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Yup I feel that hard. Like they would actually care for the children at all, they want grandma/grandpa duty, to come over, have fun grandkid time and then leave as soon as the kids get fussy, or poop, or anything they don't like. For my mom, she has friends that she's jealous of and now wants grandkids just so she can show her friends. All horrible reasons.

And yeah, my dad was similar, to the point where he thought he was hurting me by taking me out of his will. Literally said "You're out of the will!". The guy was a low level government worker, he has an okay pension but his salary was less than 50k for the vast majority of his life. Owns no property or anything. I think I'll live not being in it lol

For me, it wasn't trauma in the standard sense, but my mother was horrible with money. Like she took out against her retirement, spent it all, never saved a dime in her life. We grew up in poverty because of it. The kicker is that while we were tight for money, she was honestly just really bad with it. We could have done fine, she had a decent paying corporate job for most of my childhood, but she's just buy things that nobody needs. "I found these random things at a garage sale, only $200!" "But we don't need those at all, what are we going to do with them?" "I don't know they just looked great!" She emptied her retirement to do a home improvement project that was 100% cosmetic. She constantly borrowed money from family, and she had my siblings and I call family to ask them to borrow money.

So, I'm doing fairly well now, and it's looking like I'll have to carry her financial burden going forward. We're talking probably thousands a month for her.

None of that stopped her from starting to casually drop that she wants grandkids. None of this clicks for her. I think the (US) national average cost for a kid just passed 800 thousand. For each kid. I'm sure it goes down a bit, handmedowns and what not, but that's also the average cost.

Ffs, she knows I'll need to already spend thousands a month just on her, and then has the audacity to be upset that I don't want kids? It's just. A lot. It's annoying and it's a lot.

Idk, I've heard things about HooliChat... Didn't their stream go down in the middle of a big title fight?

I was going to say, wait another reboot?

Little Randy, Lucy and Bo-bandy's kid. What happened to little random? They covered the story by saying they put the little maf up for adoption, but other than that the little cheeseburger driving kid was never spoken of again.

So they have rounds of layoffs, staff feel less secure in their role, and they're surprised that knowledgeable and easily employable experts are leaving for more stable roles?

I've learned to never hope for the best when it comes to consumers. They have been trained to happily hand over their money and time for worse experiences. They is no breaking point that they'll come across where they finally stop paying, even if they surpass the ability to even afford it.

It doesn't matter if Netflix is shitty. They'll pay for it, because how would they go on without it? They'll pay more for more ads, and it'll just be accepted. We here are the minority.

I run Bazzite, primarily gaming for everything, added jellyfin as a non steam app. Works pretty well. Wish jellyfin had a slightly better interface but overall decent.

Most everything works with the controller, and for anything that doesn't steam will emulate a keyboard and mouse for, but I keep a keyboard next to it just in case

Well, yes, but also McDonald's did it to themselves too. About 20 years ago when I worked there (holy shit I just realized it was 20 years ago), they had the Angus 1/3 pounders. They flopped hard. Exact same reasoning, both from their corporate offices and me anecdotally, people are fucking stupid. They really thought they were getting ripped off because the quarter pounder was more meat than the 1/3 pound Angus burger according to them. I, tiny teenage me tried explaining it to them, to no avail. Fucking morons.

You want to lose hope for the human race, work in a service industry

Seasons 1 - Battle of the Bastards was some of the best television I've seen in my life. Truly masterpiece, all the way through. I've never seen that level of excitement either from fans, we had watch parties every year. That's what made the ending sting so badly, was because of how good it was.

It's how Hulu started too, it was a magical time. Watch 1 30 second ad before each episode.

I'm glad physical media is starting to make a comeback. I know people who kept Netflix for well over 5 years just for friends "so they could watch it whenever they wanted". Never thought about buying the discs. "They're so expensive".

120 for all the seasons forever, or (at the time) 14 a month for 5 years, which is $840. I'm sure there were other things to watch time to time, but shit adds up folks. Just go buy the blurays of TNG