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red sox 777 posted...

Yeah, congrats on the tripling! Look at it this way - the move from $9 to $29 gets you a much bigger gain than if you had bought at $29 and sold at $64.

Yeah I really agree with this point of view.

I remember when the GME stuff happened, I had bought in at $71 and it got to $450 and i didn't sell, because I was thinking "man, it could go to $1000! That would be so good" and then I ended up selling mostly at $200-300.

But really - would I ever have considered buying at $450 at that point hoping it just doubles to $900-$1k? No way - way too much risk just for 2xing my money. I had already 6x'd my money at that point which was such a big win. In my mind I was thinking "I could 12x my money!!!", but thats not really the bet I was making at that point. Big mistake in decision making imo.

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ExThaNemesis posted...

Ugh I sold WAY too early on AMC but I was so skittish to be caught out like with GME.

Bought at $9.50 and sold at $29. UGH.

never feel bad about this. could just has easily been that if you had held that it would have plummeted to $8. I would have sold around there too.

grats on tripling your money!

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buying shares in my employer feelsgoodman

gotta double down that concentration risk

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I think the biggest single problem is that people really focus in on what these tests say about them and think "haha that's totally true!" and even develope some kind of pride in what their "type" is, but neglect moving on to the next stage which is determine how this helps you interact with other people.

That's where the value actually lies - you have a natural way that you talk to people about problems and people with other personality types will interpret that differently. If you can figure out someone's personality type you can use these kinds of systems to change how you approach them differently.

If you just stop at what the test says about you then you really miss out.

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I think that chart is pretty disingenuous, to make the countries that are 30-40% look blue and therefore clean and awesome but the countries at 20% orange and therefore a COVID post apocalyptic wasteland

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It's EXTREMELY useful for understanding your own behaviour and how to interact with people who have different personality types, as well as assigning tasks to people based on their natural aptitudes.

Whether all of it's predictions are 100% true or not... well, of course not. Everybody is different and it doesn't matter if you make 4 buckets or 12 buckets or 128 buckets of personality types, everyone isn't going to fall neatly into all of them. But that doesn't mean it's not useful.

I had to do the DiSC profile for my professional designation and I found it extremely useful for looking at why I was having conflict with some cooworkers who just approached issues differently than I did. When I started changing how I talked to fit how they take feedback and direction (which was very different form how I would take feedback or direction), it made working together a lot easier.

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Perrin was my favourite and I still love Perrin

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AVCTW is at like 40 cents. I've looked around but I haven't seen any news that AVCT is going to take that unsolicated offer or not. Any news Blur?

This is the price point that I would be looking for at "picking it up at a discount", not sure if worth though.

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Tom Bombadil posted...

His run is my favorite part of the series. That might be because he got to write the ending, but I think I just like his writing style better. (and it suited the series well)

One thing that suited him so well is that he's well known for the "Sanderson Avalanche", where both minor and major plot threads set up throughout a book all start coming together during the climax with satisfying reveal after reveal.

A Memory of Light felt like one gigantic avalanche the whole way through, paying off threads from throughout the entire series constantly. I felt a level of satisfaction throughout that book previously not thought possible.

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he nailed it

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ranagrande posted...

Elantris is fine. It's not perfect, and most of his stuff is better, but it was still an enjoyable read. The only Sanderson books that are actually bad are Towers of Midnight and A Memory of Light.

i really hate this post

HeroDelTiempo17 posted...

anyways I must shamefully report that this DID get me to both download and play Fortnite for the first time AND drop $20 almost immediately on Kelsier so. I don't feel great about it but I can only hope some Epic exec looks at the data and sees new players spending money on Kelsier Fortnite and in turn gives Sanderson more money so we can get Vin Fortnite and Kaladin Stormnite as well

fun game though!

i also hate this post for giving me a compelling reason to give fortnite money. creating history of financial success for cosmere stuff in the mainstream seems good for the world

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I think AMC is kinda nice to buy and sell options for because it sells pretty decently like $100-200 a contract because there's always bulls believing its gonna go back up like it is now. If it slides back down to around $10 again i'll probably buy back in and sell covered calls some more. Anything above $13 would be a no go for me though. $10ish sounds about right that even if it slides it wont be a big deal, but buying at $15+ and then seeing it slide would be no good

Or you could just buy that low and just hold I guess

Something kinda funny is that I had sold two contracts, and one was auto assigned today, but somebody actually exercised yesterday. It does happen!

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Sando teased this on monday that there was a surprise coming and said its not a surprise we are expecting, but i didnt really believe him

i really didnt expect this

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They really are just wonderful in every way

I was listening to the Sardonicast discussion about them recently and their revisit points out a ton of great reasons why they were so good. One of my favourite points was about how quotable the movie is for memes, but someone it's never in a mocking way about how silly the movie is like most movie meme quotes are. Pretty much all LotR meme quotes all feel they are in respect of the movie? It's just awesome.

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ripperoni at my AMC calls being assigned at $13 when the price is $25

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I'm 6/30 now, I won't quite make it in time for the current deadline but I'll certainly be complete it with an extension.

I'm enjoying the experience a lot, even the ones I thought sucked. I thought one firmly established the bar that any western should meet and I genuinely really liked another one.

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I'm kind of wondering about the effectiveness of this format of assigning 30 movies for 3 months, no interaction, then giant dumps of rankings and writeups at the end.

I only started joining in with the MCU rankings which i was very into and excited about, but I'm not sure the outcome matched my expectations. I was expecting a lot of discussion of opinions, but it was no discussion for the watch period, then when it was compiled, 30 write ups of a movie would be posted each day. There would be *some* discussion about each movie, but it was usually only about a couple points about the movie, and it seemed very clear to me that most people weren't actually reading most write ups. And then the next day would come and it would be another giant dump as we move on to the next movie.

It seems like a lot of effort of watching all these movies and writing about them for not that much actual interaction? It seemed like most hype was just about seeing what placed where, not really about what people were actually saying in their reviews.

Now here we are and it seems like the list of movies was assigned 3 months ago, and now Stifled is checking in to make sure we did our pandemic homework... we all forgot about it. Which kinda sucks because Stifled probably put a decent amount of work into coming up with this list and was excited about it, but here it is.

I wonder if this would be more engaging if during the watch period we actually just informally gave our thoughts as we watch these movies and discuss them along the way? It "gives away" what the comments are going to be in the final rankings and might making the rankings more expected, but maybe this would just make a more fun experience and keep people engaged for the watch period and participating.

How has this gone with prior versions of this project? Was the MCU an outlier just because everyone has already seen those movies or has it been more successful in the past too?

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It's interesting to see people think that trailer looks odd. I think a lot of MCU films have really well done trailers so I rewatch them sometimes when I just want to watch something awesome for 10 minutes. This is one of them and it doesn't seem that strange to me. There are lots of varied concepts for trailers and this doesn't seem out of place next to them.

Shoutouts to some favs: No strings on me, you must be truly desperate to come to me for help, there was an idea, what were you the god of again?, what a bunch of aholes, there was an idea remix,

i could keep going

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i cant jump

im just too dumb to do it

i toggled everything but still no

why have you done this

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i also forgot about this but you know what im in the mood to watch some movies so im gonna start TODAY. what is this, two weeks to watch 30 movies? ez 2 movies per day.

the movie club will no doubt be heart broken that i wont be devoting this watch time to the backlog im behind on there

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The Man Who Killed Don Quixote

I feel like there was a story in there somewhere about an artist who uses people up to achieve his goals without regard for what it does to them, but it disappeared somewhere along the way.

I'm honestly not sure what to think about this film. I was not on the wave length it wanted me to be on at any point. When weird shit is going on, I'm trying to understand what's logically actually happening or if this is all a fantasy or something and this is supposed to be figurative for the characters. When actual characters we know are there and it seems like it's supposed to be "real", I'm trying to accept we are in some kind of fantasy adventure delusion or something, not real life. These elements just never came together for me in a coherent way and so I always felt entirely disconnected from what was going on. The weird stuff never felt fun enough to just enjoy it for being crazy, but at the same time it kept everything too weird for anything to feel like it mattered.

The only credit I can really give it was that I liked Adam Driver. Maybe there's some deeper layer of film making that's lost on me in this movie, but overall, I did not enjoy watching it.

3/10

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How similar is it to the trailers? I'm sure it's "good" but the tone is definitely more childish than SpiderVerse or even the Lego Movie. Is the trailer playing up that aspect to get asses in seats (it's very typical trailer humour), or is that kinda what it's like.

It's interesting to see comments about how "tight" the joke writing is - i would not describe the trailer that way at all, but maybe there's more there in the full movie.

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NET collapsed entirely, I really messed up not selling. I knew I should have - and I'd already learned the lesson that I should sell in that situation before. The stock market is tough!

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ChainLTTP posted...

I gave specific advice in January that is currently netting 200%+ returns. There is absolutely no reason not to talk about crypto like we talk about any stock in any industry.

I might as well just respond to this here

I have never actually seen a concrete reason why to pick LINK over any other crypto or any other investment in general. You repeat it constantly like you are doing right now, but what I'd be interested to hear is why this is different or a good idea. Is there some technological reason why its good? Is it picking up steam in certain industries or certain regions of the world? What are we actually betting on here?

Every time I see you post about it it's just "its up! get in!" or "being up 300% by next year is happening" or "I told you guys to get in LINK!" - which is just generic WSB hype posting.

Actual insight into these cryptos would be very useful but that's what I think is so rare here. So what if you said "buy LINK" in January? I'm very interested in getting into a crypto that has tons of room to grow, and I do have $100 in LINK just like I do 10 other cryptos, but I'd need something other than good feelings to actually commit reasonable money to it.

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Sunroof posted...

I think it is because I got an additional $550 and increased my chances at getting rid of the stock. To me, the odds of it finishing above $129 are low. Ill probably be stuck with it into next week, at which point Ill sell another call close to $129.

But do you realize that if it ended at $131 or something, you could just sell the shares? It seems like you feel like you have to be forced to sell the shares or else you will not do it, but it's always an option.


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Is this the group that I saw discussing Balan Wonderworld? I kind of enjoyed watching that chat so I was thinking about watching some more. Is it the end of an era?

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100% agree, though it does suck to take a chance on similar stocks and get burned and see one take off that was right there in front of us to go for. But that view is all hindsight! This doesn't even mean GVSI will explode into profitability in the future or that other Sharp stocks will also be winners.

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Nice, maybe I shoulda put more into GVSI. I really shoulda sold some of my NET last week - I got greedy and decided to see if it runs up a bit before earnings but it's lost a lot of its recovery. Back to holding I guess.

I'm just gonna hold my $120 investment in GVSI forever and see whereever this custodianship thing goes.

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wheres the agasonex option

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it doesn't bother me a lot either way but i think its very rare the crypto talk actually results in any useful information about the topic or why a specific crypto is a good and worthwhile investment. any time it does start to move into genuine discussion, drawbacks that get mentioned usually trigger the crypto warriors into a full on defensive which makes it especially unproductive. so most crypto talk is just generic WSB hype posts, and neon has already carved that out as his niche here so we could probably cut down on a lot of that

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on a side note i really enjoyed this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibbkmS_tvVQ

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I've only heard a few songs but I think I might love them. I can definitely see why people might not like it though.

What I don't understand is the hate comments she gets - like she's the epitome of what's wrong with zoomers or something. That attitude just screams Abe Simpson not getting what "It" is anymore.

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ChaosTonyV4 posted...

Considering some people retire never having made 1 to 2 million in their entire lives, I think 1 to 2 million would be a great number to retire at, lol

I'm just going to be harsh here - this is a flippant shortsighted view most people would take. It comes purely from a "I dont have that much money and that sounds like an outlandish amount of money so having that much money would be very good" point of view without really thinking out the long term situation.

Consider:

• $1-2 mil sounds like a lot - but if you live 70 more years, is that enough to purely live on? $1mil divided by 70 is $14,285. If you were to live strictly on that amount, could you make it to 100 years old?
• You can increase the $14,285 by using investment strategies like covered calls or dividends. Maybe you can make $40k a year just doing that or something. But there's no guarantee this will continue to work for the rest of your life - the amount you can make might drop to below what you would need to maintain your standard of living or maybe not be able to make you any money at all
• Using investment strategies like above comes with risk. Your $1 million isn't locked in to just stay safe if you are trying to grow it like that. Your strategies could backfire. Your $1 million (which I would strongly argue wasn't enough to begin with) could now become $500k or some other number. Not only are you not making the annual income you needed, you've lost money. Now you don't have $1 million!

• The time value of money is really important. $1 million is a lot of money right now. In 50 years, it will probably be a lot of money. But it very likely won't seem like nearly as much as it does now. So how comfortable will you be later on when your $1mil that seemed very valuable in the past no longer buys you as much? That's assuming you actually manage to still have $1million, when likely some portion of it has been spent.

• The comment that people don't make $1-2million is kinda wrong. If a person makes $40k a year, they'd make $400,000 in ten years. In 30 years they would make $1.2 million. Sure, they'll spend it as they go along typically, but that's exactly what will happen with your $ 1mil you retire on. You'll probably spend it!

• The value of actually working provides a lot stability - if you run low on money you can just make more to sustain yourself. Even though it sucks, that's what working paycheck to paycheck is, you have money coming in to keep going. Retiring means you no longer do this.
• Working provides some protection against inflation - if you have work you can make money from, it should somewhat scale with inflation. If you make $40k now, in 10 years similar jobs will likely be making more than that even if you don't move upwards to a higher position. So if you make $40k today, in 30 years you should make *more* than $1.2million. Retiring with a static amount of money means you won't have this income to protect against inflation, and instead need your money to keep up with inflation through investments (which usually carry risk).

• People tend to spend money that they have. If they *could* live on $1million for 30 years, by making that amount evenly over those 30 years, if they get the full $1 million in year one, they would overspend early on and not have enough towards the later years. Knowing this - do you believe you wouldn't think to yourself "I have $ 1million, I can afford to buy a slightly nicer car than I would have bought otherwise" "I have $ 1million, I can afford to eat out more often". I'm not saying you shouldn't do these things or that you don't have the right to, but it will restrict how far your $1million can actually go.
• Even if you could support yourself on the $ 1mil - would you be able to support other people you want to help out over the years, like family or friends who are in a bind or need help with school or whatever, or other community/charity things you want to contribute to? The more you do this the less far your $ 1mil will go.

I feel like I could keep going on this for awhile. But ultimately - I don't think $1mill is *actually* enough just looking at the numbers, and even if it was, there's a lot of risk of devaluation or risk of that money being used up faster than expected. Giving up my ability to make money in the prime of my life in the face of these risks seems like an extremely bad choice. If I end up needing to go back to work when I'm older, my ability to be make money from working will be worse than it is now and it will likely be a more miserable experience.

Sure, there's social support stuff that will help and there are people who retire with nothing, and they can make it work. Why would you choose to be in the position where you have to rely on social support payments that may or may not continue existing and to make it work though? Quitting your job and retiring is stating "I think I have enough money forever and will no longer need to earn any more through working" and that's such a daring stance to take against all of the things I've listed out.

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I think someone here said their goal is to get to the point that they can make their wage in covered calls or something and then retire, which would require I think around $1 - 2 million, but that seems too low to me. Using your investment income to live off means your investments won't continue growing so you probably won't have enough when you are actually old and can't work too much, plus if something happens to cut your investment value down a ton somehow or your strategies for generating investment income stop working you are in such a bad spot.

Plus, not being able to reinvest your investment income back into the fund is also compounded by no longer having a job that will contribute to growing your fund, so you become very static. It's a risky place to be.

There's certainly a number I could hit that would make me consider retiring young but I haven't worked out what it would be.

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/s is for sarcasm

it's just a joke after that last post i made when you were down on yourself

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Music actively makes more engaged and productive. Lyrics don't make an impact negatively - but I'm more amped up by lyric songs I love so they are often even better than instrumental music.

I can listen to podcasts and some youtube videos and stuff too at times depending on what it is but I need to be careful because if it requires too much thinking to process what I'm listening too it can slow me down. Music is a lot safer.

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She-Ra:

I watched a bunch of season 1 of this because I'd heard great things, including from people here. But yeah, all of your comments are all spot on. It just keeps everything too basic. Everyone always mentions Avatar but I think other shows like Young Justice and, as memey as it is, My Little Pony have showed us that these shows can take its characters and stories a bit more seriously despite being "for kids."

If I actually had kids this show would be fine enough to watch with them and they might love it, so it's a good recommendation for parents, but certainly not good enough to watch just as a fan of animated shows.

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/s

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you know what, fuck it, $100 investment that is going to die a miserable death, why not

blur i'll believe in you one last time but you better not fuck me on this one dude i swear to god

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I was thinking about getting in if a bit more of a pullback happened but getting in on these stocks after they start running has only burned me. Looks like that's just not meant to be.

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i started playing this game to catch up before the patch, but then my buddy started a minecraft sevtech server

good bye monster hunter, i hope the patch is great

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Menji posted...

Oh yeah NET is doing great this last week. Earnings in 9 days and it also tanks, so debating if I should sell some beforehand.

ohhh yeah baby this one is looking good. Cloudflare was DESTROYED by the correction in the last couple months but it finally recovered suddenly yesterday and today. I have 45 shares in my long term account I'll probably hold on to but it might be time to say good bye to the 13 shares in my short term account.

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dang, AMC hadn't moved awhile so I sold a covered call in two weeks at $10.50. Oh well, I'm fine with these cursed shares being assigned. I've been holding these with my cost basis of $13 and selling covered calls every couple weeks since the spike so I'm in the money on it in general.

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StartTheMachine posted...

This is awesome. I was looking at MMEDF a long while back just because I support psychedelics research, but I never bought. If I knew they had warrants I might have hopped on board.

dawg



I also forgot about MMED.WA in this for some reason which is an exercise price of $2.45 and trading around $4.36 now (prices above are outdated obv)

generally not quite the OTM warrants you favour though and can you guys even buy CAD stocks on the TSX or NEO? I'm in MMED.WS.TO myself

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MMEDF to be listed on the NASDAQ, my warrants are flying weeeee

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my brother just installed a tushy on our toilet yesterday

i'll let you know the damage

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ExThaNemesis posted...

maybe but I'd rather be alarmist than allow what I can envision going forward to get traction.

you and environmentalists are just sooo different

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did moonroof place another market order

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I think there is a hidden fee to trading crypto that people might not be aware of. I know for a fact its the case for platforms I've been using in Canada (Wealth Simple, Shakepay) but I don't know if this is true of all platforms

It basically comes from the fact that you aren't making a trade with someone else who wants to sell - you are making a trade with your platform. The platform is selling you the crypto that they have gone out and bought. This is how they make money.

I posted about this before because i was buttmad about being scamaz'd that you might remember. I hadn't really worked through the logic of why it was happening then.

Basically - say Bitcoin is trading at $50k. That's the price everyone is looks at when they talk about the value of Bitcoin. There's orders to buy for $49k and sell at $51k. Ostensibly, there are people meeting in the middle and buying/selling at $50k.

If I see this and place a buy order.... I can buy for $51 or 52k. So presumably, my platform is buying bitcoin from the market for $50k and then selling it to me and keeping the difference - despite Wealthsimple supposedly being "commission free". If I want to sell, I can sell for $48-49k. Here, Wealthsimple buying from me for $48-49k and selling to the market for $50k.

So this means I just cannot buy or sell at current prices - my intermediary is taking a further cut each time for granting me the privilege of being able to make these trades. So this means that if I buy when prices are $50k. I won't be able to break even until prices move to say, $54k, because then my broker will actually let me sell for the price I bought at ($52k)

I think in this case the platform is performing the role of "market maker", which is a critical step in actually allowing trades to happen between different traders. The stock market actually does have this happen too, but it's not your direct broker doing this to you, it's a further step in the chain away from us as retail investors, so it's not really a problem on your individual transactions.

I'm curious - do you guys know if this phenomenon is happening on your crypto platforms? I know there are two separate fees you might get (flat or % based fee your platform might charge) and the actual crypto fee (fee incurred by the cryptocurrency itself any time movement is done). It can be hard to recognize this is happening because it isn't going to show up as a fee - it's just going to be that your order will be fulfilled at a different price than what you were seeing at the time.


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