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What's the deal with Parler? Is it some kind of Twitter clone? I've never heard about it at all until the last few days, when suddenly conservatives are apparently jumping ship to it, but now suddenly Amazon is dumping it? What exactly happens there and why is it getting dumped?

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I love many things of Age of Ultron, and there's very little I actually dislike. Really, the only problem I have is that it's too overcrowded with stuff that doesn't fit together that well. I still like it but it's well below the other Avengers films and other *great* MCU films because of that.

I love Ultron - he could have been a lot more sinister if they didn't make him a literal quip machine but I think the result is awesome anyways

Honestly, I think there was really no way to go wrong with James Spader as Ultron

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf-_230SjbM

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Ohhh, somehow I thought that only the top vote matters and if ties happen you'll look at peoples secondary choices etc.

I think the way you did it is fine and easy

ViolentAbacus posted...

Abacus has finished Mother (2009)

I was not a fan! ChiChirimuyo said a lot of what I had thought of it. Except the thing I liked most about the movie was there wasn't any comeuppance/learning. I feel like it doesn't happen often in moves. Other than that, I just found it pretty boring.

This is an interesting point. Neither mother nor Do-joon have really much self awareness at all... and they go on like that, just existing as they are and as they always have been.

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Hmmmm... I may not understand the ranking. Not that I'm upset, it was my #2 after all. it looks very good!

I can give my recs this week


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i went to mcdonalds a couple months ago and got this really sick specialty chicken club sandwich. it was on sourdough bread was amazing - i never get chicken sandwiches and didnt know they could come this good. People would write songs about how good this amazing sandwich was

So a week later i head to mcdonalds to get another. I forgot the name and just asked them what their new specialty chicken club sandwich is. They ask if I mean the Seriously Chicken BLT and I'm like oh yeah, that must be it. I'll take an extra!

It was the worst chicken I've ever eaten. Dry and overcooked and hard and ugh it was gross. AND I had an extra to eat the next day I had to eat. What could have gone wrong?

It turns out I had went to Burger King the week before. It was the Sourdough Chicken Club that I had. Which was discontinued the next time I went there......

Anyways, what were you saying?

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Insect Glaive is a bad weapon to try until you've figured out how to "figure out" a monster hunter weapon. I spent a lot of time in the practice area trying out the weapons before I figured out what makes the glaive shine. It has a very basic attack combo normally, but it has two unique mechanics that you probably wouldn't normally figure out.

#1: You can enter an aiming mode where you shoot your insect at something, this isn't typically used for damage, but for extracting buffs from the monsters you fight when you recall the insect.

#2: aerial combat baby. There's a command where you use your glaive to throw yourself up into the air, and once you are up there, you can start executing attacks on nearby enemies, and if you keep hitting stuff you keep yourself jumping around in the air. It kinda feels like flying, and it's awesome. If you do enough damage up there you can also do the mount mechanic where you jump on a monsters back and can knock them down.

Once I figured out how that worked I was all in. I tried other weapons but none ever really clicked like that, even though i was interested in some like the Switch Axe and Charged Blade. The weapons are all just way too slow to really be fun. When the large monsters are so mobile and reactive to your movements I really don't know how it's fun to slowly move around with a slow swinging weapon.

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I think that there's a baked in assumption that people were snapped back into a position where they wouldn't immediately die, as the snapper intended

but bonks were still on the table

Aecioo posted...

Its alright. Can't say I was surprised at how they just kind of washed their hands of Infinity War/Endgame and had the only real consequence be "Tony Stark", but these movies have never really had long lasting consequences in the universe.

I am excited for the next spiderman if the rumors (can we even call them rumors anymore?) are correct.

I find this to be a bit of a strange take. They definitely avoided making it directly impactful to this movie by having his classmates all blipped with him, but that was fair since they were already leaning pretty heavily on Stark's personal impact on Peter. Would it have served the movie better to have Ned age out or something? They went out of there way to show the consequences it had on people in general, and I don't think they handwaved anything away that can't impact other MCU works like all the upcoming shows.

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mnkboy907 posted...

I keep trying them and keep realizing it's not for me, but then I keep trying them because maybe this will be the one that's different. But it's still not for me.

haha this was me. i have a buddy that has always loved these games and he'd put on the recent release on whenever I'd come by to hang out and try to get me into it and it'd always go like this

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2013/04/01

I always felt like the gameplay was stiff, clunky, and awkward, and just... not fun, even if i like the idea of hunting monsters and and gathering gear

Somehow with World I really got into it. I kinda felt the same way about the gameplay. Every weapon like the gameplay greatsword is just so slow and clunky. I tried the dual blades but they were the opposite... too spammy and out of control. Then I tried the Insect Glaive and took to the skies and it felt amazing. I really enjoyed it. I tried to other weapons that looked cool but even though theres like 15 different weapons with varied styles they all felt clunky. But at least the insect glaive was awesome. Once I had my weapon, the wonderful environment exploration, boss fights, following monsters, and weapon progression paths were suddenly open to me and I really liked the game.

Then I stopped playing for a few months when I got to Iceborne endgame and then tried to go back in... and the gameplay felt stiff and clunky and awful, even the insect glaive, and I could not bear to play it at all

What a strange experience. We'll see if I can get into Rise.

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ChichiriMuyo posted...

Mother

I do not like this movie. To me it feels less like a crime thriller and a lot more like a slice of life movie. The way that things just sort of seem to happen and how the emotional tone can turn on a dime says "look, isn't this like a real person's life but enhanced!" I've seen people compare Bong Joon-ho to Hitchcock, but this is no Vertigo. While it's a very deliberate and well-made movie, it's left rough and unvarnished on purpose as if to say "hey look at my work of art!" Hitchcock movies have structure and refinement to them, and Mother wants nothing to do with either of those things.

The story plays out in a way to make you think that Do-Joon must be innocent, that the Mother's quest to prove her child-like son is a good boy is correct. It does so by providing one red herring after another until revealing the truth: the lazy cops were right all along. Do-Joon is guilty and the eponymous Mother is even worse. When the police do finally come to the conclusion that they might have been wrong we've already learned they weren't, and now some other character we know only by name is to be convicted by the same broken system. The movie deliberately betrays the audience with its "mystery" and then points and laughs at the audience by telling them someone innocent really will be punished for the crime. Nothing is fair, and you're the villain for trying to defend someone you thought was innocent.

There is no satisfying resolution to this movie. Things just kind of happen, and we are to presume things will continue to just sort of happen after the film stops. No one has a comeuppance, no one really learns anything. None of the main characters are particularly likable, let alone redeemable. Nothing is changed, life just goes on. For what it wants to be, it's good. What it wants to be, is not. This movie isn't entertaining. It's not even really thought provoking. It seems only to be there to emotionally drain and defeat the viewer should they invest themselves in it. Some may call this movie "challenging," but from what I've seen I'd have to call it punishing.

6/10

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oh neat, a new monster hunter? Iceborne didn't feel like that long ago so i wasn't expecting a new game for a while

is this series popular on board 8? world was my first entry into the series.

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oh no

how can a good proper commonwealth man be this dumb

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My goodness, I didn't expect anyone to want to be subjected to my generic taste in movies

I can give them some other week down the line. As Icon suspects, it would have been a tone shift from this week, but I think they would have been right along the lines of Kajllionaire, which looks like it might be winning this week. Though not as indie.

My Ranking:

Kajillionaire (2020)
Sound of Metal (2019)
Portrait of A Lady On Fire (2019)
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

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Mother beated

This movie is very well put together. The performances are great, especially from the mother and Do-joon. It definitely captures the feeling of a mother who worries incessantly about her child, even ignoring the murder plot. Every lingering shot is very well put together to show this dynamic. It captures mundanity perfectly.

I didnt enjoy this movie at all. I dont think there was a single thing I enjoyed about anything. I didnt like the mother, I didnt like Do-joon, I didnt find any thrilling suspense, I wasnt engaged at all by finding out who really killed that girl, , for heping Do-joon, or for making mother feel better about the situation.

I didnt find anything interesting or compelling about the mother being a mother, or about Do-joons childlike incompetence. I didnt care about chasing the Benz driver and the golf scene, I didnt care about Do-joon out drinking, I didnt care about the murder, the cops lack of due diligence, the lawyer not giving a shit, the mothers investigation, mother watching Jin-tae bang a girl and then sneaking out. Jin-tae probably did murder somebody though.

Mom trying to kill Do-joon as a child was quite a twist that seemed kinda pointless.

The best scenes were the lawyers karaoke, Jin-taes monologue in the shadows, interrogating those schoolboys, the crazy granny, and Do-joons brain short circuiting after the act. But I still cant say I enjoyed any of them.
It was a perfectly put together movie that I did not care about at all.

6/10.

Actually, there is one thing I liked. Jin-tae said theres three reasons for murder. Money, passion, and vengeance. Its shown MANY times that Do-joon will use violence as vengeance against people who insult him. So the result does have some set up. But I still dont really care about Do-joon. I had no sympathy for the mother before this reveal and so I definitely did not have sympathy in her descent into villainy.

Ive never watched a Korean film before, though Ive read a lot of manhwa. One interesting feeling is that, like the live action Japanese movies Ive watched, it felt very anime in the way it frames scenes to hold on a striking image, like how it shows Do-joons eye staring at mother when he remembers her murder attempt on him, or how it will make certain characters unusually distinguishable like the rice wine granny or the girl with the scar in her cheek. I watched the Grand Budapest Hotel recently and it goes out of its way to do this sort of thing, but I think western films dont do this much.

7/10 final rating.

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red sox 777 posted...

Yes, legislatures are the final judges of their own election returns. Their decision is final and cannot be contested. But this has been done very very rarely historically and would probably cause a system collapse if it was done more.

The Lt. Governor probably presides over the state senate in the way that the VP presides over the US Senate - but the full senate can always overrule its presiding officer.

It seems very against the vaunted philosophy of checks and balances that elected officials that hold a majority can just choose to not let the other elected officials they don't like in the door....

How did this mechanically even work anyways - which group even decides this - the prior senators that are about to be replaced (unless they were reelected) or the new group? So they can vote against allowing in their replacements? The new group wouldn't make sense since...they'd have to all be allowed in before it could happen....

This whole concept just doesn't make sense to me.

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Do trials against lawmakers for their conduct inside or outside of office actually happen in the US?

I was thinking about that strange Pennsylvania State Senate situation. A Democrat Senator Jim Brewster won his election by a very narrow margin and it's being contested as possibly manipulated. The Republicans hold the majority in that Senate, and I guess just chose not to recognize Brewster won his reelection, so.... he is effectively not a Senator somehow? The Lieutenant Governor, who is a democrat and apparently serves some role overseeing the senate but I'm not quite sure what that means, objected to this and was kicked out.

Is this like.... part of the process? Can the Republican Senators actually just do this since they hold the majority? If not, would they ever face repercussions for it? It seems like their justification is that they want to see how the contesting of votes pans out but the process doesn't seem made for that, it seems like they could have just done this for any reason they want as they hold the majoriyt.

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DoomTheGyarados posted...

The resolution of the Civil War and its 150 year fall out says otherwise. They should have killed them all.

da fuq

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That pied piper image is hilarious

Is that email actually real? He's literally done and is doing exactly what they thought he would, but for some reason they thought people listening to him wouldn't result in people actually listening to him.

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im watching the movie but icon can recommend this week

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Scarra revealing his new vtube avatar

https://clips.twitch.tv/ProtectiveVenomousGrassBabyRage

i might get on board with this trend yet

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@StartTheMachine oh, I said "nonsense" earlier but i did actually understand the details, I was just making a joke for my Canadian accounting homies (who don't exist). LIFO is very frowned upon here

That's interesting that you guys get that kind of detail about your stocks... I'm not sure my broker actually gives me ANY detail about them at all. It just says I have 10 of that stock and the weighted average cost of them combined lol. I have the transaction history to find individual sale and purchase prices but that's about it.

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Do onions have nutritional value?

I hope they do considering how I put them in everything, but I've always kind of assumed they don't. In fact, somehow I think they might be bad for me

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i use onions tons in my cooking. i have a tough time using vegetables, i'm always clueless on what's actually going to be good or what will make the dish worse... but onions never go wrong

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I think this is a problem with a digital distribution. And streaming in general. Like if a movie or an episode of a TV show is just delisted from platforms for whatever reason, and you can never get it, that really sucks.

I have never emulated anything released after like, 2000 so I have no idea how that scene is working - is it even possible to do that with recent console games?

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This is cool

But damn that's a lot of games. One a week. That seems like a lot of pressure?

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Hmm...

In regards to stocks that have gone down from your purchase price.... if I feel my prior valuation was right, I can wait for it to go back up, like you say. But if I feel like my valuation was wrong, and the new low price is just the new normal for this stock and there's not much hope of recovering my loss....That would normally be the time I just.... sell at a loss.

But covered calls might be the way to recover some or even all of that loss. I could sell at a higher strike price than the current price, and even if it's exercised it would have been better than just exiting at the price I thought it would stay. And if it doesn't get exercised I can just keep selling till break even on the stock at least.

I think I might be in love with covered calls????

That would depend on there being a market of people buying calls at a decent premium though, which might not be the case.

That moon proof strategy is interesting... I think I need to start writing these option strategies down so I can refer to them when I actually might want to use them....and so I don't mess them up.

Do all options go in 100 share clumps?

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Lopen posted...

Yeah. I think the odds of you holding your sold contract that was in the money before contract expiration through expiration day would be exceedingly low because of that reason

Now the other cool thing is if you sell a call/put that moves a ton and it hasn't been exercised you can always buy it back to make the difference, and then you can sell it again too using your same shares as collateral.

For instance if I dunno FUBO ends Thursday at $27 I may buy the contract back if I've made money on it (time decay will remove a lot of the price on the contract even if the price moves up), just to remove the risk of having my shares taken for minimum value on Friday. I can then sell a higher priced call that expires Friday to get some of my money back. There are a lot of things you can do. The only thing I would say with this strategy is to never buy your contract back if it's at a higher price than you sold it for. Just always keep in mind that if it exercises you made money-- don't get greedy and buy your contract back at a $100 loss because it surged up and it wasn't exercised yet.

Ohhhmyyygooood

so basically you are saying - sell a call for a week from now for $2 per share

then that day before it expires that same option is selling for $0.40 so you can just buy it to guarantee yourself from losing the shares. Reducing your premium a bit but eliminating minor risk for losing your shares if you are concerned about it

And then sell another longer term covered call.

This rabbit hole gets deeper the farther you go, doesn't it


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red sox 777 posted...

The reason it's rare for someone to exercise it early is that if they want to close the position before expiry, they can just sell the call rather than exercising it. Until expiry, the market price of the call will usually be higher than the exercise value because some people may think there is still some time value to it (i.e. it could become more valuable). On the other hand, if you don't think the call will rise farther, you can exercise it, so no one will think the call is worth less than the exercise value.

I think where it does get exercised early, usually that's when the market price of the call and the exercise value are the same or almost the same - i.e. when the options market feels there is basically no remaining time value to the call and all the value is in the exercise value.

Oh this makes sense - I'm guessing this is why calls below current price are available to be bought. These aren't holders of the shares selling new calls, as they would be selling calls at the current or higher price, these are previously sold calls that are just being resold with the current value of the share being taken into account?

I've noticed this with warrants. They just slide up and down in tandem with the associated stock price. Do you guys consider warrants much different than options? They are technically different as they cause the company to issue new shares rather than buying a share from an existing shareholder but to a retail investor that doesn't really mean much different I would think.

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General question - any other Canadians following this topic doing investing? I have tax planning thoughts but it's wouldn't mean much with a bunch of Americans.

Everything StarTheMachine was saying earlier is nonsense to me after all. LIFO? Da fuq?

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Lopen posted...

I wouldn't expect immediately. I've had sold calls/puts not be exercised until day of expiry despite being "in the money" well before then. I can't really tell you a hard and fast rule just that I wouldn't generally expect immediately.

Thanks! This is good to know. I wouldn't expect a guarantee since you can't really be sure what everyone would do when choice is involved, since some people just might see it's in the money whatsoever and exercise it, while some wouldn't, but it's good to know that's not quite the general practice.

My broker says that if your option is in the money at expiry it will just go ahead and exercise it for you, so I'm assuming that most if not all brokers do the same thing. So if it's in the money at expiry I would expect it to be exercised. But that's very different from expecting it to be exercised any time it gets above the strike price. After all, even if I don't expect AMD to go to $95 by January 15th, and it's not there the day it expires, there is a much more decent chance it spikes there temporarily and then comes back down. If it's not there for a decent period, especially if it's not above it by a decent margin, then I think I wouldn't expect the option to be exercised. This means the likelihood your stock is actually taken lower, as an even higher and sustained increase in the stock would need to happen.

This makes selling covered calls very appealing, I think.

As usual, thanks for your insight.

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Dawg did you write that in 4 seconds

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Oh good topic, I was trying to understand covered calls this weekend

Does 1 covered call = 100 shares?

My broker lists this as a multi leg option - I need to buy 100 shares and then can sell the call option. If I just own the 100 shares to begin with, am I just able to sell the covered call directly with the shares I have?

Do you expect the call to be exercised immediately upon hitting the strike price, or does it usually not happen until the price is a bit higher to be more "in the money"? I see that a lot of calls being sold are at or below the current price....

If I'm understanding the theory right, it seems that the primary benefit is when I'm just holding something like AMD for the long term, but don't think it's going to rise in the next few weeks, I can sell a call for a few dollars more than current price and expect the shares not to sell and to keep the premium, and worst case my shares just sell at a gain from the current price, and I harvest the gain I've already made holding AMD till now anyways.

I'd need to own 100 shares though which is way more than I have. I guess I need to be a big time investor to enjoy these kinds of things.

I suppose plays to capitalize on things like FUBO could work too... if you are right that this is near the bottom. I'm assuming you think that because this is the price it was at before it's December run?

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All these posts about how you should fire on Friday are dead wrong. Friday is the *worst* time to fire someone since it leaves them in an extremely upset emotional spot with no mental resource options available or resources for looking for a new job to recover stability with available until Monday. Statistically, this means more people will commit suicide for being fired on Friday than if it typically happens on Monday, with the whole week to figure things out.

Obviously Peter wouldn't kill himself though - getting away from OP will probably be the best thing that ever happened to him. What a terrible boss.

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redrocket posted...

what about this one

https://youtu.be/WCa4LaDFqJU

I wonder when something like this gets made, how many people involved see it and think it sucks total ass but don't wanna be the guy to say so, which lets it get put through. How many people in the crew thought it was good and how many saw it was bad?

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I saw clips of the platitudes the Amazonian says to young Diana at the end of the intro and the platitudes Diana gives at the end of the film about truth and boy oh boy how did that actually feel to watch?

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When I started the investing game a few months ago Bitcoin was at $14k and I was 50/50 on starting my investing with Crypto and the Stock market, and chose the stock market since I know more about how companies work than crypto, and learning about the stock market would probably be more worthwhile in the long run.....

RIP FOMO etc

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I don't have a definitive list on hand but here are some movies i think are VERY cool

1 Avengers: Endgame
2 Scott Pilgrim Versus the World
3 The Princess Bride
4 Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
5 Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
6 Dr Horrible's Sing Along Blog
7 A Walk To Remember
8 Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
9 Cabin in the Woods
10 The Lego Movie

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Jakyl25 posted...

And yes there are plenty of other magical rings it could have been

Three rings for the Elven kings under the sky
Seven for the Dwarf lords in their halls of stone
Nine for mortal men doomed to die
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne

The Three and some of the Seven are accounted for, Gandalf has one of the Three himself, but as far as Gandalf knew about the rest it could be any of them

Until he did more research

ummm ackshually Gandalf assumes it's just an unrelated magic ring imbued with power. There were many magical rings created throughout the years with various powers and abilities. The elves were always making magic shit back in the day. If he thought it was any of the 1/3/7/9 rings he would have been mega concerned because it's known the One Ring was designed for corrupting those things. He wasn't suspicious that Bilbo's Ring was related to that business at all until he noticed Bilbo's odd behaviour at the party and set off for research


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Hey guys, I recently decided to try learning a musical instrument and settled on the piano/keyboard. I know we have some musical people here so maybe somebody will be able to give me some advice.

I think it will be an uphill battle as I've always struggled to understand anything about music or what terms mean and don't really intuitively grasp the beat or melody of a song the way other people seem to. I'm not even sure what beat or melody even really mean! That may mean I'm hopeless. But I think it would be fun to be able to play some sort of music even if I never become "good" so I've decided to give this a shot. I've bought a basic keyboard and have started trying to learn. I have a weeks worth of trying about 15-30 minutes a day at this point. This may sound silly, but my goal in general is to some day be able to play To Zanarkand. If I ever reach that point I'll be very proud of myself. For right now, that seems miles and miles away.

I've tried watching youtube tutorials but they all move VERY fast and demonstrate pressing a lot of keys together quickly which is miles miles beyond where I am so I bought this very beginner guidebook off amazon on to start with. Basically, I need get very basic familiarity with what keys are which and how pressing them feels like. This book is doing a very good job of doing that.

It's walking me through basic concepts like the middle C and the few notes around it, how to place my hands, explaining the treble clef being for the right hand and the bass clef being for the left hand. What bars are and what the time signature is for dictating speed, like 4/4. And then has walked me through a number of examples of playing a few bars with a few notes with full notes, half notes, and quarter notes.

One thing this book is emphasizing is counting in your head how long each note should be to match the time signature. But I'm struggling with this. I don't think I'm able to really evenly count in my head 1 2 3 4 perfectly to hold a full note, or to time each quarternote. I tend to speed up or slow down randomly for no reason. Some of the examples I play just sound like random unrelated sounds, but there are a couple I play intuitively at the speed I think they should be played at... and it sounds like music. I found that really neat. But if I try to play those same notes again while trying to count them out in my head it kinda goes back to sounding like random unrelated sounds. To me, this seems like I'm not using the time signature right, and so for some of these "songs" I'm playing I'm just not timing them right so it doesn't sound good, and some I just happen to be stumbling onto the right pace to play them at. I could keep going ahead just trying to "feel it out" but I think this means that I'm skipping over a fundamental step of learning to read the time signature right and time my "beats".

So I'm not sure what I should do at this stage. I think if I had a teacher this would be the point where they correct my timings, but I'm a lot more comfortable doing this on my own at my own pace.

One thing I'm wondering - is this what a metronome is for? An external device for setting the pace of the beat, and so I can time my key presses in time with the metronome? If I practice that enough, I might be able to internalize that pace to be able to intuitively know how fast 4/4 or 3/4 should be played. Right now I have no idea. Or is that just a piece of junk that I'll buy and have cluttering things up for no reason.

So right now I'm thinking either I just keep trying what I'm doing, or buying a metronome. What would any of you suggest?

Thanks!

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No Vote

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That kinda reminds me of the Doctor Who theme

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I'm interested


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my brother just beat doom 2016 and doom eternal on nightmare and is now going to do ultra nightmare

in order to maintain my gamer credentials within the family i have to at least beat doom 2016 on nightmare so i'm playing through it for the first time now

i'm 3 missions in but it's not too hard. just keep going in circles. if i'm not sure what's happening just keep movin in circles until i can figure it wtf is going on. some areas take a few attempts but that's ok.

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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

Pitch Meetings are tight

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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

i use excel spreadsheets because its not just for games, but also for movies, tv shows, anime, books, etc. I tried using backloggery and good reads and whatever but then i end up forgetting about some of them and not keeping them up to date. I'm mega comfortable with excel so this is natural to me.

It also lets me maintain a decision making spreadsheet that includes what's currently active for me in each category and my top choices in my backlog to help me decide what to do each day before I just drift into general reddit browsing and youtube / twitch viewing for hours on end

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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

To anyone else that bothers to read this: I welcome any criticism of my mindset or method

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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

Ultimately, I need a good reason to sell just like I need a good reason to buy. Catastrophic news about company losing the patents to all of its products might just be a good enough reason to sell, but a 5% dip for no apparent reason for me wouldn't be.

All of this is primarily aimed at identifying stocks that I want to buy and hold for long term growth. If your goal is a lot more short term, IE I want to buy this and sell it next week or even later this afternoon, then you need to develop a set of criteria that makes you confident in identifying those trends. And I think that criteria would focus even more heavily on the suspicion I mentioned earlier about reddit pumping stocks...

All in all- this condenses into a process that I follow as such:

1) Identify a potential stock.
2) Identify qualitatively why this stock might do well in the future, and try to play devils advocate and find reasons it might fail. Keep an eye out for scammer/pumpers
3) quantitative analysis of the health of the business.
4) Gutcheck on if the recent movement of the stock price is signaling whether this is bad time to buy.
5) if everything seems good... then buy!
6) hold until you have a good reason to sell.

This also includes several rules, including a) don't buy a stock that has seen a sharp rise in the last week or so and b) no options until 2022, we don't understand the regular stocks enough to even think about that. Rules to restrict myself from bad decision making are just as important as the reasons to justify a good stock. I think its critical after making a mistake on a trade to reflect on if there was a mistake in my decision making, and change my process accordingly. In the future, I should avoid making that same mistake.

So this is the process that I follow. Under this process, I have made gains on every trade I have made, including AMD, ARKG, ARKK, CWB.TO, NET, and BA. The only bad trades I've made were the bankrupt penny stocks Lopen told me not to invest in... I'll baghold those $50 investments until the day I die.

So anyways, I've made gains. But does this make me think I know what I'm doing? Honestly? I think I don't. When I ask myself if I think my method is good enough to do better than the general investing population, I don't really think so. I think my trades so far have just been somewhat lucky. There's an ocean of stocks out there - I like to think I'm a savvy investor, but how could I identify the good stocks that nobody is talking about? How can I *really* be confident that a stock is going to do well? I may have made gains, but I think so far all I've done is make guesses on stocks other people are already talking about, at a time when stocks are often rising to recover from the COVID plummet. I've never invested before, but my feeling is that right now is an easy time to make money, and that in a normal year, it will be tougher to make choices that gain significantly.

So what does that mean? It might be better if I just find some ETF's that align with my high level ideas and let them handle the actual managing of stocks. Does this mean I might not make as much money as someone doing a great job of trading stocks on the regular? Yeah... but if I'm not confident I can be that guy doing a great job trading stocks on the regular, then it's irrelevant. I'm giving myself until the end of 2021 to play around with stocks and decide if I think i know what I'm doing enough to continue investing with stocks. (no options until 2022 is therefore no coincidence).

Even if I do think I should manage stocks myself - I still think I shouldn't trust myself completely, therefore I want to assign 50-80% of my portfolio to ETF's and let them do their thing, and see what I can do with the remainder. After I made a few successful trades, that's why I pivoted to going into ARK.

So, coming back to you, Nanis. You need to ask yourself why you think *you* should be managing your own stocks. Do you think you have a set of criteria to base good decisions on? When you look over what I've said about my own strategy, the steps that I take to make myself feel confident in an investment, do you have any sort of similar requirements of yourself before you make a trade? Your own guidelines don't need to be like mine. They don't need to go as far as I do or they could go much farther. But for you to make those trades, you should have some kind of basis to ground yourself with. When you do make trades and make mistakes, do you think you are learning from those mistakes, and taking care to avoid them the next time a similar situation comes up/

If you don't have any kind of process - do you think it would be worthwhile to come up with something? Do you have the discipline to follow the process you've developed for yourself?

A big thing that has come up over and over is your fear of missing out that drives you to buy and your fear of losses that drives you to sell - do you think you can establish rules on yourself to force yourself not to do this? IE - something like my rule not to buy stocks that have sharply increased, or a rule that you can't sell a stock the same day you get bad news?

I think if you want to continue trading - you need to get to a point where you are confident in your trades, no matter how you do it. If not, you should strongly consider the managed fund route.

Thank you for your time, I hope this has been at all helpful.


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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

Hey Nanis

You fix this by doing one of two things:

1) You develop a process for choosing stocks that you are comfortable with and confident in, that does appropriate due diligence and that can manage your tendencies to overreact. If you have a process you are confident in, you can more ably trust your decisions without bowing to outside pressure and making panic decisions. You'd also want to establish rules for yourself to manage that fear in general.

2) You realize you aren't cut out for actively managing your investments That's okay. 99.99% of people aren't. It's possible that NONE of us in here are. ETF's and similar things are made for this purpose. There are people whose jobs are to make you money - you can put some level of trust that they will do it. You can find ETF's that meet your level of risk.

I will now share my investing mindset. I think you should consider how much of what I'm doing, you are doing, before you even really consider thinking you are ready to continue #1 above.

I only started investing a three months ago. For some background on me, I am an accountant for a publicly traded retail company. I recently passed the CFE, which is the once a year final exam to become a CPA in Canada. This isn't meant to claim I know all about this stuff - I think I know very little about how the stock market works. But what this does do is give me the financial literacy that allows me to feel relatively comfortable looking at a company's financial statements and assessing their relative health.

I'm new to actually directly investing, so I've been starting relatively small $500-1k investments in individual companies. I do a lot of reading of what people are talking about online and identify stocks I think sound interesting. I do a qualitative assessment - I wonder to myself whether what people are saying about the company and its goals and the industry it is in makes sense. Do I think this company has room to grow within its currently existing industry? Will that industry itself grow overall in the future, which would give that company opportunity to grow? If these seem reasonable, this company might be on the table. I also need to ask myself why I heard about this stock - am I being misled by somebody that's just trying to generate buzz and pump up the stock so they can sell? That's mega common on reddit, so that's always an important question to ask. I don't want to be the sucker buying at the inflated price, my goal is to be the guy buying a the low price, after all. If I'm suspicious about this at all, then the stock is no longer on the table.

I also think it's important at this stage to come up with some arguments why this stock might drop - if it's just as convincing or more so as the ideas on why it would grow, then

Then I do some quantitative analysis. I can't say I do anything too indepth - i've seen moderators on r/stocks say that stock prices are determined by the most widely known Discounted Cash Flow projections, and nothing else matters for stock prices. I've also seen people say that in general all future events that are expected to happen are currently priced into the stock. I don't really believe either of these things are true. I think a stock's price is pretty far from divorced from *any* objective measure of value, and vary based on whims not that different from your fear buying/selling. So trying to determine what the "right" price to me seems pretty impossible. People talk about setting price targets but I'm not sure if there's actual genuine merit behind that. I might try to do my own DCF's in the future, since I don't think they are completely useless, but I don't think they are the definitive guiding factor some think they are so I haven't bothered for now.

Right now, I mostly just take a high level look at important income statement items, and whether a company is making profit at all, and if they aren't, there better be a VERY good reason why it's not and why it'll likely change soon. I'll look for since of distress on the balance sheet - do they have cash to maintain operations? Are they overleveraged on debt? You might recall I pushed gravy on whether Boeing really has the cash reserves to weather the pandemic before I bought into it. Some might say these aren't really that indepth questions, and I would agree, but this is currently the lengths I'm going to. Generally, my mindset is "if company do good in future, stock price go UP!!" which may not technically be true but its the guiding light I go by right now.

So I ask these questions, and if everything feels good to me, then I'll consider buying the stock. I'll look at the recent price history and see if anything looks really funny. If it's been rising sharply recently, I might reconsider. You might recall that I bought AMD right before it's Ryzen 5 press conference - it has risen ten dollars to $87 right before that conference, and I got in, then it fell to $83 immediatley, and went even below $80 a little at some points. When I made that purchase, I saw that the rising trend had happened, and decided I thought AMD was a strong enough buy that even if the price falls after the conference, I think in the long term it'll rise again, so I was okay with $87. It is at $92 now. So I was right... but the profits are slim and if AMD falls I'll be in a loss again if I don't sell. I bought more at $82 in a separate account and track it separately and that's looking way more profitable.

I learned a lesson from that trade and have created a new rule for myself - If I see a stock rising sharply very recently, I'm just not going to buy it, no matter what the hype is. There is risk I'm at the top of a peak that's about to collapse, that's not where I want to be. If I do my due diligence and decide AMD is a good buy, and then look and see it has risen sharply lately.... I'm just gonna wait and see what happens. If it drops and my decision that it's a good buy still holds, then I can buy! Or even if it stays level. If it continues to skyrocket, then oh well. I can go into something else I feel more comfortable with.

After all - I was strongly considering buying PLTR just as it was taking off, but backed off since it was just too hot of a meme stock for me right at the last second. So instead that day, I bought.... ARKG, an ETF that has given me 40% returns. Sure, I missed that immediate PLTR boost, but at the time of my decision making, I just could not justify it. Looking at it now with hindsight doesn't mean I should have done it. My warning flags told me not to do it, and if I develop those enough to determine safe investments, I think I will be better off.

Then, once I've made the investment, I hold the stock. I hold it. I don't react quickly to any news. If it seems like there's bad news.... I'll see what happens. If it drops, well, that sucks. I'll hold it some more and see what happens. News would need to be TRULY dire for me to think "ok i need to sell this RIGHT NOW and protect my money!!". I'm actually not sure yet what my criteria for when the right time to sell is. I'm willing to accept a loss on a sale if I think it won't come back, and I'm also willing to sit on a stock that's currently at a loss for it to come back up. I think generally though, it comes down to just looking at the stock again as if I don't own a position and thinking "would I buy this? is there potential here if buy this?" and if the answer is no then it's probably time to sell. Note that buying a stock when you have none of it is not the same decision as buying more of a stock that you already are in, so try and parse out that difference.

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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

Are you guys trying to say Gavinor or Gavilar? Gavinor is a dumb theory but man if he makes Gavilar work somehow that would be the fucking bomb.

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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG

I did share it but this is the first post I've made with the term "ETF" in it that it seems anybody has been able to see =)

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The batman villians all seem to be one big joke that batman refuses to laugh at - SantaRPG