Open safe , grab money , money shower <| sep |> You can really see how weirdly proportioned Liston is here . Six foot dude with a seven foot wingspan <| sep |> Username checks out . <| sep |> uspez I walked right up to them and edited their posts . What if they don ' t want their posts edited ? uspez They do , believe me ! What if they say no ? uspez They won ' t say no , because of the implication . <| sep |> It kind of amazes me how much outrage there is over shotguns in this game and yet the 1918 Automatico gets a free pass . The 1918 Automatico practically is a shotgun , one that you can burst fire out to a pretty respectable distance . <| sep |> Every month the government takes a long list of things people buy 1 lb of bananas , television , gallon of milk , 2 shirts , etc , etc , . and goes to stores across the country and sees what that list costs . And they compare to what that same list cost last year they also make some adjustments for the change in quality of televisions . Detail on how they do that is beyond ELI 5 . This allows us to say on average prices went up 2 . 5 % in the last year . The next step is to add this year to the master table . The master table starts at 100 1999 price levels and then they addsubtract in the annual increase in prices they ' ve observed . 2000 they went up 2 . 6 % so the master table went to 102 . 6 , 2001 it went to 103 . 9 . For the US we have this data going back to 1913 . So it becomes a math exercise of finding the value in the past and multiplying the $ value in the past by the ratio of figures in the master table . You are correct , that this is an average . Depending on any specific person it might vary slightly . That is why you normally see it rounded to the thousand or ten thousand dollars .