Zulily Zoetrope posted:

She was the best person to ever be an admin of this hellsite and she has richly deserved her reward of no longer being a mod or admin.

One More Fat Nerd posted:

Yeah, this forum is full of fat 40 year old dead gay alcoholic computer touchers.

One More Fat Nerd posted:

sun-bleached skeleton

cock hero flux posted:

even in death i won't go outside

Ablative posted:

the outside might come to you though

Kuros posted:

gently caress you, I'm only 37.

One More Fat Nerd posted:

Yeah, this forum is full of fat 40 year old dead gay alcoholic computer touchers. Our role in the post apocalypse will be "sun-bleached skeleton half buried in a sand dune that Baron Barron Trump does a sick jump over in his Murder Buggy"

Zulily Zoetrope posted:

Also if I recall it was Bird who personally, physically, took off work and flew across the country to support Lowtax’ latest battered partner when the dam finally burst.

She was the best person to ever be an admin of this hellsite and she has richly deserved her reward of no longer being a mod or admin.

One More Fat Nerd posted:

Yeah, this forum is full of fat 40 year old dead gay alcoholic computer touchers.

DACK FAYDEN posted:

I'm angling for Toilet Skeleton With Environmental Storytelling Gun (+1 bullet)

pentyne posted:

She also reached out to help a seriously disturbed user, Daikolotos, who then proceeded to ruthlessly harass her over every method of communication she gave him.

That same user had been banned for some of the most disturbing and vile PM's the mods had ever seen.

Koala's March is a long, long story and you're better off served searching the sagas threads for her name to get the full picture, including the goldmine worthy .gifs and memes that were generated when Jeffery banned her alt, said alt having done almost nothing but sock-puppet how great she was.

Philippe posted:

We're not bringing the sagas thread back.

Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:

exactly - "the thread" wouldn't make any sense. it needs multiple threads, at least five or six

cock hero flux posted:

even in death i won't go outside

Ablative posted:

the outside might come to you though

cock hero flux posted:

now i understand why they built the pyramids

Splicer posted:

gently caress all y'all have some ambition. I'm going to befoul a water source with my radiation riddled body.

TehRedWheelbarrow posted:

historic facts of the forums is a much more appropriate title anyways.

most stuff isnt exactly beowulf

RFC2324 posted:

Hey!

I smoke weed nowadays, tyvm

powerofrecall posted:

so you work from home op?

3rdEyeDeuteranopia posted:

The tomb of the unknown soldier guard should just walk all over the complex now.

pentyne posted:

A couple posts that were so good the thread ended up goldmined.

Can't find the "your mom sounds cool" post.

Zulily Zoetrope posted:

She was the best person to ever be an admin of this hellsite and she has richly deserved her reward of no longer being a mod or admin.

One More Fat Nerd posted:

Yeah, this forum is full of fat 40 year old dead gay alcoholic computer touchers. Our role in the post apocalypse will be "sun-bleached skeleton half buried in a sand dune that Baron Barron Trump does a sick jump over in his Murder Buggy"

Unironically, kinda buy it.

Captain Hygiene posted:

I want to learn more about SA Sangrias

Alaois posted:

re open the Sagas thread but immediately ban anyone who posts containing the phrase "we've got a developing saga over in [x]"

Alaois posted:

re open the Sagas thread but immediately ban anyone who posts containing the phrase "we've got a developing saga over in [x]"

Splicer posted:

I meant to post earlier but reopen the Saga thread with a strict "Saga must have hit its public peak at least 1 year ago" rule.

Philippe posted:

We're not bringing the sagas thread back.

Philippe posted:

Rockman Reserve posted:

this but with an addendum that mods should be able to post absolutely mindboggling current poo poo like that guy who had literally never posted before but had some kind of car breakdown while on a foreign trip in the middle of nowhere getting successfully helped almost immediately

Rockman Reserve posted:

right, i forgot, if we kept it constrained to older sagas the mods wouldn't be interested

teh_c0w posted:

The finance junkie in me just needs to address this.

Asking what the "return" will be after 6 or 12 months isn't really an accurate way of looking at this. What you're asking for can be viewed as a "holding period return." Basically, if I buy something for $1000 and in 6 months I sell it for $1050, my annual holding period return is 10% (1050/1000 = 5%. 5% * 2 6-month periods in a year = 10%). If you buy something for $1000 and in 12 months sell it for $1050, your holding period return is 5%. By asking for the return over a 6 or 12 month time period, you are assuming that you can buy in and then later sell out. These investments are not like stock where you can go into your account and hit sell and call it a day.

In my opinion, the best way to value this investment is as a perpetuity (technically a 99 year annuity due to the life of the copyright, but that's close enough for me call it a perpetuity). When valuing a perpetuity, you have to ask yourself what is my discount rate. You can view the discount rate as "how much will I need to be compensated for not using my money today" or "what else can I use the money for?" Then you apply the formula Price = Dividend / (Discount - Growth). The dividend is how much you get per year. The growth is how much (in percentage terms) you expect dividends to grow.

So, assume that you get $500 in dividends per year for the life of the investment (so no growth).
Scenario 1: You have no debt and spare cash. You can invest your money in the market and get 8% return on average. Your discount rate is 8% because you can use that money to generate a 8% return. In this case, you should be willing to pay AT MOST $6250 for the investment because regardless of whether you buy this perpetuity or put it in the stock market, you'll still net a gain of $500 per $6250 invested; you are indifferent If you can buy the perpetuity at say $6000, then you would earn an 8.3% return and profit.

Scenario 2: You have no debt and no spare cash. You can borrow from the bank at 10%. Your discount rate is 10% as any money you have can be used to pay off debt that is costing you 10% per year. In this case, you should be willing to pay AT MOST $5000 for the investment because if you buy the perpetuity instead of paying off your loan, at the end of the year you would gain $500 from the perpetuity and have to pay $500 in loan payments; you are indifferent. If you can buy the perpetuity at say $4000, then you would earn 12.5% per year. You would get $500 in dividends but only need to pay $400 in interest payments (10% of $4000). You would pocket $100 as profit.

Scenario 3: You have credit card debt at a rate of 20% and spare cash. You can borrow from the bank at 10%. Your discount rate is 20% any money you have can be used to pay off debt that is costing you 20% per year. In this case, you should be willing to pay AT MOST $2500 for the investment because if you buy the perpetuity instead of paying off your loan, at the end of the year you would gain $500 from the perpetuity and have to pay $500 in credit card payments; you are indifferent. Same concept as Scenario 2 for profit.

At the end of the day, I would say that if you have cash laying around, invest in this. You could put it in the stock market, but the markets are bad and you'll probably lose money (S&P is down like 10% so far). Any dividend is better than losing money. If you can borrow at a low rate, consider borrowing to invest. Borrowing to invest is known as leverage and is VERY risky with HUGE upside and downside potential. If you're up to your nose in credit card debt, do yourself a favor and pay off the credit card debt.

Rockman Reserve posted:

right, i forgot, if we kept it constrained to older sagas the mods wouldn't be interested

pentyne posted:

I can guarantee you will absolutely guess wrong if you try to guess what this is about.