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Don't forget the lessons of the 2008 Recession. Tons of people sold at the bottom and didn't buy back in until 2012, 2013, or later. There's probably a fuck load of money sitting on the sidelines still and they'll buy at exorbitant prices. We may be seeing some FOMO buying as people hope they...

Yeah, this is getting a bit out of hand. Markets up almost 8% in just the last month?

We're also still about 10% off the all time high, which was a year and a half ago. Now, that was also a bit of a bubble, so maybe it doesn't mean anything. But it probably helps with the algo's.

Finally finished the story. It was buggy as hell. Probably had to force close the game a dozen times. Not super excited about just doing these bosses 5 times a week. Such a bizarre decision to make that the only thing there outside of lifeskills. Edit: Nice, and they just did an announcement...

The fuck? What industry do you work in that that'd be a thing?

Whoever decided to make hours upon hours of unskippable cutscenes is a colossal asshole.

Once again, that's not how inflation works. Positive number = higher prices. Unless we get deflation, prices don't come down. This is just what shit costs now. A smaller positive number just means the pace of increases is slowing, not that they're reversing.

Ah, guess I was thinking about July then. Let's see how far this bull can run before that happens!

I thought the chances were over 50% now?

CPI: +0.1%, 4% annual Core CPI: +0.4%, 5.3% annual

Been using Tweaknews for something like 7ish years? I didn't renew and 3 days later they sent me an offer for $3.99 a month, without a download cap (I think I had 10mb or some number of connections before), and a VPN. Curious what you're using that's never changed and is cheaper than that...

That's the feeling most investors who have only been at it for a few years to a decade have. The reality is the market is typically trading within I think 10% of the all time high something ridiculous like 80-90% of the time. We likely push close to the all time high sometime this year. We may...

I mean, sure, if you ignore all the people who have put 50-100+ hours into it saying the builds are boring, the combat sucks, the story is the worst they've ever seen, the itemization is uninspired, and the game has no distinguishable areas.

Eh, I'm not going to give a game studio the benefit of the doubt for something they did over a decade ago.

So in a few threads it's been brought up that gamers aren't designing games anymore. This bodes pretty well I think...

"Just let us have this one thing." Is this troon fucking serious? This is why I fight every little piece of woke there is as if they're the most important issue on the planet. Fuck these people. No more death by a thousand cuts, "just this one more thing."

Small caps probably doing better than large? Edit: Nevermind, didn't realize QQQ had only about 100 holdings too. No clue. Edit2: So best I can tell, some of the "Nasdaq" quotes we see (like from Google, and actually, I think that's the only place I see it, and only when I search for the S&P...

The boarding the ships things felt like one of those features that's fun the first time and then you dread having to do it every subsequent time because it just takes too damn long.

Whoever ends up taking Korean graphics and combat and puts a western system underneath it all will print money.

And this is why I made such a big deal about not buying it right away. In two weeks the shine not only wore off, but it sounds like this is a game most won't even play once seasons roll around. Ironically enough, I think the $70 price tag is what saved me from this. Even at $50 I probably...

That's kind of how NMS is. World feels super lonely. Only place that's really lively is the Anomaly, and that'll be like Alpha Centauri or whatever it was they said was there main city place. Except in NMS you do occasionally run into other player's stuff. Especially when they release a new...

Not to derail this thread with Starfield stuff, but one of the things I noticed was how many women Bethesda has working on the game. I don't think that bodes well. That's not to say women aren't gamers, but they also probably shouldn't be as overrepresented as they are compared to the general...

Didn't look like borrow, more like "copy paste." Maybe it's just inevitable with a space setting? Hopefully it brings more to the table.

I guess I didn't realize it's single player. What a wasted opportunity. I'm assuming they'll add it at some point since they keep talking about "friends," but they should've built this as multi from the ground up. Why bother building my giant penis ship if no one can see it from their giant...

Well this looks like they just ripped off No Man's Sky big time. Holy shit.

Is this really a player concern? Seems it's more that developers hate that they'll spend months developing a low level area that people spend about 20 minutes in and then never return.

A true prophet.

I saw someone today say that Black Desert is basically becoming a season only type of game, and I'm thinking he was right. Everything "end game" has been capped. And the new "expansion" doesn't even use your gear. So what's the point? It seems like once you hit a certain AP (somewhere between...

That was my biggest complaint with this game. The fun content was all time gated shit, mostly once a week. The unfun stuff was what you were allowed to do daily. Fuck that. I wanted to run the group and raid content. But I guess me gearing up faster than someone who only gets to raid once a...

Also curious (maybe based on how D3 was handled), are season characters going to have a separate stash from regular ones? It'd be hilarious if it was still shared (make little sense though, since you'd be able to stockpile stuff prior) and no one can play.

Why is everyone so adamant about not doing this stuff again? Sounds like everyone had finished it in under a week, so it's clearly not that big a time sink? There are dozens of posts about how it you don't like grinding the same content over and over again you don't even know what am ARPG is...

Was going to say this. And fuck reading books. Made that mistake with Game of Thrones.

Holy shit, we finally did it! Broke past that high from August 2022. Next up is April 2022 at 4631 (another 7%).

Holy shit. I found a bunch of AIM messages between my wife and I when we first started dating. Apparently it was right when Joe Schmo came out, and I made lots of jokes about it. Hopefully it comes out soon. Would be a perfect 20th anniversary present. Anyway, no Pauly Shore? No care.

We used lawn chairs for a bit. We were able to find some clearance furniture while we waited.

Not sure we could've gotten a moving truck, but they were expensive as fuck. Went with a Pod and just sold almost everything. Which in retrospect was a mistake, because we timed it with the supply chain shortages (stuff like furniture was 16 weeks delayed).

Yes, just about at the very top (October 29, 2021). The 20% haircut last year definitely hurt. Badly. But the reality is also that we only pulled out what we needed for 2023's expenses (and if you look at my posts in December, I actually pulled out less with the intention to sell enough for the...

We had earthquake insurance, with a $50k deductible. Think we paid about $500 a year for it, but it's been a long time. Our house at the time was built in 1989. ~10 miles from the 7.1 and 6.4 (although they say the energy went more NE and we were SW), and we had some light cracking in the...