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CNBC should just update the banner to say "Clown World: Nobody knows why the fuck anything happens anymore." Then it would at least remain accurate more than 2 minutes.

WotC has been very good at expanding their audience, if they need more players they'll find them. The B&M ecosystem is the real problem at the moment.

Steve's review is missing the fact that average power consumption during gaming is actually incredibly efficient, which is why I didn't link it.

Youth employment rate is astronomically high by the standards of our lifetimes. Kids couldn't find any jobs from 2007-2010, certainly not ones that could afford magic cards. And it wasn't much better from 2005-2013. Now you've got "NOW HIRING ALL SHIFTS" signs everywhere for jobs paying 16-20...

There are quite a large number of MTG players who got into finance and investing at major firms in the past 20ish years.

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This card is way better than I expected, though I think for the relatively small price difference I'd rather just undervolt a 4090.

And because they have over a million employees so 10,000 is like a rounding error. They overhired in corporate during the pandemic. This is just a backlog of normal churn.

I don't have Dell stock. I've got Intel stock, and it's not doing great but it's not doing as bad as my nVidia stock. :P

This probably means buy Facebook and/or Netflix but idk.

https://www.pcgamer.com/somerville-review/ PC gamer says its shit.

For example, 6 months ago, the narrative was that WotC was so profitable that Hasbro should spin it off as its own stock because Hasbro was holding it back: Wall Street is extremely fickle.

Yeah a bunch of people write news articles off the same one report and then algos trade it down. A lot of big names are down a lot more than that this year.

Oh, all shitcoins are also scams. BTC, ETH, MATIC, SOL, maybe Cardano are the only coins I'd consider not scams. Still not sure what I feel about Tether but you're not buying that as an investment vehicle anyway so it really doesn't matter. I don't see how stablecoins work unless they're...

I'm super happy with SoFi. I'm getting a ton of rewards and a great interest rate, plus I got a 300 dollar account opening bonus for my direct deposits.

Using FTX or Celsius as an indictment of "crypto" as a whole is the wrong conclusion. They're just unregulated banks, the crypto part was just a facade to dodge regulation.

You're missing the fucking point. I'm not saying "crypto" should be regulated (it's obvious that you can't regulate bits any better than you can regulate plants or sex, and we've seen how well those work out.) I'm saying that entities that are effectively retail banks and/or investment banks...

Saw that this morning. Their logic is really fucking bad. They seem to base their analysis on the idea that Hasbro makes money because MTG cards are an investment vehicle, which was never true and definitely isn't true now. It's a shitty analysis and also totally ignores the digital side of...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/14/why-did-one-of-the-worlds-biggest-cryptocurrency-exchanges-just-collapse

Furry made a good point a few months ago that I haven't played EVE in like a decade so I made myself an MTG avatar. (The good MTG, not the bad MTG.)

My ethereum investments are down but they're only down as much or less than Facebook and Netflix so I can't really say they were any stupider than other things I could have invested in in the past year. Also I took a ton of profit on them last year that more than offsets my losses this year.

We basically have all the information already. FTX called itself an exchange, but was really an unregulated, uninsured retail bank. Alameda Research was an unregulated investment bank. Both entities are run by effectively all the same people. Alameda Research got itself way too leveraged, so...

To put this in perspective, that's 1% of the total market cap of bitcoin, although only about 20% of the total market cap of bitcoin is actively traded. So it's about 5% of the total actively traded volume has been withdrawn from exchanges and taken custody of by private entities. Significant...

It's easy to say this shit in hindsight. At the rate that world governments were printing money and asset valuations were going crazy, it was reasonable to believe that crypto was a possible good hedge against the resulting inflation that was happening. Any port in a storm. The remarkable...

Na, a whole bunch of really smart people were the ones doing the fleecing and quite a few other really smart people got duped. Psychological research shows that being smarter doesn't actually affect your overall susceptibility to being manipulated, it just changes what attack vectors are more...

I had a long post typed up but it boils down to this: If you think news media being mainly about narratives is a new thing, or that they're the worst they've ever been, then you know absolutely nothing about history.

Well, personally, I've been trying to find a Planescape 2nd edition boxed set in pristine condition. I have most of the pieces but I want the whole thing intact in original condition. I can totally understand why the boxed sets would be worth a ton of money.

Wait, which materials? I've got crates of 2nd and 3rd edition stuff.

https://jjpryor.substack.com/p/the-top-50-substack-newsletters-by Most of the people decried as "journalists" by people who "don't like journalists" are not actually journalists, they're commentators. IE: Andrew Sullivan is a commentator, Glenn Greenwald and Matt Tiabbi are actual journalists...

People with integrity were have been trying to tell the world that crypto was built entirely of bullshit, and being run by people who absolutely have no integrity, for quite some time.

So you just don't want to know what's going on? Howard Stern did a pretty good mini-rant on this topic the other day. Not gonna link it because this isn't the politics section. Also, what is this even in reference to? The screenshotted section is not from a "journalist's" interview, it's...

Well shit, it was 73 here today. Beat the record by 8 degrees.

BTC is a public ledger. The FBI and other private entities have gotten extremely good at surveilling all movements on the chain. There's no need for laws when all the bits are just there for everyone to see. It's literally public information. People who actually like privacy and freedom...

It's basically the same as this: https://www.rtings.com/monitor/reviews/corsair/xeneon-32qhd165 https://www.rtings.com/monitor/reviews/lg/32gp850-b https://www.rtings.com/monitor/tools/compare/lg-32gp850-b-vs-corsair-xeneon-32qhd165/21826/28748?usage=3623&threshold=0.10 If you can get it at...

Anyone who hands over custody of their tokens to an exchange is missing the point of crypto. You're not getting it. The whole point of crypto is get rid of banks, get rid of fractional reserve banking and get rid of inflation. FTX and other similar companies are just banks, except minus the...