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Mine charged me rent (once I was finished highschool and was working), saved it, and then gave it all back when I moved out.
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Haha, yes, this is a good tip!
Show HN: I made a sandbox game to help with financial planning
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#72this look like a vps
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#73This reminds me a bit of "The game of life" back in the 90s Optimizing life for filling the savings account as fast as possible at the expense of everything else has consequences and your game should reflect this. You should have stats including your characters age, health, happiness and social skills and have some kind of social media app with your friends constantly trying to invite you out for concerts, nights out…
"Real Lives" is another interesting game. You get born in a random country, weighted by actual rate of births in that country, and go from there
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Lives
https://reallivesworld.com/gamers/index.html
Looks like their website is kinda crappy which is a shame. Anyway, my parents bought it for me and my siblings when I was a kid. And playing it definitely helped me appreciate the fact that I was a member of the lucky sperm club compared to the vast majority of the global population.
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If you’re poor, most of those things require some non negligible percent of your income—-if only just in gas/transportation. But more importantly they require time away from working/studying/optimizing for bank account balance.
You can't have friends by just paying them to keep being your friends. You have to put in the time either way.
I don’t see anyone talking about paying people to be your friends.
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#75It simulates real life pretty well: - I have an unread email in the inbox but I can't find it - The banks send me emails with no content in the body, some email glitch on their side - I tried to buy a property, lost my solicitor's fee but never got the property - There are no good jobs available except one underpaid junior position - I pay way too much in tax compared to what I make
This may well be an en-gb locale specific bug. Also, who's mum charges rent?
Most people I knew got free lodging up until they were 18 or still in education, after that you had to chip in.
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I think you vastly overestimate consequences of not spending money on things beyond necessities. One might argue that by spending money on concerts, nights out and dating you buy more damage to your health and well being than benefit. You can have friends without money. And you can keep healthy for free.
Most people feel the need to have friends. We're social animals. For a minority of people that's not the case and keeping up with relationships is a chore - even then, keeping some friends can be desirable, given we anyway live in a society of other human being. In both cases, generally you spend more money with friends, for one reason or another.
Not all of us are social
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#77Plugged in my printer and got a BSOD :(
Re: Show HN: I made a sandbox game to help with financial planning
#78This reminds me a bit of "The game of life" back in the 90s Optimizing life for filling the savings account as fast as possible at the expense of everything else has consequences and your game should reflect this. You should have stats including your characters age, health, happiness and social skills and have some kind of social media app with your friends constantly trying to invite you out for concerts, nights out…
"Real Lives" is another interesting game. You get born in a random country, weighted by actual rate of births in that country, and go from there https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Lives https://reallivesworld.com/gamers/index.html Looks like their website is kinda crappy which is a shame. Anyway, my parents bought it for me and my siblings when I was a kid. And playing it definitely helped me appreciate the fact that…
Yeah, I also played that game and had pretty much the same experience as you.
Hopefully, the world has improved somewhat since the game was written.
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
This may well be an en-gb locale specific bug. Also, who's mum charges rent?
Mine charged me rent (once I was finished highschool and was working), saved it, and then gave it all back when I moved out.
Similarly, when I did post-secondary, my parents paid for all of my books but made me pay for my own tuition. When I graduated, they wrote me a cheque for the amount of all my tuition combined.
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#80I know this is typically not a well-received style HN comment, but the name of the Pension website made me spit out coffee... this is a wonderful creation.