Why are games so expensive here?
>>339026595
Import tax? V.A.T? I dunno, nigga. Maybe your government just fucking hates you or something.
>>339026595
suits ripping us off because they think they can get away with it
exercise your consumer power and pirate, rather than buying, unless you feel the game is worth the price
>muh minimum wage argument
>implying i work
doesnt really matter, never buy games anyway
>higher minimum wage
>less expendable income
How does this work? Are Australian utility companies fucking them?
>>339027243
all we do is drink and smoke, cigs are around $20 for a pack of 20 and beer is $45+ for 24 cans.
>>339027629
20 bucks if you're lucky man
Because people will pay that much for them.
Because you lost the emu war
>>339027907
only normies
luckily for them this is the most normie country on the planet
>>339027243
>Are Australian utility companies fucking them?
yes re electricity
more like why is every game banned or heavily censored there
Because you go to EBIN gaerms you fucking dog cunt.
Taxes.
Your awful dollar.
Consumerism.
And the good US of A.
I'm Canadian, I feel your pain.
Why is this Autumn so fucking cold?
>>339028410
It's not cold if you put on a jumper or 2
>>339026595
things tend to be expensive in third world countries
>>339028489
not him but I'm wearing 2 jumpers right now and still feeling it
>>339028410
What temperature is it outside?
>>339028925
9.6 Celsius. Where I live, at least.
>>339028979
where u live?
>>339029125
Bendigo.
>>339028410
It's almost never cold here though, I don't think I even own a jumper thicker than a Flannelette shirt.
It's been 0 degrees here, but that's the worst I've ever seen it.
>>339026595
http://www.itnews.com.au/news/australia-tax-confirmed-it-pricing-report-released-351525
>Microsoft Australia managing director Pip Marlow said during the public hearing the software giant was charging what Australians could bear.
The truth is they're that much more expensive because it's how much profit overseas companies can garner without a substantial drop in sales. Don't listen to the minimum wage meme that's been espoused by armchair economists on /v/ for years.
>>339028410
The cold isn't the problem, it's the fucking wind blowing that cold air into you
Same reason everything is
>go to buy an 8 pack of crappy woolworths brand sausages
>$6
What the fuck
It's pretty fucking cold in Adelaide right now desu.
I guess I'll have a shower tomorrow instead
Monster Hunter Generations better be 60 flat or fucking hell mate.
Stralia thread??
How're you emu fuckers spending your Friday night?
>>339028114
>some of the biggest coal resources in the world
>electricity expensive
>>339029446
Gonna go to work.
Australian shitposting thread?
475 shitposts to go, make em count boys
>>339029446
>case of great northerns: tinnies
>SFV
Good night.
How accurate is this for Aussie temperatures?
>>339029349
>buying sausages from woolies
>buying anything from woolies
Go to IGA/Foodland or better yet your local butcher.
>>339026595
Its because cartridges had import tax based on weight. Because the price was always high it seems nonsensical to lower it.
>>339029490
What do you do, Anon?
>>339029539
Godbless
>>339028410
It's been the warmest Autumn in years. It's only been cool over the last few days
>>339029446
Working right now. Then probably some games when I get home.
>>339029559
Fairly.
At least in SA.
>>339029559
Copy and paste the guy with the red scarf over the Shining picture underneath it and put some sweat onto the top Australian picture and that's about right.
>>339029559
Pretty accurate
>>339027629
>cigs = $20
>$1 for production/packaging etc
>$3 to company who makes them
>$16 to government for cig tax
fukk
>>339029630
Stocking shelves at Coles and take in the diary delivery. Love the penalty rates after 12.
>>339029559
Fucking hate it when it's 30 and above
But everything else is perfect
>>339029559
Very accurate.
>>339029559
Pretty guud
>>339029708
lol, how old are you?
>>339029708
Graveyard shift can't be all that bad, at least its not the retail end of a grocery store member
Excellent an Australian thread.
Fellow Aussies, how many of you bought Overwatch? I've been tempted to pick it up as I am already burnt out on Dark Souls 3.
But I'm worried the matchmaking will suck ass and I'll grow bored of it before I get my sixty dollery doos worth.
>>339029559
You certainly got the heat part right but we aren't that weak the the cold
>>339029684
Don't lie to yourself, you'll probably just log into /v/ on your computer and shitpost.
>>339026595
Price difference for games is pretty insignificant now unless you do something dumb like buy a Steam game that improperly converts dollars.
>>339029921
I am
>>339029926
Nah fuck off cunt im freezing my johnies over here and its like 10c outside.
>>339029921
Anything under around 22 degrees is freezing for me
>>339029908
Do you have friends?
>>339026595
Try fucking New Zealand
>new releases are $110
>Fucking 3DS games are $70
EB are a buncha cunts.
>>339030045
I have 2 that would maybe, sometimes, play Overwatch with me if I asked, the rest have no interest in it. I'd most likely be braving solo queue for 99% of my existence.
>>339029976
>>339030019
Do you pansy's live in the city or something? 0 degrees is fine, -10 is when it starts to get unbearable
>>339029585
Most of those are owned by indian cunts.
I used to work at one and the lebbos that owned it were cunts to everyone.
Fuck em, Metcash the company that supplies them are cunts too.
>>339030108
Maybe after a sale or so. A shame there's no demo so you check the server.
>>339030165
>blizzard
>sale
>>339030235
Hey it could happen, about the same chance as me getting laid. Look up streams or so. Most pub matches are full of tards so if you're mildly competent you can probably do well.
>>339029446
Gonna watch the new Gurls und Panzer movie like a weeb
>>339030129
Metcash are indeed enormous cunts.
>14 Celsius
who's sitting their shitposting and occasional steam box near their open window?
>>339030479
It's raining in my little part of SA so I feel this would be a bad idea.
HOLY SHIT GUYS!
>>339030568
Where you at?5000 here
>>339030734
>city dweller
>>339026595
because jewish publishers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination
who /centrelink/ here?
>>339029446
Watch anime then fap to mtf hentai.Maybe play Mario World on my 3DS for 10 minutes.
Because you're dumb and don't know how to shop around.
Once you consider exchange rate and the fact that Taxes are already included this is probably cheaper than in the US. If you are paying more than $70 for a game you are doing it wrong.
>>339031151
>mtf hentai
Do you mean heterosexual or genderbending?
>>339030271
B-but there are no subs... Surely you can't meanー
>>339031071
I am, but at uni.
>>339031219
>>339031219
Forgot pic, also this only occurs for physical copies. If you play on PC you're right and proper fucked. And considering our shit Internet and temperatures, PC gaming just isn't very appealing.
Ok, image uploading is broken for me. Anyone else having issues?
It was Uncharted 4 for $69 if anyone was wondering.
>>339026595
>Expensive
>Games
>>339031443
>new games
this is where you fucked up m8
>>339031443
PC-only games that refuse to charge the physical equivalent price are just invitations to piracy or at the very least to use a service that does.
>>339030626
no way that's photoshopped
>>339026595
Because you pay for them, you chinkfucker.
Stop paying for things and they'll lower the price (or raise the quality) until you're willing to pay.
>>339028410
>autumn
It's spring, the fuck are you talking about
>>339028410
It's been over 18C all month in Sydney m8
>>339026595
>Overwatch is $90
I hate living on a tight budget
>>339028410
8 in Cranberry atm, my fucking window is jammed open for some reason and I can't close it
I think there's frost in my computer's intake fans
>>339031842
this is an Australia thread you illiterate cunt
>>339030079
I usually import games from a Britbongland site that's a little better with prices
Nintendo games never really drop in price though
>>339031372
I've been learning 日本語 for a few months. I don't care if I only understand a fraction of it. It'll be a good learning experience.
>>339031949
I know it's an Australia thread, that doesn't make it any less spring dipshit
>>339026595
Faggot tax.
Aussies get taxed for being shitposting faggots.
>>339032012
The faggot tax doesn't apply to imports though.
>>339032008
Am I being baited or do you not know how hemispheres work?
>>339032265
What do hemispheres have to do with this? It's fucking spring dude, winter just ended, are you okay?
>>339032362
>>339032008
Only an american could be this stupid
>mfw 5 days away from start of winter and the humidity has been hovering around 80% all day
>it's currently raining
Who singlet and thongs here?
>>339032008
Nah its nearly winter mate
>>339032396
I'm in Tokyo right now, we are in the same hemisphere, not that it matters. You can be wrong, I don't mind, just don't be a faggot about it.
>>339032571
Only an american
>>339032416
It's cold as fuck in melbourne
>>339027243
Food is super expensive.
Houses are WAY more expensive.
Alcohol is super expensive.
Everything is super expensive.
USA is cheap as chips to live in. You can work as mcdonalds and still get by easily.
>>339032396
Stop responding, moron.
>>339032416
Not nearly as thick-skinned as that, but I'm still running around in T-Shirt & Shorts for what its worth.
>>339032650
Plus they've got a nice charismatic man about to become President as opposed to our anti-charisma leaders in Labor and Liberal.
How easy is it to leave this place and move to somewhere actually first world like Canada or the US?
>>339032869
Not sure why you'd want to move somewhere with a lower standard of living.
>>339032869
Good luck escaping the boat people over there mate
>>339029178
Bendigo bois.
>>339029280
>Flannelette shirt.
It's spelled "Flanny", you fucking ponce.
>>339029446
Study for bloody exams, procrastinate, maybe get pissed if it doesn't rain
>>339029446
Bought Overwatch yesterday, probably gonna stay in and binge.
>>339029559
Yeah, 30 degrees is pretty much my ideal temp
>>339031878
hahaha $50 for origins edition from g2a
>>339026595
So are Australia and New Zealand basically the same country? Like Britain and Ireland.
>>339029908
It's pretty fun, and the matchmaking usually isn't too bad. Can't speak to the longevity of it though, I only bought it yesterday.
>>339033263
Naw, newzealanders fuck sheep.
>>339033263
New Zealand is full of shit cunts
>>339033204
Max comfy. Shorts, singlets, babes and beaches. Sun's out and the drinks are flowing. Does it get any better?
>majority of americans will never know this feeling
>>339026595
People make like 3 times what Japs and Murican make so they should deal with it.
>>339032918
>Lower standard of living
Is it though? Not being shot or stabbed for going to the movies is nice, but it just seems like in every other way aussie land sucks.
>>339033319
Just like the Welsh then.
>>339031071
someone help>got cut off because my course is parttime
>trying to get jobseeker but centrelink wants to know why i'm not living at home
>got thrown out at 16, but insane parent won't sign anything to confirm it so centrelink won't give me anything
>up to my ears in bills and debt to m8s
>literally no jobs I'm qualified for anywhere in a 1 hour public transport radius
im a frogposter in the dumps
>>339033417
All we need to do is relax the ever creeping police/nanny state mind set in people and we'd easily soar above every other country.
>>339033417
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index#Inequality-adjusted_HDI
we're one of the best places in the world to live mate
for now, anyway, because if the retard government doesn't get off their asses all our natural resources are going to go to CHOIIIIIINA. We already lost all our manufacturing.
>>339031842
>American education
>>339029446
Got sent home sick from work, taken right off my station (I'm a linecook). Fucking sucks, nothing worse on a Friday night.
Gonna throw on something comfy and rest up, any /v/ related vids you'd recommend?
>>339033417
Yes. Aussies have more income to spend on luxuries. We wouldn't be able to pay extortionate prices for cars, take regular international vacations and bid real estate into the stratosphere if we didn't have pots of cash lying around.
If you live in both places, it pretty quickly becomes clear that American luxury is somewhat illusory, though many of them aren't poor by any means. Necessities are definitely a bit cheaper in real terms over there though.
>>339033518
Apply at places like Maccas and Woolies. Being a check out chick ain't so bad. Pay is pretty decent once you hit 20
>>339033626
Not even a serious report. They're missing data from several countries, like North Korea.
As far as we know the missing countries could all place higher, which would make straya 12th on the list.
>>339033751
applied at 3 woolies so far, nothing. And I'm not ugly, either, not that that would matter for a shelfstacker.
this economy is fucking unreal.
>>339033518
>got thrown out at 16
Isn't that illegal?
>>339033889
Yeah anon-who-avatarfags-like-a-faggot-with-the-cute-animuu-girl-in-Straya-threads, I'm sure North Korea gives their citizens free WiFi and medical care
>>339033905
It's worse in older-skewing countries.
Is there any data entry nearby? Those are pretty easy to get if you're competent with a keyboard.
>>339033986
not according to her. School counselor wouldn't let me go back anyway, the place was moldy, me and my sister had lice, and I got only microwaved food to eat.
It was a weird combination of helicopter parenting and neglect, Mum wouldn't let us do anything but we weren't allowed to do it ourselves either
>>339033905
Where do ya live m8?
>>339034010
>implying best korea doesn't
Have you been there?
any cute girls live in melbourne wanna fuck a fat slob like me
>>339034072
That sounds interesting anon, I don't know, I haven't looked into that. Do you need koalafications?
>>339034126
The rural suburbs of melbourne, in the Dandenong Ranges (not to be confused with Dandenong)
>>339034147
Yes anon i have, i also have a black belt in gorilla warfare, memes, etc
mmmmmmmmmmmmmm
>>339034267
Do you also have a black belt in placing 12th on surveys?
>>339034194
Depends on the job. Some will want you to do a test run, which is where being a good typist will be a big advantage because a lot of people are really shit at it. Look into clerical/transcription/data entry stuff if you can do 50+.
>>339034331
whaddaya talkin bout
>>339028410
>May
>Autumn
You Australians are hilarious.
>>339034439
>he'll never have a summer christmas
there there
>>339034349
>if you can do 50+
Are there even people that type under 90? Especially on 4chan?
>>339027243
High min wage means higher prices of goods/services if the min wage is artificially high. Ultimately if those min wage jobs pay more than they are really worth then business proprietors will raise prices to sustain their business models.
>>339026595
Just a small shitposting tariff.
Are there any games where you play as a bogan cunt killing abbos?
>>339034349
Does 50+ refer to words per minute? Thanks anon, this sounds good
>>339034502
But we had 20°C here last Christmas in Germany thanks to global warming.
>>339034516
I mean, I type about 100, but above 50 is typically where you want to be for a job that involves hours of keyboard mashing every day. If you're actually fast, it can look very impressive to normies.
>>339034342
No
>>339034631
Sounds like it's what could fix NEET life for half of 4chan then.
>>339034349
Cool, I just tested, i get 60 words per minute. Would it be a problem if I use different keyboards to what I'm used to though? And where do i apply for a data entry job?
>>339032571
he's not just American, he's a weeaboo too. Next you'll tell us you had to buy a new anime pillow because your old one stands up on it own.
>>339026595
I blame video game for not having more shit like the Cronulla beach riot
>>339034621
>20c
>summer
there there
>>339034925
Still impressive to have 20 in December in Europe.
>>339028410
>he isn't morbidly obese
NOW who's laughing cunt...
>>339034793
Depends on the job. In my experience most places use pretty generic keyboards unless someone requests a special one for some reason. Temp agencies will have these kinds of jobs, but you may have more luck finding longer-term positions looking through the usual places like Seek or the government gazette.
>>339028761
cry me a river m8, im in Tassie
>>339029446
i just watched 10 cloverfield lane, it was ok.
>>339034793
Just bring your own keyboard in, obviously tell the IT dept what you're doing, but 99% of places won't give a shit as long as someone ticks it off.
>>339029446
Playing Rogue Legacy and waiting for the Gargos update to hit KI.
>>339035363
>>339034793
>>339035098
thanks anoons
>>339029908
I did but i'm fucking pissed that it's 70$ from the battlenet store for australians. There is almost no tax that needs to be paid for digital goods. It's fucking retarded.
Any of you cunts play SFV?
>>339035718
got dayum
>>339035718
are abs and that ass+titties combo even achievable? Should her tits and ass shrink witrh that bodyfat?
>>339026595
It's your punishment for shitposting
>>339026595
for the first time ever, I'm feeling the effects of denuvo. so far it's been only shitty games that use denuvo, until now, both doom and warhammer use it.
i might actually have to purchase a video game.
or nah, i'll just go into the backlog.
>>339035890
Shit game, but I dabble I guess? Dropped it for KI. What a let down.
>>339036251
It's pretty fun on peak hours, there's some silvers that play regularly.
SFIV was pretty good too, i'm waiting for balrog so my main sparring dude will start playing.
>>339036435
I really loved Ultra. SFV just doesn't come close to it, imo. Birdie is fun and all, but not fun enough to keep me playing. Game is just such a snore fest.
>>339036251
Same deal here but been playing KI since launch. I really want to like SFV but it feels like it wants to be Third Strike but falls short of being Giant Attack. IV was absolute tits. Love that game.
>>339033518
You can emancipate yourself you useless faggot.
>>339036589
Needed that Windows launch to get me on it. Just hit killer rank this morning. Though for some reason closing the game after and re-opening an hour later had dropped me back to my qualifying match, super fucking weird. Game is so fun, though, been having a blast. Who do you play?
>>339029417
bigger 3DS releases have been closer to $70 lately, but hopefully big woolworths will do us right.
>>339036060
tits are a mass of glands, not fat
>>339036779
Is Big W the best? I've just been going to EB and 'haggling' them down to 60
>>339037495
Big Willy and Target are the best for new releases. Generally $10-$15 cheaper than EB and JB.
However like you said, you can always get EB to price match.
>>339029585
You are retarded
Meat is more expensive because the $ has dropped
IGA has inconsistent supply, each shop picks its own supplier for anything other than grocery and dairy. They have zero standards.
Any non suburban store has terrible refrigeration
Butchers literally mince old shit that hasn't sold after its use by date.
>you fell for the duopoly meme
>>339026595
taxes, minimum wage, jews etc
>>339034194
Do you go to Sooki?
>overwatch 70 dollarydoos
nope
>>339033263
Australia is the America of the Pacific and New Zealand is Canada.
>>339038795
Also all we have are the SE Asia servers at best
>>339038795
>overwatch
>>339032869
Holy fuck is this pic real?
>>339036060
Her tits are plastic.
>>339027629
>we
Speak for yourself ya feral cunt
>live in Perth
>earn 10% more
>everything costs 30% more
T-thanks, Colin
>>339027629
>cans.
Are those even still a thing? Literally never seen a tinny in over a decade. Go into the bottle-o and all I see are cartons of stubbies and that's fine by me.
>>339042539
Could be worse. You could be a cucktorian.
>>339027629
yeah 20 bucks for now
they want to tax them even more because it's such easy revenue for the government. good thing I never took up smoking
>>339038795
bought the origins edition off a cdkey site for like 50 bucks
>>339040074
and blizzard have aussie servers for like all their games now
>>339044759
still not worth it m8
>>339044796
yeah i bought it with all my friends
it's pretty fun for now but I feel like it will be a game we will all get bored of in a few weeks
>>339026595
50% of price goes to Malcolm's Swiss bank account.
>>339027629
>$17 for six bottles
Why has this become the norm? Shit like James Squire and Stella Artois aren't even that good, and anything below $16 tastes like shit.
>>339033417
>had a pain in my side the other day
>visit GP
normally $50, was free
>get CT scan
normally $600, was free
>complication, 4 days in hospital
normally $10000, was free
>have to take pills from now on
normally ???, is $6 a month.
I'm never leaving this country.
>>339045736
Fuck, I had this just happen too.
>GP
Subsidized to $32
>Ultrasound
Free
>Follow-up with GP
Free
