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  1. fris

    Predator: Badlands

    nice, his description around the 'no red blood = pg13' just about has me sold. sounds like a rated R predator movie w/o human blood, i'm ok w/ it.
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    Investing General Discussion

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    Home buying thread

    obviously do what you can do you don't have to sell and don't have to take out retirement early. i'd tend to sell before dipping if it comes down to it. if you can find a job that aligns w/ a lower cost of living location, that might be best. selling your place to rent for slightly less in...
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    Investing General Discussion

    when u have enough to retire. pcs aren't going away. the need for compute isn't ever going to shrink. if quantum computing takes off or some new tech, i don't see how nvidia isn't at the forefront of it.
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    Investing General Discussion

    if money market accounts dropped their rates from 4% to 1%, you'd certainly see a drop. people are exchanging X stocks for Y dollars today at those 4% numbers. If 4% dropped to 1%, people would want X+Z for the same amount of Y
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    Real Estate Investment Thread

    someone related question, but anyone have their mortgage through Wells Fargo? they have an option to make a payment early, or add extra principle to a payment. part of my "emergency fund" has been to make payments early. I was about 8 months ahead. I assumed since the payment was going in...
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    Car ?'s

    2 part question. Im giving my 2013 f150 to my son who turns 16 later this month. I took it to the dealership (wish i knew an honest mechanic in town) and did some repairs I've been putting off. rear door handle didn't work, got breaks and alignment done. Any familiar with buying...
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    IT: Welcome to Derry

    Wtf, u went from Steven King TO the Xanth novels????? I loved that series when I was a kid, and equate it to kids who grew up on Harry Potter. But I just can't imagine sometime reading a bunch of kings stuff and then going to Xanth
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    Investing General Discussion

    sounds like a cash-out refi, but for your car
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    Marvel Universe stuff

    Ben Kingsley being on screen that much has me interested. Not enough to reactivate Disney+ though
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    Predator: Badlands

    I think they need R for human blood. You can have as much alien blood as you want and not be forced into an R rating. Hopium detected
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    Dungeon Crawler Carl

    I'm planning to relisten to them just before the next book comes out. I agree with what others are saying, there's so much detail that you know you're missing something you forgot from a previous book.
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    Dungeon Crawler Carl

    that's kind of the point of role playing isn't it? the GM sets forth a setting and the players react. not having a plan may be why it feels to true to anyone that did d&d as a kid
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    Dungeon Crawler Carl

    the end of the train book has a pretty cool payoff and you really get behind carl's mission to fuck them all
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    The Long Walk (2025)

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    The Long Walk (2025)

    I haven't read the book. A friend told me about this book like... 30 years ago or more, and I didn't believe him that SK wrote a book about people walking. How is this just not watching a cross country team workout?
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    Investing General Discussion

    The direction is reversed. Msft buys PCs, giving money to them, so they can be more profitable selling windows based PCs.
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    Investing General Discussion

    Microsoft buys PCs from hp, Lenovo and dell all the time
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    Dungeon Crawler Carl

    Wtf! That's not what happened!!!!
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    Dungeon Crawler Carl

    I haven't read these, but got the audio based on this thread I found the first book a difficult listen. I'm not English major, but this came off as childish. Not the RPG part, but how the story was told. They dialog was overly informative? Like the writer didn't know how to the the story. By...
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    Deathstalker (2025)

    Beastmaster is (or was) on Amazon prime. Fantastic movie, I think my balls dropped when I was in the theater watching it. If you watch it on Amazon, their algorithm will suggest hundreds of 80s campy movies.
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    Investing General Discussion

    despite their best efforts, intel still sells a ton of chips. amd and qualcomm are increasing market share sure. but any other company in the world that executed like intel wouldn't still be #1 in their space. i can see intel regaining control of the wheel and pushing them out, again. intel...
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    Retirement... (i.e. what are you going to be after you've grown up)

    There's a list of super wealthy who have crazy roths. Even if the money goes in, taxed at ~50%, they can buy these limited access stocks. I think Mitt Romney has one worth millions.
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    Retirement... (i.e. what are you going to be after you've grown up)

    MMO players are all about min/maxing at their core. except those that play healers and get carried. I wouldn't be surprised if former MMO players are doing better than average
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    Retirement... (i.e. what are you going to be after you've grown up)

    It's a spectrum. If you're making good money but still drowning in credit card debt, Dave Ramsey is right for you. If your only dept is maybe a mortgage and your savings rate is over 23%, Dave probably does sound crazy.
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    Retirement... (i.e. what are you going to be after you've grown up)

    Like others said, very much yes. The biggest thing is living on less than you make. There's a bunch of good YouTube channels that might motivate you; Dave Ramsey, Graham Stepan, The Money Guys. Will give you a rounded view on how to think about money.
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    I grew up poor
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    Job Hunting

    The constant worry of being laid off appears to be the norm of the tech industry. Seems like since COVID, every day I think is today the day?
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    Retirement... (i.e. what are you going to be after you've grown up)

    My grandmother died about 20 years before my grandfather. During those 20 years, he volunteered almost daily at the Hospice that my grandmother went through. My dad is 75 and still bills about 30 hours a week as a CPA, more in March and April. He plans to see off more of his accounts and...
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    Attack of the 50 Foot Woman

    I volunteer as tribute
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    I love fucking with spammers too, but I don't do it for very long. I read, again on the Internet so must be true, that a guy fucked with a spammer one day. Most spammers are spoofing the number they initially contact you with. So the spammer used that guys number the rest of the day. That...
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    Dating

    Meet my first "pure blood Hunter" on bumble. Shame, we matched on just about everything else
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    Investing General Discussion

    Maybe Trump has then cooking the jobs numbers down to further pressure a rate cut.
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    7 Days to Die

    I tried this game once, and found my inventory was full of stuff I didn't know what to do with and never got anything I could really use to kill zombies and died the first night. that was probably a few years ago lol any suggestions for play settings or something to have on the 2nd screen to...
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    What to do with credit card only used once in 3 years.

    get on credit karma and see what your score it. it will tell you what is impacting your score. there's 6 things. if you cancel that card, you'll quickly lose your total available credit limit. in ~6 years, you'll lose the card's age as part of your average age of all credit accounts. if you...
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    The Hulkster passes

    my childhood hero, was so amazing to see him at the rep convention. I knew he had health issues, but i didn't know he was about to die :(
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    Investing General Discussion

    is it bad that i lowkey want unemployment to rise so we get a rate cut?
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    Investing General Discussion

    considering what, half the US has no savings? i wouldn't call yourself broke if you have anything invested
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    Investing General Discussion

    Not buying more when it dipped below IPO price will be one of my lifelong regrets. 2nd to buy buying Darden when it bottomed during COVID. My best friend managed a high end restaurant and told me he was delivering orders to keep the restaurant afloat. I knew it would rebound after the...