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It's been like that for a while. In fact, the whole economy right now is government spending. It's like whoever is in charge only ever took intro to macroeconomics and that part about government spending being used to prop up private/commercial spending in downturns just got amped up to being...

Went from almost 1% up on the day to 1% down. Fucking Fed. I'm still curious about these metrics that show the economy being strong.

Yeah, they actually did a smart thing when the GME mania hit and they got wrapped up in it. But then they squandered it by thinking they were somehow not a dying business. Now they're still a shit company, just with many more shares outstanding.

God damnit, I can't tell if that's satire. It's not...is it?

My guess is it's a 24 hour thing from when you first did it. Or we're just all here permanently. APRIL FOOLS!

This

Maybe Americans are smarter than I give us credit for. They realize it's all make believe, inflation will erode the dollars anyway so may as well spend into oblivion, and the government might even just forgive it all.

I think we're all fine with popcorn action flicks. It's the need to reboot a campy popcorn flick that everyone loves that rubs us all the wrong way.

Yeah, I've been doing some reading about where I should use my beacons and which modules, and almost everyone talks about how SE is nice because you build around the beacons as opposed to just throwing them haphazardly all over everything in vanilla. I don't have wide area ones yet, but I do...

Maybe I'll get around to my retirement thread sometime before we hit year 4. The S&P is a good vehicle for specifically this reason. The CAGR of it is about 10%. Which means 7% after normal inflation. If you can stash away enough for the 4% rule (25x your annual expenses), you have a good...

Vision Quest? Heck yeah, great Matthew Modine flick. Whenever I hear "Lunatic Fringe" I think of the scene with Modine running down the street in a garbage bag.

Like I mentioned when I posted about Edward Jones, be careful of fees when moving stuff. Especially if you're having to buy and sell a different asset (e.g. a mutual fund).

Meanwhile we're at my mother in-laws house and she's got a William Shatner interview and I guess it's his 93rd birthday. He's the most cognizant 90+ year old I've ever seen. Dude looks amazing.

There will always be a place to put money. With that assumption, if you had to make a bet, betting on the US still seems the safest bet. And within the US, the stock market seems to be unparalleled as an option. Most people will acknowledge that the rich aren't going to suddenly become...

What in the fuck?

The first year and some change of retirement was looking rough. It's definitely feeling good at the moment. Just with the first 3 months of the year we've made more than enough to cover the next two years of expenses.

I mean, everyone was saying to look at the 70's. The Fed ignored it. They tried the same thing back then, over and over, "looks like we beat it...oh shit, no, it's even worse this next go around."

Are you using blocks in space? Same size? And with my 100x100's, I definitely combine them. Like I've got several 200x100 blocks.

I've gotta say there's just something super satisfying about this game. SE just compounds it. Like last night I got my vulcanite processing setup and made the first couple hundred red science. This morning I got some holmium processing going (up to plates) and that was awesome since I'm drowning...

Yeah, all those recipes are K2 which I decided against including. Bummer. I think people say K2 makes early game a nightmare for SE, but as you go on it really helps out. Those types of recipes are probably why.

I appreciate the advice, Tuco, but you're on a whole different level of game than I am. I'm super early space still (in my opinion) and you're what seems close to end game. Some of the shit you've got going on is just exponentially bigger than I can even grasp yet. I did finally make it to my...

My vulcanite planet is also heavy on imersite. No water. Although that seems common with vulcanite. I was getting ready to go there and had everything ready to make rocket fuel on site because there's tons of oil, too. Then I realized...no water. Fuck. I scrapped the whole plan and got...

Man, that's a lengthy post. Seems to support the idea of just rushing the main objective and fuck everything else. Pick up any samples on your way, but don't go out of your way.

Another thing, when you get to space, don't do like I did. I read some comment saying to keep the fluids in a closed loop. That might be the case later on, but I just spent an hour unfucking my fluids. Make a fluid bus. Throw a ton of radiators and coolers in a chain and just bus that shit...

Absolutely. We were reluctant to up the difficulty because we'd get some maps that would just shit all over us. We stayed in hard (5) for a while. Then we just started upping it and settled on suicide missions (7). There are some like that new tower mission where we got dumpstered where we...

You're in for a treat. Are you doing SEK2, or just SE like me? I'm also impressed with tackling it multiplayer. I thought that sounded like a good idea at first, but getting multiple people together for that many hours seems like it'll end up being something that takes a year. I just hit the...

Yeah, a bunch of people threw a fit about it and Elon Musk (I think) sometime last year.

I realized my problem is that I really struggle with scaling things up as much as I need to. I really need to probably double everything I've got on Nauvis. And then set up a few more rockets and just start shooting shit up there constantly. I've been slow rolling it with loading the rockets...

Same. I only really play it with my friend group on the weekend. Otherwise I'm really not interested.

Not sure what made this come up on my recommended videos, but holy shit, 311 is not only still together, not only still touring, but it's the same band members for almost 35 years. It is a bit funny listening to some mid-50's guy singing about making out in the hallway or how "whack" the Real...

Holy shit, we did it! Fuck realtors. This should be the biggest news of the month.

Decided to log in for the first time in a week. Game crashed straight to desktop before even loading.

I'm in the panhandle and we don't even own an ice scraper. Granted, we park in the garage, but the cold is still pretty mild. This year I think we had one cold week, and it was like 2 days below freezing, and the rest upper 30's. Before we moved here, I told my wife that the average temperature...

Alright, Tuco, I've been dicking around in space and got my first cryo outpost setup. I'm also doing my first space science, utility. My setup on my Nauvis Orbit base is below. What I can't figure out is how in the fuck do you get even remotely enough petroleum to sustain that? It seems like my...

What you're skirting around here is Modern Portfolio Risk. Essentially, there are two risk factors associated with a stock; the risk to the company itself, and the risk to the total market. The goal of diversifying your portfolio is to eliminate as much company risk as possible and be left with...

Feel like that's a "News that makes you WTF" thread item. I didn't even realize the iron lung was in use in my lifetime.

Weird reading those patch notes and their comment about "weak points" on chargers. I'd tried every spot and the leg is the only one that ever did anything. Shooting spots that "looked soft" did fuckall.

We had a fun one where none of us could board the extraction. Leaving the area wouldn't reset it, either. We had to just ditch it.

Took me 70 fucking hours to finally get my city blocks setup and everything ready to launch into orbit for the first time. Got up there not realizing that you needed a fuckload of life support so I only had 30 minutes to mess around and I didn't accomplish much (next time I'll bring coal so I...

Nevermind, we're doing 5 (Hard) okay. Think we just had bad luck on the warmup round with volcano fucking us.