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FarohGaming
As an actor, I appreciate you chiming in and taking the time to address these things.
Regarding budgets, I just saw another post about the brown and tan Wolverine costume from Deadpool and Wolverine (which was featured for all of like 10 seconds) took $100k to make and people were baffled. But when you explained that creating designs, prototypes, testing out materials, etc., takes time and $100k is basically like one $75k a year salary plus $25k of materials and other overhead costs or whatever, it made a lot more sense to people.
People tend to really underestimate how much things cost to create "from scratch". The creative process is expensive.
I hope maybe we'll see Tryndamere in some of the upcoming shows/movies! Between Trynd and Wolverine I have a soft spot for "bloodthirsty berserker" types I guess you could say. I should get "Get Mad, Never Die" as my next tattoo.
Yup - the closer to “from scratch” anything it gets incredibly expensive. Imagine building a chicken sandwich “from scratch”. (For the animation, we aren’t building (most) of the software, computer hardware, distribution network (Netflix), or many other components.
But building anything “from scratch” is insanely cumbersome - and yet due to sophisticated and efficient supply chain of the modern economy, making a chicken sandwich is very “cheap” / affordable for everyone.
Here is what chatGPT says about how long that would take:
Making a chicken sandwich entirely from scratch is a monumental task that involves farming, raising animals, and processing raw ingredients. Here’s a breakdown of the steps and the approximate time it would take to create each component:
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Raising the Chicken (1–6 months)
• Obtain a chick or fertilized egg: Start with acquiring a chick or hatching one (~21 days for an egg to hatch).
• Raise the chicken: A broiler chicken typically takes 6-8 weeks to reach slaughter weight. For a free-range chicken, it might take 4-6 months.
• Slaughter and process: You’d need to humanely slaughter the chicken, pluck its feathers, clean it, and butcher it into parts (a few hours).
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Growing the Grain for Bread (7–12 months)
• Plant wheat seeds: Wheat requires about 7-8 months from planting to harvesting, depending on the variety and climate.
• Harvest the wheat: Cut and thresh the wheat to separate the grains (a few hours to days manually).
• Mill the flour: Grind the grains into flour using a millstone or similar method (a few hours).
• Make the bread: Combine the flour with water, salt, and any yeast (if you’re using natural yeast, you need to cultivate it, which takes 1-2 weeks). Baking the bread takes ~1-2 hours.
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Growing the Vegetables (1–3 months each)
• Lettuce: Plant seeds; lettuce takes ~30-70 days to mature.
• Tomatoes: Plant seeds or seedlings; tomatoes take ~60-90 days to produce ripe fruit.
• Pickle (optional): If you want pickles, grow cucumbers (50-70 days), harvest, and pickle them (2 weeks to several months for fermentation).
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Producing the Cheese (2–12 months)
• Raise a cow or goat: You’d need to raise a dairy animal to produce milk (cows take ~2 years to mature if starting from a calf).
• Milk the cow/goat: Once the animal is producing milk, you’d need to milk it daily.
• Make cheese: Cheese requires separating curds from whey, pressing, and aging. Some soft cheeses can be made in a day or two, but aged cheeses take months.
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Growing Oil Seeds for Cooking (6–12 months)
• Grow oil crops: Depending on the oil type, you might grow sunflowers, olives, or soybeans. These crops typically take 4-6 months to mature.
• Extract oil: Harvest the seeds or fruits and press them to extract oil, which can take several hours.
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Additional Ingredients
• Salt: If starting from scratch, you’d need to evaporate seawater or mine rock salt (weeks to months).
• Spices: If growing herbs or spices like pepper or paprika, factor in an additional 3-6 months.
Total Timeline
• Shortest: 6–12 months (if you optimize and skip aging cheese, raise chickens quickly, and use faster-growing crop varieties).
• Realistic: 1–2 years, considering time to set up, grow crops, and allow animals to mature.
Effort Involved
This process would require substantial daily effort: farming, tending livestock, and manually processing every ingredient. You’d also need tools like a millstone, a butter churn, and access to clean water and land.
Conclusion
Making a chicken sandwich “from scratch” in the truest sense would be an enormous undertaking, revealing how much we rely on modern agricultural and supply chains for something as seemingly simple as a sandwich.
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