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Tyranthraxus posted...

Because that's when the squeeze stopped and the stock started crashing. If you bought at $700 well sucks for you but cash out at $500 and cut your losses. Don't "diamond hands" thinking it's going to go back. People were posting screenshots of calls with strike prices of $3000 on WSB ffs.

This is exactly why I say you didn't understand what was going on. It's what you saw.

Tyranthraxus posted...

As for "the real value of the stock" it ain't $700. GME was manipulated by short attacks to be worth way less than it actually was but the true unmanipulated value of the company is still way less than $700 a share. The Short Squeeze price wasn't based on company value. It was based on a combination retail pump & margin calls.

No one thought that. I agree that the short squeeze wasn't based on company value. But the company value was never a major factor in why people were rallying around GME (it certainly was a reason why hedgefunds were shorting it to oblivion, I'll give you that). It's the sheer accounting fraud that people were going to exploit and abuse and this fraud, the over 140% short is what both you and Kuuko are heavily undervaluing.

Murphiroth posted...

I said Christofacism is rising, not Christianity. Remarkably telling that you see the two as the same thing.

I'm trying to have a discussion and understand you, but you guys keep being so militant difficult. I already highlighted times where you guys misunderstood my post.

Murphiroth posted...

...didn't you pretend not to understand the term Christofacism earlier in the topic and now you're trying to tell me I don't understand why it's rising to being with? Do enlighten me, this should be rich.

You said Christianity or Christofacism is rising. I want to know the factors in which why it is rising when Asherlee scoffed at me saying that the amount of people identifying as Christian in the US at a low. You guys say it's going up to refute my point that it's not at an absolute low. I want to know why it's climbing. Am I speaking a different language here?

Murphiroth posted...

Nah you don't get do the cowardly chud "just PM me bro!" thing, lmao. Talk about it here or nowhere.

So if you were in my position, what would you do?

I personally would be delighted to, but I've been modded for giving my views, even explaining what X and Y controversies are. Hell, discussing how much influence Israel had on the US government before this ongoing Israel/Hamas war was moddable. I bring up Epstein because if I were to mention that there's a billionaire who has major politicians and celebrities compromised by entertaining them with sixteen year old sex slaves on an island in the Caribbean, and this was reported nowhere, I'd get modded (and I knew about this from long ago). It's no longer faux pas to talk about it now that the story is out and in mainstream.

This is the reason why you see so many discrepancies with a controversial topic with commenters basically in agreement but the poll telling a different story (i.e. not being lopsided).

Euripides posted...

Christo-Fascism is on the rise BECAUSE church attendance/self-identification as Christians is going down. It's the Christian elites' last gasp effort to keep the religion in power.

If that's the case then I don't understand what Christo-Fascism was. I thought you guys meant vocal Christians pushing their ideals on you.

Asherlee10 posted...

Just because the Catholic church arrived at the same conclusion as science, doesn't mean it's a Christian law especially when incest marriage (as you put it) is throughout the Bible.

And what point are you even trying to make here? 99% of the time when a law is Christian based in the US it is christo-fascist and there isn't anything you can post to dispute that.

The point I am trying to make is that, assuming you were raised in the US or some Western country, the way you think, the ideals you have, were owed to Christianity, specifically the template the Catholic church constructed. I posted a couple links, read them! I even mentioned something as simple as being trusting strangers, being considerate of others not your kin is owed to that template. So when you dismiss and scoff at Christianity, you're doing so on a foundation where you've already immensely benefited from it.

*It's fine to criticize though, that's how you improve things. Dismissing doesn't give credit where credit's due.

I'm repeating myself here. You're not understanding and even saying ridiculous lines like "just because the church arrived the same conclusion as science..." like this means anything when I can point to things the Church and science are in agreement on and yet today's culture is in disagreement with.

Asherlee10 posted...

This isn't a Christian law. There are many examples of cousin, niece, etc. marriages in the Bible. What are you even talking about?

I just gave a couple links regarding the Catholic church banning incest marriage.

Sad_Face posted...

But we already live in a Christian based society even if most people don't practice it and there are things Christianity (Catholicism I should be clear on) set hard rules against and because we don't practice them, the problems the rules were designed to prevent are now bubbling back up to the surface (in full force).

I suppose I should have prefaced with this instead of putting it at the bottom of my post.

Murphiroth posted...

Why do I think Christofacism is rising? I live in reality. Christian lawmakers are regularly trying to legislate entire groups of people out of existence and pushing for violence against said groups.

Okay, you're not understanding what I'm saying. I'm not denying it if that's the inference you're getting. I want to know if you had an understanding of why it's rising in the first place.

And to address the latter, I'll say that you're free to PM me to inquire further. But if I were to address here, when did you first find out about Epstein and what were your thoughts?

Asherlee10 posted...

I really don't have the energy for your brand of bulls*** and feigned ignorance.

"ChRiStIaNiTy iS At aN AlL TiMe lOw"

hurr durr

"You don't share my opinion, so you must be trolling". Ideas and sentiments aren't that black and white my dude.

wackyteen posted...

It isn't that Christianity is the default enemy.

It's the Christo-fascist f*** faces (all fascists are f*** faces) who want to act all holier than thou and dictate your life based on their own religion and beliefs.

I will give you that for a lot of belief systems, for the system to work, everyone has to be in agreement on the belief, as opposed to an opt in system of "you can believe or follow this practice if you want..." or you won't be able to reap the benefits. This is the motivation behind the people who want to dictate your life based on their own religion and beliefs.

To give an example of a Christian law everyone agrees with; Catholicism banned cousin marriages. This allowed the creation of nuclear families (husband, wife, children born to them) which made the family unit more economically nimble, allowed for people to take on careers and crafts that weren't passed down the family (this is where the term "journeymen" came from), and made for more trusting citizens overall.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/western-individualism-arose-from-incest-taboo/
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/11/roman-catholic-church-ban-in-the-middle-ages-loosened-family-ties/

So it's interesting to hear the complaints towards Christian laws. I get that a lot of politicians and commentators pushing this may come off as imposing their will, they're not doing a good job of selling the benefits. But we already live in a Christian based society even if most people don't practice it and there are things Christianity (Catholicism I should be clear on) set hard rules against and because we don't practice them, the problems the rules were designed to prevent are now bubbling back up to the surface (in full force).

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Murphiroth posted...

It's pretty funny though that you're playing dumb about the rise of Christofacism in this country.

So we're going at an uptrend now? Still a far cry from how prominent Christianity used to be. My church is still dead and there's still concerns about having enough of the new generation to take over. Why do you think it's rising?

Asherlee10 posted...

Exactly what are you asking? Are you wanting to know why forcing Christian-based laws are horrible? Are you wanting a synopsis of how Christianity has basically turned into a hate group in the US and is used by some of the worst humans to further their agenda?

Where have you been for the last 40 years?

Christianity is at an all time low. It's very interesting to hear someone call Christianity the enemy despite them writing the playbook for what I believe are the most successful societies today.

Asherlee10 posted...

Regulation of people, laws, policies, statutes, etc. are not without motive. In this case, these are conservative motives behind the law guised as protecting women from human trafficking when the GOP has no recent history of doing anything like that. But we do have a history of them trying to force christo-fascist bulls*** onto the nation.

That's a new word to me. What's wrong with Christianity?

Asherlee10 posted...

While some lawmakers applauded the anti-trafficking bill as a whole, they said they were concerned the stripping provision is trying to legislate conservative values and control adult women (coincidentally on International Women's Day). Rep. Michele Rayner of St. Petersburg pointed to some legislators' attempts to lower the minimum age for certain gun purchases in Florida from 21 to 18.

I'm not understanding your sentiment. You're worried about controlling women or pushing conservative ideals? The whole point of a government is to regulate behaviors. Behaviors of men, women, boys and girls; all to make sure, in principle, the actions someone takes doesn't negatively affect your life. The conservative/liberal slant is going to be a factor because conservatives and liberals have generally different ideas on what's good and bad.

PraetorXyn posted...

Kind of surprised they didnt lower it, but this is stupid. If youre old enough to vote and go die in a war, youre old enough to strip or drink alcohol.

Every country needs some form of protection; a military to defend their turf. You will be at the mercy of those around you if you do not have a force to impose your will.

The latter two, lust and gluttony, are vices. They're not exactly required for a functioning society but people want them anyway. If left unchecked, they could cause adverse effects to society at large. With stripping, you're putting women in precarious environments that are ripe with drugs and could lead to abuse or trafficking. With alcohol, if left unchecked, car crashes and other destructive actions that could hurt those around you awaits.

Mind you these are the reasoning in principles for the military, I'm not factoring in the US' abuse of the military to further "the powers that be"'s goals that have nothing to do with supporting the American people. And the latter two are reasons in practice.

Tyranthraxus posted...

No I understand it very well. I'm saying the $700 or whatever was the squeeze. Anyone who continued to hold after that was a .... whatever they call themselves.

That was what you saw. What is your reasoning to conclude that was the max was $700 without the tampering that went on?

Rai_Jin's post should suffice in who's closing the button.

Kuuko posted...

Robinhood was grilled in front of Congress because of that exact accusation. The conspiracy is that the hedge funds demanded Robinhood turn off the buy button because the redditors were about to blow up the world economy and make all hedge funds bankrupt.

How are you calling this a conspiracy? They were losing money and I explained the dynamics of what made the price skyrocket and the motive to stop the GME trading.

Kuuko posted...

Anyway, that point had nothing to do with why other hedge funds don't just use infinity pool theory to take over the world. Why don't they just turn off everyone's buy buttons whenever they want? Other hedge fund buys position counter to yours? Just tell Fidelity and Schwab to turn off the buy button for the other hedge fund. Unless they're always colluding on every transaction ever. But bajillions are at stake here, and all they need to do is buy gamestop. Surely one hedge fund could break the secret agreement they all have to get infinity dollars. No no, only apes are smart enough to execute this trick.

Who do you think owned the majority of GME shorts? If you're a hedgefund, why would you try and shoot others in the back and back the GME holders? 75% of the hedgefunds' ability to make money is the connections and access to insider information.

Tyranthraxus posted...

Some people are straight delusional about stock prices. I've seen people on Reddit say s*** like $100,000 a share. Who's going to pay that? It ain't going to be the hedge funds. They don't have that kind of money. They'll cover what they can and declare bankruptcy. And they won't be buying from retail. They'll be buying from their unaffiliated-on-paper other hedge fund directly off market.

@Tyranthraxus you didn't understand the GME gambit then. The whole point was to cause a gamma short squeeze and prevent hedgefunds from being able to close out their shorts. That's how they got to the "ludicrous" share costs.

Remember, with shorting, you borrow a stock and immediately sell it to buy back at a lower price and pocket the change. Short at $20, you sell stock at $20, and if it goes to $10, you buy it back and return the stock and profit at $10 a share. Shorting 1000 shares means you make $10 x 1000 = $10K. But the price goes up to $30, you need to buy that stock at $30 instead of $20, meaning you're at a $10 loss, at 1K shares, that's $10K you need to fork up to close the short.

What made the GME stock special was that it was shorted an EXORBITANT amount, 120-140% shorted. Aka, there's a max of ~40% more shorts than shares that exist. Wallstreetbets caught onto this and went to buy up as many shares as possible, rallying the entire country to do so. The price rises upon the obvious need to purchase it back to close out the shorts with extremely (comparatively low) liquidity. This is called a gamma short squeeze event.

CyborgSage00x0 posted...

Not currently, know. It was halted on all platforms today and yesterday, which is common when a stock is super volatile.

They do that on centralized crypto exchanges as well. You can argue it's well intentioned to protect panic moves but that's still a form of rigging.

Kuuko posted...

Lol I can tell you are an ape or at least learned about the stock market through the ape movement because you're fundamentally misunderstanding basic tenets of the stock market and think invisible enemies are everywhere conspiring to stop you and gamestop from being profitable. It is honestly impressive the cargo cult has lasted this long, and lasted this long without ever actually learning anything at that. I have a feeling you also think every failing company is manipulated by naked short sellers or something right.

Dude, Robinhood halting GME trades is a textbook example of the system being rigged against the common man. They did it back in 2021 and they're doing again. Hell, GME was identified as a stock to buy up to cause a liquidity squeeze in the first place because it had more shorts than shares that existed. How is that even possible?

I don't understand how people can be so blind to obvious rigging.

Robot2600 posted...

why do only dads and boys get to throw the ball?

My mom has never asked me to join her at any sport. Nor does she play any either.

This one comment echoed my sentiments.

"What makes ideologies different from traditions is being one-dimensional extract of a broad ecology of traditional values and institutes. So for instance in this case Lauren maybe wasnt entirely wrong going tradwife but the trad-ecosystem was missing in this equation, so the vetting by elders, shared community, land connection, common religious practice seemed to be missing in this situation. Its not like traditional communities are lacking assholes but he wouldve been disciplined into a tolerable level of assholeness. Sort of Italian mafia style but it could be liveable at least."

The thing is with a number of behavioral beliefs (any variant of I believe that people should do X or Y) to be put into practice, they need a community and society in agreement at large because there needs to be an incentive and accountability system to make sure people are motivated to do the right thing and not abuse their positions. Southern apparently built up her own community on her beliefs but the males it attracted were generally opportunists looking to capitalize on free labor. Then her husband took her out of her community to live in another country. There's no one to hold him accountable for his actions, no framework to look out for her like the commenter mentioned.

2Pacavelli posted...

My top 4 holdings are BTC/ETH/XRP/ICP, and after that a variety of alt coins like FLR, HBAR, ALGO, XLM LTC and others

ICP is the one that has given me the most significant gains in recent months. If I withdraw from it I'm have to pay short term capital gains

Half that stuff doesn't have a future yet they keep chugging along anyhow. XRP is especially egregious because they talk about bringing blockchain technology to banks and yet banks right are talking about how they're integrating Chainlink to connect their blockchains together. Yeah I'm gonna shill link but I'll be honest in that it's been below its all time high since 2020 and hasn't picked up despite the BTC returning close to its ATH. In other words, they're not letting the price pump until people here are using services that are using Chainlink under the hood in the next few years.

But I can tell you HBAR isn't going anywhere, they even had an incident in the last two weeks where they mischaracterized tokenizing Blackrock funds and Blackrock had to issue a statement that they weren't working with Hedera. The price pumped from the mischaracterization and yet the clarification statement didn't bring it back down to the norm.

I won't speak of ICP since it's doing well for you but for the others, unless they're working with smart contract in some capacity, whether supporting Ethereum or having novel technology, I'd consolidate it elsewhere. But I must reiterate, while you definitely need to work on that credit card debt, if you were to ask everyone for advice to invest in crypto or your 401K 3 years ago, they'd say 401K. 5 years ago, 401K. 10 years, 401K again. I think it's very impressive you made it to $75K portfolio, though I should ask how much did you invest in it?

And how the hell did you rack up such a debt anyway?

2Pacavelli posted...

Mostly gains

I'm also concerned because I'd have to pay short term capital gains if I do withdraw from the Crypto

Unless you were degenerate shitcoin gambling (buying in clearly meme coins designed to be ponzis run up in value because of the hype), keep the crypto. Everyone is telling you to sell off crypto and not the 401K because they don't understand the technology. If you're invested in blue chip crypto like BTC/ETH/Link, you're fine.

ChocoboMogALT posted...

Don't trust anyone who tells you Re:Zero is good. It's 110% cringe with all the bad writing of an isekai with half the tropes. S2 is worse than S1 because, by then, all the novelty is worn off.

An apt way of describing Re:Zero S2. But I think the concept is unique and well worth watching the first season. The first season had memorable scenes where one scene , "Sleep along with my daughter.", is hands down one of the best animated scenes in anime history.

FolkenRawr posted...

It kind of sounds like your personal experience goes against your advice.

Well yeah no shit lol.

I would do everything in my power not to create another me. I wouldn't be making the same mistakes my parents made. I'll make my kid choose a sport and commit to a year of it for the experience of being a team player and having to work with others to reach a goal. If my kid shows an interest in music, I'll make it clear I will demand he practices an hour a day 5 days a week for a year and I'd be on his case to make sure he commits to it, and then I'd have him look for a group to play with. You gotta be disciplined to get anywhere and the fun of music is jamming out with others (I learned to play an instrument but didn't get far because I got lazy).

These are just off the top of my head, but the main things I would emphasize to my kid that I had to learn way later is building up the discipline to see something to the end and having the consistency to work on something a little bit each day so over time you'll see the fruits of your labor.

Dyinglegacy posted...

We do everything together. Shes my little partner in crime. If I leave the house, shes at my side. I go to the store, I mow the yard, whatever it is, shes in like Flynn. She wants to be with daddy no matter where I go. my son on the other hand is perfectly content (and would prefer it) to stay home with mommy.

Your daughter takes the initiative to be with you, sounds like no big deal that's she's daddy's little girl. If you're aiming to "balance" the relationships, I would present opportunities to your son (you may have to not take no for answer if you're hitting a wall) to gain more responsibilities that could lead to more opportunities for freedom or autonomy of his life and help him grow into a more reliable and capable man. I'd imagine something as simple as letting him park your car for you.

I sort of see my life in your kids; where my sister was the center of the household while I was just there at home. My parents put me in things but I wasn't passionate about anything so I tended to hate it.

DnDer posted...

Not literal day trading. Just their mentality that they can beat the market because they are somehow so much smarter than it. Or investment firms. Or the government.

You're severely overestimating the intelligence of the average investment firm. What they have over you is ton of liquid capital to invest (ex. they can invest $50,000 or 0.01% of their capital and turn a big profit while someone is asking the world for the average joe to cough up that kind of money), and they have connections and insider information to get first dibs on great investment opportunities.

Thankfully, we're now in a time where investing is more accessible, and there are new technologies being built open source that you can invest in, which evens out the playing field a little bit.

bigblu89 posted...

They cant even find a solution for whats happening in 10 years, you think they have idea how to fix the problem thats going to be 25-30 years down the road?

Their ability to find a solution for SS in 10 years or 25-30 years is separate from my point that suggesting that the plummeting birth rate is good for SS is in fact, not good for SS.

No need to complain about me pointing that out when the rest of the topic is regarding the 10 year timer.

Monolith1676 posted...

I have said it before and I will say it again, the game industry is collapsing. It is completely unsustainable.

AAA development is unsustainable. But the indie genre is thriving. Never been a better time to make a game with all these tools available. Making a commercially successful product though...

ClayGuida posted...

With the birth rates dropping, that certainly helps in the long run too.

That means less people paying into the system when Milennials are getting to retirement years.

Trumpo posted...

I don't feel like typing out an essay but all the info can be found on Reddit

Why bother participate in discussions on this dead and rotten site if you're going to say "go look on reddit lol"?

The MBTI test has merit. It helps in identifying groups X would appeal to, how certain groups learn, and how they think. For instance, this board, and an imageboard I'm on, these types of communication styles attract more introverts than extroverts. Heck, think about the beginning of the lockdowns where the people who had no trouble staying at home were generally all introverts. In contrast,

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/k18zGmkGrKk

On a finance board I'm on, the ones who do the best, getting in early on the big projects, are people who think intuitively; as in they apply a set of principles to deduce "what is possible?" as opposed to a lot of sensory folks who come to their conclusions around "what was the precedent?" and forming their deductions on "what is possible?" as a result. To give a direct example, early investors in Bitcoin and Ethereum would be situated in the former bracket since those technologies were unprecedented.

Then it also comes into play for how you accept information and believe it. For instance, for Epstein's Island, what would it take for you to believe that story? There were a number of folks out there who heard of the story and thought it was BS until it made national headlines. There's nuance in how people accept information.

Mind you, I'm not saying that if you are on this board "you must be this". There are always exceptions to the rule, but there are general trends you can catch.

SpiritSephiroth posted...

INTP-T.

I really don't know what any of this s*** means I just looked it up recently. I barely even cared about these tests tbh, only took it because of her.

It means you're the smack dab in the demographic who still dwells on dead message boards. Welcome my INTP brother.

I had an account banned for saying "I'm 12.999...", making light of the constant topics we had back in the day of 1=0.999 repeating. Had to go back to the mods explain that was actually 13, and got my account reinstated with a warning not to play cute.

MAR10_KarT posted...

3rd world countries profiting off crypto? elaborate?

never heard of this

Simple example is that a lot of 3rd world workers use Binance, a central exchange to exchange USDT for dollars because banks don't service their areas.

The question I should be asking is what have YOU heard regarding crypto?

Zikten posted...

Extremely positive on the students

Extremely negative on how mainstream media is portraying the students

I realized I can no longer trust even "left wing " corporate news media

I'm not in the least bit surprised by the actions of corporate news media, nor the US government's response and handling of the war. That being said, I am surprised of this response.

Guide posted...

You're confusing serious mental issues with "it's just discipline bro". The school never should've had him in the first place, and it's a major failing of the system that he wasn't put into schools that have the training and resources to deal with him.

I take it we're missing a chunk of the story from the article. Who knew he wasn't a fit for a the school and when did they find out? And did the school recognize they couldn't handle him?

MAR10_KarT posted...

^its crazy how some people still dont believe that networking and nepotism is a bigger factor in your future than you think

People are well aware of their value. However, you have more control than you think. You can put yourself in situations that allow you to get into circles for networking or nepotism in your favor. Hell, there's the crypto world that 3rd world countries have been profiting off of immensely given how it's global and completely open to anyone to contribute to.

There are avenues to climb up, but you have to pick a lane that suits you, be focused, and ideally be committed to the point of making sacrifices and making plays most people don't do. There's a level of talent and intelligence needed, but most people play it safe and give up when met with failure; as in they don't go further beyond what their peers do and so they'll generally only have as much as their peers.

DipDipDiver posted...

Like it obviously doesn't absolve him in any way of the crime, but it's clear the school failed in a number of ways here. It just looks bad because the perpetrator filed this suit and not the victim.

In the suit, Depas lawyers claim that Matanzas High School employees knew of his disabilities, triggers, and problem behaviors, along with his history of wrongdoings, including spitting, shoving an aide, intimidating school staff, and shouting at his teachers. It also highlights that because Depa is a large black male student, he is subjected to misperceptions and racism.

School staff aren't super human and this is the kind of behavior they're dealing with. And this isn't like 20 years ago where parents were supportive of teachers and were active in disciplining their children at home so that they were cooperative in school for teachers. The lawyer is demanding the world here.

billman1000 posted...

5 million, invest it right and you'll have more than 25 in ten years.

I don't blame folks for choosing the $25M in a decade. I've heard too many stories of people investing wrong.

That being said, gimme money now. I could invest and reach $50M in a decade easily.

Cocytus posted...

That sounds like maga talk.

Can you elaborate on your sentiments further?

MAR10_KarT posted...

he already had a rich daddy who fronted him all the money to make his company. no way could he have done all that if he grew up in East Los Angeles like I did no matter how bright he is

Whoever came up with the concept of "selfmade millionaire/billionaire/success", I'm positive was also really bloody rich, manipulative, and deserves jail time for swaying the masses in the wrong direction.

We all know that most people had a ton of help to make it to the top, but the general sentiment of being scornful to someone who achieves their success is what angers me because wealth generation for most people is a team effort; generally across multiple generations. Your family is your biggest asset. Having them financially support your endeavor directly, them letting you live in their house while you sort yourself out and get your career going, those are all critical support that allows you to take on opportunities that normally wouldn't be available to you. The investment doesn't have to stop once you reach a legal adult status but too many people think otherwise.

But back to the topic, Elon Musk was an early internet pioneer. To see the potential in the technology and jump on board to help bring it to life always earns my respect in my book, especially as one following their footsteps with the Web3 revolution.

STEROLIZER posted...

I envision a mobile app that allows for beta & pre-registration sign ups. Thats an easy bell to add, and it comes with whistles in the form of income from brands willing to pay for the service.

EXAMPLE 1

I think this is a brilliant idea. And you bring up a brilliant point about GameFAQs not capturing the Mobile audience. I've looked into other mobile games and was super hesitant about starting one. I watched videos of this one game, Brown Dust 2, but it didn't jive with me that I was watching a paid advertisement video. And of course when I went to the message boards, basically dead.

What shocked me even more is that I finally started a new mobile game, Blue Archive, but when I checked out the message board here, DEAD. And this is one of the bigger titles, with tons of fan art, concerts, and even an anime currently rolling.

So the idea of working with companies to allow users here to be the initial entry players sounds incredible. And this is something that always bothered me about GameFAQs; we've some incredible dedicated game fans who will analyze and document everything about games, and yet there's absolutely no communication between game fans and the developers. Yet you see AMAs on reddit and developers speak on places like neogaf/resetera. Why don't we have developers communicate on this board? They will be talking to their biggest game fans. This is something I've always wanted to rectify if I were at the helm.

And in addition, GameFAQs, despite losing out to reddit and youtube, it still has a place in being an easily indexable place for information. I still look for guides on new games I play. And I would not want to go through a video if I can get it in text.

I'm surprised at so many pessimistic and cynical responses. This is a good starting point, though you just need the opportunity to be able to implement ideas... which will come in due time.

When you're streaming on the microphone for 9 hours straight, however days a week, you're bound to say to some less than insightful stuff.

just super saiyan.

ssb_yunglink2 posted...

are we taking Donald Trumps political analysis at face value now

A bunch of candidates dropped out at the last minute while one candidate who had no chance of winning stayed behind. These actions benefit one candidate that was losing horribly while hurting the chances of the favorite to win. The circumstances were so blatantly biased that even the big bad opponent even highlighted that the candidate that stayed in the race screwed the favorite to win.

That is the significance of me pointing it out. Makes sense?

StealThisSheen posted...

Warren didn't "stay in," though. She dropped out mere days after most of the others dropped out, and either the day of, or only a day after, Bloomberg dropped out, and Bloomberg took votes from Biden.

She dropped out after siphoning votes from Sanders. refer to Diceheist's post #66.

Diceheist posted...

Super Tuesday is just 3 days after South Carolina. If you've already made it to the SC primary, it costs virtually nothing to just stay in for ST too.

What happened is his donors called him that night and convinced him to drop out:

And Dice's post talks about the collusion the Biden team did to consolidate votes in his favor. Warren staying in only benefited Biden. Even Trump pointed this out.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/trump-super-tuesday-biden-incredible-warren-spoiler-bloomberg-won-nothing-n1149766

He then repeatedly portrayed Warren as the "spoiler" in an apparent bid to further drive a wedge between her and Sanders and their supporters. Had Warren dropped out before Super Tuesday, Sanders "would've won a lot of states, including Massachusetts, probably Texas, definitely Minnesota. So Bernie would've won states that he lost and he lost fairly easily, but in particular Massachusetts," Trump said.
"I would imagine there are others that he would've picked up," he said of Sanders. "So, Elizabeth Warren was the single biggest factor in the election last night. It would've been a very different thing, and not in a positive way for her, in a very selfish way for her. She was very selfish, from that point of view.

You can point to Bloomberg staying in, but it no way refutes the obvious reported (and I guess legal) collusion the Biden team did. I don't understand how there are people contesting this.

Puglia77 posted...

No, a literal 26 year old who's younger than most people who visit this site doesn't like forums because he was too young to understand then when they were popular.

I will give him the benefit of the doubt and doubt he has the authority to dictate the future of this site.

Well, without costing his position.

All the superdelegates committed to voting to Hilary Clinton from the beginning of the 2016 primary season instead of waiting till after their respective states' primaries to divvy out votes proportionally. This limited the amount of delegates Bernie could win in each of his winning states.

The democratic party passed a rule to prevent this clear unfair act from happening in 2020, but holy hell, the coordination they did to take down Bernie. That was nothing short of surgical. As a Yang Gang fan, 2020 had me completely disillusioned to the Democratic Party with how he and Sanders were treated.

StealThisSheen posted...

I'm not sure this logic tracks. Warren and Bloomberg both stayed in until after Super Tuesday, then dropped within two days of that. Unless you mean Tulsi, but she got such a negligible amount of votes I'm not sure she'd be worth mentioning. Yes, the people who dropped endorsed Biden, but if Bernie could only win by virtue of other people staying in the race, does that really say anything?

Warren staying in siphoned votes from Bernie as they shared similar demographics despite Bernie being on the winning end. It was so clear that Warren's inclusion sabotaged Bernie that even Trump had to tweet to blame Warren for screwing him over.

voldothegr8 posted...

As a business exec, sure.

MJ owned a billion dollar music portfolio, to the dismay of Sony, which included The Beatles' discography. I'm sure her networth currently is higher than MJ's at his time of passing, but to own such a portfolio is one helluva win.

The complaints about localization have extended LONG before the gaming industry got "political".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jA6A-ySMHYI

And this isn't to say that there aren't localizers that you can tell are passionate about the work they do. Off the top of my head, the Zero Escape series had the localizers coordinate with the Director Uchikoshi throughout the entirety of development (it's a murder mystery so you gotta get stuff right), NEO: TWEWY the localizers did a great job. Heck, for the prequel (different team), the developers loved the line "The world ends with you" so much that they made that the English title.

Are you talking about NYC?