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Why's he look like a black dude with red hair? He some kind of weird half albino?

Thought I had is, even if Nvidia was found to be violating laws, would the SEC even do anything about it? Is Nvidia too large now? With a $4T+ market cap, I don't think anyone wants to touch it at this point (a market cap larger than the GDP of every country on the planet except the top 3, and...

I feel like many, many years ago when Top Gear was still on the air, the first EV supercars came out and they kind of loved them (despite hating EV's), because it's immediate torque.

Sounds just like calculating GDP!

Stupid fucking market keeps climbing! This having my money transferring thing really sucks balls. I'm not sure if it was sold Wednesday or Thursday, but I'm probably out at least 1% so far. Still probably 7-10 days too (they said they were issuing the check today).

I like how I bitched about this at the very start of the season, and somehow they even bungled that and came out with a season that's proving even more boring. I guess on the plus side it seems like maybe we'll get some of it to conclude the season, but most of these episodes have been...

I know people hate the ? quest marker shit that WoW introduced and made so popular, but the alternative of trying to guess what exact words some random NPC wanted you to say was also fucking stupid. And for some reason the guessing game is something the MnM devs really like. So now you get to...

I'm assuming the people at ZH actually understand what made 2008 catastrophic, and it wasn't the subprime loans that took everything down. I'm assuming they're doing it just for the clicks because it sounds bad.

The problem becomes, this game needs people at all level ranges, and lots of them. Because otherwise you can't do a whole lot solo. And they're purposefully spreading their players thin. That's just the EA servers. Then they're going to add more servers for actual launch. Now consider their...

Huh, that's interesting. I figured in some years mid and small caps would do better and then the total market would win out, but I guess since the index also carries the large caps, you're not only getting the winners. Which would mean in the years where large caps are the winners, it's...

Yeah, thinking I'll move over to an S&P index instead of total market. It does the same thing (self cleansing), but eliminates all the small caps that don't do shit anyway. Initiated the transfer just now, although I thought I could do the traditional and Roth same day, but looks like I can...

Oddly, I have 80% C and 20% S and it outperforms my VTSAX pretty well.

Can't decide if today will be a good day to initiate my rollover from my TSP to Vanguard. The 2-3 week expected timeframe where the money is out of the market gives me so much anxiety.

I feel like I probably stalled out on Strike Back at some point, but it was so long ago I can't even remember anything about the show. As far as this show, I really couldn't get into it. I'll likely try again eventually. I loved the first season, but the first half of the first episode of this...

Now that's what I call quality gaming!

Yeah, but are you going to play EA, or are you waiting another 2-3 years for actual release?

I mean, sure, it's a very well crafted and shot film. And I'm not saying it was bad. I was interested for basically the entire length, outside of like I said Alex's chapter which for some reason didn't work as well for me. Probably because it did linger a lot longer than the rest of it. Oddly it...

Haven't read the thread yet, but maybe I just don't get horror movies? It was fine. The premise was interesting. But especially during Alex's story, it just seemed to really drag. In the end it just kind of seems like a movie happened, but nothing was super memorable about it. For some reason...

It's almost like you're describing an idle game that wants you to pay a $15 month sub for.

I said that last week. It's a game you do other shit while playing. I don't know that that's a ringing endorsement.

There's a test server that's always on (except during the public tests). That's why when I said they released a single patch just before the open test. Otherwise that wouldn't make any sense, because obviously they'd only have one.

And yet, there are still massive issues like people falling through the world, monsters being stuck in terrain, and zone lines that don't work. It seems like there's no amount of excuses that won't be made for this game.

Speaking of bug fixes, their whole part time thing is definitely working against them. Know how many patches they did between the two open tests? Just one, a couple days before the test. I'm not sure why they're pushing changes so slowly, or what purpose having a test server is when they don't...

Yeah, sorry, I didn't mean half decade to be the literal last 5 years. Just short hand. My bad. It's pretty close though. Covid recovery by beginning of 2021, and it's just now finally hitting that again.

I can't decide what to do with that information. The economy outside the top 10 companies is shit, so do I cut out the bottom (currently in total market funds) and just go all in on the winners (or at worst, just the S&P 500)? Or is it something where I hope in the rest of the economy...

Bro, I am retiree no-lifer with no responsibilities, and I can't get over those barriers. I even chose a solo class so when other people aren't online during the day (which is almost always) I could still progress. Yeah, no thanks. It's just too punishing, and as you said there are so many...

Which is why those 7000 people at launch are a pipe dream. Those unique users who played for under 2 hours? You're never going to get them to return. They tried it, they didn't like it, and they're not coming back.

I disagree. Moving around the world fucking blows. I started on fighter and then did elementalist. I have no desire to play a class that can't gate now. It's one thing having to run back to town from 3 zones away. That sucks. Even worse is the end of a dungeon and everyone's ready to go, but...

I've stated many times I've had fun with the game. The problem is all that "friction" we keep talking about ends up being 80% of the time in the game. The 20% isn't fun enough to overcome that and make me play. So I don't. Which is why I'm so vocal about the shit that sucks. It sucks A LOT. If...

It's funny, I can't remember if it's you or Quaid who keeps saying it, but it sounds like a lot of these people just want forced chat rooms because no one will talk to them. Sitting there around a campfire not actually playing the game, and chatting because there's nothing else to do, isn't...

Exactly. That's why I say if this game basically got rid of all the pointless shit, but kept the grindy levels and non-instanced content, they'd probably have a winner. As long as they continue to cling to tedium like corpse runs, ridiculous travel times, and removing qol a quarter of a decade...

Honestly, EQ started to suck after Velious. I quit around Luclin. By the time WoW came out, EQs graphics and engine were already 5 years old. It was time for it to die already.

Weird September where the market keeps climbing. Usually Septembers suck. Seems I've been saved from myself, too. Finally bit the bullet and decided to move my TSP out to Vanguard. Turns out there's a 7 day waiting period, so I didn't miss the last 1.5% or so. Won't be able to initiate the move...

Is it all the same writers? All I saw was Greg Daniels. But even still, it's 20 years later. I mean, they fucking worshipped Biden on Parks and Rec. The mind virus consumes.

I tried and couldn't make it through the first episode. I say that as someone who loves The Office. It's trying too hard. It's also trying to force the DEI too hard. Having Esmerelda, someone you can barely understand, be your Michael Scott character, when you can't understand a fucking word...

What level range are we talking here?

Sometimes I wonder if they've played an MMO in the last decade. For instance, they don't want an in game map, because, and I can't even count how many times I've heard, "they want players engaged in the world." Like a map somehow takes you out of it? Apparently they don't realize that there...

I think that'd be an interesting experiment they could run. Open the next test up with a server like that, and see if it's significantly more popular. I'd bet it would be.

This is a wild one. I noticed someone brought it up to Shawn yesterday. Grouping with 1-2 extra players the exp feels much better. When you get to 5 or 6 though? It falls off a fucking cliff. Why would they design the experience curve to plummet as you add more people? Doesn't that discourage...