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[figmentPez]

Grumpy thoughts of the day. I hate how video games are seen as an expensive hobby. Like, yeah, some people are spending $2K a year on parts and games, but so does someone going to dinner and a movie every weekend. I've never seen "movie buff" on a list of most expensive hobbies.

What I've spent, on average over the last decade, on video games and computers is easily less than half of what my dad has spent just paying for cable TV to watch sports games, but I've never seen someone list watching football at home as one of the most expensive hobbies.

 

[Squidleybits]

If you spend a ton of hours in one game, the cost per hour is far more reasonable than movies etc. @HCGLNS and I did the math on what Monster Hunter World worked out to per hour.

 

[Ravenpoe]

Grumpy thoughts of the day. I hate how video games are seen as an expensive hobby. Like, yeah, some people are spending $2K a year on parts and games, but so does someone going to dinner and a movie every weekend. I've never seen "movie buff" on a list of most expensive hobbies.

What I've spent, on average over the last decade, on video games and computers is easily less than half of what my dad has spent just paying for cable TV to watch sports games, but I've never seen someone list watching football at home as one of the most expensive hobbies.

Is this a commonly held belief? That video games are an expensive hobby? I don't think I know anyone that would hold that view as the defacto position. It can be cheap or expensive like any hobby.

Warhammer, magic the gathering, these I often hear as expensive hobbies, but not video games. Video games are too generic.

 

[PatrThom]

If you spend a ton of hours in one game, the cost per hour is far more reasonable than movies etc.

It's certainly a far more reasonable hobby than, say, photography.

--Patrick

 

[Squidleybits]

Now that can be pricey. Pokémon cards is a bit bananas these days too.

 

[GasBandit]

Ok @GasBandit I've done some quick math.

400mg/day is considered the safe maximum amount of caffeine for most people. 600mg/day and more is known to cause long term problems.

In just the mio energy you are consuming, not counting any other sources of caffeine, you are averaging 900mg/day. That is seriously unsafe.

So a little update on THAT situation... I'll be cutting out Mio Energy from my diet ENTIRELY.

A Downside of Taurine: It Drives Leukemia Growth

Leukemia cells use taurine to produce energy and grow, a study in Nature by a Wilmot Cancer institute team shows.

www.urmc.rochester.edu

Taurine is the 4th ingredient in Mio Energy, right after Caffeine and before Guarana Extract. But regular Mio doesn't have Taurine... so I've switched to that and my own guarana powder. One scoop in my Mio in the morning seems to be enough to get me through the day (approx 220mg of caffeine)

And yes, my "migraines" have completely vanished since I stopped trying to blow gasket seals by running the engine constantly on nitrous.

 

[PatrThom]

Taurine is a building block of proteins and tissue, much like amino acids, but it is not considered essential, and your liver can make what it needs assuming you are getting enough of its precursors. So yeah, you probably won't miss it.

--Patrick

 

[GasBandit]

Just in case anybody thought that EVs were all that different from regular cars, I've been going back and forth with my dealership's service department about a noise that only manifests when their technician isn't around to hear it. I think I've got it pinned down to the window seal, where in certain circumstances it swells and becomes "too long" for the window channel, bowing the middle out which makes it catch wind while I drive and makes loud wind noises. But now I can't get it to do it, and I think it's because summer has really hit now, so the night/day thermal differences aren't exacerbating the expansion of the window seal as much... I'm probably going to have to wait until late fall again to be able to get the technician to hear and acknowledge the defect.