Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

There's an important aspect of this that's caught my eye.

"$600 biweekly"

There's the difference. You guys get $600 minimum every fortnight to last a mere two weeks.

I get what I get every 4 weeks, to cover everything for the next 4 weeks. There is a lot less freedom available when it has to last over a longer period, even if it works out around the same amount as two biweekly cheques, the real impact is less security as your next payday draws closer.

Id prefer biweekly, as it makes sudden bills a lot more manageable without making 2-3 weeks a stressful experience.

Regardless, everyone has different incomes and different uses for that income. I get £800-£900 every 4 weeks for rent, council tax, pet insurance, food, Adobe CC, my website, one month's groceries and animal food.

And yeah you could say "Well why do you have a £280 system if you cant afford the £17.99 a year?" well, think about when the system came out. Think how long ago that was and how different my situation could have been back then. £2000 a month different. Lot's of prospects. Now here I am.

Funny that I couldn't predict a mere £17.99 being an issue but then again I guess that's my fault for not magically knowing my mother would be put out of work with illness, my education would collapse and I'd end up back home having to job hunt for a year until I finally nailed a minimum wage full time gig.

If you play with a switch while holding a person in each arm, that's more like a double choke hold.

Sorry to hear that man... I sincerely hope you're coping well and that you'll keep enjoying gaming even though you have less money to spend for it.

@Knuckles-Fajita Heck I remember when pay was weekly. The switch to bi-weekly was devastating. I have no idea how it ever came to be acceptable to get paid monthly, ever. At that point, a life of crime sounds like the most lucrative idea. If you're interested in buying some old Soviet nukes and raining glow-in-the-dark joy around the world, let me know the time and place, I'll help, no payment required.

@Yosheel Only if you need to click LS/RS.

@DarthNocturnal It's ok, we have cloud saves now!

@DarthNocturnal After the limo, hot tub in a limo, and bunnies, you're still worried about the Switch's price being a waste?

Why waste a few hundred on a regular switch when you could spend several thousand on a custom built solid gold switch.

@Yosheel You just said that on the internet. Now it's going to become a thing and that makes me sad.

Dear hypotetical random wealthy internet celebrity who read that and plans to make it a reality:

... Can I have one of the gold joycon? I'd settle for a silver one, really.

@Yosheel It'll still be cheaper to buy than Super Mario Party

@Grumblevolcano Alright, I missed the joke. They charging something ridiculous for it over in Europe or something? I know it's $60 here.

@link3710 some loon bought an early copy of the game on ebay for about 7k dollars

@Yosheel Y'know, I knew that. I swear.

$7,000 when the game releases in a week. I hope that extra week of playtime is worthwhile. That's like $1,000/day every day early they play the game.

Just... why

I could understand if it was a matter of getting a game a full year early, and you're a multi-millionaire or billionaire (cause even a million bucks wouldn't last long dropping $7k every time you wanna play a game a week early). That might be worthwhile for someone who can float it. But a week early? You can't even use Toad's Recroom since nobody else would have the game yet.

Yeah that's just dumb. Anyways, Sony confirmed there won't be a PlayStation Experience this year.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/no-playstation-experience-fo...

@JaxonH @ReaderRagfish Could be a fake bid, those aren't uncommon for items like this (happens to retro games all the time). I wouldn't be surprised if the seller never got paid. I'm having a hard time believing someone actually bought a copy of Mario Party for $7k.

Of course it never got paid. How could anyone believe that it would. Probably just bored reddit users.

@Knuckles-Fajita I don't want to criticise your life choices because you sound like your having a hard time but there is a wealth of jobs out there especially in construction that pay a fortune. When I was last in the UK working I was making £5000 a month as a skilled labourer/plant operator the young fellas I worked with who had no experience but showed a good attitude were still taking home £2500 a month with no over time. Everyone I kept in contact with quickly started earning better money and have been able to see a lot of the world through work. Its clear you have a vision of what you want to do work wise because its what you want to do but the reality of life is that the 'fun' jobs may not be the ones who pay what you want for doing things in your life outside of work. I think either you except that not having money is the price you pay for having a job you love or you change tracks get out there and make some money and take comfort from a big paycheck every month that in a few years can see you in a nice house able to afford all the luxuries you want and still have enough to support your children/wife/family.

@bluemage1989 This isn't a case of the job I "Want". The job I "Want" is administrative and managerial.

I'm in this job NOW to either eventually progress or to tide me over. It was the first place in a year that even offered me a position. I'm not saying no.

@bluemage1989
Ya, dreams of doing a job I love that you think about when you're younger... all that quickly goes out the window when the real world slaps you in the face in your twenties.

Gotta find a job, start at the bottom, work hard and over the course of 5-10 years work your way up as you learn skills and prove yourself. Factories in the Midwest of the US are a HUGE opportunity. I started at my current employer seven years ago as a die cast operator making $10/hr through a temp service. In the summertime it would routinely break 100° on the shop floor and I remember a day and even got up to 115. And if you are working near the furnace where they melt the aluminum it can get hotter than that. So hot that everyone has big barn fans blowing on them and you would probably pass out if you didn't have those fans and Gatorade to keep you hydrated.

I paid my dues. Worked hard, always took the overtime when they needed it to earn a reputation as a hard worker, and I was soon hired on to the company at $12 an hour. Then after two years, an internal job posting went up for a quality specialist, with a path of progression to be a quality engineer. I applied. But I did not get the job, because this woman had already been in quality for a year and had dibs before me. But the quality manager said hold up, I DO need a CMM programmer. But you're not qualified yet. Come in, start out as grade 7 for $15.50/hr, and once you've got the training and signed off on the grade 8 programming position you will be promoted. By the end of the year I had done my training (and I busted my butt to learn that material as fast as possible) and got promoted to a grade 8 at $17.50/hr. Two years past with dollar raises each year, and I was soon at $20/hr. In my free time I was reading the quality technicians handbook and learning and I went to ASQ and passed the certification, and they gave me a raise to $22 an hour.

Then I started putting in for jobs elsewhere and got an offer, so I went to the vice president and told him I don't want to leave, but I want to be put in charge of the metrology labs and calibration. They offered me a deal to keep me at the company and gave me a bump to $25 an hour, with the promise of creating a position in charge of the labs which will actually upgrade me even higher in a month or so, once the position is finalized.

7 years. In 7 years I went from a nobody with zero skills working a dirty, tough job as an aluminum diecaster operator making $10/hr, to a senior CMM programmer making 2.5x that amount, and about to be 3x that amount in another month, and with OT even right now it's $75k/yr, working in a nice, clean, tempurature controlled lab that's 68 degrees Fahrenheit (20 degrees Celsius) every day 24/7. All it took was hard work and dedication over a 5-10 year period. You start at the bottom and you work your way up. When I first started coming to this site, I was still a diecaster on the shop floor.

Everyone's situation is different but, if you just pick a job at a company large enough to move up in, and work hard, you can end up making a decent middle class income. Even my brother who I got a job at the same place I work, he also started out at $10/hr, and is now making $20/hr and about to get hired on as a quality specialist to put him on track to become a quality engineer in a few years. What's so special about me and my brother that we advanced so much while many others there didn't? Hard work. That's pretty much it. Just stuck with it and climbed the ladder. Started with zero skills as nameless nobodies on the shop floor, and now are both among the most respected, knowledgeable people in our respective departments. I'd like to believe anyone can climb the ladder if they put in the work.

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