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Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%

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Post by chasd00 »

TheGRS wrote: post #225
chasd00 wrote: post #171

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> I recently heard that a trip to Popeye's for a family of 3 recently cost $68 in Florida. That’s $22 per person. Would like to see what they ordered. Not saying I don’t believe it but that’s pretty high. My family of 4 can eat chilfila for that and chikfila is kind of pricey for fast food where Popeyes is pretty much trash.

Whoa...harsh words. I consider their fried chicken sando the best in the biz, yes even over Chik-fil-a

late to a reply but poor choice of words on my part. I have a pretty knee jerk reaction to fast food, i tolerate chikfila just because the drive through operation and teamwork at a busy store is a sight to behold. I know chikfila is more expensive than average for fast food however.

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Post by hylaride »

taeric wrote: post #293
hylaride wrote: post #287

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The building codes in most jurisdictions wouldn't even allow such a thing, whether there would be demand for it or not. But the lengths people are willing to go for small apartments in top tier cities (NYC, especially) show that there is be demand in the right situations. Of course, the whole point of living in Manhattan is to not spend time at home. But there are interesting experiments going on. Where I live (Toron…

Right, I should have been clear that my assertion was not that there is lack of demand. My assertion is we don't build and offer this style. Outside of school dormitories. And even then, there is still a preference for bigger. Would love to see more on the correction you are referencing. So much of the discourse I see focusing on "starter homes." Which, these are not that.

There's a relatively expansive article here: https://financialpost.com/feature/toronto-condo-correction-f...

Also: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqxq32zzq8eo

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Post by tancop »

nintendo is one of the best in gaming for employees and one of the worst for customers. everyone here knows about the copyright and patent trolling but then you got things like 3D All Stars where they made a time limited digital release. not a physical limited edition or a third party rights problem. just decided to capitalize on FOMO at the expense of players.

the eshop is filled with huge amounts of slop they dont care about cleaning up, most of it with ai covers and lazy asset flip gameplay. permanent hardware bans that make buying a used switch 2 risky (you dont know if the previous user was a pirate). and they started the whole trend of $80 games by giving other publishers an excuse to charge more because nintendo does it too.

then you got insane demands for other devs like that time fortnite wanted zelda skins and even offered to make it exclusive (as in you can only buy or equip it on switch). nintendo said they would only do it if epic made the items invisible on all other platforms because they dont want their characters to be seen on xbox. its not a big deal for the rest of us but it shows how their execs really think.

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Post by taeric »

hylaride wrote: post #342
taeric wrote: post #293

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Right, I should have been clear that my assertion was not that there is lack of demand. My assertion is we don't build and offer this style. Outside of school dormitories. And even then, there is still a preference for bigger. Would love to see more on the correction you are referencing. So much of the discourse I see focusing on "starter homes." Which, these are not that.

There's a relatively expansive article here: https://financialpost.com/feature/toronto-condo-correction-f... Also: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqxq32zzq8eo

Thanks! And yeah, I knew a few markets were tanking. I was hoping there was evidence that people were starting to offer SRO style places.

Alas, I think there is such a heavy anti-landlord attitude around that nobody wants to be said landlord. Worse, towns don't like having apartment complexes. Worse still, we don't do anything to incentivize moving back to these neighborhoods for the people that do move away to work.

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Post by torginus »

Pooge wrote: post #152
Anon1096 wrote: post #31

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> In Japan, there's a big issue when a snack raises its price 2 cents No, there really isn't. You're looking at one company that "apologized" as a marketing play but outside of that prices have been increasing with no fanfare for years now. The annual inflation rate has been 2-3% for the past 4 years. It's a lot less interesting to write a news article about that though. https://www.stat.go.jp/english/data/cpi/158c.h…

Yeah, and the price of rice has increased way more than that. Heat is making me too lazy to look it up so I wonder if it's gotten better in the past year. But Japanese people are very used to price increases. Granted, accommodation is not one of them. Especially if you compare Tokyo to London, Paris or even Geneva.

> or even Geneva

Oh yes the budget option for thrifty vacationers

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Post by torginus »

gabriel-uribe wrote: post #229
shagmin wrote: post #199

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Think I've heard anecdotes about Tokyo being pretty affordable as well. Quick search shows less than 1/3 of income typically spent on housing, which is much better than major US cities.

Yep. Counterintuitively, housing in Japan depreciates unlike most of the world

Most land is leased rather than owned - which means it depreciates over time. Imo it's a sensible system 70-100 year old buildings often have issues like Aluminum wiring, lead pipes, or asbestos, and can be in generally such a sorry state that renovating them costs more.

Also building a house or apt building that can stand for 100 years is very different from one that stands forever, for example steel beams can be used as foundation instead of having to pour concrete

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Post by red-iron-pine »

wollowollo wrote: post #338
jancsika wrote: post #279

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> I recently heard that a trip to Popeye's for a family of 3 recently cost $68 in Florida. Just checked online. 8pc family meal of spicy white meat with large mash potatoes and gravy, one sweet tea, one purple lemonade, one chilled premium mango lemonade = $41.05 @ 1501 NW 20th St, Miami, FL 33142 Bring-your-own-liquids = $30.38 Either ordering at the counter is criminally expensive, or you were listening to someone…

why is the lemonade purple

grape drank + lemonade

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Post by red-iron-pine »

gabriel-uribe wrote: post #268
zubiaur wrote: post #245

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Wonder how it is like in other countries with shrinking populations. Say, Korea. Intuitively, it would make sense for housing prices to decrease when the demand decreases, supply being equal (It's not like housing deteriorates significantly in the short term).

Not sure about Korea, but Japan's case is more interesting than simply adjusting for population: the government strongly incentivizes new buildings every few decades. There is also a culture of viewing housing as a consumable, which is the part that sticks out to me the most.

yeah there is an expectation that you're either building a shrine type building (in that it's gonna be built to last and venerated) that will be there for 300 years, or else you're gonna replace it in that also leads to a lot of experimentation in architecture, since this building ain't gonna last so get weird. downside is it leads to a prefab corner cutting approach.

my brother lived in japan for a while and he loved it, both the long-standing rural places that were legit old school, but also when he was in the city and sublet some hypermodern, querky places on the cheap.

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Post by jacobr1 »

eloisant wrote: post #106
epsteingpt wrote: post #25

I recently heard that a trip to Popeye's for a family of 3 recently cost $68 in Florida. In Japan, there's a big issue when a snack raises its price 2 cents (3 yen - source: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/japanese-snack-company-apolog... ) The country for better or worse seems to be frozen in time - salaries have not caught up with the heady levels of SV (or even Europe) but neither have rents or prices for common go…

Comparing prices between Japan and Europe or US is strongly skewed by the weak yen. The fact that the JPY has lost a lot of value compared to the US dollar has nothing to do with how prices or salaries in Japan evolve.

Wouldn't that be covered by using PPP comparisons rather than just market currency conversion rates?

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Post by red-iron-pine »

skybrian wrote: post #263
socalgal2 wrote: post #219

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Prices in California seem out of control to me. Recent examples, BLT + Coffee = $36, Plate of broccoli, plate of peas, small pizza, tap water = $95. Plate of 2 tacos, burger, 2 drinks = $120. 2 sandwiches = $60 As for Japan. ATM food is often cheaper. If you want cheap though, there are plenty of much cheaper places in the world. For rent, there are cheap options I wish existed in the states. As many point out tho, s…

Where in California is that?

username is socalgal so presumably SoCal, e.g. LA or San Diego, places known for being expensive
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