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Outside of the parts that they had to bring in a Blue Angels pilot because it was outside of the scope of the capabilities of a normal F/A-18 pilot.

Consumers are "flush with cash" and yet the numbers for consumer debt are at astronomical numbers. I dunno, maybe they have some advance numbers on GDP and are tipping their hand at it?

Was going to say, they may as well have just recast it.

Thought about logging in just for the gift pack, but it's not even one hone attempt. Whoopidy-fucking-doo, 1000 destruction stones?

Another green day, eh? I feel like this is just driving the price up to take profits before the end of the month when new, shitty economic numbers come out before we drop another 10%.

I'm done supporting stuff that makes a point of making political statements, even if the material itself is good. So even if this is amazing, fuck them. Eventually I'll need to get to the point where I stop supporting actors who make dumb shit statements, but that'll leave me with nothing to...

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They said it was because of Chip and Dale. Which makes sense as opposed to actually reviewing it (although the movie was surprisingly decent). I wonder how much the views on the movies they re:view go up.

Yep, they fucked it. For some reason Amazon is content with short term money and are willing to blow up any long term good will to get it. Which is baffling for a company whose parent can provide them what essentially is limitless funding as far as gaming is concerned. Instead of releasing...

I mean, the thing with real estate is that it's local. While the trend was definitely up across the country, like always it was cities that had the biggest swing in prices. So prices will decrease with interest rates, but it won't be a bubble popping.

This is true. Since it's just my wife and I we wanted something sub-1500 sqft (our last house was 2100, and we just left rooms closed all the time), and it was damn near impossible to find stuff that small. And sadly, we basically ended up breaking even (minus equity). Sold our CA house for...

I figured that the stock market experienced it first, which is why it shot up in 2021.

I was going to say that it seems like they too heavily relied on television shows for phase 4, but I went back through what the other phases consisted of, and I was kind of underwhelmed. It kind of makes me think I was overrating the previous films just because they culminated into something...

I'd say maybe He Got Game is the basketball Rocky. Or maybe Above the Rim. Shit, White Men Can't Jump is probably a better movie for that title than this.

And you can't blame people not going to the movies, or covid, because Top Gun was a smash hit. Disney finally feeling the repercussions of their get woke policies.

I'll give another positive nod to Hustle. I'm not really a basketball fan at all. I don't really watch sports at all anymore, but even when I did, I enjoyed NCAA but hated the NBA. This was a really solid sports movie. Excellent pacing and good story, even if it's not going to be anything...

Hmm? Seems like the floor has quite a ways to go to me. I know GAAP skewed things, but even in the post-2000's era we still have room to fall. And then consider we still have the massive leverage problem the Fed put us in that is completely unprecedented. Also found this link useful with...

Someone else posted that the other day with a story saying the farmers don't think they were heat deaths.

I get an email every other week from Vanguard for their robo whatever the fuck bullshit. I literally have no idea what it is or why I should care. But they really really seem to be pimping it hard.

Yeah, which is why he faked out by telling Hector that he was going with the old plan again. They left enough clues for you to realize he thought the line was being tapped. Were you watching distracted maybe?

They were probably hopeful, as we all were, that our politicians would do something that could pull us out of the tailspin. Instead, we're getting ideas thrown out that exacerbate the problems (like shitting on domestic oil producers instead of helping them).

Probably because people are starting to realize a 26% drop isn't even remotely close to the bottom with how fucked we are.

I mean, I've been saying this for the last week. There is no good economic news. Anyone thinking we'd see something good this month isn't paying attention to anything. There's been no catalyst for change, the economy isn't going to magic itself healthier. The recession is imminent. We're not...

Inflation (that they admit to) is 8.5% and they think adding 75 basis points is being nimble.

Give it a couple hours to adjust.

Same phenomenon I keep mentioning. Who the fuck are these people that are getting even "neutral" economic news and aren't expecting worse numbers every month? What metric or sector is actually doing well enough to make positive statements about anything related to the economy?

I made a post in the inflation thread about it, but the Fed is so reactionary that they're always going to be chasing inflation. Which means they'll never raise rates at the pace to combat it. We need a proactive Fed that looks forward, but that's just not who we have.

It was flushing when he made the post, turned around in a hurry.

This isn't really worth it unless you have low income (like someone retired). Personally, a few years ago my plan was to do a Roth conversion ladder (convert traditional to Roth, pay 0% tax on it because the long term dividend tax rate allows a married couple almost $100k, season for 5 years...

Oh, and my entire point is, my original post the other day was that there's no way analysts and CFOs all over the country are unaware what a recession is, nor do I believe they think anything has gotten better this quarter. Meaning they're all gaslighting us about it. My post this morning was...

I keep pointing it out, it's like an intro to business concept that a recession is two negative quarters of GDP. We've had one, and the 2nd one is announced at the end of the month. Stop trying to look smart. The recession is already here. You don't really think this quarter will be positive do...

Maybe all those articles about a recession not coming until 2023 were more of a warning than ignorance? Basically saying "it's going to be so much worse than 2022." Because the recession is obviously already here.

The first had an unnamed enemy country as well. And they bombed the runway, not the hangars. You know, so planes couldn't be launched. Nitpick that an F-14 probably can't take off there if you want to be critical.

Yeah, reading that article made me smile at the misery of urban millennials.

On the plus side, despite dropping 18% in 1990, the market finished just barely in the red by years end. And then 1991 was a 30%+ year. I don't see history repeating in this case though.

They were probably right. But they used that time to fellate themselves about "well, we'll wait and see and maybe do something next year in February." They wasted probably 9 months where they could've reacted, and lying about something that even most lay people were calling out. I'm not...

Was thinking the same thing. Maybe had they raised them 1% a year ago we wouldn't be in this situation. You know, when they were denying inflation or claiming it would be transitory. At this point 1% just makes us bleed slightly faster.

Lol, what the fuck is that response?

So I think I'm done with AGS forever now. Back to back games where they've just shown they're incredibly incompetent. They took games which should've had longevity and destroyed them.

Because the US is on the verge of bankruptcy. We've got a massive amount of debt and inflation, and we have two ways to combat the inflation: 1. Raise the interest rates, but because of our massive debt, this just puts us further and further into the hole. We're already at the point where a...