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| Topic | Stock Topic 36 |
| Lopen 03/21/22 11:17:49 PM #199 | HeroicCrono posted... And overbetting will likely lead to losing most of your net worth if you keep doing it. Well on penny stocks I absolutely agree, especially since a lot of people who jump on pennies are not researching the stock fundamentals and are just looking into technicals/short interest/etc With safer stocks it's actually pretty unlikely you grab Enron or Blockbuster --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | MCU General 6 - Into the Mad Multiverse we go! |
| Lopen 03/21/22 10:05:15 PM #424 | GuessMyUserName posted... many bothered by her getting a significant shot in during the kaiju battle Yeah. True story that's exactly what I was thinking people might be SEETHING about, or at least would be the rallying cry for people who didn't like her. Which I mean I understand where that's coming from. A big peeve of mine is when supporting mostly comic relief characters get too competent for their own good. I blame Gabrielle. As long as she doesn't turn into Legolas in future entries and is just a naturally talented archer who got a lucky shot in a clutch moment let her have her time in the sun I say. But yeah they just had good chemistry and interactions. Lots of good stuff throughout the film with them bantering, that last one being a great one. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | MCU General 6 - Into the Mad Multiverse we go! |
| Lopen 03/21/22 9:45:39 PM #422 | Watched Shang Chi last night Very pleasant surprise. Enjoyed it quite a bit. Was getting worried new Marvel movies were going to go too deep down the rabbit hole of self-referencing the universe when it wasn't really the place for it (Black Panther released over 4 years ago was the last one that didn't do much of it-- Captain Marvel used Nick Fury as a bit of a crutch imo) but keeping it to just Wong and Trevor, very minor characters used very sparingly, let the new characters and lore properly stand on its own. Thought Shang Chi and Katy were great characters-- though I suspect Katy might be kinda polarizing. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Stock Topic 36 |
| Lopen 03/21/22 2:35:17 PM #197 | Wow MULN was up to $4 at one point today now it's below BBIG Makes me wonder if BBIG is trying to be shorted into the earth like Muln and they're all being om nom nomed. That or Muln is having actual profit taking today and it isn't all BS. BBIG retail is all bag holding so no profit taking lmao. What an exciting day to be watching the stock market. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Stock Topic 36 |
| Lopen 03/21/22 2:18:34 PM #196 | I bought 15 4.5c and 30 5c that expire Friday. Fired $200 into the incinerator. Or so I thought. I'm up 50% and 30% respectively on them despite the price being down from when I got them This pop is gonna be violent and it starts this week, I'm sure of it. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Final Fantasy Record Keeper Topic 55: Hello Alexander, Shiva... again |
| Lopen 03/21/22 12:56:26 PM #484 | I mean the sheer glut of items you get means on average you won't be screwed. It really depends on your needs though. Like if your team can clear all current content I wouldn't because you need to save up to stay on top of power creep. If you're playing from behind though it's kinda hard for 10 rop draws to be worse than a 1/11 (which you get fairly often on banner draws) --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Stock Topic 36 |
| Lopen 03/21/22 12:51:45 PM #194 | As long as he's got good habits and doesn't overinvest it's all good fun. Especially if he's diversifying his penny portfolio and isn't bombing one. But I mean I live a 35k lifestyle off a 70k income and dump the excess in stocks so I might be the wrong guy to speak here --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Final Fantasy Record Keeper Topic 55: Hello Alexander, Shiva... again |
| Lopen 03/21/22 12:11:57 PM #481 | I used to do all. Now I do about 1/3. Last fest was the only one where I really felt I wasted my mythril They probably should cut out 5* items at this point though. Have done 5 realms on this one and I basically spent 25 mythril on an Alma Glint (which I will use to be fair) and a bunch of bad dupes. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Stock Topic 36 |
| Lopen 03/21/22 4:38:50 AM #191 | Looks like over a million volume Do not buy this is "Trey" think Tyde is coming --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Stock Topic 36 |
| Lopen 03/21/22 4:34:33 AM #190 | Up 30% 30 minutes into pre-market? Let's roll that beautiful fomo footage --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | What are some games you like despite not liking the gameplay? |
| Lopen 03/21/22 1:21:16 AM #45 | Final Fantasy VII I actually enjoy JRPG gameplay at some level but FF7's system is really boring compared to most. Story is better than most so I look the other way but yeah Phoenix Wright games as well. The courtroom parts are fun but the investigation phases are a total slog most of the time. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | What is a game that you know is legitimately bad, but you unironically love it? |
| Lopen 03/20/22 1:05:11 PM #2 | SNK vs Capcom Card Fighters DS Buggy mess (you can literally get hard locked if you have an earlier release of the game) Awful balance But building and playing decks is just fun. I'd love a newer version with more cards --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | MCU General 6 - Into the Mad Multiverse we go! |
| Lopen 03/20/22 12:05:01 PM #411 | LinkMarioSamus posted... Anyway, if Lopen is saying that Black Widow didn't have a strong enough story to justify returning to the aftermath of Civil War he's right. If he insists that Black Widow doesn't explain the aftermath of Civil War he's wrong. It shouldn't and doesn't need to return to Civil War aftermath (nor explain it, having done so) But I do think the ability to return to said aftermath let them get away with a very barebones plot early that gave it MK Annihilation nonstop pointless action vibes-- they wouldn't have tried that without the tie in --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Stock Topic 36 |
| Lopen 03/19/22 11:32:26 PM #189 | Looks like the screwjob caught some eyes "Trey's Trades" going for BBIG. I guess he has a lot of followers or something --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | MCU General 6 - Into the Mad Multiverse we go! |
| Lopen 03/19/22 5:22:10 PM #398 | TotallyNotMI posted... I was wondering if he thinks Taskmaster is hunting Widow because of the Accords. He may as well be given the amount of explanation the briefcase gets in the part of the movie I watched I mean listen I'm just saying I got major Mortal Kombat Annihilation vibes from it in the part I watched and asked if the movie gets better, was told no, and was ready to go on my way Then you have a bunch of people ragging on me saying the intro was the same as every Marvel movie but the movie is still bad somehow --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | MCU General 6 - Into the Mad Multiverse we go! |
| Lopen 03/19/22 4:41:23 PM #388 | There are no Marvel movies where the first 10 minutes of the plot is explained with a brief reference to another movie Much less 40 --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | MCU General 6 - Into the Mad Multiverse we go! |
| Lopen 03/19/22 4:39:36 PM #386 | scarletspeed7 posted... Wasn't it already explained to you that it is explained at the beginning and you were lying? With offscreen stuff Stop being a gimmick dude --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | MCU General 6 - Into the Mad Multiverse we go! |
| Lopen 03/19/22 4:34:43 PM #382 | I think any movie that is junk for the first 40 minutes and explained entirely with offscreen stuff is bad and only the hubris of the MCU tie in let the movie have the audacity to try it is the point. Make it COMPLETELY disconnected from the MCU and it probably starts a lot better. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | MCU General 6 - Into the Mad Multiverse we go! |
| Lopen 03/19/22 4:18:44 PM #378 | I guess my core point is every MCU movie is watchable in a vacuum except Black Widow. You can follow No Way Home without knowing who Dr Strange is or why he knows Peter. It is completely irrelevant-- the extent of detail provided in the dialogue is sufficient. Black Widow feels like a string of random chases and fighting if you don't know the events of Civil War. What are the Sokovia Accords, who is The King of Wakanda is and when or why did she assault him. Etc etc. This would be a problem if it was released immediately after Civil War as well, just less glaring. Part of it is just that the reason for her being chased is pretty weak even if you know what they're talking about because it's all offscreen. It's just bad writing. It's a disingenuous argument to compare the two. The same kind of argument I myself am (wrongly) accused of making designed to get a rise out of people and made in poor faith, which got me pretty angry since hypocrisy is a peeve of mine. Like if you can't see the difference between Dr Strange's role in NWH and the plot of early movie Black Widow you seriously don't know why the MCU works. Point blank. If they were all structured like this I don't care how many cute quips they had they would have Avengers wouldn't have been the hit it was and the MCU would probably be long past done as a pop culture phenomenon by now. Why the MCU works is you don't need to watch all or even most of the entries to get whats going on. It's why people say "hey give me a list of essential viewing" and people can usually pare it down to like 20% of the titles-- and while Civil War is one of the more significant entires by and large you don't even need that one. Just watch all the Avengers movies and GotG1 and you're good really. That'll give you all the character intros and then you can just figure it out. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | MCU General 6 - Into the Mad Multiverse we go! |
| Lopen 03/19/22 1:58:56 PM #358 | scarletspeed7 posted... Black Widow, like every MCU movie, doesn't stand on its own anymore BECAUSE it's like reading and issue of a comic book It isn't. My entire point is it isn't And it's all in the significance of the details in driving what's going on You cannot or will not understand that, and that's fine. You comparing them to "an issue of a comic book" is incorrect. You'd be closer to accurate if you compared them to a trade-- I've read my share of trades and they tend to be fairly easy to follow in stand alone form as compared to comics because the start and end are chosen well-- much like an MCU movie --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | MCU General 6 - Into the Mad Multiverse we go! |
| Lopen 03/19/22 1:46:45 PM #354 | There is a difference between showing and telling. Particularly when the significance of what you're telling isnt explained in the movie Anyone who understands fiction gets that You've spent too much time reading poorly written comic books --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | MCU General 6 - Into the Mad Multiverse we go! |
| Lopen 03/19/22 1:45:34 PM #353 | You're only impressing yourself scarlet --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | MCU General 6 - Into the Mad Multiverse we go! |
| Lopen 03/19/22 1:44:29 PM #351 | God what a hypocrite I'm the argumentative gimmick okay HanOfTheNitpick --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | MCU General 6 - Into the Mad Multiverse we go! |
| Lopen 03/19/22 1:42:51 PM #350 | HanOfTheNekos posted... An hour is at the prison. Xfd --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | MCU General 6 - Into the Mad Multiverse we go! |
| Lopen 03/19/22 1:42:19 PM #349 | HanOfTheNekos posted... Again - they are not the same. Black Widow is not a good movie. Then don't pretend they're the same to win an argument I'm not having with you and just agree with me lmao --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | MCU General 6 - Into the Mad Multiverse we go! |
| Lopen 03/19/22 1:31:58 PM #346 | scarletspeed7 posted... Yeah, this was my entire point in the first place. It stopped being about being a series of films and it moved into being a comic book universe with an editor-in-chief over top a collection of creators And my entire point is you're wrong and the movies do actually do that at a basic level. Usually by choosing where to start things off pretty well Even No Way Home you know that Mysterio revealed Peter Parker's identity in the opening scenes of the film. The why is nice but not really necessary to care about the plot. His identity could have been revealed any number of ways and the plot more or less remains identical. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | MCU General 6 - Into the Mad Multiverse we go! |
| Lopen 03/19/22 1:29:15 PM #345 | LiquidOshawott posted... even with this exposition argument btw you could still have a plot if you make Black Widow have to pay for her previous assassinations though By the way I fully agree Here's the difference though, without the MCU crutch the movie would start with her assassinating a bunch of people in a powerful organization, and it being made clear that said organization is now chasing her for said assassinations So the movie would start a lot better and ergo MCU tie in hurt the movie. Imo --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | MCU General 6 - Into the Mad Multiverse we go! |
| Lopen 03/19/22 1:25:21 PM #343 | To dumb it down with the summary of someone who has no knowledge of MCU One is "I don't know why this is happening" One is "I know why this is happening but who is the wizard guy" If you think those are the same in terms of being able to get the audience to care, well ok then, whatever --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | MCU General 6 - Into the Mad Multiverse we go! |
| Lopen 03/19/22 1:22:51 PM #342 | HanOfTheNekos posted... In this, Black Widow and NWH do the same - they are based in a franchise and both use elements from that franchise that are not fully explained. In NWH, it's characters. In Black Widow, it's setting. Okay. You win this argument I was never making lmao If you want to make an argument that doesn't center around a false equivalence that an idiot would make be my guest --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | MCU General 6 - Into the Mad Multiverse we go! |
| Lopen 03/19/22 12:29:04 PM #330 | The crux of our disagreement is you and Scarlet saying "all MCU movies do this and it should be forgiven because you should watch all the films" And me saying "no they do not and no it should not" --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | MCU General 6 - Into the Mad Multiverse we go! |
| Lopen 03/19/22 12:15:34 PM #326 | Hell I don't see why Black Widow couldn't literally have started the movie at the end of Civil War Loki did it. Because it's actually well written and doesn't use MCU tie in as a crutch --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | MCU General 6 - Into the Mad Multiverse we go! |
| Lopen 03/19/22 12:13:34 PM #325 | LiquidOshawott posted... I think Lopen is saying this is like the Fugitive being a movie if it wasnt shown Harrison Ford was framed at the beginning Bingo --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | MCU General 6 - Into the Mad Multiverse we go! |
| Lopen 03/19/22 12:12:25 PM #324 | Like here's the difference NWH still has a plot for the whole film if Dr Strange is replaced by a random wizard Black Widow doesn't have a plot until an hour in without Civil War knowledge --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | MCU General 6 - Into the Mad Multiverse we go! |
| Lopen 03/19/22 12:10:10 PM #322 | HanOfTheNekos posted... The plot of Black Widow is "estranged sister is freed from mind control, finds sister to tell her Red Room still exists, they go break it". I said the first hour of the plot. That isn't introduced until you experience Black Widow running around like an idiot for an hour --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | MCU General 6 - Into the Mad Multiverse we go! |
| Lopen 03/19/22 12:03:30 PM #320 | HanOfTheNekos posted... No Way Home featured Doctor Strange. It didn't really introduce him. It didn't explain his background with Peter, and the stuff they went through together. It didn't have to because this is a Cinematic Universe. You again aren't getting the point (but claim you are because you want to look smarter than everyone in the room) There is a huge difference between "just assuming there's a reason for it" for an element of the plot and the driving force behind the plot Dr Strange can literally have no history with Peter and just be a concerned wizard and the plot of NWH still works. The history just enhances their banter and such. If you remove the Civil War tie in its literally just Black Widow running around like an idiot for an hour. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | MCU General 6 - Into the Mad Multiverse we go! |
| Lopen 03/19/22 11:59:01 AM #319 | TotallyNotMI posted... you can sorta just assume there's a reason for it and move on. No. It doesn't work for Black Widow because that's literally the whole plot of the movie at that point. It's not just some minor element of what's going on If you need to "assume there's a reason for it" for the core driving element of the plot that makes it extremely hard to care about what's going on --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Is T2 your favorite big action movie, of all time? |
| Lopen 03/18/22 11:32:18 PM #7 | The Dark Knight but T2 is up there --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Stock Topic 36 |
| Lopen 03/18/22 10:30:50 PM #188 | If it's at $2.50 the calls are considered in the money and will get exercised by default if bought or sold. Think about it this way-- if the stock price is $2.50 and you owned say 20000 calls, you'd get 2 million shares for $2.50 a pop guaranteed. Now consider what would happen if you were to buy that many shares at market. Yeah you would get some at $2.50 but you can be sure the price would start to move up after 1 million shares are purchased. It's a break even conceptually, but functionally, not really. Now realistically in cases of such high open interest I would say you would be smart to exercise your calls if you were big money who could afford to exercise them (especially since the price moved well above $2.50 in AH). And that's why I say its not as big a screwjob as it could be. If big money bought calls they're probably exercising anyway-- and robinhood gamblers probably weren't exercising anyway. But with SOLD calls it's a big deal. Forcing people who are selling calls to give up their shares would matter a lot because presumably they would want them back and so would rebuy them come Monday (or after hours/pre-market) which would move the price up --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | MCU General 6 - Into the Mad Multiverse we go! |
| Lopen 03/18/22 10:24:04 PM #314 | Mr Lasastryke posted... assuming you meant to say "to assume"... why? Well I'm a gimmick or the dumbest guy in the room or whatever so take what I say with a grain of salt but I think his point was you shouldn't write MCU movies under the assumption that people haven't seen other entries. Where we disagree is I feel there's a line of burden of universe knowledge you can cross and the movie becomes worse for it and I guess he does not. Like for example I always sing the praises of the first Avengers movie because you can watch it without having any of the component movies, and it manages to be great at that-- I think that's the standard all the non-sequel movies in the franchise should live up to. And for the most part they do. Infinity War is really the only one I think might be a bit much but even that one if you've seen like any of the Avengers movies or Civil War you're probably fine. It's all designed that the other movies are enhancement material more than necessary, which is great. I mean heck it's true of a lot of the sequels too. I saw Winter Soldier and The Avengers before The First Avenger and they were both great and just knowledge of the concept of the character Captain America was more than sufficient. I can't imagine anyone being confused about Thor Ragnarok not having seen The Dark World aside from not knowing why Loki is Odin to start, which is a pretty minor part of the movie all things considered. Civil War explains parts of Infinity War, and Infinity War explains parts of Far From Home, but you can totally get into the films without having seen the previous entries. "The snap" isn't a key part or what's going on in FFH, just a plot element that has you go "huh what" and while its curious why Cap and his crew are living off in hiding somewhere in Infinity War you can sorta just assume there's a reason for it and move on. Black Widow it's just kinda like "why is she constantly running and being hunted" for the first hour if you haven't watched Civil War and that's no bueno because that's literally all the plot you're given then is her running around. This is a unique sin to the movie among MCU titles, imo. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Stock Topic 36 |
| Lopen 03/18/22 9:19:00 PM #186 | red sox 777 posted... If it's at $2.50 even it's still worthless though no? Well the point is anyone who sold calls this week for $2.50 would need to buy their shares back which creates more upward pressure on the price. Because they were out of the money they don't have to now. People who bought are probably still exercising if they can given the AH movement so in the end it's a small screwjob not a massive one but yeah --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Save My MCU Character [Day 44] [SMMCUC] |
| Lopen 03/18/22 4:28:43 PM #76 | Loki Green Goblin --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Stock Topic 36 |
| Lopen 03/18/22 4:22:28 PM #184 | Heart breaking finish for bbig. Manipulated hard out of the 2.50c being ITM. Manipulated the point where most brokers had it at 2.50 then retroactively moved it to 2.49. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | Stock Topic 36 |
| Lopen 03/18/22 12:04:57 PM #180 | One more filing for Tyde Looks very minor clean up Tyde approval looking imminent. Huge OI on 2.5c this week and looks like we will crack 2.5. Great time to get in if you were considering BBIG --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | MCU General 6 - Into the Mad Multiverse we go! |
| Lopen 03/18/22 10:15:10 AM #293 | K --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | MCU General 6 - Into the Mad Multiverse we go! |
| Lopen 03/18/22 10:06:16 AM #291 | I think you can do even lower effort than that. Let's drop down to one character. If you don't, I will. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | MCU General 6 - Into the Mad Multiverse we go! |
| Lopen 03/18/22 10:04:29 AM #289 | It's much easier to look like the smartest person in the room by being dismissive and making points utterly irrelevant to the conversation as they were talked over several posts ago I agree. Keep reppin the low effort pretentiousness Han --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | MCU General 6 - Into the Mad Multiverse we go! |
| Lopen 03/18/22 10:01:09 AM #287 | Lopen posted... This is not, despite what you're claiming, generally speaking, how MCU movies work. I think only Endgame is guilty of this, and that's literally "part 2" in the title HanOfTheNekos posted... Herp I'll mention a sequel-- got em!!! --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | MCU General 6 - Into the Mad Multiverse we go! |
| Lopen 03/18/22 9:58:37 AM #286 | So you're beating up strawmen for fun then --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | MCU General 6 - Into the Mad Multiverse we go! |
| Lopen 03/18/22 9:56:18 AM #284 | And listen I'm not recommending anyone watch The Two Towers first. Obviously not. Fellowship isn't 100% necessary viewing but it greatly enhances it. But to compare a direct sequel to a standalone film in a world setting shows you're missing the point anyway. Black Widow needing Civil War would be more like needing The Two Towers to watch The Hobbit. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
| Topic | MCU General 6 - Into the Mad Multiverse we go! |
| Lopen 03/18/22 9:47:35 AM #282 | There is an evil macguffin and the Hobbits need to take it to point b to destroy it. Also there is a war between evil pig creatures commanded by an evil wizard and men. Super easy to follow. Literally know people who saw The Two Towers first. --- No problem! This is a cute and pop genocide of love! |
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