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Sunday, December 21, 2025
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's poll If you gift someone a singular, small gift for Christmas, is it a "Stocking Stuffer"? has closed.
Monday, December 22, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCCtGcIhcLA&pp=ygUWaW5maW5pdHkgbHRkIHRhY28gYmVsbA%3D%3D
Saw this video, and it just feels wrong. It seems to be rehashing the reasons Starbucks failed (inferior product, overcrowded market, at marked up prices) that just don't apply to Taco Bell.
Taco Bell had a monopoly on what was considered Mexican quisene in Australia. We wouldn't know what "Authentic mexican food" would be like if it bit us in the face. Unless it was named Old El Paso, but that's not a restraunt.
Taco Bell's main competitors, Guzman and Gomez, and Mad Mex, didn't even come into existance until nearly a decade after Taco Bell came into existence here.
If I am to fault Taco Bell for failing, it's because all their restraunts turned into KFCs, and because tacos were scary alien food.
Tuesday, December 23, 2025
How many monthly/yearly subscriptions do you consider yourself to have on average?
- 2 or less7 votes · 44%
- 3-65 votes · 31%
- 7-103 votes · 19%
- 11-151 vote · 6%
- 16-200 votes · 0%
- 21+0 votes · 0%
16 votes Poll closed
We were talking about this, I'm almost moreso curious what people define as a "subscription" or not
so I left it vague, as to whatever you consider to be one
Inspired by an unhinged Gamers Nexus rent
Replying to legorhin #jazardly make sure to count your gas bill
So I do, but that's apparently contentious
internet is the clearest utility that's defined as a subscription
Rusp when he realizes his Fortnite Crew sub pushes him up a tier
VA has 2 different car things that are required (insurance and PPT), that I just count as 1
I count RH, that almost pushed me up a tier when I remembered
I'm at 10
but I'm pretty sure I'm forgetting at least one
oh, yeah
wait
I forgot to count my domains
fuck, the nintendo family
Do stuff like twitch subs/patreon things count
so I left it vague, as to whatever you consider to be one
Replying to Phijkchu_Cynnydaquil #vinnyg Do stuff like twitch subs/patreon things count
Yeah, I'd probably lump those each into their own
I think there are a few different ways to count them, but depends how you consider them
All the ones I have proc at the same time, so one single entry for Patreon one single entry for Twitch
Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131 Rusp when he realizes his Fortnite Crew sub pushes him up a tier
I'm not subscribed to it
oh, I just assumed that was what you meant by all the FN presents you were opening
Replying to Wuvwand #loveland I should probably cut a couple of these out. I also benefit from other's subscriptions like my family plans that my parents don't have me pay for, and my cell phone bill (I do contribute to that though) (edited)
My only dumb sub is Twitter, which I picked up in 2023 because I liked what Elon was doing with it
it's cheap af, but I don't really know what it does
I think it's $1.50/month
Discord Nitro
NSO
Adobe despair
Twitch shit
Patreon shit
Gamepass Ultimate
I can’t think of anything else
Doordash Dash pass?
or w/e it's called
Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131 Doordash Dash pass?
Technically have it but it’s not mine
If I expand to include stuff my family pays for that they share with me I’d easily go up like two tiers
yeah don't count it if you don't pay for it
My most expensive traditional subscription is ChatGPT @ $20/month
nothing else is close
That’s reasonable
Well compared to Adobe
it's a fucking lot
it's worth it
but still
Adobe doesn’t give you custom pickings, and so the only way to get premiere and photoshop is to pay for multiple subscriptions or the full cloud
how much do they end up costing Vinny? I only know the cheaper school pricing I've seen email ads for
Full cloud is like
$75 now
I'll never get YouTube on principle
but they do a good job paywalling worthwhile quality of life features (assuming you don't just circumvent to get them)
so I get why people sub
Loveland
please for the love of God
Ma subbed and offered to add me to her family so I get that “free”
do not waste your life watching ads