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Grrl Power #1336 - Budget anxiety
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"Also I haven't worn my hair straight like that since Friends went off the air. And I want the doll to be more fit. I want little girls wanting to grow up looking like athletes, not one missed meal away from terminal malnutrition!"
Profligate? Just say opulent, Max. Although "profligate" does specifically mean "reckless waste; wildly extravagant / Licentiousness" (Licentiousness meaning "The quality of being lewd and lascivious") Definitions that require you to look up words used in the definition amuse me. Profligate is definitely one of those Word of the Day calendar words that makes people arch a brow when you break it out. It's a perfectly cromulent word, it's just conspicuous due to exceeding the rarity threshold.
I feel like there's one page in the 1300+ I've done so far where Sydney has bought, or at least mentioned buying something extravagant. Or... maybe I mentioned it in the comments somewhere? At a minimum, she considers the inventory of the comic shop "hers." Not in a "I'll shut you other comic co-owners out and keep it all, mwoo-hah-hah!" way. More of a "I want that $300 polystone Wonder Woman statue, so I'll leave the at-cost price in the till and take it with me." So... basically just buying it. She did drop ten grand in her new swear jar though. That was probably her most extravagant expense since joining the team. And, well... she probably chipped in to have that one plane steam cleaned and detailed. Deus didn't charge her for burning 10-ish square kilometers of crops and assorted countryside though.
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I love Mystery Science Theater and basically all the stuff those guys have done since, and Rifftrax is having a new Kickstarter for their annual live show. So I am pimping it here. Oh, the movie they're doing is Timecop, and I can't imagine it not being amazing. Last year was Point Break, which I had actually never seen before. Honestly, that movie was just the peak of bonkers 80's action films. Yeah, I know, it's a 1991 film. I stand by my assessment.
Comments
Kazzellin
Sounds like someone using their breasts to play with a coin. O_o
Kazzellin
Eh, that's fairly normal. Well, not the basketball court part, but otherwise, yeah. If I qualify someone for new carpet and they're replacing their carpet only because they're moving and their relator said to replace it, I tend to steer them towards something neutral-toned (beige or gray) in the low-end for pricing ($2-3/square foot) range, since there's a 50/50 chance the new homeowner will just take it out right away, if they can. Why pay $4-11/sf and wait two weeks for a pale green, high-warranty carpet when there's a good chance the new homeowner won't like it and just takes it out anyway? *shrug*
Jared Kolbly
It is also possible part of the spot the mind control victim training mentioned was to avoid prying about the suspected mind controller when possible, especially when they are around. "Isabella" is definitely on ARCs watch list now and will have her entire history dug up within a couple days for evidence. Depending on how well Sciona covered things up after taking over, plus the unlikelihood of her survival making her a low consideration, she will likely be confronted for her bodies original identity with confusion on her current motives.
eddi_TBH
You need a certain amount of shameless greed to act filthy rich. Sydney isn't even close.
eddi_TBH
Consider this a deep breath before the plunge. Dave's probably thumbnailing action scenes as we type.
eddi_TBH
Those come out of China. No royalty issues.
eddi_TBH
The dress is too Barbie and not enough Leander. And should be an Arc-SWAT outfit anyway.
Jacob Bissey
A deer stalker is a type of hunting hat, that's what it's designed for, Sherlock Holmes just wears it sideways with the ear warmer flaps propped up to act as brims instead of having them down (since that would cover his face) or all the way up.
Mark Magagna
I don't have a boat. But my understanding is that a boat that you can live on costs about as much to maintain as a house. Most people think it should cost less, generally because they didn't sign up for maintaining two houses, one of which they don't spend all that much time on. If you think it costs more, how much are you putting in the sinking fund for your roof and/or window replacement? Boats do cost every year though, and putting off repairs does end up with worse results (you generally don't drown if you skimp on house maintenance). Sure a 200-foot yacht costs a lot to maintain. So does a 20,000 square foot mansion with an indoor pool and shooting range.
Greg Morrow
Deus may be in the position of not being able to spend money fast enough, so that the difference between not charging her and charging her isn't even a rounding error. Cf. https://www.tumblr.com/mckinlily/733007501666156544/plot-armor-but-its-bruce-waynes-wealth-bruce for how doing infrastructure improvement and worker benefits pays off more than it costs.
Stephen Gilberg
Hey, at least it's not a lifesize, anatomically correct doll.
Dave Barrack
Anyone is welcome to remodel after they move in, but showing a house with threadbare carpets and a shitty looking fence increases the difficulty level for selling. I'd rather spend the money to fix it up and sell it in a week or two than continue to pay the mortgage on it for 6 months.
M. Lampi
It turns out that fixing up a house before selling it typically doesn't bring up a return on the investment. You should check to see what makes sense for your area. My neighbor had the carpets replaced and the house painted before they put it on the market. The buyers ended up ripping out the interior, replacing the windows, bulldozing the garden for a basketball court, and painting the place before they moved in.
Hugh Eckert
Deus gave Sidney a medal *and* made her speak to a crowd. That paid him off in lulz and was *far* more valuable than any money he might have charged her.
Hugh Eckert
"A boat is a hole in the water you pour money into." So a yacht might be even more money than you'd think. Although I'd like a replica of something famous like the GjΓΈa... but then I also would have to have a crew, and I'm not great with people... I think that Sidney mentioning "choice paralysis" is a clue as to why she isn't spending a huge amount of money. I get that... She did mention buying a horse at one point.
Hugh Eckert
Not so sound morbid, I would buy a decent-sized hill and turn it into a passage grave for when my spouse and I inevitably pass.
BJ
I love that last panel.
Reigys
Did we gloss over the memory stuff?
A Patreon of the Ahts
I think the sherlock holmes hat is a dear stalker, not a hunter.
Mark Magagna
Once you pay off the mortgage (or buy a house if you were renting), it starts to become difficult to justify spending on other things in a similar price bracket. A second house? How would you use it? A cottage? If you weren't raised on cottaging to start with, it's less attractive? A nice vehicle? Probably much less than the house unless you're a collector. Then you get into things like yachts. But those tend to be much more than a house; or if about the same then it's about like a second house. Mind you, it's perfectly possible to end up spending lots of unnecessary money. But that tends to build up gradually, unless you're into binging on things. Sydney has shown that she can spend money on silly things, e.g. the Parfait sequence. But she seems to need some encouragement and an appreciative audience so far. It does help that her two jobs keep her busy not surfing the internet for stuff to buy for herself. If she were susceptible to that, Joel might do more of the comic shop buying. He's probably doing a lot more of that now anyway.
Anton Schleef
Yep! They were mostly filmed in the 80s, still had all of the 80s drive pushing them, and hadn't started to receive any of the 90s bullshit bringing them down.
Anton Schleef
Yeah, that sounds right.
Top Cat
Our D&D campaign came up with a new word accidentally. "Breastidigitation." Which, I suspect, is what happens when Dabbler turns her boob attraction up from passive to aggressive. ;)
Mike
Norm!
Alessandro
Norm!
Steve Ronuken
I already knew profligate π (yes, yes. Because of Fallout: New Vegas.)
Magraal
My dream, if I'm ever filthy rich enough that I have to invent ways to spend all that money, is to buy a decent-sized hill somewhere and then turn the entire thing into an 'underground' house, with secret passages and everything.
Ryan DeWeerd
Cheers cameo!
Marc Vun Kannon
Sydney pretty much has everything she wants.
Michael Obert
Michael Obert
It's surprisingly easy to be bad at being rich. When people aske what I'd do with a million dollars, I never have an answer for them other than "pay off debt?". Arc-Marketing is the natural progression. Barbie Maxima, with super-Kumg Fu grip! (Ages 14+ π)
John Aldridge
There's nothing more 80s than early 90s.
