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I think there's just too many questions about how much EA and their new owners even care about Bioware, and more importantly to them, Mass Effect.

This feels like wishcasting by a lot of the people posting about it.

Arguably the closer it got to X-Men the better it got.

This person just sounds like they're bad with money and/or need to live in other places that are less expensive to own a house.

The horseshoe shuffle.

Are we sure he isn't a Nazi, this dude is, at least last time I checked, a member of the DSA an organization ride with antisemitism.

There's a world of difference between saying "Kobe Bryant is overrated" and saying "I agree with the Nazis saying Kobe Bryant is overrated"

The amount of mutants that can actually destroy a city is in the single digits. Most mutants just look like a weirdo and don't do anything.

Also I would like to clarify that there's a difference between talking about the long term cost of things and like, what I would give as financial advice to a person. Like I would absolutely not tell a person living below the poverty line to buy a $30k car.

It might not be. My personal lived experience is that moderately used cars offer the best benefit versus cost compared to the other options.

So you literally only follow this dude to dunk on him and you aren't even an American? literally get lost.

Well will almost exclusively posts about American politics so I have no idea why'd you even engage him otherwise.

Well I'm an American speaking about America, so cars are a necessity. Expensive clothes are a trap and also not true, more expensive clothes are not necessarily more durable. Shoes also have a cutoff point, a $150 pair isn't 3 times more durable than a $50 pair.

This isn't a one or the other situation.

No I wouldn't, but everything is a gradient and nothing is set in stone. Being poor is about knowing what to spend money on versus when it's okay to go cheap.

The real, and probably only significant example, is cars. Poor people have to buy used cars or are forced to buy cheap ones outright instead of financing them. While rich people can buy new. In the long run used cars will cost more in wear and tear than a new one will.

With batteries it is not always the case, and cheaper batteries are only on average 12-20% worse than generic ones. In low demand devices, like remotes, there is very little difference. This is also more than offset by the price as generic batteries are often more than 20% cheaper

Most actual poor people know when to push for the name brand and when it's acceptable to go generic or off brand. A lot of stuff isn't actually any worse with the cheaper option, people just like the prestige of the more expensive option.

Yep this is true, as a current and former poor person there are some cases where paying more can lead to better quality, but like a lot of things, there's lots of nuance to how things are priced and it's not always higher price=higher quality item. A $150 shit is not 100 times better than a $15 one.

I know the concept. It is true of some things, but it's not true for everything.