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Mans posted:[url]https://cryptoslate.com/safedollar-stablecoin-drops-to-0-following-248- Not nearly as juicy but still good.
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Jun 29, 2021 01:15
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Volmarias posted:Mods It's beautiful, but it needs the first half still. 
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Jun 29, 2021 01:37
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Motronic posted:Just like crypto co-opting finance terms that the people using them don't understand, "passive income" has become a some sort of code word for idiots to latch on to. Haven't there been a ton of really scammy annuities throughout history playing on this exact mentality?
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Jun 29, 2021 01:40
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I'm just a simple dumb bitch without Tik Tok on his phone, but uh... why is it the hot new platform for financial advice? Isn't it limited to really short clips and intended for dance moves & lip synching?
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Jun 29, 2021 01:43
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Sundae posted:It's beautiful, but it needs the first half still. how about "Backed With Manure: They're called stablecoins because they're horseshit"
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Jun 29, 2021 01:46
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Motronic posted:I know I don't need to explain this here, but a lump sum increasing in value in your brokerage account is the gold standard in "passive income". $63,000,000 will return an average of $12,000 per day in broad market investments. The counterpoint to that is some J. G. Wentworth fucker taking the annuity that some 18 year old just got for being hit by a bus, and then by 19 it'll all be gone from parties, everything except the crippling pain and inability to work. There's also plenty of poor people finance where $100000 may as well be a bajillionty dollars, forget return on investments, so the idea of guaranteed income that they can very much use and not just lose to a scammer or something becomes attractive.
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Jun 29, 2021 01:47
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FrozenVent posted:We talking videos like this? not the original but still the best version imo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXJKdh1KZ0w
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Jun 29, 2021 01:50
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Volmarias posted:The counterpoint to that is some J. G. Wentworth fucker taking the annuity that some 18 year old just got for being hit by a bus, and then by 19 it'll all be gone from parties, everything except the crippling pain and inability to work. Don't forget the courts' participation in helping scammers to rip off structured annuity recipients.
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Jun 29, 2021 01:51
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Volmarias posted:The counterpoint to that is some J. G. Wentworth fucker taking the annuity that some 18 year old just got for being hit by a bus, and then by 19 it'll all be gone from parties, everything except the crippling pain and inability to work. This arrangement can be made with a trust and custodian at much better returns than a predatory life insurance/annuity schemes.
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Jun 29, 2021 01:51
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OctaMurk posted:Game of Thrones The producers/creators managed to gently caress up the ending so bad they cratered their careers. Hope they don’t need the money because they’ve had zero projects since the show ended. GWM up until that last episode though.
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Jun 29, 2021 01:54
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Motronic posted:This arrangement can be made with a trust and custodian at much better returns than a predatory life insurance/annuity schemes. You're right. It can.
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Jun 29, 2021 01:55
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Bird in a Blender posted:The producers/creators managed to gently caress up the ending so bad they cratered their careers. Hope they don’t need the money because they’ve had zero projects since the show ended. They just closed a $200 million deal to exclusively make three series for Netflix 5 months ago.
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Jun 29, 2021 01:57
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TBH I want to blame a lot of that on GRRM because at this point, I'm not sure if he's even planning on finishing the books. I want to say that the first seasons were so good because they had all that source material and when it dried up and they had to just make poo poo up (of course with GRRM but still), it was just.. clearly, not as good. That's why the WoT adaptation is going to be so great. Right, guys? Right?
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Jun 29, 2021 02:10
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totalnewbie posted:TBH I want to blame a lot of that on GRRM because at this point, I'm not sure if he's even planning on finishing the books. I want to say that the first seasons were so good because they had all that source material and when it dried up and they had to just make poo poo up (of course with GRRM but still), it was just.. clearly, not as good. The show runners lost interest because they had got some offers from other projects and just kind of phoned it in. The fact they weren’t good at their jobs didn’t help tho. Luckily them sucking has only helped their career somehow
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Jun 29, 2021 02:13
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CharlestheHammer posted:The show runners lost interest because they had got some offers from other projects and just kind of phoned it in. It's important not to overlook how aggressively they were phoning it in, and how incredibly badly the plot had devolved. Everyone knew just how bad it was going to be, and there was just so much more they could have done, easily. They had literal years, and Game of Thrones money, to pay for writers. It is ENTIRELY on them that they turned Euron Greyjoy from Eldritch Pirate Priest to Ugh Not This Guy Again. E: Jesus gently caress that's right, Netflix gave THEM The Three Body Problem, what the actual gently caress were they thinking. Volmarias fucked around with this message at 02:24 on Jun 29, 2021 |
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Jun 29, 2021 02:19
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:They just closed a $200 million deal to exclusively make three series for Netflix 5 months ago. Ah well poo poo. I checked IMDb and they had nothing listed as upcoming and their last project was some other GoT thing from 2019.
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Jun 29, 2021 02:19
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They also convinced HBO to do a shortened season for the final season (but pay them the same) because they "didn't need the extra episodes" to finish the story and they had to leave to work on Star Wars (which they ended up leaving anyway).
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Jun 29, 2021 02:23
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I’d love to see who at HBO bought that BWM argument. The amount they saved on production costs was negligible compared to the absolute destruction of a franchise. Though I guess if the spin off is some huge hit they might still benefit.
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Jun 29, 2021 02:31
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Volmarias posted:E: Jesus gently caress that's right, Netflix gave THEM The Three Body Problem, what the actual gently caress were they thinking.  I had not heard that but what the hell https://fortune.com/2021/01/27/netflix-three-body-problem-death-poisoning-china/ "Netflix decided, after seeing the end of GOT, that D&D were the guys to do Three Body Problem" is actually the least crazy part of that
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Jun 29, 2021 02:35
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There is no way to end the series that wouldn't piss off the audience. That's what happens when you simultaneously write grimdark torture porn and Mary Sue fanfic. I'm pretty sure GRRM figured that out already, which is why he stopped writing.
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Jun 29, 2021 03:13
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Dik Hz posted:There is no way to end the series that wouldn't piss off the audience. That's what happens when you simultaneously write grimdark torture porn and Mary Sue fanfic. He got everyone pissed off because he stopped writing the Winds of Winter, put in on an indefinite break, and is now committed to writing the scripts for two upcoming video games instead. Maybe he'll live forever.
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Jun 29, 2021 03:24
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:He got everyone pissed off because he stopped writing the Winds of Winter, put in on an indefinite break, and is now committed to writing the scripts for two upcoming video games instead.
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Jun 29, 2021 03:34
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Dik Hz posted:There is no way to end the series that wouldn't piss off the audience. That's what happens when you simultaneously write grimdark torture porn and Mary Sue fanfic. You absolutely could have done it, the GRRM dark mary sue bullshit didn't drag down the rest and they were able to adapt it. Then we get "lol guess she's crazy, here come some bells time to burn it all down because the Horny Pirate one shotted you're dragon and you just watched your advisor get killed while you're both in bow range" followed by "welp guess John snow kills her, oh hey there's the other dragon seeing him holding her bleeding body alone in the room, guess I better melt down the throne of swords with my fire breath then Then there's my favorite, "The Spider" Vaerys, spy master that has outlasted dynasties and known for being both subtle and patient, and not really interfering with the whole monstrously insane former king, blurting out "HEY WANNA DO A TREASON, JUST IN CASE???" There are high schoolers that could have done better.
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Jun 29, 2021 03:53
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Motronic posted:Just like crypto co-opting finance terms that the people using them don't understand, "passive income" has become a some sort of code word for idiots to latch on to. How you gonna get the pac man machine to start with a $12,000 coin smarty pants huh?
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Volmarias posted:You absolutely could have done it, the GRRM dark mary sue bullshit didn't drag down the rest and they were able to adapt it. Then we get "lol guess she's crazy, here come some bells time to burn it all down because the Horny Pirate one shotted you're dragon and you just watched your advisor get killed while you're both in bow range" followed by "welp guess John snow kills her, oh hey there's the other dragon seeing him holding her bleeding body alone in the room, guess I better melt down the throne of swords with my fire breath then I enjoyed that episode immensely, because as I watched, I knew people would be soooooo salty about it. Nerd rage is hilarious to see whether in person, or in print/on the web.
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Jun 29, 2021 04:07
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I don't even know anyone who got salty about it. It was just... Nothing.
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I would take option A so that I could tell you all about my sensible 5 trillion dollar wedding
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Jun 29, 2021 04:33
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By that point I don't even know anyone who was invested enough to be mad. Most of my friends dropped off after the first or second episode of the last season and the vibe during the last episode was less "ending to a massive beloved story" and more MST3K or RHPS "make fun of something you know sucks"
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Jun 29, 2021 05:59
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What is it with all these multi billion dollar megafranchises just completely making GBS threads the bed with the endings? Well, at least GoT and the Star Wars sequels. Say what you want about the MCU but maybe it's just as well it's clearly never going to actually end.
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Jun 29, 2021 06:44
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totalnewbie posted:That's why the WoT adaptation is going to be so great. Right, guys? Right? I read the series in high school but it wasn't done yet. I decided to start from the beginning and go all the way through. Boy uh that adaptation is gonna be something. The books are about 50% descriptions of clothes and furniture and how so-and-so poured wine.
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Jun 29, 2021 06:49
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Pham Nuwen posted:I read the series in high school but it wasn't done yet. I decided to start from the beginning and go all the way through. It's great, you can probably churn through like two books a season and not actually need to trim any plot
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Jun 29, 2021 06:51
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DaveSauce posted:I've actually had to work with marketing people on these in the past. I'm told generic sounding 80s rock/metal is the music of choice specifically because the decision makers are typically 40-60 year old men. can’t wait for the generational turnover that has these videos using dubstep instead
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Jun 29, 2021 08:11
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HBO literally shooting GoT in the head as it crosses the finish line and then beating the corpse with a prequel is pretty funny. I checked out pre final season but I still would have at least liked to see it end with some dignity. For BWM I am still considering buying the boxset in 4k because some the earlier seasons are genuinely great tv and even the later seasons had some decent set pieces. Season 8 will gather dust.
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Jun 29, 2021 09:42
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Sundae posted:I don't even understand why anyone, even a monumental idiot, would buy a stablecoin. We have one of those already; it's called THE DOLLAR. Tangentially related to this, but the first time I encountered the term "Stablecoin" was in David Gerard's book about Libra(hilarious fuckup that it was), and another thing that popped up there was central banks wanting to make a "digital" version of their existing currencies, like a "digital Yuan"(looks like they've settled on calling it e-Renminbi) for China. And I... really do not comprehend it. What is the difference between a "digital Yuan"and simply using a bank to transfer currency in your account which is, somehow, less digital?
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Jun 29, 2021 10:03
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PurpleXVI posted:Tangentially related to this, but the first time I encountered the term "Stablecoin" was in David Gerard's book about Libra(hilarious fuckup that it was), and another thing that popped up there was central banks wanting to make a "digital" version of their existing currencies, like a "digital Yuan"(looks like they've settled on calling it e-Renminbi) for China. And I... really do not comprehend it. What is the difference between a "digital Yuan"and simply using a bank to transfer currency in your account which is, somehow, less digital? I think the main advantage would be that individual digiyuans can be tracked on the way through the economy and so there would never be any privacy for anyone ever again Also really precise economic graphs
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I don’t know where the idea Danny was a Mary Sue she was crazy and hosed up constantly in the books. And in the show though to a lesser extent
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Jun 29, 2021 11:49
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CharlestheHammer posted:I don’t know where the idea Danny was a Mary Sue she was crazy and hosed up constantly in the books.
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Jun 29, 2021 11:59
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Yeah, some people consider "strong female character" to mean "intolerable Mary Sue." Genuine Mary Sues are extremely rare creatures in any case because published self-insert fanfiction is usually the realm of white male authors whose author self-inserts have lots of sex(often with women notably younger than them).
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Ghost Leviathan posted:What is it with all these multi billion dollar megafranchises just completely making GBS threads the bed with the endings? Well, at least GoT and the Star Wars sequels. My theory is basically these studios see a show become wildly popular and their reaction is "let's drag this show out and milk this baby for all it's worth" and then invariably after X years of this poo poo and not getting anywhere close to the end, they go "okay, we've been at this for X years now, interest is waning, let's wrap it up" and this just repeats ad nauseum for so, so many American TV shows. It's not so much a problem with the very episodic shows like L&O but when it comes to shows with large overarching plots, I feel like America just does them so, so poorly because they almost always approach it from the accounting side, not the creative side.
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