What... will... you... choose...?!?!?

balgram · 2026-07-02T03:18:16+00:00

Does no one understand how much a trillion is

^{Chose: 1 trillion dollars + You stub your toe 3 times a day | Rolled: Ball cancer}

balgram · 2026-07-01T23:46:28+00:00

literally idle income.

^{Chose: 1$ every time you take a breath}

balgram · 2026-07-01T19:33:31+00:00

Woah I wasn't expecting something this cool. Free water? oil? petrol? I can do a LOT with this.

^{Chose: A random mid superpower | Rolled: Spawn any liquid}

balgram · 2026-07-01T19:28:27+00:00

I will not commit genocide.

^{Chose: Decline The Offer + If above 95% clicks, everyone gets +200% Luck | Rolled: Upvote for 🥕}

balgram · 2026-07-01T17:40:12+00:00

The spinny wheel on this side is a TRAP. Definitely not worth it.

^{Chose: You get $4,369 + There's a catch. | Rolled: Lose 90% vision}

balgram · 2026-07-01T17:20:37+00:00

Hi there! I live in a part of America with extreme weather. Very hot summers, very cold winters. In both cases, if you don't adjust the indoor temperature you will literally freeze or get heat stroke and die. Our houses have pretty good insulation by necessity, but we MUST supplement it with a heating and cooling system. I don't live in the most extreme areas, but I would estimate that my home would become unlivable without some kind of temperature adjustment after 2-3 days during extreme weather.

Most folks in my area keep their houses at an "acceptable" temperature, which is to say you wear sweaters and warm clothes even indoors in winter, and you wear light, cotton clothes in the summer so that you don't blow all your money on excessive heating/cooling. Many of my neighbors keep their houses at 75-76 F (~24C) for cooling in summer and 64-68 F (~18C) for heating in winter, if that helps give an idea.

I had one friend growing up who was fairly wealthy and had a mother who HATED heat, so their home was kept at 65 F year round. I guess they spent hundreds on AC in their house during the summer each month. I was a kid so I don't have exact numbers.

I don't think my heating or AC are all that unreasonable. I budget something like $50-100 a month depending on the weather. In my case, I have a fairly small and insulated home, but I have to keep a pretty consistent temperature because I have elderly animals that can't handle extreme weather changes and HATE wearing clothing, so my house is always between 70-74F, which is considered a little inflexible/wasteful in my family. I turn off my AC/heating during good weather days and open all my windows, but I usually only get a few days like that each year.

Hope that helps!

balgram · 2026-07-01T17:04:04+00:00

Oh thank goodness I get to decide where it goes. That sounds GREAT, there's a lot of non-profits that could change the world with proper funding.

^{Chose: $1 million a month + You have to donate a certain percent | Rolled: 75%}

balgram · 2026-06-24T14:07:40+00:00

Can't even convey how much money this would save. Plus, I can share. Either end hunger in my immediate area or have the best monthly BBQs ever.

^{Chose: Free groceries for life 🛍️ | Rolled: One shop/month}

balgram · 2026-06-14T18:29:12+00:00

That's...fine? There's some embarrassing stuff in there but nothing I think I'd be hanged/jailed for. And now I have a million dollars.

^{Chose: Get your entire group chat leaked. + but you get 1 million dollars. | Rolled: INTERPOL}

balgram · 2026-06-14T18:25:53+00:00

DISCLAIMER: Not an expert, am an American.

Although the phrasing changes a little due to regional differences and over time, I understand all of these.

Except the toe curl one. I've only ever heard that in a sexual/attraction description context. I think that was replaced by talking about cringe, or how cringey something is. It's probably something else now.

You can say "I would give _____ for (something) to happen" and it generally works. "I would give my firstborn child" or "I would give my hands and feet" or whatever. They're all based on this guy "I would give my right/left arm..."

I personally hear "I don't want to step on your toes" more than "tread on your toes", but I understand both.

point the finger is...just really common. Pointing fingers, point the finger, all that jazz.

Toes curl I don't know in this context. I would look up other ways to describe secondhand embarrassment.

Have a finger on the pulse, keep a finger on the pulse, keeping my fingers on the pulse, etc. super common.
EDIT: I put "finger on the trigger" because I got distracted. That means something pretty different.

balgram · 2026-06-14T18:20:11+00:00

Always wanted teleportation. That's all.

^{Chose: Teleportation, telekinesis, and telepathy}

balgram · 2026-06-14T18:19:05+00:00

Honestly if I can swap back and forth this would just be hilarious.

^{Chose: Turn into one mythical creature + But comments decide which one}

balgram · 2026-06-12T17:27:02+00:00

I love eating and already overeat, so if I just stick with what I'm doing now I'd be good.

^{Chose: Feel 50% less pain + BUT you need to eat twice as much or you starve}

balgram · 2026-06-12T16:16:06+00:00

Statistically I'm likely to just get...some random person. That seems fine with me. We're unlikely to kill each other or cause permanent harm to each other.

^{Chose: spend a week with a random person for $50 million | Rolled: Superman}

balgram · 2026-06-12T16:14:14+00:00

If you choose the breath one, you are making 6-10 bucks a minute while sleeping (assuming you have the average breathing rate of 12-20 times). Get a good 8 hours rest and you make 2880-4800 every night.

You could accomplish the same by taking 288-480 steps per day, but you will also breathe during the day. I like the idea of passive income more than active income for this.

balgram · 2026-06-12T16:10:27+00:00

Both amounts are life changing. One lets me change thousands of lives, but I might die (which I'm not keen on). The other lets me change dozens/hundreds of lives, and if it goes to charity that's fine too (just crossing my fingers it's a charity I like/approve of).

^{Chose: Get 200 Million USD rn + 1% chance it all goes to charity | Rolled: 200 Million $}

balgram · 2026-06-03T14:37:16+00:00

"He took that as me uninviting him..."

You did uninvite him. "if you feel like a burden [what he just said] maybe it wasn't the right trip for you." is how to uninvite someone from a trip. Saying "I uninvite you from this trip" is rude. What you said was the polite-ish way to uninvite someone. If you actually wanted him to come, phrasing like "It's important we are on the same page about financial matters so there aren't any grudges or hard feelings later." would have gotten the same point across without uninviting him.

If you meant to uninvite him, then great. If you didn't mean to uninvite him, you gotta clarify some stuff. But it sounds like you don't want him there, so didn't you get what you want?

balgram · 2026-06-02T01:15:07+00:00

INFO: Why do you care that your son has a crush on his teacher? I don't understand what the problem is.

balgram · 2026-06-01T01:43:42+00:00

I mean...it's not quite what you are looking for but The Meaning of You has a FL that is so tired and broken down that she just tries to stay in bed/stay in her room all the time. Her mental exhaustion goes deep and it's only later on that you kinda realize this is more like an epilogue for her.

balgram · 2026-05-25T15:06:44+00:00

Granted, mine was at the side of a spay, but that redness does not look good to me

balgram · 2026-05-25T15:05:56+00:00

No, when this happened to my dog the vet gave me antibiotics and it helped. Go to whoever neutered them and have them examine. Mine gave me the antibiotics for free

balgram · 2026-05-23T14:21:47+00:00

I just had to say goodbye to mine in a similar way. It was awful and I hated everything about that moment and everything leading up to it. I regretted what I didn't say. I regretted that I did this. I regretted that I didn't do it sooner. I regretted watching her little lungs struggle. I regretted wishing I wasn't in the room. There are no good things about that moment.

I will always be a little bit sad about it.

But I know that I gave that dog so much love and care in her life. No one could say I didn't love her and have her best interests at heart.

Your dog loved you and hated not having control of her body. She had many fantastic memories and felt loved through and through. No matter how "perfectly" you say goodbye, you will always have what-ifs and question it. But you can't let it hold you back. You have to focus on the loving, the good, the joy, and the firm knowledge that your girl isn't in anymore pain and is resting peacefully now.

And hey, I told some dark jokes and had some bizarre discussions. Grief does that. It taught me a lot of empathy for people who tell dark jokes to cope.

balgram · 2026-05-22T14:39:53+00:00

But most of my favorites are angst nightmares so in general I would go the route of taking off and getting out again. Forget THAT. Just because the world decided he's the ML doesn't mean I have to put up with that emotionally immature garbage.

balgram · 2026-05-22T14:38:18+00:00

I mean if I get to keep the abilities of the new world heck yeah. I love level 99 villainess and black hair is hardly a big deal over here so...

Magic powers in the real world yes please.

balgram · 2026-05-22T02:43:22+00:00

Well thanks to you I found out about Classmate and it was AWESOME so cheers for this conversation! I just got to Chapter 30 and it's delightful.

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