They dont make much on tickets, true. But they sure as fuck don't lose so much money that a 12oz can of Coke should cost $10+. They're prices go beyond simply getting back into the black. It's straight up greed.
Literally anything. Even the things I still have that use AA and AAA batteries (of which the newest things are my VR controllers which is so stupid...), I have rechargeable lithium ion AAs and AAAs for so I don't have to constantly buy batteries.
As a kid, tho, I loved 9volts because they had the best connectors. I could take a little battery powered motor apart, glue it to some legos and use it to make machines that moved or did stuff. I almost killed myself once wondering what would happen if I took the cord from a busted fan, wired it to the 9volt battery motor and the plugged the cord into the wall outlet.
Just DuoLingo, watching Japanese stuff without subtitles (including cultural guides for further understanding) to force myself to listen, and then looking up words I don't know when I come across them.
My goal was never to learn how to speak or write anything; just understand it well enough to watch Japanese media in the original language. I still often have to rewind and play back stuff to get it all. Especially if they are saying a long sentence really fast.
It also probably helps that Language itself is one of the things that tickles my autistic brain.
I've only ever seen it grilled. Either in a skillet or on an actual grill for BBQ with a little bit of oil. Though, I have never even had the cheese myself. I've wanted to try it ever since I first heard about it and the way it doesn't melt.
I've been doing daily lessons on it for almost a whole year with the goal of being able to watch anime without subtitles.
I have achieved my goal almost completely. I just need to learn more vocab because DuoLingo has only taught about 150 or so words. Gamifying learning works; if you can stick with it. Which is the whole point in making it like a game: so you stick to it.
Whether or not that will continue to be the case when everything is handled by AI has yet to be seen. I am doubtful, considering how fucking God awful LLMs are at providing ACTUAL info and not just creating a madlib with what it has been trained on.
Don't know about 5E but 3.5 at least allowed a fresh corpse to be brought to a cleric and revived for a fee, if your own party had no means of True Resurrection. The DM could always be a dick and claim they don't want to come back, I guess. But if they are truly important to the campaign, surely that would be counter productive.
Alligators with freakin' laser beams attached to their heads for Alligator Alcatraz.