arch_8ngel

Rationally speaking -- I would expect there to be a lot more crypto-millionaires who won that lottery, that grew up on N64 than grew up on NES. So I would expect much more "irrational pricing" of premium N64 items compared to NES.

Would you seriously take the Chinese vaccine or the Russian vaccine? Given ANY other option that is currently out there? Though the tone/content of your posts confuses/surprises me a bit, holding up WHO-approval as if it would matter to you, given your previously stated feelings about them.

For the Canadians in the thread - do any of you use Norbert's Gambit for currency exchange? I read about it on a finance forum this morning, and was instantly curious about how prevalent it was.

Ha!

Anything involving ground beef, you can make a really solid version using Beyond Beef.

That is a really neat project/device! I love stuff like this.

Anyone who has wanted it should have had access since mid-April. Regarding "choice" -- what bothers me most is hearing morons claim they are making an "informed choice" when they don't know their asshole from their elbow, let alone have enough college level science to really follow the discussion. Basically they appear to mistrust actual scientists in favor of trusting talking heads that pander to their misunderstanding with conspiracy theories.

Sure, compared to Kraft, the off-brand grated "parmesan" is sawdust. But even the Kraft stuff is practically just salt and anti-caking agent And the fancy authentic stuff is what a good grocery store has an entire wheel of that they break down into chunks at the deli counter. Usually seems priced around $15-$20/lb, but goes on sale for more like $9/lb (which is closer to normal for other European origin cheeses). But the price isn't so bad, since a little bit goes a long way...

You must live in some alternate dimension where Kraft makes something that can legally be called cheese rather than a "foodstuff" For parmesan, find your local higher-tier grocer (Harris Teeter, or a Kroger in a nicer neighborhood, Wegmans, etc), and near the deli section, they probably have a full wheel of actual parmesan that they break down into 1 lb and 1/2 lb chunks. THAT is the "good stuff".

Because it was shavings of real block parmesan, rather than the stuff Kraft sells that is mixed with anti-caking agent.

Just get a block of actual parmesan...

Paints are something that it is almost always worth going high-end, because the difference in pigment content and quality can be extreme. Though the "affiliated" brand with a given store will often have at least one genuinely premium-quality line. (having been in the miniatures hobby, though, I get a chuckle at a whole can of spray paint being $4, when itty bitty little 1.5 oz paint pots can cost that much )

No, if anything it was LESS different then. Kroger was not running their own brewery or running their own cigarette factory. I would wager that a contract brewery for one of the majors was responsible for their product. Could well have been low-end, like Milwaukee Best or maybe Natural Light -- but I seriously doubt it was a unique dedicated product line. Similar for the cigarettes. EDIT: so not a "major" but almost definitely a duplicate of another product with a store label: https://untappd.com/b/falstaff-brewing-company-cost-cutter/3024785 "Falstaff Brewing" was responsible, evidently.

I wonder who they contracted production from. The thing with store-brands -- they are frequently a 1:1 product with some other offering from another brand you might recognize. A low-tier store is going to contract with a low-tier producer. A higher-tier store is going to contract with a mid/upper-tier producer.

That is what you save shopping bags for Other than construction bags for renovation work, I think I have only bought one bag of kitchen trash bags in the last 20 years.

Store brand ice cream is usually garbage tier. But ice cream recipes and contents from brand-to-brand vary pretty widely, so the store brand is at least on par with other lower tier products. Aside from USDA-graded items, though, most food items the grocery store don't really have that much objective quality stratification, and it can just be a matter of taste. EDIT: generally speaking, I've found that "store brand" quality is going to be approximately on the tier of product that aligns with the tier of store. i.e. WalMart "great value brand", coming from a lowest-tier store will be comparable to the lowest-tier "name brands" -- versus something like Harris Teeter or Wegmans being higher tier grocers having store brands that align with the a much better tier of branded product.

Lil Nas X would approve

I thought he was best known for Pasta Magic?

I'll vote "no" -- since the scenario you're describing is basically cataclysmic.

Think about how hard that would be to clean!

Don't spend it all in one place!

For what it's worth - that is A contract, not "the" contract, in this case Everything is negotiable, and unless you saw this seller's specific contract, you can't say for certain what their terms were. (edit: since you clarified that this was YOUR contract, and you were unable to negotiate -- I suppose we could confidently say that ExplodedHamster's terms were "at least as good" as your -- but I still think it would be faulty to assume that there was no chance at all that he managed to negotiate those terms)

Same. I'm not into his core genre, but his crossovers are catchy and the guy's attitude is great.

Agreed. I'm just talking bare minimum. Swatting should be an attempted murder charge, right out of the box.

Swatting should result in a charge of attempted murder.