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Yeah, it's got some issues, and the woke stuff keeps creeping in, but it's one of the best dramas of the last few years by a long shot.

Well shit, it's unfortunate Tom Cruise won't be involved thi...oh wait.

Right, but I don't liquidate my entire portfolio when we need cash to live off. I do like $5-10k at a time. So it's an extra couple hundred dollars. Not nothing, but over the long term also insignificant. It's why I always say, even after you retire you still need to stay in equities. If you've...

The other day when the market broke even on the year, I asked my wife if we needed more money yet. She said we still had a month or two. I considered liquidating some, but boy am I glad I waited (not that 2-3% is a huge difference).

Appreciate it. Will have to look into the land equity part as I've never seen that. It makes sense, just something never seen mentioned on construction loans. I guess maybe cause most people don't own the land they're building on?

Probably why Abiotic Factor felt so refreshing. Check it out if you hadn't. Probably still on Game Pass if you've got that.

Dang, that seemed to come out of nowhere. So if you don't mind me asking, what's the summary? $850k or so at 6.5%? Assuming a construction loan? 1 year? I'm assuming everything as far as blueprints had to be finalized?

Many people have said it at this point, but even if he did finish this next book, who cares anymore? The window of me giving a fuck about these books passed about a decade ago.

Plenty of real people are pieces of shit.

I guess I meant more from the perspective of ones I had watched of his, which is Black Rabbit and Ozark (although I don't think I completed a season of either). It sounds like this one has gone off the deep end even further.

I hadn't had any complaints about the game so far, but I was in Scholastone and doing the main quest where you "use axiom force to remove the unstable core" and holy shit, what the fuck? Who came up with this? Even looking it up, it still took me a while to figure out. In fact, I think it was...

Personally I feel like anything natural is pretty timeless. Including granite. But then again, I'm not really a trendy person whatsoever, so maybe I'm way off base.

Shit, just came to post that. Came up on my recommended and I had no clue what it was.

I'll caveat this with I haven't watched this yet and only read this thread to see if I should, but this seems a lot like Jason Bateman's MO lately. Just shows about total pieces of shit. Like he's either trying to absolve himself of some personal guilt, or admit it, or live out his deepest vices.

Yeah, it's pretty strange. But then I have to remind myself that the market still averages 10% a year, even with world wars and depressions. Yeah, usually that's because they bounce back *after* those events, but I think I still underestimate just how much momentum the market carries to new...