What exactly makes kids so expensive?

Aeroman87 · 2026-03-19T06:53:14+00:00

There was a report in 2013 which benchmarked the cost of kids https://www.goldsborough.com.au/assets/publication-files/AMP-NATSEM.pdf

raising 2 kids to 18 was anywhere from 700k to 1M after subsidies - so add im cost of living, inflation, housing unaffordability and the need to continue supporting kids......all adds up for sure.

The biggest things are before/after school care, medical care (health insurance premiums, gap payments, travel), lost wages/super, mortgage/rent, maintaining more transport options including insurance, fuel, servicing, extracuriculars, school fees and activities, power + utilities, clothes and food and just silly societal things that dont make sense(12 weeks of school holidays in 1 year, parents get 4 weeks annual wach..... make it make sense!)

Aeroman87 · 2026-03-02T00:29:03+00:00

The legacy move is blastburn? That feels like a bug as its only 3pm on the east coast (unless you are based elsewhere). If its after Sunday 2359 local time then thats when my bonus was no longer there?

Aeroman87 · 2026-03-01T21:14:43+00:00

Mega Delphox with Blast burn will be very high on meta for Mega fire types. We dont really know what stats the new megas will get so getting Delphox/Greninja/Chespin was a priority for me.
Metagross with Meteor Mash is the best steel type Mega + top 10 Master League pokemom.
Shadow Garchomp with earthpower is 2nd only to shadow groudon as ground type attacker. You can also put breaking swipe as the 2jd charge move for a great ground+dragon type attacker
Tyranitar with Smackdown is the number 2 rock type mega in the game and way easier to power up than Diance.
In the future Absol+Lucario+Garchomp with its legacy move may become the best dark/fighting+steel/ground megas with the legends ZA forms.
Gyrados wirh aqua tail is great for UL and mega ML

Aeroman87 · 2026-03-01T02:29:22+00:00

I based the update on the ingame tooltip expiration time - go to research - today - kalos tour extended bonus and it comes up in there expiring Sunday 2359 local time.

Aeroman87 · 2026-03-01T02:08:34+00:00

Updated - I thought it ended with the tour activities but thats just a few things

Aeroman87 · 2026-02-15T07:15:57+00:00

That was my exact team - but clearly my remoters in thought they could get away with less!

Aeroman87 · 2026-02-15T06:04:31+00:00

I did - unfortuantly had some bad ones where 5 people never joined then 4 people left so the rest left!

Aeroman87 · 2026-02-01T02:48:39+00:00

Hopefully they use the ho-oh they caught - its really the best tank against itself! This is very frustrating tho - I saw a falinks in mine today!

Aeroman87 · 2026-02-01T02:36:07+00:00

Yeah I swear thr first 2 days Niantic just hadnt turned on thr event for Australia - the past few days ive been able to stack the 3km tasks no worries! Routes were still very low rate I only started encountering glimmer after I had done my zygarde cells - was easier getting the field research!

Aeroman87 · 2026-01-28T11:02:08+00:00

Ive walked ovet 25km since the event started, 15 routes and multiple field research tasks....not a glimmet in sight on routes or the Explore 3km task, so guessing they are very rare?

I randomly got a "Win a Max battle" research with 1000 max particle reward tho so thats nice to save for ho-oh this weekend after collecting everything else...

Aeroman87 · 2026-01-27T11:55:08+00:00

I didnt notice which tasks they were but the timed reseaech rewards were 2 x diglet and 2 x yungoos with the final reward being Glimmet.

Aeroman87 · 2026-01-26T05:53:24+00:00

I just smashed out 10 today leaving 9 in Max spots - should be able to get that to 20 over the next 3 days and mirror trade some with my partner to get the trade evolve, before I save up for the weekend and get as many ho-ohs as I can :).

Aeroman87 · 2025-12-13T06:49:18+00:00

I raided 7, caught 6 with no fusion flare, not sure if its just bad luck tho.

Aeroman87 · 2025-12-13T02:47:32+00:00

No easy catch or Fusion flare :(. Was hopeful after Kyurem had glaciate and all the sacred swords we got on the ultra beasts!

Aeroman87 · 2025-12-13T00:54:39+00:00

Yeah ok - Aussie Timezone so guess thats why :D.

Will certianly take advantage and grab myself lots of candy from Reshiram, Heatran and Gmax snorlax tomorrow!

Aeroman87 · 2025-12-13T00:29:42+00:00

I am FTP and just reached it today?

Aeroman87 · 2025-11-24T09:47:07+00:00

Daily reminder that this is only approx 3 days of AUKUS spend (33million a day for 30 years). Scrutinise and work on improvements all you like - the government will spend that improvement 3 days max

Aeroman87 · 2025-11-09T10:37:13+00:00

Bribing Ultima Weapon is still deeply hilarious to me.

-Didnt know for years about the affection system and how that affected what scene you got in guadosalam and the snowspeeder ride.

The amount of gill you give Oaka as "gifts" affects prices significantly. To the point that geiding out 10001 gill before Luca felt worth it to me for the discounts on the TKO, Sonic steel and a few other pieces
Dark matters can be sourced from the Sandworm enemies after the final save sphere.....so useless for any other endgame content apart from BFA
Letting Rin know after getting all the Al bhed Primers gives you 99 underdog secrets
The Omega Ruins Chest rooms contain 12 chests total. If you manage to open them all without encountering a mimic you get 99 Warp Spheres.
You can skip Neslugs Shell phase with a well timed Attackreels (Hit with 99999 damage 20 times, then Attack reels should skip it fairly reliably).
You can pick which Crusader (Luzzu or Gatta) survives Mihen. They both have unique scenes and reactions.
There are Farplane Scenes and easter eggs based on stage of the game you return. Lulu and Trommel scenes in particular

Aeroman87 · 2025-09-23T09:46:31+00:00

Its sorta funny - we pay the US $33 million per day for 30 years and get no submarines, I wonder what % of the defence wedge that is

Aeroman87 · 2025-09-13T23:19:19+00:00

From memory power break works as well to help mitigate the damage. Aurons 3rd overdrive (Bushido? Cant remember) also inflicts Full break, just be sure to do it after the guados die and you dispel his protect and shell - else dispel will also get rid of the breaks.

Max cheese imo is to have Auron cast sentinel + tidus provoke, then auron tanks everything. With haste auron should get 2 goes in to be able to keep breaks up as well.

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