[ SECRET POST #2146 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2146 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

My biggest pet peeve about people complaining about the price is exactly the stuff you mentioned: $5 coffees every day and expensive phone plans, plus all the other stuff you didn't mention like spending $15-20 to see a movie in the theater (and that's not counting the cost of drinks or snacks), eating out for lunch every day, buying every new gadget or toy that catches their attention...the list goes on forever and that's without even including more gender specific stuff. I understand college students who have little to live on and depend on loans or family support, but that's a very small slice of the population and most people CAN afford to buy and read comics if they choose. It just might mean they have to choose it over other luxuries. Western civilization is woefully incapable of distinguishing between needs and wants.

[(Anonymous)]

But comics aren't a need either, they're a luxury. If someone finds coffee more important than dishing out the money for a shit ton of comics then that's their choice. There is no 'one true geek gospel'. There is no one 'true church of the holy geekdom'. I think it's just sad on the part of the ~self appointed~ true geeks to act so high and mighty, as if their word means anything in a culture that includes all sorts of people/interests.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes comics are a luxury. I had made it much clearer above, so I didn't really hammer home that point in my later comment. My point, which I probably didn't make all that clear, is that a lot of people mistake luxuries for needs and then complain about not being able to afford other luxuries. I don't how prevalent it is in the rest of the world, a lot less I would imagine, but in Western civilization it's rampant. The most recent one I've seen with comics is someone complaining they can't afford Marvel's digital subscription (which is $60 a year if you don't use their freely offered promotion code) but they buy a coffee from Starbucks every morning that costs $5 and go to the movies three nights a week for $16 a ticket and another $9 for snacks. They're weekly coffee habit alone is more expensive than an annual subscription to the digital comics, never mind the money they spend on going to the movies three nights a week and the lunch they get from fast food places 5 days a week for an average of $11 a day. If someone points this out to them, ad a few have, they go on the attack about how they need their coffee and they need lunch and they need their downtime in the theater. The lunch is the only need and there are plenty of ways to do it for a lot less money.

It's really late or really early here, so sorry if this isn't the most coherent comment in the world.

[(Anonymous)]

Where the hell are you that movie tickets are $16? It's $12 here -- at the fancy dine-in theater. Normal megaplex is about $10, and a cheap first-run has tickets for $7. (This isn't a second-run dollar theater, either.)

I also live in a major US metropolis.

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe they're talking about 3D? lol

[(Anonymous)]

I live in Dallas. The matinee tickets cost $12, but they're irrelevant in to that example. 3D tickets vary by theater because of IMAX, but in a regular theater they're around $22.