Cheap Lunch [Archive] - SUBSIM Radio Room Forums

Sanuck

02-22-10, 03:47 PM

IanC

02-22-10, 03:55 PM

The price of this game is that of a cheap lunch for two

Cheap lunch!? Geez where do you go eat, my lunches cost 5$

Noren

02-22-10, 03:56 PM

say what? You must have expensive lunches or really cheap games, where do u live?
I work at a danish hospital and can get about 20 lunches for a collectors edition SH:5.

SteamWake

02-22-10, 04:05 PM

No kiddin I could get at least 6 lunches for that price and I wouldent have to be connected to the internet to eat them.

Sanuck

02-22-10, 04:07 PM

Well
i live in the Uk
if i went to pizza express and eat for two people
say 2 pizzas / one salad and 2 beers and coffee
its going to cost me about £30 with a small tip

i pre ordered shv collectors edition for £29.99

:ping:

OakGroove

02-22-10, 04:25 PM

Just bought a tactical Flashlight for 50 Eur, ~225 lumens, AC grade hard anodized alu body, waterproof, excellent workmanship ... should serve me several years. The money originally reserved for SH5 will go into a set of MTB tires, 50 Eur +shipping, - lasting about 1/2-3/4 year. By then there's a good chance of Uplay being dropped as a requirement.
Not that we're running out of options to kill our money and sparetime.

609_Avatar

02-22-10, 04:39 PM

Some people may also have more discriminating tastes than others... ;)

Brag

02-22-10, 04:45 PM

I've been eating cheap lunches for a year to save enough money to get a computer that could handle SH-V.

It iwill be powerful enough to run SHIII with GWX :D

Task Force

02-22-10, 06:37 PM

Hmm... lunch here (usualy a bag of patato chips, and a drink.) cost about 2 dollars... or less...:rotfl2:

ryanglavin

02-22-10, 07:00 PM

Because of Wrestling season, and my need to loose weight for it, lunches here are a reused water bottled filled with tap from school drinking fountains about 100 times and an apple. So my lunch is about 50 cents. I need 100 of those damn things, i guess.

Apos

02-22-10, 07:09 PM

LOL, cheap lunch in my country cost 5 PLN, its about 1.20 euro.
McDonalds meal cost about 12 PLN, 3 euro.
Good dish in restaurant cost 20 PLN, Big fat pizza 25 PLN its 4-6 euro.

Some of poor families has less then 15 euro monthly for food in my country.

jwilliams

02-22-10, 10:29 PM

very expensive "cheap lunch"

prices in NZ for silent hunter 5 = $100
collectors edition = $120

1 big mac combo = less than $10

so could prob have a meal for 12 for the price of SH5

IanC

02-22-10, 10:51 PM

http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/6381/74013864.jpg

Turbografx

02-22-10, 10:56 PM

Hmm, I can't remember the last time a friend and I had "cheap" lunch for $60... Dinner yes, lunch no. More like $20 max for any lunch, for both of us. This includes unlimited refills of iced-tea.

No kiddin I could get at least 6 lunches for that price and I wouldent have to be connected to the internet to eat them.

LOL.

jerm138

02-23-10, 05:06 AM

http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/6381/74013864.jpg

Not trying to hijack the thread, but I gotta say this, because it burns me:

$7328.20 for the TIP!?! I seriously doubt the server did $1200 worth of service for each person at the table. This is my problem with the "percentage" tipping system. The tip becomes a factor of the type and cost of the items you get, not the amount or quality of service you receive. If I drink a $100 bottle of wine instead of a $2 iced tea that I get refilled 10 times, I'm expected to pay an extra $20, even though the server did the same (or less) amount of work.

I just got back from Thailand where the tipping system is simple: Leave about 20 Baht (roughly 60 cents in the US) for each person at the table.
This wouldn't work here because tips are "part of their wage" and they even get TAXED on "expected tips." That's ridiculous! So basically, the laws allow the restaurants to underpay their workers, then make you feel guilty about it, strongarming you into paying most of their wages instead, all so that the restaurant can have a lower price on their menu.

JScones

02-23-10, 05:26 AM

The price of this game is that of a cheap lunch for two
and all this talk it should be a promo dream

how do we explain to the devs/financing company (ubi) at present
that i for one would pay at least 4 lunches if not more for the right product, in a niche market its a difficult question, but one lunch for months of fun, does not work out for either party

Just thinking :ping:
It costs me AU$30 to feed my wife and three kids at Hungry Jacks - that's a burger, fries, coke and sundae each. That's still 66% less (AU$60) than what the standard version of SH5 costs.
I just got back from Thailand where the tipping system is simple: Leave about 20 Baht (roughly 60 cents in the US) for each person at the table.
This wouldn't work here because tips are "part of their wage" and they even get TAXED on "expected tips." That's ridiculous! So basically, the laws allow the restaurants to underpay their workers, then make you feel guilty about it, strongarming you into paying most of their wages instead, all so that the restaurant can have a lower price on their menu.
The Australian tipping system is best...

http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/3087324/2/istockphoto_3087324-empty-tip-jar.jpg
Unless, of course, you happen to work in the hospitality industry...

jerm138

02-23-10, 06:03 AM

The Australian tipping system is best...

My favorite is Japan, where you don't tip at all because it is considered an insult (like you're saying "here's some money, go to school and learn how to do your job properly")

THE_MASK

02-23-10, 06:10 AM

Family meal at lone star steak house for 2 adults and 2 kids $100 . This is SH5 , why am i talking about steak houses ?

Méo

02-23-10, 06:33 AM

why am i talking about steak houses ?

:har:

This forum hits new lows every day. :roll:

Iron Budokan

02-23-10, 08:05 AM

Kee-rist. I don't know where you eat lunch.

Sailor Steve

02-23-10, 10:53 AM

Family meal at lone star steak house for 2 adults and 2 kids $100 . This is SH5 , why am i talking about steak houses ?
That's a nice dinner, not a cheap lunch.

My lunch today will be at Burger King:

1 Double Cheeseburger - $1

1 Value Fries - $1

1 Value drink - $1

Total = $3.24 with tax.

If I can get SH5 for that price, I just might change my mind.

No, I won't.:sunny:

609_Avatar

02-23-10, 11:30 AM

That's a nice dinner, not a cheap lunch.

My lunch today will be at Burger King:

1 Double Cheeseburger - $1

1 Value Fries - $1

1 Value drink - $1

Total = $3.24 with tax.

And you actually consider that food?! ;) You couldn't pay me enough to eat that kind of "food"! :)

Noren

02-23-10, 02:48 PM

Actually Burger king is the only decent tasting francise out there...their whooper actually taste like something from a grill and the french fries are very tasty. But its a treat I only indulge perhaps once a month.

5 full meals at BK, is equivavelt to one standard edition SH5.

I just saw the features:

• WAR STRATEGIES: Choose your own strategy and select your targets with a new objective-driven, dynamic campaign.
• ENEMY REACTIONS: Open new locations, upgrades and resupply possibilities, while the Allied ships adjust dynamically to your approach. Your actions will directly impact the evolution of the campaign.

Sounds like quite open-enden approach if you ask me. Not scripted in any way? I wonder how free the timeline and new ports/locations will be.

Safe-Keeper

02-23-10, 03:00 PM

SteamWake

02-23-10, 03:02 PM

Dur double post.

SteamWake

02-23-10, 03:03 PM

http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/6381/74013864.jpg

Is that nancy Peolosi's signature?

Hanomag

02-23-10, 03:50 PM

LMFAO!!! :har:

HundertzehnGustav

02-23-10, 04:14 PM

50 bucks for SHV...

1 pair of shoes and a cheap jean

10 Cheap Tshirts

A new medaillon

Dinner for two at a local restaurant

Sailor Steve

02-23-10, 05:54 PM

And you actually consider that food?! ;) You couldn't pay me enough to eat that kind of "food"! :)
Actually it's not bad at all, especially for the price. And as for paying you, try being homeless and out of work, and having to eat most of your "food" at soup kitchens. After enough of that, what you look down your pristine condescending nose at now might start to look pretty darned good.

JU_88

02-23-10, 05:59 PM

Er... yeah, a £30 lunch for two in the UK is a: GOING-OUT-FOR-A-MEAL-IN-A-DECENT-RESTURANT price, not for a sandwich/salad or fastfood meal that you might eat on any given day of the week, (which is around £3 to 5 here in over priced London anyway)

@Steve,you sure know how to put things in to perspective mate....
When you think about it, while we sit here bitching about things like OSP and bugs, some people dont even have food, sanitation or medicine.... Sometimes its easy to forget how well most of us here actually live. We live like kings compared to many.
....but I guess thats a GT disussion.

Heretic

02-23-10, 06:04 PM

I practically lived on Ramens back in the lean times but I always seemed to be able to afford my game habit. Nothing like a good set of misplaced priorities.:yeah:

IanC

02-23-10, 06:08 PM

IanC

02-23-10, 06:10 PM

I practically lived on Ramens back in the lean times but I always seemed to be able to afford my game habit. Nothing like a good set of misplaced priorities.:yeah:

:haha:

Chad

02-23-10, 06:11 PM

I practically lived on Ramens back in the lean times but I always seemed to be able to afford my game habit. Nothing like a good set of misplaced priorities.:yeah:

Figured that out my first semester in college

Tarnsman

02-23-10, 07:10 PM

One Domino's large 3 item pizza $22. Chicken kickers or cheasy bread, tip? Forget about it. Just call it $30

I got SH3 when it hit the shelves, I really dont remember how long ago that was and I still love it.

frau kaleun

02-23-10, 08:02 PM

I practically lived on Ramens back in the lean times but I always seemed to be able to afford my game habit. Nothing like a good set of misplaced priorities.:yeah:

http://graphjam.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/funny-graphs-food-college.jpg

609_Avatar

02-23-10, 08:12 PM

Actually it's not bad at all, especially for the price. And as for paying you, try being homeless and out of work, and having to eat most of your "food" at soup kitchens. After enough of that, what you look down your pristine condescending nose at now might start to look pretty darned good.

Wow, Sailor Steve, you really took that to heart, huh? Food really is a touchy subject for most I guess. Seeing we're being all serious here. You assume way too much... In my younger years I was very close to homeless, and did eat in soup kitchens, and was out of work a lot until I got back on my feet, just so you know... I was actually trying to be funny, thus the wink and smilie. Guess it didn't do much good. My nose is far from pristine and I wasn't trying to be condescending at all, just trying to make a joke. But since I've done much better in my older years I have more respect for my body and what I put into it, but I would actually eat that type of "food" again if under similar circumstances....

So were you actually talking from experience or just trying to make a point and assume more than you should have?

Sorry for derailing the thread... I'm done doing that.

JU_88

02-23-10, 08:20 PM

http://graphjam.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/funny-graphs-food-college.jpg

But where is the 'Healthy' circle? :hmmm:

frau kaleun

02-23-10, 10:05 PM

But where is the 'Healthy' circle? :hmmm:

At home, in mom's kitchen. :O:

Sailor Steve

02-24-10, 10:37 AM

Wow, Sailor Steve, you really took that to heart, huh? Food really is a touchy subject for most I guess. Seeing we're being all serious here. You assume way too much... In my younger years I was very close to homeless, and did eat in soup kitchens, and was out of work a lot until I got back on my feet, just so you know... I was actually trying to be funny, thus the wink and smilie. Guess it didn't do much good. My nose is far from pristine and I wasn't trying to be condescending at all, just trying to make a joke. But since I've done much better in my older years I have more respect for my body and what I put into it, but I would actually eat that type of "food" again if under similar circumstances....

So were you actually talking from experience or just trying to make a point and assume more than you should have?

Sorry for derailing the thread... I'm done doing that.
Sorry if I misunderstood, but yeah, I spent a year-and-a-half homeless, got things fixed up, spent two years in my own place, lost my job, got invited by a friend to live with him. He took my money and didn't pay the rent. I've been on the streets again for about a month now.
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=95389&highlight=homeless
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=157959&highlight=homeless

609_Avatar

02-24-10, 12:08 PM

Sorry if I misunderstood, but yeah, I spent a year-and-a-half homeless, got things fixed up, spent two years in my own place, lost my job, got invited by a friend to live with him. He took my money and didn't pay the rent. I've been on the streets again for about a month now.
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=95389&highlight=homeless
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=157959&highlight=homeless

My apologies sir. I can now more easily understand your reaction to my failed attempt at humor. Lesson for the future I guess. Best wishes on getting back on your feet, I know what it feels like to some degree. You impress me as the type that will be successful and has the will and motivation to make it happen. Again, no offense meant. :salute:

(I normally would have made this a PM but felt it necessary to say this publicly, again, sorry for the derailment of the thread)

Sailor Steve

02-24-10, 01:12 PM

Thanks. And no problem.

You impress me as the type that will be successful and has the will and motivation to make it happen.
Well...not really, or else I wouldn't be in this situation.

But that's for the other thread.:sunny:

Vikinger

02-24-10, 08:22 PM

I dont care what food cost, cuz i have to eat.

I dont care what the game cost, cuz i have to play.

:)

Cptn_Enth

02-24-10, 08:53 PM

http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/6381/74013864.jpg

I sincerely hope that your company was the one that was picking up the tab for that business lunch...DAAAAMN. But yeah, those are typical NY City Metro area restaurant prices. I work in Stamford, CT, and trying to order take-out while I'm at work costs me a minimum of $25-40$, and that's for Chinese.

$35,000 for 5 bottles of wine and 2 Magnum bottles of Champagne...I could buy a 2010 Dodge Charger SXT with lots of options for (slightly) less...Just to put it in perspective.

Glad I don't drink (anymore)...though if my wife has anything to do with it...I just might start up again. :D

Regards,

Heretic

02-24-10, 08:59 PM

I sincerely hope that your company was the one that was picking up the tab for that business lunch...DAAAAMN. But yeah, those are typical NY City Metro area restaurant prices. I work in Stamford, CT, and trying to order take-out while I'm at work costs me a minimum of $25-40$, and that's for Chinese.

$35,000 for 5 bottles of wine and 2 Magnum bottles of Champagne...I could buy a 2010 Dodge Charger SXT with lots of options for (slightly) less...Just to put it in perspective.

Glad I don't drink (anymore)...though if my wife has anything to do with it...I just might start up again. :D

Regards,

Keeps them from having to mingle with the peasants.

IanC

02-24-10, 09:10 PM

I sincerely hope that your company was the one that was picking up the tab for that business lunch...DAAAAMN.

I find that bill freakin insulting. 40$ plate of spaghetti... #$@%! I'm more a desperation soup kinda guy. :lol:

http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/6594/70651479.jpg

Cptn_Enth

02-24-10, 09:34 PM

I know the feeling, IanC...that tab is more than what my wife makes in a year as a teacher.

And I apologize if that wasn't your bill, Ian...but those ARE what gourmet restaurants in Manhattan get away with charging for food. That waiter's tip is obscene...but do you realize how many people would KILL to have his job?

That tip was for ONE meal at ONE table during that night...I'm sure it was an atypical bill, but if you suppose with me for a moment that it was a typical service for 6, he's working 5 tables in his area, and he works say 4PM - Closing, and figure that each of his tables cycles about once/hour during his shift...and each table of 6 spends roughly $200/Person (including drinks, appetizers, entree and dessert)...so let's do the math, shall we?

(5 tables * ($1200 for 6 people * 0.2 Gratuity)) * 8 Hours =

(5 * $240) * 8 = $1200 * 8 =

$9600/Night

EVEN if the restaurant takes half as their cut...that's nearly $5 Large ($5,000) a day, and even if he works only weekends, he's making $10 - 15 Grand a week.

I've suddenly come to the realization that I'm in the wrong line of work...and that maybe being a Network Engineer isn't going to advance my plans of an early retirement :damn: :rotfl2:

Who says math can't be fun?

Regards,