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GOTY 2020

Descriptions of the game ahead - if you want to go in completely blind like you are now then avoid this post but it sounds like you want some explanations

It's a roguelike where you start new runs over and over and come up with a different ability build every time you attempt to "complete" the game. Like Binding of Isaac or a million others.

Completing a run isn't really *beating the game*, it's just one step in the gameplay loop, albeit a big accomplishment. The expectation is that it will take you a good number of attempts to complete it the first time and then you'll want to complete it a bunch more times.

The way the narrative and dialogue flows into this gameplay loop is flawless - it's why the game is so beloved.

You can play for as little or as much per session as you want, and you can decide you arent enjoying the game anymore after a bunch of attempts without completing a run, or after you complete your first run, or after 10 completed runs, or after 500 completed runs. That's one beautiful thing about the game. It's engaging for as long as you find it fun to play, but unless you quit the game after a couple runs, I doubt you would ever feel like you didn't experience enough of the game.

Personally I think I did something like 75 runs, and genuinely loved every second of 73 of them. Then in the last two I suddenly just didn't want to play it anymore and stopped.... and I feel like I had a mega fulfilling experience.

The gameplay is an isometric hack and slash, kinda like Diablo but instead of point and click you use WASD or a controller. Battlerite is the most similar gameplay feelwise I think, but I don't think many played that. I feel like there should be a hundred examples of other games with similar gameplay but I can't think of any.

Good luck and have a wonderful time!


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Yeah selling right now seems to me to be a bad choice unless you think a company *in particular* is never going to go back up. I strongly support having a significant portion of the portfolio in ETF's in general though.

I'm thinking of selling my 200 shares of AMC though.... my cost basis is $12.35, so selling for $10.40 is a bit of a loss, but if you include all the covered calls I've sold my cost basis is really only around $7. so I've made money and can use the money elsewhere. Calls right now are not selling for much so I don't want to lock into one right now.

But then... it sounds like red sox is calling another GME rally, and that always raises AMC somehow too.... maybe I'll just hold for a couple more weeks.

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$4.55 =)

I bought them in a dip, which feels really funny now. Maybe I'll average down...


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I've been meaning to ask Blur about IEA. IEAWW is my biggest loser atm and it seems to go down even further with the market every time theres a drop.

But I suppose I'll keep holding forever!

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so i opened this game

theres an achievement system now. boy that took a lot of clicking

3460 points!!!!!!

when does the core set thing happen?

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It will be hilarious if they repeat the Wii U error and name the Switch as if it's a special edition and nobody outside of serious gamers even notice there is a new console to buy

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it hurts bad

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i think the question mark of what happens after the three months is big

people are going to say 1 here because of the benefits balancing the wage difference and commute but...

for job 2, after the 3 months is your reliable work going to decrease, or are you likely to get a full time position that brings in the benefits that makes it clearly better than job 1? Especially if you can just move closer to that area to get a good commute.

To me this "3 month period" is literally not the choice, no way you would pick job 2 over job 1 for these 3 month period details. whats gong to happen after the 3 months is what you are choosing if you go down that path.

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MrGreenonion posted...

I mean it is more money than other movies are doing. Like there were a few movies that debuted on streaming rental/purchase last year and the standard for those was $20 for a rental or $25 to own. $30 to get access 3 months early on an active subscription is more money for less access than the "own" option.

I don't think it's meaningful to compare the prices between competitors when deciding if its "the right" price or a fair price. These services are all trying to figure out what people will pay - all of these examples are just tests at this point.

The truth is, general service streaming subscriptions *are not* going to pay for the budgets for big blockbuster movies. That's typically been covered by the box office of the first couple weeks a movie is in theatres. If movies theatres don't recover to the strength they used to be, then studios may not be able to produce movies like they have... unless they can figure out a way to get people to pay through fees like this to stream it at release.

So studios are going to see if they can charge these prices, and people will decide if they will pay them. If enough do, then maybe it will be enough to keep making blockbuster movies. If not, we may not see big budget movies anymore.

I know people have an expectation of just getting things for free or cheaply on the internet but something has to pay for things to get made. I think comparing to the cost of what it would have cost to see it at the theatre isn't too unreasonable.

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I agree that there's a significantly non zero chance that whatever they announce causes people to buy for whatever reason, even if it's not rationally supported by value of the business

But the chance isn't non zero enough that I bought

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So Canada Pacific rail (CP) is buying Kansas City Southern (KSU) this week. KSU Shareholders will get 0.489 of a CP share (worth about $185) and $90 cash, so valued at $275.

A KSU share is $224, so I imagine the price is jumping up today. Getting in under $275 would mean value if the CP price doesn't tank.

I actually own CP shares so I wonder what the long term impact will be. I think the short term impact is that KSU shares go up to near the $275 value, and probably CP shares go down? There'll be share dilution so I dont think it should go up right now, but maybe later.

They are touting this as the first Canada-US-Mexico train network. Can that possibly be true? KSU is apparently situated to focus on Mexico trade and CP is obviously a Canadian rail so it does make sense for this new combined company to be focused on all three countries I guess

CP also has an up coming 5 for one split coming up and supposed share buy backs coming, so who knows where this stock is gonna end up in 3-6 months.

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StealThisSheen posted...

That hardly counts as "introduced" since you still know nothing about them. Hell, I don't even think it gives most of them names.

i was gonna make the same post you just did here but then i clicked his spoiler text and realized there would be no point because he agrees with me

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the thing i dont get about the phone is like... the literal physical act of using the phone for so long. do you just hold it in front of your face for literally four hours? do you prop it up on a desk for you to look at? In which case why not use an actual screen?

i watch things on my phone / tablet when I'm exercising on a treadmill or something because it it just physically makes sense to have it there, but where else would you do this? on the bus?

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watching movies on your phone puts you well past the point about caring about aspect ratio

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I don't think this is what you are asking for but I'm gonna post about it here because I think it's a funny note in the literature world and it is mystery related

Are you familiar with the procedural crime show called Castle? It's about Nathan Fillion playing a best selling author who tags along with detectives as they solve their case of the week, to research for his novels. I love that show and I love Richard Castle himself.

The premise of the show was that he wrote a series of novels about Derrick Storm, a ruggedly handsome secret agent that was quite obviously a self insert of Castle himself. He decides to reinvent his writing by killing of Storm and follows Detective Beckett around on cases for inspiration, and starts a new line of novels about Nikki Heat, a detective.... quite obviously based on Beckett. She's followed around by a magazine reporter named Jameson Rook.... quite obviously another Castle insert. Throughout the show, they mention new books Castle has written and are releasing like Heat Wave, Naked Heat, etc

Anyways, the producers of the show hired ghost writers to actually write these books, and they are written from the premise that Castle wrote them. And they actually 100% feel that way. They are schlocky dumb tropes and antics but man it really captures the feeling of Castle, like this fictional character somehow actually wrote a book for me to read.

I don't remember anything about the books that I read but what I do remember is thoroughly giggling to myself and enjoying it as I read them. So if you are a fan of Castle, I think this is a fun thing to consider. If not, then eh probably ignore. 100% disposable content here

https://www.goodreads.com/series/52515-nikki-heat
https://www.goodreads.com/series/149241-derrick-storm

I don't know if doing this is ever common when there's a writer in a show or movie or something but this existing at all cracks me up whenever I think about it.

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Sunroof posted...

What should I make it be?

Try not to let what people are asking for decide what you will do. If there's a bid of $1.25 and an ask of $1.75, if you are trying to buy dont just set it at $1.75 to buy it instantly or if you are selling set it to $1.25 to dump it. Set somewhere that seems reasonable to you. There might be recent sales data telling you it went for $1.55 or something that might help you make a choice (and the "price" you see for a stock on your broker or on the internet might be an average between the bid and ask or the most recent trades)

Choose the price you think is right, and don't always feel the need to chase the price up or down to make the trade happen. Just because the ask is $1.75 doesn't mean you should buy for $1.75. If a deal doesn't fulfill, maybe its best to just let this deal go. Once you decide "i want to buy/sell this stock" it can be easy to fixate on just making it happen at any price, but you should try and recognize that feeling and manage it.

BTW, you've probably picked this up now, but the market buy orders will just straight up go to whatever the bid or ask is, which is why they are so risky. The available bid/ask might not be a good deal. So don't feel like you you should set your limits there either.


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Sunroof posted...

Is there a way to auto sell a stock once it hits a certain price above what you bought it at, like the opposite of a stop sell?

You just set a normal limit price to sell with no expiration.

You've been using limit prices since we warned you to stop using market buys, right?


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Oh I asked the same thing a few months ago when I first learned about covered calls up in here!

Someone *can* exercise a call early if they want by calling their broker and have them go through the process. It isn't required to wait the full duration. But typically it will just be held until the expiry, possibly sold between multiple in the meantime, and it'll only get exercised if its in the money at that expiry date. My understanding is that this happens at end of day but that might be wrong (My broker tells me they'll do it at close, but maybe they are doing it in the background during the day and just apply it to me at end of day)

I think generally you don't expect that it will be exercised early, but don't get completely surprised pikachu face if it does happen some day.

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Sunroof posted...

So what happens when you choose a strike price that is under the current price?

You'll get a higher premium but it usually won't make up the difference in price of just.... selling the share.

IE you could sell calls at the current price or above for $1, or sell calls a $3 below the current price for $2.50

But why? You could just sell at the current price.... If the stock gets assigned at that low stock price it won't make much sense. Which it would unless the stock price drop and if you were expecting the price to drop why didn't you just sell your shares?

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I don't have a problem with R Rated super hero movies. But I think there's a big difference between the Justice League and something like Suicide Squad or Deadpool being R rated. The latter is tailored towards an older audience to begin with, but if you do it with the Justice League you are blocking out the kids who definitely want to see it.

Wolverine is kinda on the line. Obviously kids wanna see more Wolverine but Logan was sooo good and we'd already had so much of him anyways.

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i kinda want it to be good now. imagine if he actually made a really good Justice League movie with Batman and Superman but kids just don't get to see it

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so i haven't seen any DCU movies since BvS, including the original Justice League

Lightning Strikes, based on your extensive research, should I watch this?

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"Weird Al" Yankovic - Don't Download This Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGM8PT1eAvY

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have they revamped how collections work in the last couple years? Core set might be a time to do that

i found the cost of buying cards and the time investment necessary to get cards through the free to play model to both be grossly expensive to me so iv been ignoring this game since rastakans rumble. i only open the game to push towards my quest of completing all 27 shrines, and even that's been a long time.

i heard their was some new system sometime within the last year but i saw a bunch of drama on reddit about how it was actually worse to gain cards through playing than before if you did the math, with arguing back on forth bickering about how it was actually a bit better. it would need drastic change to get me interested in playing again

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300 is a work of art

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red day =(

this is a fun read, I guess this is the kind of research short selling firms were for

https://www.reddit.com/r/investing/comments/m6kxvb/dd_ftft_a_400_million_chinese_scam/

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Why would a producer of Uranium buy Uranium????

Just to resell later on? This seems really weird...

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I pay $5 minimum per trade, which increases per share to a cap of $10 if there's thousands of shares in the trade. Options go higher

I've spent at least $300 in fees in the last few months

=)

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Warrants that are out of the money dont track the associated stock directly, i wouldnt expect it to at all until it's in the money. the price is based purely on the whims of small amounts of speculative traders since they are literally worthless and the volume is low.

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Someone asked who all is in DNN

I have 105 shares of DML just for funsies (that's the ticker for people in the know)

But yeah today is a very green day for me except Cloudflare which took a hit =(

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oh ya go my precious toronto stock exchange

DML to the moon

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red sox 777 posted...

The Know-It-All
Has read a lot of articles or books on investing.
Likes to tell other people about how they are making mistakes or taking on too much risk.
Quotes Warren Buffett a lot.
Only buys index funds themselves.

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i'll take it

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BakusaiTenketsu posted...

She's in a position specifically at a headquarters level. If we move back to Utah, she would have to drop about 4 or 5 pay levels and take a field position instead, which she would not be happy in.

Her education and work experience might be applicable to other businesses though, and we haven't researched it, but there would need to be openings of course for those to even be a possibility. Federal jobs are protected though, so transfers to lower paid positions are the only real guarantee.

We've talked a little since I posted this, and as of right now, we are just "kicking the can" a little longer. We will extend our lease to November/December if the owners will accept a short term lease, and her hope (which she feels is a strong possibility) is that by that point telework/domicile policies will be updated and which jobs qualify.

She isn't excited about moving back to state that has a lot of annual snow, and I get the feeling she liked living far from her parents as well (lol).

We just celebrated our 19th wedding anniversary. We will work through this, and divorce isn't anything I'm concerned about. We aren't that bad. But we are definitely very far apart on this decision. It's kind of uneasy putting a lot of faith into the updated policies of the post office that may or may not happen any time soon.

I'm fiercely loyal to my wife, even at the expense of my own desires, so I know I'm the type of person that will stay if I had to in order for her job happiness is secure. I could be in for a long road of slight depression in that case.

I think "kicking the can" out is absolutely the right choice here. Forcing a move because of an arbitrary lease deadline will be irreversible while if you stay you can change your mind about moving back later as you continue to figure this thing out. So this is a good holding maneuver for now.

I'm a bit concerned about your attitude about it though. It seems there's a lot of "oh yeah we aren't going to break up over it, i'll just put her needs first if i have to, it's okay if i'm depressed for awhile" going through your head, which is a bit understandable considering you currently unhappy, but I don't see you engaging with all of the suggestions on how to improve your situation where you are.

Do you WANT to make this place a home? Or is the solution in your mind either to go home to Utah and be happy or stay here for your wife's happiness and you'll just have to put up with never fitting in?

Pretty much everybody in here has been saying "you need to get up and go put yourself out there and make some new friends. It will never happen if you don't make it happen."

Do you agree with this? It can be tough to do, especially if you are an introverted guy, but if you don't have your automatic social circle from family and friends from school, you'll have to do the legwork to make this happen. There's a lot of ways this could be done. There might be a local neighborhood organization you can join that organizes events, there could be something at school or church, you could look for groups on facebook or other social media for things like board games or D&D or video games or tennis or brewing or whatever hobbies you are into. There's probably * some* kind of clubs for interests you have, you just have to put yourself in there and go meet these people.

There's even apps like Tinder for making friends with hobbies. I'm not sure what kind of people are actually using these things but apparently its actually used.

I've always seen you as an optimistic guy who really thoroughly invests himself in his passions, so I think that if you choose to do this, it's absolutely something you could follow through with. It really just requires you to want to do it.

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Are you actually in CREX shares or CREXW/options?

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Corrik7 posted...

If you are talking about shorting, the problem with returning borrowed stock is that to short it you have sold your borrowed stock to someone else at the high rate. When it comes time to return the borrowed stock, you are supposed to buy a stock at the new lower price to return the stock you borrowed. Thus netting the money you gained by selling your borrowed stock at the higher price after you deduct the cost of the price of the stock you had to buy after to return it.

If the stock goes up, you are buying at a higher price to return the borrowed stock. Thus, you lost money.

Ironically, even this isn't an explanation on how borrowed shares can affects the price of a stock, Decent explanation of how you gain or lose when you short sell though.

Returning borrowed stock would typically mean you have to buy the stock you sold back again. This buying action would increase the price of the stock (which is the logic behind the short squeeze). That explanation ExTha quoted says that somehow returning borrowed stock causes the price to go down. If they held it instead of selling it, they wouldn't have to buy it back so it wouldn't cause the price to increase. But why would it possibly make it go down for any reason?

The only thing I can think of is that the institution that lent the shares will immediately sell anything returned to them, but I'm not aware of any reason to assume this must happen, and happen all at once. From what I understand, brokers are actually lending out shares of their users, so they probably need to retain a lot of the returned shares.

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What impact would returning borrowed shares have on the price? Just giving shares back to the borrower wouldn't be a trade that impacts price at all. It's just changing ownership of those shares

That explanation had a lot to say about borrowing happening but then skipped right over the part where it explains how price is impacted and then concluded that it caused the price change.

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is it a real thing? i walked away from the first GME thing with the understanding that short ladder attacks aren't a real thing and it's just a WSB made up explanation for their narrative. the explanations iv seen don't actually make any sense. but I see you used it just a little while ago here to see if it was possibly what happened.

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Man I wish I had time to check the market this morning before I started work this morning - I could have sold some really juicy AMC covered calls. before that big dip. I still got a decent one before it dipped further by end of day, but alas, what could have been....

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red sox 777 posted...

He didn't buy it though. It's only a sell signal if he actually buys! Plus, he's been doing a lot better recently - I think he's pretty much gotten the FOMO bug out of his system.

this aged well

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GME is too powerful, it's draining the life of everything else

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StartTheMachine posted...

Interesting. I just saw your posts in the discord. Man, the bid/ask spread is ridiculous and I've never seen volume so low in any stock, even warrants. I'm very intrigued by your DD though. Definitely feels like the market isn't appreciating that PR information atm.

discord? whoa are you guys holding out on us with the real tips

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Actually, you are probably right, AMC has been inversing the market drop with GME this whole time, it's just been small gradual increases, today was much bigger than usual.... and GME had a big spike yesterday/today. I forgot about that.

Well GME - please drag my AMC up a little more!

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AMC came up a lot today, probably in advance of earnings. I doubt the box office for the weekend did anything, Raya and Chaos Walking both had real weak showings. Looks like we are still a long ways from movie theatres coming back

I would love it if it could go up tomorrow some more before earnings, 11.50 is right where I'd like it to be to sell a decent covered call. But it's already sliding back down...

My feeling is that earnings will be terrible, but there'll be "good news" about how strong the balance sheet is from extinguishing their debt before.... but we already know about that, so the price will fall without anything else to support it..

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Sunroof posted...

He said hes turned $80 into $700, and can buy larger quantities in bulk from distributors, so it would therefore stand to reason that turning $50k into $90k would be extremely easy. As we found out, Chris was overly optimistic with his figures

TCG market could crash tomorrow - promising these kinds of returns cannot be assumed to be "extremely easy". Chris is wiling to be his own money on this stuff but it would be extremely irresponsible to promise these returns to investors. So, on the advice of his accountant, he isn't.

To Chris. That's interesting. It sounds like you have a mix of the ability to resell unopened packs/boxes at a profit, reselling high value cards at a profit, and selling bulk card lots to recoup some original cost.

Are 5000 card lots just random mixes of cards? Are they all commons or is there an assumption of rare cards being mixed in? If this is just low tier cards that are worthless then it's just free recoupment of investment while you sell the value cards for more separately, but I'm wondering if buyers are happy with that.

I have to say that I am somewhat intrigued. I wonder how big this market is - are you not worried about telling us about this creates competitors, or do you think it wouldn't make a splash? If you list cards on ebay or whatever, more people listing cards on ebay would create compeititon!

I have to imagine shipping is a big logistical problem for you, both physically organizing and packaging everything and paying shipping costs. Is the cost of shipping individual cards negligible? Just a sealed card in a letter or something more? You mentioned grading - does that mean you have to ship cards to a service that does this, pay them, and have it shipped back?

I wonder how being in Canada affects this these things even further if I were to do this. Shipping things crossborder could be problematic. Do you sell to buyers in Canada?

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Sorry guys, but you really can't say "I think they'll portray her more as a villain later."

This is the show. This doesn't seem to be a typical TV show that will have regular seasons. There might be a follow up, but this is essentially a one shot miniseries. You can't just leave such critical pieces of the show *completly* unresolved. The only thing they did to address this was when everyone surrounded Wanda and she had to somewhat realize the horrible things she did. That wasn't nearly enough resolve this in series in a satisfying way, when they've really been pushing her as the hero who should succeed and all of these cheerleaders in series acting like she really is the good guy.

It's the case with both the repercussions of what she did here, and with how useless Monica/Jimmy/Darcy were in the later half of the show. If they don't find proper ways to use and address these aspects within the show, then they were poorly done and detrimental, and revisiting it later isn't good enough.

I think if they portray her as villainous later on, it will actually make this worse. It makes his default framing of her as a hero make even less sense.

Also - I have no problems with MCU elements being in this show. I think Monica, Jimmy, Darcy, and Hayward are all perfectly fine elements that *can* fit into this show - they just gave up at some point on giving them good, consistent writing and relevant things to do that fit into the narrative seamlessly.

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Sunroof posted...

Why would you not disclose profits to an investor? And bonds dont increase 300% in value. Fishy alert!

What he's saying isn't fishy at all. He's extremely optimistic about what he can do but he doesn't actually know for certain that he can make 800%, and his wife is extremely cognizant of this fact. His recognition of how his extreme bullishness is reigned in by his wifes bearishness is very self aware. If he says he'll give you $90k but he only turns your $50k into $95k, then he only gets to keep $5k. Maybe that's good but maybe it's not worth his time considering it means he's focusing left on his other more profitable endeavors

Worse - the terms you said were actually "I'll give you $50k and then you give me $90k in two years". In this case, you've given him a loan that he has to pay back. So if he only makes $75k he has to make up the shortfall of $15k. Or worse - what if he only makes $10k. Now he owes you $80k out of his own pocket?

That's what happens with businesses that sell bonds - they have to pay it back regardless of how the specific purpose they used the money from it went, so they have to limit the interest paid out to obtain that bond.

You could try negotiating a deal where he'll give you 50% of any profit on the stuff bought with that money but that's probably more work to track on their end than they want to deal with. Offering 50% ROI is a pretty good and generous deal, especially if he guarantees it.

Anyways, Chris the thing I don't get with your strategy is that it sounds like you just buy packs and assume you will make a lot of money out of it. Is that really how it works? Why wouldn't everyone just do this? Isn't the assumption that generally you lose money on packs? Is there a certain number of packs you have to open that it becomes pretty certain you'll get enough high value packs to make up for all the loser packs?

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So yeah. I mentioned earlier about really liking the trio of Monica, Darcy, and Woo. When they were just piecing things together, it was really good, they were working within the confines of what they knew and their personalities were driving what they did. But as things moved on, they really had no place in the story, they were just characters that kept appearing just because they are in the show, not because they had anything material to do in the plot or any sort of emotional or character relevance. Very disappointing. Monica in particular was honestly pretty bad.

Pietro was awesome. People complaining about him are being really lame. It's okay if he's not a multiverse Pietro - its just a really fun cameo that really did add to the show. It's too bad he was used just as badly in the last episode as all the other side characters.

Hayward was pretty bad before but he got unbelievably bad. He's literally just there to be bad military man. He just... shoots at kids. Just cause. Darcy crashing into him and saying "have fun in prison!" was pretty cringe. The show is just flat up denying stakes for anybody at that point. Wanda has done monstrous things to this town, and while Hayward is definitely going overboard, and the Monica/Darcy/Woo trio are on the right not to not jump to immediately condemning and trying to kill her.. automatically assuming she's good and that Hayward is unquestionably wrong to the point that he'll be arrested just doesn't make sense in any context of the series

Loved Vision's logic circle with himself. Paul Bettany really has been phenomonal.

Like everyone has been saying, Elizabeth Olsen is spectacular too. Though not all her scenes are good, thanks to poor writing. Like taking Agatha to her past started off good but suddenly devolved into.... nothing. I feel like that's how a lot of what Agatha was doing ended up as.

I liked a lot of Wanda's finale stuff, and the final scenes with her family were just sooo good. But then it's astounding how it constantly reverts to such bad writing with the SWORD and results stuff. Wanda doesn't do anything to make amends with the town people after she has been doing something TRULY awful and villainous to them. That "they'll never know what you gave up for them" "it won't change what they think of me" bit is way too self indulgent - as if they aren't 100% justified to think she's a monster??

I see people saying this was holding Wanda accountable but I think it's the complete opposite. I got the feeling Wanda was seeing this is a "I can't control their fear, only my own" situation again which it 100% is not

Honestly the more I think about how unresolved Wanda's villainous actions are here the more annoyed I am with the terrible Hayward and Monica plotlines. None of that part of the story was earend at all.. Honestly Wanda mind trapping Agatha doesn't even feel good - it's like Wanda really is the monster that's okay with doing these things to people.

Man how can this have had such high highs but be so bad on so many of these other things. I really enjoyed this series and it has so many good things. If it hadn't phoned in these other elements this would be a genuine masterpiece.

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

lmao literally two mirror matches

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

quite the end of day rally. Everything I had except my VOO Vanguard ETF was very red all day including my ARK etf's but a lot of it turned green at the end there.

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

Yeah, most of those numbers are CAD, i put that $48k to $61k conversion there to peg my stuff to the USD prices you might be familiar with. Basically, I bought at $49k and can sell at $47k. So if I bought when prices were $48k USD, they'll have to rise to $50k so I can sell at $49k in order to break even. Possibly minor if there's big gains in the future but REALLY impacts the margins here as it stays flat or goes down.

How does this scale up? I only put in about $500 so maybe the commission drove this, and they are including that commission in the price. Is that typical? If I put $5500 or $55000 would the price still effectively be $62k CAD or would a small flat transaction fee have smoothed out to a small impact? If I enter any purchase price right now I notice its still give me the $62k price so it looks to me that it will fulfill it around there no matter what.

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