article/1070...
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I found a really cool list:
ayearofreadingtheworld.com/thelist/
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I did it! I have my list!
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22. The Lost Steps - Alejo Carpentier - Cuba
23. The Head of the Sain - Socorro Acioli Brazil
24. Hamra and the Jungle of Memories - Hanna Alkaf - Malaysia
25. A Land Without Jasmine - Wajdi Al-Ahdal - Yemen
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Okay book 21 is I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem - Maryse Condé - Guadeloupe
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For a few extra books to read because of another challenge I have to read:
1. The covenant of water by Abraham Verghese
2. Master of Death - Olivie Blake
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I have 5 more books to pick but this is it so far.
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15. We - Yevgeny Zamyatin - Russia
16. Hunger - Knut Hamsun - Norwegian
17. We had to remove this post - Hanna Bervoets - dutch
18. if on a winter's night a traveler - italo calvino - italy
19. Solaris - Stanislaw Lem - Polish
20. the ardent swarm - yamen manai - Tunisia