I saw some people wondering about the worth of Ann’s annual income in today’s money, and according to the Measuring Worth website, 2,500 pounds was a pretty tidy sum by any measures, whether we’re thinking of equivalent:
-real wage or wealth, i.e. what you would be able to buy (£228,200)
-real labor earnings, i.e. what someone would earn as wages (£2,097,000)
-relative income value, i.e. relative to the total amount earned as income in the country (£3,246,000)
-relative output value, i.e. relative to the total output of the country’s economy (£11,900,000).
tl:dr; IT WAS A LOT OF MONEY.
I could not quite understand the terms referenced:
To figure out her status in relation to GDP is her wealth figure £11m? (relative output value) Cos that would produce a an income of circa. £500k a year assuming she would get a yield of 5% per annum. I think that accounts for the wealth disparity between rich and poor at the time, but I suspect her income was greater as yields on income were in percentage terms higher when investing. As a figure in today’s terms she wouldn’t have made it on the Sunday Times 1000 Rich List in the UK but in local terms, she would be notably wealthy.
Also makes the pit-sinking seem really freaking pricey too. Hadn’t AL got it down to about £1000 which she bet Shibden on and then Dad sunk in another £400 and she obvs had to find more cash to finish the job so nearer the original £2000 quote. I guess pit sinking was more like an £750k investment. Nasty expensive business coal.
My drawing software is now fucking awful, it went through an update and now everything sucks ass, if I so dare to change the color of the background I can’t undo anything without having to watch as it goes through EVERY SHADE OF COLOR BETWEEN THE ORIGINAL BACKGROUND AND THE NEW ONE WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FUCK
Okay, so I just finished watching AOT (Yes, I watch the anime, I don’t read the manga, sue me. I just like it more)
The last episode that I saw was the 11 episode of season 3 part 1 and that was about a year ago. This week, I found out there was a new season coming, so I decided to finish it.
I must say, It was kind of disappointing.
Now, I will be saying spoilers and a lot of my personal opinions on the story so keep that in mind if you decide to keep reading.
So, once again, SPOILERS AHEAD
At first, I was intrigued by how dark things were getting. And up until the basement episode, I liked it.
But then, it suddenly started going off about how there is a whole other civilization out there, that they are the ones sending the titans their way and such.
(Now, I’m not saying any of this is a fact, just my thoughts on the matter)
It seemed to me like they were going along without actually plotting what was the actual logic behind the titans. Like they were going with the idea that the titans somehow got there, seemed to like feeding on humans so that the humans had to defend themselves inside the walls.
I honestly was looking forward to the reasoning to it all. How were the titans created? Why are Bert, Reiner, Ymir, and so on so set on getting Eren’s powers. Who is the Beast Titan?
I expected somebody to be controlling them, obviously. I actually thought the beast titan was going to be the one behind it all, and that we would get the final closure once they go down the basement, where they would possibly find a way to defeat titans for good.
As it turned out, though, I was wrong.
Suddenly, it seemed as if the real world’s history got mixed into the script of the series and the world war and the jews were thrown in, along with rituals and magic.
That kind of ruined it for me.
Up until then, I kept crying and being emotional. But after that, I just kept staring at it, not believing my eyes.
I get that they probably had that kind of story planned from the beginning, the whole new race thing and all. But it was as if the show suddenly turned from being a badass anime where the characters fought to rid the world of the creatures terrorizing the surviving people, to a damn historical anime with a bit of magic thrown in.
And don’t even get me started on season 4. I’ve only seen the trailer but damn.
I was so excited for the new season before I watched the rest of season 3 and the trailer. Sadly, I’m not looking forward to it at all now.
I already know I’m going to get a lot of hate for this, either people screaming at me how wrong I am and how it was actually brilliant, or to read the manga before having any right of speaking my opinions.
But that is just it, my opinions.
A rant, if you would.
And by this, I’m not saying I hate the show or whatever. Don’t get me wrong. I just don’t like what it turned out to be.
But I also wanted to see, does anybody else feel the same or at least similarly?
