The truth

Especially if you’re a drug dealer.

Digital pre-cum.

If I understand right, it’s just VPN to VPN that won’t work.

If the downloader has an open port, I can still connect and pump them full of data.

Given the amount of Castlevania games, I think it’s fair to say vampires are understood in Japan at least.

I thought I understood Japanese horror. Ring, Dark Water, etc.

Then I watched Dead Sushi…

Love the use of a double amputee for the defibrillator scene.

“When you look at someone through rose coloured glasses, all the red flags just look like flags.”

Nazis.

Man, that’s a long list of requirements.

Best I can do is half the games spread over 4 streaming services.

Your server isn’t working today.

This is because Microsoft wants you to finish setting up your PC that has been running for ten years.

You do realise normal people have mortgages, right? I don’t know why everyone has just assumed I’m taking about landlords here…

It’s not just landlords pushing it up.

The constrained supply, the low interest rates, the greedy banks pushing bigger and bigger mortgages, government “help to buy” schemes which appear to be a way to help people buy homes, but in effect just pushes the price ever higher…

The centralisation of jobs in certain areas. We have the internet. This could have practically solved the property crisis on it’s own, along with overloaded transport systems and pollution, but rich people were losing too much money, so back to the office, plebs.

If house prices were directly connected to inflation, there would be no issue.

But they run far above inflation. This is what gets a pack of landlords involved.

There’s a point where putting your money into a basic stock market tracker gives a better return than landlording. That’s when they go and do that instead. It’s a lot less up front investment, and a lot less risk.

It’s mostly the spiralling house prices that attracts the landlord class, not the rent. The house is making money even if there’s nobody in it. Rent is just the icing on the cake. Right now they just cannot lose.

You have to realise that landlords aren’t the plague. They’re the buboes. A symptom.

If you can take your spare money (a concept from days gone by, I know), buy a house for X, rent it out for Y a month, then finally sell it in 20 years for Z, and be 99.99% guaranteed to make more money from it than you can from pretty much any other source, then why wouldn’t you?

Remove the incentive for that (homes that don’t go up by more than the inflation rate), there will be no need for them to exist.

But in any case, the size of the building projects required would likely be government level anyway, and they can be the “landlord” for anyone not wanting to buy. This was called council houses in the olden days, before Maggie Thatcher killed that.

People who can no longer afford their mortgages would disagree with you.

Edit: I’ve absolutely no fucking idea why you all think I mean landlords here. You do realise normal people have mortgages right? And if you don’t pay them, the bank take your house and make you homeless?

Build. More. Homes.

We used to have enough, and then in the late 70s, early 80s they decided that if they didn’t build enough, then they could make housing scarce and therefore more valuable. A big long-con, 40 years in the making.

Housebuilders would make more profit per home. Homeowners would have more wealth (even if they can’t access it). Inheritance taxes could take more of a bite. Landlords could charge more. Retirements could be funded entirely by buying 2-3 houses and renting them out, and then cash in later on the full value of those homes when they’d gone up by double the interest rates.

They don’t have to be amazing homes. They don’t need an acre of land to sit on. They don’t need three bedrooms. Kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, living room. Affordable on a quarter of a single person’s minimum wage income.

If somebody else is cooking most of your food, you probably live somewhere that a landlord has convinced you a kitchen is like a sink and a microwave. Maybe space for an air fryer if you’re lucky.

No-one saw it coming. Four. More. Times.