That grill surface is one big slab of diamond. Back home, I could buy a kingdom with it. Here? It's so cheap that people throw them away.
It's organics like wood that are expensive here. On my planet, the garbage dumps are full of wood and old tree bits.
If interstellar travel wasn't so expensive, we could make a good living selling garbage from one planet to another.
It's organics like wood that are expensive here. On my planet, the garbage dumps are full of wood and old tree bits.
If interstellar travel wasn't so expensive, we could make a good living selling garbage from one planet to another.
— Sam Starfall, Freefall
For humans in space, hot sauce is worth its weight in gold. Well, if metal wasn't so common here that gold isn't worth its weight in gold. You know what I mean.
— Niomi, Freefall
Lunaris: [Gold is] our most plentiful resource, we use it for everything.
Penumbra: Sometimes we just throw it in the trash, which is also made of gold.
Penumbra: Sometimes we just throw it in the trash, which is also made of gold.
For countless years, the Ainu have had treasured objects made by working brass or iron... But the Ainu don't have a single treasure made from gold, do they? For the Ainu, gold wasn't something they needed in their daily lives... It was useless to them. In fact, it was worse than useless. When the Ainu panned the rivers for gold, the rivers became polluted and the Ainu starved.
— First Lieutenant Tsurumi, Golden Kamuy
These gemstones that you mock, boy, are a symbol of the power of this realm. To you, they're merely trinkets; but to mortals, gemstones hold more value than their very lives.
— Hades
Huh. Gold and Jewels. Don't you find it amusing that lower life-forms put such stock in these tawdry geegaws?
— The Martian Commander, Duck Dodgers
Kal-El: Great Scott! It's erupting... Gold!
Jor-El: Unfortunate, isn't it, that gold is so common on Krypton! It's worthless!
Jor-El: Unfortunate, isn't it, that gold is so common on Krypton! It's worthless!
"Rich" is a relative term.
There is beauty in many things. Reflections of light in water, the taste of freshly killed meat, the cry of a hatchling for its mother... I have never understood the lust for metals and stones though.
— Hunter's Journal, the Gorgeous Husk entry, Hollow Knight
