"The horrible truth is that for hard core greens the only solution is eliminating a couple billion excess humans and forcing the remnant to live a 'reduced' lifestyle to satisfy their self loathing."
Ding ding ding we have a winner!
While yes, we should absolutely be looking into alternative energy sources for obvious reasons (they're called non-renewable resources for a reason), a lot of these enviromentalists love to propose things that would only be feasible if we killed half of the population off. This isn't some grandiose statement, it's just how it is. Unless humanity gets its growth in check, it'll continue to need a bigger and bigger infrastructure to support it, and the Earth won't be able to keep up with it forever. A real environmentalist would be calling for population controls on humanity, but that would never happen because humanity's ego will forever rebel against that notion.
You can't expect to power the entire US (not to mention the rest of the world) entirely on solar and wind power. They're just too damn inefficient and take up huge amounts of space, not to mention the rare materials required just to make solar panels.
As hokey as this sounds, if you want to see a model of what the result of this idea would be, go play Sim City and try to build a 'green' city that doesn't use any sort of pollution generating power plants. Your population will get capped in a hurry and half the map will be power plants. Yes, I realize that's just a game, but funnily enough that is exactly what would happen in reality. If you really want a laugh, create a normal city with a mix of power plants, and then try "going green." Have fun keeping track of how much of your city you have to bulldoze!
I do think that we should have been on the ball a long while ago with researching alternative fuel sources, and electricity production ideas, but I also realize that you have to temper enviromentalism with a hefty dose of reality something that the hardcore greeners completely lack.
The fact that more people didn't realize that the green movement was cream-filled with bullshit when Al Gore did his big concert is pretty sad really. The amount of waste involved with that to promote a green message practically redefined the word irony.
There isn't an "energy crisis" not yet at least, but we do need to get our act together, cut the rhetoric, and start working on real solutions before the shit actually does hit the fan.
Either that or magically whip out some interstellar cruisers so that we can get the fuck off of Earth That Was in a hurry.
This is something that I speculated about on the Eve-O boards. Four years ago is quite a while, and a CCP employee using something to their benefit in game has happened before. It's been a while since that has happened that we know of (though there have definitely been some fishy situations since the last time, but I'll leave the tinfoil hat off for now). So really it's not completely off the wall to contemplate that whoever saw the exploit report all those years ago just swept it under the rug and put it to use for themselves.
As far as banning are concerned, there's already been a wave of mass account bannings and several corporations have collapsed because of it.
DS Lite and PSPs are neat and all, but don't exactly offer up everything someone would need beyond just games. I can't do online banking from a handheld console system yanno?
Sure you can't stuff a PC in your pocket (unless it's that wonderfully awesome OpenPandora system) but I was thinking more about full blown laptops than netbooks. A fully powered console system is sadly completely useless to anyone with a life outside of their house. I definitely regret buying my 360 now that I've switched companies and no longer have the same accomodations on board the ships that I work on that I used to.
I guess I just have a fairly unique perspective seeing as how I'm gone from home so much. The word 'niche market' definitely sums my position up. While I'd love to see a fully powered PC/Console hybrid so I could still play my console games outside of the house, I know that not too many other people would buy one forever keeping this in the 'keep dreaming' catagory.
The big problem with consoles is portability. You can't take them on the road without completely rebuilding one into a console laptop (which your average person can't do without completely fucking the board up). For me, a console is totally worthless since I spend most of my time out of the house. However, if you were to have some sort of console laptop, you'd still be stuck with the fact that you'd need multiple systems if you want to play all the games. The only way a system like this would be logistically feasible would be if Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo joined forces to put out one system that could do everything and that has 0 chance of ever happening.
The concept of a pc/console hybrid is nice sounding and all, but sometimes the chocolate needs to stay out of the peanut butter. A hobbled desktop wouldn't really be all that useful and wouldn't have the appeal that a cheap pc does. Likewise, a console with some desktop capabilities would be ripe for abuse unless user access was severely crippled, which defeats the point of doing this in the first place.
It's a neat thought, but the more likely scenario is that consoles continue to be the restricted home use enviroments that they are with the companies slowly adding more functionality that the user can't tamper with.
Internet Anonymity is a powerful tool, and much like the force can be used for the greater good, or for complete assholery. The ability to post anonymously lets people post ideas and opinions that are constructive and thought provoking, but aren't exactly "coffee table correct." Unfortunately that same power means that people can troll and attack others without fear.
The positive side of that though, is that only complete retards who seem to always forget about the "block/ignore" button usually get razzed by the evil anons. Let's be entirely honest here, what's the worst the someone can do with being anonymous on the internet? Call me a doodyhead or a racial slur?
Besides, it's not like anyone on the internet is truly anonymous. There's always a 'paper trail' someone can follow if they know where to look.
For a second there I was about ready to hollar at you about it being beta. Thank fully I read the entire post before I hit reply.
Sadly, most people will try out a leaked version, see a driver doesn't work and instantly rage against Microsoft (though that behavior is pretty much the norm for any beta program). Yes, I know, the company's reputation at this point, but hell, at least keep the torches and pitchforks in the shed until the final build is released into the wild.
Not to mention that used games are a great way to introduce new, potential customers to a series. I was able to pick up a copy of Ninja Gaiden: Black out of a used bin, and got so hooked that I snatched up Ninja Gaiden 2 without hesitation at full retail price.
In all honesty though, does anyone even pay attention to what company execs are saying these days? They've already proven themselves to be incredibly ignorant and only good at destroying themselves. From the auto industry to the entertainment industry, there isn't a shred of commen sense left.
Attacks that revolve around opening fucked up attachments and the usual bugginess of IE. Man, such a novel concept, I know I never would have seen that coming.
Seriously though, anyone who is still opening up weird attachments and is still using IE deserves to have their computers raped.
The room is cold...dark.
Nary a ray of harmful sunlight enters this fortress of cybermight might lest it permanently damage the retinas and skin of our proud cybersoldiers.
The clicking of keys fills the room with the staccato burst of a machine gun, suddenly a cry eminates from the far corner.
"I'M HIT!!!"
"JENKINS NOOOOOOO!!!!"
A wiry, pasty man feebly rushes over to help his immensely huge and sweaty comrade. Mountain Dew cans scattered all over the desk, a tub of red vines rolls slowly across the floor.
"Oh god Jenkins, you're gonna make it man you're gonna make it!!!"
"...it was..terrible...lines of code everywhere...they came out of nowhere..I got...pwned"
"You're gonna pull through man!"
"Tell...*cough*...tell my porno collection and box of tissues I love them..."
Jenkins's body slumps to the floor, the combination of stress on his heart from the grueling cyberdefense, and a lifetime of cheetos and Mountain Dew finally overcoming his bulking frame.
"I will avenge you Jenkins I swear on it! Those noobs will pay!"
These emo twats growing up with barney and then the rise of talentless ass clowns like Fallout Boy and My Chemical Romance had everything to do with it.
I thought we had established this years ago?
Official servers and online hubs have been shut down in the past for other games leaving only a few old players tooling about on Hamachi. It's just something that naturally happens over time as player counts dwindle and everyone moves on.
Seeing as how Valve isn't an evil empire, I'm quite sure that in case things went to crap they'd unlock all the games and free them from having to be authenticated by Steam in order to play online. After that, it's just a simple matter of burning the game to a disc and keeping it in your binder.
Hurh, neato. I kinda miss when I lived in Germany and would get to check out all the big European titles that never got any play in the US. They had some really fun games over there.
Granted, they were in German, but hey, not a bad way to learn another language when you're 10 years old, eh?
Rambling aside, I'd love to see statistics (even if they would be nigh impossible to get) on how many people bought one of these games, and then pirated it anyway to get a version that actually works.
"Developers need to stop trying to recreate World of Warcraft with only cosmetic differences."
Absolutely, and that's why all these new MMOs keep crashing and burning. They're trying to cash in on WoW but when their target audience goes to check it out, they realize quickly that WoW is still better and go back to the same ole same ole.
WAR is a good case in point of this. Now, at first I was one of the WAR fanboys. The game really did seem to provide an alternate choice to WAR with more focus on PVP and epic combat. Instead, what I found was that the game's PVP was actually fairly half-assed, boring, and very repetitive. Everyone just runs scenarios because the open world pvp does not give the same level of xp/renown over time invested. There's also some very bizarre game mechanics at work in WAR that are turning people away in droves. Specifically the fact that when you join a zone you're given a random number that determines your contribution level. That's why people get such bizarre outcomes in public quest rewards and renown gain in PVP. Then of course there's also the terrible class imbalances (DPS classes unable to DPS at higher levels like the Shadow Warrior, or the Witch Elf raping absolutely everything in her way), and other bugs/glitches that just aren't getting worked out.
When people go and see that sort of crap, is it any wonder why they go running back to WOW? I've already canceled my WAR subscription and won't be going back until they fix the quickly stacking up list of problems with that game. Thankfully my old corp in Eve Online has welcomed me back and a lot of cool things have happened for them while I was gone.
If publishers/developers expect to break into the MMO market, they need to provide unique gameplay, a unique world, and not just clone WoW. There's a reason the same batch of MMOs just refuse to die. WoW/Eve/Guild Wars/CoH, they all give a unique experience.
As a maritime employee, I use sound powered phones on a daily basis. While they work great and definitely get the job done, they're always a little on the quiet side and tinny sounding. They generate just enough juice to get that low quality voice across. Even if boosted by 100%, I highly doubt that'd be enough for a cellphone, not one capable of doing anything besides just talking at least. There still would have to be some sort of battery in the device to allow you to dial and establish the initial cell signal. I could see some clever implementations of an improved piezoelectric device though. It'd help slow down battery drain if you're constantly on the cellphone at least a little.
Between Britain's massive, rapid drive towards becoming a complete police state and things like this story illustrating just how easily a few hacks in a backroom can completely undermine a democratic vote, it almost makes the US look like a fairytale paradise in comparison.
Not to say our country isn't going to shit as well, it's just taking longer.
The President of the Squirrels has announced his government's plan to buyout all the toxic Oak companies in order to stabilize the squirrel economy. When asked how the government would pay for this he responded "We have a national plan to look more cute and cuddly for the tourists to our great nation in order to increase our revenue for the year. This will allow us to buyout all these bad Oaks and ensure that our Acorn supply is not affected."
As far as the global warming thing, it can never hurt to be more enviromentally conscious, however we can't go completely nuts and shaft ourselves. There's a lot of things happening that not even global warming can just explain off in one shot. We're seeing record ice growth in the arctic right now ( http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/ ) but that's not exactly something you're ever going to see in the news. The fact of the matter is no one knows what the hell is going on. Should humans do their best to curtail enviromental damage, absolutely, and I don't think anyone would argue the point, but everything in moderation. If we went with some of the plans some of the global warming hacks (who are about as braindead as the PETA morons) want, we'd cripple our entire civilization and tank what was left of our economy (not that that would take a whole lot of effort at this point).
I really have to wonder how Lori's defense attorney completely botched this case. It should have been an absolute walk in the park for him to sink the case.
If this doesn't get overturned I can already see the next big lawsuit after this: "The Church of Scientology VS 4chan."
Well, if there's one thing I've learned over the past few years is that the best way to deal with the Tau is by cleansing them via Exterminatus.
Joking aside:
I have a very simple diet that really doesn't involve a lot of cooking (see: none) but I eat a lot of basic fruits/vegetables, meats/cheeses, and things like that. It's not terribly expensive since the foods themselves are all easily purchased in bulk and I eat better and healthier than most everyone else I know. Too often people (especially we proud bachelors) equate eating at home to involve tons of annoying cooking, but it's pretty simple to eat well cheaply.
By keeping lots of simple items about like fruits, cheeses, sandwich style meats, etc. that are healthy but also require 0 preparation it becomes a simple matter to eat well. Even when you go digging for a snack, what you grab will be good for you. Thanks to having easy to eat food at home, you won't sit there going "what will I cook for dinner for myself" and just end up going "ah fuck it I'll go buy a burger." No more fast food = more money in your back pocket, and you'll find yourself feeling a whole lot better in a hurry.
Granted, if you have a family this entire idea goes to crap since it's cheaper to do meals for the whole family, so you'll have to figure that one out for yourself.
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"The horrible truth is that for hard core greens the only solution is eliminating a couple billion excess humans and forcing the remnant to live a 'reduced' lifestyle to satisfy their self loathing." Ding ding ding we have a winner!
While yes, we should absolutely be looking into alternative energy sources for obvious reasons (they're called non-renewable resources for a reason), a lot of these enviromentalists love to propose things that would only be feasible if we killed half of the population off. This isn't some grandiose statement, it's just how it is. Unless humanity gets its growth in check, it'll continue to need a bigger and bigger infrastructure to support it, and the Earth won't be able to keep up with it forever. A real environmentalist would be calling for population controls on humanity, but that would never happen because humanity's ego will forever rebel against that notion.
You can't expect to power the entire US (not to mention the rest of the world) entirely on solar and wind power. They're just too damn inefficient and take up huge amounts of space, not to mention the rare materials required just to make solar panels.
As hokey as this sounds, if you want to see a model of what the result of this idea would be, go play Sim City and try to build a 'green' city that doesn't use any sort of pollution generating power plants. Your population will get capped in a hurry and half the map will be power plants. Yes, I realize that's just a game, but funnily enough that is exactly what would happen in reality. If you really want a laugh, create a normal city with a mix of power plants, and then try "going green." Have fun keeping track of how much of your city you have to bulldoze!
I do think that we should have been on the ball a long while ago with researching alternative fuel sources, and electricity production ideas, but I also realize that you have to temper enviromentalism with a hefty dose of reality something that the hardcore greeners completely lack.
The fact that more people didn't realize that the green movement was cream-filled with bullshit when Al Gore did his big concert is pretty sad really. The amount of waste involved with that to promote a green message practically redefined the word irony.
There isn't an "energy crisis" not yet at least, but we do need to get our act together, cut the rhetoric, and start working on real solutions before the shit actually does hit the fan.
Either that or magically whip out some interstellar cruisers so that we can get the fuck off of Earth That Was in a hurry.
This is something that I speculated about on the Eve-O boards. Four years ago is quite a while, and a CCP employee using something to their benefit in game has happened before. It's been a while since that has happened that we know of (though there have definitely been some fishy situations since the last time, but I'll leave the tinfoil hat off for now). So really it's not completely off the wall to contemplate that whoever saw the exploit report all those years ago just swept it under the rug and put it to use for themselves.
As far as banning are concerned, there's already been a wave of mass account bannings and several corporations have collapsed because of it.
However you have to go through ten different members of the waitstaff until you find one that actually drops your meal.
DS Lite and PSPs are neat and all, but don't exactly offer up everything someone would need beyond just games. I can't do online banking from a handheld console system yanno?
Sure you can't stuff a PC in your pocket (unless it's that wonderfully awesome OpenPandora system) but I was thinking more about full blown laptops than netbooks. A fully powered console system is sadly completely useless to anyone with a life outside of their house. I definitely regret buying my 360 now that I've switched companies and no longer have the same accomodations on board the ships that I work on that I used to.
I guess I just have a fairly unique perspective seeing as how I'm gone from home so much. The word 'niche market' definitely sums my position up. While I'd love to see a fully powered PC/Console hybrid so I could still play my console games outside of the house, I know that not too many other people would buy one forever keeping this in the 'keep dreaming' catagory.
The big problem with consoles is portability.
You can't take them on the road without completely rebuilding one into a console laptop (which your average person can't do without completely fucking the board up). For me, a console is totally worthless since I spend most of my time out of the house. However, if you were to have some sort of console laptop, you'd still be stuck with the fact that you'd need multiple systems if you want to play all the games. The only way a system like this would be logistically feasible would be if Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo joined forces to put out one system that could do everything and that has 0 chance of ever happening.
The concept of a pc/console hybrid is nice sounding and all, but sometimes the chocolate needs to stay out of the peanut butter. A hobbled desktop wouldn't really be all that useful and wouldn't have the appeal that a cheap pc does. Likewise, a console with some desktop capabilities would be ripe for abuse unless user access was severely crippled, which defeats the point of doing this in the first place.
It's a neat thought, but the more likely scenario is that consoles continue to be the restricted home use enviroments that they are with the companies slowly adding more functionality that the user can't tamper with.
Internet Anonymity is a powerful tool, and much like the force can be used for the greater good, or for complete assholery. The ability to post anonymously lets people post ideas and opinions that are constructive and thought provoking, but aren't exactly "coffee table correct."
Unfortunately that same power means that people can troll and attack others without fear.
The positive side of that though, is that only complete retards who seem to always forget about the "block/ignore" button usually get razzed by the evil anons. Let's be entirely honest here, what's the worst the someone can do with being anonymous on the internet? Call me a doodyhead or a racial slur?
Besides, it's not like anyone on the internet is truly anonymous. There's always a 'paper trail' someone can follow if they know where to look.
For a second there I was about ready to hollar at you about it being beta. Thank fully I read the entire post before I hit reply.
Sadly, most people will try out a leaked version, see a driver doesn't work and instantly rage against Microsoft (though that behavior is pretty much the norm for any beta program). Yes, I know, the company's reputation at this point, but hell, at least keep the torches and pitchforks in the shed until the final build is released into the wild.
Not to mention that used games are a great way to introduce new, potential customers to a series. I was able to pick up a copy of Ninja Gaiden: Black out of a used bin, and got so hooked that I snatched up Ninja Gaiden 2 without hesitation at full retail price.
In all honesty though, does anyone even pay attention to what company execs are saying these days? They've already proven themselves to be incredibly ignorant and only good at destroying themselves. From the auto industry to the entertainment industry, there isn't a shred of commen sense left.
Attacks that revolve around opening fucked up attachments and the usual bugginess of IE. Man, such a novel concept, I know I never would have seen that coming.
Seriously though, anyone who is still opening up weird attachments and is still using IE deserves to have their computers raped.
The room is cold...dark.
Nary a ray of harmful sunlight enters this fortress of cybermight might lest it permanently damage the retinas and skin of our proud cybersoldiers.
The clicking of keys fills the room with the staccato burst of a machine gun, suddenly a cry eminates from the far corner.
"I'M HIT!!!"
"JENKINS NOOOOOOO!!!!"
A wiry, pasty man feebly rushes over to help his immensely huge and sweaty comrade. Mountain Dew cans scattered all over the desk, a tub of red vines rolls slowly across the floor.
"Oh god Jenkins, you're gonna make it man you're gonna make it!!!"
"...it was..terrible...lines of code everywhere...they came out of nowhere..I got...pwned"
"You're gonna pull through man!"
"Tell...*cough*...tell my porno collection and box of tissues I love them..."
Jenkins's body slumps to the floor, the combination of stress on his heart from the grueling cyberdefense, and a lifetime of cheetos and Mountain Dew finally overcoming his bulking frame.
"I will avenge you Jenkins I swear on it! Those noobs will pay!"
These emo twats growing up with barney and then the rise of talentless ass clowns like Fallout Boy and My Chemical Romance had everything to do with it. I thought we had established this years ago?
Shall we play a game?
Matchmaker, Matchmaker,
Make me a match,
Find me some noobs,
Pwn me a catch
Matchmaker, Matchmaker
Look through your list,
And make me a perfect match
And in other news, Epic Megagames continues their descent into being a pathetic shadow of their former self. More news at 11!
I'm not sure what all the hub bub is about here.
Official servers and online hubs have been shut down in the past for other games leaving only a few old players tooling about on Hamachi. It's just something that naturally happens over time as player counts dwindle and everyone moves on.
Seeing as how Valve isn't an evil empire, I'm quite sure that in case things went to crap they'd unlock all the games and free them from having to be authenticated by Steam in order to play online. After that, it's just a simple matter of burning the game to a disc and keeping it in your binder.
You do backup all your downloaded content I hope.
Either that, or we end up with the beginnings of the X-Men.
Hurh, neato. I kinda miss when I lived in Germany and would get to check out all the big European titles that never got any play in the US. They had some really fun games over there. Granted, they were in German, but hey, not a bad way to learn another language when you're 10 years old, eh? Rambling aside, I'd love to see statistics (even if they would be nigh impossible to get) on how many people bought one of these games, and then pirated it anyway to get a version that actually works.
Anyway, I'm sure this will end up just like the COD4 DLC: Free for PC users!
Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 at #10?
Man, talk about right outta left field.
"Developers need to stop trying to recreate World of Warcraft with only cosmetic differences." Absolutely, and that's why all these new MMOs keep crashing and burning. They're trying to cash in on WoW but when their target audience goes to check it out, they realize quickly that WoW is still better and go back to the same ole same ole.
WAR is a good case in point of this. Now, at first I was one of the WAR fanboys. The game really did seem to provide an alternate choice to WAR with more focus on PVP and epic combat. Instead, what I found was that the game's PVP was actually fairly half-assed, boring, and very repetitive. Everyone just runs scenarios because the open world pvp does not give the same level of xp/renown over time invested. There's also some very bizarre game mechanics at work in WAR that are turning people away in droves. Specifically the fact that when you join a zone you're given a random number that determines your contribution level. That's why people get such bizarre outcomes in public quest rewards and renown gain in PVP. Then of course there's also the terrible class imbalances (DPS classes unable to DPS at higher levels like the Shadow Warrior, or the Witch Elf raping absolutely everything in her way), and other bugs/glitches that just aren't getting worked out.
When people go and see that sort of crap, is it any wonder why they go running back to WOW? I've already canceled my WAR subscription and won't be going back until they fix the quickly stacking up list of problems with that game. Thankfully my old corp in Eve Online has welcomed me back and a lot of cool things have happened for them while I was gone.
If publishers/developers expect to break into the MMO market, they need to provide unique gameplay, a unique world, and not just clone WoW. There's a reason the same batch of MMOs just refuse to die. WoW/Eve/Guild Wars/CoH, they all give a unique experience.
Could you imagine some Alzheimer's ridden grandpa with a handgun? WHO ARE YOU!? *BANG* *groan* What the hell Dad!?
As a maritime employee, I use sound powered phones on a daily basis. While they work great and definitely get the job done, they're always a little on the quiet side and tinny sounding. They generate just enough juice to get that low quality voice across. Even if boosted by 100%, I highly doubt that'd be enough for a cellphone, not one capable of doing anything besides just talking at least. There still would have to be some sort of battery in the device to allow you to dial and establish the initial cell signal. I could see some clever implementations of an improved piezoelectric device though. It'd help slow down battery drain if you're constantly on the cellphone at least a little.
Between Britain's massive, rapid drive towards becoming a complete police state and things like this story illustrating just how easily a few hacks in a backroom can completely undermine a democratic vote, it almost makes the US look like a fairytale paradise in comparison. Not to say our country isn't going to shit as well, it's just taking longer.
The President of the Squirrels has announced his government's plan to buyout all the toxic Oak companies in order to stabilize the squirrel economy. When asked how the government would pay for this he responded "We have a national plan to look more cute and cuddly for the tourists to our great nation in order to increase our revenue for the year. This will allow us to buyout all these bad Oaks and ensure that our Acorn supply is not affected."
As far as the global warming thing, it can never hurt to be more enviromentally conscious, however we can't go completely nuts and shaft ourselves. There's a lot of things happening that not even global warming can just explain off in one shot. We're seeing record ice growth in the arctic right now ( http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/ ) but that's not exactly something you're ever going to see in the news. The fact of the matter is no one knows what the hell is going on. Should humans do their best to curtail enviromental damage, absolutely, and I don't think anyone would argue the point, but everything in moderation. If we went with some of the plans some of the global warming hacks (who are about as braindead as the PETA morons) want, we'd cripple our entire civilization and tank what was left of our economy (not that that would take a whole lot of effort at this point).
I really have to wonder how Lori's defense attorney completely botched this case. It should have been an absolute walk in the park for him to sink the case. If this doesn't get overturned I can already see the next big lawsuit after this: "The Church of Scientology VS 4chan."
Well, if there's one thing I've learned over the past few years is that the best way to deal with the Tau is by cleansing them via Exterminatus.
Joking aside:
I have a very simple diet that really doesn't involve a lot of cooking (see: none) but I eat a lot of basic fruits/vegetables, meats/cheeses, and things like that. It's not terribly expensive since the foods themselves are all easily purchased in bulk and I eat better and healthier than most everyone else I know. Too often people (especially we proud bachelors) equate eating at home to involve tons of annoying cooking, but it's pretty simple to eat well cheaply.
By keeping lots of simple items about like fruits, cheeses, sandwich style meats, etc. that are healthy but also require 0 preparation it becomes a simple matter to eat well. Even when you go digging for a snack, what you grab will be good for you. Thanks to having easy to eat food at home, you won't sit there going "what will I cook for dinner for myself" and just end up going "ah fuck it I'll go buy a burger." No more fast food = more money in your back pocket, and you'll find yourself feeling a whole lot better in a hurry.
Granted, if you have a family this entire idea goes to crap since it's cheaper to do meals for the whole family, so you'll have to figure that one out for yourself.