That’s not true at all. The first three panels were perfectly funny, as was the fourth. It simply would have been even better without the cryptic acronym, or if “MBs” had been used as a hint.
And since it’s a prescription insurance should pay for it!
(Yes, I know that it would just increase the cost of insurance by just slightly more than the average benefit paid out…..and then game publishers would increase their prices from the extra demand. Reality means that everything except compound interest isn’t as good as it first sounds.)
Given how frequently DLC needs to be patched, it (and the main game) would be categorized as experimental medication, which most health care plans wouldn’t pay for.
Or, they’d slap a $50 co-pay on it and you’d end up paying most of it out of pocket anyway.
You must have gotten the fun mono. The mono I got came with a mess of secondary infections that knocked me out for over a day and left me so weak I could barely push NES/SNES cartridges into their consoles for over a month. Heck, watching TV was exhausting for me – a guy who normally laughs off most illnesses.
That said, my current illness got me out of work long enough to finish Prey, so there’s that. 🙂
Oh… USA? Small European country here. Insurance in this place doesn’t let you know the cost of individual bits and pieces, if any at all. Behind the scenes – you’re probably right. My bad.
I had Mono when I was in my early 20s. Might have gotten it from your new kiddo: they seem to catch it early. I don’t recommend chugging Sprite like I did: maybe Gatorade? Anyhoo, hope you get better!
I contracted mono when I was in the Army and the Gameboy has just been invented. For some weird reason, I tested negative for the virus, so I would have to drag myself into work every day and get checked at the clinic. If I was running a fever, I would be sent home to rest. If I wasn’t, I was forced to work. I was so exhausted that I would sleep in my office between patients and my stupid sergeant accused me of being lazy. Fun times…
I had mono last year; but hey guess what happens when a small buisiness owner contracts mono? If you guessed, slog through the week feeling like hell and the sweet release of death is your only salvation, you get a prize*!
Okay, here’s where I separate myself from all you whippersnappers. I think if you’re over, say, 16 and still spend much time playing video games…uhm…how to put this…(Walter Brennan/typical old man voice) “Put down that new fangled contraption, hitch up ya pants, go outside and do ya chores, carnsarn it! Dangblasted bunch o’ namby-pamby sissy boys anyhow! In MY day, we didn’t sit around in the livin’ room pushin’ a bunch blasted buttons. No sir! We was up a’fore sunrise, feedin’ the hogs and milkin’ the chickens! Then we combined the South 40, bailed 2 ton o’ hay, then went to school, walkin’ through 3 feet o’ snow, came home and worked until midnight! I…”
Oh, sorry, I sort of went off on a tangent there. Suffice it to say, I’m not a fan of video games. Huge waster of time, to me. But what do I know? I spend most of my free time reading online web comics, and going down the rabbit hole on Facebook videos of kittens and puppies, so…
I have no idea what DLC is supposed to be. Having to look something up sort of spoils the joke.
Downloadable content. Basically, extensions to a main game.
Thanks for the info. As you noted below, the units should have been “MBs” (or “GBs”), and not “CCs”.
It’s well-known gaming lingo. If you have to look that up, the whole joke, which is based on gaming, will fall flat on you anyway.
That’s not true at all. The first three panels were perfectly funny, as was the fourth. It simply would have been even better without the cryptic acronym, or if “MBs” had been used as a hint.
The “CCs” part is a joke. Please don’t nitpick the jokes.
And since it’s a prescription insurance should pay for it!
(Yes, I know that it would just increase the cost of insurance by just slightly more than the average benefit paid out…..and then game publishers would increase their prices from the extra demand. Reality means that everything except compound interest isn’t as good as it first sounds.)
Given how frequently DLC needs to be patched, it (and the main game) would be categorized as experimental medication, which most health care plans wouldn’t pay for.
Or, they’d slap a $50 co-pay on it and you’d end up paying most of it out of pocket anyway.
You must have gotten the fun mono. The mono I got came with a mess of secondary infections that knocked me out for over a day and left me so weak I could barely push NES/SNES cartridges into their consoles for over a month. Heck, watching TV was exhausting for me – a guy who normally laughs off most illnesses.
That said, my current illness got me out of work long enough to finish Prey, so there’s that. 🙂
Perhaps you meant 50 GBs of DLC? XD
I was thinking something with Cartridges or Controllers first, but it’s downloadable. Console Care? Maybe Cure Copies?
I also dearly hope Big Pharma won’t pick up on microtransactions, but that’s another story.
Pay for the doctor visit, pay for the blood draw, pay for the blood test, pay for a urine test, pay for the follow-up visit, pay for the prescription.
Pretty sure the field of medicine already has.
Oh… USA? Small European country here. Insurance in this place doesn’t let you know the cost of individual bits and pieces, if any at all. Behind the scenes – you’re probably right. My bad.
I had Mono when I was in my early 20s. Might have gotten it from your new kiddo: they seem to catch it early. I don’t recommend chugging Sprite like I did: maybe Gatorade? Anyhoo, hope you get better!
* https://www.cdc.gov/epstein-barr/about-mono.html
* https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/mononucleosis/symptoms-causes/syc-20350328
I contracted mono when I was in the Army and the Gameboy has just been invented. For some weird reason, I tested negative for the virus, so I would have to drag myself into work every day and get checked at the clinic. If I was running a fever, I would be sent home to rest. If I wasn’t, I was forced to work. I was so exhausted that I would sleep in my office between patients and my stupid sergeant accused me of being lazy. Fun times…
Ive never contracted mono. I only contracted hi def stereo once. I kdpt hearing songs playing in my head. (Rimshot)
I had mono last year; but hey guess what happens when a small buisiness owner contracts mono? If you guessed, slog through the week feeling like hell and the sweet release of death is your only salvation, you get a prize*!
*The prize is nothing.
Ok, i must be blessed. (Or trans-oceanical.) What the hell is “mono”?
Mononucleosis. Called “kissing sickness” sometimes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infectious_mononucleosis
AKA (more commonly in the uk) Glandular Fever
50 DLC’s?
Meh, typical.
Actually, how far back is your backlog of games?
Okay, here’s where I separate myself from all you whippersnappers. I think if you’re over, say, 16 and still spend much time playing video games…uhm…how to put this…(Walter Brennan/typical old man voice) “Put down that new fangled contraption, hitch up ya pants, go outside and do ya chores, carnsarn it! Dangblasted bunch o’ namby-pamby sissy boys anyhow! In MY day, we didn’t sit around in the livin’ room pushin’ a bunch blasted buttons. No sir! We was up a’fore sunrise, feedin’ the hogs and milkin’ the chickens! Then we combined the South 40, bailed 2 ton o’ hay, then went to school, walkin’ through 3 feet o’ snow, came home and worked until midnight! I…”
Oh, sorry, I sort of went off on a tangent there. Suffice it to say, I’m not a fan of video games. Huge waster of time, to me. But what do I know? I spend most of my free time reading online web comics, and going down the rabbit hole on Facebook videos of kittens and puppies, so…
Well, you will have plenty of time to watch those videos when you get mono 🙂
Yes, BOTW is perhaps the best game, in my opinion, to play on sick days.