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Man, what happened this week? Did I quit just before the game imploded? Turned on a stream and all they're talking about is how fucked everything is.

I talk about this often in other threads, but it's the hubris of Americans, especially every generation since the boomers, to believe that we'll forever live in prosperity. Most can't imagine that the system has any weakness, much less that it could collapse. Power outages, food shortages...

I'd say it's not even "long term," but rather permanent. We traded a fix for permanent bad.

Nah, this is all a timebomb lots of people have been calling for once QE started. And 2020-2021 with the money expansion just compounded it all. We probably could've meandered along for another century had we kept the policies from the 1990's to 2000's. We went fucking retarded after the GFC...

Kind of makes me think we're here on the GFC (2007-2009) chart, where we bled for a good 6 months and then it really went to shit. Except this time there's nothing to really pull us out of it.

Seriously, are these people retarded? We're going to see a recession in 2 and a half weeks. It'll be the 2nd negative quarter. These people need to go back to get an intro business course.

So you're trading one Amazon gaming failure for another, and it's one you already experienced? Why do you hate yourself?

Had barely heard anything about this one, but somewhere I had seen something saying it was a really good movie. So I didn't really have any spoilers about what I was getting into. Watched it today and what a fucking rollercoaster! I wasn't expecting, well, any of it. I laughed pretty hard, had...

Right, but the wipe out we're talking about here is the big one. When the dollar ceases to exist, all the sudden the entire economy vaporizes. Unless the rich want to live like royalty circa 1850, it seems unwise. Sure, you're still wildly wealthy, but you're going to be significantly more...

Same. I know in the Army everyone had to get PRK because they were worried that a violent head jarring would leave someone with lasik blind.

For sure, but...doesn't that wipe out their wealth too? There isn't any asset for them to put their wealth into that's safe, so that kind of screws everyone.

Once again, are these people in a bubble? What positive economic news am I missing that's been positive? Seriously, name a single metric. It's going to get worse.

A drilling permit also doesn't even mean there's anything there.

Same as my post last night about "CFO's expecting a recession to hit in 2023," do these analysts pay attention to...anything? How did no one expect the CPI number to be bad? I expected significantly worse. Do none of these people buy things for themselves? Is there some kind of positive...

For pilots, 20/40 when you join. If it gets worse afterwards though, you can still fly. I don't remember what the cut off is though (looks like 20/100, correctable to 20/20). I took a shit load of bilberry extract and lutein prior to joining because as someone close to the age limit (I was...

They seem to be of the mind that players will either stick around for trickle content, or come back in droves for it. I don't know how they can be so out of touch. Western audiences aren't coming back once they're lost. If someone was waiting for Scouter, or is an alt-a-holic and wanted the...

That's actually the part people miss with the oil talk. Yeah, the domestic production was severely hampered, but bigger is that he basically told the Saudis to fuck off and so they've got no reason to not watch our country burn to the ground.

Also wtf happened during power hour today? Holy shit. Markets were hovering around 0.5-0.8% down all day, and then tacked on an extra 2% in the last hour.

Any time I see an article like this I'm baffled. Apparently a bunch of CFOs think we'll get a recession in 2023. Are they unaware of what a recession is? Unaware that Q1 22 was already negative? Are they all that fucking stupid and oblivious? It's no wonder the best we can get are Powell and...

Elevated means they'll admit to something like 9 or 10%, when reality is it's probably above 25%.

They were flying single seater F/A-18E's (although the reality is they were all F's so the actors could sit in the back seat and film).

I think I may be throwing in the towel. I didn't log in two days ago and only una's yesterday. Logged in today with like 2 minutes before Thunderwings, did my bifrost, and the game gave me the can't connect to server error. I just said fuck it and didn't even try to log back in. I realized that...

It's almost entirely white men. There's an occasional white female. I'm trying to recall a single black or asian pilot that ever rolled through and I'm coming up blank.

Shit, I completely forgot he was supposed to be in the movie. That's got to be a super bummer to be cut out from the biggest blockbuster since 2019. This interview he just seemed depressed.

This is when you need to have the conversation with yourself and your wife about how much is "enough." And also, whether you're the type of person who can relax and not work. I've been putting off my early retirement post for a while now, and will likely continue to do so cause I don't really...

I saw this as a trending movie, looked up reviews, and said "nope." Pretty sad, but the most common review was "this makes Venom look like a masterpiece."

I'm just barely hanging on. I've only been logging in to do una's and then chaos on my main. Haven't run an abyss in 2 weeks, and I'm pretty sick of running the same guardian raids over and over. Haven't been doing any of the daily content either (islands, chaos gate, bosses). Really the only...

I'm on something like 13 or 14 fails on weapon from 17 to 18. Go fuck yourself.

Well that was just fantastic. The movie felt like a love letter to Naval Aviation and the F/A-18. Makes me miss working for the program, but also a little regretful for dropping out of being a Naval aviator myself (all the way back in 2011 when I first heard the movie was in early talks...

Feel bad for @Voldeth. He's never going to get his reaper at this pace.

So probably another two weeks for Vykas, and a month and a half for Arcanist.

I worked at the end of the runway where the scene with the little building has its roof blown off (and the motorcycle rehash scene, among others). Pretty much every single day you'd be on a phone call and have to tell the person on the other end to hold for jet noise. My wife worked on the...

Got excited when I saw the description as rogue lite Peggle. Turned on a Twitch stream and it looks like...ass? The original Peggle 15 years ago looks amazing compared to this. Why would anyone pay for this?

Haven't seen the movie yet, but F/A-18 pilots (and others) definitely do fly through canyons to practice. The one near us when we were out there is called Star Wars canyon. Planes will fly from China Lake, Fallon, and Edwards to practice there. They'll fly as low as 200 ft off the ground, which...

Right, but Top Gun is a Navy school, the characters are Navy pilots, and the F-22 is an Air Force plane. There's not really a way to do that.

HSA is the ultimate savings vehicle. As long as you anticipate one day having medical expenses of some sort, it's the most tax advantageous account type that exists.

It's awful. Imagine if instead of just getting a failure on honing after +15, it dropped to +14. So you'd get enough mats to +15 again and then try for +16. Each successive hone becomes more difficult, but also every failure drops one level. It feels terrible. Worse though is accessories...

Oh, I 100% would have quit a while ago. BDO's system is what caused me to quit that one. Blowing up accessories because you failed, or losing a level on regular gear, is dog shit.