The "post pictures of your house" thread

[Ronaan]

Oh man I'll be the loser of this thread once I move into my 1.5-room apartment next month.

I'll still post pics.

[Fammaden]

Originally Posted by Salshun

Just read this synopsis and tell me it doesn't scream Huxley:

In a futuristic world, a strict regime has eliminated war by suppressing emotions: books, art and music are strictly forbidden and feeling is a crime punishable by death. Cleric John Preston (Bale) is a top ranking government agent responsible for destroying those who resist the rules. Whe he misses a dose of Prozium, a mind-altering drug that hinders emotion, Preston, who has been trained to enforce the strict laws of the new regime, suddenly becomes the only person capable of overthrowing it. I will say, however, that Christian Bale is fantastic in it.

Only very superficially. BNW didn't supress emotion or strictly outlaw books under penalty of death. They actually did you a favor by sending you away to an island with other introspective people if you drifted too far off the prescribed path. No one cared about those things because they had better things to do. Their lives were so infused with orgy-porgy, the feelies, vibro golfing or whatever, and of course soma that they didn't care to read anymore. This was achieved presumably over generations and with the aid of genetics and hypnopædia. Soma doesn't sound anything like this Prozium either, when people went off soma they just basically jonesed for it.

I haven't seen the movie but it seems like it would be more accurate to call it Orwellian.

[Salshun]

Originally Posted by Fammaden

Only very superficially. BNW didn't supress emotion or strictly outlaw books under penalty of death. They actually did you a favor by sending you away to an island with other introspective people if you drifted too far off the prescribed path. No one cared about those things because they had better things to do. Their lives were so infused with orgy-porgy, the feelies, vibro golfing or whatever, and of course soma that they didn't care to read anymore. This was achieved presumably over generations and with the aid of genetics and hypnopædia. Soma doesn't sound anything like this Prozium either, when people went off soma they just basically jonesed for it.

I haven't seen the movie but it seems like it would be more accurate to call it Orwellian.

Yeah BNW and Orwell have been the two main comparisons. As for the movie itself it's actually a pretty decent flick. Definitely made to cash in on the Matrix money train but with it's own flavor. The 13t Floor was made to cash in on said money and it a lot of ways I think it surpassed The Matrix.

[chaos]

Originally Posted by Naerik

if saving 40k by the time ure 30 is hard then you need to stop spending or stop shitting out kids

Almost no one in America under 40 has that kind of money saved in cash, outside of retirement programs.

[Cad]

Originally Posted by chaos

Almost no one in America under 40 has that kind of money saved in cash, outside of retirement programs.

Mostly because they're idiots who live above their means, not because it's impossible or even hard. I had enough in cash at 29 to quit work in my paid-off house, drive my 2 paid off lexus' to law school ($35k tuition/yr) where I'm getting no loans while sending my 2 kids to private school ($20k/yr) and recouping about 50-60% of expenses each year via investment income.

Managing money is NOT hard, you just have to not live like a goddamn idiot.

Edit: I swear the K and the V are like right next to each other.. haters!

[Millie]

Originally Posted by Cad

Managing money is NOT hard, you just have to not like like a goddamn idiot.

But what if I like like a goddamned idiot? :\ It's tough not liking stuff sometimes.

[aychamo_aycono]

I always end up liking like idiots.

[Hateyou]

If everything goes through we'll be moving in to this house at the end of the month. $150,000, 10 year old house, the pool and roof are under a year old. 4 bedroom, 2.5 bath, 2 car garage, 1900 sq. ft. Gotta love Indiana housing market.

[Cad]

I'm not criticizing, but I hope you get rid of the too-small TV mounted too high on the mantle and the denim (wtf?) sofas.

[aychamo_aycono]

I'd rip out the whole fireplace, pull up all the carpet (and give it to Tuco to put on his walls), put hardwood floors down, and scrap most of that furniture! Then put a Salshun style grill out by the pool!

[Fammaden]

Looks nice and all, but personally after two houses I am never again buying anything more than like 5 years old tops. Preferably build the next one, that will be a while though. I wish to hell I was a first time home buyer right now though. Great time to buy if you don't have to sell to do it and have good credit it would seem.

[aychamo_aycono]

Originally Posted by Fammaden

Looks nice and all, but personally after two houses I am never again buying anything more than like 5 years old tops. Preferably build the next one, that will be a while though. I wish to hell I was a first time home buyer right now though. Great time to buy if you don't have to sell to do it and have good credit it would seem.

(I've never bought a house) Why would you not buy one more than 5 years old? Too much shit starts breaking?

[Fammaden]

Yeah, the whole money pit/dealing with 10 years of someone else's often failed DIY projects, just general maintenance and repairs. Not that you can't find a ten year old house where this will not be an immediate issue, but I want to have new stuff at the beginning of its life cycle next go around.

Then again, some people would rather buy an actual OLD house and redo it or buy one that has been redone already, which is different than buying something new that has been lived in for 10 or more years, which is what I was talking about.

I guess its nice that house has a new roof and all. Is it coming furnished? I would assume not, so I guess the furniture and all is just the current occupants' anyway.

[newerakb]

Originally Posted by Salshun

Also man you got Issac, King, Card, Tolkien, Asimov, Koontz, Bradbury...one hell of a collection.

You also have my favorite book of all time, Brave New World. If you want to catch a flick that if you're a nice guy can call an homage and if you're a cynic you WILL call a fat rip off, check out this flick:

I enjoy my books. Though I will say that the Koontz book is my fiances. I always found him a poor substitute for Stephen King, though a few times he's impressed me.

And I went through a bit of an oppressive-future-book phase, acquiring all of those you see, like Fahrenheit, BNW, 1984. I'm also in the midst of a "read all the books I should have read by this point in my life" phase, which started with all those future books, as well as Catch-22.

I also want to work my way through this list: Sci-Fi Lists - Top 100 Sci-Fi Books

And yeah, I've seen Equilibrium. Great flick.

[GrobbeeTrull2.0]

Originally Posted by Cad

Mostly because they're idiots who live above their means, not because it's impossible or even hard. I had enough in cash at 29 to quit work in my paid-off house, drive my 2 paid off lexus' to law school ($35k tuition/yr) where I'm getting no loans while sending my 2 kids to private school ($20k/yr) and recouping about 50-60% of expenses each year via investment income.

Managing money is NOT hard, you just have to not live like a goddamn idiot.

Edit: I swear the K and the V are like right next to each other.. haters!

Because you have a degree in something that obviously pays well, and probably had a lot of help in college from obviously well-to-do parents.

However, don't assume you're the norm for America - only around 27% of Americans even have a bachelors degree, 10% or less have an advanced degree (law, masters, phd all lumped together).

Saving money, even if you don't spend like an idiot or shit out kids (as the common assumption must be - if you're not wealthy, you must be an idiot or babymaking factory) isn't easy on anything less than $35,000 a year as a single person. (Household income in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia for Details on exactly how well off you are)

You're outgoing yearly expenses total in the $50k range, and you're earning $25k in investment gains - on modest returns of 10-12% for aggressive management and high yield funds, you're looking at a quarter of a million dollars invested, at the minimum.

You think you're fucking typical? Reality check time. It must be nice to sit on your throne-on-high and lord over us common folk, but in all reality, people are just more poor than they used to be.

So all of this talk of how much shit you have; that's fine if that's how you measure your life and your self-worth, but don't degrade what others obviously work hard for, even if it's nowhere near what you can crap out in half-a-days work.