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Alan Smithee posted:There's not much I can do multi. factor. authentication. On all banking accounts. And any other account the supports it. It's not a perfect solution, especially with some implementations, but it's a start.
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Feb 17, 2019 00:41
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We’re they buying Duke merch?
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Feb 17, 2019 01:13
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Cyrano4747 posted:We’re they buying Duke merch? I literally have no idea, there's no record of it since I declined
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Feb 17, 2019 01:29
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Make sure you use a password manager as well, and use unique passwords for every different site. Strongly consider using a hardware key or Google Authenticator where possible; criminals can pretty easily reroute your phone number to capture the 2FA texts if they know what it's going to be and they care enough to target you.
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Feb 17, 2019 01:42
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I hate PayPal and avoid it; I used to make an account anytime something absolutely required it, then delete it afterward, but they stopped letting me do that (they won't even let me create a new account now). Definitely don't link it to your credit union/bank account; at worst, link it to your credit card. It's been pretty easy to get by without it, honestly. The one time I've needed it in the past year or two, I just asked my roommate to get it for me and paid him back (and even that was just for pre-ordering a game they didn't have on Steam).
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Thanatosian posted:I hate PayPal and avoid it; I used to make an account anytime something absolutely required it, then delete it afterward, but they stopped letting me do that (they won't even let me create a new account now). Definitely don't link it to your credit union/bank account; at worst, link it to your credit card. I have one linked to a checking account that's isolated from the rest of my finances; no overdraft protection and I transfer money into it to make purchases as I go. Having a meat puppet to do your dirty work is nice when you have the option but that's just shifting the threat to your friend.
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23 years old, just blew 250k, need help figuring out where to go from here. I started bolding the highlights but it got silly. Sucks about the brain tumour, but I guess the family paid for that too if he doesn't have any debt. quote:Hi all, so let me lay out my current situation. I graduated from high school back in 2014 and immediately started going to college. Fortunately my family paid for it. Unfortunately I started feeling very ill during this time and after a year and a half I flunked out. At this point I thought it was entirely my fault, and I was just not college material. I was so ashamed of myself that I lied to my family and told them I had dropped out of college of my own accord to start a business. At this point I felt so ill all the time (despite doctors telling me I was fine) that I didn’t think I could hold down a 9 to 5 job so I decided to try and start my own business making video games. I received a 15k investment from my father and an additional 35k from my grandfather. Over the next year, 2016, i blew through a significant chunk of that trying to make a game. I ended up getting scammed by a programmer who did no work and just took the money and ran, leaving me with just art assets and no prototype. At the end of 2016 I gathered my remaining resources together and decided to try making another, smaller scale game. Edit: I didn't read the comments! quote:I’d like to build up to making 7 figures over the next 20 years preferably by making entertainment products like video games and comic books primarily because I think I understand the market for them. quote:To be fair, my family has made 7 figures before, so I know I can do it, I just don’t know how. I think you’re right though, I should definitely get a job to gain some experience in that regard. quote:My point was, if they can do it, so can I. I have a lot more resources at my disposal than they did and they made it even still. They did it through farming and ranching though, which I think would be next to impossible nowadays quote:Ultimately if I can’t make at least 40 million by 45 it’s due to my own laziness and ignorance. uvar fucked around with this message at 02:23 on Feb 17, 2019 |
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Feb 17, 2019 02:19
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I mean I fee for the cancer poo poo but his timeframes are just hilarious. He wants to go from zero income to millionaire in like five years
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Feb 17, 2019 02:23
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The overconfidence of youth is so shiny and brittle.
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Feb 17, 2019 02:27
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Cyrano4747 posted:I mean I fee for the cancer poo poo but his timeframes are just hilarious. He wants to go from zero income to millionaire in like five years Hey man, Zuckerberg did it!
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Feb 17, 2019 02:36
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Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations. I do feel bad for the guy (mother apparently died young and then he got stuck with some sort of brain cancer) but someone in the family needs to sit down and have a serious talk with him about his life direction before he blows through whatever family fortune remains getting scammed on comic books. Also I would love to hear more about the wife of the rich video game/comic book loving college dropout with no job. How did they meet? Where is she coming from? Does she in fact exist?
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He could have taken that 15k and made an IRA and he would have come out ahead. Also how the gently caress does making a comic cost so loving much? Was he just paying people to do it for him? Is he the ☆IDEA MAN☆? Action-Bastard fucked around with this message at 02:49 on Feb 17, 2019 |
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Feb 17, 2019 02:43
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I’ll guarantee he hired actual artists to make his 100% OC do not copy fanfic comic. Him talking about getting scammed etc reads like the deviant art thread. also note that his wife is “moving out to him” next year. Again, guarantee it’s some internet relationship thing. the whole thing reads as sad, shiftless need with no real marketable skills to me.
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Feb 17, 2019 02:55
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I know I can make seven figgies because my ancestors did. I just don't know how to.
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Feb 17, 2019 03:00
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It sounds like the brain tumor never left him~~
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Feb 17, 2019 03:02
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Cacafuego posted:It sounds like the brain tumor never left him~~ The surgery was unnecessary. He should have just paid the tumor to draw the first issue and it would have disappeared. GamingHyena fucked around with this message at 03:15 on Feb 17, 2019 |
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Feb 17, 2019 03:13
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Cyrano4747 posted:I mean I fee for the cancer poo poo but his timeframes are just hilarious. He wants to go from zero income to millionaire in like five years It's entirely reasonable as this kid has family connections. He somehow thinks his family did this by being just that much smarter or hard working, when in reality it was grandpaw/great grandpaw or whoever that did something smart/lucky (bought the right land at the right price) or shady and it's been ALL ABOARD since then. All he needs to do is learn to stay on the loving gravy train rather than trying to make comic books and poo poo.
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To be fair, the guy is literally brain damaged, suffered severed trauma via the surgery and recovery AND his mother died while he was a child. He needs help.
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Feb 17, 2019 04:05
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Enjoy: https://rallyrd.com
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Feb 17, 2019 04:08
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Considering where we are, who wants to set up an app that lets people invest in rare firearms? Skimming the SEC file I do like that they have several $300k+ cars, many somewhat cheaper cars, and then a 72% stake in a "1990 Ford Mustang 7-Up Edition" that sold for $20k in 1990 and is now worth 14,500 or so, purchased from one of the members of their Advisory Board. Well, at least they're open about it. (Another car was previously owned by Jerry Seinfeld, and they mention it might be worth less if he gets bad PR.) Ehhh.... Finite physical items, and they've put thought about the legal stuff. And it's probably easier than selling the actual cars if you want to get your money out again. Still a lot that could go wrong, but not blockchain-dumb.
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Murgos posted:To be fair, the guy is literally brain damaged, suffered severed trauma via the surgery and recovery AND his mother died while he was a child. He had  50 large worth of videogames.
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Feb 17, 2019 07:22
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uvar posted:Still a lot that could go wrong, but not blockchain-dumb. It's a bad time to be buying cars, especially for investment, everything is loving expensive right now (thanks YouTube). The only people that have won on car investing are those who purchased them a decade ago and already got their money out. For example: aircooled Porsche 911s were ~$15-30k depending on year. You can't touch one for less than $30k now with the top end reaching into the 70k+ area. Same with BMW M Cars, old E30 M3s were ~$10k a decade ago, now every single one has a price tag over $80k. poo poo is incredibly over valued right now.
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GamingHyena posted:The surgery was unnecessary. He should have just paid the tumor to draw the first issue and it would have disappeared. But now he has Entrepreneurial Experience, emphasis on neur(i)al. Doc Hawkins posted:He had This I don't get either. What the hell did he have that would be worth even $10k? Maybe he's not so bad if he managed to make people pay $50k for whatever he had.
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Volmarias posted:This I don't get either. What the hell did he have that would be worth even $10k? Maybe he's not so bad if he managed to make people pay $50k for whatever he had. Old collectable retro games are worth a shitload. A copy of SMB1 just sold for over $100k.
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Feb 17, 2019 16:19
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BRB, going to get my Steam library appraised.
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Feb 17, 2019 17:46
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Krispy Wafer posted:BRB, going to get my Steam library appraised. Legally you don't own it, very bwm, only buy physical copies of games for pre-internet-connected consoles
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Krispy Wafer posted:BRB, going to get my Steam library appraised. https://steamcalculator.com/  
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Oh dear. I should not have checked that site. It's 5 figures.
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Feb 17, 2019 18:20
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That thing isn't accurate, it uses the full retail price of every sale item or humble bundle you ever bought.
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Doc Hawkins posted:He had Kid with a dead mom, a brain tumor and money. I would have shut myself in my room with the Nintendo catalog too.
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BMan posted:That thing isn't accurate, it uses the full retail price of every sale item or humble bundle you ever bought. It’s an ROI calculator you say 
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BMan posted:That thing isn't accurate, it uses the full retail price of every sale item or humble bundle you ever bought. there's other calculators including one that trolls your steam account for how much you've actually spent through the service
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Doctor Grape Ape posted:It's a bad time to be buying cars, especially for investment, everything is loving expensive right now (thanks YouTube). The only people that have won on car investing are those who purchased them a decade ago and already got their money out. For example: aircooled Porsche 911s were ~$15-30k depending on year. You can't touch one for less than $30k now with the top end reaching into the 70k+ area. Same with BMW M Cars, old E30 M3s were ~$10k a decade ago, now every single one has a price tag over $80k. poo poo is incredibly over valued right now. I disagree. I feel it's quite easy to predict cars that will go up in value (not when, though!). You can observe a car rise in price way before rich people get told to buy it and jump on the bandwagon. The part where it's not a sure-fire strategy is that you are going to have to keep the car somehow, maintain it, insure it and so on. It's an ongoing cost you'll have to pay for years or decades, which rather cuts into your return. If you're not a person who buys the car to drive and then sells it, or a person rich enough to already have a storage facility for cars, it just doesn't make sense as much as I would like it to. Yes I desperately want to be that guy who keeps and sells cars but lol if I could afford that I wouldn't need to.
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Zeppelin Insanity posted:I disagree. I feel it's quite easy to predict cars that will go up in value (not when, though!). You can observe a car rise in price way before rich people get told to buy it and jump on the bandwagon. Give me examples of cars you'd be looking at investing in.
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Doctor Grape Ape posted:Give me examples of cars you'd be looking at investing in. My FIL told me that I should take super good care of my Volt because now that GM decided to stop making them it'll be worth something one day. Nearly the same logic as making sure you take good care of a Pontiac G6. He's BWM in so many ways I can't describe.
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Zeppelin Insanity posted:I disagree. I feel it's quite easy to predict cars that will go up in value (not when, though!). There are a handful of cars that you can almost always make money on, but rely on getting an allocation. Which often involves being bad (or at least not great) with money. Porsche GT cars are on that list at the "low" end. P much any limited production Ferrari/Lamborghini/Konigsegg/etc works too. This all depends on you basically not driving it much and having proper storage. Which doesn't sound like what one is supposed to do with cars like that. If I could afford that kind of thing I'd jut flog the poo poo out of it until my wallet cried on maintenance and repairs and it wasn't worth anything to sell.
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Motronic posted:There are a handful of cars that you can almost always make money on, but rely on getting an allocation. Which often involves being bad (or at least not great) with money. Porsche GT cars are on that list at the "low" end. P much any limited production Ferrari/Lamborghini/Konigsegg/etc works too. I get the impression that Porsche has caught on to this and it's becoming much harder. Browsing Rennlist is my guilty daily pleasure and it seems as if the window for making money on GT cars is closing very quickly, especially when you factor in registration, taxes, protective film, and the usual things people expect when buying a 200k car. There's a certain amount of schadenfreude when these people lose money. 
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Residency Evil posted:I get the impression that Porsche has caught on to this It's not an impression, it's reality. PCNA will blacklist you for life if you sell you allocation before delivery or the car itself in less than 12 months from delivery. It's not the cash grab it used to be before that, but it's still a way to barely drive an awesome car for a year and make money on it after that.
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What's hilarious is that while nobody wants watercooled 911s right now, they are soon going to be dying by the tons. The 996, 997 and I think even 991 have an engine issue where the penny pinchers at Porsche decided to gently caress with an engineering decision. The connecting rod is offset some small amount (1/2 to 1mm IIRC) from the centerline of the piston. This theoretically will cause less wear in the bores, the downside is that you need two different pistons for each side of the engine, this would cost money. So instead they just went with one piston. One would naturally think that if offsetting the rod in the piston in one direction reduces wear, that moving it in the other direction would actually cause wear, which it does. Thus, especially in cold environments, but given enough time in any environment, the piston will scuff the bores into oblivion. The only to way correct this problem is an entire engine rebuild, for about $15-20k, more than the cars are worth at this point. Wait 20 years and the hated watercooled cars that got the expensive engine fix will be "collectible," both due to attrition and the fact that they are legitimately awesome cars.
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